A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / I / J / K / L / M / N / O / P / Q / R / S / T / U / V / W / X / Y / Z
A
Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787, German)
Jean Absil (1893-1974)
Joseph Achron (1886-1943)
Adolphe Adam (1803-1856)
John Adams (1947, American)
John Addison (1910-1988)
Obo Addy (1936-2012, Ghanaian)
Thomas Adès (1971, English)
Samuel Adler (1928, American)
Hugh Aitken (1924-2012, American)
Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909, Spanish)
Mateo Albéniz (1755-1831, Spanish)
Alfons X el Sabio (1221-1284)
Maarten Altena (1943, Dutch)
Maria de Alvear (1960, Spanish-German)
William Alwyn (1905-1985, English)
Claudio Ambrosini (1948, Italian)
Barry Anderson (1935-87, New Zealander)
Elfrida Andrée (1841-1929, Swedish)
Hendrik Andriessen (1892-1981, Dutch)
Louis Andriessen (1939, Dutch)
István Anhalt (1919-2012, Hungarian, Canadian)
Anonymous Medieval
Anonymous Renaissance
Anonymous Baroque
Anonymous: traditional, folksong
George Antheil (1900-1959, American)
John Antill (1904-1986, Australian)
Georges Aperghis (1945, Greek, French)
Saskia Apon (1957, Dutch)
Anton Arensky (1861-1906, Russian)
Vyacheslav Artiomov or Artyomov (1940, Russian)
Alexander Arutiunian (1920-2012, Armenian)
Bernd Asmus (1959, German)
André Astier (1923)
Pierre Attaingnant (c. 1494-1551/2)
Lera Auerbach (1973, Russian, American)
Tor Aulin (1866-1914, Swedish)
Georges Auric (1899-1983, French)
Aaron Avshalomov / Avshalomoff (1895-1964, Russian-American)
Richard Ayres (1965, Cornish English)
B
Milton Babbitt (1916-2011, American)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750, universal)
Osvaldas Balakauskas (1937, Lithuanian)
Alexander Balanescu (1954, Romanian)
Eduardas Balsys (1919-1984, Lithuanian)
Vytautas Barkauskas (1931, Lithuanian)
Rasa Bartkevieiûté (1967, Lithuanian)
Béla Bartók (1881-1945, Hungarian)
Django Bates (1960, English)
Gilius van Bergeijk (1946, Dutch)
Luciano Berio (1925-2003, Italian)
Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179, German)
Borisas Borisovas (1937, Lithuanian)
Pierre Boulez (1925-2016, French)
Derek Bourgeois (1941, English)
Henry Brant (1913-2008, Canadian, American)
Michel-Georges Brégent (1948-1993, Canadian)
Gavin Bryars (1943, English)
Gaetano (Cayetano) Brunetti (1744-1798, Italian, Spanish)
Ton Bruynèl (1934-1998, Dutch)
David Byrne (1952, Scottish, American)
C
Giuseppe (Joseph-Marie) Cambini (1746-18??, Italian)
Domenico Caudioso (18th Century, Italian)
Levon Chausian / Chaushian (1946, Armenian)
Peter Child (1953, American)
Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801, Italian)
René Clemencic (1928, Austrian)
Aldo Clementi (1925-2011, Italian)
Ornette Coleman (1930-2015, American)
Aaron Copland (1900-1990, American)
Azio Corghi (1937, Italian)
Louis Couperin (1626-1661, French)
Enrique Crespo (1941, Uruguayan)
Pablo Cueco (1957, French)
Joe Cutler (1963, English)
D
Jean-Baptiste Davaux (1742-1822, French)
Félicien David (1810-1876, French)
Georges Delerue (1925-1992, French)
Edison Denisov (1929-1996, Russian)
Donnacha Dennehy (1970, Irish)
Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921, Dutch)
John Diercks (1927, American)
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739-1799, Austrian)
Franco Donatoni (1927-2000, Italian)
Cornelis Dopper (1870-1939, Dutch)
John Dowland (1563-1626, English)
Felix Draeseke (1835-1913, German)
Jean-Pierre Drouet (1935, French)
Louis Drouet (1792-1873, French)
Tan Dun (1957, Chinese)
Lucien Durosoir (1878-1955, French)
Balys Dvarionas (1904-1972, Lithuanian)
E
Ruud van Eeten (1973, Dutch)
Hamza El Din (1929-2006, Sudanese)
Donald Erb (1927-2008, American)
Gian Francesco Eterardi (18th Century, Italian)
Eric Ewazen (1956, American)
Joseph Eybler (1765-1846, Austrian)
F
Walter Fähndrich (1944, Swiss)
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946, Spanish)
Joseph Fennimore (1940, American)
Michael Finnissy (1946, English)
Elena Firsova (1950, Russian, English)
Graham Fitkin (1963, Cornish English)
Hendrick Focking (? – 1796, Dutch)
Folksong – see Anonymous: traditional, folksong
Luca Francesconi (1956, Italian)
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643, Italian)
G
Domenico Gabrielli (1651 or 1659-1690, Italian)
Carlo Galante (1959, Italian)
Bernhard Gander (1969, Austrian)
Allain Gaussin (1943, French)
Rolf Gehlhaar (1943, American)
Edward German (1862-1936, English)
George Gershwin (1898-1937, American)
Giuseppe Giuliano (aka Giuliani) (18th Century, Italian)
Philip Glass (1937, American)
Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936, Russian)
Saint Godric (c. 1065-1170, English)
Heiner Goebbels (1952,German)
Alexander Goehr (1932, British)
François-Joseph Gossec (1734-1829, French)
Enrique Granados (1867-1916, Spanish)
Johann Benjamin (Jean Baptiste) Groß / Gross (1809-1849, German)
H
Hassan Hakmoun (1963, Moroccan)
Iain Hamilton (1922-2000, Scottish)
George Frideric Handel (Georg Friedrich Händel, Haendel) (1685-1759, German, English)
Hamilton Harty (1879-1941, Irish)
Hans Hasebos (1956, Dutch)
Jon Hassell (1937, American)
Leo Hassler (1564-1612, German)
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809, Austrian)
Piers Hellawell (1956, British)
Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179, German). See Bingen
Alfred Hill (1869-1960, Australian)
André Hodeir (1921-2011, French)
Arthur Honegger (1892 – 1955, Swiss – French)
I
Alison Isadora (1962, New Zealander)
Charles Ives (1874-1954, American)
J
Tunde Jegede (1972, English)
Ben Johnston (1926, American)
Joseph Jongen (1873-1953, Belgian)
K
Koen Kaptijn (1976, Dutch)
Elena Katz-Chernin (1957, Australian)
Gunild Keetman (1904-1990, German)
Marjory Kennedy-Fraser (1857-1930, Scottish)
Geert van Keulen (1943, Dutch)
Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978, Armenian)
Earl Kim (1920-1998, American)
Ernesto Köhler (1849-1907, Italian)
Hans Koolmees (1959, Dutch)
Leopold Kozeluch / Koželuch (1747 – 1818, Bohemian)
Joseph Martin Kraus (1756-1792, German, Sweden)
Zygmunt Krauze (1938, Polish)
Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766-1831, French)
L
Daniël de Lange (1841-1918, Dutch)
Thomas Oboe Lee (1945, American)
Achille Longo (1900-1954, Italian)
Jon Lord (1941-2012, English)
Theo Loevendie (1930, Dutch)
Josep Mir i Llussà (c. 1700-1764, Catalan)
John Lurie (1952, American)
M
Hamish MacCunn (1868-1916, Scottish)
François-Bernard Mâche (1935, French)
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911, Austrian)
Manitas de Plata (1921-2014, French)
Dumisani Maraire (1943-1999, Zimbabwean)
François Martin (1727-1757, French)
Andrea Mascagni (1917-2004, Italian)
Rudolf Mengelberg (1892-1959, Dutch)
Henk van der Meulen (1955, Dutch)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974, French)
Josep Mir i Llussà (c. 1700-1764, Catalan)
Robert Moran (1937, American)
Moritz / Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1572-1632, German)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791, Austrian)
N
Robert Nasveld (1955, Dutch)
Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741-1801, German)
Mark Nightingale (English, 1967)
Michael Nyman (1944, English)
O
Betty Olivero (1954, Israeli)
Leo Ornstein (1895-2002, American)
P
Martijn Padding (1956, Dutch)
Arvo Pärt (1935, Estonian)
Georgs Pelēcis (1947, Latvian)
Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987, American)
Andrey (Andrej) Petrov (1930-2006, Russian)
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992, Argentinian)
Mario Pilati (1903-1938, Italian)
Walter Piston (1894-1976, American)
Peteris Plakidis (1947, Latvian)
Amilcare Ponchielli (1834-1886, Italian)
David Popper (1843-1913, Bohemian)
Andrew Poppy (1954, English)
Gabriel Prokofiev (1975, English)
R
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937, French
Ilja Reijngoud (1972, Dutch)
Carl Reinecke (1824-1910, German)
Franz Xaver Richter (1709-1789, Austro-Moravian)
Max Richter (b. 1966, British)
Wallingford Riegger (1885-1961, American)
Henri-Joseph Rigel (1741-1799, German)
Wolfgang Rihm (1952, German)
Terry Riley (1935, American)
George Rochberg (1918-2005, American)
Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999, Spanish)
Alessandro Rolla (1757-1841, Italian)
Julius Röntgen (1855-1932, Dutch)
Ned Rorem (1923-2022, American)
S
Virgilio Savona (1919-2009, Italian)
Anthony Louis Scarmolin (1890-1969, Italian, American)
Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988, Italian)
Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998, Russian)
Paul Schoenfield (1947, American)
Gunther Schuller (1925-2015, American)
William Schuman (1910-1992, American)
Kurt Schwaen (1909-2007, East-German)
Salvatore Sciarrino (1947, Italian)
Cyril Scott (1879-1970, English)
Raminta Šerkšnytė (1975, Lithuanian)
Roger Sessions (1896-1985, American)
Seymour Shifrin (1926-1979, American)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975, Russian)
Jan Sibelius (1865-1957, Finnish)
Valentin (Valentyn) Silvestrov (1937, Ukrainian)
Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen (1745-1818, Italian)
Dmitri Smirnov (1948, Russian, English)
Ethel Smyth (1858-1944, English)
Fernando Sor (1778 – 1839, Spanish)
Robert Starer (1924-2001, American)
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007, German)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971, Russian)
Hubert Stuppner (1944, Italian)
Foday Musa Suso (1950, Gambian)
Georgy Sviridov/ Georgi Swiridow (1915-1998, Russian)
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621, Dutch)
T
Justinian Tamusuza (1951, Ugandan)
Francisco Tárrega (1852-1909, Spanish)
Charles Tessier (ca. 1550-?, French)
Virgil Thomson (1886-1989, American)
Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer (1963, Serb)
Michael Tippett (1903-1998, British)
Eduard Toldrá (1895-1962, Spanish Catalan)
Michael Torke (1961, American)
Traditional – see Anonymous: traditional, folksong
Ming Tsao (1966, American)
Erkki-Sven Tüür (1959, Estonian)
U
Francesco Antonio Uttini (1723-1795, Italian, Sweden)
V
Adriaen Valerius (1570 or 75-1625, Dutch)
Peteris Vasks (1946, Latvian)
Jacob ter Veldhuis (1951, Dutch)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741, Italian)
Claude Vivier (1948-1983, Canadian)
Georg Joseph “Abbé” Vogler (1749-1814, German)
Kevin Volans (1949, South African)
Robert Volkmann (1815-1883, German)
Alexander Voormolen (1895-1980, Dutch)
Jan Václav Voříšek (1791-1825, Czech)
W
Johan Wagenaar (1862-1941, Dutch)
Robert Ward (1917-2013, American)
Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer (1692-1766, Dutch)
Judith Weir (1954, English)
Richard Wernick (1934, American)
Richard Wilson (1941, American)
Peter von Winter (1754-1825, German)
Christian Wolff (1932, American)
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876-1948, Italian-German)
Stefan Wolpe (1902-1972, German, American)
Hugh Wood (1932, English)
Charles Wuorinen (1938, American)
Ivan Wyshnegradsky (1893-1979, Russian)
X
Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001, Greek, French)
Y
Richard Yardumian (1917-1985, American)
Narciso Yepes (1927-1997, Spanish)
LaMonte Young (1935, American)
Rolv Yttrehus (1926, American)
Isang Yun (1917-1995, Korean, German)
Z
Walter Zimmermann (1949, German)