List of female composers by birth year

The following is a list of female composers, ordered by their year of birth.^[1]

Female composers are also listed alphabetically at List of female composers by name.

Until 1500

Sappho (born c. 612 BCE)
Khosrovidukht (fl. early 8th century)
Sahakdukht (fl. early 8th century)
Kassia (c.810–before 867)
Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179)
Azalais de Porcairagues (fl. mid-12th century)
Iseut de Capio (c.1140–?)
Tibors (fl. mid-12th century)
Marie de France (1175?–1225?)
Alamanda de Castelnau (fl. second half of 12th century)
Maria de Ventadorn (fl. late 12th century)
Beatritz de Dia (fl. late 12th/early 13th centuries)
Blanche of Castile (1188–1252)
Castelloza (fl. early 13th century)
Dame Margot (fl. 13th century)
Duchess of Lorraine (fl. 13th century)
Maroie de Dregnau de Lille (fl. 13th century)
Dame Maroie (fl. 13th century)
Garsenda de Proensa (fl. early 13th century)
Birgitta of Sweden (c.1303–c.1373)

1500

Painting of Anne Boleyn, probably a later copy of an image of about 1534, see

Anne Boleyn (1507–1536)
Gaspara Stampa (1523–1554)
Maddalena Casulana (c.1540–c.1590)
Paola Massarenghi (fl. 1565–1585)
Lucia Quinciani (born c. 1566, fl. 1611)
Claudia Sessa (c. 1570–between 1613 and 1619)
Cesarina Ricci de Tingoli (born c. 1573, fl. 1597)
Vittoria Aleotti (c.1575–after 1620)
Caterina Assandra (1580–1632)
Adriana Basile (c. 1580–c. 1640)
Francesca Caccini (1587–1640?)
Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (1590–1662)
Settimia Caccini (1591–1638?)
Claudia Rusca (1593–1676)

1600

Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (1602–1678)
Sulpitia Cesis (fl. 1619)
Leonora Duarte (1610–1678)
Leonora Baroni (1611–1670)
Sophie Elisabeth, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1613–1676)
Barbara Strozzi (1619–1677)
Isabella Leonarda (1620–1704)
Mlle Bocquet (early 17th century–after 1660)
Alba Trissina (fl. 1622)
Lady Mary Dering (1629–1704)
Amalia Catharina (1640–1697)
Antonia Bembo (c. 1640–1720)
Esther Elizabeth Velkiers (born 1640)
Francesca Campana (died 1665)
Maria Cattarina Calegari (1644–1675)

1650

Maria Francesca Nascinbeni (born 1658, fl. 1674)
Rosa Giacinta Badalla (1660–1710)
Angiola Teresa Moratori Scanabecchi (1662–1708)
Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665–1729)
Françoise-Charlotte de Senneterre Ménétou (1679–1745)
Marieta Morosina Priuli (fl. 1665)
Maria de Raschenau (fl. 1690s–1703)
Michielina Della Pietà (fl. c. 1701–1744)
Caterina Benedicta Grazianini (fl. 1705–15 [b.ca.1685])
Camilla de Rossi ((fl. 1707–1710)
Julie Pinel (fl. 1710–1737)
Maria Margherita Grimani (fl. 1713–1718 [b.ca.1690])
Mrs Philarmonica (fl. 1715)
Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault (1695–1791)

1700

Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia

Rosanna Scalfi Marcello (1704 or 1705–after 1742)
Zanetta Farussi (1707–1776)
Santa della Pietà (fl. c. 1725–1750, d. after 1774)
Elisabeth de Haulteterre (fl. 1737–1768)
Wilhelmine of Bayreuth (1709–1758)
Mlle Guédon de Presles (early 18th century–1754)
Barbara of Portugal (1711–1758)
Luise Adelgunda Gottsched (1713–1762)
Mlle Duval (1718–after 1775)
Maria Teresa Agnesi (1720–1795)
Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia (1723–1787)
Maria Antonia of Bavaria (1724–1780)
Diamante Medaglia Faini (1724–1770)
Miss Davis (c. 1726–after 1755)
Elisabetta de Gambarini (1731–1765)
Josina Anna Petronella van Boetzelaer (1733–1787)
Mme Papavoine (born c. 1735, fl. 1755–61)
Hélène-Louise Demars (b. c. 1736)
Anna Bon (born 1738/1739)
Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1739–1807)
Mlle Guerin (born c. 1739, fl. 1755)
Isabelle de Charrière (1740–1805)
Elisabeth Olin (1740–1828)
Maria Carolina Wolf (1742–1820)
Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt Brillon de Jouy (1744–1824)
Marianna von Martines (1744–1812)
Maddalena Laura Sirmen (1745–1818)
Marie Emmanuelle Bayon Louis (1746–1825)
Henriette Adélaïde Villard de Beaumesnil (1748–1813)
Polly Young, or Maria Barthélemon (1749–1799)

1750

Gertrud Elisabeth Mara (1749–1833)
Elizabeth Anspach (1750–1828)
Elizabeth Joanetta Catherine von Hagen (1750–1809/10)
Mary Ann Pownall (1751–1796)
Corona Elisabeth Wilhelmine Schröter (1751–1802)
Mary Ann Wrighten (1751–1796)
Juliane Reichardt (1752–1783)
Jane Savage (1752/3–1824)
Charlotte von Brandenstein (1754–1813)
Josepha Duschek (1754–1824)
Maria Theresia Ahlefeldt (1755–1810)
Mary Linwood (1755/6–1845)
Francesca Lebrun (1756–1791)
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757–1806)
Charlotte Caroline Wilhelmine Bachmann (1757–1817)
Harriett Abrams (1758–1821)
Josepha Barbara Auernhammer (1758–1820)
Marianna von Auenbrugger (1759–1782)
Maria Rosa Coccia (1759–1833)
Maria Theresia von Paradis (1759–1824)
Sophia Maria Westenholz (1759–1838)
Christina Charlotta Cederström (1760–1832)
Maria Hester Park, (1760–1813)
Marie-Elizabeth Cléry (1761–after 1795)
Dorothea Jordan (1761–1816)
Adelheid Maria Eichner (1762–1787)
Jane Mary Guest (c. 1762–1846)
Ann Valentine (1762–1842)
Helene de Montgeroult (1764–1836)
Charlotte Wilhelmina Franziska Brandes (1765–1788)
Jeanne-Hippolyte Devismes (1765–?1834)
Anne-Marie Krumpholtz (1766–1813)
Caroline Wuiet (1766–1835)
Julie Candeille (1767–1834)
Elizabeth Billington (c. 1768–1818)
Margarethe Danzi (1768–1800)
Maria Theresa Bland (c. 1769–1838)
Kateřina Veronika Anna Dusíkova (1769–1833)
Vincenta Da Ponte (fl. second half 18th century)
Cecilia Maria Barthélemon (c. 1769–after 1840)
Yekaterina Sinyavina (died 1784)
Klementyna Grabowska (Countess Clementine) (1771–1831)
Lucile Grétry (1772–1790)
Maria Frances Parke (1772–1822)
Sophie Bawr (1773–1860)
Anna Maria Crouch (1773–1805)
Maria Brizzi Giorgi (1775–1822)
Sophia Corri Dussek (1775–1847)
Margaret Essex (1775–1807)
Sophie Gail (1775–1819)
Sophie Gay (1776–1852)
Pauline Duchambge (1778–1858)
Louise Reichardt (1779–1826)
Ekaterina Likoshin (fl. 1800–1810)
Katerina Maier (fl. c. 1800)
Sophie Lebrun (1781–1863)
Charlotta Seuerling (1782–1828)
Hortense de Beauharnais (1783–1837)
Teresa Belloc-Giorgi (1784–1855)
Bettina Brentano (1785–1859)
Catherina Cibbini-Kozeluch (1785–1858)
Isabella Colbran (1785–1845)
Fanny Krumpholtz Pittar (1785–1815)
Marie Bigot (1786–1820)
Le Sénéchal de Kerkado (c. 1786–after 1805)
Elena Asachi (1789–1877)
Maria Agata Szymanowska (1789–1831)
Harriet Browne (1790–1858)
Gertrude van den Bergh (1793–1840)
Amalie, Princess of Saxony (1794–1870)
Olivia Buckley (born mid-1790s–after 1845)
Mme Delaval (fl. 1791–1802)
Agata Della Pietà (fl. c. 1800)
Caroline Ridderstolpe (1793–1878)
Helene Liebmann (1796–1835)
Mathilda d'Orozco (1796–1863)
Emilie Zumsteeg (1796–1857)
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797–1848)
Mme Ravissa (fl. late 18th century)
Virginie Morel-du Verger (1799–1869)
Maria Fredrica von Stedingk (1799–1868)

1800

Filipina Brzezińska-Szymanowska (1800–1886)
Susanna Nerantzi (fl. 1830–1840)
Marion Dix Sullivan (fl. 1840–50)
Marianna Bottini (1802–1858)
Eliza Flower (1803–1846)
Isidora Zegers (1803–1869)
Louise Farrenc (1804–1875)
Louise Bertin (1805–1877)
Fanny Mendelssohn (1805–1847)
Elizabeth Masson (1806–1865)
Adelaide Orsola Appignani (1807–1884)
Helen Blackwood (1807–1867)
Emma Hartmann (1807–1851)
Princess Cecilia of Sweden (1807–1844)
Maria Malibran (1808–1836)
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (1808–1877)
Anna Caroline Oury (1808–1880)
Leopoldine Blahetka (1809–1885)
Baronne Almaury de Maistre (1809–1875)
Johanna Kinkel (1810–1858)
Louise Geneviève de Le Hye (1810–1838)
Loïsa Puget (1810–1889)
Alicia Ann Scott (1810–1900)
Carolina Uccelli (1810–1885)
Ann Mounsey (1811–1891)
Emilie Mayer (1812–1883)
Julie von Webenau née Baroni-Cavalcabò (1813–1887)
Delphine von Schauroth (1814–1887)
Thérèse Wartel (1814–1865)
Fredrikke Egeberg (1815–1861)
Josephine Lang (1815–1880)
Mary Anne à Beckett (1817–1863)
Caroline Orger (1818–1892)
Caroline Reinagle (1818–1892)
Ellen Dickson (1819–1878)
Clara Schumann (1819–1896)
Elizabeth Stirling (1819–1895)
Augusta Browne (1820–1882)
Felicita Casella (c. 1820–after 1865)
Emilie Hammarskjöld (1821–1854)
Clara Angela Macirone (1821–1895)
Charlotte Sainton-Dolby (1821–1885)
Maria Anna Stubenberg (1821–1912)
Pauline Viardot (1821–1910)
Faustina Hasse Hodges (1822–1895)
Emma Maria Macfarren (1824–1895)
Marie Siegling (1824–1919)
Jane Sloman (1824–after 1850)
Virginia Gabriel (1825–1877)
Kate Loder (1825–1904)
Maria Lindsay (1827–1898)
Teresa Milanollo (1827–1904)
Julia Niewiarowska-Brzozowska (1827–1891)
Elizabeth Philp (1827–1885)
Clémence de Grandval (1828–1907)
Charlotte Alington Barnard (1830–1869)
Aurore von Haxthausen (1830–1888)
Fanny Arthur Robinson (1831–1879)
Martha von Sabinin (1831–1892)
Julia Woolf (1831–1893)
Mathilde Hannah von Rothschild (1832–1924)
Sophia Dellaporta (fl. second half of the 19th century)
Esmeralda Athanasiu-Gardeev (1834–1917)
Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834–1861)
Anna Pessiak-Schmerling (1834–1896)
Johanne Amelie Fenger (1836–1913)
Susan McFarland Parkhurst (1836–1918)
Anaïs Perrière-Pilte (1836–1878)
Constance Faunt Le Roy Runcie (1836–1911)
Pauline-Marie-Elisa Thys (c. 1836–1909)
Caroline Wichern (1836–1906)
Carlotta Ferrari (1837–1907)
Bertha Tammelin (1836–1915)
Georgina Weldon (1837–1914)
Liliʻuokalani (1838–1917)
Louise Haenel de Cronenthall (1839–c. 1876)
Laura Constance Netzel (1839–1927)
Alice Mary Smith (1839–1884)
Ingeborg von Bronsart (1840–1913)
Theodora Cormontan (1840–1922)
Elfrida Andrée (1841–1929)
Clara H. Scott (1841–1897)
Louise Héritte-Viardot (1841–1918)
Josefina Brdlíková (1843–1910)
Florence Ashton Marshall (1843–after 1911)
Oliveria Louisa Prescott (1843–1919)
Marguerite Olagnier (1844–1906)
Clara Kathleen Rogers (1844–1931)
Ika Peyron (1845–1922)
Ella Adayevskaya (née Schultz) (1846–1926)
Marie Jaëll (1846–1925)
Sophie Menter (1846–1918)
Valentina Serova (1846–1924)
Agnes Tyrrell (1846–1883)
Agathe Backer Grøndahl (1847–1907)
Chiquinha Gonzaga (1847–1935)
Augusta Holmès (1847–1903)
Agnes Zimmermann (1847–1925)
Nadezhda Rimskaya-Korsakova (1848–1919)
Frances Allitsen (1849–1912)
Soledad Bengoecha de Cármena (1849–1893)
Catalina Berroa (1849–1911)
Roberta Geddes-Harvey (1849–1930)
Ludmila Jeske-Choińska-Mikorska (1849–1898)
Nanna Magdalene Liebmann (1849–1935)
Stephanie Wurmbrand-Stuppach (1849–1919)

1850

Luise Adolpha Le Beau (1850–1927)
Emma Roberto Steiner (1850–1928)
Edith Swepstone (fl. 1885–1930)
Mary Grant Carmichael (1851–1935)
Gabrielle Ferrari (1851–1921)
Annie Fortescue Harrison (1851–1944)
Helena Munktell (1852–1919)
Teresa Carreño (1853–1917)
Julie Rivé-King (1854–1937)
Maude Valérie White (1855–1937)
Cecilia Arizti (1856–1930)
Eva Dell'Acqua (1856–1930)
Kateřina Emingerová (1856–1934)
Clotilde Kainerstorfer (fl. second half 19th century)
Helen Hopekirk (1856–1945)
Natalia Janotha (1856–1932)
Gilda Ruta (1856–1932)
Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter (1856–1938)
Berta Bock (1857–1945)
Cécile Chaminade (1857–1944)
Rosalind Frances Ellicott (1857–1924)
Ethel R. Harraden (1857–1917)
Mathilde Kralik von Mayerswalden (1857–1944)
Mary Knight Wood (1857–1944)
Mélanie Bonis (1858–1937)
Catherine Rennes (1858–1940)
Guy d'Hardelot (1858–1936)
Hilda Sehested (1858–1936)
Ethel Smyth (1858–1944)
Stella Stocker (1858–1925)
Hedwige Chrétien (1859–1944)
Laura Sedgwick Collins (1859–1927)
Narcisa Freixas (1859–1926)
Vincenza Garelli della Morea (1859–after 1924)
Susie Frances Harrison (1859–1935)
Elisabeth Meyer (1859–1927)
Ida Georgina Moberg (1859–1947)
Teresa Tanco Cordovez de Herrera (1859–1946)
Hope Temple (1859–1938)
Ellen Wright (1859–1904)
Laura Valborg Aulin (1860–1928)
Celeste de Longpré Heckscher (1860–1928)
Halina Krzyżanowska (1860–1937)
Amy Woodforde-Finden (1860–1919)
Mary J. A. Wurm (1860–1938)
Florence Everilda Goodeve (1861–1915)
Florence Aylward (1862–1950)
Carrie Bond (1862–1946)
Dora Bright (1862–1951)
Liza Lehmann (1862–1918)
Mona McBurney (1862–1932)
Adela Maddison (1862/63–1929)
Marian Arkwright (1863–1922)
Luisa Casagemas (1863–after 1894)
Maria Chefaliady-Taban (1863–1932)
Abbie Gerrish-Jones (1863–1929)
Helen Francis Hood (1863–1949)
Izabella Kuliffay (1863–1945)
Cornélie van Oosterzee (1863–1943)
Florence Maude Ewart (1864–1949)
Eleanor Everest Freer (1864–1942)
Alice Tegnér (1864–1943)
Borghild Holmsen (1865–1938)
Amanda Ira Aldridge (1866–1956)
Henriette van den Boorn-Coclet (1866–1945)
Clara Anna Korn (1866–1941)
Laura Lemon (1866–1924)
Tekla Griebel Wandall (1866–1940)
Amy Beach (1867–1944)
Margherita Galeotti (1867–after 1912)
Amy Elsie Horrocks (1867–after 1915)
Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867–1972)
Gisella Delle Grazie (born 1868, fl. 1894–95)
Signe Lund (1868–1950)
Annie Patterson (1868–1934)
Joséphine Boulay (1869–1925)
Virginia Mariani Campolieti (1869–1941)
Maria Antonietta Picconi (1869–1926)
Caro Roma (1869–1937)
Patty Stair (1869–1926)
Eugénie-Emilie Juliette Folville (1870–1946)
Mon Schjelderup (1870–1934)
Hélène-Frédérique de Faye-Jozin (1871–1942) (name often abbreviated as Fréd. de Faye-Jozin)
Jane Vieu (1871–1955)
Clara Mathilda Faisst (1872-1948)
Alicia Adélaide Needham (1872–1945)
María de las Mercedes Adam de Aróstegui (1873–1957)
Ethel Barns (1874–1948)
Anna Cramer (1873–1968)
Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Celeste (1873–1938)
Emma Lomax (1873–1963)
Mary Carr Moore (1873–1957)
Maude Nugent (1873/4–1958)
Bertha Frensel Wegener (1874–1953)
Katharine Emily Eggar (1874–1961)
Katharine Lucke (1875-1962)
Adele Bloesch-Stöcker (1875-1978)
Henriette Renié (1875–1956)
Vilma von Webenau (1875–1953)
Sara Wennerberg-Reuter (1875–1959)
Lucia Contini Anselmi (1876–after 1913)
Hélène Fleury-Roy (1876–?)
Armande de Polignac (1876–1962)
Teresa Clotilde del Riego (1876–1968)
Mabel Wheeler Daniels (1877–1971)
Elisabeth Kuyper (1877–1953)
Jeanne Beijerman-Walraven (1878–1969)
Eugenia Calosso (1878–1914)
Johanna Müller-Hermann (1878–1941)
Yuliya Veysberg (1878/1880–1942)
Wanda Landowska (1879–1959)
Carmela Mackenna (1879–1962)
Alma Mahler (1879–1964)
Poldowski (1879–1932)
Johanna Senfter (1879–1961)
Ethel Scarborough (1880–1956)
Gena Branscombe (1881–1977)
Reine Colaço Osorio-Swaab (1881–1971)
Nancy Dalberg (1881–1949)
Fannie Charles Dillon (1881–1974)
Marion Bauer (1882–1955)
Mary Howe (1882–1964)
Eleni Lambiri (c. 1882-8–1960)
Ernestina Lecuona y Casado (1882–1951)
Mary Lucas (1882–1952)
Dina Appeldoorn (1884–1938)
Marguerite Béclard d'Harcourt (1884–1964)
May Brahe (1884–1956)
Giulia Recli (1884–1970)
Blanche Selva (1884–1942)
María Grever (1885–1951)
Eva Jessye (1885–1992)
Mana Zucca (1885–1981)
Dora Pejačević (1885–1923)
Giovanna Bruna Baldacci (1886–after 1910)
Alice Barnett (1886–1975)
Christabel Baxendale (1886–after 1951)
Rebecca Helferich Clarke (1886–1979)
Ellen Coleman (1886–1973)
Elizabeth Gyring (1886–1970)
Ethel Leginska (1886–1970)
Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979)
Lili Boulanger (1893–1918)
Mildred Couper (1887–1974)
Clara Edwards (1887–1974)
Emilia Gubitosi (1887–1972)
Florence Beatrice Price (1887–1953)
Lily Strickland (1887–1958)
May Aufderheide (1888–1972)
Carmen Barradas (1888–1963)
Johanna Beyer (1888–1944)
Ilse Fromm-Michaels (1888–1986)
Anna Maria Klechniowska (1888–1973)
Julie Reisserová (1888–1938)
Maria Rodrigo (1888–1967)
Rosy Wertheim (1888–1949)
Emiliana de Zubeldia (1888–1987)
Ina Boyle (1889–1967)
Ethel Glenn Hier (1889–1971)
Vally Weigl (1889–1982)
Lydia Boucher (1890–1971)
Marguerite Canal (1890–1978)
Evelyn Faltis (1890–1937)
Pauline Hall (1890–1969)
Kathleen Lockhart Manning (1890–1951)
Eda Rapoport (1890–1968)
Frida Kern (1891–1988)
Florentina Mallá (1891–1973)
Morfydd Llwyn Owen (1891–1918)
Catherine Murphy Urner (1891–1942)
Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman (1892–1971)
Mirrie Hill (1892–1986)
Katherine K. Davis (1892–1980)
Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983)
Lili Boulanger (1893–1918)
Marta Canales (1893–1986)
Dorothy Gow (1893–1982)
Helen Eugenia Hagan (1893–1964)
Amy Upham Thomson McKean (1893-1972)
Kalitha Dorothy Fox (1894–1934)
Jane M. Joseph (1894–1929)
Elsa Respighi (1894–1996)
Sláva Vorlová (1894–1973)
Henriëtte Bosmans (1895–1952)
Kathleen Dale (1895–1984)
Kathleen Richards (1895–1984)
Maria Bach (1896–1978)
Shirley Graham Du Bois (1896–1977)
María Teresa Prieto (1896–1982)
María Luisa Sepúlveda (1896–1958)
Lucie Vellère (1896–1966)
Benna Moe (1897–1983)
Margaret Sutherland (1897–1984)
Muriel Emily Herbert (1897–1984)
Kay Swift (1897–1993)
Barbara Giuranna (1898–1998)
Dorothy Howell (1898–1982)
Jeanne Leleu (1898–1979)
Mansi Barberis (1899–1986)
Radie Britain (1899–1994)
Marcelle de Manziarly (1899–1989)
Grete von Zieritz (1899–2001)

1900

Carmelina Delfin (c. 1900–after 1948)
Lola Castegnaro (1900–1979)
Zdenka Ticharich (1900–1979)
Elinor Remick Warren (1900–1991)
Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901–1953)
Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté (1901–1974)
Dorothy James (1901–1982)
Emmy Wegener (1901–1973)
Hedy Frank-Autheried (1902–1979)
Lūcija Garūta (1902–1977)
Helvi Leiviskä (1902–1982)
Doris Gertrude Sheppard (1902–1982)
Freda Swain (1902–1985)
Rose Thisse-Derouette (1902–1989)
Claude Arrieu (1903–1990)
María Enma Botet Dubois (born 1903)
Rhoda Coghill (1903–2000)
Avril Coleridge-Taylor (1903–1998)
Lillian Fuchs (1903–1991)
Jessie Furze (1903–1984)
Marianne Gary-Schaffhauser (born 1903)
Priaulx Rainier (1903–1986)
Joanídia Sodré (1903–1975)
Martha Alter (1904–1976)
Dinorá de Carvalho (1904–1980)
Undine Smith Moore (1904–1989)
Dorothy Parke (1904–1990)
Esther Rofe (1904–2000)
Andrée Bonhomme (1905–1982)
Ulric Cole (1905–1992)
Elizabeth Poston (1905–1987)
Verdina Shlonsky (1905–1990)
Shuxian Xiao (1905–1991)
Claire Delbos (1906–1959)
Miriam Gideon (1906–1996)
Zara Levina (1906–1976)
Elisabeth Lutyens (1906–1983)
Berta Alves de Sousa (1906–1997)
Louise Talma (1906–1996)
Grace Williams (1906–1977)
Ann Ronell (1906 or 1908–1993)
Lora Aborn (1907–2005)
Yvonne Desportes (1907–1993)
Koharik Gazarossian (1907–1967)
Imogen Holst (1907–1984)
Elizabeth Maconchy (1907–1994)
Roberta Martin (1907–1969)
Maria Teresa Pelegrí i Marimón (1907–1995)
Roberta Bitgood (1908–2007)
Jean Coulthard (1908–2000)
Helen Glatz (1908–1996)
Joan Mary Last (1908–2002)
Trude Rittmann (1908–2005)
Alice Samter (1908–2004)
Ida Vivado (1908–1989)
Grażyna Bacewicz (1909–1969)
Maria Dziewulska (1909–2006)
Minna Keal (1909–1999)
Ljubica Marić (1909–2003)
Dana Suesse (1909–1987)

1910

Elsa Barraine (1910–1999)
Lycia de Biase Bidart (1910–1990)
Patricia Blomfield Holt (1910–2003)
Shena Fraser (1910–1993)
Lila Lalauni (1910–1996)
Paule Maurice (1910–1967)
Mary Lou Williams (1910–1981)
Kikuko Kanai (1911–1986)
Anne-Marie Ørbeck (1911–1996)
Julia Smith (1911–1989)
Phyllis Tate (1911–1987)
Lydia Auster (1911–1989)
Jeanne Behrend (1912–1988)
Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912–1990)
Gisela Hernández (1912–1971)
Sirvart Karamanuk (1912–2008)
Barbara Pentland (1912–2000)
Jadwiga Szajna-Lewandowska (1912–1994)
Josephine Troup (died 1912)
Violet Archer (1913–2000)
Isabel Aretz (1913–2005)
Margaret Allison Bonds (1913–1972)
Matilde Capuis (born 1913)
Peggy Stuart Coolidge (1913–1981)
Sylvia Fine (1913–1991)
Vivian Fine (1913–2000)
Dulcie Holland (1913–2000)
Miriam Hyde (1913–2005)
Netty Simons (1913–1994)
Esther Allan (1914–1985)
Cacilda Borges Barbosa (1914–2010)
Suzanne Joly (1914–2012)
Teresa Rampazzi (1914–2001)
Josée Vigneron-Ramackers (1914–2002)
Esther Ballou (1915–1973)
Eunice Catunda (1915–1991)
Júlia Hajdú (1915–1987)
Pamela Harrison (1915–1990)
Najla Jabor (1915–2001)
Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915–1940)
Eunice Katunda (1915–1991)
Joan Trimble (1915–2000)
Berthe di Vito-Delvaux (1915–2005)
Olga De Blanck Martín (1916–1998)
Carin Malmlöf-Forssling (1916–2005)
Nydia Pereyra-Lizaso (born 1916)
Erna Tauro (1916–1993)
Ruth Shaw Wylie (1916–1989)
Els Aarne (1917–1995)
Joyce Howard Barrell (1917–1989)
Clarisse Leite (1917–2003)
Geraldine Mucha (1917–2012)
Maj Sønstevold (1917–1996)
Ėta Mayseyewna Tïrmand (1917–2008)
Erna Woll (1917–2005)
Lina Pires de Campos (1918–2003)
Gayane Č'ebotaryan (1918–1998)
Dilys Elwyn-Edwards (1918–2012)
Lucrecia Roces Kasilag (1918–2008)
Matilde Salvador (1918–2007)
Denise Tolkowsky (1918–1991)
Jórunn Viðar (born 1918)
Roslyn Brogue (1919–1981)
Eleonora Eksanishvili (born 1919)
Ludmila Frajt (1919–1999)
Dorothy Whitson Freed (1919–2000)
Hilda Jerea (1919–1980)
Qu Xixian (1919–2008)
Galina Ustvolskaya (1919–2006)

1920

Rolande Falcinelli (1920–2006)
Dorothea Anne Franchi (1920–2003)
Chaya Arbel (1921–2007)
Dorothea Austin (1921–2011)
Adrienne Clostre (1921–2006)
Jeanne Demessieux (1921–1968)
Ruth Gipps (1921–1999)
Nazife Güran (1921–1993)
Mara Petrova (1921–1997)
Rosalina Abejo (1922–1991)
Margaret Buechner (1922–1998)
Doreen Carwithen (1922–2003)
Odette Gartenlaub (born 1922)
Ester Mägi (born 1922)
Sylvia Rexach (1922–1961)
Jeanine Rueff (1922–1999)
Doris Akers (1923–1995)
Teresa Borràs i Fornell (1923–2010)
Madeleine Dring (1923–1977)
Jean Eichelberger Ivey (1923–2010)
Ursula Mamlok (born 1923)
Dika Newlin (1923–2006)
Elena Romero (1923–1996)
Ludmila Ulehla (1923–2009)
Leni Alexander (1924–2005)
Jeanne Colin-De Clerck (born 1924)
Heimo Erbse (born 1924)
Zhivka Klinkova (born 1924)
Angela Morley (1924–2009)
Krystyna Moszumańska-Nazar (born 1924)
Tatyana Nikolayeva (1924–1993)
Gladys Nordenstrom (born 1924)
Else Marie Pade (born 1924)
Julia Perry (1924–1979)
Ruth Schonthal (1924–2006)
Jitka Snížková (1924–1989)
Erzsébet Szőnyi (born 1924)
Tui St. George Tucker (1924–2004)
Consuelo Velázquez (1924–2005)
Cathy Berberian (1925–1983)
Edith Borroff (born 1925)
Hilda Dianda (born 1925)
Ginette Keller (born 1925)
Lyudmila Lyadova (born 1925)
Nelly Moretto (1925–1978)
Daphne Oram (1925–2003)
Alice Parker (born 1925)
Amado Santos Ocampo (born 1925)
Jeanne Ellison Shaffer (1925–2009)
Yolande Uyttenhove (1925–2000)
Ruth White (born 1925)
Puchi Balseiro (1926–2007)
Modesta Bor (1926–1998)
Janine Charbonnier (born 1926)
Irina Elcheva (born 1926)
Zhun Huang (born 1926)
Betsy Jolas (born 1926)
Melinda Kistétényi (born 1926)
Maria de Lourdes Martins (born 1926)
Carmen Petra-Basacopol (born 1926)
Claire Polin (1926–1995)
Marga Richter (born 1926)
Esther Scliar (1926–1978)
Natela Svanidze (born 1926)
Irina Yel'cheva (born 1926)
Ruth Zechlin (born 1926)
Marilyn J Ziffrin (born 1926)
Bebe Barron (born 1927)
Dolores Claman (born 1927)
Emma Lou Diemer (born 1927)
Judith Dvorkin (born c. 1927)
Elaine Hugh-Jones (born 1927)
Eva Schorr (born 1927)
Mary Jeanne Van Appledorn (1927–2014)
Gaziza Zhubanova (born 1927)
Margrit Zimmermann (born 1927)
Luna Alcalay (1928–2012)
Ruth Anderson (born 1928)
Sarah Feigin (born 1928)
Beverly Grigsby (born 1928)
Gladys Smuckler Moskowitz (born 1928)
Nadežka Mosusova (born 1928)
Thea Musgrave (born 1928)
Adelaide Pereira da Silva (born 1928)
Zlata Tcaci (born 1928)
Toshiko Akiyoshi (born 1929)
Nini Bulterijs (1929–1989)
Geghuni Hovannesi Chitchian (born 1929)
Siegrid Ernst (born 1929)
Nada Ludvig-Pečar (1929–2008)
Pierrette Mari (born 1929)
Aleksandra Pakhmutova (born 1929)
Elena Petrová (born 1929)
Irma Urteaga (born 1929)

1930

Yardena Alotin (1930–1994)
Vera Baeva (born 1930)
Jacqueline Fontyn (born 1930)
Joan Franks Williams (born 1930)
Antoinette Kirkwood (born 1930)
Ruth Lomon (born 1930)
Gudrun Lund (born 1930)
Jana Obrovská (1930–1987)
Betty Roe (born 1930)
Clotilde Rosa (born 1930)
Naomi Shemer (1930–2004)
Nancy Van de Vate (born 1930)
Nancy Laird Chance (born 1931)
Lucia Dlugoszewski (1931–2000)
Felicia Donceanu (born 1931)
Sofia Gubaidulina (born 1931)
Rosa Guraieb (born 1931)
Yüksel Koptagel (born 1931)
Young-ja Lee (born 1931)
Maria Dolores Malumbres (born 1931)
Myriam Marbe (1931–1997)
Joyce Mekeel (1931–1997)
Phillipa Duke Schuyler (1931–1967)
Alida Vázquez (born 1931)
Elaine Barkin (born 1932)
Betty Beath (born 1932)
Diana Pereira Hay (born 1932)
Marta Jiráčková (born 1932)
Liu Zhuang (born 1932)
Tera de Marez Oyens (1932–1996)
Pauline Oliveros (born 1932)
Eliane Radigue (born 1932)
Dorothy Ashby (1932–1986)
Kilza Setti (born 1932)
Gitta Steiner (1932–1990)
Ruth Watson Henderson (born 1932)
Pozzi Escot (born 1933)
Ida Gotkovsky (born 1933)
Elena Karastoyanova (born 1933)
Yoko Ono (born 1933)
Charlotte Moorman (1933–1991)
Maria Helena Rosas Fernandes (born 1933)
Rocio Sanz (1933–1993)
Alicia Urreta (1933–1987)
Tat'yana Voronina (born 1933)
Huguang Xin (born 1933)
Norma Beecroft (born 1934)
Nicole Lachartre (1934–1992)
Mary Mageau (born 1934)
Zhanneta Lazarevna Metallidi (born 1934)
Teresa Procaccini (born 1934)
Alicia Terzian (born 1934)
Arlene Zallman (1934–2006)
Thérèse Brenet (born 1935)
Biancamaria Furgeri (born 1935)
Helen Gifford (born 1935)
Kazuko Hara (born 1935)
Enid Luff (born 1935)
Jacqueline Nova (1935–1975)
Shirley Walker (1935–2006)
Qiang Wang (born 1935)
Mirjana Živković (born 1935)
Sieglinda Ahrens (born 1936)
Izabella Arazova (born 1936)
Monic Cecconi-Botella (born 1936)
Erika Radermacher (born 1936)
Erika Fox (born 1936)
Barbara Heller (born 1936)
Trisutji Kamal (born 1936)
Sheila Mary Nelson (born 1936)
Jocy de Oliveira (born 1936)
Vivian Adelberg Rudow (born 1936)
Brunhilde Sonntag (born 1936)
Keiko Abe (born 1937)
Janet Beat (born 1937)
Constança Capdeville (1937–1992)
Delia Derbyshire (1937–2001)
Irina Odăgescu (born 1937)
Beatriz Ferreyra (born 1937)
Katherine Hoover (born 1937)
Marta Lambertini (born 1937)
Diana McIntosh (born 1937)
Kikuko Masumoto (born 1937)
Bernadetta Matuszczak (born 1937)
Irma Ravinale (1937–2013)
Ann Southam (born 1937)
Isabelle Aboulker (born 1938)
Elizabeth R. Austin (born 1938)
Carla Bley (born 1938)
Ann Carr-Boyd (born 1938)
Gloria Coates (born 1938)
Piera Pistono (born 1938)
Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux (1938–1985)
Tona Scherchen (born 1938)
Mieko Shiomi (born 1938)
Cornelia Tăutu (born 1938)
Joan Tower (born 1938)
Elinor Armer (born 1939)
Wendy Carlos (born 1939)
Marcelle Deschênes (born 1939)
Lesya Dychko (born 1939)
Maija Einfelde (born 1939)
Jennifer Fowler (born 1939)
Barbara Kolb (born 1939)
Annea Lockwood (born 1939)
María Luisa Ozaita (born 1939)
Inger Wikström (born 1939)
Margaret Lucy Wilkins (born 1939)
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (born 1939)

1940

Heidi Baader-Nobs (born 1940)
Margaret Brouwer (born 1940)
Eleanor Hovda (born 1940)
Dina Koston (1940 - 2009)
Maria Teresa Luengo (born 1940)
Dorothy Rudd Moore (born 1940)
Graciela Paraskevaidis (born 1940)
Adrienne Albert (born 1941)
Judith Margaret Bailey (born 1941)
Anđelka Bego-Šimunić (born 1941)
Kay Gardner (1941–2002)
Micki Grant (born 1941)
Sorrel Hays (born 1941)
Moya Henderson (born 1941)
Viera Janárčeková (born 1941)
Edith Lejet (born 1941)
Ivana Loudová (born 1941)
Jenny Helen McLeod (born 1941)
Sook-Ja Oh (born 1941)
Terry Winter Owens (born 1941)
Magaly Ruiz Lastres (born 1941)
Elizabeth Walton Vercoe (born 1941)
Gillian Whitehead (born 1941)
Birgitte Alsted (born 1942)
Silvana Di Lotti (born 1942)
Canary Lee Burton (born 1942)
Helen Fisher (born 1942)
Usha Khanna (born 1942)
Priscilla McLean (born 1942)
Haruna Miyake (born 1942)
Meredith Monk (born 1942)
Kyungsun Suh (born 1942)
Diane Thome (born 1942)
Maryanne Amacher (born 1943)
Solange Ancona (born 1943)
Christine Berl (born 1943)
Michèle Bokanowski (born 1943)
Joanna Bruzdowicz (born 1943)
Laura Clayton (born 1943)
Eleanor Cory (born 1943)
Margriet Ehlen (born 1943)
Judy Klein (born 1943)
Anne Lauber (born 1943)
Tania León (born 1943)
Marta Ptaszynska (born 1943)
Michèle Reverdy (born 1943)
Alice Shields (born 1943)
Elżbieta Sikora (born 1943)
Pril Smiley (born 1943)
Françoise Barrière (born 1944)
Alison Bauld (born 1944)
Ana Bofill Levi (born 1944)
Gabriella Cecchi (born 1944)
Tatyana Chudova (born 1944)
Gloria González (born 1944)
Beatriz Lockhart (born 1944)
Gabriela Moyseowicz (born 1944)
Claire Renard (born 1944)
Marisa Rezende (born 1944)
Rhian Samuel (born 1944)
Silvia Sommer (born 1944)
Graciela Castillo (born before 1945)
Graciela Agudela (born 1945)
Maya Badian (born 1945)
Gillian Bibby (born 1945)
Victoria Bond (born 1945)
Dorothy Quita Buchanan (born 1945)
Judith Ann Clingan (born 1945)
Melanie Ruth Daiken (born 1945)
Graciane Finzi (born 1945)
Ig Henneman (born 1945)
Nagako Konishi (born 1945)
Chan-Hae Lee (born 1945)
Vânia Dantas Leite (born 1945)
Younghi Pagh-Paan (born 1945)
Maggi Payne (born 1945)
Elizabeth Raum (born 1945)
Marielli Sfakianaki (born 1945)
Laurie Spiegel (born 1945)
Julia Usher (born 1945)
Judith Lang Zaimont (born 1945)
Barbara Benary (born 1946)
Renate Birnstein (born 1946)
Anne Boyd (born 1946)
Geneviève Calame (1946–1993)
Suzanne Ciani (born 1946)
Dora Draganova (born 1946)
Tsippi Fleischer (born 1946)
Janice Giteck (born 1946)
Ann-Elise Hannikainen (born 1946)
Ho Wai-On (born 1946)
Neva Krasteva (born 1946)
Jane O'Leary (born 1946)
Anna Rubin (born 1946)
Claire Schapira (born 1946)
Daria Semegen (born 1946)
Marilyn Shrude (born 1946)
Sheila Silver (born 1946)
Annette Vande Gorne (born 1946)
Joelle Wallach (born 1946)
Hildegard Westerkamp (born 1946)
Pınar Köksal (born 1946)
Liana Alexandra (born 1947)
Laurie Anderson (born 1947)
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh (born 1947)
Ruth Bakke (born 1947)
Ada Gentile (born 1947)
Mayako Kubo (born 1947)
Joan La Barbara (born 1947)
Nicola LeFanu (born 1947)
Zarrina Mirshakar (born 1947)
Vojna Nešić (born 1947)
Rosica Petkova (born 1947)
Gail Leven Pollock (born 1947)
Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil (born 1947)
Faye-Ellen Silverman (born 1947)
Hilary Tann (born 1947)
Gwyneth Van Anden Walker (born 1947)
Susan Cohn Lackman (born 1947)
Gisèle Barreau (born 1948)
Diana Burrell (born 1948)
Julia Cenova (1948–2010)
Janet Graham (born 1948)
Kerstin Jeppsson (born 1948)
Christina Kubisch (born 1948)
Junko Mori (born 1948)
Ilza Nogueira (born 1948)
Sally Johnston Reid (born 1948)
Shoshana Riseman (born 1948)
Ilona Sekacz (born 1948)
Lyudmila Karpawna Shleh (born 1948)
Bernadette Speach (born 1948)
Ivana Stefanović (born 1948)
Julia Tsenova (1948–2010)
Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph (born 1948)
Eleanor Alberga (born 1949)
Carol E Barnett (born 1949)
Rachel Galinne (born 1949)
Alexina Louie (born 1949)
Odaline de la Martinez (born 1949)
Zhanna Vasil'yevna Pliyeva (born 1949)
Shulamit Ran (born 1949)
Angela Ro Ro (born 1949)
Sharon Ruchman (born 1949)
Kimi Sato (born 1949)
Judith Shatin (born 1949)
Marina Marta Vlad (born 1949)

1950

Lejla Agolli (born 1950)
Beth Anderson (born 1950)
Edith Canat de Chizy (born 1950)
Elena Firsova (born 1950)
Åse Hedstrøm (born 1950)
Yelena Sergeyevna Konshina (born 1950)
Libby Larsen (born 1950)
Elodie Lauten (born 1950)
Lam Manyee (born 1950)
Vivienne Olive (born 1950)
Synne Skouen (born 1950)
Pamela St. John (born 1950)
Nancy Telfer (born 1950)
Anneli Arho (born 1951)
Beatriz Bilbao (born 1951)
Karólína Eiríksdóttir (born 1951)
Nancy Galbraith (born 1951)
Halina Harelava (born 1951)
Patricia Jünger (born 1951)
Cecilia McDowall (born 1951)
Liz Phillips (born 1951)
Jeanne Pool (born 1951)
Marcela Rodríguez (born 1951)
Doina Rotaru (born 1951)
Tat'yana Sergeyeva (born 1951)
Elizabeth Swados (born 1951)
Lois V Vierk (born 1951)
Kristi Allik (born 1952)
Judith Bingham (born 1952)
Helen Bowater (born 1952)
Maya Ciobanu (born 1952)
Tina Davidson (born 1952)
Janet Dunbar (born 1952)
Margriet Hoenderdos (born 1952)
Grażyna Krzanowska (born 1952)
Bunita Marcus (born 1952)
Alla Pavlova (born 1952)
Chris Poole (born 1952)
Kaija Saariaho (born 1952)
Avril Anderson (born 1953)
Sonja Beets (born 1953)
Josefina Benedetti (born 1953)
Susan Morton Blaustein (born 1953)
Wendy Mae Chambers (born 1953)
Chen Yi (born 1953)
Jody Diamond (born 1953)
Violeta Dinescu (born 1953)
Eibhlis Farrell (born 1953)
Adriana Hölszky (born 1953)
Anne LeBaron (born 1953)
Hope Anne Keng-Wai Lee (born 1953)
Anne Linnet (born 1953)
Cindy McTee (born 1953)
Lidia Zielińska (born 1953)
Sylvie Bodorová (born 1954)
Elisabetta Brusa (born 1954)
María Escribano (born 1954)
Susan Frykberg (born 1954)
Irina Hasnaş (born 1954)
Birgit Havenstein (born 1954)
Brenda Hutchinson (born 1954)
Denise Kelly (born 1954)
Hi Kyung Kim (born 1954)
Renata Kunkel (born 1954)
Bun-Ching Lam (born 1954)
Pamela J. Marshall (born 1954)
Ella Milch-Sheriff (born 1954)
Betty Olivero (born 1954)
Cecilie Ore (born 1954)
Elizabeth Hayden Pizer (born 1954)
Clare Shore (born 1954)
Judith Weir (born 1954)
Eleanor Joanne Daley (born 1955)
Susanne Erding-Swiridoff (born 1955)
Diamanda Galás (born 1955)
Gerda Geertens (born 1955)
Anne La Berge (born 1955)
Masguda Shamsutdinova (born 1955)
Iryna Kyrylina (born 1955)
Marilyn Mazur (born 1955)
Karmella Tsepkolenko (born 1955)
Janika Vandervelde (born 1955)
Regina Harris Baiocchi (born 1956)
Sally Beamish (born 1956)
Chiara Benati (born 1956)
Eve de Castro-Robinson (born 1956)
Deborah Drattell (born 1956)
Anne Dudley (born 1956)
Michelle Ekizian (born 1956)
Madeleine Isaksson (born 1956)
Laura Kaminsky (born 1956)
Makiko Kinoshita (born 1956)
Larysa Kuzmenko (born 1956)
Silvina Milstein (born 1956)
Onutė Narbutaitė (born 1956)
Wynn-Anne Rossi (born 1956)
Marie Samuelsson (born 1956)
Carla Scaletti (born 1956)
Carolyn Steinberg (born 1956)
Iris Szeghy (born 1956)
Marcela Pavia (born 1957)
Chaya Czernowin (born 1957)
Linda Bouchard (born 1957)
Ellen Fullman (born 1957)
Regina Irman (born 1957)
Elena Kats-Chernin (born 1957)
Karin Rehnqvist (born 1957)
Pan Shiji (born 1957)
Linda Catlin Smith (born 1957)
Joan Szymko (born 1957)
Melinda Wagner (born 1957)
Eve Beglarian (born 1958)
Maura Bosch (born 1958)
Zulema de la Cruz (born 1958)
Beth Denisch (born 1958)
Consuelo Díez (born 1958)
Suzanne Giraud (born 1958)
Hanna Havrylets' (born 1958)
Sarah Hopkins (born 1958)
Errollyn Wallen (born 1958)
Julia Wolfe (born 1958)
Barbara Woof (born 1958)
Sinta Wullur (born 1958)
Caroline Ansink (born 1959)
Carola Bauckholt (born 1959)
Ilona Breģe (born 1959)
Adina Izarra (born 1959)
Ana Lara (born 1959)
Marianella Machado (born 1959)
Hilda Paredes (born 1959)

1960

Maria de Alvear (born 1960)
Sonia Bo (born 1960)
Yekaterina Chemberdzhi (born 1960)
Annie Gosfield (born 1960)
Priti Paintal (born 1960)
Rachel Portman (born 1960)
Unsuk Chin (born 1961)
Julie Giroux (born 1961)
Hanna Kulenty (born 1961)
Michiru Oshima (born 1961)
Lourdes Perez (born 1961)
Isabel Soveral (born 1961)
Karen Tanaka (born 1961)
Carolyn Yarnell (born 1961)
Mary Finsterer (born 1962)
Jennifer Higdon (born 1962)
Victoria Poleva (born 1962)
Rosephanye Powell (born 1962)
Laura Schwendinger (born 1962)
Alex Shapiro (born 1962)
Chen Shihui (born 1962)
Bettina Skrzypczak (born 1962)
Allison Cameron (born 1963)
Keiko Fujiie (born 1963)
Veronika Krausas (born 1963)
Sophie Lacaze (born 1963)
Ann Millikan (born 1963)
Isabel Mundry (born 1963)
Halyna Ovcharenko (born 1963)
Lucia Ronchetti (born 1963)
Elena Ruehr (born 1963)
Calliope Tsoupaki (born 1963)
Hana Vejvodová (1963–1994)
Debbie Wiseman (born 1963)
Michiru Yamane (born 1963)
Julia Gomelskaya (born 1964)
Yoko Kanno (born 1964)
Liz Lane (born 1964)
Gabriela Ortiz (born 1964)
Sarah Peebles (born 1964)
Annette Schlünz (born 1964)
Augusta Read Thomas (born 1964)
Mariana Villanueva (born 1964)
Carin Bartosch Edström (born 1965)
Zana Clarke (born 1965)
Evelyn Glennie (born 1965)
Rozalie Hirs (born 1965)
Yuki Kajiura (born 1965)
Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska (born 1965)
Georgia Spiropoulos (born 1965)
Melissa Hui (born 1966)
Liza Lim (born 1966)
Gráinne Mulvey (born 1966)
Rebecca Saunders (born 1967)
Yoko Shimomura (born 1967)
Katia Tiutiunnik (born 1967)
Laura Andel (born 1968)
Vanessa Lann (born 1968)
Olga Neuwirth (born 1968)
Roxanna Panufnik (born 1968)
Anjelika Akbar (born 1969)
Johanna Doderer (born 1969)

1970

Sara Carvalho (born 1970)
Graziella Concas (born 1970)
Marzena Komsta (born 1970)
Chihchun Chi-sun Lee (born 1970)
Marina Leonardi (born 1970)
Arlene Sierra (born 1970)
Aleksandra Vrebalov (born 1970)
Malika Kishino (born 1971)
Soe Tjen Marching (born 1971)
Christine Aufderhaar (born 1972)
Amber Ferenz (born 1972)
Gabriela Lena Frank (born 1972)
Hiba Kawas (born 1972)
Analia Llugdar (born 1972)
Deborah Lurie (born 1972)
Helena Tulve (born 1972)
Lera Auerbach (born 1973)
Amy Scurria (born 1973)
Meri von KleinSmid (born 1974)
Jennifer Walshe (born 1974)
Kati Agócs (born 1975)
Sia Furler (born 1975)
Eugenia Manolidou (born 1975)
Raminta Šerkšnytė (born 1975)
Svitlana Azarova (born 1976)
Eunshin Jung (born 1976)
Rita Kassabian (born 1976)
Andrea Reinkemeyer (born 1976)
Wang Ying (born 1976)
Britta Byström (born 1977)
Vera Ivanova (born 1977)
Karola Obermüller (born 1977)
Anna S. Þorvaldsdóttir (Anna Thorvaldsdottir) (born 1977)
Adina Spire (born 1977)
Kerry Andrew (born 1978)
Clarice Assad (born 1978)
Vanessa-Mae (born 1978)
Anna Meredith (born 1978)
Agata Zubel (born 1978)
Emily Howard (born 1979)
Kate Moore (born 1979)

1980

Kirsten Volness (born 1980)
Abbie Betinis (born 1980)
Anna Clyne (born 1980)
Ann Eysermans (born 1980)
Cheryl Frances-Hoad (born 1980)
Wang Jie (born 1980)
Dobrinka Tabakova (born 1980)
Anne Cawrse (born 1981)
Helen Grime (born 1981)
Chen-Hui Jen (born 1981)
Diana Rotaru (born 1981)
Charlotte Bray (born 1982)
Donika Rudi (born 1982)
Reena Esmail (born 1983)
Sarah Horick (born 1984)
Sasha Siem (born 1984)
Cristina Spinei (born 1984)
Dafina Zeqiri (born 1984)
Alissa Firsova (born 1986)
Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian (born 1986)
Kathryn Salfelder (born 1987)
Bàrbara Ardanuy i Queldra (born 1988)

1990

Gene Emerson (born 1997)

2000

Emily Bear (born 2001)
Alma Deutscher (born 2005)

Unknown

Sussan Deyhim (born in the 20th century)
Claire Liddell (born in the 20th century)
Amy X Neuburg (living; born in the 20th century)
Winifred Phillips (living; born in the 20th century)
Yuka Tsujiyoko (born in the 20th century)

Sources

List partially created using Grove's "Explore" function, Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed 23 September 2006), grovemusic.com (subscription access).
"Women Composers: A Database by the Kapralova Society." (accessed 23 July 2013),

References

↑ Print sources include the Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers, ed. by Julie Anne Sadie & Rhian Samuel (New York ; London : W.W. Norton, c1995), and Aaron I. Cohen, International Encyclopedia of Women Composers (NY: Books & Music, 1987).

External links

International Alliance for Women in Music
The Woman Composer Question a bibliography by Dr. Eugene Gates
Database of women composers by Kapralova Society
French women composers (in French)
List of Iberoamerican and Spanish Women composers by Dr. Cecilia Piñero Gil
And Don't Call Them 'Lady' Composers by Pauline Oliveros
Historical Notes for collection of melodies by women composers