Classical musicians

F

F[edit] Martinus Fabri (fl. 1395-1400) Giacomo Facco (1676-1753) Michelangelo Faggioli (1666-1733) Francesco Nicola Fago (1677-1745) Blair Fairchild (1877-1933) Mohammed Fairouz (born 1985) Richard Faith (born 1926) Rolande Falcinelli (1920-1996) Adam Falckenhagen (1697-1754) Michele Falco (c. 1688-after 1732) Andrea Falconieri (1585/1586-1656) Leo Fall (1873-1925) Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) Michelangelo Falvetti (1642-1692) Guido Alberto Fano (1875-1961) Philip Michael Faraday (1875-1944) Giuseppe Farinelli (1769-1836) Ferenc Farkas (1905-2000) John Farmer (c. 1570-c. 1601) Giles Farnaby (c. 1565-1640) Gareth Farr (born 1968) Ernest Farrar (1885-1918) Ciarán Farrell (born 1969) Louise Farrenc (1804-1875) Arthur Farwell (1872-1952) Giovanni Battista Fasolo (c. 1598-c. 1664/1665) Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch (1736-1800) Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688-1758) Guillaume Faugues (Fagus) (fl. c. 1460-1475) Sanford Faulkner (1806-1874) Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) Robert Fayrfax (1464-1521) Reinhard Febel (born 1952) Johannes Fedé (Jean Sohier) (c. 1415-c. 1477) Samuil Feinberg (1890-1962) Jindřich Feld (1925-2007) Morton Feldman (1926-1987) Eric Fenby (1906-1997) Philippe Fénelon (born 1952) George Fenton (born 1950) Francesco Feo (1691-1761) Louis Ferdinand (1772-1806) Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (1608-1657) Howard Ferguson (1908-1999) Stephen Ferguson Frank Ferko (born 1950) Giuseppe Ferlendis (1755-1802) Gaspar Fernandes (1566-1629) Oscar Lorenzo Fernández (1897-1948) Brian Ferneyhough (born 1943) John Fernström (1897-1961) Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder (Il Padre) (1543-1588) Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger (c. 1570-1628) Domenico Ferrabosco (1513-1574) Benedetto Ferrari (c. 1603-1681) Gabrielle Ferrari (1851-1921) Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari (1763-1842) Luc Ferrari (1929-2005) Lorenzo Ferrero (born 1951) Giovanni Ferretti (c. 1540-after 1609) Pierre-Octave Ferroud (1900-1936) Frederic Ernest Fesca (1789-1826) Willem de Fesch (1687-1761) Costanzo Festa (c. 1485/1490-1545) Sebastiano Festa (c. 1490/1495-1524) Michael Christian Festing (1705-1752) Richard Festinger (born 1948) François-Joseph Fétis (1784-1871) Antoine de Févin (c. 1470-1511/1512) Robert de Févin (fl. before 1500-c. 1515) Pierre Février (1696-1760) Josef Fiala (1748-1816) Zdeněk Fibich (1850-1900) Jacobo Ficher (1896-1978) John Field (1782-1837) Alexander von Fielitz (1860-1930) Giulio Fiesco (fl. 1550-1570) Siegfried Fietz (born 1946) Juan de Dios Filiberto (1885-1964) Arkady Filippenko (1912-1983) Henry Fillmore (1881-1956) Anton Fils (1733-1760) Heinrich Finck (1444/1445-1527) Hermann Finck (1527-1558) Irving Fine (1914-1963) Vivian Fine (1913-2000) Gottfried Finger (1660-1730) Ross Lee Finney (1906-1997) Michael Finnissy (born 1946) Aldo Finzi (1897-1945) Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) Jean-Joseph Fiocco (1686-1746) Joseph-Hector Fiocco (1703-1741) Pietro Antonio Fiocco (1654-1714) Valentino Fioravanti (1764-1837) Nicola Fiorenza (after 1700-1764) Federigo Fiorillo (1755-c. 1823) Paolo da Firenze (Paolo Tenorista) (c. 1355-c. 1436) Elena Firsova (born 1950) C. P. First (born 1960) Johann Fischer (1646-1716) Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (1656-1746) Domenico Fischietti (c. 1725-c. 1810) Emmanuel Fisher (1921-2001) William Arms Fisher (1861-1948) Graham Fitkin (born 1963) Nicolas Flagello (1928-1994) Mateo Flecha the elder (1481-1553) Étienne-Joseph Floquet (1748-1785) Pietro Floridia (1860-1932) Friedrich von Flotow (1812-1883) Carlisle Floyd (born 1926) Dave Flynn (born 1977) Carel Anton Fodor (1768-1846) Josef Bohuslav Foerster (1859-1951) Francesco Foggia (1603-1688) Giacomo Fogliano (da Moderna) (1468-1548) Yevstigney Fomin (1761-1800) Pierre Fontaine (c. 1380-c. 1450) Giovanni Battista Fontana (c. 1571-c. 1630) Alfonso Fontanelli (1557-1622) Jacqueline Fontyn (born 1930) Martin Fondse (born 1967) Arthur Foote (1853-1937) Johann Nikolaus Forkel (1749-1818) Thomas Ford (1580-1648) Carlo Forlivesi (born 1971) Antoine Forqueray (1671-1745) Jean-Baptiste Forqueray (1699-1782) Nicolas Formé (1567-1638) Emanuel Aloys Förster (1748-1823) Georg Forster (c. 1510-1568) Kaspar Förster (the younger) (1616-1673) Cecil Forsyth (1870-1941) Malcolm Forsyth (born 1936) Wesley Octavius Forsyth (1859-1937) Wolfgang Fortner (1907-1987) Johann Philipp Förtsch (1652-1732) Lukas Foss (1922-2009) François de Fossa (1775-1849) David Foster (born 1949) Stephen Foster (1826-1864) Pierre-Claude Foucquet (1694-1772) John Foulds (1880-1939) Frederick A. Fox (born 1931) Jean Françaix (1912-1997) Petronio Franceschini (1651-1680) Alberto Franchetti (1860-1942) Carlo Franchi (c. 1743-after 1779) Auguste Franchomme (1808-1884) Jan Francisci (1691-1758) César Franck (1822-1890) Eduard Franck (1817-1893) Johann Wolfgang Franck (1644-1710) Melchior Franck (c. 1579-1639) Richard Franck (1858-1938) Hernando Franco (1532-1585) François Francoeur (1698-1787) Massimiliano Frani (born 1967) Gabriela Lena Frank (born 1972) Benjamin Frankel (1906-1973) Ferdinand Fränzl (1767-1833) Ignaz Fränzl (1736-1811) Harry Lawrence Freeman (1869-1954) Luís de Freitas Branco (1890-1955) Johan Henrik Freithoff (1713-1767) Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643) Jehan Fresneau (fl. 1468-1505) Peter Racine Fricker (1920-1990) Géza Frid (1904-1989) Rudolf Friml (1879-1972) Johannes Fritsch (1941-2010) Johann Jakob Froberger (1616-1667) Johannes Frederik Fröhlich (1806-1860) David Froom (born 1951) William Henry Fry (1813-1864) Walter Frye (fl. c. 1443?-c. 1474?) Johann Nepomuk Fuchs (1842-1899) Kenneth Fuchs (born 1956) Robert Fuchs (1847-1927) Julius Fučík (1872-1916) Miguel de Fuenllana (fl. 1553-1578) Adam von Fulda (c. 1445-1505) Friedrich Funcke (1642-1699) Joseph Funk (1778-1862) Beat Furrer (born 1954) Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886-1954) Anton Bernhard Fürstenau (1792-1852) Johann Joseph Fux (1660-1741)

B

Heidi Baader-Nobs (born 1940) Øystein Baadsvik (born 1966) Kees van Baaren (1906-1970) Arno Babajanian (born 1921) Milton Babbitt (1916-2011) William Babell (1689/1690-1723) Stanley Babin (1932-2010) Luis Enríquez Bacalov (born 1933) Salvador Bacarisse (1898-1963) Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969) Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) Erik Bach (born 1946) Georg Christoph Bach (1642-1697) Gottfried Heinrich Bach (1724-1763) Heinrich Bach (1615-1692) Jan Bach (born 1937) Carlos Berlanga (1959-2002) Johann Bernhard Bach (1676-1749) Johann Bernhard Bach (the younger) (1700-1743) Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782) Johann Christoph Bach (1642-1703) Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732-1795) Johann Ernst Bach (1722-1777) Johann Lorenz Bach (1695-1773) Johann Ludwig Bach (1677-1731) Johann Michael Bach (1648-1694) Johann Nicolaus Bach (1669-1753) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Maria Bach (1896-1978) Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784) Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach (1759-1845) Burt Bacharach (born 1928) Francis Edward Bache (1833-1858) Daniel Bacheler (1572-1619) Alfred Bachelet (fr) (1864-1944) Sven-Erik Bäck (1919-1994) Agathe Backer-Grøndahl (1847-1907) Fridtjof Backer-Grøndahl (1885-1959) Johann Georg Heinrich Backofen (1768-c. 1830) Ernst Bacon (1898-1990) Nicolas Bacri (born 1961) Rosa Giacinta Badalla (c. 1660-c. 1710) Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834-1861) Klaus Badelt (born 1967) Baden Powell (1937-2000) Carlo Agostino Badia (1672-1738) Maya Badian (born 1945) Henk Badings (1907-1987) Heinrich Baermann (1784-1847) Vera Baeva (born 1930) Carlos Baguer (Carles Baguer) (1768-1808) Junsang Bahk (born 1937) Judith Margaret Bailey (born 1941) Pierre Baillot (1771-1842) Colette Bailly (born 1930) Giuseppe Baini (1775-1844) Edgar Bainton (1880-1956) Tadeusz Baird (1928-1981) Edward Bairstow (1874-1946) Feliksas Bajoras (lt) (born 1934) Claude Baker (born 1948) David Baker (born 1931) George C. Baker (born 1951) Bálint Bakfark (Valentin Bakfark) (1526/1530-1576) Ruth Bakke (born 1947) Leonardo Balada (born 1933) Osvaldas Balakauskas (born 1937) Mily Balakirev (1837-1910) Andrei Melitonovich Balanchivadze (1906-1992) Meliton Balanchivadze (1862-1937) Sergey Balasanian (1902-1982) Giovanna Bruna Baldacci (1886-after 1910) Claude Balbastre (1724-1799) Pietro Baldassare (c. 1683-after 1768) João José Baldi (1770-1816) Michael William Balfe (1808-1870) Jean Balissat (1936-2007) Hank Ballard (1936-2003) Robert Ballard (c. 1575-1645) Carl Christian Nicolaj Balle (1806-1855) Esther Ballou (1915-1973) Ernő Balogh (1897-1989) Puchi Balseiro (1926-2007) Thomas Baltzar (c. 1631-1663) Troy Banarzi (born 1972) Adriano Banchieri (1568-1634) Gilbert Banester (Banaster) (c. 1430-1487) Raffaello de Banfield (1922-2008) John Banister (c. 1625-1679) Don Banks (1923-1980) Tommy Banks (born 1936) Tony Banks (born 1950) Harald Banter (de) (born 1930) Granville Bantock (1868-1946) Seymour Barab (1921-2014) Krešimir Baranović (1894-1975) Barbara of Portugal (1711-1758) Bartolomeo Barbarino (c. 1568-1617 or later) Helmut Barbe (born 1927) Emanuele Barbella (1718-1777) Samuel Barber (1910-1981) Mansi Barberis (1899-1986) Giulio Cesare Barbetta (it) (1540-1603) Francisco Asenjo Barbieri (1823-1894) Jacobus Barbireau (1455-1491) Cacilda Borges Barbosa (1914-2010) Josef Bardanashvili (born 1948) Agustín Bardi (1884-1941) Jason Bare (born 1975) Woldemar Bargiel (1828-1897) Zbigniew Bargielski (born 1937) Antonino Barges (fl. 1547-1565) Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) Alexandre Barjansky (1883-1961) Vytautas Barkauskas (born 1931) Warren Barker (1923-2006) Elaine Barkin (born 1932) Clarence Barlow (born 1945) Wayne Barlow (1912-1996) Charlotte Alington Barnard (1830-1869) Joseph Barnby (1838-1896) Christian Barnekow (1837-1913) Milton Barnes (1931-2001) Alice Barnett (1886-1975) Carol Barnett (born 1949) Charles Lloyd Barnhouse (1865-1929) Ethel Barns (1874-1948) Ernst Gottlieb Baron (1696-1760) Leonora Baroni (1611-1670) Jean Barraqué (1928-1973) Carmen Barradas (1888-1963) Elsa Barraine (1910-1999) Henry Barraud (1900-1997) Tomás Barrera Saavedra (es) (1870-1938) Richard Barrett (born 1959) Gisèle Barreau (born 1948) Françoise Barrière (born 1944) Jean Barrière (1707-1747) Agustín Barrios (1885-1944) Ángel Barrios (1882-1964) Bebe Barron (born 1927) José Barros (1915-2007) Gerald Barry (born 1952) John Barry (1933-2011) Francesco Barsanti (1690-1772) Richard Barth (1850-1908) Cecilia Maria Barthélemon (c. 1769-1840) François Hippolyte Barthélemon (1741-1808) Maria Barthélemon (1749-1799) Riccardo Barthelemy (1869-1937) Johan Bartholdy (1853-1904) Dave Bartholomew (born 1920) Béla Bartók (1881-1945) Bartolino da Padova (fl. c. 1365-c. 1405) Angelo Michele Bartolotti (c. 1615-1696) Carin Bartosch Edström (born 1965) Leonid Bashmakov (fi) (born 1927) Count Basie (1904-1984) Adriana Basile (c. 1580-c. 1640) Adrien Basin (fl. from 1457; died after 1498) Philippe Basiron (c. 1449-1491) Veniamin Basner (1925-1996) Roderich Bass (cs) (1873-1933) Francesco Maria Bassani (c. 1650-c. 1700) Giovanni Battista Bassani (c. 1650-1716) Orazio Bassani (c. 1570-1615) Giovanni Bassano (c. 1558-1617) Leslie Bassett (born 1923) Luigi Bassi (1833-1871) John Baston (born c. 1683; fl. 1708-1739) Josquin Baston (fl. 1542-1563) Stanley Bate (1911-1959) Liam Bates (composer) (born 1975) Thomas Bateson (c. 1570-1630) Hubert Bath (1883-1945) Dennis Báthory-Kitsz (born 1949) Rhené-Baton (1879-1940) Adrian Batten (c. 1591-c. 1637) Jonathan Battishill (1738-1801) Giorgio Battistelli (born 1953) Carola Bauckholt (born 1959) Marion Bauer (1882-1955) Alison Bauld (born 1944) Noel Bauldeweyn (c. 1480-after 1513) Kārlis Baumanis (1835-1905) Friedrich Baumfelder (1836-1916) Jürg Baur (1918-2010) Juan Bautista Plaza (1898-1965) Sophie Bawr (1773-1860) Arnold Bax (1883-1953) Christabel Baxendale (born 1886) François Bayle (born 1932) Marie Emmanuelle Bayon Louis (1746-1825) François Bazin (1816-1878) Nisar Bazmi (1925-2007) Cyprian Bazylik (c. 1535-c. 1600) Antonio Bazzini (1818-1897) Amy Beach (1867-1944) Robert Beadell (1925-1994) Sally Beamish (born 1956) Robert Beaser (born 1954) Janet Beat (born 1937) Betty Beath (born 1932) Beatritz de Dia (fl. late 12th/early 13th centuries) Pierre Beauchamp (1631-1705) Balthasar de Beaujoyeux (16th century [died 1587]) Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier (1734-1794) Jack Beaver (1900-1963) Gilbert Bécaud (1927-2001) Marguerite Béclard d'Harcourt (1884-1964) Giuseppe Becce (1877-1973) Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt (1925-2010) Sidney Bechet (1897-1959) Conrad Beck (1901-1989) Franz Ignaz Beck (1734-1809) Jeremy Beck (born 1960) Albert Becker (1834-1899) Dietrich Becker (c. 1623-c. 1679) Hugo Becker (1863-1941) Jean Becker (1833-1884) John J. Becker (1886-1961) Walter Beckett (1914-1996) Max Beckschäfer (born 1952) John Beckwith (born 1927) David Bedford (born 1937) Norma Beecroft (born 1934) Lars Magnus Béen (sv) (1820-1905) Joseph Beer (1744-1811) Joseph Beer (1908-1987) Max Josef Beer (1851-1908) Jack Beeson (1921-2010) Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Sonja Beets (born 1953) Eve Beglarian (born 1958) Anđelka Bego-Šimunić (born 1941) Franz Behr (1837-1898) Jeanne Behrend (1912-1988) David Behrman (born 1937) Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) Jeanne Beijerman-Walraven (1878-1969) Carl Beines (1869-1950) Jean-Pascal Beintus (born 1966) Sadao Bekku (1922-2012) Luca Belcastro (born 1964) Supply Belcher (1751-1836) Laurent Belissen (1693-1762) William Henry Bell (1873-1946) Ján Levoslav Bella (1843-1936) Vincenzo Bellavere (c. 1540/1541-1587) Giulio Belli (c. 1560-1621 or later) Paulo Bellinati (born 1950) Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835) Paolo Benedetto Bellinzani (1682-1757) Carl Michael Bellman (1740-1795) Teresa Belloc-Giorgi (1784-1855) Herman Bellstedt (1858-1926) Herman Bemberg (1859-1931) Antonia Bembo (c. 1640-1720) Ofer Ben-Amots (born 1955) Barbara Benary (born 1946) Chiara Benati (born 1956) Ralph Benatzky (1884-1957) Karl Hermann Heinrich Benda (1748-1836) Felix Benda (1708-1768) Franz Benda (František) (1709-1786) Friedrich Benda (1745-1814) Jiří Antonín Benda (Georg Anton) (1722-1795) Johann Georg Benda (Jan Jiří) (1713-1752) Joseph Benda (Josef) (1724-1804) Sebastian Benda (de) (1926-2003) Franz Bendel (1833-1874) Victor Bendix (1851-1926) Karel Bendl (1838-1897) Josefina Benedetti (born 1953) Julius Benedict (1814-1856) Juraj Beneš (1940-2004) Orazio Benevoli (1605-1672) Soledad Bengoecha de Cármena (1849-1893) Paul Ben-Haim (1897-1984) Arthur Benjamin (1893-1960) George Benjamin (born 1960) Tim Benjamin (born 1975) Heinz Benker (de) (1921-2000) John Bennet (c. 1575-after 1614) John Bennett (c. 1735-1784) Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012) Robert Russell Bennett (1894-1981) William Sterndale Bennett (1816-1875) Peter Benoit (1834-1901) Jørgen Bentzon (1897-1951) Niels Viggo Bentzon (1919-2000) Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780-1857) Angelo Berardi (c. 1636-1694) Frédéric Bérat (1801-1855) Cathy Berberian (1925-1983) Jacquet de Berchem (c. 1505-1567) José Manuel Berenguer (es) (born 1955) Maxim Berezovsky (c. 1745-1777) Alban Berg (1885-1935) Gunnar Berg (1909-1989) Natanael Berg (1879-1957) Petar Bergamo (born 1930) Irénée Berge (1867-1926) Arthur Berger (1925-2003) Jean Berger (1909-2002) Jonathan Berger (born 1954) Ludwig Berger (1777-1839) Theodor Berger (1905-1992) Andreas Peter Berggreen (1801-1880) Gertrude van den Bergh (1793-1840) Sverre Bergh (sv) (1915-1980) Anders Berglund (born 1948) Erik Bergman (1911-2006) William Bergsma (1921-1994) Carl Axel Bergström (sv) (1864-1907) Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen (born 1951) Luciano Berio (1925-2003) Charles Auguste de Bériot (1802-1870) Charles-Wilfrid de Bériot (1833-1914) Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) Michael Berkeley (born 1948) Christine Berl (born 1943) Irving Berlin (1888-1989) Johan Daniel Berlin (1714-1787) Herman Berlinski (1910-2001) Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) Bart Berman (born 1938) Derek Bermel (born 1967) Juan Bermudo (c. 1510-after 1559) Ercole Bernabei (1622-1687) Giuseppe Antonio Bernabei (it) (1649-1732) Miguel Bernal Jiménez (1910-1956) Carmelo Alonso Bernaola (1929-2002) Felix Bernard (1897-1944) Stefano Bernardi (c. 1577-1637) Bernart de Ventadorn (born 1130/1140-died 1190/1200) Lord Berners (Gerald Tyrwhitt) (1883-1950) Christoph Bernhard (1628-1692) Nicolas Bernier (1664-1734) Elmer Bernstein (1922-2004) Catalina Berroa (1849-1911) Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) Antonio Bertali (1605-1669) Heinrich Berté (1858-1924) Giovanni Pietro Berti (c. 1590-1638) Louise Bertin (1805-1877) Toussaint Bertin de la Doué (c. 1680-1743) Henri Bertini (1798-1876) Joseph Bertolozzi (born 1959) Henri Montan Berton (1767-1844) Pierre Montan Berton (1727-1780) Georg von Bertouch (1668-1743) Anthoine de Bertrand (c. 1530/40-c. 1581) Arturo Berutti (1858-1938) Franz Berwald (1796-1868) Johan Fredrik Berwald (1787-1861) Jean-Baptiste Besard (c. 1567-c. 1625) Alessandro Besozzi (1702-1775) Antonio Besozzi (1714-1781) Carlo Besozzi (1738-1791) Cristoforo Besozzi (1661-1725) Francesco Besozzi (1766-1816) Gaetano Besozzi (1727-1798) Girolamo Besozzi (c. 1745-1788) Giuseppe Besozzi (1686-1760) Henri Besozzi (born 1775) Louis Désiré Besozzi (1814-1879) Paolo Girolamo Besozzi (1704-1778) William Thomas Best (1826-1897) Bruno Bettinelli (1913-2004) Frank Michael Beyer (1928-2008) Johanna Beyer (1888-1944) Sandeep Bhagwati (born 1963) Vishal Bhardwaj (born 1960) Oscar Bianchi (born 1975) Francesco Bianchi (1752-1810) Frederick Bianchi (born 1954) Lycia de Biase Bidart (1910-1990) Gillian Bibby (born 1945) Carl Heinrich Biber (1681-1749) Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704) Franz Xaver Biebl (1906-2001) Michael von Biel (born 1939) Auguste van Biene (1849-1913) Diogenio Bigaglia (de) (1676-1745) Marie Bigot (1786-1820) Beatriz Bilbao (born 1951) Georg Christoph Biller (born 1955) William Billings (1746-1800) Elizabeth Weichsell Billington (c. 1768-1818) Alberto Bimboni (1882-1960) Gilles Binchois (Gilles de Bins) (c. 1400-1460) Abraham Wolfe Binder (1895-1966) Ronald Binge (1910-1979) Jocelyne Binet (1923-1968) Judith Bingham (born 1952) Seth Bingham (1882-1972) Stanislav Binički (1872-1942) Antonio Bioni (1698-1739) Wenzel Raimund Birck (Pirck) (1718-1763) Arthur H. Bird (1856-1923) Johann Adam Birkenstock (1687-1733) Renate Birnstein (born 1946) Harrison Birtwistle (born 1934) Chester Biscardi (1948) Hermann Bischoff (1868-1936) Henry Rowley Bishop (1786-1855) Próspero Bisquertt Prado (es) (1881-1959) Roberta Bitgood (1908-2007) Marcel Bitsch (born 1921) Iva Bittová (born 1958) Georges Bizet (1838-1875) Boris Blacher (1903-1975) Richard Blackford (born 1954) Easley Blackwood, Jr. (born 1933) Helen Blackwood (1807-1867) Leopoldine Blahetka (1809-1885) Eubie Blake (1883-1983) William Burdine Blake, Sr. (1852-1938) Adolphe Blanc (1828-1885) Blanche of Castile (1188-1252) Emile-Robert Blanchet (1877-1943) Olga De Blanck Martín (1916-1998) Maria Theresa Bland (c. 1769-1838) Frédéric Blasius (Matthäus Blasius) (1758-1829) Michel Blavet (1700-1768) Theo Bleckmann (born 1966) Herbert Blendinger (born 1936) Carla Bley (born 1938) Arthur Bliss (1891-1975) Marc Blitzstein (1905-1964) André Bloch (1873-1960) Augustyn Bloch (1929-2006) Ernest Bloch (1880-1959) Vilém Blodek (1834-1874) Karl-Birger Blomdahl (1916-1968) Patricia Blomfield Holt (1910-2003) John Blow (1649-1708) Felix Blumenfeld (1863-1931) Sonia Bo (born 1960) Howard Boatwright (1918-1999) Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) Nicolas Bochsa (1789-1856) Berta Bock (1857-1945) Mlle Bocquet (early 17th century-after 1660) Philipp Friedrich Böddecker (1607-1683) Erhard Bodenschatz (1576-1636) Josina Anna Petronella van Boetzelaer (1733-1787) Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689-1775) Sebastian Bodinus (c. 1700-1759) Seóirse Bodley (born 1933) Sylvie Bodorová (born 1954) Jack Body (born 1944) August de Boeck (1865-1937) Ernst Boehe (de) (1880-1938) Konrad Boehmer (born 1941) Jorge Boehringer (born 1975) Léon Boëllmann (1862-1897) Alexandre Pierre François Boëly (1785-1858) Antoine Boësset (1586-1643) Jean-Baptiste Boësset (1614-1685) Ana Bofill Levi (born 1944) Dušan Bogdanović (born 1955) Nikita Bogoslovsky (1913-2004) Georg Böhm (1661-1733) Theobald Böhm (1794-1881) Oskar Böhme (1870-1938) Emil Bohnke (1888-1928) Francois-Adrien Boieldieu (1775-1834) Rob du Bois (1934-2013) Arrigo Boito (1842-1918) Michèle Bokanowski (born 1943) William Bolcom (born 1938) Anne Boleyn (1507-1536) Claude Bolling (born 1930) Bartolomeo da Bologna (fl. 1405-1427) Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799) Andreas Boltz (born 1964) Ginés de Boluda (c. 1545-after 1604) João Domingos Bomtempo (1775-1842) Anna Bon (di Venezia) (c. 1739-after 1767) Ferdinando Bonazzi (it) (1764-1845) Capel Bond (1730-1790) Carrie Bond (1862-1946) Victoria Bond (born 1945) Emmanuel Bondeville (1898-1987) Margaret Allison Bonds (1913-1972) Luiz Bonfá (1922-2001) Andrée Bonhomme (1905-1982) Severo Bonini (1582-1663) Mélanie Bonis (1858-1937) Paul Bonneau (1918-1995) Joseph Bonnet (1884-1944) Antonio Maria Bononcini (1677-1726) Giovanni Bononcini (1670-1747) Giovanni Maria Bononcini (1642-1678) Francesco Antonio Bonporti (1672-1749) Giovanni Andrea Bontempi (c. 1624-1705) Henriette van den Boorn-Coclet (1866-1945) Francis Boott (1813-1904) Modesta Bor (1926-1998) Melchior Borchgrevinck (c. 1570-1632) David Borden (born 1938) Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman (1892-1971) Benjamin Boretz (born 1934) Oscar Borg (1851-1930) Raúl Borges (1882-1967) Borlet (fl. 14th and 15th century) François Borne (1840-1920) Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) Felix Borowski (1872-1956) Teresa Borràs i Fornell (1923-2010) Hakon Børresen (1876-1954) Edith Borroff (born 1925) Pietro Paolo Borrono (it) (c. 1490-after 1563) Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877-1952) Dmitry Bortniansky (1751-1825) Daniel Börtz (born 1943) Axel Borup-Jørgensen (1924-2012) Ruud Bos (nl) (born 1936) Maura Bosch (born 1958) Cornelis Boscoop (before 1531-1573) Henriëtte Bosmans (1895-1952) Jean-Yves Bosseur (born 1947) Costante Adolfo Bossi (1876-1953) Marco Enrico Bossi (1861-1925) Franciscus Bossinensis (fl. 1509-1511) George Botsford (1874-1949) Hans Bottermund (1892-1949) Giovanni Bottesini (1821-1889) Marianna Bottini (1802-1858) Linda Bouchard (born 1957) Raimondo Boucheron (1800-1876) André Boucourechliev (1925-1997) Rutland Boughton (1878-1960) Georges Boulanger (1893-1958) Lili Boulanger (1883-1918) Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) Joséphine Boulay (1869-1925) Pierre Boulez (1925-2016) Derek Bourgeois (born 1941) Louis Bourgeois (c. 1510/1515-1559) Roger Bourland (born 1952) Jean-Baptiste Drouard de Bousset (1662-1725) René Drouard de Bousset (1703-1760) Josse Boutmy (1697-1779) Roger Boutry (born 1932) François Bouvard (c. 1684-1760) Guillaume Bouzignac (before 1592-after 1641) Fritz Bovet (fl. 1845-1888) Helen Bowater (born 1952) York Bowen (1884-1961) Paul Bowles (1910-1999) Euday Louis Bowman (1887-1949) Christian Ludwig Boxberg (1670-1729) William Boyce (1711-1779) Anne Boyd (born 1946) Brian Boydell (1917-2000) Peter Boyer (born 1970) Martin Boykan (born 1931) Ina Boyle (1889-1967) Simon Boyleau (fl. c. 1544-after 1586) Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt Brillon de Jouy (1744-1824) Jacques Boyvin (1649-1706) Eugène Bozza (1905-1991) Hans Brachrogge (c. 1590-c. 1638) Jean Braconnier (dit Lourdault) (fl. from 1478; died 1512) William Brade (1560-1630) D. S. Bradford (born 1982) Scott Bradley (1891-1977) Edvard Fliflet Bræin (1924-1976) Antonio Braga (1929-2009) Antônio Francisco Braga (1868-1945) Cristina Braga (born 1966) Gaetano Braga (1829-1907) Joly Braga Santos (1924-1988) José Bragato (born 1915) May Brahe (1884-1956) Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Constantin Brăiloiu (1893-1958) Thüring Bräm (born 1944) Caspar Joseph Brambach (1833-1902) Glenn Branca (born 1948) Eddie Brandt (1920-2011) Willy Brandt (1869-1923) Jan Brandts Buys (1868-1933) Gena Branscombe (1881-1977) Henry Brant (1913-2008) Johannes Brassart (c. 1400/1405-1455) Louis Brassin (1840-1884) Jean Daniel Braun (de) (1728-1740) Peter Michael Braun (de) (born 1936) Yehezkel Braun (1922-2014) Walter Braunfels (1882-1954) Charlotte Bray (born 1982) Johannes Bernardus van Bree (1801-1857) Goran Bregović (born 1950) Josefina Brdlíková (1843-1910) Joseph Carl Breil (1870-1926) Peter Breiner (born 1957) Jacques Brel (1929-1978) Thérèse Brenet (born 1935) Bettina Brentano (1785-1859) Jan Josef Ignác Brentner (1689-1742) Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello (c. 1690-1758) Cesar Bresgen (1913-1988) Martin Bresnick (born 1946) Tomás Bretón (1850-1923) Jean-Baptiste Bréval (1753-1823) Giovanni Battista Brevi (c. 1650-1725) Pierre de Bréville (1861-1949) Thomas Brewer (1611-c. 1660) Havergal Brian (1876-1972) Giulio Briccialdi (1818-1881) Walter Bricht (1904-1970) Frank Bridge (1879-1941) Wolfgang Carl Briegel (1626-1712) Lou Briel (born 1962) David Briggs (born 1943) Roger Briggs (born 1952) Dora Bright (1862-1951) Anne Louise Brillon de Jouy (1744-1824) Antonio Brioschi (fl. c. 1725-1750) Michael Brimer (born 1933) George Frederick Bristow (1825-1898) Radie Britain (1899-1994) Estêvão de Brito (1575-1641) Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Frantisek Brixi (1732-1771) Šimon Brixi (1693-1735) Maria Brizzi Giorgi (1775-1822) Gabriel Brnčić (es) (born 1942) Brenton Broadstock (born 1952) Robert Broberg (born 1940) Howard Brockway (1870-1951) Henri Brod (1799-1839) Oswald Brodin (sv) (1914-1987) Roslyn Brogue (1919-1981) Natanael Broman (sv) (1887-1966) Sten Broman (sv) (1902-1983) Gerhard Bronner (1922-2007) Big Bill Broonzy (1903-1958) Ingeborg von Bronsart (1840-1913) Riccardo Broschi (c. 1698-1756) Sébastien de Brossard (1655-1730) Bruce Broughton (born 1945) Leo Brouwer (born 1939) Margaret Brouwer (born 1940) Earle Brown (1926-2002) James Francis Brown (born 1969) Nacio Herb Brown (1896-1964) Augusta Browne (1820-1882) Harriet Browne (1790-1858) John Browne (fl. c. 1480-1505) Dave Brubeck (1920-2012) Rudolf Brucci (1917-2002) David Bruce (born 1970) Max Bruch (1838-1920) Arnold von Bruck (c. 1500-1554) Gerard von Brucken Fock (1859-1935) Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) Joan Brudieu (1520-1591) Nicolaus Bruhns (1665-1697) Theo Bruins (1929-1993) Colin Brumby (born 1933) Antoine Brumel (c. 1460-1512/1513) Albert E. Brumley (1905-1977) Fritz Brun (1878-1959) Herbert Brün (1918-2000) Klaus Bruengel (born 1949) Pablo Bruna (1611-1679) Arnold Brunckhorst (1670-1725) Alfred Bruneau (1857-1934) Antonio Brunelli (1577-1630) Gaetano Brunetti (1744-1798) Karl Gottfried Brunotte (born 1958) Victor Bruns (1904-1996) Elisabetta Brusa (born 1954) Bjarne Brustad (1895-1978) Peter Bruun (born 1968) Joanna Bruzdowicz (born 1943) Steven Bryant (born 1972) Gavin Bryars (born 1943) Filipina Brzezinska-Szymanowska (1800-1886) Mark Bucci (1924-2002) Dorothy Quita Buchanan (born 1945) Wolfram Buchenberg (de) (born 1962) Hans Buchner (1483-1538) Philipp Friedrich Buchner (1614-1669) Dudley Buck (1839-1909) Ole Buck (born 1945) Boudewijn Buckinx (born 1945) John Buckley (born 1951) Olivia Buckley (born mid-1790s - after 1845) Harold Budd (born 1936) Margaret Buechner (1922-1998) Eivind Buene (born 1973) Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin (1690-1768) Glenn Buhr (de) (born 1954) John Bull (1562/1563-1628) Ole Bull (1810-1880) Alan Bullard (born 1947) Nini Bulterijs (1929-1989) Kenji Bunch (born 1973) August Bungert (1845-1915) Benedictus Buns (1642-1716) Giovanni Battista Buonamente (c. 1595-1642) Friedrich Burgmüller (1806-1874) Norbert Burgmüller (1810-1836) Geoffrey Burgon (1941-2010) Mutal Burhonov (1916-2002) Sonny Burke (1914-1980) Paul Burkhard (1911-1977) Willy Burkhard (1900-1955) Harry Burleigh (1866-1949) R D Burman (1939-1994) S D Burman (1906-1975) Charles Burney (1726-1814) Diana Burrell (born 1948) Alfred Burt (1920-1954) Canary Lee Burton (born 1942) Alan Bush (1900-1995) Adolf Busch (1891-1952) Geoffrey Bush (1920-1998) Alejandro Busi (ca) (1833-1895) Giuseppe Busi (ca) (1808-1871) Antoine Busnois (Busnoys) (c. 1430-1492) Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) Howard J. Buss (born 1951) Henri Büsser (1872-1973) Sylvano Bussotti (born 1931) Fernando Bustamante (es) (1915-1979) Pieter Bustijn (c. 1649-1729) Thomas O'Brien Butler (1861-1915) Nigel Butterley (born 1935) Arthur Butterworth (1923-2014) George Butterworth (1885-1916) Johann Heinrich Buttstett (1666-1727) Jacques Buus (c. 1500-1565) Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707) Arturo Buzzi-Peccia (1854?-1943) Antonio Buzzolla (1815-1871) William Byrd (c. 1540-1623) Don Byron (born 1958) Britta Byström (born 1977) Byttering (fl. c. 1410-1420)

D

Harry Dacre (1860-1922) Ingolf Dahl (1912-1970) Nicolas Dalayrac (1753-1809) Marc-André Dalbavie (born 1961) Nancy Dalberg (1881-1949) Lucio Dalla (born 1943) Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco (1675-1742) Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975) Burkhard Dallwitz (born 1959) Joan Ambrosio Dalza (fl. 1508) Jean-Michel Damase (1928-2013) Didier van Damme (born 1929) Walter Damrosch (1862-1950) Ghiselin Danckerts (c. 1510-c. 1565) Charles Dancla (1817-1907) Georges Dandelot (1895-1975) Jean-François Dandrieu (c. 1682-1738) Daniel Danielis (1635-1696) Richard Danielpour (born 1956) Alexandre Danilevsky (born 1957) Hart Pease Danks (1834-1903) John Dankworth (1927-2010) Franz Danzi (1763-1826) Louis-Claude Daquin (1763-1826) Alexander Dargomyzhsky (1813-1869) Michael Daugherty (born 1954) Louis François Dauprat (1781-1868) Antoine Dauvergne (1713-1797) Félicien-César David (1810-1876) Ferdinand David (1810-1873) Johann Nepomuk David (1895-1977) Padre Davide da Bergamo (Felice Moretti) (1791-1863) Neil Davidge (born 1962) Mario Davidovsky (born 1934) Hugh Davies (1943-2005) Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016) Walford Davies (1869-1941) Carl Davis (born 1936) Don Davis (born 1957) Ananias Davisson (1780-1857) Richard Davy (c. 1465-1538?) Karl Davydov (Carl Davidoff) (1838-1889) Julian Dawes (born 1942) Arthur De Greef (1862-1940) Reginald De Koven (1859-1920) Jon Deak (born 1943) Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Michel Decoust (born 1936) Edmond Dédé (1827-1903) Elliot Del Borgo (born 1938) David Del Tredici (born 1937) Michel Richard Delalande (de Lalande) (1657-1726) Philibert Delavigne (c. 1690/1700-1750) Claire Delbos (1906-1959) Lex van Delden (1919-1988) Léo Delibes (1836-1891) Frederick Delius (1862-1934) Azzolino Della Ciaja (1671-1755) Michielina Della Pietà (fl. c. 1701-1744) Norman Dello Joio (1913-2008) Giuseppe Demachi (1732-c. 1791) Christoph Demantius (1567-1643) Jeanne Demessieux (1921-1968) Nickitas J. Demos (born 1962) Jörg Demus (born 1928) Pietro Denis (1720-1790) William Denis Browne (1888-1915) Edison Denisov (1929-1996) Fabrizio Dentice (1539?-1581) Scipione Dentice (1560-1635) Luigi Denza (1846-1922) Mary Dering (1629-1704) Richard Dering (c. 1580-1630) Fabrizio De Rossi Re (1960) Victor De Sabata (1892-1967) Alfred Desenclos (1912-1971) Henri Desmarest (1661-1741) Alexandre Desplat (born 1961) Paul Dessau (1894-1979) Josef Dessauer (1798-1876) André Cardinal Destouches (1672-1749) Max Deutsch (1892-1982) François Devienne (1759-1803) Frédéric Devreese (born 1929) James Di Pasquale (born 1941) Salvatore Di Vittorio (born 1967) Anton Diabelli (1781-1858) David Diamond (1915-2005) Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921) Bernard van Dieren (1887-1936) Albert Christoph Dies (1755-1822) Albert Dietrich (1829-1908) Charles Dieupart (c. 1670-c. 1740) Rudi Martinus van Dijk (1932-2003) Muttusvami Dikshitar (1775-1835) Steffi Diliberto (born 1980) James Dillon (born 1950) Lawrence Dillon (born 1959) Violeta Dinescu (born 1953) Grigoras Dinicu (1889-1949) Paul Dirmeikis (born 1954) Girolamo Diruta (c. 1554-after 1610) Hugo Distler (1908-1942) Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739-1799) Antonius Divitis (Anthonius Rycke) (c. 1470-c. 1530) Steve Dobrogosz (born 1956) Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński (1807-1867) Stephen Dodgson (1924-2013) Friedhelm Döhl (born 1936) Theodor Döhler (1814-1856) Ernő Dohnányi (Ernst von Dohnányi) (1877-1960) Johannes Baptista Dolar (Jan Křtitel Tolar) (c. 1620-1673) Joe Dolce (born 1947) Johann Friedrich Doles (1715-1797) Charles Dollé (fl. 1735-1755; d. after 1755) Petrus de Domarto (fl. 1445-1455) František Domažlický (1913-1997) Carlo Domeniconi (born 1947) Jakob van Domselaer (1890-1960) Pino Donaggio (born 1941) Ignazio Donati (c. 1575-1638) Baldassare Donato (1529?-1603) Franco Donatoni (1927-2000) Stefano Donaudy (1879-1925) Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) Jakob Dont (1815-1888) Cornelis Dopper (1870-1939) Árpád Doppler (1857-1927) Franz Doppler (1821-1883) Karl Doppler (1825-1900) Nicolao Dorati (c. 1513-1593) Gustave Doret (1866-1943) Daniel Dorff (born 1956) Avner Dorman (born 1975) Louis-Antoine Dornel (c. 1685-c. 1765) Nico Dostal (1895-1981) Friedrich Dotzauer (1783-1860) Celius Dougherty (1902-1986) James Douglas (born 1932) Roy Douglas (born 1907) John Thomas Douglass (1847-1886) Victor Dourlen (1780-1864) John Dowland (1563-1626) Robert Dowland (c. 1591-1641) John W. Downey (1927-2004) Patrick Doyle (born 1953) Felix Draeseke (1835-1913) George Draga (1835-2008) Antonio Draghi (c. 1634-1700) Giovanni Battista Draghi (c. 1640-1708) Domenico Dragonetti (1763-1846) Giovanni Dragoni (c. 1540-1598) Ervin Drake (1919-2015) Deborah Drattell (born 1956) Sem Dresden (1881-1957) Adam Drese (c. 1620-1701) Johann Samuel Drese (c. 1644-1716) Johann Wilhelm Drese (1677-1745) Paul Dresher (born 1951) Erwin Dressel (1909-1972) Cornelius Heinrich Dretzel (1697-1775) Alexander Dreyschock (1818-1869) Felix Dreyschock (1860-1906) Riccardo Drigo (1846-1930) Madeleine Dring (1923-1977) Jacob Druckman (1928-1996) Georg Druschetzky (1745-1819) Du Mingxin (born 1928) Alexandra du Bois (born 1981) Eustache Du Caurroy (1549-1609) Henri Du Mont (1610-1684) Édouard Du Puy (1770-1822) John W. Duarte (1919-2004) Leonora Duarte (1610-1678) Andreas Düben (1597-1662) Gustav Düben (1628-1690) Pierre Max Dubois (1930-1995) Théodore Dubois (1837-1924) William Duckworth (born 1943) Jörg Duda (born 1968) François Dufault (1604-1670) Guillaume Dufay (Du Fay) (1397-1474) Arthur Duff (1899-1956) Paul Dukas (1865-1935) John Woods Duke (1899-1984) Vernon Duke (Vladimir Dukelsky) (1903-1969) Friedrich Dülon (1768-1826) Pierre Dumage (c. 1674-1751) Isaak Dunayevsky (1900-1955) Thomas Dunhill (1877-1946) Egidio Duni (1708-1775) John Dunstaple (Dunstable) (c. 1390-1453) Henri Duparc (1848-1933) Jacques Duphly (1715-1789) Jean-Louis Duport (1749-1819) Marcel Dupré (1886-1971) Albert Dupuis (1877-1967) Sylvain Dupuis (1856-1931) Francesco Durante (1684-1755) Louis Durey (1888-1979) Sebastián Durón (1660-1716) Lucien Durosoir (1878-1955) Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986) Pascal Dusapin (born 1955) František Xaver Dušek (1731-1799) Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812) Sophia Dussek (1775-1847) Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013) Balys Dvarionas (1904-1972) Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) George Dyson (1883-1964) Damodar Raao (born 1977) E[edit]

Three Bs of classical music

Bach, Beethoven, Brahms

E

Brian Easdale (1909-1995) Michael East (1580-1648) John Eaton (born 1935) Johann Georg Ebeling (1637-1676) Petr Eben (born 1929) Dennis Eberhard (1943-2005) Anton Eberl (1765-1807) Johann Ernst Eberlin (1702-1762) Guglielmo Ebreo da Pesaro (c. 1420-after 1484) Henry Eccles (1670-1742) John Eccles (1668-1735) Johann Gottfried Eckard (1735-1809) Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté (1901-1974) Jean-Frédéric Edelmann (1749-1794) Lotten Edholm (1839-1930) Lars Edlund (1922-2013) Ross Edwards (born 1943) Cecil Effinger (1914-1990) Klaus Egge (1906-1979) Joachim Nicolas Eggert (1779-1813) Werner Egk (1901-1983) Margriet Ehlen (born 1943) Heinrich Ehrlich (1822-1899) Henry Eichheim (1870-1942) Ernst Eichner (1740-1777) Ludovico Einaudi (born 1955) Gottfried von Einem (1918-1996) Hanns Eisler (1898-1962) Danny Elfman (born 1953) Edward Elgar (1857-1934) Anders Eliasson (born 1947) Dror Elimelech (born 1956) Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg (1613-1676) Heino Eller (1887-1970) Rosalind Ellicott (1857-1924) Don Ellis (1934-1978) Eloy d'Amerval (fl. 1455-1508) Jean-Claude Éloy (born 1938) Mohamed El-Qasabgi (1892-1966) Luther Orlando Emerson (1820-1915) Maurice Emmanuel (1862-1938) Simon Emmerson (born 1950) Juan del Encina (1468-c. 1529) George Enescu (1881-1955) Einar Englund (1916-1999) August Enna (1859-1939) Péter Eötvös (born 1944) Donald Erb (1927-2008) Christian Erbach (1568/1573-1635) Heimo Erbse (1924-2005) Eduard Erdmann (1896-1958) Robert Erickson (1917-1997) Carsten Bo Eriksen (born 1973) Ferenc Erkel (1810-1893) Ulvi Cemal Erkin (1906-1972) Frédéric Alfred d'Erlanger (1868-1943) Philipp Heinrich Erlebach (1657-1714) Gustav Ernesaks (1908-1993) Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1812?-1865) Iván Erőd (born 1936) Pasquale Errichelli (1730-1785) Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie (1732-1781) Thierry Escaich (born 1965) Pedro de Escobar (c. 1465-after 1535) Bartolomé de Escobedo (c. 1505-1563) Pozzi Escot (born 1933) Rudolf Escher (1912-1980) Andrei Eshpai (born 1925) Karlheinz Essl (born 1960) João Rodrigues Esteves (1700-1751) Paschal de l'Estocart (1539?-after 1584) Julio Estrada (born 1943) Alvin Etler (1913-1973) Franco Evangelisti (1926-1980) Ralph Evans (born 1953) Victor Ewald (1860-1935) Eric Ewazen (born 1954) Joseph Leopold Eybler (1765-1846) Jacob van Eyck (c. 1590-1657) Ernest van der Eyken (1913-2010)

R

Dick Raaijmakers (born 1930) Henri Rabaud (1873-1949) Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky (born 1945) Folke Rabe (born 1935) Peer Raben (1940-2007) Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Charles Racquet (1597-1664) Mikołaj Radomski (Nicolaus de Radom) (fl. c. 1400) Jean-Théodore Radoux (1835-1911) Horațiu Rădulescu (1942-2008) Joachim Raff (1822-1882) Assi Rahbani (1923-1986) Mansour Rahbani (1925-2009) A. R. Rahman (born 1966) Pietro Raimondi (1786-1853) Ralph Rainger (1901-1942) Tomi Räisänen (born 1976) André Raison (1640s-1719) Yuvan Shankar Raja (born 1979) Thomas Rajna (born 1928) Ľudovít Rajter (Rayter) (1906-2000) Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) Ariel Ramírez (1921-2010) Mattio Rampollini (1497-c. 1553) Robert Ramsey (1590s-1644) Shulamit Ran (born 1949) Bernard Rands (born 1934) Ture Rangström (1884-1947) György Ránki (1907-1992) Günter Raphael (1903-1960) Andreas Raselius (c.1563-1602) Francesco Rasi (1574-1621) Karl Aage Rasmussen (born 1947) Valentin Rathgeber (1682-1750) Hermann Raupach (1728-1778) Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016) Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) Thomas Ravenscroft (c. 1582-c. 1635) Alan Rawsthorne (1905-1971) Emma Marcy Raymond (1856-1913) Fred Raymond (1900-1954) Ray Reach (born 1948) François Rebel (1701-1775) Jean-Féry Rebel (1666-1747) João Lourenço Rebelo (1610-1661) John Redford (fl. from 1534; died 1547) Hans Redlich (1903-1968) Bernd Redmann (born 1965) Thomas German Reed (1817-1888) William Reed (1859-1945) Emil Reesen (1887-1964) Max Reger (1873-1916) Johannes Regis (Jehan Leroy) (c. 1425-c. 1496) Jacob Regnart (c. 1540-1599) Giulio Regondi (1822-1872) Karin Rehnqvist (born 1957) Steve Reich (born 1936) Anton Reicha (1770-1836) Josef Reicha (1752-1795) Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752-1814) Antonín Reichenauer (c. 1694-1730) Aribert Reimann (born 1936) Jan Adam Reincken (1643?-1722) Alexander Reinagle (1756-1809) Carl Reinecke (1824-1910) Heinrich Reinhardt (1865-1922) Carl Martin Reinthaler (1822-1896) Niki Reiser (born 1958) Carl Gottlieb Reissiger (1798-1859) Sergio Rendine (born 1954) Leon René (1902-1982) Dino Residbegovic (born 1975) Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) Julius Reubke (1834-1858) Peter Reulein (born 1966) Esaias Reusner (1636-1679) Georg Reutter (1656-1738) Georg Reutter (the younger) (1708-1772) Hermann Reutter (1900-1985) Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940) Cemal Reşit Rey (1904-1985) Jean-Baptiste Rey (1734-1810) Ernest Reyer (1823-1909) Alfred Reynolds (1884-1969) Roger Reynolds (born 1934) Emil von Reznicek (1860-1945) Georg Rhau (Rhaw) (1488-1548) Josef Rheinberger (1839-1901) Emilios Riadis (1885-1935) Federico Ricci (1809-1877) Luigi Ricci (1805-1859) Cesarina Ricci de Tingoli (born c. 1573, fl. 1597) Giovanni Battista Riccio (fl. 1609-1621) Jean Richafort (c. 1480-after 1547) Ferdinand Tobias Richter (1651-1711) Franz Xaver Richter (1709-1789) Max Richter (born 1966) Frank Ricotti (born 1949) Wallingford Riegger (1885-1961) Ferdinand Ries (1784-1838) Vittorio Rieti (1898-1994) Julius Rietz (1812-1877) Giovanni Antonio Rigatti (c. 1613-1648) Henri-Joseph Rigel (1741-1799) Vincenzo Righini (1756-1812) Wolfgang Rihm (born 1952) Knudåge Riisager (1897-1974) Richard Rijnvos (born 1964) Terry Riley (born 1935) Vincenzo da Rimini (14th century) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) Christian Heinrich Rinck (1770-1846) Philipp Jakob Riotte (1776-1856) Alberto da Ripa (Albert de Rippe) (c. 1500-1551) André Ristic (born 1972) Giovanni Alberto Ristori (1692-1753) August Gottfried Ritter (1811-1885) Johnny Rivers (born 1942) Jean Rivier (1896-1987) Angela Ro Ro (born 1949) Curtis Roads (born 1951) François Roberday (1624-1680) Pierre Robert (c. 1618-1699) Harry Robertson (1932-1996) Thomas Robinson (c. 1560-after 1609) George Rochberg (1918-2005) August Röckel (1814-1876) Arturo Rodas (born 1954) Pierre Rode (1774-1830) Nile Rodgers (born 1952) Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) Rocco Rodio (c. 1535-after 1615) Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999) Robert Xavier Rodriguez (born 1946) Jean Roger-Ducasse (1873-1954) Francesco Rognoni Taeggio (second half of the 16th century - after 1626) Riccardo Rognoni (Richardo Rogniono) (ca. 1550 - before 20 April 1620) Philippe Rogier (c. 1561-1596) Jean Rogister (1879-1964) Eduard Rohde (1828-1883) Alexis Roland-Manuel (1891-1966) Amadeo Roldán (1900-1939) James Rolfe (born 1961) Alessandro Rolla (1757-1841) Antonio Rolla (1798-1837) Johan Helmich Roman (1694-1758) Antonius Romanus (fl. c. 1414-1432) Andreas Romberg (1767-1821) Bernhard Romberg (1767-1841) Sigmund Romberg (1887-1951) Matheo Romero (c. 1575-1647) Johann Theodor Römhild (Roemhildt) (1684-1756) Julius Röntgen (1855-1932) William Michael Rooke (1794-1847) Joseph Willard Roosevelt (1918-2008) Guy Ropartz (1864-1955) Cipriano de Rore (c. 1516-1565) Ned Rorem (born 1923) Juventino Rosas (1868-1894) David Rose (1910-1990) Thomas Roseingrave (1688-1766) Hilding Rosenberg (1892-1985) Jakob Rosenhain (1813-1894) Johann Rosenmüller (1619-1684) Manuel Rosenthal (1904-2003) Antonio Rosetti (Anton Rösler) (c. 1750-1792) Nikolai Roslavets (1881-1944) Arnold Rosner (1945-2013) Jerry Ross (1926-1955) Philip Rosseter (1567/1568-1623) Camilla de Rossi (fl. 1707-1710) Lauro Rossi (1810-1885) Luigi Rossi (c. 1597-1653) Michelangelo Rossi (c. 1601-1656) Roger Rossi (born 1940) Salamone Rossi (c. 1570-1630) Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) Nino Rota (1911-1979) Johann Christoph Rothe (1653-1700) Hans Rott (1858-1884) Christopher Rouse (born 1949) Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) Albert Roussel (1869-1937) Giovanni Rovetta (c. 1596-1668) Francesco Rovigo (1540/1541-1597) Edwin Roxburgh (born 1937) Pancrace Royer (1705-1755) Miklós Rózsa (1907-1995) Jacek Różycki (c. 1635-1704) Edmund Rubbra (1901-1986) Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894) Nikolai Rubinstein (1835-1881) Sharon Ruchman (born 1949) Poul Ruders (born 1949) Dane Rudhyar (1895-1985) Ernst Rudorff (1840-1916) Vincenzo Ruffo (c. 1508-1587) Giovanni Maria Ruggieri (c. 1665-c. 1725) Carl Ruggles (1876-1971) Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen (1778-1851) Conrad Rupsch (fl. 1520s) Claudia Rusca (1593-1676) Craig Russell (born 1951) Luigi Russolo (1883-1947) Friedrich Wilhelm Rust (1739-1796) Giacomo Rust (1741-1786) Giovanni Marco Rutini (1723-1797) John Rutter (born 1945) Jakub Jan Ryba (1765-1815) Joseph Ryelandt (1870-1965) Frederic Rzewski (born 1938)

K

Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987) Miloslav Kabeláč (1908-1979) Jeronimas Kačinskas (1907-2005) Mauricio Kagel (1931-2008) Wilhelm Kaiser-Lindemann (de) (born 1942) Yuki Kajiura (born 1965) Vasily Kalinnikov (1866-1901) Johannes Kalitzke (born 1959) Jan Kalivoda (Kalliwoda) (1801-1866) Friedrich Kalkbrenner (1785-1849) Emmerich Kálmán (1882-1953) Manolis Kalomiris (1883-1962) Antonín Kammel (1730-1788) Shigeru Kan-no (born 1959) Giya Kancheli (born 1935) John Kander (born 1927) Yoko Kanno (born 1964) Božidar Kantušer (1921-1999) Artur Kapp (1878-1952) Eugen Kapp (1908-1996) Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915-1940) Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger (c. 1580-1651) Nikolai Kapustin (born 1937) Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933) Mieczysław Karłowicz (1876-1909) Kjell Mørk Karlsen (born 1947) Jurgis Karnavičius (1884-1941) Laura Karpman (born 1959) Leonard Kastle (1929-2011) Jean-Georges Kastner (1810-1867) Elena Kats-Chernin (born 1957) Rudolf Kattnigg (1895-1955) Georgy L'vovich Katuar (1861-1926) Georg Katzer (born 1935) Hugo Kauder (1888-1972) Georg Friedrich Kauffmann (1679-1735) Hiba Kawas (born 1972) Motoharu Kawashima (born 1972) Yakov Kazyansky (born 1948) Reinhard Keiser (1674-1739) David Kellner (1670-1748) Johann Christoph Kellner (1736-1803) Johann Peter Kellner (1705-1772) Hugh Kellyk (fl. c. 1480) Joannes Florentius a Kempis (1635-after 1711) Nicolaus à Kempis (c. 1600-1676) Martin Kennedy (born 1978) Abraham van den Kerckhoven (c. 1618-c. 1701) Jacobus de Kerle (1531/1532-1591) Johann Caspar Kerll (1627-1693) Jerome Kern (1885-1945) Aaron Jay Kernis (born 1960) Albert Ketèlbey (1875-1959) Tristan Keuris (1946-1996) Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978) Rami Khalife (born 1981) Ivan Khandoshkin (1747-1804) Yuri Khanon (born 1965) Tikhon Khrennikov (1913-2007) Aldine Silliman Kieffer (1840-1904) Friedrich Kiel (1821-1885) Wilhelm Kienzl (1857-1941) Wojciech Kilar (born 1932) Wilhelm Killmayer (born 1927) Earl Kim (1920-1998) Johann Erasmus Kindermann (1616-1655) Carole King (born 1942) Karl King (1891-1971) George Kirbye (c. 1565-1634) Leon Kirchner (1919-2009) Theodor Kirchner (1823-1903) Volker David Kirchner (born 1942) Johann Philipp Kirnberger (1721-1783) Don Kirshner (born 1934) Caspar Kittel (1603-1639) Johann Christian Kittel (1732-1809) Uuno Klami (1900-1961) Giselher Klebe (1925-2009) Leonhard Kleber (c. 1495-1556) Bernhard Klein (1793-1832) Richard Rudolf Klein (1921-2011) Julian Klemczyński (1807/1810-1851) Julius Klengel (1859-1933) Paul Klengel (1854-1935) Josef Klička (1855-1937) Karl Emanuel Klitzsch (1812-1889) Friedrich Klose (1862-1942) August Klughardt (1847-1902) Alexander Knaifel (born 1943) Justin Heinrich Knecht (1752-1817) Andreas Kneller (1649-1724) Edward Knight (born 1961) Lev Knipper (1898-1974) Charles Knox (born 1929) Sebastian Knüpfer (1633-1676) Oliver Knussen (1952-2018) Marcelo Koc (1918-2006) Miklós Kocsár (born 1933) Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967) Charles Koechlin (1867-1950) Graeme Koehne (born 1956) Hans von Koessler (János Koessler) (1853-1926) Jan Koetsier (1911-2006) Karl Kohaut (1726-1784) Erland von Koch (1910-2009) Günter Kochan (1930-2009) Ludwig von Köchel (1800-1877) Ernesto Köhler (1849-1907) Siegfried Köhler (born 1923) Ellis B. Kohs (1916-2000) Joonas Kokkonen (1921-1996) Walter Kollo (1878-1940) Pierre Kolp (born 1969) Karel Komzák I (1823-1893) Karel Komzák II (1850-1905) Koji Kondo (born 1960) Johann Balthasar König (1691-1758) Servaes de Koninck (c. 1654-c. 1701) Anders Koppel (born 1947) Herman David Koppel (1908-1998) Karel Blažej Kopřiva (1756-1785) Václav Jan Kopřiva (Urtica) (1708-1789) Nikolai Korndorf (1947-2001) Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) Viktor Kosenko (1896-1938) Hans Kotter (c. 1485-1541) Jason Kouchak (born 1967) Leopold Kozeluch (1747-1818) Marjan Kozina (1907-1965) Pylyp Kozytskiy (1893-1960) Antonín Kraft (c. 1749-1820) William Kraft (born 1923) Mathilde Kralik (1857-1944) Hans Krása (1899-1944) Joseph Martin Kraus (1756-1792) Jaroslav Krček (born 1939) Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713-1780) Johann Tobias Krebs (1690-1762) Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) Ernst Krenek (1900-1991) Franz Krenn (1818-1897) Conradin Kreutzer (1780-1849) Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766-1831) Adam Krieger (1634-1666) Johann Philipp Krieger (1649-1725) Johann Krieger (1651-1735) Rohan Kriwaczek (born 1968) Franz Krommer (1759-1831) Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz (1742-1790) Gail Kubik (1914-1984) Jan Křtitel Kuchař (1751-1829) Joseph Küffner (1776-1856) Friedrich Kuhlau (1786-1832) Johann Kuhnau (1660-1722) Gerd Kühr (born 1952) August Kühnel (1645-c. 1700) Jarosław Kukulski (born 1944) Theodor Kullak (1818-1882) Eduard Künneke (1885-1953) Andreas Kunstein (born 1967) Friedrich Ludwig Aemilius Kunzen (1761-1817) Robert Kurka (1921-1957) Karol Kurpiński (1785-1857) György Kurtág (born 1926) Johann Sigismund Kusser (1660-1727) Toivo Kuula (1883-1918) Elisabeth Kuyper (1877-1953) Larysa Kuzmenko (born 1956) Otomar Kvěch (born 1950)

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Emil Tabakov (born 1947) Paul Taffanel (1844-1908) Walter Taieb (born 1973) Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983) Ayuo Takahashi (born 1960) Yuji Takahashi (born 1938) Tōru Takemitsu (1930-1996) Otar Taktakishvili (1924-1989) Tan Yan Zhang (born 1998) Josef Tal (1910-2008) Joby Talbot (born 1971) Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585) Louise Talma (1906-1996) Yankel Talmud (1885-1965) Eino Tamberg (1930-2010) David Tamkin (1906-1975) Bertha Tammelin (1836-1915) Tan Dun (born 1957) Kohei Tanaka (born 1954) Alexander Taneyev (1850-1918) Sergei Taneyev (1856-1915) Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986) Johannes Tapissier (c. 1370-before 1410) Tapšiẖuni (c. 1400 BC) Angelo Tarchi (1760-1814) Mikael Tariverdiev (1931-1996) Vladimir Tarnopolsky (born 1955) Francisco Tárrega (1852-1909) Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770) Phyllis Tate (1911-1987) Emil Taubert (1844-1895) Wilhelm Taubert (1811-1891) Franz Tausch (1762-1817) Carl Tausig (1841-1871) John Tavener (1944-2013) John Taverner (c. 1490-1545) Deems Taylor (1885-1966) Matthew Taylor (born 1964) Raynor Taylor (1747-1825) Boris Tchaikovsky (Chaikovsky) (1925-1996) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Alexander Tcherepnin (1899-1977) Ivan Tcherepnin (1943-1998) Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873-1946) Serge Tcherepnin (born 1941) António Teixeira (1707-1769) Jeroen Tel (born 1972) Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) Thomas Tellefsen (1823-1874) Alec Templeton (1909-1963) James Tenney (1934-2006) Octave Octavian Teodorescu (born 1963) Domènech Terradellas (1713-1751) Claude Terrasse (1867-1923) Melchior Teschner (1584-1635) John Tesh (born 1952) Flavio Testi (1923-2014) George Thalben-Ball (1896-1987) Sigismond Thalberg (1812-1871) Johann Theile (1646-1724) Mikis Theodorakis (born 1925) Károly Thern (1817-1886) István Thomán (1862-1940) Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896) Randall Thompson (1899-1984) Robert Scott Thompson (born 1959) César Thomson (1857-1931) Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) Francis Thorne (born 1922) John Thow (1949-2007) Ludwig Thuille (1861-1907) Frank Ticheli (born 1958) Otto Albert Tichý (1890-1973) Jukka Tiensuu (born 1948) Anton Ferdinand Tietz (1742-1811) Ivo Tijardović (1895-1976) Frederick C. Tillis (born 1930) Michael Tilson Thomas (born 1944) Christopher Tin (born 1976) Johannes Tinctoris (c. 1435-1511) Edgar Tinel (1854-1912) Luís Tinoco (born 1969) Dimitri Tiomkin (1894-1979) Michael Tippett (1905-1998) Boris Tishchenko (1939-2010) Jean Titelouze (1562/1563-1633) Alexey Nikolayevich Titov (1769-1827) Katia Tiutiunnik (born 1967) Rudolf Tobias (1873-1918) Helen Tobias-Duesberg (1919-2010) Ernst Toch (1887-1964) Camillo Togni (1922-1993) George Tolhurst (1827-1877) Václav Tomášek (1774-1850) Henri Tomasi (1901-1971) Marko Tomasović (born 1976) Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656) Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709) Michael Torke (born 1961) Mel Tormé (1925-1999) Francisco de la Torre (fl. 1483-1504) Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco (1644-1728) José de Torres (1665-1738) Federico Moreno Torroba (1891-1982) Paul Tortelier (1914-1990) Paolo Tosti (1846-1916) Charles Tournemire (1870-1939) Allen Toussaint (born 1938) Donald Francis Tovey (1875-1940) Joan Tower (born 1938) Geoffrey Toye (1889-1942) Antonio Tozzi (1736-1812) Giovanni Maria Trabaci (1575-1647) Tommaso Traetta (1727-1779) Cornel Trăilescu (born 1926) Jean Balthasar Tricklir (1750-1813) Giacomo Tritto (1733-1824) Bartolomeo Tromboncino (c. 1470-after 1534) Friedrich Hieronymus Truhn (1811-1886) Frankie Trumbauer (1901-1956) Harold Truscott (1914-1992) Julia Tsenova (1948-2010) Eduard Tubin (1905-1982) Tui St. George Tucker (1924-2004) Erik Tulindberg (1761-1814) František Tůma (1704-1774) Franz Tunder (1614-1667) Joaquín Turina (1882-1949) Francesco Turini (1589-1656) Daniel Gottlob Türk (1756-1813) Mark-Anthony Turnage (born 1960) William Turner (1651-1740) Roman Turovsky-Savchuk (born 1961) Marco Tutino (born 1954) Kalervo Tuukkanen (1909-1979) Erkki-Sven Tüür (born 1959) Geirr Tveitt (1908-1981) Merlijn Twaalfhoven (born 1976) Tyagaraja (1767-1847) Christopher Tye (c. 1505-c. 1572) Georges Tzipine (1907-1987) Tyler Joseph (born 1988)

N

François Joseph Naderman (1781-1835) Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997) Giovanni Bernardino Nanino (c. 1560-1623) Eduard Nápravník (1839-1916) Pietro Nardini (1722-1793) Peter Nardone (born 1965) James Nares (1715-1783) Luis de Narváez (fl. 1526-1549) Ugo Nastrucci (born 1953) Isaac Nathan (c. 1792-1864) Jacques-Christophe Naudot (c. 1690-1762) Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741-1801) Juan Francisco de Navas (c. 1650-1719) Lior Navok (born 1971) Ernesto Nazareth (1863-1934) José de Nebra (1702-1768) Oskar Nedbal (1874-1930) Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748-1798) Cesare Negri (c. 1535-c. 1605) Marcantonio Negri (died 1624) Sarah Nemtsov (born 1980) Alberto Nepomuceno (1864-1920) Johann Baptist Georg Neruda (c. 1707-c. 1780) Viktor Nessler (1841-1890) Sigismund Neukomm (1778-1858) Georg Neumark (1621-1681) Alfred Newman (1900-1970) Chris Newman (born 1958) Christoph Nichelmann (1717-1762) Sydney Nicholson (1875-1947) Edmund Nick (1891-1973) Otto Nicolai (1810-1849) Louis Niedermeyer (1802-1861) Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) Ludolf Nielsen (1876-1939) Tage Nielsen (1929-2003) Joy Nilo (born 1970) Anders Nilsson (born 1954) Alessandro Nini (1805-1880) Ninot le Petit (fl.c. 1500-1520?) Tomohito Nishiura (born 1973) Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers (1632-1714) Sten Njurling (sv) (1892-1945) Yuji Nomi (born 1958) Luigi Nono (1924-1990) Anthoni van Noordt (c. 1619-1675) Erik Norby (1936-2007) Arne Nordheim (1931-2010) Rikard Nordraak (1842-1866) Per Nørgård (born 1932) Ib Nørholm (born 1931) Andrew Norman (born 1979) Thomas Norris (1741-1790) Serge Noskov (born 1956) Vítězslav Novák (1870-1949) Ivor Novello (1893-1951) Vincent Novello (1781-1861) Franz Nikolaus Novotny (1743-1773) Johannes Nucius (c. 1556-1620) Francisco Núñez (born 1965) Patrick Nunn (born 1969) Ervin Nyiregyházi (1903-1987) Michael Nyman (born 1944) Knut Nystedt (born 1915)

u

Friedrich Christian Hermann Uber (1781-1822) Marco Uccellini (1603/1610-1680) Martin Andreas Udbye (1820-1889) Nobuo Uematsu (born 1959) Vincenzo Ugolini (c. 1580-1638) Alfred Uhl (1909-1992) Viktor Ullmann (1898-1944) Chinary Ung (born 1942) Benjamin Carl Unseld (1843-1923) Erich Urbanner (born 1936) Urẖiya (c. 1400 BC) Guillermo Uribe Holguín (1880-1971) Juan de Urrede (c. 1430-after 1482) Anton Urspruch (1850-1907) Francesco Usper (Spongia, Sponga) (1561-1641) Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006) Alexander Utendal (1543/1545-1581) Francesco Uttini (1723-1795) Yolande Uyttenhove (1925-2000)

C

Gayane C'ebotaryan (1918-1998) Roberto Caamaño (es) (1923-1993) Manuel Fernández Caballero (1835-1906) Juan Cabanilles (1644-1712) Antonio de Cabezón (c. 1510-1566) Hernando de Cabezón (1541-1602) Facundo Cabral (born 1937) Francesca Caccini (1587-c. 1640) Giulio Caccini (1551-1618) Settimia Caccini (1591-1638) Pierre Cadéac (fl. 1538-1556) Charles Wakefield Cadman (1881-1946) Pasquale Cafaro (1715/1716-1787) John Cage (1912-1992) Antonio Cagnoni (1828-1896) Gioseppe Caimo (c. 1545-1584) Louis de Caix d'Hervelois (c. 1670-c. 1760) Raffaele Calace (1863-1934) Geneviève Calame (1946-1993) Antonio Caldara (1671-1736) Fulvio Caldini (born 1959) Antonio Calegari (1757-1828) Maria Cattarina Calegari (1644-1675) Francisco Calés Pina (es) (1886-1957) John Baptiste Calkin (1827-1905) Joseph Callaerts (1838-1901) Rafael Calleja Gómez (1870-1938) Lluís Callejo (es) (1930-1987) Sethus Calvisius (1556-1615) Robert Cambert (c. 1628-1677) Giuseppe Cambini (1746-c. 1825) John Cameron (born 1944) Charles Camilleri (born 1931) Michel Camilo (born 1954) Bartolomeo Campagnoli (1751-1827) Fabio Campana (1819-1882) Alexander Campbell (1764-1824) Louis Campbell-Tipton (1877-1921) François van Campenhout (1779-1848) Thomas Campion (1567-1620) Carlo Antonio Campioni (1720-1788) Conrado del Campo (1878-1953) André Campra (1660-1744) Francisco Canaro (1888-1964) Edith Canat de Chizy (born 1950) Amélie-Julie Candeille (1767-1834) Cornelius Canis (de Hondt) (c. 1500/1510-1561) Christian Cannabich (1731-1798) Enrico Cannio (1874-1949) Joseph Canteloube (1879-1957) Philippe Capdenat (born 1934) Pierre Capdevielle (1906-1969) Vincenzo Capirola (1474-after 1548) André Caplet (1878-1925) Samuel Capricornus (1628-1665) Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi (1755-1818) Marchetto Cara (c. 1465-1525) Michele Carafa (1787-1872) Matteo Carcassi (1792-1853) Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981) Manuel Cardoso (1566-1650) Cristoforo Caresana (c. 1640-1709) Henry Carey (1687-1743) Giacomo Carissimi (1605-1674) Robert Carl (born 1954) Bruce Carlson (born 1944) Mark Carlson (born 1952) Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1981) John Carmichael (born 1930) Roberto Carnevale (born 1966) Ramon Carnicer i Batlle (1789-1855) Julio de Caro (1899-1980) Turlough Carolan (1670-1738) Firminus Caron (fl. c. 1460-c. 1475) Fabritio Caroso (c. 1527/1535-after 1600) John Alden Carpenter (1876-1951) Carpentras (Elzéar Genet) (c. 1470-1548) Benjamin Carr (1768-1831) Edwin Carr (1926-2003) António Carreira (fl. 1551-1589) James P. Carrell (1787-1854) Teresa Carreño (1853-1917) Julián Carrillo (1875-1965) Antonio Casimir Cartellieri (1772-1807) Andrew Carter (born 1939) Elliott Carter (1908-2012) Ferdinando Carulli (1770-1841) João de Sousa Carvalho (1745-c. 1799) Robert Carver (c. 1484/1487-c. 1570) Doreen Carwithen (1922-2003) Tristram Cary (1925-2008) Benet Casablancas (born 1956) Henri Casadesus (1879-1947) Marius Casadesus (1892-1981) Robert Casadesus (1899-1972) Robert-Guillaume Casadesus (1878-1940) Romeo Cascarino (1922-2002) Giovanni da Cascia (14th century) Alfredo Casella (1883-1947) Philip Cashian (born 1963) John Casken (born 1949) Gaspar Cassadó (1897-1966) Bellerofonte Castaldi (c. 1581-1649) Luigi Castellacci (1797-1845) Rafael Antonio Castellanos (c. 1725-1791) Dario Castello (c. 1590-c. 1658) Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) Niccolò Castiglioni (1932-1996) Alexis de Castillon (1838-1873) Samuel Castriota (1885-1932) Juan José Castro (1895-1968) Maddalena Casulana (c. 1544-1566/1583) Alfredo Catalani (1854-1893) Daniel Catán (born 1949) Diomedes Cato (c. 1560/1565-1618) Georgy Catoire (1861-1926) Eduard Caudella (1841-1924) Emilio de' Cavalieri (c. 1550-1602) Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676) Girolamo Cavazzoni (c. 1525-after 1577) Maurizio Cazzati (1616-1678) Rodrigo de Ceballos (c. 1525/1530-1581) Carlo Cecere (1706-1761) Levi Celerio (1910-2002) Francesco Cellavenia (fl. 1538-1563) Joan Cererols (1618-1680) Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský (1684-1742) Pierre Certon (fl. from 1529; died 1572) Ignacio Cervantes (1847-1905) Giacobbe Cervetto (c. 1682-1783) Giovanni Martino Cesare (c. 1590-1667) Johannes Cesaris (fl. c. 1406-1417) Sulpitia Cesis (born 1577; fl. 1619) Antonio Cesti (1623-1669) Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894) George Whitefield Chadwick (1854-1931) Ippolito Chamaterò (c. 1535/1540-after 1592) Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944) Claude Champagne (1891-1965) Jacques Champion de Chambonnières (1601/1602-1672) Nicolas Champion (c. 1475-1533) Gustave Charpentier (1860-1956) Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704) Abram Chasins (1903-1987) Stephen Chatman (born 1950) Lambert Chaumont (c. 1635-1712) Ernest Chausson (1855-1899) Carlos Chávez (1899-1978) Charles Chaynes (born 1925) Nicolas Chédeville (1705-1782) Fortunato Chelleri (1690-1757) Xiaoyong Chen (born 1955) Chen Yi (born 1953) Ch'eng Mao-yün (1900-1957) Yury Chernavsky (born 1947) Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842) Pavel Chesnokov (1877-1944) Paul Chihara (born 1938) Thomas Chilcot (c. 1707-1766) Bob Chilcott (born 1955) William Child (1606-1697) Unsuk Chin (born 1961) Edmund Chipp (1823-1886) Erik Chisholm (1904-1965) Gian Paolo Chiti (born 1939) Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) Hedwige Chrétien (1859-1944) Henning Christiansen (1932-2008) Jani Christou (1926-1970) Andreas Chyliński (c. 1590-after 1635) Cesare Ciardi (1818-1877) Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911) Johannes Ciconia (c. 1370-1412) Ippolito Ciera (fl. 1546-1561) Antonio Cifra (1584-1629) Francesco Cilea (1866-1950) Giovanni Paolo Cima (c. 1570-after 1622) Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801) Domenico Cimoso (1780-1850) Milo Cipra (1906-1985) Giovanni Battista Cirri (1724-1808) Avery Claflin (1898-1979) Philip Greeley Clapp (1888-1954) Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari (1677-1754) Jeremiah Clarke (c. 1674-1707) Kenny Clarke (1914-1985) Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979) Johnny Clegg (born 1953) Jacob Clemens non Papa (c. 1510/1515-c. 1555) Aldo Clementi (1925-2011) Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676-1749) Pierre Clereau (fl. 1539-1570) Nycasius de Clibano (fl. 1457-1497) Jheronimus de Clibano (c. 1459-1503) Frederic Cliffe (1857-1931) Albert Coates (1882-1953) Eric Coates (1886-1957) Gloria Coates (born 1938) Gioacchino Cocchi (1720-1804) Carlo Coccia (1782-1873) Julian Cochran (born 1974) Adrianus Petit Coclico (1499-after 1562) Martín Codax (fl. c. 1240-1270) Manuel Rodrigues Coelho (c. 1555-c. 1635) Louis Coerne (1870-1922) Robert Cogan (born 1930) George M. Cohan (1878-1942) James Cohn (born 1928) Gautier de Coincy (1177-1236) Cy Coleman (born 1929) Valerie Coleman (born 1970) Avril Coleridge-Taylor (1903-1998) Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) Cecil Coles (1888-1918) François Colin de Blamont (1690-1760) Lelio Colista (1629-1680) Pascal Collasse (1649-1709) Lawrance Collingwood (1887-1982) Edward Joseph Collins (1886-1951) Giovanni Paolo Colonna (1637-1695) Russ Columbo (born 1908) Joan Baptista Comes (1568-1643) Loyset Compère (c. 1445-1518) Graziella Concas (born 1970) Edward T. Cone (1917-2004) Giovanni Battista Conforti (fl. 1550-1570) Zez Confrey (1895-1971) Justin Connolly (born 1933) August Conradi (1821-1873) Marius Constant (1925-2004) Paul Constantinescu (1909-1963) Sylvia Constantinidis (born 1962) David Conte (born 1955) Francesco Bartolomeo Conti (1681-1732) Salvador Contreras (1910-1982) Charles Crozat Converse (1832-1918) Frederick Converse (1871-1940) Girolamo Conversi (fl. 1572-1575) Will Marion Cook (1869-1944) Arnold Cooke (1906-2005) Benjamin Cooke (1734-1793) David Cope (born 1941) Aaron Copland (1900-1990) Carmine Coppola (1910-1991) John Coprario (John Cooper) (c. 1575-1626) William Corbett (1680-1748) Sidney Corbett (born 1960) Francesco Corbetta (c. 1615-1681) Frederick Corder (1852-1932) Baude Cordier (fl. c. 1400?) Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) Azio Corghi (born 1937) Miguel Ángel Coria (born 1937) John Corigliano (born 1938) Johannes Cornago (Juan Cornago) (c. 1400-after 1475) Peter Cornelius (1824-1874) Peeter Cornet (c. 1570/1580-1633) William Cornysh the younger (1465?-1523) Ronald Corp (born 1951) Francisco Correa de Arauxo (1584-1654) Manuel Correia (c. 1600-1653) Gaspard Corrette (c. 1670-before 1733) Michel Corrette (1707-1795) Francesco Corteccia (1502-1571) Ramiro Cortés (1933-1984) Napoléon Coste (1805-1883) Guillaume Costeley (c. 1530-1606) Elvis Costello (born 1954) Phil Coulter (born 1942) Armand-Louis Couperin (1727-1789) François Couperin (1668-1773) Louis Couperin (c. 1626-1661) Jean Courtois (fl. 1530-1545) Joachim Thibault de Courville (fl. from c. 1567; died 1581) Noël Coward (1899-1973) Henry Cowell (1897-1965) Frederic Cowen (1852-1935) Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (1602-c. 1678) Franz Cramer (1772-1848) Johann Baptist Cramer (1771-1858) Wilhelm Cramer (1746-1799) Jean Cras (1879-1932) John Craton (born 1953) Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) Thomas Crecquillon (c. 1505/1515-1557) Noah Creshevsky (born 1945) Lyell Cresswell (born 1944) Paul Creston (1906-1985) Henri-Jacques de Croes (1705-1786) William Croft (1678-1727) William Crotch (1775-1847) Johann Crüger (1598-1662) David Crumb (born 1962) George Crumb (born 1929) Bernhard Crusell (1775-1838) César Cui (1835-1918) Conrad Cummings (born 1948) Alvin Curran (born 1938) Sebastian Currier (born 1959) Joe Cutler (born 1968) Chaya Czernowin (born 1957) Carl Czerny (1791-1857) Holger Czukay (born 1938)

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Hubert Waelrant (c. 1517-1595) Johan Wagenaar (1862-1941) Max Wagenknecht (1857-1922) Georg Christoph Wagenseil (1715-1777) Ignatz Waghalter (1881-1949) Melinda Wagner (born 1957) Richard Wagner (1813-1883) Wolfram Wagner (born 1962) Siegfried Wagner (1869-1930) Rudolf Wagner-Régeny (1903-1969) Adam z Wągrowca (Adam of Wągrowiec) (died 1629) Émile Waldteufel (1837-1915) Ernest Walker (1870-1949) George Walker (born 1922) William Walker (1808-1875) Michael Waller (born 1985) Stewart Wallace (born 1960) William Vincent Wallace (1812-1865) Joelle Wallach (born 1946) Craig Walsh (born 1971) Bruno Walter (1876-1962) Johann Walter (Blanckenmüller) (1496-1570) Walther von der Vogelweide (c. 1170-c. 1230) Johann Gottfried Walther (1684-1748) Johann Jakob Walther (1650-1717) William Walton (1902-1983) Johann Baptist Wanhal (Vaňhal) (1739-1813) Johann Wanning (1537-1603) John Ward (1571-1638) Robert Ward (1917-2013) Peter Warlock (1894-1930) Harry Warren (1893-1981) Rodney Waschka II (born 1958?) Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer (1692-1766) Graham Waterhouse (born 1962) Niel van der Watt (born 1962) Franz Waxman (1906-1967) George James Webb (born 1803) Jimmy Webb (born 1946) Samuel Webbe (the elder) (1740-1816) Andrew Lloyd Webber (born 1948) William Lloyd Webber (1914-1982) Julie von Webenau (1813-1887) Vilma von Webenau (1875-1953) Ben Weber (1916-1979) Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) Anton Webern (1883-1945) Matthias Weckmann (c. 1616-1674) Gaspar van Weerbeke (c. 1445-after 1516) Thomas Weelkes (1576-1623) Joseph Weigl (1766-1846) Kurt Weill (1900-1950) Mieczysław Weinberg (Moishe Vainberg) (1919-1996) Jaromír Weinberger (1896-1967) Leó Weiner (1885-1960) Felix Weingartner (1863-1942) Judith Weir (born 1954) Hugo Weisgall (1912-1997) Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750) Michael Weiße (c. 1488-1534) Julius Weissenborn (1837-1888) Dan Welcher (born 1948) John Weldon (1676-1736) Egon Wellesz (1885-1974) Johann Baptist Wendling (1723-1797) Andreas Werckmeister (1645-1706) André Werner (born 1960) Gregor Joseph Werner (1693-1766) Richard Wernick (born 1934) Giaches de Wert (1535-1596) Charles Wesley (1707-1788) Charles Wesley junior (1757-1834) Samuel Wesley (1766-1837) Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-1876) Martin Wesley-Smith (born 1945) Mark Wessel (1894-1973) Peter Westergaard (born 1931) Johann Paul von Westhoff (1656-1705) Richard Wetz (1875-1935) Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse (1774-1842) Paul W. Whear (born 1925) Scott Wheeler (born 1952) Eric Whitacre (born 1970) James Whitbourn (born 1963) Benjamin Franklin White (1800-1879) John White (born 1936) José Silvestre White Lafitte (1836-1918) Gillian Whitehead (born 1941) Percy Whitlock (1903-1946) Thomas Whythorne (1528-1595) Erasmus Widmann (1572-1634) Jörg Widmann (born 1973) Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937) Henryk Wieniawski (1835-1880) Johan Wikmanson (1753-1800) Mack Wilberg (born 1955) Philip Wilby (born 1949) John Wilbye (1574-1638) Alec Wilder (1907-1980) Philip van Wilder (c. 1500-1554) Johann Hugo von Wilderer (1670-1724) Wilhelmine of Prussia (1709-1758) Adrian Willaert (c. 1490-1562) Healey Willan (1880-1968) Grace Williams (1906-1977) John Williams (born 1932) Spencer Williams (1889-1965) Malcolm Williamson (1931-2003) Richard Storrs Willis (1819-1900) Arthur Wills (born 1926) Meredith Willson (1902-1984) Johann Wilhelm Wilms (1772-1847) Charles Wilson (born 1931) Ian Wilson (born 1964) James Wilson (1922-2005) John Wilson (1595-1674) Richard Wilson (born 1941) Sandy Wilson (1924-2014) Thomas Wilson (1927-2001) August Wiltberger (1850-1928) Heinz Winbeck (born 1946) Herbert Windt (1894-1965) Peter Winter (1754-1825) Dag Ivar Wirén (1905-1986) Michael Wise (c. 1647-1687) Peter Wishart (1921-1984) Christian Friedrich Witt (c. 1660-1717) Franz Xaver Witt (1834-1888) Friedrich Witt (1770-1836) Robert William Witt (1930-1967) Diane Wittry (born 1964) René Wohlhauser (born 1954) Erling Wold (born 1958) Ernst Wilhelm Wolf (1735-1792) Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876-1948) Christian Wolff (born 1934) Joseph Wölfl (1773-1812) Joseph Maria Wolfram (1789-1839) Oswald von Wolkenstein (c. 1376-1445) Stefan Wolpe (1902-1972) Hyo-Won Woo (born 1974) Victoria Wood (1953-2016) Robert Woodcock (c. 1690-1728) John Woolrich (born 1954) Felix Woyrsch (1860-1944) Pavel Wranitzky (1756-1808) Heinz Wunderlich (1919-2012) Charles Wuorinen (born 1938) Alex Wurman (born 1966) Arnold van Wyk (1916-1983) Ruth Shaw Wylie (1916-1989) Yehudi Wyner (born 1929)

I

I[edit] Jacques Ibert (1890-1962) Akira Ifukube (1916-2006) Ilayaraaja (born 1943) Márton Illés (born 1975) Andrew Imbrie (born 1921) Sigismondo d'India (c. 1582-1629) Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931) Marc'Antonio Ingegneri (1535/1536-1592) Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859-1935) John Ireland (1879-1962) Juan Francés de Iribarren (1699-1767) Miguel de Irízar (1635-1684) Heinrich Isaac (c. 1450/1455-1517) Sigurd Islandsmoen (1881-1964) Nicolas Isouard (1775-1818) Jānis Ivanovs (1906-1983) Volodymyr Ivasiuk (1949-1979) Charles Ives (1874-1954) Simon Ives (1600-1662) Jean Eichelberger Ivey (1923-2010)

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Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) Xian Xinghai (1905-1945) Xiao Shuxian (1905-1991) Spyridon Xyndas (1812-1896)

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Michel de La Barre (c. 1675-1745) Louis de La Coste (c. 1675-c. 1750) Adrien de La Fage (1801-1862) Nicolas de La Grotte (1530-c. 1600) Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1659-1729) George de La Hèle (1547-1586) Alfred La Liberté (1882-1952) John La Montaine (1920-2013) Frank La Rocca (born 1951) Pierre de La Rue (c. 1452-1518) Théodore Labarre (1805-1870) Marcel Labey (1875-1968) Helmut Lachenmann (born 1935) Carl Lachmund (1853-1928) Franz Paul Lachner (1803-1890) Ignaz Lachner (1807-1895) Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith (1746-1820) Louis Lacombe (1818-1884) Paul Lacome (1838-1920) Bernard Germain Étienne de la Ville, Comte de Lacépède (1756-1825) Ezra Laderman (born 1924) Paul-Émile Ladmirault (1877-1944) Lori Laitman (born 1955) László Lajtha (1892-1963) Édouard Lalo (1823-1892) José Ángel Lamas (1775-1814) Joseph Lamb (1887-1960) Walter Lambe (c. 1450-after 1504) Charles Lucien Lambert (1828-1896) Constant Lambert (1905-1951) Michel Lambert (1610-1696) Joan Lamote de Grignon (1872-1949) Ricard Lamote de Grignon (1899-1962) John Frederick Lampe (1703-1751) John Lanchbery (1923-2003) Siegfried Landau (born 1921) Stefano Landi (1586/1587-1639) Francesco Landini (c. 1325/1335-1397) Marcel Landowski (1915-1999) Guillaume Landré (1905-1968) Lutz Landwehr von Pragenau (born 1963) Benjamin Johnson Lang (1837-1909) Bernhard Lang (born 1957) David Lang (born 1957) Hans Lang (1897-1968) Hans Lang (1908-1992) István Láng (born 1933) Klaus Lang (born 1971) Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867-1972) Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller (1850-1926) Rued Langgaard (1893-1952) Jean Langlais (1907-1991) Honoré Langlé (1741-1807) Nicholas Lanier (1588-1666) Colinet de Lannoy (fl. from 1476; died c. 1497) Daniel Lanois (born 1951) Paul Lansky (born 1944) Arnold de Lantins (fl. 1423-1432) Hugo de Lantins (fl. c. 1420-1430) Raimond Lap (born 1959) André Laporte (born 1931) Isidore de Lara (1858-1935) Thomas Larcher (born 1963) Patrick Larley (born 1951) Libby Larsen (born 1950) Lars-Erik Larsson (1908-1986) Eduard Lassen (1830-1904) Orlande de Lassus (c. 1532-1594) William P. Latham (1917-2004) Gaetano Latilla (1711-1788) Jean de Latre (Delattre) (c. 1505/1510-1569) Felice Lattuada (1882-1962) Ken Lauber (born 1941) Wolff Jakob Lauffensteiner (1676-1754) Armas Launis (1884-1959) Morten Lauridsen (born 1943) Franz Lauska (1764-1825) Elodie Lauten (born 1950) Angelo Francesco Lavagnino (1909-1987) Calixa Lavallée (1842-1891) Nikolaos Lavdas (1879-1940) Lewis Henry Lavenu (1818-1859) Mario Lavista (born 1943) Marc Lavry (1903-1967) Henry Lawes (1595-1662) William Lawes (1602-1645) Donald Lawrence (born 1961) Francesco de Layolle (1492-c. 1540) Filip Lazăr (1894-1936) Henri Lazarof (1932-2013) Sylvio Lazzari (1857-1944) Simon Le Duc (Leduc) (1742-1777) Paul Le Flem (1881-1984) Dorian Le Gallienne (1915-1963) Claude Le Jeune (1528/1530-1600) Gaspard Le Roux (c. 1660-1707) Adrian Le Roy (c. 1520-1598) Jean-François Le Sueur (Lesueur) (1760-1837) Nicolas Lebègue (1631-1702) Firmin Lebel (fl. from c. 1540; died 1573) Francesca Lebrun (Franziska Danzi) (1756-1791) Ludwig August Lebrun (1752-1790) Paul-Henri-Joseph Lebrun (1863-1920) Jean-Marie Leclair (l'aîné) (1697-1764) Jean-Marie Leclair the younger (1703-1777) Alexandre Charles Lecocq (1832-1918) Ernesto Lecuona (1895-1963) George Alexander Lee (1802-1851) Noël Lee (born 1924) Thomas Oboe Lee (born 1945) Benjamin Lees (1924-2010) Reinbert de Leeuw (born 1938) Ton de Leeuw (1926-1996) Nicola Frances LeFanu (born 1947) Charles Édouard Lefebvre (1843-1917) Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély (1817-1869) Jean-Xavier Lefèvre (1763-1829) Victor Legley (1915-1994) Luigi Legnani (1790-1877) Michel Legrand (born 1932) Guillaume Legrant (Lemarcherier) (fl. 1405-1449) Johannes Legrant (fl. c. 1420-1440) Giovanni Legrenzi (1626-1690) Joseph Legros (1739-1793) Franz Lehár (1870-1948) Liza Lehmann (1862-1918) Leonard J. 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Lirithier) (c. 1480-after 1551) Fran Lhotka (1883-1962) Reginaldus Libert (fl. c. 1425-1435) Johann Georg Lickl (1769-1843) Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti (1730-1795) Jorge Liderman (1957-2008) Ingvar Lidholm (1921-2017) Lowell Liebermann (born 1961) Peter Lieberson (1946-2011) Rolf Liebermann (1910-1999) Clement Liebert (fl. 1433-1454) Thurlow Lieurance (1878-1963) György Ligeti (1923-2006) Douglas Lilburn (1915-2001) Ingemar Liljefors (1906-1981) Ruben Liljefors (1871-1936) Giuseppe Lillo (1814-1863) Liza Lim (born 1966) Adrien Limagne (1821-1891) Johannes de Limburgia (Johannes Vinandi) (fl. 1408?-1431) Limenius (fl. 128 BC) Armand Limnander (1814-1892) Paul Lincke (1866-1946) Magnus Lindberg (born 1958) Nils Lindberg (born 1933) Oskar Lindberg (1887-1955) Adolf Fredrik Lindblad (1801-1878) Otto Lindblad (1809-1864) Bo Linde (1933-1970) Hans-Martin Linde (born 1930) Pär Lindgren (born 1952) Eugen Lindner (1858-1915) Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner (1791-1856) Jukka Linkola (born 1955) Thomas Linley the elder (1733-1795) Thomas Linley the younger (1756-1778) George Linley (1798-1865) George Linstead (1908-1974) Guy de Lioncourt (1885-1961) Karol Lipiński (1790-1861) Marijan Lipovšek (1910-1995) Vatroslav Lisinski (1819-1854) Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760-1836) Franz Liszt (1811-1886) Gaston Litaize (1909-1991) Antonio de Literes (1673-1747) Henry Charles Litolff (1818-1891) Giulio Litta (1822-1891) Ricardo Llorca (born 1962) George Lloyd (1913-1998) Andrew Lloyd Webber (born 1948) William Lloyd Webber (1914-1982) Johann Christian Lobe (1797-1881) Alonso Lobo (1555-1617) Duarte Lobo (c. 1565-1646) Elias Álvares Lôbo (1834-1901) Pietro Locatelli (1695-1764) Matthew Locke (c. 1621-1677) Dan Locklair (born 1949) Normand Lockwood (born 1906) Edward Loder (1813-1865) Charles Martin Loeffler (1861-1935) Jacques Loeillet (1685-1748) Jean-Baptiste Loeillet de Ghent (1688-c. 1720) Jean-Baptiste Loeillet of London (1680-1730) Frank Loesser (1910-1969) Theo Loevendie (born 1930) Carl Loewe (1796-1869) Nicola Bonifacio Logroscino (1698-c. 1764) Martin Lohse (born 1971) Otto Lohse (1858-1925) Hannibal Lokumbe (Marvin Peterson) (born 1948) Antonio Lolli (1725-1802) Ruth Lomon (born 1930) Alessandro Longo (1864-1945) Paolo Longo (born 1967) Antoine de Longueval (fl. 1498-1525) Harvey Worthington Loomis (1865-1930) Fernando Lopes-Graça (1906-1994) Francisco Lopez Capillas (c. 1615-1673) Esteban López Morago (c. 1575-after 1630) Jimmy Lopez (born 1978) Richard Loqueville (fl. from 1410; died 1418) Bent Lorentzen (born 1935) Paolo Lorenzani (1640-1713) Oscar Lorenzo Fernândez (1897-1948) Albert Lortzing (1801-1851) Johann Anton Losy (Logy) (c. 1650-1721) Mark Lothar (born 1902) Antonio Lotti (c. 1667-1740) Ivana Loudová (born 1941) Alexina Louie (born 1949) Arthur Lourié (1892-1966) Samuel Lover (1797-1868) Adriano Lualdi (1885-1971) Bertram Luard-Selby (1853-1918) Vincent Lübeck (1654-1740) Charles Lucas (1808-1869) Clarence Lucas (1866-1947) Leighton Lucas (1903-1982) Arjen Anthony Lucassen (born 1960) Andrea Luchesi (1741-1801) Alvin Lucier (born 1931) Nicholas Ludford (c. 1490-1557) Otto Luening (1900-1996) Alexandre Luigini (1850-1906) Ivan Lukačić (c. 1587-1648) Zdeněk Lukáš (1928-2007) Giovanni Lorenzo Lulier (1662-1700) Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) Jean-Louis Lully (1667-1688) Louis Lully (1664-1734) Hans Christian Lumbye (1810-1874) Johannes Lupi (c. 1506-1539) Ambrose Lupo (fl. from 1539; died 1591) Thomas Lupo (1571-1627) Filippo de Lurano (c. 1470-after 1520) Vicente Lusitano (fl. c. 1551-1561) Witold Lutosławski (1913-1994) Elizabeth Lutyens (1906-1983) Wilhelm Meyer Lutz (1829-1903) Arkady Luxemburg (born 1939) Carolus Luython (1557-1620) Luzzasco Luzzaschi (1545?-1607) Alexei Fyodorovich Lvov (1798-1870) Anatoly Lyadov (1855-1914) Sergei Lyapunov (1859-1924) Boris Lyatoshinsky (1895-1968) Ralph Lyford (1882-1927) Mykola Vitaliiovych Lysenko (1842-1912) Stanyslav Lyudkevych (1879-1979)

O

Jacob Obrecht (c. 1457/1458-1505) Johannes Ockeghem (c. 1410/1425-1497) Martin O'Donnell (born 1955) Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) Will Ogdon (born 1921) Tale Ognenovski (born 1922) Maurice Ohana (1913-1992) Hisato Ohzawa (1907-1953) Mike Oldfield (born 1953) Carolina Oliphant (1766-1845) Pauline Oliveros (born 1932) Otto Olsson (1879-1964) George Onslow (1784-1853) Cornélie van Oosterzee (1863-1943) Chris Opperman (born 1978) Mathilda d'Orozco (1796-1863) Julián Orbón (1925-1991) Karl von Ordoñez (1734-1786) Cecilie Ore (born 1954) Tarik O'Regan (born 1978) Carl Orff (1895-1982) Giuseppe Maria Orlandini (1676-1760) Leo Ornstein (1893-2002) Aniceto Ortega (1825-1875) Léon Orthel (1905-1985) Marbrianus de Orto (c. 1460-1529) Riz Ortolani (born 1931) Alex Otterlei (born 1968) Georg Österreich (1664-1735) Willy Ostijn (1913-1993) Henrique Oswald (1852-1931) James Oswald (1711-1769) Hans Otte (1926-2007) Willem van Otterloo (1907-1978) Cristóbal Oudrid (1825-1877) Frederick Ouseley (1825-1889) Morfydd Owen (1891-1918) Etienne Ozi (1754-1813)

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Johannes Haarklou (1847-1925) Georg Friedrich Haas (born 1953) Joseph Haas (1879-1960) Pavel Haas (1899-1944) Alois Hába (1893-1973) Carolus Hacquart (c. 1640-1701?) Henry Kimball Hadley (1871-1937) Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner (1759-1833) Richard Hageman (1881-1966) Bernhard Joachim Hagen (1720-1787) Daron Hagen (born 1961) Konrad Hagius (c. 1550-1616) Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947) Jakob Haibel (1762-1826) Alexei Haieff (1914-1994) Adolphus Hailstork (born 1941) Uzeyir Hajibeyov (1885-1948) Darko Hajsek (born 1959) Kimmo Hakola (born 1958) Fromental Halévy (1799-1862) Cristóbal Halffter (born 1930) Ernesto Halffter (1905-1989) Roger Lee Hall (born 1942) Sylvia Hallett (born 1953) Johan Halvorsen (1864-1935) Bengt Hambraeus (1928-2000) Marc-André Hamelin (born 1961) Gordon Hamilton (born 1982) Iain Hamilton (1922-2000) Marvin Hamlisch (1944-2012) Emilie Hammarskjöld (1821-1854) Franz Xaver Hammer (1741-1817) Jan Hammer (born 1948) Andreas Hammerschmidt (1611/1612-1675) Albert Hammond (born 1942) George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) W. C. Handy (1873-1958) Johann Nicolaus Hanff (1663-1711) Ronald Hanmer (1917-1994) James Hannigan (born 1971) Charles-Louis Hanon (1819-1900) Peter Hänsel (1770-1831) Howard Hanson (1896-1981) Kazuko Hara (born 1935) John Harbison (born 1938) Mike Harding (born 1944) Miina Härma (1864-1941) Don Harper (1921-1999) Don L. Harper Richard Harris (born 1968) Robert A. 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Howard (1867-1961) Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) Herbert Howells (1892-1983) Leonid Hrabovsky (born 1935) Huang Ruo (born 1976) Jenő Hubay (1858-1937) Jean Hubeau (1917-1992) Hans Huber (1852-1921) Jiří Hudec (1923-1996) Robert Hughes (1912-2007) Johannes Alfred Hultman (1861-1942) Tobias Hume (c. 1569-1645) Pelham Humfrey (1647-1674) Bertold Hummel (1925-2002) Ferdinand Hummel (1855-1928) Franz Hummel (born 1939) Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837) Joseph Friedrich Hummel (1841-1919) Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921) Richard Hundley (born 1931) Jean Huré (1877-1930) Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch (1691-1765) William Hurlstone (1876-1906) Lukas Hurník (born 1967) Karel Husa (born 1921) Henry Holden Huss (1862-1953) Jenő Huszka (1875-1960) Anselm Hüttenbrenner (1794-1868) Albert Huybrechts (1899-1938) Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687) Ketil Hvoslef (born 1939) Jason Kao Hwang (born 1957) Richard Hygons (c. 1435-c. 1509) Tyzen Hsiao (1938-2015)

Y

Kosaku Yamada (1886-1965) Yehuda Yannay (born 1937) Yanni (born 1954) Christopher Yavelow (born 1950) Yitzhak Yedid (born 1971) Benjamin Yeo (born 1985) Dwight Yoakam (born 1956) Takashi Yoshimatsu (born 1953) Makoto Yoshimori (born 1969) Michèl Yost (1754-1786) Christopher Young (born 1957) James Young (born 1949) John Young (born 1962) La Monte Young (born 1935) Polly Young (Maria Barthélemon) (1749-1799) Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931) Théophile Ysaÿe (1865-1918) Sergei Yuferov (1865-after 1906) Isang Yun (1917-1995) Yoichiro Yoshikawa (born 1957)

P

Luis de Pablo (born 1930) Charles Theodore Pachelbel (1690-1750) Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel (c. 1685-1764) Giovanni Pacini (1796-1867) Fredrik Pacius (1809-1891) Cornelis Thymenszoon Padbrué (c. 1592-1670) Martijn Padding (born 1956) Steen Pade (born 1956) Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941) Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla (c. 1590-1664) Ferdinando Paer (1771-1839) Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840) John Knowles Paine (1839-1906) James Paisible (Jacques Paisible) (c. 1656-1721) Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816) Antonio Palella (1692-1761) Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525-1594) Eudenice V. Palaruan (b. 1968) Zakaria Paliashvili (1871-1933) Benedetto Pallavicino (c. 1551-1601) Carlo Pallavicino (c. 1630-1688) Jan Gerard Palm (1831-1906) Rudolph Palm (1880-1950) John Palm (1885-1925) Jacobo Palm (1887-1982) Selim Palmgren (1878-1951) Leonhard Päminger (1495-1567) Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli (c. 1630?-1669/1670) Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991) Roxanna Panufnik (born 1968) Jorma Panula (born 1930) Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (Vangelis) (born 1943) Gérard Pape (born 1955) Salvatore Pappalardo (1817-1884) Domenico Paradies (Paradisi) (1707-1791) Maria Theresa von Paradis (1759-1824) Paul Paray (1886-1979) Claudio Pari (1574-after 1619) Maria Hester Park (1775-1822) Horatio William Parker (1863-1919) Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918) Michael Parsons (born 1938) Robert Parsons (c. 1535-1572) Arvo Pärt (born 1935) Harry Partch (1901-1974) Thomas Pasatieri (born 1945) Vasily Pashkevich (1742-1797) Marc'Antonio Pasqualini (1614-1691) Bernardo Pasquini (1637-1710) Pierre Passereau (fl. 1509-1547) Georg von Pasterwitz (1730-1803) Robert Paterson (born 1970) Carlos Patiño (1600-1675) Paul Patterson (born 1947) Paul I Esterházy of Galántha (1635-1713) Jiří Pauer (1919-2007) Stephen Paulus (born 1947) Conrad Paumann (c. 1410-1473) Alla Pavlova (born 1952) Anthony Payne (born 1936) Juan Carlos Paz (1901-1972) Mogens Pedersøn (c. 1583-1623) Carlo Pedini (born 1956) Teodorico Pedrini (1671-1746) Carlo Pedrotti (1817-1893) Martin Peerson (1571/1573-1651) Flor Peeters (1903-1986) Dora Pejačević (1885-1923) Bartłomiej Pękiel (died c. 1670) Georgs Pelēcis (born 1947) Jorge Peña Hen (1928-1973) Francisco de Peñalosa (c. 1470-1528) James Penberthy (1917-1999) Krzysztof Penderecki (born 1933) Tomaž Pengov (born 1949) Ernst Pepping (1901-1981) Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667-1752) Davide Perez (1711-1778) Juan Pérez de Gijón (fl. c. 1460-1500) Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736) Jacopo Peri (1561-1633) Scott Perkins (born 1980) George Perle (1915-2009) François-Louis Perne (1772-1832) Lorenzo Perosi (1872-1956) Pérotin (fl. 1190-1220) William P. Perry (born 1930) Giuseppe Persiani (1799-1869) Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987) Giacomo Antonio Perti (1661-1756) Giovanni Battista Pescetti (c. 1704-c. 1766) Michele Pesenti (c. 1470-after 1524) Oto Pestner (born 1956) Emile Pessard (1843-1917) Johann Friedrich Peter (1746-1813) Norbert Walter Peters (born 1954) David Petersen (c. 1651-1737) Wilhelm Petersen (1890-1957) Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (1867-1942) Goffredo Petrassi (1904-2003) Errico Petrella (1813-1877) Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska (born 1965) Allan Pettersson (1911-1980) Christian Petzold (1677-1733) Paul Peuerl (1570-1625) Andreas Pevernage (1542/1543-1591) Johann Christoph Pez (1664-1716) Johann Christoph Pezel (1639-1694) Augustin Pfleger (1635-1686) Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949) Ferdinand Pfohl (1862-1949) P. Q. Phan (born 1962) Barrington Pheloung (born 1954) Anne Danican Philidor (1681-1728) François-André Danican Philidor (1726-1795) Philippe le Chancelier (c. 1160/1170-1236) Michel Philippot (1925-1996) Art Phillips (born 1955) Peter Philips (c. 1560-1628) Dominique Phinot (c. 1510-c. 1556) Carlo Alfredo Piatti (1822-1901) Ástor Piazzolla (1921-1992) Giovanni Picchi (1571/1572-1643) Alessandro Piccinini (1566-1638) Niccolò Piccinni (1728-1800) Václav Pichl (1741-1804) John Pickard (born 1963) Tobias Picker (born 1954) Johann Gottfried Piefke (1815-1884) Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937) Maestro Piero (before 1300-c. 1350) Willem Pijper (1894-1947) Mario Pilati (1903-1938) Francis Pilkington (c. 1565-1638) Daniel Pinkham (1923-2006) Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini (1720-1795) George Pinto (1785-1806) Matthias Pintscher (born 1971) Nicola Piovani (born 1946) Matthaeus Pipelare (c. 1450-c. 1515) Bernardo Pisano (1490-1548) Johann Georg Pisendel (1687-1755) Francesco Antonio Pistocchi (1659-1726) Walter Piston (1894-1976) Thomas Pitfield (1903-1999) Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni (1657-1743) Johann Peter Pixis (1788-1874) Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880-1968) Joan Baptista Pla (c. 1720-1773) Robert Planquette (1848-1903) Peter Planyavsky (born 1947) Pietro Platania (1828-1907) Giovanni Benedetto Platti (1697-1763) Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831) John Plummer (c. 1410-c. 1484) Ludvík Podéšť (Binovský) (1921-1968) Alessandro Poglietti (early 17th century-1683) David Pohle (1624-1695) František Xaver Pokorný (1729-1794) Madame Poldowski (Régine Wieniawski, Irène Wieniawska) (1879-1932) Carlo Francesco Pollarolo (c. 1653-1723) Ignazio Pollice (fl. 1684-1705) Doc Pomus (1925-1991) Manuel Ponce (1882-1948) Amilcare Ponchielli (1834-1886) Marcel Poot (1901-1988) Enno Poppe (born 1969) David Popper (1843-1913) Nicola Porpora (1686-1768) Costanzo Porta (c. 1529-1601) Giovanni Porta (c. 1675-1755) Cole Porter (1891-1964) Quincy Porter (1897-1966) Rachel Portman (born 1960) Marcos Portugal (1762-1830) Isaac Posch (1591?-c. 1623) Edouard Potjes (1860-1931) Cipriani Potter (1792-1871) Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) Henri Pousseur (born 1929) Jonathan Powell (born 1969) Mel Powell (1923-1998) Leonel Power (c. 1370/1385?-1445) Gerhard Präsent (born 1957) Ferdinand Praeger (1815-1891) Hieronymus Praetorius (1560-1629) Jacob Praetorius (1586-1651) Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) Luca Antonio Predieri (1688-1767) Zbigniew Preisner (born 1955) Thomas Preston (died after 1559) André Previn (born 1929) Florence Beatrice Price (1887-1953) Maui Dalvanius Prime (1948-2002) Alfred Prinz (born 1930) Johannes Prioris (c. 1460?-c. 1514) Giovanni Priuli (c. 1575-1626) Simon Proctor (born 1959) Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) Francesco Provenzale (1624-1704) Peter Przystaniak (de) (born 1956) John Psathas (born 1966) Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) Gaetano Pugnani (1731-1798) Cesare Pugni (1802-1870) Raoul Pugno (1852-1914) Puẖiya (Puẖiyana) (c. 1400 BC) Joan Pau Pujol (1570-1626) Johannes Pullois (fl. from 1443; died 1478) Giovanni Punto (Jan Václav Stich) (1746-1803) Daniel Purcell (1664-1717) Henry Purcell (1659-1695) Kevin Puts (born 1972) Veli-Matti Puumala (born 1965) Pycard (Picart) (fl. c. 1410)

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Mart Saar (1882-1963) Kaija Saariaho (born 1952) Bernardo Sabadini (fl. from 1662; d. 1718) Antonio Sacchini (1730-1786) Nicholas Sackman (born 1950) Francesco Sacrati (1605-1650) Shigeaki Saegusa (born 1942) Harald Sigurd Johan Sæverud (1897-1992) Jacques de Saint-Luc (1616-c. 1710) Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe (c. 1640-c. 1700) Ryuichi Sakamoto (born 1952) Nicola Sala (1713-1801) Antonio de Salazar (c. 1650-1715) Luis H. 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Austin (born 1938) Frederic Austin (1872-1952) Larry Austin (born 1930) Charles Avison (1709-1770) Giuseppe Avitrano (c. 1670-1756) Pedro António Avondano (1714-1782) Ana-Maria Avram (born 1961) Slavko Avsenik (1929-2015) Aaron Avshalomov (1894-1965) Jacob Avshalomov (1919-2013) Daniel Ayala Pérez (1906-1975) Héctor Ayala (1914-1990) Nat Ayer (1887-1952) Florence Aylward (1862-1950) Frederick Ayres (1876-1926) Artemi Ayvazyan (1902-1975) Azalais de Porcairagues (fl. mid-12th century) Svitlana Azarova (born 1976) Filippo Azzaiolo (fl. 1557-1569)

V

Nicola Vaccai (1790-1848) Pierre Vachon (1731-1803) Jacobus Vaet (c. 1529-1567) Stasys Vainiūnas (lt) (1909-1982) Fartein Valen (1887-1952) Antonio Valente (fl. 1565-1580) Vincenzo Valente (1855-1921) Giovanni Valentini (c. 1582-1649) Giuseppe Valentini (1681-1753) Jean Vallerand (1915-1944) Nicolas Vallet (c. 1583-c. 1642) Francesco Antonio Vallotti (1697-1780) Francisco Valls (1665-1747) David Van Tieghem (born 1955) David Van Vactor (1906-1994) Jules Van Nuffel (1883-1953) Komitas Vardapet (1869-1935) Víctor Varela (born 1955) Edgard Varèse (1883-1965) Urbán de Vargas (1606-1656) Alexander Egorovich Varlamov (1801-1848) Alexander Vladimirovich Varlamov (1904-1990) Louis Varney (1844-1908) Pēteris Vasks (born 1946) Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) Orazio Vecchi (1550-1605) Artemy Vedel (c. 1767-1808) Claudio Veggio (born c. 1510) Václav Jindřich Veit (1806-1864) Pavel Josef Vejvanovský (c. 1633/1639-1693) Jacob ter Veldhuis (born 1951) Caetano Veloso (born 1942) Ian Venables (born 1955) Gaetano Veneziano (1665-1716) Alexander Veprik (1899-1958) Antonio Veracini (1659-1745) Carl Verbraeken (born 1950) Francesco Maria Veracini (1690-1768) Theo Verbey (born 1959) Philippe Verdelot (c. 1480/1485-c. 1530) Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) Cornelis Verdonck (1563-1625) Sándor Veress (1907-1992) Johannes Verhulst (1816-1891) Gaspar de Verlit (1622-1682) Pierre Vermont (c. 1495-c. 1533) Matthijs Vermeulen (1888-1967) Alexey Verstovsky (1799-1862) Michael Vetter (1943-2013) Nicolaus Vetter (1666-1734) Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (c. 1560-1627) Pauline Viardot (1821-1910) Tomás Luis de Victoria (c. 1548-1611) Gerard Victory (1921-1995) Jacobus Vide (fl. 1405?-1433) Johann Vierdanck (c. 1605-1646) Louis Vierne (1870-1937) Henri François Joseph Vieuxtemps (1820-1881) Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) Ángel Villoldo (1861-1919) Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755-1824) Giulio Viozzi (1912-1984) Ezequiel Viñao (born 1960) Leonardo Vinci (c. 1690-1730) Carl Vine (born 1954) Param Vir (born 1952) Frédéric Viret (undated) Robert de Visée (c. 1650-1732/1733) Ivan Vïshnegradsky (1893-1979) Giovanni Battista Vitali (1632-1692) Jan August Vitásek (1770-1839) Philippe de Vitry (1291-1361) Franco Vittadini (1884-1948) Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) Amadeo Vives (1871-1932) Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani (1638-c. 1693) Claude Vivier (1948-1983) Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (1590-1662) Roman Vlad (1919-2013) Pancho Vladigerov (1899-1978) Wladimir Vogel (1896-1984) Georg Joseph Vogler (1749-1814) Johann Caspar Vogler (1696-1763) Max Vogrich (1852-1916) Hans Vogt (1911-1992) Robert Voisey (born 1969) Kevin Volans (born 1949) Robert Volkmann (1815-1883) Andrei Volkonsky (1933-2008) Alexander Voormolen (1895-1980) Andy Vores (born 1956) Jan Václav Voříšek (1791-1825) Antonín Vranický (Anton Wranitzky) (1761-1820) Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska (born 1962) Jan Vriend (born 1938) Klaas de Vries (born 1944) Alexander Vustin (born 1943)

G

Pierre Gabaye (1930-2000) Charles H. Gabriel (1856-1932) Thomas Gabriel (born 1957) Andrea Gabrieli (1532/1533?-1585) Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1557-1612) Domenico Gabrielli (1651/1659-1690) Ossip Gabrilowitsch (1878-1936) Axel Gade (1860-1921) Jacob Gade (1879-1963) Niels Gade (1817-1890) Franchinus Gaffurius (1451-1522) Marco da Gagliano (1582-1643) Wenzel Gährich (1794-1864) Bernhard Gál (born 1971) Hans Gál (1890-1987) Cristóbal Galán (c. 1630-1684) Nancy Galbraith (born 1951) Michelagnolo Galilei (1575-1631) Vincenzo Galilei (c. 1520?-1591) Blas Galindo (1910-1993) Jack Gallagher (born 1947) Johann Ernst Galliard (1687-1749) Jacques Gallot (c. 1625-1696) Jacobus Gallus (Jacob Handl) (1550-1591) Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785) German Galynin (1922-1966) Elisabetta de Gambarini (1731-1765) John Gamble (fl. from 1641, died 1687) Michael Gandolfi (born 1956) Kyle Gann (born 1955) Louis Ganne (1862-1923) Gara Garayev (1918-1982) J. Ryan Garber (born 1973) José Maurício Nunes Garcia (1767-1830) Antón García Abril (born 1933) Carlos Gardel (1887-1935) Henry Balfour Gardiner (1877-1950) John Gardner (born 1917) Zoltán Gárdonyi (born 1906) Zsolt Gárdonyi (born 1946) Giuseppe Gariboldi (1833-1905) Carlo Giorgio Garofalo (1886-1962) John Garth (1721-1810) Mathieu Gascongne (fl. 1517-1518) Francesco Gasparini (1661-1727) Quirino Gasparini (1721-1778) Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729-1774) Stanislao Gastaldon (1861-1939) Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi (c. 1554-1609) Crawford Gates (born 1921) Luigi Gatti (1740-1817) Philippe Gaubert (1879-1941) Denis Gaultier (1603-1672) Ennemond Gaultier (1575-1651) Jacques Gaultier (c. 1592-after 1652) Pierre Gaultier (1599-1681) Pierre Gaveaux (1761-1825) Daniel E. Gawthrop (born 1949) Noel Gay (1898-1954) Giuseppe Gazzaniga (1743-1818) Georg Gebel (1709-1753) Christian Geist (c. 1650-1711) Michael L. Geller (1937-2007) Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762) Pietro Generali (1773-1832) Augusto Gentile (1891-1932) Harald Genzmer (1909-2007) Jean-Nicolas Geoffroy (1633-1694) Steven Gerber (born 1948) Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) Hans Gerle (c. 1500-1570) Edward German (1862-1936) Friedrich Gernsheim (1839-1916) Jhan Gero (fl. 1540-1555) Karl Ludwig Gerok (1906-1975) George Gershwin (1898-1937) Georg Gerson (1790-1825) Charles-Hubert Gervais (1671-1744) Claude Gervaise (fl. 1540-1560) Bartholomäus Gesius (1562-1613) Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613) Gordon Getty (born 1934) Frans Geysen (born 1936) Giorgio Federico Ghedini (1892-1965) Géry de Ghersem (1573/1575-1630) Johannes Ghiselin (Verbonnet) (fl. 1491-1507) Michael Giacchino (born 1967) Geminiano Giacomelli (Jacomelli) (1692-1740) Vittorio Giannini (1903-1966) Remo Giazotto (1910-1998) Christopher Gibbons (1615-1676) Ellis Gibbons (1573-1603) Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) Armstrong Gibbs (1889-1960) Joseph Gibbs (1699-1788) Miriam Gideon (1906-1996) Nicolas Gigault (c. 1627-1707) Eugène Gigout (1844-1925) Angelo Gilardino (born 1941) Jean Gilbert (1879-1942) William Gilchrist (1846-1916) Jean Gilles (1668-1705) Don Gillis (1912-1978) Patrick Gilmore (1829-1892) Jan van Gilse (1881-1944) Paul Gilson (1865-1942) Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) Giuseppe Giordani (Giordanello) (1751-1798) Tommaso Giordani (c. 1738-1806) Umberto Giordano (1867-1948) Giovanni Giorgi (fl. from 1719; d. 1762) Ruth Gipps (1921-1999) Janice Giteck (born 1946) Mauro Giuliani (1781-1828) Lodovico Giustini (1685-1743) Simon Gjoni (1926-1991) Detlev Glanert (born 1960) Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-1990) Louis Glass (1864-1936) Philip Glass (born 1937) Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936) Frederick Grant Gleason (1848-1903) Jackie Gleason (1916-1987) Reinhold Glière (1874-1956) Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857) Vinko Globokar (born 1934) Andrew Glover (born 1962) Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) Mikhail Gnessin (1883-1957) Pietro Gnocchi (1689-1775) Henri Gobbi (1842-1920) Benjamin Godard (1849-1895) Félix Godefroid (1818-1897) Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938) Alexander Godunov (1949-1995) Roger Goeb (1914-1997) Alexander Goedicke (1877-1957) Alexander Goehr (born 1932) Lucien Goethals (born 1931) Hermann Goetz (1840-1876) Walter Goetze (1883-1961) Karel Goeyvaerts (1923-1993) Murray Gold (born 1969) Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727-1756) Alexander Goldenweiser (1875-1961) Edwin Franko Goldman (1878-1956) Károly Goldmark (1830-1915) Rubin Goldmark (1872-1936) Berthold Goldschmidt (1903-1996) Otto Goldschmidt (1829-1907) Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004) Osvaldo Golijov (born 1960) Jani Golob (born 1948) Evgeny Golubev (1910-1988) Nicolas Gombert (c. 1495-c. 1560) Julia Gomelskaya (born 1964) Antônio Carlos Gomes (1836-1896) Mikołaj Gomółka (c. 1535-1609?) Fernando González Casellas (1925-1998) Howard Goodall (born 1958) Isador Goodman (1909-1982) Ron Goodwin (1925-2003) Eugene Goossens (1893-1962) Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki (c. 1665/1667-1734) Michael Gordon (born 1956) Henryk Górecki (1933-2010) John Goss (1800-1880) François-Joseph Gossec (1734-1829) Ralf Gothóni (born 1946) Jakov Gotovac (1895-1982) Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869) Clytus Gottwald (born 1925) Claude Goudimel (1514/1520-1572) Glenn Gould (1932-1982) Morton Gould (1913-1996) Charles Gounod (1818-1893) Louis Théodore Gouvy (1819-1898) Jacques de Gouy (c. 1610-after 1650) Johann Grabbe (1585-1655) Louis Grabu (fl. 1665-1693) Kraig Grady (born 1952) Paul Graener (1872-1944) Christian Ernst Graf (1723-1804) Friedrich Hartmann Graf (1727-1795) Filippo Gragnani (1768-1820) Percy Grainger (1882-1961) Ron Grainer (1922-1981) Enrique Granados (1867-1916) Giovanni Battista Granata (1620/1621-1687) Alessandro Grandi (1586-1630) Philip Grange (born 1956) Bruno Granichstaedten (1879-1944) Donald Grantham (born 1947) Stéphane Grappelli (1908-1997) Carl Heinrich Graun (1704-1759) Johann Gottlieb Graun (c. 1702-1771) Christoph Graupner (1683-1760) Caterina Benedicta Grazianini (fl. from 1705) Gaetano Greco (c. 1657-c. 1728) Vicente Greco (1888-1924) Adolph Green (1914-2002) Jay Greenberg (born 1991) Maurice Greene (1696-1755) Harry Gregson-Williams (born 1961) Eduard Grell (1800-1886) Nicolas Grenon (c. 1375-1456) Mark Gresham (born 1956) Antoine-Frédéric Gresnick (1755-1799) Alexander Gretchaninov (1864-1956) André Ernest Modeste Grétry (1741-1813) Lucile Grétry (1772-1790) Geoffrey Grey (born 1934) Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) Peter Griesbacher (1864-1933) Charles Griffes (1884-1920) Nicolas de Grigny (1672-1703) Franz Grill (c. 1756-1793) Giovanni Battista Grillo (died 1622) Grimace (14th century) Maria Margherita Grimani (born before 1700; fl. 1713-1718) Albert Grisar (1808-1869) Gérard Grisey (1946-1998) Ferde Grofé (1892-1972) Olaus Andreas Grøndahl (1847-1923) Cor de Groot (1914-1993) Carlo Grossi (c. 1634-1688) Estienne Grossin (fl. 1418-1421) Dietrich Ewald von Grotthuß (de) (1751-1786) Eivind Groven (1901-1977) Franz Xaver Gruber (1787-1863) Heinz Karl Gruber (born 1943) Louis Gruenberg (1884-1964) Gioseffo Guami (Gioseffo da Lucca) (1542-1611) Camargo Guarnieri (1907-1993) Carlos Guastavino (1912-2000) Sofia Gubaidulina (born 1931) Pierre Guédron (c. 1570-c. 1620) Francisco Guerau (1649-1717/1722) Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599) Francisco Guerrero Marín (1951-1997) Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi (1728-1804) Edward Guglielmino (1983) Jean-Adam Guilain (c. 1680-after 1739) Louis-Gabriel Guillemain (1705-1770) Jean Guillou (born 1930) Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911) Ernest Guiraud (1837-1892) Friedrich Gulda (1930-2000) Adam Gumpelzhaimer (1559-1625) Gustav Gunsenheimer (born 1934) Jesús Guridi (1886-1961) Cornelius Gurlitt (1820-1901) Manfred Gurlitt (1890-1973) Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) Mark Gustavson (born 1959) Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla (c. 1590-1664) Adolphe Gutmann (1819-1882) Adalbert Gyrowetz (1763-1850)

Q

Qu Xiaosong (born 1952) Qu Xixian (born 1919) Johannes de Quadris (c. 1410-after 1456) Paolo Quagliati (c. 1555-1628) Johann Joachim Quantz (1697-1773) Joseph Quesnel (1746-1809) Alfred Quidant (1815-1893) Roger Quilter (1877-1953) Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault (1695-1791) Lucia Quinciani (born c. 1566; fl. 1611) Marcel Quinet (1915-1986) Daniel Patrick Quinn (born 1981) Manuel Quiroga (1892-1961) Manuel José de Quirós (c. 1690?-1765)

J

Steve Jablonsky (born 1970) Francis Jackson (born 1917) Tony Jackson (1876-1921) William Jackson (1730-1803) Gordon Jacob (1895-1984) Frederick Jacobi (1891-1952) Victor Jacobi (Jakabfi Viktor) (1883-1921) Jens Bjerre Jacobsen (1903-1986) Jacquet de Mantua (Jachet de Mantoue) (1483-1559) Salomon Jadassohn (1831-1902) Hyacinthe Jadin (1776-1800) Louis-Emmanuel Jadin (1768-1853) Alfred Jaëll (1832-1882) Stephen Jaffe (born 1954) Edward Jakobowski (1858-1927) Prenkë Jakova (1917-1969) Philip James (1890-1975) Jan z Lublina (fl. 1537-1548) Leoš Janáček (1852-1928) Clément Janequin (c. 1485-1558) Johann Gottlieb Janitsch (1708-1763) Leopold Jansa (1795-1875) Guus Janssen (born 1951) Peter Janssens (1934-1998) Antonius Janue (fl. c. 1460) Jean Japart (fl. c. 1474-1481) Armas Järnefelt (1869-1958) Georg Jarno (1868-1920) Ivan Mane Jarnović (Giornovichi) (1747-1804) Jean Michel Jarre (born 1948) Maurice Jarre (1924-2009) Michael Jarrell (born 1958) Adam Jarzębski (c. 1590-c. 1648) Maurice Jaubert (1900-1940) Harris Jayaraj (born 1975) Johannes Jeep (1581/1582-1644) George Jeffreys (c. 1610-1685) Sándor Jemnitz (1890-1963) Ronald Jenkees John Jenkins (1592-1678) Karl Jenkins (born 1944) Davorin Jenko (1835-1914) Thomas Jennefelt (born 1954) Gustav Jenner (1865-1920) Leon Jessel (1871-1942) Willem Jeths (born 1959) Maistre Jhan (c. 1485-1538) František Jiránek (1698-1778) Joseph Joachim (1831-1907) João IV (John IV of Portugal) (1603-1656) Antônio Carlos Jobim (1927-1994) Gunnar Johansen (1906-1991) Alan John (born 1958) David C. Johnson (born 1940) David Earle Johnson (died 1998) David N. Johnson (1922-1987) John Johnson (fl. 1579-1594) Laurie Johnson (born 1927) Robert Johnson (c. 1583-c. 1633) Tom Johnson (born 1939) Ben Johnston (born 1926) Betsy Jolas (born 1926) André Jolivet (1905-1974) Niccolò Jommelli (1714-1774) Jens Joneleit (born 1968) Daniel Jones (1912-1993) Edwin Arthur Jones (1853-1911) Richard Jones (late 17th century - 1744) Robert Jones (c. 1577-1617) Ron Jones (born 1954) Samuel Jones (born 1935) Joseph Jongen (1873-1953) Scott Joplin (c. 1868-1917) Mihail Jora (1891-1971) Victoria Jordanova (born 1952) Jens Josef (born 1967) Bradley Joseph (born 1965) Wilfred Josephs (1927-1997) Josquin des Prez (c. 1450/1455-1521) John Joubert (born 1927) Gilles Joye (c. 1424/1425-1483) Hans Judenkünig (Judenkönig) (c. 1445/1450-1526) Gilles Jullien (c. 1651/1653-1703) Louis Antoine Jullien (1812-1860) Junkie XL (born 1967) Paul Juon (1872-1940)

Z

Zacara da Teramo (c. 1350/1360-c. 1413/1416) Jan Zach (1699-1773) Nicolaus Zacharie (fl. from 1420; died 1466) Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (1663-1712) Judith Lang Zaimont (born 1945) Ivan Zajc (1832-1914) Giovanni Zamboni (fl. early 18th century) Riccardo Zandonai (1883-1944) Andrea Zani (1696-1757) Frank Zappa (1940-1993) Nikolai Zaremba (1821-1879) Gioseffo Zarlino (1517-1590) Aleksander Zarzycki (1834-1895) Záviš of Zápy (c. 1350-c. 1411) Isidora Žebeljan (born 1967) Kristoffer Zegers (born 1973) Friedrich Zehm (1923-2007) Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745) Władysław Żeleński (1837-1921) Carl Zeller (1842-1898) Carl Friedrich Zelter (1758-1832) Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871-1942) Hans Zender (born 1936) Juan García de Zéspedes (c. 1619-1678) Zhu Jian'er (born 1922) Marc'Antonio Ziani (c. 1653-1715) Otakar Zich (1879-1934) Adrian von Ziegler (born 1989) Karl Michael Ziehrer (1843-1922) Mikołaj Zieleński (c. 1560-c. 1620) Hermann Zilcher (1881-1948) Winfried Zillig (1905-1963) Hans Zimmer (born 1957) Agnes Zimmermann (1845-1925) Anton Zimmermann (1741-1781) Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918-1970) Heinz Werner Zimmermann (born 1930) Margrit Zimmermann (born 1927) Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann (1785-1853) Udo Zimmermann (born 1943) Walter Zimmermann (born 1949) Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli (1752-1837) Domenico Zipoli (1688-1726) Farid Zoland (born 1955) Alfred Hans Zoller (1928−2006) Carl Friedrich Zöllner (1800-1860) Heinrich Zöllner (1854-1941) John Zorn (born 1953) Marija Zubova (1749-1799) Carlo Zuccari (1703-1782) Manuel de Zumaya (c. 1678-1755) Emilie Zumsteeg (1796-1857) Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg (1760-1802) Ralph Zurmühle (born 1959) Bernard Zweers (1854-1924) Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (born 1939)