Ever wonder how old your favorite composer was turning this year? Find out with this fast list of major Classical composers.

Both Mozart and Shostakovich reached milestone birthdays this year (Mozart celebrating 250 and Shostakovich turning 100). But what about the candle count for other major composers? We just might need to bring out the fire extinguisher for some of them. Happy birthday, Western Music!

Medieval Composers

Hildegard von Bingen: 908 years

Pérotin (Perotinus): approx. 806 years (most likely older)

Guillaume de Machaut: 704/6 years

Renaissance Composers

Josquin des Prez: 551/6 years

Thomas Tallis: 501 years

Giovanni Palestrina: 480/1 years

William Byrd: 466 years

Baroque Composers

Claudio Monteverdi: 439 years

Antonio Vivaldi: 328 years

Johann Sebastian Bach: 321 years

George Frideric Handel: 321 years

Classical Composers

Franz Josef Haydn: 274 years

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: 250 years

Romantic Composers

Ludwig van Beethoven: approx. 236 years

Franz Schubert: 209 years

Hector Berlioz: 203 years

Felix Mendelssohn: 197 years

Robert Schumann: 196 years

Fryderyk Chopin: 196 years

Franz Liszt: 195 years

Guiseppe Verdi: 193 years

Richard Wagner: 193 years

Anton Bruckner: 182 years

Johann Strauss, Jr.: 181 years

Johannes Brahmns: 173 years

Georges Bizet: 168 years

Pyotr Tchaikovsky: 166 years

Giacomo Puccini: 148 years

Post/Late-Romantic composers

Antonin Dvorák: 165 years

Gustav Mahler: 146 years

Claude Debussy: 144 years

Richard Strauss: 142 years

Jean Sibelius: 141 years

Ralph Vaughn Williams: 134 years

Gustav Holst: 132 years

Sergey Rakhmaninov: 133 years

Maurice Ravel: 131 years

Twentieth-Century Composers

Charles Ives: 132 years

Arnold Schönberg: 132 years

Béla Bartók: 125 years

Igor Stravinsky: 124 years

Edgard Varèse: 123 years

Sergei Prokofiev: 115 years

George Gershwin: 108 years

Aaron Copland: 106 years

Dmitri Shostokovich: 100 years

John Cage: 94 years

Benjamin Britten: 93 years

Milton Babbitt: 90 years

Leonard Bernstein: 88 years

Terry Riley: 71 years

Steve Reich: 70 years

Philip Glass: 69 years

John Adams: 59 years