Maurice Gustave Duruflé was a French composer, organist, musicologist, and teacher.
Jehan-Aristide Paul Alain was a French organist, composer, and soldier. Born into a family of musicians, he learned the organ from his father and a host of other teachers, becoming a composer at 18, and composing until the outbreak of the Second World War 10 years later. His compositional style was influenced by the musical language of the earlier Claude Debussy, as well as his interest in music, dance and philosophy of the far east. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Alain became a dispatch rider in the Eighth Motorised Armour Division of the French Army; he took part in the Battle of Saumur, in which he was killed.
Jean Joseph Nicolas Guillaume Lekeu was a Belgian composer.
The Gnossiennes are several piano compositions by the French composer Erik Satie in the late 19th century. The works are for the most part in free time and highly experimental with form, rhythm and chordal structure. The form was invented by Satie but the term itself existed in French literature before Satie's usage.
Rolande Roberte Ginabat-Falcinelli was a French organist, pianist, composer, and music educator.
Marcel Lucien Tournier was a French harpist, composer, and teacher who composed important solo repertory for the harp that expanded the technical and harmonic possibilities of the instrument. His works are regularly performed in concert and recorded by professional harpists, and they are often test pieces for harp-performance competitions. A student of Alphonse Hasselmans at the Paris Conservatory, Tournier won the Second Grand Prize of the Prix de Rome in 1909. He also won the Rossini Prize for Laura et Petrarch.
Désiré Louis Corneille Dondeyne was a French conductor, composer and teacher who was born in Laon in the Aisne département.
Maurice Vaute was a Belgian composer of classical music, conductor and music teacher.
Marcelle Fanny Henriette Soulage was a French pianist, music critic and composer.
Louis-Noël Belaubre was a French classical pianist and composer.
Robert Planel was a French composer, music pedagogue and violinist.
