A
- Abel, Carl Friedrich
- Abrahamsen, Hans
- Adam, Adolphe
- Adams, John Coolidge
- Adams, John Luther
- Adès, Thomas
- Adler, Samuel
- Agricola, Alexander
- Albéniz, Isaac
- Albert, Heinrich
- Alberti, Domenico
- Albinoni, Tomaso
- Albrechtsberger, Johann Georg
- Albright, William
- Algarotti, Francesco
- Alkan, Charles-Valentin
- Amati, Nicolò
- Anderson, Laurie
- Anderson, TJ
- Andriessen, Louis
- Anfossi, Pasquale
- Anglebert, Jean Henry d’
- Animuccia, Giovanni
- Antes, John
- Arbeau, Thoinot
- Arcadelt, Jacques
- Argento, Dominick
- Ariosti, Attilio
- Arne, Thomas Augustine
- Ashley, Robert
- Auber, Daniel-François-Esprit
- Augustine of Hippo,
- Austin, Larry
- Avison, Charles
B
- Babbitt, Milton
- Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel
- Bach, Johann Christian
- Bach, Johann Christoph
- Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann
- Balakirev, Mily Alyekseyevich
- Banchieri, Adriano
- Bantock, Granville
- Barber, Samuel
- Bartók, Béla
- Bassett, Leslie
- Bax, Arnold
- Beach, Amy
- Beethoven, Ludwig van
- Bellini, Vincenzo
- Benda, Georg
- Benevoli, Orazio
- Berg, Alban
- Berger, Arthur
- Bergsma, William
- Berio, Luciano
- Berlioz, Hector
- Bernhard, Christoph
- Bernstein, Leonard
- Bertin, Louise
- Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von
- Billings, William
- Binchois, Gilles de Bins dit
- Bingen, Hildegard von
- Binkerd, Gordon
- Birtwistle, Harrison
- Bishop, Henry R.
- Bizet, Georges
- Blackwood, Easley
- Blitzstein, Marc
- Bloch, Ernest
- Blow, John
- Boccherini, Luigi
- Böhm, Georg
- Boieldieu, Adrien
- Boito, Arrigo
- Bolcom, William
- Bononcini, Giovanni
- Boretz, Benjamin
- Borodin, Alyeksandr
- Bortnyansky, Dmitry Stepanovich
- Boulanger, Lili
- Boulanger, Nadia
- Boulez, Pierre
- Boyce, William
- Brade, William
- Brahms, Johannes
- Brant, Henry
- Braxton, Anthony
- Bridge, Frank
- Britten, Benjamin
- Brown, Earle
- Browne Garrett, Augusta
- Bruckner, Anton
- Bull, John
- Busnoys, Antoine
- Busoni, Ferruccio
- Buxtehude, Dietrich
- Byrd, William
C
- Cabanilles, Juan Bautista José
- Cabezón, Antonio de
- Caccini, Francesca
- Caccini, Giulio Romolo
- Cage, John
- Caldara, Antonio
- Cambini, Giuseppe
- Campion, Thomas
- Campra, André
- Cardew, Cornelius
- Carissimi, Giacomo
- Carpenter, John Alden
- Carrillo, Julián
- Carter, Elliott
- Casella, Alfredo
- Cavalieri, Emilio de’
- Cavalli, Pietro Francesco
- Cererols, Joan
- Cesti, Antonio
- Chabrier, Emmanuel
- Chadwick, George Whitefield
- Chambonnières, Jacques Champion, Sieur de
- Champagne, Claude
- Charpentier, Gustave
- Charpentier, Marc-Antoine
- Chausson, Ernest
- Chávez, Carlos
- Chen, Yi
- Cherubini, Luigi
- Chin, Unsuk
- Chopin, Fryderyk
- Chowning, John
- Ciconia, Johannes
- Cimarosa, Domenico
- Clarke, James Paton
- Clementi, Muzio
- Clérambault, Louis-Nicolas
- Colgrass, Michael
- Colonna, Giovanni Paolo
- Converse, Frederick Shepherd
- Copland, Aaron
- Corelli, Arcangelo
- Corigliano, John Paul
- Cornelius, Peter
- Cornysh, William
- Couperin, François
- Couperin, Louis
- Cowell, Henry
- Cozzolani, Chiara Margarita
- Cristofori, Bartolomeo
- Crotch, William
- Crüger, Johannes
- Crumb, George
- Cui, Cesar
- Czerny, Carl
D
- Dall’Abaco, Evaristo Felice
- Dallapiccola, Luigi
- Danican Philidor, François-André
- Dargomizhsky, Alyeksandr Sergeyevich
- Daugherty, Michael
- Davidovsky, Mario
- Davies, Peter Maxwell
- Davis, Anthony
- Debussy, Claude
- Delibes, Léo
- Delius, Frederick
- Dello Joio, Norman
- Del Tredici, David
- Demantius, Johannes Christoph
- Dering, Richard
- Diamond, David
- Diepenbrock, Alphons
- Ditters von Dittersdorf, Carl
- Dodge, Charles
- Donizetti, Gaetano
- Dowland, John
- Druckman, Jacob
- Du Fay, Guillaume
- Dukas, Paul
- DuMont, Henri
- Dunstaple, John
- Duparc, Henri
- Dussek, Jan Ladislav
- Dvorák, Antonín
E
- Eaton, John C.
- Egk, Werner
- Eisler, Hanns
- Elgar, Edward
- Ellington, Duke
- Encina, Juan del
- Erickson, Robert
F
- Falla, Manuel de
- Farrenc, Louise
- Farwell, Arthur
- Fauré, Gabriel
- Fayrfax, Robert
- Feldman, Morton
- Ferneyhough, Brian
- Ferrabosco(y), Alfonso
- Ferrari, Benedetto
- Festa, Costanzo
- Field, John
- Fils, Anton
- Finck, Heinrich
- Fine, Irving
- Finney, Ross Lee
- Fischer, Johann Caspar Ferdinand
- Foote, Arthur
- Foss, Lukas
- Foster, Stephen
- Franck, César
- Franz, Robert
- Frescobaldi, Girolamo Alessandro
- Froberger, Johann Jacob
- Fux, Johann Joseph
G
- Gabrieli, Andrea
- Gabrielli, Domenico
- Gaburo, Kenneth
- Gaffurius, Franchinus
- Gagliano, Marco da
- Galilei, Vincenzo
- Galuppi, Baldassare
- Gasparini, Francesco
- Gassmann, Florian Leopold
- Gastoldi, Giovanni Giacomo
- Gaultier, Ennemond
- Geminiani, Francesco
- Gerhard, Roberto
- Gerhardt, Paul
- Gershwin, George
- Gesualdo, Carlo
- Gibbons, Christopher
- Gibbons, Orlando
- Gilbert, Henry F.
- Ginastera, Alberto
- Giordano, Umberto
- Giustini, Lodovico
- Glarean, Heinrich
- Glass, Philip
- Glazunov, Alyeksandr
- Glinka, Mikahil Ivanovich
- Gluck, Christoph Willibald
- Goehr, Alexander
- Golijov, Osvaldo
- Golishev, Yefim
- Gombert, Nicolas
- Gomes, Carlos
- Górecki, Henryk
- Gosfield, Annie
- Gossec, François-Joseph
- Gottschalk, Louis Moreau
- Goudimel, Claude
- Gounod, Charles
- Grainger, Percy
- Granados, Enrique
- Graun, Carl Heinrich
- Graun, Johann Gottlieb
- Graupner, Christoph
- Greene, Maurice
- Grétry, André-Ernest-Modeste
- Grieg, Edvard
- Griffes, Charles T.
- Grisey, Gérard
- Guarneri, Bartolomeo Giuseppe
- Gubaydulina, Sofiya Asgatovna
- Guerrero, Francisco
H
- Hába, Alois
- Halévy, Fromental
- Hammerschmidt, Andreas
- Handel, George Frideric
- Handl, Jacobus
- Hanson, Howard
- Harbison, John
- Harris, Roy
- Harrison, Lou
- Hartmann, Karl Amadeus
- Harvey, Jonathan
- Hasse, Johann Adolf
- Hassler, Hans Leo
- Hauer, Josef Matthias
- Haydn, Franz Joseph
- Haydn, Michael
- Heinrich, Anthony Philip
- Henry, Pierre
- Henselt, Adolf von
- Henze, Hans Werner
- Herbert, Victor
- Herbst, Johannes
- Hérold, Louis Joseph Ferdinand
- Herz, Henri
- Hidalgo, Juan
- Higdon, Jennifer
- Hiller, Johann Adam
- Hiller, Lejaren
- Hindemith, Paul
- Hofhaimer, Paul
- Holloway, Robin
- Holst, Gustav
- Holzbauer, Ignaz
- Honegger, Arthur
- Hovhaness, Alan
- Howe, Hubert
- Humfrey, Pelham
- Hummel, Johann Nepomuk
- Humperdinck, Engelbert
- Husa, Karel
I
- Ichiyanagi, Toshi
- Imbrie, Andrew
- Indy, Vincent d’
- Ireland, John
- Isaac, Henricus
- Ives, Charles
J
- Jacquet de la Guerre, Elisabeth
- Janácek, Leos
- Jenkins, John
- Johnston, Ben
- Jolas, Betsy
- Jommelli, Niccolò
- Josquin des Prez
K
- Kagel, Mauricio
- Kalkbrenner, Friedrich
- Kay, Ulysses
- Keiser, Reinhard
- Kerle, Jacobus de
- Kerll, Johann Caspar
- Khachaturian, Aram Ilyich
- Kinkel, Johanna
- Kirchner, Leon
- Kline, Phil
- Koch, Heinrich Christoph
- Kodály, Zoltán
- Koechlin, Charles
- Koenig, Gottfried Michael
- Kozeluch, Leopold
- Krenek, Ernst
- Krieger, Adam
- Krieger, Johann
- Krieger, Johann Philipp
- Kuhnau, Johann
- Kurtág, György
- Kusser, Johann Sigismund
L
- Lachenmann, Helmut
- Lalande, Michel-Richard de
- Lalo, Edouard
- Landi, Stefano
- Landini, Francesco
- Lang, Josephine
- Lanier, Nicholas
- Lansky, Paul
- Larsen, Libby
- La Rue, Pierre de
- Lassus, Orlande de
- Latilla, Gaetano
- Law, Andrew
- Lawes, Henry
- Lawes, William
- Layolle, Francesco de
- Lechner, Leonhard
- Leclair, Jean-Marie
- Leeuw, Ton de
- Legrenzi, Giovanni
- Lehár, Franz
- Le Jeune, Claude
- Leo, Leonardo
- Leoncavallo, Ruggero
- Liebermann, Lowell
- Ligeti, György
- Lindberg, Magnus
- Liszt, Franz
- Lloyd, Jonathan
- Locatelli, Pietro
- Locke, Matthew
- Loeffler, Charles Martin
- Loewe, Carl
- Logroscino, Nicola
- López, Francisco
- Lortzing, Gustav Albert
- Lourié, Arthur
- Lucier, Alvin
- Luening, Otto
- Lully, Jean-Baptiste
- Lutoslawski, Witold
- Luzzaschi, Luzzasco
M
- MacDowell, Edward
- Machover, Tod
- Mackey, Steven
- MacMillan, Ernest
- Maderna, Bruno
- Mahler, Gustav
- Malipiero, Gian Francesco
- Manchicourt, Pierre de
- Manelli, Francesco
- Marenzio, Luca
- Marini, Biagio
- Marschner, Heinrich August
- Martini, Giovanni Battista
- Martini, Johannes
- Martino, Donald
- Martinu, Bohuslav
- Martirano, Salvatore
- Mascagni, Pietro
- Mason, Daniel Gregory
- Mason, Lowell
- Massenet, Jules
- Mattheson, Johann
- Mauduit, Jacques
- Mayr, Johann Simon
- Mayuzumi, Toshiro
- McPhee, Colin
- Méhul, Étienne-Nicolas
- Melby, John
- Mendelssohn, Felix
- Mendelssohn Hensel, Fanny
- Mennin, Peter
- Menotti, Gian Carlo
- Merula, Tarquinio
- Merulo, Claudio
- Messiaen, Olivier
- Meyer, Edgar
- Meyerbeer, Giacomo
- Milhaud, Darius
- Mondonville, Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de
- Moniuszko, Stanislaw
- Monn, Matthias Georg
- Monsigny, Pierre-Alexandre
- Monte, Philippe de
- Monteverdi, Claudio
- Moog, Robert
- Mosolov, Alyeksandr Vasilyevich
- Mouton, Jean
- Mozart, Leopold
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
- Muffat, Georg
- Muffat, Gottlieb
- Muhly, Nico
- Mumma, Gordon
- Murail, Tristan
- Musgrave, Thea
- Musorgsky, Modest
N
- Nancarrow, Conlon
- Neefe, Christian Gottlob
- Neuhaus, Max
- Neuwirth, Olga
- Nicolai, Otto
- Nielsen, Carl
- Nono, Luigi
- Notker “Balbulus”
O
- Obouhow, Nicolas
- Obrecht, Jacob
- Ockeghem, Jean de
- Odland, Bruce
- Offenbach, Jacques
- Oliveros, Pauline
- Orff, Carl
- Osiander, Lucas
P
- Pachelbel, Johann
- Paganini, Nicolò
- Paik, Nam June
- Paine, John Knowles
- Paisiello, Giovanni
- Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da
- Pallavicino, Carlo
- Parker, Horatio
- Parry, Hubert
- Pärt, Arvo
- Partch, Harry
- Pasatieri, Thomas
- Pedrell, Felip
- Penderecki, Krzysztof
- Pepusch, Johann Christoph
- Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista
- Peri, Jacopo
- Perich, Tristan
- Perle, George
- Persichetti, Vincent
- Peter, Johann Friedrich
- Petrucci, Ottaviano
- Pfitzner, Hans
- Piazzolla, Astor
- Piccinni, Niccolò
- Pijper, Willem
- Pisano, Bernardo
- Piston, Walter
- Pitoni, Giuseppe Ottavio
- Pleyel, Ignaz
- Porpora, Nicola
- Poulenc, Francis
- Pousseur, Henri
- Powell, Mel
- Praetorius, Hieronymus
- Praetorius, Michael
- Pratella, Francesco
- Price, Florence
- Prokofiev, Sergey
- Prosdocimus de Beldemandis
- Puccini, Giacomo
- Pujol, Joan Pau
- Purcell, Henry
Q
- Quantz, Johann Joachim
R
- Rakhmaninov, Sergey
- Rameau, Jean-Philippe
- Ran, Shulamit
- Randall, James K.
- Ravel, Maurice
- Ravenscroft, John
- Read, Daniel
- Reger, Max
- Reich, Steve
- Reichardt, Johann Friedrich
- Reichardt, Louise
- Reincken, Johann Adam
- Respighi, Ottorino
- Reusner, Esaias
- Reutter, Georg
- Revueltas, Silvestre
- Reynolds, Roger
- Rhau, Georg
- Richter, Franz Xaver
- Riegger, Wallingford
- Rihm, Wolfgang
- Riley, Terry
- Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay
- Rinaldo di Capua,
- Risset, Jean-Claude
- Rochberg, George
- Rodrigo, Joaquín
- Rogers, Bernard
- Rorem, Ned
- Roslavets, Nikolay Andreyevich
- Rossi, Luigi
- Rossi, Salamone
- Rossini, Gioacchino
- Rouse, Christopher
- Roussel, Albert
- Rubinstein, Anton
- Rudhyar, Dane
- Ruggles, Carl
- Russolo, Luigi
- Rzewski, Frederic
S
- Saariaho, Kaija
- Sacchini, Antonio
- Sachs, Hans
- Saint-Georges, Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de
- Saint-Saëns, Camille
- Salieri, Antonio
- Sammartini, Giovanni Battista
- Sarti, Giuseppe
- Sartorio, Antonio
- Satie, Erik
- Scarlatti, Alessandro
- Scarlatti, Domenico
- Schaeffer, Pierre
- Schafer, Murray
- Scheidemann, Heinrich
- Scheidt, Samuel
- Schein, Johann Hermann
- Schenk, Johann Baptist
- Schickele, Peter
- Schillinger, Joseph
- Schmitt, Florent
- Schnitger, Arp
- Schnittke, Alfred
- Schobert, Johann
- Schoenberg, Arnold
- Schreker, Franz
- Schubert, Franz
- Schuller, Gunther
- Schulz, Johann Abraham Peter
- Schuman, William
- Schumann, Clara
- Schumann, Robert
- Schütz, Heinrich
- Schwantner, Joseph
- Sculthorpe, Peter
- Sebastiani, Johann
- Seeger, Ruth Crawford
- Sermisy, Claudin de
- Sessions, Roger
- Shapey, Ralph
- Sharp, Cecil
- Sheng, Bright
- Shostakovich, Dmitry
- Sibelius, Jean
- Silbermann, Gottfried
- Skryabin, Alyeksandr
- Smetana, Bedrich
- Smith, Leland C.
- Smyth, Ethel
- Soler, Antonio
- Somis, Giovanni Battista
- Sousa, John Philip
- Spohr, Louis
- Spontini, Gaspare
- Staden, Sigmund Theophil
- Stamitz, Johann
- Stanford, Charles Villiers
- Stanley, John
- Steffani, Agostino
- Still, William Grant
- Stockhausen, Karlheinz
- Stradella, Alessandro
- Stradivari, Antonio
- Strauss, Johann
- Strauss, Richard
- Stravinsky, Igor
- Striggio, Alessandro
- Strozzi, Barbara
- Subotnick, Morton
- Sullivan, Arthur
- Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon
- Szymanowska, Maria
- Szymanowski, Karol
T
- Takahashi, Yuji
- Takemitsu, Toru
- Tallis, Thomas
- Tan, Dun
- Tartini, Giuseppe
- Tavener, John
- Taverner, John
- Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich
- Telemann, Georg Philipp
- Tenney, James
- Termen, Lev Sergeyevich
- Terradellas, Domingo Miguel Bernabe
- Thalberg, Sigismond
- Theile, Johann
- Theodorakis, Mikis
- Thomas, Ambroise
- Thomson, Virgil
- Tinctoris, Johannes
- Tippett, Michael
- Tomásek, Václav Jan Krtitel
- Tomkins, Thomas
- Torelli, Giuseppe
- Torrejón y Velasco, Tomás de
- Tower, Joan
- Trabaci, Giovanni Maria
- Traetta, Tommaso
- Tunder, Franz
- Turina, Joaquín
- Tye, Christopher
U
- Ullmann, Viktor
- Ussachevsky, Vladimir
V
- Valls, Fransesc
- Vanhal, Johann Baptist
- Varese, Edgard
- Vaughan Williams, Ralph
- Vecchi, Orazio
- Veracini, Francesco Maria
- Vercoe, Barry
- Verdi, Giuseppe
- Viadana, Lodovico
- Viardot, Pauline
- Victoria, Tomás Luis de
- Villa-Lobos, Heitor
- Vinci, Leonardo
- Vishnegradsky, Ivan Alyeksandrovich
- Vitali, Giovanni Battista
- Vitali, Tomaso Antonio
- Vitry, Philippe de
- Vivaldi, Antonio
- Vivier, Claude
- Vizzana, Lucrezia Orsina
- Vogler, Georg Joseph
- Volans, Kevin
- Vorísek, Jan Václav
W
- Wagenseil, Georg Christoph
- Wagner, Richard
- Walter, Johann
- Walther, Johann Jakob
- Walton, William
- Ward, Robert
- Weber, Carl Maria von
- Webern, Anton
- Weckmann, Matthias
- Weelkes, Thomas
- Weill, Kurt
- Weisgall, Hugo
- Weiss, Silvius Leopold
- Wernick, Richard
- Wert, Giaches de
- Wesley, Samuel
- Wesley, Samuel Sebastian
- Westergaard, Peter
- Wilbye, John
- Willaert, Adrian
- Wilson, John
- Wilson, Olly
- Wolf, Hugo
- Wolff, Christian
- Wolpe, Stefan
- Wuorinen, Charles
X
- Xenakis, Iannis
Y
- Yonge, Nicholas
- Young, LaMonte
- Yun, Isang
Z
- Zachow, Friedrich Wilhelm
- Zappa, Frank
- Zarlino, Gioseffo
- Zhou, Long
- Zimmermann, Bernd Alois
- Ziporyn, Evan
- Zorn, John
- Zumsteeg, Emilie
- Zumsteeg, Johann Rudolf
- Zwilich, Ellen Taaffe