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composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music.
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Name
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List of composers by name
Women
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List of female composers by name
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List of female composers by birth date
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List of Australian female composers
This is a list of Australian women composers of classical music, contemporary music and/or film soundtracks.
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* Tina Arena (born 1967)
* Ella Airlie (1882–1959)
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* Alison Bauld (born 1944)
* Betty Beath (born 1932)
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Anime composer
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List of Carnatic composers
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List of film score composers
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List of major opera composers
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List of composers of musicals
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List of musicals by composer: A to L,
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List of ragtime composers
A list of ragtime composers, including one or more famous or characteristic compositions.
Pre-1940
*Felix Arndt (1889–1918),"Desecration Rag" (1914), "Nola" (1916), "Operatic Nightmare" (1916)
*May Aufderheide (1888–1972), "Dusty Rag" (1908)
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List of symphony composers
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List of acousmatic-music composers
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List of Spaghetti Western composers
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List of television theme music composers
Western classical period
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List of Medieval composers
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List of Renaissance composers
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List of Baroque composers
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List of Classical-era composers
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List of Romantic-era composers
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List of 20th-century classical composers
This is a list of composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers ...
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List of 21st-century classical composers
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Nationality or ethnicity
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Chronological lists of classical composers by nationality
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List of composers by nationality
Instrument
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List of composers for the classical guitar
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List of organ composers
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List of piano composers
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List of composers and their preferred lyricists
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List of string quartet composers
Classification
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Chronological lists of classical composers
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List of Anglican church composers – See also
Religious music
Religious music (also sacred music) is a type of music that is performed or composed for Religion, religious use or through religious influence. It may overlap with ritual music, which is music, sacred or not, performed or composed for or as a ri ...
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List of composers in the Mannheim school
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List of composers of African descent
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List of composers of Caribbean descent
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List of modernist composers
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List of Byzantine composers
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List of composers in literature
See also
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Lists of musicians
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Lists of singers
These are lists of singers.
By nationality
*List of Afghan singers
*List of African singers
*List of Albanian singers
*List of Algerian singers
*List of Algolan singers, List of Angolan singers
*List of American singers
*List of Andorran singers ...
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List of singer-songwriters – see also
Pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.S. Frith, W. Straw, and J. Street, eds, ''iarchive:cambridgecompani00frit, The Cambridge Companion to Pop ...
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Rock music
Rock is a Music genre, genre of popular music that originated in the United States as "rock and roll" in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of styles from the mid-1960s, primarily in the United States and the United Kingdo ...
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List of burial places of classical musicians
External links
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Sheet music by composer at the
International Music Score Library Project
The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP), also known as the Petrucci Music Library after publisher Ottaviano Petrucci, is a subscription-based digital library of public-domain music scores. The project uses MediaWiki software, and ...
Famous composers
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