Lists of composers
Composers are people who write music.
There is a stronger distinction made between composers and performers in classical music than in other musical genres. In most popular music forms the term "songwriter" is used for people who write music and lyrics.
This page includes a list of composers sorted by genre. Other classifications can be found at:
Classical music
By Era:
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377)
- Guido of Arezzo (c.995-c.1050)
- Andrieu
- Gilles Binchois (c.1400-1460)
- Antoine Brumel (c.1475-c.1520)
- Ciconia
- Francesco Landini (1325-1397)
- Johannes Ockeghem (c.1430-c.1495)
- Philipe de Vitry (1291-1361)
- Oswald von Wolkenstein
- Martinus Fabri
- Perusio
- Martin Agricola (1466-1506)
- William Byrd (1543-1623)
- Andrea Gabrieli (c.1510-1586)
- Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612)
- John Dowland (1563-1626)
- Guillaume Dufay (c.1400-1474)
- Carlo Gesualdo
- Orlando Gibbons
- Josquin (des Pres) (c.1440-1521)
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
- Thomas Tallis
- John Taverner
- Karl Friedrich Abel
- Tomaso Albinoni
- Domenico Alberti
- Gregorio Allegri
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- Johann Christian Bach
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
- Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
- Heinrich Ignaz Biber
- Dietrich Buxtehude
- Gustave Charpentier
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier
- Arcangelo Corelli
- François Couperin
- Girolamo Frescobaldi
- Baldassare Galuppi
- Francesco Geminiani
- Maurice Greene
- George Friderich Händel
- Richard Leveridge
- Jean Baptiste Lully
- Claudio Monteverdi
- Johann Pachelbel
- Henry Purcell
- Jean Phillippe Rameau
- Alessandro Scarlatti
- Domenico Scarlatti
- Heinrich Schutz
- Antonio Soler
- Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
- Giuseppe Tartini
- Georg Philipp Telemann
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Luigo Boccherini
- Domenico Cimarosa
- Christoph Willibald Gluck
- Franz Joseph Haydn
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Niccolò Paganini
- Antonio Salieri
- Fernando Sor (1778-1839)
- Louis Spohr
- Carl Maria von Weber
- Adolphe-Charles Adam
- Isaac Albéniz
- Daniel-François Auber
- Francis Edward Bache
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
- Vincenzo Bellini
- Hector Berlioz
- Georges Bizet
- Arrigo Boito (1842-1918)
- Alexander Borodin
- Johannes Brahms
- Max Bruch
- Anton Bruckner
- Ferruccio Busoni
- Joseph Canteloube
- Ernest Chausson
- Frédéric Chopin
- Léo Delibes
- Paul Dukas
- Antonin Dvorák
- Gabriel Faure
- César Franck
- Niels Wilhelm Gade
- Edward German
- Alexander Glazunov
- Reinhold Gliere
- Mikhail Glinka
- Charles Gounod
- Edvard Grieg
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel
- Franz Liszt
- Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
- Jacques Offenbach
- Giacomo Puccini
- Camille Saint Saens (1835-1921)
- Pablo Sarasate (1844-1908)
- Franz Schmidt (1874-1939)
- Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
- Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
- Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
- Alexander Scriabin
- Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)
- Johann Strauss, Sr. (1804-1849)
- Johann Strauss, Jr. (1825-1899)
- Joseph Strauss
- Arthur S. Sullivan
- Francisco Tarrega (1852-1909)
- Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Richard Wagner
- Hugo Wolf
- Eugene Ysaÿe
- John Adams
- Malcolm Arnold
- Samuel Barber
- Béla Bartók
- Arnold Bax
- Alban Berg
- Luciano Berio
- Irving Berlin
- Leonard Bernstein
- Ronald Binge
- Ernest Bloch
- Pierre Boulez
- Frank Bridge
- Benjamin Britten
- Gavin Bryars
- John Cage
- Elliott Carter
- Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
- George Crumb
- Luigi Dallapiccola
- Claude Debussy
- Frederick Delius
- Hanns Eisler
- Edward Elgar
- Georges Enesco
- Brian Ferneyhough
- Morton Feldman
- George Gershwin
- Cecil Armstrong Gibbs
- Paul Gilson
- Alberto Ginastera
- Umberto Giordano
- Gilbert and Sullivan
- Philip Glass
- Leopold Godowsky
- Carl Goldmark
- Henryk Górecki
- Percy Grainger
- Enrique Granados
- Carmago Guarnieri
- Sofia Gubaidulina
- Hans Werner Henze
- Paul Hindemith
- Charles Ives
- Leos Janácek
- Mauricio Kagel (born 1931)
- Ladislav Kupkovic
- György Ligeti
- Witold Lutoslawski
- James Macmillan
- Gustav Mahler
- Frank Martin
- Peter Maxwell Davies
- Bohuslav Martinu
- Olivier Messiaen
- Darius Milhaud
- Carl Nielsen
- Luigi Nono
- Sergio Roberto de Oliveira
- Carl Orff
- Charles Hubert Parry
- Arvo Pärt
- Krzysztof Penderecki
- Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
- Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
- Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
- Steve Reich
- Erik Satie (1866-1925)
- Alfred Schnittke
- Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
- Peter Sculthorpe
- Roger Sessions (1896- )
- Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
- Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
- Charles Villiers Stanford
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
- Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
- Karol Szymanowski
- Toru Takemitsu
- Michael Tippett
- Moisei Vainberg
- Edgard Varese
- Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
- Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
- Anton Webern (1883-1945)
- Kurt Weill (1900-1950)
- Yannis Xenakis
- Dave Brubeck
- John Coltrane
- Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington
- Herbie Hancock
- Scott Joplin
- Krzysztof Komeda
- Charles Mingus
- Thelonious Monk
- Charlie Parker
- Billy Strayhorn
- Irving Berlin
- Brian Eno
- George Gershwin
- Ira Gershwin
- Jean Michel Jarre
- Elton John
- John Lennon
- Paul McCartney
- George Michael
- Joni Mitchell
- Mike Oldfield
- Frank Zappa
- Sam Raymond
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- Jacob Thune Hansen Gade
- Don Carlo Gesualdo
- Ginastera
- Mauro Giuliani
- Louis Glass
- Michael Gordon
- Louis Moreau Gottschalk
- Morton Gould
- Enrique Granados
- Alexander Grechaninov
- Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofé
- Carlos Guastavino
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- Mieczyslaw Karlowicz
- Aram Khachaturian
- Wojciech Kilar
- William Kinloch
- Paul August von Klenau
- Zoltán Kodály
- William Kraft
- Johann Tobias Krebs
- Fritz Kreisler
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- Alessandro Marcello
- Vicente Martin y Soler
- Pietro Mascagni
- Jules Massenet
- Giuseppe Mercadante
- Giacomo Meyerbeer
- Federico Mompou
- Steve Morse
- Modest Moussorgsky
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- Giovanni Pacini
- Andrzej Panufnik
- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
- Francis Poulenc
- Micheal Praetorius
- Giacomo Puccini
- Loisa Puget
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- Jean-Philippe Rameau
- Hans Redlich
- Max Reger
- Ottorino Respighi
- Terry Riley
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Curtis Roads
- Joaquín Rodrigo
- Gioacchino Rossini
- Albert Roussel
- Edmund Rubbra
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