Chronological list of Belgian classical composers

Medieval

• Johannes Ciconia (c. 1370–1412)

Renaissance

• Guillaume Dufay (1397–1474)
• Gilles Binchois (c. 1400–1460)
• Johannes Brassart (c. 1400/1405–1455)
• Johannes Ockeghem (c. 1410/1425–1497)
• Antoine Busnois (c. 1430–1492)
• Johannes Tinctoris (c. 1435–1511)
• Hayne van Ghizeghem (c.  1445–after 1476)
• Johannes de Stokem (c. 1445–1487 or 1501)
• Gaspar van Weerbeke (c. 1445–after 1516)
• Loyset Compère (c. 1445–1518)
• Alexander Agricola (1445/1446–1506)
• Matthaeus Pipelare (c. 1450 –c. 1515)
• Heinrich Isaac (Henricus Ysaac) (c. 1450/1455–1517)
• Josquin des Prez (c. 1450/1455–1521)
• Pierre de la Rue (c. 1452–1518)
• Jacobus Barbireau (1455–1491)
• Jacob Obrecht (c. 1457/1458–1505)
• Antonius Divitis (Anthonius Rycke) (c. 1470 –c. 1530)
• Adrian Willaert (c. 1490–1562)
• Johannes Ghiselin (Verbonnet) (fl. 1491–1507)
• Nicolas Gombert (c. 1495 –c. 1560)
• Thomas Crecquillon (c. 1505–1557)
• Jean De Latre (c. 1505/1510–1569)
• Jacob Clemens non Papa (c. 1510/1515 –c. 1555)
• Cipriano de Rore (1515/1516–1565)
• Hubert Waelrant (c. 1517–1595)
• Geert van Turnhout (c. 1520–1580)
• Philippus de Monte (1521–1603)
• Theodor Evertz (fl. c. 1554)
• Jacobus Vaet (c.  1529–1567)
• Jacobus de Kerle (1531/1532–1591)
• Orlandus Lassus (c. 1532–1594)
• Giaches de Wert (1535–1596)
• Jean de Castro (c. 1540–1611)
• Andreas Pevernage (1542/1543–1591)
• Alexander Utendal (1543/1545–1581)
• George de La Hèle (1547–1586)
• Emmanuel Adriaenssen (c. 1554–1604)
• Carolus Luython (1557–1620)
• Philippus Schoendorff (1558–1617)
• Cornelis Verdonck (1563–1625)

Baroque

• Peeter Cornet (c. 1570/1580–1633)
• Géry de Ghersem (1573/1575–1630)
• Léonard de Hodémont (c. 1575–1639)
• Mateo Romero (Mathieu Rosmarin) (c. 1575–1647)
• Guilielmus Messaus (1589–1640)
• Nicolaes a Kempis (c. 1600–1676)
• Henri Dumont (1610–1684)
• Jacques de Saint-Luc (1616 –c. 1710)
• Abraham van den Kerckhoven (c. 1618 –c. 1701)
• Gaspar Verlit (1622–1682)
• Daniel Danielis (1635–1696)
• Joannes Florentius a Kempis (1635–after 1711)
• Lambert Chaumont (c. 1635–1712)
• Carolus Hacquart (c. 1640–1701?)
• Alphonse d'Eve  [ it ] (1666–1727)
• Petrus Hercules Brehy (1673–1737) ()
• Jean-Baptiste Loeillet of London (John Loeillet) (1680–1730)
• Jacques Loeillet (1685–1748)
• Jean-Joseph Fiocco (1686–1746)
• Jean Baptiste Loeillet of Ghent (1688 –c. 1720)
• Josse Boutmy (1697–1779)
• Joseph-Hector Fiocco (1703–1741)
• Henri-Jacques de Croes (1705–1786)
• Jean-Noël Hamal (1709–1778)

Classical

• Joseph Abaco (1710–1805)
• Charles-Joseph van Helmont  [ de ] (1715–1790)
• Matthias Vanden Gheyn (1721–1785)
• Henri Moreau (composer) (1728–1803)
• Pieter van Maldere (1729–1768)
• François Joseph Gossec (1734–1829)
• André Ernest Modeste Grétry (1741–1813)
• Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny (1762–1842)

Romantic

• Martin-Joseph Mengal (1784–1851)
• François-Joseph Fétis (1784–1871)
• Nicolas Bosret (1799–1876)
• Jean-Valentin Bender  [ nl ] (1801–1873)
• Charles Auguste de Bériot (1802–1870)
• Karel-Louis (Charles-Louis) Hanssens (1802–1871)
• Albert Grisar (1808–1869)
• Jean-Baptiste Singelée (1812–1875)
• Félix Godefroid (1818–1897)
• Henri Vieuxtemps (1820–1881)
• César Franck (1822–1890)
• Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens (1823–1881)
• Dieudonné Dagnelies  [ nl ] (1825–1894)
• Constantin Bender  [ nl ] (1826–1902)
• François-Auguste Gevaert (1828–1908)
• Désiré Magnus (1828–1884)
• Eduard Lassen (1830–1904)
• Peter Benoit (1834–1901)
• Jean-Théodore Radoux (1835–1911)
• Joseph Callaerts (1838–1901)
• Louis Brassin (1840–1884)
• Jan Blockx (1851–1912)
• Jacques Martin  [ nl ] (1851–1930)
• Edgar Tinel (1854–1912)
• Sylvain Dupuis (1856–1931)
• César Thomson (1857–1931)
• Eugène Ysaÿe (1858–1931)
• Ivan Caryll (1861–1921)
• Arthur De Greef (1862–1940)
• Théo Ysaÿe (1865–1918)
• Guillaume Lekeu (1870–1894)

Modern/Contemporary

• August de Boeck (1865–1937)
• Paul Gilson (1865–1942)
• Lodewijk Mortelmans (1868–1952)
• Joseph Ryelandt (1870–1965)
• Joseph Jongen (1873–1953)
• Flor Alpaerts (1876–1954)
• Albert Dupuis (1877–1967)
• Jean Rogister (1879–1964)
• Arthur Meulemans (1884–1966)
• Jef van Hoof (1886–1959)
• Lodewijk De Vocht  [ nl ] (1887–1977)
• Francis de Bourguignon  [ nl ] (1890–1961)
• Maurice Schoemaker (1890–1964)
• René Barbier  [ de ] (1890–1981)
• Marinus de Jong (1891–1984)
• Jules Strens  [ nl ] (1893–1971)
• Jean Absil (1893–1974)
• Albert Huybrechts (1899–1938)
• André Souris (1899–1970)
• Marcel Poot (1901–1988)
• Gérard Favere  [ nl ] (1903–1975)
• Flor Peeters (1903–1986)
• Armand Preud'homme (1904–1986)
• René Bernier (1905–1984)
• Daniel Sternefeld (1905–1986)
• René Defossez  [ nl ] (1905–1988)
• Jef Maes (1905–1996)
• Arthur Bosmans  [ nl ] (1908–1991)
• Karel De Schrijver  [ nl ] (1908–1992)
• Jos Moerenhout  [ nl ] (1909–1985)
• Lucien Gekiere  [ nl ] (1912–1990)
• Jos Hanniken  [ nl ] (1912–1998)
• Willy Ostijn (1913–1993)
• Maurice Vaute (1913–2000) ()
• Ernest van der Eyken (1913–2010)
• Pierre Froidebise (1914–1962)
• Marcel Quinet (1915–1986)
• Victor Legley (1915–1994)
• Georges Follman  [ nl ] (born 1920)
• Charles Frison  [ nl ] (born 1921)
• Karel Goeyvaerts (1923–1993)
• Peter Cabus  [ nl ] (1923–2000)
• Herman Roelstraete  [ nl ] (1925–1985)
• Yolande Uyttenhove (1925–2000)
• Guy Duijck  [ nl ] (1927–2008)
• Louis Marischal  [ nl ] (1928–1999)
• Willem Kersters (1929–1998)
• Philibert Mees (1929–2006)
• Henri Pousseur (1929–2009)
• Didier van Damme (born 1929)
• Frédéric Devreese (1929–2020)
• Jan Segers  [ nl ] (born 1929)
• Werner Van Cleemput  [ nl ] (1930–2006)
• Jacqueline Fontyn (born 1930)
• Lucien Goethals (1931–2006)
• André Laporte (born 1931)
• Jean-Marie Simonis  [ fr ] (born 1931)
• Jacques Leduc  [ fr ] (born 1932)
• Elias Gistelinck  [ nl ] (1935–2005)
• Philippe Boesmans (born 1936)
• Frans Geysen (born 1936)
• Pierre Bartholomée (born 1937)
• André Waignein (born 1942)
• Jan De Maeyer  [ nl ] (born 1949)
• Carl Verbraeken (born 1950)
• Robert Groslot (born 1951)
• Karel De Wolf  [ nl ] (1952–2011)
• Jan Haderman  [ nl ] (born 1952)
• Lucien Posman (born 1952)
• Godfried-Willem Raes (born 1952)
• Wim Mertens (born 1953)
• Jan Van der Roost (born 1956)
• Nicholas Lens (born 1957)
• Hans Vermeersch  [ nl ] (born 1957)
• Luc Brewaeys (1959–2015)
• Dirk Brossé (born 1960)
• Piet Swerts  [ nl ] (born 1960)
• Wim Henderickx (1962–2022)
• Houman Khalaj (born 1980)
• Frank Bernaerts  [ de ] (born 1967)
• Pierre Kolp (born 1969)
• Annelies Van Parys (born 1975)