Composers 

Composers are generally people who write music. A strong distinction is made, however, between composers, lyricists, and performers in such genres as classical and jazz music. In other genres, such as popular and folk music, the term "songwriter" means someone who authors both music and lyrics, and is more common than "composer." If a songwriter also performs, he or she is called a "singer/songwriter."

This page includes a list of composers sorted by various genres.

For composers of classical music and opera see:

List of classical music composers

List of 20th century classical composers

List of 21st century classical composers

List of opera composers

Film

Jody Gray

Pandit Bhajan Sopori

Burt Bacharach, (born 1928)

John Barry, (born 1933)

Elmer Bernstein, (1922-2004)

Adam Berry, (born 1966)

Carter Burwell, (born 1955)

Daniel Elfman, (born 1953)

George Fenton, (born 1950)

Philip Glass, (born 1937)

Elliot Goldenthal, (born 1954)

Jerry Goldsmith, (1929-2004)

Ron Goodwin, (1925-2003)

Patrick Gowers, (born 1936)

Bernard Herrmann, (1911-1975)

Joe Hisaishi

Maurice Jarre, (born 1924)

Rolfe Kent, (born 1963)

Francis Lai, (born 1932)

Michel Legrand, (born 1932)

Saša Lošić, (born 1964)

Albert Hay Malotte (1895-1964)

Henry Mancini, (1924-1994)

Cliff Martinez, (born 1954)

Ennio Morricone, (born 1928)

Michael Nyman, (born 1944)

Edward Shearmur, (born 1966)

Howard Shore, (born 1946)

Alan Silvestri, (born 1950)

John Williams, (born 1932)

Ilayaraja, (1943)

Ragtime

See also Ragtime.

William Bolcom, (born 1938)

Zez Confrey

Ben Harney, (1872-1938)

Scott Joplin, (1867-1917)

Joseph Lamb, (1887-1960)

Artie Matthews, (1888-1958)

Billy Mayerl, (1902-1959),

Ernesto Nazareth, (1863-1934)

David Thomas Roberts

James Scott, (1885-1938)

Wilber Sweatman, (1882-1961)

Religious Music

Pandit Bhajan Sopori

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

William Byrd (1540-1623)

James Butt (1929-2003)

Thomas Tallis (1505-1585)

Aleksandar Simić (1973- )

Ilayaraja, (1943)

Jazz and Blues

See also Jazz and Blues.

Count Basie, (1904-1984)

Dave Brubeck, (born 1920)

Chris Burnett, (born 1955)

John Coltrane, (1926-1967)

Duke Ellington, (1899-1974)

Herbie Hancock, (born 1940)

Krzysztof Komeda

Jelly Roll Morton, (1890-1941)

Charles Mingus, (1922-1979)

Thelonious Monk, (1920-1982)

Charlie Parker, (1920-1955)

Bob Powell, (born 1961)

Billy Strayhorn, (1915-1967)

Fats Waller, (1904-1943)

Clarence Williams, (1893-1965)

Orchestra

Abhay Rustum Sopori,

Burt Bacharach, (born 1928)

James Butt (born 1929)

Roberto Carnevale (born 1966)

Daron Hagen, (born 1961)

Glenn Miller

Ilayaraja, (1943)

Vocal

See also Vocal music.

Jacques Brel, (1929-1978)

James Butt, (1929-2003)

Daron Hagen, (born 1961)

Georges Moustaki

Sydney Nicholson, (1875-1947)

Ilayaraja, (1943)

Pop and Rock

See also Pop music and Rock music.

Paul Anka, (born 1941)

Charles Aznavour, (born 1924)

Irving Berlin, (1888-1989)

Billy Bragg, (born 1957)

Ray Buttigieg, (born 1955)

Brian Eno, (born 1948)

George Gershwin, (1898-1937)

Ira Gershwin, (1896-1983)

Michael Jackson, (born 1958)

Mick Jagger, (born 1943)

Jean Michel Jarre

Elton John, (born 1947)

John Lennon, (1940-1980)

Paul McCartney, (born 1942)

Tim McGowan, (born 1966)

George Harrison, (1943-2001)

George Michael, (born 1963)

Joni Mitchell, (born 1943)

JunkDuster, (born 1971)

Mike Oldfield, (born 1953)

Roy Orbison, (1936-1988)

Dolly Parton, (born 1946)

Neil Sedaka, (born 1939)

Chris Smith, (1879-1949)

Albert Von Tilzer, (1878-1956)

Harry Von Tilzer, (1872-1946)

Frank Zappa, (1940-1993)

Thom Yorke

Jonny Greenwood

Kevin Shields

Brian Wilson

Carl Wilson

Kurt Cobain

Joe Strummer

Mick Jones

Billy Corgan

Richard Ashcroft

Jack White

Stephen Malkmus

Ben Gibbard

Folk and Country

See also Folk music and Country music.

Joan Baez

John Denver

Bob Dylan

Nick Drake

Ilayaraja, (1943)

Jessen O'Sullivan Elad Mehl

New Age

See also New Age music.

Enya

Kevin Kern

Tim McGowan

George Winston

Yanni

Jessen O'Sullivan

Elad Mehl

(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
 

Alphabetical List of Composers

Abt  

Accolay  

Adam  

Aguado  

Albeniz  

Albinoni  

Alkan  

Altes  

Andersen  

Andre  

Arcas  

Arensky  

Auber  

Aubert  

Bach, C.P.E.  

Bach, J.C.  

Bach, J.C.F.  

Bach, J.S.  

Bach, W.F.  

Balakirev  

Balbastre  

Bang  

Barnard  

Barre, De La  

Barrere  

Barrios  

Bartok  

Bazzini  

Beethoven  

Bellini  

Benda  

Berbiguer  

Berend  

Berens  

Berg  

Beriot  

Berlioz  

Bertini  

Bertram  

Bizet  

Bland  

Blavet  

Boccherini  

Boely  

Boieldieu  

Boismortier  

Boito  

Bolzoni  

Bona  

Bononcini  

Booth  

Bordet  

Bordogni  

Borodin  

Bossche  

Boulanger  

Brahms  

Briccialdi  

Bruch  

Burgmuller  

Busoni  

Bytovetzski  

Campra  

Canteloube  

Caplet  

Carcassi  

Casorti  

Catalani  

Catherine  

Cavalli  

Cervantes  

Chabrier  

Chambonnieres  

Chaminade  

Charpentier  

Chausson  

Cherubini  

Chinzer  

Chopin  

Cilea  

Cimarosa  

Clementi  

Cohan  

Concone  

Corelli  

Cornelius  

Coste  

Couperin  

Cramer  

Cui  

Czerny  

Dagincourt  

Dancla  

Dandrieu  

Dannhauser  

Daquin  

Dargomyzhsky  

David  

Debussy  

Delibes  

Delius  

Devienne  

Diabelli  

Dietter  

Dohnanyi  

Donizetti  

Donjon  

Dont  

Doppler  

Duarte  

Dubois  

Dukas  

Duparc  

Durante  

Dussek  

Duvernoy F.  

Duvernoy J-B  

Dvorak  

D`Indy  

Elgar  

Enesco  

Ernst  

Falla  

Faure  

Field  

Fiorillo  

Fischer  

Flesch  

Flotow  

Foote  

Fortea  

Franck  

Franz  

Frescobaldi  

Furstenau  

Gabriel-Marie  

Galuppi  

Ganne  

Gariboldi  

Geminiani  

Giordano  

Giuliani  

Glazunov  

Glinka  

Gluck  

Godard  

Godowsky  

Goldmark  

Gossec  

Gottschalk  

Gounod  

Granados  

Graupner  

Gretchaninov  

Gretry  

Grieg  

Griffes  

Gruber  

Gurilev  

Gurlitt  

Hölty  

Hahn  

Halevy  

Handel  

Hanon  

Hasse  

Haydn  

Haydn M  

Heller  

Henselt  

Hervelois  

Herz  

Hindemith  

Hofmann  

Hohmann  

Hollander  

Honegger  

Horowitz  

Hotteterre  

Hrimaly  

Hullmandel  

Ibert  

Janacek  

Johnson  

Joplin  

Kalinnikov  

Karg-Elert  

Key  

Kirchhoff  

Kodaly  

Koechlin  

Kohler E.  

Kohler L.  

Korngold  

Kreisler  

Krenek  

Kreutzer  

Krieger  

Kuhlau  

Kuhnau  

Kullak  

Kummer  

Lablache  

Lalo  

Lambert  

Lamperti F  

Lamperti GS  

Laoureux  

Lasso  

Laub  

Le Couppey  

Leclair  

Lehar  

Lemoin  

Lemuan  

Leo  

Leoncavallo  

Liadov  

Liapunov  

Lichner  

Liszt  

Locatelli  

Loeillet  

Loewe  

Lorenzo-Fernandez  

Lotti  

Lully  

Lutgen  

MacDowell  

Macfarren  

Maganini  

Mahler  

Malats  

Marcello  

Marchesi  

Marchesi S  

Martini  

Martinu  

Mascagni  

Masse  

Massenet  

Mattheson  

Mazas  

Meacham  

Medtner  

Mehul  

Mendelssohn  

Mercadante  

Mertz  

Meyerbeer  

Miaskovsky  

Milan  

Milhaud  

Molique  

Monteverdi  

Monti  

Moszkowski  

Mouquet  

Moussorgsky  

Mozart  

Muller  

Muthel  

Nardini  

Naudot  

Nicolai  

Nielsen  

Novacek  

Offenbach  

Oginski  

Pachelbel  

Paderewski  

Paganini  

Palestrina  

Panofka  

Panserson  

Pasquali  

Pergolesi  

Pessard  

Philipp  

Pischina  

Plaidy  

Pleyel  

Ponce  

Ponchielli  

Popp  

Porpora  

Poulenc  

Prokofiev  

Prudent  

Puccini  

Pugnani  

Purcell  

Quantz  

Rachmaninov  

Rameau  

Ravel  

Rebikov  

Reger  

Regondi  

Reicha  

Reichert  

Reinecke  

Respighi  

Rheinberger  

Rietz  

Rimsky-Korsakov  

Rode  

Rodrigo  

Rossi  

Rossini  

Roussel  

Rubini  

Rubinstein  

Sacchini  

Saint-Saens  

Sammartini  

Sanz  

Sarasate  

Satie  

Scarlatti A.  

Scarlatti D.  

Scharwenka  

Schmitt F  

Schmitt J  

Schobert  

Schoenberg  

Schradieck  

Schubert  

Schulz  

Schumann  

Schumann Clara  

Schutz  

Scriabin (Skriabin)  

Seitz  

Serov  

Sevcik  

Shakespeare  

Sibelius  

Sichra  

Sieber  

Sitt  

Sjogren  

Smetana  

Soler  

Sor  

Sousa  

Soussmann  

Spicker  

Spindler  

Spohr  

Spontini  

Stainer  

Stamaty  

Stamitz  

Storoni  

Strauss J.  

Strauss R.  

Stravinsky  

Streabbog  

Sullivan  

Sweelinck  

Szymanowski  

Taffanel  

Taneev  

Tansman  

Tarrega  

Tartini  

Tausig  

Tchaikovsky  

Telemann  

Thomas Ambroise  

Thomas Arthur  

Torroba  

Tosti  

Traditional  

Trott  

Tulou  

Turina  

Unknown Author  

Vaccai  

Veracini  

Verdi  

Viardot  

Vierne  

Vieuxtemps  

Villa-Lobos  

Vinas  

Viotti  

Vitali G.B.  

Vitali T.  

Vivaldi  

Wagner E  

Wagner R  

Wagner-Regeny  

Wanhal  

Ward  

Weber  

Webern  

Widor  

Wieniawski  

Williams  

Wohlfahrt  

Wolf  

Ysaye