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American composer and conductor (1900–1990)

Adrian Willaert

French-Flemish composer and founder of the Venetian School

Austrian composer (1885–1935)

Alexander Borodin

Russian composer, doctor and chemist

Alexander Glazunov

Russian composer (1865–1936)

Alexander Scriabin

Russian pianist and composer

Alfred Schnittke

German Soviet composer

American composer and pianist

19th-century Austrian composer

Austrian composer and conductor (1883–1945)

Antonín Dvořák

Antonio Salieri

Italian composer (1750–1825)

Antonio Vivaldi

Italian baroque period composer, virtuoso violinist and teacher

Aram Khachaturian

Armenian composer (1903–1978)

Arcangelo Corelli

Italian violinist and composer (1653–1713)

Arnold Schoenberg

Austrian-American composer (1874–1951)

Arthur Sullivan

19th-century English composer

Estonian composer of classical and religious music

Barbara Strozzi

Italian baroque singer and composer

Bedřich Smetana

19th-century Czech composer

Hungarian composer (1881–1945)

Benjamin Britten

English composer, conductor, and pianist

Bernard Herrmann

American composer

Bohuslav Martinů

Brian Ferneyhough

British composer

Camille Saint-Saëns

French composer, organist, conductor and pianist

Carl Maria von Weber

German Romantic composer (1786–1826)

Danish composer (1865–1931)

German composer

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

German composer (1714–1788)

Italian prince, 1566–1613, known for his compositions and for killing his wife and her lover

Belgian-French composer and organist (1822–1890)

French composer (1818-1893)

American composer

Chevalier de Saint-Georges

French classical musician, conductor and composer

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Opera composer (1714–1787)

German musician and composer

French classical composer (1862–1918)

Claudio Monteverdi

Italian composer, string player, choirmaster and priest (1567-1643)

American composer (born 1953)

French composer, conductor and teacher (1892-1974)

Delia Derbyshire

English musician and composer of electronic music

Dieterich Buxtehude

Danish-German organist and composer (1637–1707)

Dmitri Shostakovich

Soviet composer and pianist (1906–1975)

Domenico Scarlatti

Italian composer (1685–1757)

French composer

Norwegian composer and pianist (1843–1907)

English composer

American composer

Ennio Morricone

Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor (1928–2020)

Enrique Granados

Spanish pianist and composer

Erich Wolfgang Korngold

American composer of Austro-Hungarian birth

French composer and pianist (1866–1925)

Ernest Tomlinson

English composer

English composer and suffragette

Felix Mendelssohn

19th-century German composer, pianist, organist and conductor

Francis Poulenc

French composer and pianist (1899-1963)

François Couperin

French composer (1688–1733)

Austro-Hungarian composer

Hungarian composer and pianist (1811–1886)

Austrian composer (1797–1828)

German film composer (1906–1967)

Frédéric Chopin

Polish composer and pianist (1810–1849)

French composer, organist, pianist and teacher

Gaetano Donizetti

Italian opera composer

Spanish guitarist and composer

Georg Philipp Telemann

German Baroque composer (1681–1767)

George Frideric Handel

18th-century German, later British, Baroque composer

George Gershwin

American composer and pianist (1898–1937)

French composer

Georges Delerue

French composer (1925–1992)

Giacomo Meyerbeer

German-born opera composer (1791–1864)

Giacomo Puccini

Italian opera composer (1858–1924)

Gian Carlo Menotti

Italian-American composer and librettist

Gilles Binchois

Franco-Flemish composer

Gioachino Rossini

19th-century Italian opera composer

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Italian composer

Giovanni Gabrieli

Italian composer (c1554/1557-1612)

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Italian Renaissance composer

Girolamo Frescobaldi

Italian composer (1583–1643)

Italian opera composer (1813–1901)

Guillaume de Machaut

Medieval French poet and composer

Guillaume Du Fay

Composer of the Renaissance (1397–1474)

English composer (1874–1934)

Austrian composer (1860–1911)

Hungarian composer (1923–2006)

German composer (born 1957)

Harrison Birtwistle

British composer (born 1934)

American composer

French composer

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber

Bohemian-Austrian composer and violinist (1644–1704)

Heinrich Schütz

German composer and organist (1585–1672)

Heitor Villa-Lobos

Brazilian composer

American film composer

English composer

Henryk Górecki

Polish composer (1933–2010)

Hildegard of Bingen

Medieval saint, prophet, mystic and Doctor of the Church

Austrian composer (1860–1903)

Greek-French composer, architect and engineer (1922–2001)

Japanese singer, voice actor (1948-2022)

Igor Stravinsky

Russian composer and pianist (1882–1971)

Spanish composer (1860–1909)

Italian composer and singer

Jacques Offenbach

German-French composer, cellist and impresario

American composer and conductor

James Scott (composer)

American ragtime composer

Finnish composer (1865–1957)

Jean-Baptiste Lully

Italian-born French composer (1632–1687)

Jean-Michel Jarre

French composer, performer and record producer

Jean-Philippe Rameau

18th century French composer

American composer

Jerry Goldsmith

Johann Jakob Froberger

German composer and keyboardist

Johann Nepomuk Hummel

Austrian composer and pianist (1778–1837)

Johann Pachelbel

German composer and organist (1653–1706)

Johann Sebastian Bach

German composer (1685–1750)

Czech composer and violinist

Johann Strauss I

Austrian composer

Johann Strauss II

Austrian composer

Johannes Brahms

German composer and pianist (1833–1897)

Johannes Ockeghem

Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer

John Adams (composer)

American composer

John Barry (composer)

British composer and conductor (1933–2011)

American avant-garde composer (1912–1992)

English composer (1563–1626)

English composer (1390–1453)

John Philip Sousa

American conductor and composer (1854–1932)

American composer and conductor (born 1932)

Austrian composer (1732-1809)

Joseph Lamb (composer)

American composer of ragtime music

Josquin des Prez

Composer of the Renaissance (c. 1450–1521)

French composer (1842–1912)

Finnish composer (1952–2023)

Karlheinz Stockhausen

German composer

Karol Szymanowski

Polish composer

Japanese musician and composer

Japanese composer (born 1961)

Krzysztof Penderecki

Polish composer and conductor (1933–2020)

German composer

American avant-garde composer

French composer (1836–1891)

French 12th-century composer associated with polyphony in Notre Dame

Leoš Janáček

Czech composer (1854–1928)

Italian composer (1925–2003)

Ludovico Einaudi

Italian pianist and composer

Ludwig van Beethoven

German composer (1770–1827)

Luigi Boccherini

Italian composer and cellist

Luigi Cherubini

Italian composer

Majrooh Sultanpuri

Indian Urdu poet and Hindi language lyricist

Manos Hatzidakis

Greek composer, pianist and conductor (1925-1994)

Anglo-Italian conductor, composer, and entertainer (1905–1980)

Manuel de Falla

Spanish composer (1876–1946)

Marvin Hamlisch

American composer and conductor (1944–2012)

French composer (1875–1937)

Austrian-born American music composer for theatre and films, as well as a conductor

May Aufderheide

American composer of ragtime music (1888–1972)

Russian composer

Mikis Theodorakis

Greek composer (1925–2021)

Hungarian-American composer (1907–1995)

American composer

19th and 20th-century Russian composer, pianist, and conductor

Modest Mussorgsky

Russian composer (1839–1881)

American composer (1926–1987)

Italian-born English composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer

Indian composer

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Russian composer (1844–1908)

Japanese music composer

Indian film music composer, singer-songwriter, music producer, and musician

British composer and conductor

Olivier Messiaen

French composer, organist and ornithologist

Orlando di Lasso

Franco-Flemish composer (1532–1594)

Orlando Gibbons

English composer, virginalist and organist (1583—1625)

Ottorino Respighi

Italian composer, musicologist and conductor

Pancho Vladigerov

Bulgarian musician (1899-1978)

German composer (1895–1963)

Canadian bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor, known for his lush arrangements of pop and Christmas standards (1908-1976)

12th century French composer

Peter Maxwell Davies

English composer and conductor (1934-2016)

Peter Sculthorpe

Australian composer (1929–2014)

American composer (born 1937)

French composer, conductor, writer and pianist

Pierre Schaeffer

French musicologist

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Russian composer (1840–1893)

Indian composer (1903-1981)

Ralph Vaughan Williams

20th-century English composer

Richard Strauss

Romantic and modern German composer and conductor

German composer (1813–1883)

Robert Schumann

19th-century German composer

Ruggero Leoncavallo

Italian composer (1857–1919)

American composer (1910–1981)

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

English composer and conductor

American composer and pianist (1868–1917)

Sergei Prokofiev

Russian composer, pianist and conductor (1891–1953)

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Russian composer, pianist, and conductor

Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy

Indian musical trio

American composer (born 1936)

American composer and performing musician

English composer, organist and editor

English Renaissance composer

Tomás Luis de Victoria

Spanish composer (c. 1548 – 1611)

Tomaso Albinoni

Italian composer (1671–1751)

South Korean composer of classical music

Vincenzo Bellini

Italian opera composer (1801–1835)

American composer and critic (1896–1989)

English Renaissance composer

English composer (1902–1983)

Witold Lutosławski

Polish composer and conductor (1913–1994)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Composer (1756–1791)

Greek musician, keyboardist, and composer

Japanese composer, arranger, music producer