The following is a chronological list of Korean classical music composers.

Modern and contemporary

* Hyun Jae-Myung (1902–1960) *

Ahn Eak-tai Ahn Eak-tai (, ; 5 December 1906 – 16 September 1965) was a South Korean classical composer and conductor. He conducted numerous major orchestras across Europe, including the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, ...

(1906–1965) *

Isang Yun Isang Yun, also spelled Yun I-sang (17 September 1917 – 3 November 1995), was a Korean-born composer who made his later career in West Germany. Early life and education Yun was born in Sancheong (Sansei), Korea under Japanese rule, Chōsen ...

(1917–1995) *

Young-ja Lee Young-ja Lee (born 4 June 1931) is a South Korean music educator and composer. She is considered by many the greatest living female Korean composer. Life and career Born in Wonju, she studied at Ewha Womans University, the Conservatoire de Paris ...

(born 1931) *

Junsang Bahk Junsang Bahk (born 2 June 1937 in Norumegi, a small village in Gyeongsangbuk-do Province, South Korea) is a celebrated Korean composer, also active in Austria. Biography Bahk studied composition at the Graduate School, Seoul National University, ...

(born 1937) *

Sook-Ja Oh Sook-Ja Oh (born 26 May 1941) is a South Korean composer. She was born in Seoul, Korea and studied at Kyung Hee University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1971 and a Master of Arts in 1973. She continued her studies in electronic music ...

(born 1941) * Kyungsun Suh (born 1942) * Chan-Hae Lee (born 1945) *

Younghi Pagh-Paan Younghi Pagh-Paan (born 1945) is a South Korean composer. Life Pagh‑Paan was born in Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea. She studied music at the Seoul National University from 1965 to 1971. In 1974 she received a DAAD scholarship to s ...

(born 1945) * Hi Kyung Kim (born 1954) *

Kim Jin-Hi Jin Hi Kim (born February 6, 1957 in Incheon, South Korea) is a composer and performer of '' komungo'' and electric komungo, and a Korean music specialist. Kim is known as a pioneer for introducing '' geomungo'' (거문고, a Korean fretted boa ...

(born 1957) * Lim Jun-Hee (born 1959) *

Unsuk Chin Unsuk Chin ( ko, 진은숙 ; born July 14, 1961) is a South Korean composer of contemporary classical music, who is based in Berlin, Germany. Chin was self-taught piano from a young age and studied composition at Seoul National University as w ...

(born 1961) *

Shinuh Lee Shinuh Lee (; born February 15, 1969) is a South Korean composer of contemporary classical music. Royal Academy of Music recently announced Shinuh Lee as Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM). Biography Shinuh Lee started her career a ...

(born 1969) *

Jeajoon Ryu Jeajoon Ryu (born 1970) is a South Korean composer. His works have been by performed some of the world’s leading orchestras, such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO), l'Orchestre régional de Cannes-Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (ORCPAC ...

(born 1970) *

Sungji Hong Sungji Hong ( ko, 홍성지) (b. 1973) is a South Korean composer. Her work ''Missa Lumen de Lumine'', a setting of the Roman-rite Catholic Mass ordinary for three voices, was written for Trio Mediæval in 2002. The trio recorded it in 2005. In a r ...

(born 1973) *

DaeSeob Han DaeSeob Han (born February 6, 1977 in Seoul) is a South Korean composer of European classical music, based in Korea and Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second m ...

(born 1977)

References

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