Composer

This page lists 45,920 biographies of composers, covering lives from 650 BC to 2012. Featuring Ami Radunskaya, Chao Yuen Ren and Roger Scruton. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

Penelope Thwaites

b. 1944

Engelbert Röntgen

1829 – 1897

Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev

b. 1993

Greg Kurstin

b. 1969

Benito Cabrera

b. 1963

Louis Gobbaerts

1835 – 1886

Ivan Linn

Will Eisenmann

1906 – 1992

Gustav Lange

1861 – 1939

Quirino Gasparini

1721 – 1778

Pauline Hall

1890 – 1969

Giulio Viozzi

1912 – 1984

Margaret Henrietta Glyn

1865 – 1946

Diego Baldenweg

b. 1979

Ron Anderson

b. 1959

Edvard Hagerup Bull

1922 – 2012

Eustache Du Caurroy

1549 – 1609

Robert Kyr

b. 1952

Cosimo Bottegari

1554 – 1620

Ryo Noda

b. 1948

Gunnar Sønstevold

1912 – 1991

Dave Frishberg

1933 – 2021

Eddie Snyder

1919 – 2011

Heinrich Hofmann

1842 – 1902

Owain Park

b. 1993

John O'Connor

b. 1958

Tim Weisberg

b. 1943

Ignacio Cervantes

1847 – 1905

Miklós Radnai

1892 – 1935

Victoria Canal

b. 1998

Rudy Rotta

1950 – 2017

William J. McCoy

1848 – 1926

François Fayt

b. 1946

Walther von der Vogelweide

1170 – 1230

Zhou Weizhi

1916 – 2014

Johann Hugo von Wilderer

1670 – 1724

Shark

b. 1901

Hideki Chihara

b. 1957

Barney Fagan

1850 – 1937

Raimundo Valenzuela

1848 – 1905

Elsa Marshall-Hall

1891 – 1980

Mauro Giuliani

1781 – 1829

Oscar Hammerstein I

1847 – 1919

Ravi

b. 1976

Natalia Raigorodsky

1929 – 2018

Ralf Wadephul

b. 1958

Pieter Bourke

b. 1953

Gareth McLearnon

b. 1980

Brunhilde Sonntag

1936 – 2002

Antonino Palminteri

1846 – 1915

Mukhtar Sahota

Henri-Jacques de Croes

1705 – 1786

Lew Porter

1892 – 1956

Vladimir Mendelssohn

1949 – 2021

Parvez Rob

1965 – 2019

Patrick Appleford

1925 – 2018

Francis Linley

1771 – 1800

Sumio Kobayashi

b. 1982

James Tomalin

b. 1901

Armand Amar

b. 1953

R. O. Morris

1886 – 1948

Renzo Rossellini

1908 – 1982

Wilhelm Friedrich Wieprecht

1802 – 1872

Jonathan Manalo

b. 1978

Helen Gilmore

1900 – 1947

Vladimir Migulya

1945 – 1996

Selim III

1761 – 1808

Sarah Nemtsov

b. 1980

Claire Delbos

1906 – 1959

John Reynders

1888 – 1953

Jill Santoriello

b. 1965

Petronio Franceschini

1651 – 1680

Ubaldo Continiello

1941 – 2014

Evelyn Glennie

b. 1965

John Hornsby

b. 1956

Klas Torstensson

b. 1951

Giorgio Nottoli

b. 1945

Johannes Bleive

1909 – 1991

Erdenechimeg Luvsannorov

b. 1957

Vito Carnevali

1888 – 1901

Harry Williams

1879 – 1922

Octavian Nemescu

1940 – 2020

Anton Diabelli

1781 – 1858

Kōji Makaino

b. 1948

Don Sebesky

1937 – 2023

Chris Watson

b. 1976

Hershy Kay

1919 – 1981

Marco Rizo

1920 – 1998

Bill Brown

b. 1969

Mark Isaacs

b. 1958

Giuseppe Bertini

1759 – 1852

Doris Akers

1923 – 1995

Paul Nordoff

1909 – 1977

Julius Weismann

1879 – 1950

Euphemia Allan

1861 – 1949

Herbert Collum

1914 – 1982

Ben Frost

b. 1980

Christian Ernst Graf

1723 – 1804

Örlygur Smári

b. 1971

Toots Thielemans

1922 – 2016