List of British classical composers
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The following is a list of people born in the British Isles or of British citizenship who have worked or currently work in the classical music tradition.
[edit] A
- Richard Addinsell
- John Addison
- Thomas Adès
- Kenneth Alford
- William Alwyn
- Denis ApIvor
- Thomas Arne
- Richard Arnell
- Sir Malcolm Arnold
- Algernon Ashton
- Sir Ivor Atkins
[edit] B
- Edgar Bainton
- Sir Granville Bantock
- Stephen Mark Barchan
- David Barlow
- Bernard Barrell
- Stanley Bate
- Colin Bayliss
- Sir Arnold Bax
- Sally Beamish
- Arthur Benjamin
- George Benjamin
- Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
- Sir William Sterndale Bennett
- Sir Lennox Berkeley
- Michael Berkeley
- Lord Berners
- Ronald Binge
- Judith Bingham
- Sir Harrison Birtwistle
- William Blezard
- Sir Arthur Bliss
- John Blow
- Carey Blyton
- Havergal Brian
- Frank Bridge
- Benjamin Britten
- James Brown
- John Buckley
- Geoffrey Burgon
- William Busch
- Alan Bush
- Geoffrey Bush
- Arthur Butterworth
- George Butterworth
- William Byrd
[edit] C
- Thomas Campion
- Cornelius Cardew
- Doreen Carwithen
- Robert Carver
- Rhona Clarke
- Frederick Cliffe
- Eric Coates
- Gerard Francis Cobb
- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
- Arnold Cooke
- Deryck Cooke
- Greville Cooke
- Robert Crawford
- Harold Craxton
- David Curry
[edit] D
- Gordon Dale
- Christian Darnton
- Cedric Thorpe Davie
- Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
- Henry Walford Davies
- Edgar Deale
- Frederick Delius
- David Dorward
- John Dowland
- Andrew Downes
- Thomas Dunhill
- Sir George Dyson
[edit] E
- Stewart Hylton Edwards
- Sir Edward Elgar
- Rosalind Ellicott
[edit] F
- David Fanshaw
- Giles Farnaby
- Eric Fenby
- Brian Ferneyhough
- John Field
- Gerald Finzi
- Graham Fitkin
- Aloys Fleischmann
- Benjamin Frankel
- Peter Racine Fricker
- John Foulds
[edit] G
- Hans Gál
- John Gardner
- Roberto Gerhard
- Orlando Gibbons
- Armstrong Gibbs
- Ruth Gipps
- Alexander Goehr
- Berthold Goldschmidt
- Sir Eugene Goossens
- Eric Graebner
- Inglis Gundry
- Ivor Gurney
[edit] H
- Patrick Hadley
- Richard Hall
- Iain Hamilton
- Sir Hamilton Harty
- Anthony Hedges
- Victor Hely-Hutchinson
- Michael Heming
- Alun Hoddinott
- Joseph Holbrooke
- Alfred Hollins
- Robin Holloway
- Gustav Holst
- Imogen Holst
- Herbert Howells
- William Hurlstone
[edit] I
[edit] J
- Gordon Jacob
- Daniel Jones
- Kenneth V. Jones
- Wilfred Josephs
- John Joubert
[edit] K
- Minna Keal
- Iain Kendell
- Oliver Knussen
[edit] L
- Constant Lambert
- John Larchet
- Kenneth Leighton
- Jeffrey Lewis
- George Lloyd
- William Lloyd Webber
- Elizabeth Lutyens
[edit] M
- John McCabe
- Hamish MacCunn
- Alexander Mackenzie
- James MacMillan
- Dame Elizabeth Maconchy
- Carlo Martelli
- Benedict Mason
- Steve Martland
- William Mathias
- Colin Matthews
- Nicholas Maw
- Frederick May
- Billy Mayerl
- Ernest John Moeran
- Dominic Muldowney
- Thea Musgrave
[edit] N
[edit] O
- Seán Ó'Riada
- Buxton Orr
- Robin Orr
[edit] P
- Sir Andrzej Panufnik
- Sir Hubert Parry
- Paul Patterson
- Ian Parrott
- Anthony Payne
- Montague Phillips
- Thomas Pitfield
- Cipriani Potter
- Michael Praetorius
- Henry Purcell
[edit] Q
[edit] R
- Priaulx Rainier
- Alan Rawsthorne
- Alan Ridout
- Cyril Rootham
- Francis Routh
- Edmund Rubbra
[edit] S
- Philip Sainton
- Leonard Salzedo
- Robert Saxton
- Cyril Scott
- Francis George Scott
- Marion Scott
- Humphrey Searle
- Matyas Seiber
- Martin Shaw
- Robert Simpson
- Reginald Smith Brindle
- Dame Ethel Smyth
- Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
- Patric Standford
- Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
- John Stafford Smith
- James Stevens
- Richard Stoker
- Sir Arthur Sullivan
- Felix Swinstead
[edit] T
- Phyllis Tate
- Janet Owen Thomas
- Sir Michael Tippett
- Thomas Tomkins
- Sir Francesco Tosti
- Joan Trimble
- Harold Truscott
- Mark-Anthony Turnage