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Composers are persons who write musical scores.
There is a stronger distinction made between composers and performers in classical music than in other musical genres. In most popular music forms the term songwriter is used for people who write music and lyrics.
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- Karl Friedrich Abel
- Tomaso Albinoni
- Domenico Alberti
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- Johann Christian Bach
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Dietrich Buxtehude
- George Friderich Händel
- Jean Baptiste Lully
- Claudio Monteverdi
- Henry Purcell
- Alessandro Scarlatti
- Domenico Scarlatti
- Georg Philipp Telemann
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Hector Berlioz
- Johannes Brahms
- Frédéric Chopin
- Edward Elgar
- Franz Liszt
- Sergei Rachmaninov
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Franz Schubert
- Robert Schumann
- John Adams
- Malcolm Arnold
- Béla Bartók
- Arnold Bax
- Alban Berg
- Luciano Berio
- Irving Berlin
- Leonard Bernstein
- Pierre Boulez
- Frank Bridge
- Benjamin Britten
- Gavin Bryars
- John Cage
- Elliott Carter
- Aaron Copland
- George Crumb
- Luigi Dallapiccola
- Hanns Eisler
- Georges Enesco
- Brian Ferneyhough
- Morton Feldman
- Philip Glass
- Henryk Górecki
- Sofia Gubaidulina
- Hans Werner Henze
- Paul Hindemith
- Charles Ives
- Leos Janácek
- Scott Joplin
- György Ligeti
- Witold Lutoslawski
- James Macmillan
- Gustav Mahler
- Frank Martin
- Bohuslav Martinu
- Olivier Messiaen
- Darius Milhaud
- Carl Nielsen
- Luigi Nono
- Sergio Roberto de Oliveira
- Arvo Pärt
- Krzysztof Penderecki
- Steve Reich
- Erik Satie
- Alfred Schnittke
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Igor Stravinsky
- Toru Takemitsu
- Michael Tippett
- Moisei Vainberg
- Edgard Varese
- Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Anton Webern
- Kurt Weill
- Hugo Wolf
- Yannis Xenakis
Pop Music
Uncategorized:
- Adolphe-Charles Adam
- Isaac Albéniz
- Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera
- Daniel-François Auber
- Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
- Samuel Barber
- Vincenzo Bellini
- Heinrich Ignaz Biber
- Gilles Binchois
- Georges Bizet
- Ernest Bloch
- Luigi Boccherini
- Alexander Borodin
- Max Bruch
- Anton Bruckner
- Antoine Brumel
- Ferruccio Busoni
- William Byrd
- Matteo Carcassi
- Ferdinando Carulli
- Gustave Charpentier
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier
- Ernest Chausson
- Domenico Cimarosa
- Arcangelo Corelli
- François Couperin
- Peter Maxwell Davies
- Michel Richard Delalande
- Léo Delibes
- Frederick Delius
- Josquin Des Prez
- Gaetano Donizetti
- John Dowland
- Paul Dukas
- Anton Dvorák
- Manuel De Falla
- Gabriel Fauré
- John Field
- César Franck
- Girolamo Frescobaldi
- Giovanni Gabrieli
- George Gershwin
- Don Carlo Gesualdo
- Ginastera
- Gilbert and Sullivan
- Mauro Giuliani
- Alexander Glazunov
- Mikhail Glinka
- Christoph Willibald Gluck
- Johann Gottlieb Goldberg
- Charles Gounod
- Percy Grainger
- Enrique Granados
- Edvard Grieg
- Karl Amadeus Hartmann
- Pieter Hellendaal
- Gustav Holst
- Arthur Honegger
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel
- Engelbert Humperdinck
- Jacques Ibert
- Mieczyslaw Karlowicz
- Aram Khachaturian
- Wojciech Kilar
- William Kinloch
- Paul August von Klenau
- Zoltán Kodály
- William Kraft
- Krzysztof Komeda
- Johann Tobias Krebs
- Fritz Kreisler
- Orlando de Lassus
- Jean Marie Leclair
- Franz Lehár
- Alfonso Leng
- Pietro Locatelli
- Luzzasco Luzzaschi
- Alessandro Marcello
- Vicente Martin y Soler
- Pietro Mascagni
- Jules Massenet
- Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
- Giuseppe Mercadante
- Giacomo Meyerbeer
- Federico Mompou
- Modest Moussorgsky
- Johannes Ockeghem
- Jacques Offenbach
- Carl Orff
- Johann Pachelbel
- Niccolò Paganini
- Andrzej Panufnik
- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
- Francis Poulenc
- Micheal Praetorius
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Giacomo Puccini
- Loisa Puget
- Henry Purcell
- Johann Joachim Quantz
- Jean-Philippe Rameau
- Hans Redlich
- Max Reger
- Ottorino Respighi
- Terry Riley
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Curtis Roads
- Joaquín Rodrigo
- Gioacchino Rossini
- Albert Roussel
- Edmund Rubbra
- Heinrich Schutz
- Alexander Scriabin
- Peter Joshua Sculthorpe
- Roger Sessions
- Jean Sibelius
- Bedrich Smetana
- Padre Antonio Soler
- Fernando Sor
- Louis Spohr
- Johann Strauss, Sr.
- Johann Strauss, Jr.
- Richard Strauss
- Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
- Henryk Szulc
- Karol Szymanowski
- Thomas Tallis
- Giuseppe Tartini
- John Taverner
- Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Heitor Villa-Lobos
- Richard Wagner
- Unico Wilhelm Wassenaer
- Carl Maria von Weber
- Sylvius Leopold Weiss
- Eugene Ysaÿe
- Jan Dismas Zelenka
- Frank Zappa
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