This is a list of lists of
composers grouped by various criteria.
Name
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List of composers by name
Women
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List of female composers by name
This article provides a list of women composers, sorted alphabetically by surname. For a list of women composers sorted by year of birth, see List of women composers by birth date.
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List of female composers by birth date
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List of Australian female composers
Genre
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Anime composer
An anime composer is a composer who mainly composes music for anime productions.
There have been many anime composers over the years, and while anime soundtracks are big business in Japan, there have been few notable, long-term composers of anime ...
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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
This is a list of notable composers of musicals.
See also List of musicals by composer
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C-D
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K-L
M-N
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*James W. Tate
* Jeanine Tesori
* Harry Tierney
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List of musicals by composer: A to L,
M to Z
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History
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List of ragtime composers
A list of ragtime composers, including a famous or characteristic composition.
Pre-1940
* Felix Arndt (1889–1918), "Nola" (1916)
* May Aufderheide (1888–1972), "Dusty Rag" (1908)
* Roy Bargy (1894–1974), "Pianoflage" (1922)
* Harry Belding ...
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List of sports television composers
A number of composers have created music for sports television broadcasts.
Notable credits
Leo Arnaud
*"Bugler's Dream" from Arnaud's Charge Suite - the fanfare most closely associated with the Olympic Games (not specifically composed for the O ...
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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
The following list contains composers of the primary theme music of a television series or miniseries.
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Era
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List of classical music composers by era
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List of Medieval composers
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List of Renaissance composers
This is a list of composers active during the Renaissance period of European history. Since the 14th century is not usually considered by music historians to be part of the musical Renaissance, but part of the Middle Ages, composers active dur ...
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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
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List of 21st-century classical composers
Nationality or ethnicity
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Chronological lists of classical composers by nationality
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List of composers by nationality
The following is a list of composers by nationality.
Albania
* Simon Gjoni (1926–1991), composer of orchestral and piano pieces
* Tonin Harapi (1925–1991)
* Agim Krajka (born 1937), composer of the National Song Festival
* Aleksandër P ...
Instrument
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List of composers for the classical guitar
The following is a non-comprehensive list of composers who have composed original music for the classical guitar, or music which has been arranged for it.
References
External linksClassical Guitar Composers List(three lists, sorted alphabet ...
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List of organ composers
The following is a list of organ composers. It lists the more-important composers of music for the pipe organ.
Argentina
Modern
* Alberto Ginastera
Australia
* Graeme Koehne
* Christian Helleman
* Ernest Truman
Austria and Germany
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List of piano composers
This is a list of piano composers.
Baroque period
* Domenico Alberti (1710–1740)
* Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
* François Couperin (1668–1733)
* Louis-Claude Daquin (1694–1772)
* Baldassare Galuppi (1706–1785)
* Lodovico Gi ...
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List of composers and their preferred lyricists
Most (classical) composers had one or a few lyricists with whom they preferred to work:
* Bach: Picander
*Mozart: Da Ponte, Schikaneder
*Sullivan: Gilbert
*Giuseppe Verdi: Arrigo Boito in his later works
* Isaac Albéniz: Francis Burdett Money- ...
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List of string quartet composers
Classification
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Chronological lists of classical composers
Chronological lists of classical composers list composers of classical music in chronological order, either organized by era or style, or by nationality.
By era or style
*List of classical music composers by era
*List of medieval composers
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List of Anglican church composers
Composers who have made significant contributions to the repertory of Anglican church music.
A
* Malcolm Archer
* Thomas Armstrong
* Thomas Attwood
* Richard Ayleward
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* Edgar Bainton
*Edward Bairstow
* John Barnard
*Joseph Barnby
*Adrian Ba ...
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Religious music
Religious music (also sacred music) is a type of music that is performed or composed for religious use or through religious influence. It may overlap with ritual music, which is music, sacred or not, performed or composed for or as ritual. Relig ...
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List of composers of African descent
This is a list of composers of African ancestry.
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* Michael Abels, USA (born 1962)
* Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah, Egypt (born 1962)
* Muhal Richard Abrams, USA (1930–2017)
* H. Leslie Adams, USA (born 1932)
* Eleanor Alberga, Jamaica (b ...
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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 __NOTOC__
This list includes fictional representations of real (named) composers and musicians, and of fictional characters under other names that are generally agreed to be based on a specific composer, or sometimes a composite of several.
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See also
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Lists of musicians
This is a list of lists of musicians.
Genre
The following are lists of musicians by style or music genre.
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* List of 1970s Christian pop artists
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* List of acid rock artists
* List of adult alternative artists
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Lists of singers
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List of singer-songwriters
This is a list of singer-songwriters who write, compose, and perform their own musical material. The list is divided into two sections to differentiate between artists categorized as singer-songwriters and others who do not fall under the definiti ...
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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. The terms ''popular music'' and ''pop music'' are often used interchangeably, although the former describ ...
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Rock music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and ...
External links
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Sheet music by composer at the
International Music Score Library Project
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Famous composers
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