During the Classical Period of Weimar, at the end of the 18th and beginning of 19th centuries, the German cultural leading figures, in particular the writer Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832), the dramatist Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), the philosopher and theologian Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) and the poet Christoph Martin Wieland (1733-1813), lived and worked in Weimar. A few decades earlier, the composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) lived and worked in Weimar for several years; a few decades later the composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886) resided in Weimar as well.