List of composers for the classical guitar

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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. This list is sortable by name, nationality and years of birth or death.

ComposerBornDiedNationalityNotable worksRemarks
Jean Absil 18931974BelgiumPièces caractéristiques, Op. 123
Samuel Adler 1928United States
Dionisio Aguado 17841849Spain
Miguel del Aguila 1957
Kalevi Aho 1949Finland
Mateo Albéniz 17551831Spain
Heinrich Albert 18701950Germany
Laurindo Almeida 19171995Brazil
Gabriel Fernández Álvez 19432008SpainLiturgia de Cristal
André Amellér 19121990France
Julian Anderson 1967United Kingdom
William Anderson 1962United States
Louis Andriessen 19392021Netherlands
Maria Luisa Anido 19071996Argentina
Denis ApIvor 19162004United Kingdom
Julián Arcas 18321882Spain
Malcolm Arnold 19212006United Kingdom
Eduardo Arolas 18921924Argentina
Boris Asafiev 18841949Russia
Vicente Asencio 19081979SpainCollectici intim, Suite Valencia
Daniel Asia 1953United States
Sérgio Assad 1952Brazil
Nicolas Astrinidis 19212010GreeceConcerto for Guitar and Orchestra
Olivier Aubert 17631830France
Hector Ayala 19141990ArgentinaSerie Americana
Milton Babbitt 19162011United States
Salvador Bacarisse 18981963
Henk Badings 19071987Netherlands
Simon Bainbridge 19522021United Kingdom
Leonardo Balada 1933United StatesBorn in Spain.
Claude Ballif 19242004France
Carlos Barbosa-Lima 19442022BrazilRe-located to the United States in 1981.
Vytautas Barkauskas 19312020Lithuania
Milton Barnes 19312001Canada
Richard Barrett 1959United Kingdom
Ángel Barrios 18821964Spain
Agustin Barrios 18851944Paraguay
Ary Barroso 19031964Brazil
Bruno Bartolozzi 19111980Italy
Abramo Basevi 18181885Italy
Leslie Bassett 19232016United States
Herbert Baumann 19252020Germany
Jürg Baur 19182010Germany
Julian Bautista 19011961Spain
Eduard Bayer 18221908Germany
Sally Beamish 1956
Robert Beaser 1954United States
Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt 19252010Chile
David Bedford 19372011United Kingdom
Franz Behr 18371898Germany
Siegfried Behrend 19331990Germany
Paulo Bellinati 1950Brazil
Carl Michael Bellman 17401795Sweden
Richard Rodney Bennett 19362012United KingdomFive Impromptus
Gunnar Berg 19091989Denmark
Luciano Berio 19252003ItalySequenza XI for guitar
Lennox Berkeley 19031989United Kingdom
Michael Berkeley 1948United Kingdom
Hector Berlioz 18031869France
Leonard Bernstein 19181990United States
Bruno Bettinelli 19132004Italy
Frank Michael Beyer 19282008Germany
Günter Bialas 19071995Germany
Antonio Bibalo 19222008Norway
Gilbert Biberian 19442023TurkeyActive in England.
Ronald Binge 19101979United Kingdom
Howard Blake 1938United Kingdom
Michael Blake 1951South Africa
Juan Blanco 19192008Cuba
Manuel Blasco de Nebra 17501784Spain
Carl Blum 17861844Germany
Carey Blyton 19322002United Kingdom
Vladimir Bobri 18981986United StatesBorn in Ukraine.
Jan Nepomucen Bobrowicz 18051881Poland
Luigi Boccherini 17431805Italy
John Boda 19222002United States
Seóirse Bodley 1933Ireland
Philippe Boesmans 19362022Belgium
Dusan Bogdanovic 1955Serbia
Rob du Bois 19342013Netherlands
William Bolcom 1938United States
Claude Bolling 19302020France
Carlos Bonell 1949United Kingdom
Luiz Bonfá 19222001Brazil
Carlos Bonilla Chávez 19232010Ecuador
Carlos Bonnet 18921983Venezuela
Raúl Borges 18821967Venezuela
Axel Borup-Jørgensen 19242012Denmark
Jacques Bosch 18251895Spain
Jean-Yves Bosseur 1947France
Pierre Boulez 19252016France
Timothy Bowers 1954United KingdomFive Preludes (1986) Guitar Concerto (2019)
Brian Boydell 19172000Ireland
Eugene Bozza 19051991France
Philip Bračanin 1942Australia
Charlotte Bray 1982United Kingdom
Reiner Bredemeyer 19291995Germany
Benjamin Britten 19131976United Kingdom Nocturnal after John Dowland
José Brocá 18051882Spain
Leo Brouwer 1939Cuba
Humberto Bruni Lamanna1957Venezuela
Ole Buck 1943Denmark
John Buckley 1951Ireland
Jarmil Burghauser 19211997Czechoslovakia
Geoffrey Burgon 19412010United Kingdom
Willy Burkhard 19001955Switzerland
Howard J. Buss 1951United States
Sylvano Bussotti 19312021Italy
Charlie Byrd 19251999United States
German Cáceres 1954El Salvador
Bartolomé Calatayud 18821973Spain
Leonhard von Call 17671815Austria
Charles Camilleri 19312009Malta
Dmitri Capyrin 1960Russia
Matteo Carcassi 17921853Italy
Cornelius Cardew 19361981United Kingdom
Jorge Cardoso 1949Argentina
Carlo Carfagna 1940Italy
Abel Carlevaro 19182001UruguayPreludios Americanos
Roberto Carnevale 1966Italy
Inocente Carreño 19192016Venezuela
Elliott Carter 19082012United States
Ferdinando Carulli 17701841ItalyRe-located to France in 1808.
Tristram Cary 19252008
Benet Casablancas 1956Spain
Francisco Casanovas 18991986Spain
Philip Cashian 1963
Gaspar Cassadó 18971966Spain
Frantz Casseus 19151993Haiti
Luigi Castellacci 17971845Italy
Evencio Castellanos 19151984Venezuela
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco 18951968ItalyRe-located to the United States in 1939.
Jacques Casterede 19262014France
Ignacio Cervantes 18471905Cuba
Luciano Chailly 19202002Italy
Carlos Chávez 18991978Mexico
Flores Chaviano 1946Cuba
Charles Chaynes 19252016France
Gian Paolo Chiti 1939Italy
Loris Chobanian 19332023IraqRe-located to the United States in 1960.
Domenico Cimarosa 17491801Italy
Pier Luigi Cimma 19412006Italy
Charles Clagget 17401790IrelandYear of death is approximate
Aldo Clementi 19252011Italy
Joaquín Clerch 1965Cuba
Graziella Concas 1970
Marius Constant 19252004
Sidney Corbett 1960
Ernesto Cordero 1946Puerto Rico
Roque Cordero 19172008Panama
John Corigliano 1938
Dan Cosley1979United States
Napoléon Coste 18051883France
Terence Croucher 1944United Kingdom
George Crumb 19292022
Salim Dada 1975Algeria
Georges Dandelot 18951975France
Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur 19082002France
Adam Darr 18111866Germany
Johann Nepomuk David 18951977Austria
Thomas Christian David 19252006Austria
Mario Davidovsky 19342019Argentina, United States
Peter Maxwell Davies 19342016United Kingdom
Jerome de Bromhead 1945Ireland
Ernesto De Curtis 18601926Italy
Paco de Lucia 19472014Spain
Jean Michel Defaye 1932France
Søffren Degen 18161885Denmark
David Del Tredici 1937United States
Georges Delerue 19251992France
Mark Delpriora 1959United States
Santiago de Murcia 16731739Spain
Michael Denhoff 1955Germany
Luigi Denza 18461922Italy
Ettore Desderi 18921974Italy
Yvonne Desportes 19031993France
Paul Dessau 18941979Germany
Eduardo di Capua 18641917Italy
Anton Diabelli 17811858Austria
David Diamond 19152005United States
James Dillon 1950United Kingdom
Violeta Dinescu 1953
Stephen Dodgson 19242013United Kingdom
Friedhelm Döhl 19362018Germany
Uroš Dojčinović 1959Serbia
Carlo Domeniconi 1947Italy
Franco Donatoni 19272000Italy
Andrew Downes 19502023United Kingdom
František Drdla 18681944Bohemia
Riccardo Drigo 18461930Italy
John W. Duarte 19192004United Kingdom
Johann Dubez 18281891Austria
Pierre Max Dubois 19301995France
Zsolt Durkó 19341997Hungary
Frantisek Xaver Dusek 17311799Bohemia
Antonín Dvořák 18411904Czechoslovakia
Benjamin Dwyer 1965Ireland
Roland Dyens 19552016
Tom Eastwood 19221999United Kingdom
Petr Eben 19292007Czechoslovakia
Ross Edwards 1943Australia
René Eespere 1953
Gottfried von Einem 19181996Austria
Richard Emsley 1951
Manuel Enriquez 19261994
József Eötvös 1962Hungary
Heimo Erbse 19242005Germany
Susanne Erding-Swiridoff 1955Germany
Óscar Esplá 18891976Spain
Sveinn Eythorsson 1964Iceland
Kenjiro Ezaki 1926Japan
Sebastian Fagerlund 1972Finland
Markus Fagerudd 1961Finland
Manuel de Falla 18761946SpainPour le tombeau de Claude DebussyRe-located to Argentina in 1939.
Eduardo Falú 19232013Argentina
Juan Falú 1948Argentina
Dimitris Fampas 19211996Greece
Carlos Farinas 19342002Cuba
Ferenc Farkas 19052000Hungary
David Farquhar 19282007New Zealand
Ciarán Farrell 1969Ireland
Jindřich Feld 19252007Czechoslovakia
Jim Ferguson 1948United States
Heraclio Fernández 18511886Venezuela
Oscar Lorenzo Fernández 18971948Brazil
Gabriel Fernández Álvez 19432008Spain
Brian Ferneyhough 1943United Kingdom
José Ferrer 18351916Spain
Paul Fetler 19202018United States
Michael Finnissy 1946United Kingdom
Graciane Finzi 1945
Graham Fitkin 1963United Kingdom
David Flynn 1977Ireland
William Foden 18601947United States
Daniel Fortea 18781953Spain
Lukas Foss 19222009
François de Fossa 17751849France
Yorgos Foudoulis 1964Greece
Jean Françaix 19121997France
Peter Racine Fricker 19201990United KingdomRe-located to the United States in the 1960s
Gunnar de Frumerie 19081987Sweden
James Fulkerson 1945United States
Blas Galindo 19101993Mexico
Boris Gaquere 1977Belgium
Gerald García 1949United KingdomBorn in Hong Kong.
Héctor García (guitarist) 19302022USABorn in Cuba.
Anton García Abril 19332021Spain
Rosa García Ascot 19062002Spain
Celso Garrido Lecca 1926Peru
Odette Gartenlaub 19222014France
Éric Gaudibert 19362012Switzerland
Hans Gefors 1952Sweden
Harald Genzmer 19092007Germany
Roberto Gerhard 18961970SpainRe-located to England in 1939.
Giorgio Federico Ghedini 18921965Italy
Gilardo Gilardi 18891963Argentina
Angelo Gilardino 19412022Italy
Alberto Ginastera 19161983
Egberto Gismonti 1947Brazil
Mauro Giuliani 17811829Italy
Barbara Giuranna 18981998Italy
Detlev Glanert 1960Germany
Stanley Glasser 19262018South Africa
Anthony Glise 1956
Radames Gnattali 19061988Brazil
Vincente Gomez 19112001Spain
Chiquinha Gonzaga 18471935Brazil
Nikos Gounaris 19151965Greece
Filippo Gragnani 17681820Italy
Harold Gramatges 19182008Cuba
Agustí Grau 18931964Spain
Deirdre Gribbin 1967Ireland
Cor de Groot 19141993Netherlands
Camargo Guarnieri 19071993Brazil
Carlos Guastavino 19122000Argentina
Gerardo Guevara 1930Ecuador
Róbert Gulya 1973Hungary
Gustav Gunsenheimer 1934Germany
Alexander Gurilev 18031858Russia
Guyún 19081987CubaActual name is Vincente Gonzalez Rubiera.
Sampo Haapamäki 1979Finland
Alois Hába 18931973
Manos Hadjidakis 19251996Greece
Georg Hajdu 1960Germany
Kimmo Hakola 1958Finland
Cristóbal Halffter 19302021Spain
Ernesto Halffter 19051989Spain
Rodolfo Halffter 19001987Spain
Haflidi Hallgrimsson 1941Iceland
Hilding Hallnäs 19031984Sweden
Eero Hämeenniemi 1951Finland
Peter Michael Hamel 1947Germany
Albert Harris 19162005United States
Lou Harrison 19172003United States
Heinz Friedrich Hartig 19071969Germany
Jonathan Harvey 19392012United Kingdom
Roman Haubenstock-Ramati 19191994Poland
Halvor Haug 1952Norway
Hans Haug 19001967Switzerland
Brian Head 1964United States
Anton Heiller 19231979Austria
Paavo Heininen 19382022Finland
Mikko Heiniö 1948Finland
Walter Hekster 19372012Netherlands
Hans Werner Henze 19262012Germany Royal Winter Music
Ernst Hess 19121968Switzerland
Jacques Hétu 19382010Canada
Paul Hindemith 18951963Germany
Takekuni Hirayoshi 19361998Japan
Evan Hirschelman 1976United States
Alun Hoddinott 19292008United Kingdom
Justin Holland 18191887United States
Vagn Holmboe 19091996Denmark
Joaquim Homs 19062003Spain
Felix Horetzky 17961870Poland
Joseph Horovitz 19262022
Alan Hovhaness 19112000United States
Klaus Huber 19242017Switzerland
Josiah Andrew Hudleston 17991865United KingdomMostly composed while living in India.
Georges Hugon 19041980France
Bertold Hummel 19252002Germany
Jacques Ibert 18901962France
Akira Ifukube 19142006Japan
Adina Izarra 1959Venezuela
David A. Jaffe 1955
Stephen Jaffe 1954
Hanns Jelinek 19011969Austria
Jiří Jirmal 19252019Czechoslovakia
Otto Joachim 19102010
Antonio Carlos Jobim 19271994Brazil
Bryan Johanson 1951United States
André Jolivet 19051974France
Antonio José Martínez Palacios 19021936
Wilfred Josephs 19271997
Dimitri Kabalevsky 19041987Russia
Pál Kadosa 19031983Hungary
Mauricio Kagel 19312008Argentina
Jouni Kaipainen 19562015Finland
Viktor Kalabis 19232006Czechoslovakia
Shigeru Kan-no 1959Japan
Ahti Karjalainen 19071986Finland
Elena Kats-Chernin 1957
Bryan Kelly 1934United Kingdom
Rudolf Kelterborn 19312021Switzerland
Aaron Jay Kernis 1960United States
Harrison Kerr 18971978United States
Aram Khachaturian 19031978Russia
Peter Klatzow 19452021South Africa
Giselher Klebe 19252009Germany
Anđelko Klobučar 19312016
Erland von Koch 19102009Sweden
Gareth Koch 1962Australia
Miklos Kocsar 19332019Hungary
Oliver Kohlenberg 1957Finland
Karl Kohn 1926United StatesBorn in Austria.
Barbara Kolb 1939United States
Heinrich Konietzny 19101983Germany
Olli Kortekangas 1955Finland
Nikita Koshkin 1956
Leon Koudelak 1961Czechoslovakia
Leopold Kozeluh 17471818Bohemia
Joseph-François Kremer 1954
Ernst Krenek 19001991AustriaRe-located to the United States in 1938.
Joseph Kreutzer 17901840Germany
Annette Kruisbrink 1958Netherlands
Andrei Krylov 1959
Augustin Kubizek 19182009Austria
Joseph Küffner 17761856Germany
Felicitas Kukuck 19142001Germany
György Kurtág 1926
Helmut Lachenmann 1935Germany
Alexandre Lagoya 19291999
Gordon Langford 19302017United Kingdom
Paul Lansky 1944Crooked Courante (1997); Semi-Suite (1998); Practical Preludes (2007–08)
Libby Larsen 1950United States
Anne Lauber 1943
Antonio Lauro 19171986Venezuela
Mario Lavista 19432021
Alan Lawrence 1949United Kingdom
Ernesto Lecuona 18961963Cuba
Ton de Leeuw 19261996Netherlands
Victor Legley 19151994Belgium
Luigi Legnani 17901877Italy
David Leisner 1953United States
Edith Lejet 1941France
John Anthony Lennon 1950United States
James Lentini 1958United States
Tania León 1943Cuba
Peter Scott Lewis 1953United States
Antoine de Lhoyer 17681852France
Lowell Liebermann 1961
Douglas Lilburn 19152001New Zealand
Magnus Lindberg 1958Finland
Jukka Linkola 1955Finland
Miguel Llobet 18781938SpainArranger of many Catalan folksongs.
Guillermo Venegas Lloveras 19151993Puerto Rico
Andrew Lloyd Webber 1948United Kingdom
Manos Loïzos 19371982Greece
Luca Lombardi 1945Italy
Dang Ngoc Long 1957
Fernando Lopes-Graca 19061994Portugal
Bent Lorentzen 19352018Denmark
Paco de Lucia 19472014Spain
Otto Luening 19001996United States
Vilho Luolajan-Mikkola 19112005Finland
Witold Lutosławski 19131994Poland
Elisabeth Lutyens 19061983United Kingdom
Diego Luzuriaga 1955Ecuador
Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov 18551914Russia
Bruce MacCombie 19432012United States
Celso Machado 1953Brazil
Peter Machajdík 1961Slovakia
Steven Mackey 1956
Bruno Maderna 19201973Germany
Jef Maes 19051996Belgium
Victor Magnien 18021885France
Ivor Mairants 19081988United KingdomBorn in Poland and moved to England at a young age
Gui Mallon 1953
Gian Francesco Malipiero 18821973Italy
Riccardo Malipiero 19142003Italy
Ursula Mamlok 19282016United StatesBorn in Germany.
Henry Mancini 19241994
Joan Manén 18831971Spain
Daan Manneke 1939Netherlands
Tomás Marco 1942Spain
Tera de Marez Oyens 19321996Netherlands
Franco Margola 19081992Italy
Heinrich Marschner 17951861Germany
Ingram Marshall 19422022United States
Frank Martin 18901974SwitzerlandRe-located to the Netherlands in 1946.
Giovanni Battista Martini 17061784Italy
Jean Paul Egide Martini 17411816Germany
Tauno Marttinen 19122008Finland
Wenzel Thomas Matiegka 17731830Bohemia
Colin Matthews 1946
Nicholas Maw 19352009United Kingdom
John McCabe 19392015United Kingdom
Edward McGuire 1948United Kingdom
Gordon McPherson 1965United Kingdom
Chiel Meijering 1954Netherlands
Jean-Racine Meissonnier 17941856France
Wilfrid Mellers 19142008United Kingdom
Usko Meriläinen 19302004Finland
Caspar Joseph Mertz 18061856Hungary
Josep Mestres Quadreny 19292021Spain
John Metcalfe 1964
Francisco Mignone 18971986Brazil
Georges Migot 18911976France
Darius Milhaud 18921974France
Ronaldo Miranda 1948Brazil
Behzad Mirkhani 1969
Akira Miyoshi 19332013Japan
Luis Manuel Molina 1959Cuba
Francesco Molino 17681847Italy
Simon Molitor 17661848
Federico Mompou 18931987Spain
François Morel 19262018Canada
Jorge Morel 19312021Argentina
Federico Moreno Torroba 18911982Spain
Ennio Morricone 19282020Italy
Robert Morris 1943
Virgilio Mortari 19021993Italy
Luigi Mosca 17751824Italy
Carlos Moscardini 1958Argentina
Ricardo Moyano 1961Argentina
José Muñoz Molleda 19051988Spain
Tristan Murail 1947France
Santiago de Murcia 16731739Spain
Thea Musgrave 1928United KingdomRe-located to the United States in 1972.
Olli Mustonen 1967Finland
Wolfgang Muthspiel 1965Austria
Stanley Myers 19301993United Kingdom
Jiro Nakano 19022000Japan
Lior Navok 1971Israel
Ernesto Nazareth 18631934Brazil
Remilson Nery 1961Brazil
Wilhelm Neuland 18061889Germany
Ulrik Neumann 19181994Sweden
Dimitri Nicolau 19462008ItalyBorn in Greece.
Michael Nicolella 1963
Tage Nielsen 19292003Denmark
Alfred Nieman 19131997United Kingdom
Kai Nieminen 1953Finland
Joaquin Nin-Culmell 19082004Spain
Marlos Nobre 1939Brazil
Paulinho Nogueira 19292003Brazil
Pehr Henrik Nordgren 19442008Finland
Per Nørgård 1932Denmark
Ib Nørholm 19312019Denmark
Bayan Northcott 19402022United Kingdom
Christopher Norton 1953New Zealand
Jan Novák 19211984Czechoslovakia
Johann Abraham Nüske 17961865Germany
Jana Obrovska 19301987Czechoslovakia
Helmut Oehring 1961Germany
Maurice Ohana 19141992
Jane O'Leary 1946Ireland
Stephen Oliver 19501992United Kingdom
Poul Rovsing Olsen 19221982Denmark
Marco Oppedisano 1971United States
Julián Orbón 19251991United StatesBorn in Spain and worked in Cuba till 1964.
Juan Orrego-Salas 19192019Chile
Ivan Padovec 18001873Croatia
Niccolò Paganini 17821840Italy
Manuel Palau Boix 18931967Spain
Boris Papandopulo 19061991Croatia
Sophocles Papas 18931986GreeceRe-located to the United States in 1914.
Åke Parmerud 1953
Apostolos Paraskevas 1964Greece
Stephen Paulus 19492014United States
Carlos Pedrell 18781941Uruguay
Felipe Pedrell 18411922Spain
Ferdinand Pelzer 18011860GermanyRe-located to England in 1829.
Andreas Paolo Perger 1970
Nick Peros 1963
Vincent Persichetti 19151987United States
Jean-Louis Petit 1937France
Pierre Petit 19222000France
Goffredo Petrassi 19042003Italy
Pietro Pettoletti 17951870ItalyYears of birth and death are approximate.
Ástor Piazzolla 19211992Argentina
Richard Pick 19152001
C. A. Pinto Fonseca 19332006Brazil
Lina Pires de Campos 19182003Brazil
Thomas Pitfield 19031999United Kingdom
Pixinguinha 18981973Brazil
Kenneth Platts 19461989United Kingdom
Fotis Polymeris 19202013Greece
Manuel Ponce 18821948Mexico
Ennio Porrino 19101959Italy
Pierre Jean Porro 17501831France
Francis Poulenc 18991963France
Baden Powell 19372000Brazil
Mel Powell 19231998
José Antônio de Almeida Prado 19432010Brazil
Catharina Pratten 18211895Germany
Stanko Prek 19151999Slovenia
Ida Presti 19241967France
André Previn 19292019United StatesBorn in Germany.
Claudio Prieto 19342015Spain
Teresa Procaccini 1934Italy
Emilio Pujol 18861980Spain
Maximo Diego Pujol 1957Argentina
John Purser 1942United Kingdom
Eduard Pütz 19112000Germany
Veli-Matti Puumala 1965Finland
Relly Raffman 19211988United States
Osmo Tapio Räihälä 1964Finland
Tomi Räisänen 1976Finland
Štěpán Rak 1945Czechoslovakia
Ariel Ramírez 19212010Argentina
Luis Felipe Ramón y Rivera 19131993Venezuela
Primoz Ramovs 19211999Slovenia
Einojuhani Rautavaara 19282016Finland
Alan Rawsthorne 19051971United Kingdom
Irma Ravinale 19372013Italy
Jean-Marie Raymond 1949France
Gardner Read 19132005United States
Ferdinand Rebay 18801953Austria
Max Reger 18731916Germany
Giulio Regondi 18221872SwitzerlandMostly active in the United Kingdom.
Steve Reich 1936United States
Dilermando Reis 19161977Brazil
Ottorino Respighi 18791936
Hermann Reutter 19001985Germany
Roger Reynolds 1934
Alan Ridout 19341996
Rodrigo Riera 19231999Venezuela
Terry Riley 1935United States
Anthony Ritchie 1960New Zealand
John Ritchie 19212014New Zealand
Carlos Rafael Rivera 1970United States
Jean Rivier 18961987France
George Rochberg 19182005
Arturo Rodas 1954Ecuador
Joaquín Rodrigo 19011999Spain
Betty Roe 1930United Kingdom
Amadeo Roldán 19001939Cuba
Alessandro Rolla 17571841Italy
Celedonio Romero 19131996CubaRe-located to the United States in 1957.
Ludovico Roncalli 16541713Italy
Ned Rorem 19232022United States
Christopher Rouse 19492019United States
Albert Roussel 18691937France
Alec Rowley 18921958United Kingdom
Miklós Rózsa 19071995HungaryActive in several countries.
Marcel Rubin 19051995Austria
Poul Ruders 1949Denmark
Antonio Ruiz-Pipò 19341998France
Henrik Rung 18071871Denmark
John Rutter 1945
Jarmo Saari 1970Finland
Kaija Saariaho 19522023Finland
Sabicas 19121990SpainAlso active in Mexico and the United States.
Arturo Sacchetti 1941Italy
Julio Salvador Sagreras 18791942Argentina
Eduardo Sainz de la Maza 19031982Spain
Regino Sainz de la Maza 18961981Spain
Adolfo Salazar 18901958Spain
Luis H. Salgado 19031977Ecuador
Aulis Sallinen 1935Finland
Erkki Salmenhaara 19412002Finland
Esa-Pekka Salonen 1958Finland
Matilde Salvador 19182007Spain
Gustave Samazeuilh 18771967France
Luis Sandi 19051996Mexico
Sven-David Sandström 19422019Sweden
Cláudio Santoro 19191989Brazil
Guido Santórsola 19041994Brazil
Turibio Santos 1940Brazil
Heikki Sarmanto 1939Finland
Henri Sauguet 19011989France
Manuel Saumell 18101870Cuba
Robert Saxton 1953United Kingdom
Giacinto Scelsi 19051988Italy
R. Murray Schafer 19332021Canada
Gerhard Schedl 19572000Austria
Armin Schibler 19211986Switzerland
Peter Schickele 1935
Thomas Daniel Schlee 1957Austria
Annette Schlünz 1964Germany
Arnold Schoenberg 18741951AustriaRe-located to the United States in 1934.
Franz Schubert 17971828
Gunther Schuller 19252015
Joseph Schwantner 1943United States
Kurt Schwertsik 1935
Ludvig Schytte 18481909DenmarkRe-located to Germany in 1884 and to Austria in 1886.
Cyril Scott 18791970United Kingdom
Peter Sculthorpe 19292014Australia
Humphrey Searle 19151982United Kingdom
Leif Segerstam 1944Finland
Andrés Segovia 18931987Spain
Matyas Seiber 19051960HungaryRe-located to England in 1935.
Ernest Shand 18681924United Kingdom
Alexander Shchetynsky 1960Ukraine
Jean Sibelius 18651957Finland
Roberto Sierra 1953Puerto Rico
Larry Sitsky 1934Australia
Fredrik Sixten 1962
Howard Skempton 1947United Kingdom
Reginald Smith Brindle 19172003United Kingdom
Vicente Emilio Sojo 18871974Venezuela
Charles Michael Alexis Sola 17861857
Padre Antonio Soler 17291783Spain
Harry Somers 19251999Canada
Fernando Sor 17781839SpainIntroduction and Variations on a Theme by Mozart
Bent Sørensen 1958
Michalis Souyioul 19061958Greece
Frank Lee Sprague 19582018United States
Pieter van der Staak 19302007Netherlands
Hans Stadlmair 19292019Austria
Robert Starer 19242001United StatesBorn in Austria
Michael Starobin 1956
Walter Steffens 1934Germany
Pavel Steidl 1961Czechoslovakia
Roger Steptoe 1953United Kingdom
Bernard Stevens 19161983United Kingdom
Ronald Stevenson 19282015
Richard Stoker 19382021United Kingdom
Ignace Strasfogel 19091994Poland
Johann Strauss Sr. 18041849Austria
Johann Strauss II 18251899Austria
Soulima Stravinsky 19101994SwitzerlandRe-located to the United States in 1948.
Aurel Stroe 19322008
Rezső Sugar 19191988Hungary
Carlos Surinach 19151997SpainRe-located to the United States in 1959.
Giles Swayne 1946United Kingdom
Ricardo Tacuchian 1939Brazil
Germaine Tailleferre 18921983
Jenő Takács 19022005Austria
Yuji Takahashi 1938Japan
Toru Takemitsu 19301996Japan
Joby Talbot 1971
Tan Dun 1957China
Hilary Tann 19472023
Alexandre Tansman 18971986
Sebastião Tapajós 19432021Brazil
Francisco Tárrega 18521909SpainGran Vals, Recuerdos de la Alhambra, Capricho arabe
John Tavener 19442013United Kingdom
Matthew Taylor 1964United Kingdom
Mikis Theodorakis 19252021Greece
Augusta Read Thomas 1964
Virgil Thomson 18961989United States
Eythor Thorlaksson 19302018Iceland
Jukka Tiensuu 1948Finland
Michael Tippett 19051998United Kingdom
Camillo Togni 19221993Italy
Henri Tomasi 19011971France
Colin Tommis 1958United Kingdom
Enrico Toselli 18831926Italy
Vladimir Tošić 1949Serbia
Francesco Paolo Tosti 18461916Italy
Joan Tower 1938United States
Ralph Towner 1940United States
Manfred Trojahn 1949Germany
Eldad Tsabary 1969Israel
Antonin Tucapsky 19282014CzechoslovakiaRe-located to England in 1975
Joaquin Turina 18821949Spain
José Luis Turina 1952Spain
Alfred Uhl 19091992Austria
Erich Urbanner 1936Austria
Horacio Vaggione 1943Argentina
Alexander Varlamov 18011848Russia
Pēteris Vasks 1946Latvia
Andersen Viana 1962Brazil
Lois V. Vierk 1951
Heitor Villa-Lobos 18871959Brazil Chôros No. 1 ; Twelve Études; Five Preludes
Giulio Viozzi 19121984Italy
Param Vir 1952
Olli Virtaperko 1973Finland
Claude Vivier 19481983Canada
Roman Vlad 19192013ItalyBorn in modern-day Ukraine.
Roger Craig Vogel 1947United States
Wladimir Vogel 18961984
Kevin Volans 1949
Melinda Wagner 1957
Rudolf Wagner-Régeny 19031969GermanyBorn in Hungary (in modern-day Romania).
Luise Walker 19101998Austria
Errollyn Wallen 1958
Gareth Walters 19282012United Kingdom
William Walton 19021983United Kingdom
Johann Baptist Wanhal 17391813Czechoslovakia
Carl Maria von Weber 17861826Germany
Anton Webern 18831945Austria
John Weinzweig 19132006Canada
Flemming Weis 18981981
Ferdinand Weiss 19322002Austria
Harald Weiss 1949Germany
Egon Wellesz 18851974AustriaRe-located to England in the late 1930s.
Eberhard Werdin 19111991Germany
Richard Wernick 1934
Harri Kristian Wessman 1949Finland
Graham Whettam 19272007United Kingdom
Johan Wikmanson 17531800Sweden
John Williams 1941United KingdomBorn in Australia.
Mason Williams 1938
Arthur Wills 19262020United Kingdom
Christopher Wilke 1973United States Emperor Romulus Augustus, His Serious Funk ; Diatribe; Never Kick a Man in a Suit
Thomas Wilson 19272001United Kingdom
Pierre Wissmer 19151992
Charles Wuorinen 19382020United States
Stavros Xarhakos 1937Greece
Narciso Yepes 19271997Spain
Andrew York 1958United States
Kenneth Young 1955New Zealand
Isang Yun 19171996KoreaRe-located to Germany in 1959.
Atahualpa Yupanqui 19081992Argentina
Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph 1948South Africa
Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti 18001878Italy
Frank Zappa 19401993United StatesWaltz for GuitarShort (0:39) 12-tone waltz written at the age of 18.
Richard Zarou 1981
Friedrich Zehm 19232007Germany
Milan Zelenka 1939Czechoslovakia
Jaime Mirtenbaum Zenamon 1953Bolivia
Marilyn J. Ziffrin 19262018United States
Bernd Alois Zimmermann 19181970Germany
Sauli Zinovjev 1988Finland

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