This is a list of lists of
composers grouped by various criteria.
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List of composers by name
This is a list of composers by name, alphabetically sorted by surname, then by other names. The list of composers is by no means complete. It is not limited by classifications such as genre or time period; however, it includes only music composers ...
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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
Women composers of Western classical music are disproportionately absent from music textbooks and concert programs that constitute the Western canon, even though many women have composed music.
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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)
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* Alison Bauld (born 1944)
* Betty Beath (born 1932)
* Una Mabel Bourne (1882–1974)
* Anne Bo ...
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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
List of composers of Carnatic music, a subgenre of Indian classical music. Chronologically they can be grouped into 4 different Eras: Pre-Trinity Era, Trinity Era, Post Trinity Era and Modern Era. Composers are listed here based on this classif ...
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List of film score composers
The following is a list of notable people who compose or have composed soundtrack music for films (i.e. film scores), television, video games and radio.
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* Michael Abels (born 1962)''Get Out'', '' Us, Bad Education''
* Rod Abernethy'' Sta ...
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List of major opera composers
This list provides a guide to opera composers, as determined by their presence on a majority of compiled lists of significant opera composers. (See the "Lists Consulted" section for full details.) The composers run from Jacopo Peri, who wrote the ...
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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 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 (1 ...
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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 ...
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List of symphony composers
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List of acousmatic-music composers
A list of notable electroacoustic music and acousmatic composers:
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* Annette Vande Gorne
*Edgar Varèse
*Alejandro Vinao
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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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List of classical music composers by era
This is a list of classical music composers by era. With the exception of the overview, the Modernist era has been combined with the Postmodern.
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List of Medieval composers
Medieval music generally refers the music of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, from approximately the 6th to 15th centuries. The first and longest major era of Western classical music, medieval music includes composers of a variety of sty ...
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List of Renaissance composers
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List of Baroque composers
Composers of the Baroque era, ordered by date of birth:
Transition from Renaissance to Baroque (born 1500–49)
Composers in the Renaissance/Baroque transitional era include the following (listed by their date of birth):
* Philippe de Monte (15 ...
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List of Classical-era composers
This is a list of composers of the Classical music era, roughly from 1730 to 1820. Prominent classicist composers include Christoph Willibald Gluck, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Stamitz, Joseph Haydn, Johann Christian Bach, Antonio Salier ...
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List of Romantic-era composers
The Romantic era of Western Classical music spanned the 19th century to the early 20th century, encompassing a variety of musical styles and techniques. Part of the broader Romanticism movement of Europe, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert ...
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List of 20th-century classical composers
This is a list of composers of 20th-century classical music
20th-century classical music describes art music that was written nominally from 1901 to 2000, inclusive. Musical style diverged during the 20th century as it never had previously. So ...
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List of 21st-century classical composers
This is a list of 21st-century classical composers, sortable by name, year of birth and year of death.
The list includes composers who have made classical music since 2001. The 21st century is defined by the calendar rather than by any unifying ...
Nationality or ethnicity
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Chronological lists of classical composers by nationality
The following is a list of major composers by nationality:
* Chronological list of American classical composers
* Chronological list of Argentine classical composers
* Chronological list of Armenian classical composers
* Chronological list of Au ...
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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 Pe ...
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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
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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 Gius ...
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List of composers and their preferred lyricists
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List of string quartet composers
This is a list of string quartet composers, chronologically sorted by date of birth and then by surname. It includes only composers who have Wikipedia articles. This list is by no means complete. String quartets are written for four string instru ...
Classification
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Chronological lists of classical composers
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List of Anglican church composers
Composers who have made significant contributions to the repertory of Anglican church music.
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* Malcolm Archer
* Thomas Armstrong
* Thomas Attwood
*Richard Ayleward
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* Edgar Bainton
*Edward Bairstow
*John Barnard
*Joseph Barnby
* Adrian Batt ...
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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
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List of composers of Caribbean descent
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List of modernist composers
The following is a list of modernist composers.
In music, modernism is an aesthetic stance underlying the period of change and development in musical language that occurred around the turn of the 20th century, a period of diverse reactions in c ...
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List of Byzantine composers
The Byzantine Empire lasted from AD 395 to 1453, during which Byzantine music, music was prominent throughout the empire. Both sacred and secular music were commonplace, with sacred music frequently used in church services and secular music in ma ...
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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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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
* List of alternative co ...
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Lists of singers
These are lists of singers.
By nationality
*List of Afghan singers
* List of American singers
* List of British singers
* List of Cambodian singers
* List of Dutch singers
* List of Finnish singers
*List of French singers
* List of Icelandic sin ...
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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 descri ...
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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 an ...
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, which uses MediaWiki softwar ...
Famous composers
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