List of composers by name
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–This article lists composers alphabetically by name. For a lists of composers by other classifications, see List of composers.
[edit] A
- Heikki Aaltoila (1905-1992) Finnish composer
- Alex Ross-Iver Russian and Georgian composer
- Els Aarne (1917-1995) Estonian composer
- Evald Aav (1900-1939) Estonian composer
- Juhan Aavik (1884-1982) Estonian composer
- Petrus Abaelardus (1079-1142)
- Zequinha Abreu (1880-1935)
- Frank Abbinanti (1949) American composer
- Keiko Abe (1937)
- Rosalina Abejo (1922-1991)
- Karl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787) German composer
- Michael Abels (1962) American composer
- Muhal Richard Abrams (1930) American composer and pianist
- Juan Manuel Abras (1975) Argentinian composer and choirmaster
- Jean Absil (1893-1974) Belgium composer
- Ella Adajevskaja (1846-1926) Russian composer and pianist
- Adolphe Charles Adam (1803-1856)French composer
- Bojan Adamic (born 1912)
- John Coolidge Adams (1947) American composer
- John Luther Adams (1953) American composer
- Richard Addinsell (1904-1977) British composer
- John Addison (1920-1998) British composer
- Thomas Ades (1971) British composer, pianist and choirmaster
- Samuel Adler(1928) American composer and choirmaste
- José Afonso
- L.Athira Krishna
- Janos Agocsi (born 1961)
- Lejla Agolli (1950) Albanian composer
- Graciela Agudela (1945)
- Kalevi Aho (1949) Finnish composer
- Ahn Eak-Tai (1906-1965)
- Gregor Aichinger (c. 1565-1628)
- Bartholomäus Aich (17.cent) German composer
- Tauno Aints (1975) Estonian composer
- Sef Albertz (born 1971)
- Siegfried Alkan (1858-1941)
- Steve Allen (1921-2000)
- Miguel Álvarez-Fernández (born 1979) Spanish Composer
- August Wilhelm Ambros (1816-1876)
- Jean-Claude Amiot (1939- )
- Laurie Anderson (born 1947)
- Pasquale Anfossi
- Alexandra Arellano
- Giuseppe Apolloni
- Desi Arnaz (1917-1986)
- Robert Sterling Arnold
- Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga
- Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta (1823-1924)
- Emilio Arrieta
- Ignaz Assmayer (born 1790)
- Chet Atkins (1924-2001)
- Georges Auric (1899-1983)
- Slavko Avsenik (born 1929)
- Vilko Avsenik
[edit] B
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- Johann Christian Bach
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Tadeus Baird
- Mily Balakirev
- Hank Ballard (1936-2003)
- Troy Banarzi (born 1972)
- Adriano Banchieri (c. 1557-1634)
- Seymour Barab (born 1921)
- Samuel Barber
- Stephen Mark Barchan (born 1982)
- Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924)
- Gerald Barry
- Richard Barth (1850-1908)
- Dave Bartholomew
- Bela Bartok
- Benjamin Speed
- Thomas Beard, (born 1962)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), German regarded by many as the first Romantic composer, famous for Für Elise, "Moonlight" Sonata, and other works
- Ralph Benatzky (1884-1957)
- Julius Benedict (born 1804)
- Sebastien Beranger (born 1977)
- Alban Berg
- Irving Berlin
- Hector Berlioz
- Elmer Bernstein (born 1922)
- Leonard Bernstein
- Ronald Binge
- Georges Bizet
- Eubie Blake (1883-1983)
- William Burdine Blake, Sr.
- Terrence Blanchard
- Zdenek Blazek (1905-1988)
- Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)
- Luigi Boccherini
- Jack Body (born 1944)
- Alexander Borodin
- Lili Boulanger
- Fritz Bovet (fl. 1845-1888)
- Johannes Brahms
- Sadasiva Bramhendra
- Goran Bregovic
- Jacques Brel, (1929-1978)
- Walter Bricht, (1904-1970)
- Benjamin Britten
- Max Bruch
- Anton Bruckner
- Albert E. Brumley
- James Butt, (1929-2003)
[edit] C
- Giulio Caccini (c.1545 - 1618)
- John Cage
- Matteo Carcassi (1792-1853)
- Manuel Cardoso (1566-1650)
- Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1981)
- Roberto Carnevale (born 1966)
- James P. Carrell
- Elliot Carter
- Ferdinando Carulli
- Alfredo Casella (1883-1947)
- Alfredo Catalani
- Jacques Champion (c 1601 - 1672)
- Philippe le Chancelier (c1165-1236)
- Graham Chapman (1941-1989)
- Ch'eng Mao-yün (1900-1957)
- Gian Paolo Chiti (born 1939)
- Frederic Chopin(1810-1849)
- Leonardo Ciampa (born 1971)
- Giovanni Paolo Cima (c1570-after 1622)[1]
- Avery Claflin (died 1979)
- Jeremiah Clarke
- Kenny Clarke (born 1914)
- Rebecca Helferich Clarke
- Johnny Clegg (born 1953)
- Paul Clouvel (born 1971)
- Albert Coates (1882-1953)
- Cy Coleman (born 1929)
- Russ Columbo (born 1908)
- Graziella Concas
- Aaron Copland
- Carmine Coppola (died 1991)
- Arcangelo Corelli
- Phil Coulter
- Noel Coward
- Cesar Cui
- Ciril Cvetko (1920-1999)
[edit] D
- Matteo D'Amico (born 1955)
- Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975)
- Michele Dall'Ongaro (born 1957)
- Burkhard Dallwitz (born 1959)
- James Dashow (born 1944)
- Mario Davidovsky (born 1934)
- Henry Walford Davies (1869-1941)
- Peter Maxwell Davies (born 1934)
- Jimmie Davis (1899-2000)
- Ananias Davisson
- Jon Deak
- Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
- Edmond Dede
- Manuel De Falla
- Michel Richard Delalande (1657-1726)
- Leo Delibes (1836-1891)
- Albert Frederick Theodore Delius (1862-1934)
- Edison Denisov (born 1929)
- Luis De Pablo (born 1937)
- Giuseppe De Rossi (1650 ?-1721)
- Fabrizio De Rossi Re (born 1960)
- Josquin Despres (1440 ? -1521)
- Paul Dessau (1894-1979)
- Anton Diabelli (1781-1858)
- David Diamond (born 1915)
- Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
- Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921)
- Albert Christoph Dies (born 1755)
- Lucio Diestro (born 1913)
- Salvatore Di Gesualdo (born 1940)
- Paul Dirmeikis (born 1954)
- Muttusvami Dikshitar
- Tomaz Domicelj (born 1948)
- Franco Donatoni (1927-2000)
- Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
- Guillaume Dufay (1390 ? 1474)
- Paul Dukas (1865-1935)
- Henry Dutilleux (born 1916)
- Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
[edit] E
- Sir Edward Elgar
- Danny Elfman
- Luther Orlando Emerson
- George Emmanual III
- Gustav Ernesaks (1908-1993)
[edit] F
- Ciaran Farrell(1969- )
- Giles Farnaby (c1565-1640)[2]
- Gabriel Fauré
- Stephen Feigenbaum
- George Fenton (born 1950)
- Arkady Filippenko (1912-1983)
- Carlisle Floyd (born 1926)
- Thomas Ford (1580-1648)[3]
- David Foster
- Stephen Foster (1826-1864)
- Alberto Franchetti
- Géza Frid
- Joseph Funk
[edit] G
- Andrea Gabrieli
- Giovanni Gabrieli
- Jacob Thune Hansen Gade
- Bernhard Gál (born 1971)
- Jacobus Gallus (1550-1591)
- Michael Gandolfi
- Kyle Gann (born 1955)
- Pauline Garcia-Viardot (1821-1910)
- Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729-1774)
- Denis Gaultier (died 1672)
- Noel Gay (died 1954)
- George Gershwin
- Don Carlo Gesualdo
- Michael Giacchino
- Luis Gianneo (born 1897)
- Jean Gilbert (born 1879)
- Mauro Giuliani
- Louis Glass
- Philip Glass
- Jackie Gleason (1916-1987)
- Reinhold Gliere
- Andrew Glover (b 1962)
- Christoph Willibald Gluck
- Radovan Gobec (born 1909)
- Alexander Godunov (1949-1995)
- Jani Golob (born 1948)
- Antônio Carlos Gomes (1836-1896)
- Michael Gordon
- François Joseph Gossec
- Glenn Gould (1932-1982)
- Morton Gould (1913-1996)
- Charles Gounod
- Fernando Lopes Graça
- Ulf Grahn (born 1942)
- Enrique Granados
- Stéphane Grappelli (1908-1997)
- Adolph Green (1914-2002)
- Eivind Groven (1901-1977)
- Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofé
- Carlos Guastavino (1912-2000)
- Tomasz Gaworek-Schodrok (born 1965)
- Alexandre Glazunov
[edit] H
- Daron Hagen (born 1961)
- Johan Halvorsen (1864-1935)
- Marvin Hamlisch (born 1944)
- Jan Hammer (born 1948)
- Albert Hammond (born 1942)
- George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
- W. C. Handy (1873-1958)
- Barbara Harbach
- Kevin F. Harris (born 1965)
- John Hartford (1937-2001)
- Hamilton Harty
- Johann A. Hasse (died 1783)
- Pieter Hellendaal (1721-1799)
- Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
- Victor Herbert (1859-1924)
- Sebastián Aguilera de Heredia (c1563-1627)
- Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) early church music composer, wrote sacred works including her morality play with music Ordo Virtutum
- Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776-1822)
- Karl Holler (1907-1987)
- Alan Hovhaness (1911 - 2000)
- Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)
- Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
- Ferdinand Huber (died 1863)
- Lukas Hurnik (born 1967)
- David Graham Hewson (1953-)
[edit] I
- Jacques Ibert (1890 - 1962)
- Akira Ifukube (1916 - 2006)
- Ilayaraaja (1943 -)
- Andrew Imbrie (born 1921)
- John Ireland (1879 - 1962)
- Niccolò Isouard (1775 - 1818)
- Charles Ives (1874 - 1954)
- Michael Irslinger (1969 -)
[edit] J
- Tony Jackson (1876-1921)
- Lado Jaksa (born 1947)
- Leoš Janáček
- Jean Michel Jarre (born 1948)
- Robert Johnson (c1583-c1633)
- Niccolò Jommelli (1714-1774)
- Ron Jones
- Scott Joplin (ca.1868-1917)
- Bradley Joseph (born 1965)
[edit] K
- Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904-1987)
- Yoko Kanno (born 1964)
- Artur Kapp (1878-1952)
- Yakov Kazyansky (born 1948)
- Jerome David Kern (1885-1945)
- Francis Scott Key (1779-1843)
- Aldine Silliman Kieffer
- Carole King (born 1942)
- William Kinloch
- Don Kirshner (born 1934)
- Meri von KleinSmid
- Paul August von Klenau (born 1883)
- Urban Koder (born 1928)
- Charles Koechlin (born 1867)
- Evgeni Kostitsyn (born 1963)
- Ellis B. Kohs
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold
- Jani Kovacic
- Marjan Kozina (1907-1965)
- Alexey Kozlovsky (died 1977)
- William Kraft
- Johann Tobias Krebs (died 1762)
- Fritz Kreisler
- Winston Kung
- Giedrius Kuprevičius (1944)
[edit] L
- John Lanchbery (1923 - 2003)
- Daniel Lanois
- Patrick Larley (born 1951)
- Orlande de Lassus (ca. 1532-1594)
- William P. Latham (1917 - 2004)
- Ernesto Lecuona
- Jerry Leiber (born 1933)
- Alfonso Leng (1894-1974)
- Nicholas Lens
- Oscar Levant (1906-1972)
- Primo Levi (1919-1987)
- Andrew Lewis (born 1936)
- Rolf Liebermann (died 1999)
- Douglas Lilburn (1915-2001)
- Marijan Lipovsek (1910-1995)
- Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760-1836)
- Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
- Duarte Lôbo (1565-1646)[4]
- Ashly Luckose (born 1988)
- Thomas Lupo (1571-1627)[5]
- Luzzasco Luzzaschi (ca. 1545-1607)
[edit] M
- Gustav Mahler
- Spiros Mazis
- Alessandro Marcello
- Christian Marclay
- Vicente Martin y Soler (died 1806)
- Pietro Mascagni
- Jules Massenet
- Peter Matz (1928-2002)
- Ascanio Mayone (1565-1627)[6]
- Jacques-Fereol Mazas
- Rod McKuen (born 1933)
- Frank McNamara
- Erkki Melartin
- Fanny Mendelssohn
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Giuseppe Mercadante
- Saverio Mercadante (born 1795)
- Maceo Meriwether
- Olivier Messiaen
- Ludwig Mestler (1891-1959)
- Giacomo Meyerbeer
- Behzad Mirkhani (born 1969)
- Dary John Mizelle
- Stevan Mokranjac (born 1856)
- Pierre des Molins [7]
- Federico Mompou
- Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819-1872)
- Thomas Morley (1557 or 1558 – October 1602)
- Giorgio Moroder (born 1940)
- Steve Morse
- Meredith Monk
- Peter Moss English Composer
- Jean-Joseph Mouret
- Georges Moustaki
- Leopold Mozart
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Modest Mussorgsky
- Neil Myers
[edit] N
- V.S.Narasimhan
- Sydney Nicholson, (1875-1947)
- Rikard Nordraak
- Ivor Novello (1893-1951)
[edit] O
- John Okeover (c 1600 - c 1663)
- Carolina Oliphant
- Otto Olsson (1879–1964)
- Karl von Ordoñez (1734-1786)
- Carl Orff (1895-1982)
- A. A. Owen (b. 1948)
[edit] P
- Giovanni Pacini (1796-1867)
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski
- Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla (c1590-1664)[8]
- Niccolò Paganini
- José de Paiva Netto (born 1941), Brazilian composer.
- Andrzej Panufnik
- Giovanni Paisiello
- Stefan Paluselli (born 1748)
- Paul Paray (1886-1979)
- Arvo Pärt
- Tomaz Pengov
- Francesco Pennisi (born 1934)
- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
- Jacopo Peri
- Don Lorenzo Perosi (1872-1956)
- Perotin Magister (fl.1190-1220)
- Oto Pestner
- Norbert Walter Peters (born 1954)
- Goffredo Petrassi
- Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949)
- Alessandro Piccinini (1566-1638)[9]
- Niccola Piccinni, (1728-1800)
- Johann Gottfried Piefke, (1815-1884)
- Willem Pijper
- Daniel Pinkham (1923-2006)
- Ildebrando Pizzetti
- Doc Pomus (1925-1991)
- Amilcare Ponchielli
- Nicola Porpora (1686-1768)
- Cole Porter
- Michael Praetorius
- Austin Pratt
- Zbigniew Preisner (born 1955)
- André Previn (born 1929)
- Joze Privsek (1937-1998)
- Simon Proctor
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Trajko Prokopiev
- Giacomo Puccini
- Loisa Puget (born 1810)
[edit] Q
[edit] R
- Sergei Rachmaninoff
- GS Rajan [10]
- Rahbani brothers (Assi: 1923-1986, Mansour: 1925-)
- Maurice Ravel
- Thomas Ravenscroft
- Janko Ravnik (1891-1982)
- Fred Raymond (1900-1954)
- Sam Raymond
- Hans Redlich (1903-1968)
- Ottorino Respighi
- Wolfgang Rihm (born 1952)
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Johnny Rivers (born 1942)
- Curtis Roads
- Mark D. Roberts
- Nile Rodgers (born 1952)
- Richard Rodgers (1902-1979)
- Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999)
- Ernesto Rodrigues (born 1959)
- Sigmund Romberg (1887-1951)
- Jubertino Rosas
- Gioacchino Rossini
- Matthew Wilson Rowan (born 1979) [11]
- Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1835-1881)
[edit] S
- Mart Saar (1882-1963)
- Kaija Saariaho
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Ryuichi Sakamoto (born 1942)
- Antonio Salieri
- Carlos Sandoval (born 1956)
- Adi Sankara (c. 788-820)
- Syama Sastry
- Erik Satie (1866-1925), 20th century modernist composer, known for his ballet Parade and his three Gymnopedies
- Alessandro Scarlatti
- Domenico Scarlatti
- Pierre Schaeffer (1910-1995)
- Peter Schickele (born 1935)
- Gustav Schmidt (died 1882)
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Franz Schubert
- Clara Schumann
- Robert Schumann
- Gil Scott-Heron (born 1949)
- Edmund H. Sears (died 1876)
- Renaud Séchan (born 1952)
- Fritz Seitz
- Bartolme de Selma (1570-1638)
- John Serry, Sr. (1915 - 2003)
- Mojmir Sepe (born 1930)
- Kazimierz Serocki (died 1981)
- Doc Severinsen (born 1927)
- Vladimir Shainsky (born 1925)
- Tolib Shakhidi, (born 1946)
- Charles Shere (born 1935)
- Jacob Shirley (born 1983)
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Jean Sibelius
- Erik Anthon Valdemar Siboni (died 1892)
- Andrej Sifrer
- Thomas Simpson (1582-1628)[12]
- Les Six (1899-1983)
- Todor Skalovski
- Nicolas Slonimsky, (1894-1995)
- Adi Smolar
- Giovanni Sollima
- Stephen Sondheim (born 1930)
- Abhay Rustum Sopori
- Natsume Soseki (1867-1916)
- John Philip Sousa (1854-1932)
- Gaspare Spontini
- Alojz Srebotnjak (born 1931)
Michael Staley (Born 1951) Composed "Aurora" 1976 and "Scenery of Pasts" 1993
- Johann Stamitz
- Jack Stamp (born 1954)
- John Stanley (1712-1786)
- Agostino Steffani
- Johnathan Joseph Stegeman (born 1979)
- Max Steiner (1888-1971)
- Jim Steinman (born 1948)
- William Grant Still
- Bernardo Storace[13]
- Johann Strauss I
- Johann Strauss II
- Richard Strauss
- Igor Stravinsky
- Arthur Sullivan
- Susato
- Władysław Szpilman
- Henryk Szulc (died 1903)
- Karol Szymanowski
[edit] T
- Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983)
- Walter Taieb (born 1973)
- Louise Talma (1906–1996)
- Giuseppe Tartini
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Alexander Tcherepnin (born 1899)
- Georg Philipp Telemann
- Mikis Theodorakis
- John Tesh (born 1952)
- Daniel Theaker (born 1967)
- Willy Timmer (born 1979)
- Dimitri Tiomkin (1894–1979)
- Swathi Tirunal
- Rudolf Tobias (1873–1918)
- Ernst Toch (1887–1964)
- Spencer Stuart Topel
- Michael Torke
- Mel Torme (1925–1999)
- Allen Toussaint
- Giovanni Maria Trabaci (1575–1647)[14]
- Hristo Spasov Tsanoff (born 1947)
- Eduard Tubin (1905–1982)
- Tyagaraja (died 1848)
[edit] U
- Benjamin Carl Unseld
- Kevin Ure [15], (born 1978)
[edit] V
- Didier van Damme (1929-)
- Niel van der Watt (1962- )
- Grigory Vasilyevich (1915-1998)
- Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Vidwan.Gopala Pillai
- Caetano Veloso
- Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
- Giovanni Viotti
- Philippe de Vitry (1291-1361)
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Walter von der Vogelweide (c1170-c1230)
- Ludwig von Köchel (1800-1877)
[edit] W
- Max Wagenknecht
- Richard Wagner
- William Walker
- Unico Wilhelm Wassenaer
- George James Webb (born 1803)
- Jimmy Webb (born 1946)
- Simon Webb
- Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948)
- Carl Maria von Weber
- Paul Wehage (born 1963)
- Johann Weichmann (born 1620)
- Kurt Weill (1900-1950)
- Judith Weir
- Sylvius Leopold Weiss
- Johann Paul von Westhoff (1656-1705)
- Benjamin Franklin White
- Thomas Whythorne
- Charles-Marie Widor
- John Williams
- Spencer Williams (1889-1965)
- Alex Wurman (born 1966)
[edit] X
[edit] Y
[edit] Z
- Riccardo Zandonai
- Amilcare Zanella (died 1949)
- Frank Zappa (died 1993)
- Jan Dismas Zelenka (born 1679)
- Hans Zimmer
- Deco Zgur
- John Zorn
- Zulkifli Mohamed Amin (born 1983)