Era
20th Century
1,875 composers of the 20th Century period, with dates, nationality and instruments from Wikidata.
- A. J. Potter1918–1980
- Aage Stentoft1914–1990
- Aaron Avshalomov1894–1965
- Aaron Copland1900–1990
- Aarre Merikanto1893–1958
- Abdylas Maldybaev1906–1978
- Abraham Binder1895–1966
- Abraham Ellstein1907–1963
- Achille Longo1900–1954
- Ada Kent1888–1969
- Adolf Busch1891–1952
- Adolf Strauss (composer)1902–1944
- Adolfo Mejía Navarro1905–1973
- Adolfo Salazar1890–1958
- Adriaan Bonsel1918–2011
- Agustín Barrios1885–1944
- Ahmed Ghulam Ali Chagla1902–1953
- Ahn Eak-tai1906–1965
- Aimée Van de Wiele1904–1991
- Åke Uddén1903–1987
- Akira Ifukube1914–2006
- Aksel Agerby1889–1942
- Al Lerner (composer)1919–2014
- Alan Bush1900–1995
- Alan Hovhaness1911–2000
- Alan Rawsthorne1905–1971
- Alan Richardson (composer)1904–1978
- Alan Shulman1915–2002
- Alba Rosa Viëtor1889–1979
- Alban Berg1885–1935
- Albert Chamberland1886–1975
- Albert Hay Malotte1895–1964
- Albert Huybrechts1899–1938
- Albert J. Pitman1887–1966
- Albert Moeschinger1897–1985
- Albert Pratz1914–1995
- Albert Richard Sendrey1911–2003
- Albert Stoessel1894–1943
- Albert Viau1910–2001
- Albertine Caron-Legris1906–1972
- Albertine Morin-Labrecque1886–1957
- Alberto Domínguez (composer)1913–1975
- Alberto Ginastera1916–1983
- Alberto Hemsi1898–1975
- Alberto Soriano1915–1981
- Aldo Finzi (composer)1897–1945
- Alec Wilder1907–1980
- Alejandro García Caturla1906–1940
- Aleksandr Kasyanov (composer)1891–1982
- Aleksandr Varlamov (composer, born 1904)1904–1990
- Aleksandr Yurasovsky1890–1922
- Alessandro Cicognini1906–1995
- Alexander Abramsky1898–1985
- Alexander Albrecht1885–1958
- Alexander Brott1915–2005
- Alexander Chuhaldin1892–1951
- Alexander Courage1919–2008
- Alexander Fridlender1906–1990
- Alexander Mosolov1900–1973
- Alexander Moyzes1906–1984
- Alexander Olshanetsky1892–1946
- Alexander Peloquin1918–1997
- Alexander Shenshin1890–1944
- Alexander Tcherepnin1899–1977
- Alexander Uriah Boskovich1907–1964
- Alexander Veprik1899–1958
- Alexandre Tansman1897–1986
- Alexandru Mandy1914–2005
- Alfonso Gibilaro1888–1957
- Alfred Desenclos1912–1971
- Alfred Karindi1901–1969
- Alfred Mignault1895–1961
- Alfred Newman1901–1970
- Alfred Uhl1909–1992
- Alfred Whitehead1887–1974
- Alfredo Antonini1901–1983
- Alfredo Diez Nieto1918–2021
- Alice Nāmakelua1892–1987
- Alice Samter1908–2004
- Allan Gray (composer)1902–1973
- Allan McIver1904–1969
- Allan Pettersson1911–1980
- Allard de Ridder1887–1966
- Alliene Brandon Webb1910–1965
- Alma Bazel Androzzo1912–2001
- Alma Goatley1887–1969
- Alois Hába1893–1973
- Alois Melichar1896–1976
- Aloísio de Oliveira1914–1995
- Aloys Fleischmann1910–1992
- Alvin Etler1913–1973
- Amadeo Roldán1900–1939
- Amy Patterson1912–2019
- Amy Upham Thomson McKean1893–1972
- Anatol Provazník1887–1950
- Anatoliy Kos-Anatolsky1909–1983
- Anatoly Alexandrov (composer)1888–1982
- Anatoly Bogatyrev1913–2003
- André Amellér1912–1990
- André Casanova1919–2009
- André Filho1906–1974
- André Fleury (organist)1903–1995
- André Hossein1905–1983
- André Jolivet1905–1974
- André Souris1899–1970
- Andrée Bonhomme1905–1982
- Andree Rochat1900–1990
- Andria Balanchivadze1906–1992
- Andriy Shtoharenko1902–1992
- Andrzej Panufnik1914–1991
- Angèle Ravizé1887–1980
- Angelica Morales von Sauer1911–1996
- Angelo Francesco Lavagnino1909–1987
- Anna Maria Klechniowska1888–1973
- Anne-Marie Ørbeck1911–1996
- Annelu Burns1889–1942
- Annette Thoma1886–1974
- Anoushavan Ter-Ghevondyan1887–1961
- Antal Doráti1906–1988
- Anthony Bernard1891–1963
- Anthony Burgess1917–1993
- Anton Webern1883–1945
- Antonio José Martínez Palacios1902–1936
- Antonio Pedrotti1901–1975
- Aram Khachaturian1903–1978
- Ariadna Mikeshina1900–1982
- Arie Van de Moortel1918–1976
- Ariel Shearer1905–
- Arkady Filippenko1912–1983
- Armando José Fernandes1906–1983
- Armstrong Gibbs1889–1960
- Arnold Cooke1906–2005
- Arnold Franchetti1911–1993
- Arnold Schmitz1893–1980
- Arnold Schoenberg1874–1951
- Arnold Trowell1887–1966
- Arnold van Wyk1916–1983
- Arnold Walter1902–1973
- Arseny Avraamov1886–1944
- Arthur Benjamin1893–1960
- Arthur Berger (composer)1912–2003
- Arthur Bliss1891–1975
- Arthur Duff (composer)1899–1956
- Arthur Hoérée1897–1986
- Arthur Honegger1892–1955
- Arthur Johnston (composer)1898–1954
- Arthur Lourié1892–1966
- Artur Immisch1902–1949
- Artur Lemba1885–1963
- Ary Barroso1903–1964
- August Baeyens1895–1966
- Augusto Berto1889–1953
- Aurelio Giorni1895–1938
- Avril Coleridge-Taylor1903–1998
- Aziz El-Shawan1916–1993
- Barbara Giuranna1899–1998
- Barbara Pentland1912–2000
- Barnabás von Géczy1897–1971
- Beatrice Witkin1916–1990
- Béla Bartók1881–1945
- Ben Molar1915–2015
- Benjamin Britten1913–1976
- Benjamin Burrows1891–1966
- Benjamin Dale1885–1943
- Benjamin Frankel1906–1973
- Benna Moe1897–1983
- Bernard B. Brown1898–1981
- Bernard Barrell1919–2005
- Bernard Grun1901–1972
- Bernard Naylor1907–1986
- Bernard Rogers1893–1968
- Bernard Rose (musician)1916–1996
- Bernard Stevens1916–1983
- Bernard van Dieren1887–1936
- Bernd Alois Zimmermann1918–1970
- Bernhard Eichhorn1904–1980
- Bernhard Heiden1910–2000
- Bernhard Kaun1899–1980
- Berta Alves de Sousa1906–1997
- Bertha Des Verney1890–1975
- Bertha Weber1887–1961
- Berthe di Vito-Delvaux1915–2005
- Berthold Goldschmidt1903–1996
- Bill Russell (composer)1905–1992
- Billy Mayerl1902–1959
- Billy Strayhorn1915–1967
- Bjarne Amdahl1903–1968
- Bjarne Brustad1895–1978
- Bjørn Fongaard1919–1980
- Blas Galindo1910–1993
- Blaž Arnič1901–1970
- Bob Nolan1908–1980
- Bohuslav Martinů1890–1959
- Bolesław Szabelski1896–1979
- Boleslaw Szczeniowski1898–1985
- Bonaventura Somma1893–1960
- Boris Arapov1905–1992
- Boris Berlin1907–2001
- Boris Blacher1903–1975
- Boris Kõrver1917–1994
- Boris Sobinov1895–1956
- Borys Lyatoshynsky1894–1968
- Božidar Širola1889–1956
- Brian Boydell1917–2000
- Brian Easdale1909–1995
- Bruce Holder1905–1987
- Bruno Bartolozzi1911–1980
- Bruno Bettinelli1913–2004
- Bruno Bjelinski1909–1992
- Buck Warnick1915–1995
- Burrill Phillips1907–1988
- C. W. Orr1893–1976
- Cacilda Borges Barbosa1914–2010
- Calvin Jackson (pianist)1919–1985
- Camargo Guarnieri1907–1993
- Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen1903–1984
- Carl Michalski1911–1998
- Carl Orff1895–1982
- Carl Tucker1905–1949
- Carl Viggo Meincke1902–1959
- Carl W. Stalling1891–1972
- Carlo Innocenzi1899–1962
- Carlo Jachino1887–1971
- Carlo Rustichelli1916–2004
- Carlos Cachaça1902–1999
- Carlos Chávez1899–1978
- Carlos Guastavino1912–2000
- Carlos Jiménez Mabarak1916–1994
- Carlos Surinach1915–1997
- Carlton Cooley1898–1981
- Carmelo Pace1906–1993
- Carmen Barradas1888–1963
- Carmen Lombardo1903–1971
- Carmine Coppola1910–1991
- Casimir von Pászthory1886–1966
- Catherine Murphy Urner1891–1942
- Cayetano Puglisi1902–1968
- Cecil Coles1888–1918
- Cecil Effinger1914–1990
- Cecil Gray (composer)1895–1951
- Cecile Paul Simon
- Cedric Thorpe Davie1913–1983
- Celius Dougherty1902–1986
- César Guerra-Peixe1914–1993
- César Pérez Sentenat1896–1973
- Charity Bailey1904–1978
- Charles Houdret1905–1965
- Charles Ives1874–1954
- Charles Jones (composer)1910–1997
- Charles Naginski1909–1940
- Charles Turner (English composer)1907–1977
- Charles Williams (composer)1893–1978
- Charley Straight1891–1940
- Charlie Chaplin1889–1977
- Charlotte Blake1885–1979
- Charlotte Ruegger
- Charlotte Schlesinger1909–1976
- Charlotte Sohy1887–1955
- Chen Ta-ju1917–1992
- Chen Zi1919–1999
- Chiang Wen-yeh1910–1983
- Chris Alvares1901–1994
- Christian Darnton1905–1981
- Christine Asdurian1893–1963
- Christopher Edmunds1899–1990
- Christopher Le Fleming1908–1985
- Clair Van Lynden1885–1947
- Clarisse Leite1917–2003
- Claude Delvincourt1888–1954
- Claude Demetrius1916–1988
- Claude Porter White1907–1975
- Cláudio Santoro1919–1989
- Cliff Hess1894–1959
- Clotilde Arias1901–1959
- Colin McPhee1900–1964
- Colin Ross (composer)1911–1993
- Colin Wark1896–1939
- Conlon Nancarrow1912–1997
- Conrad Baden1908–1989
- Conrad Beck1901–1989
- Conrad Bernier1904–1988
- Constance Walton1919–2017
- Constant Lambert1905–1951
- Constantin Brăiloiu1893–1958
- Cor de Groot1914–1993
- Cyrillus Kreek1889–1962
- Czesław Lewicki1906–1979
- Dag Wirén1905–1986
- Dagmar Nordstrom1903–1976
- Dajos Béla1897–1978
- Dan Folke1906–1954
- Dane Rudhyar1895–1985
- Daniel Ayala Pérez1906–1975
- Daniel Jones (composer)1912–1993
- Daniel Lesur1908–2002
- Daniel Ruyneman1886–1963
- Daniel Sternberg1913–2000
- Daniel Sternefeld1905–1986
- Daniele Amfitheatrof1901–1983
- Darius Milhaud1892–1974
- Darrell Calker1905–1964
- David Broekman1903–1958
- David Cox (composer)1916–1997
- David Diamond (composer)1915–2005
- David Moule-Evans1905–1988
- David Van Vactor1906–1994
- David Willcocks1919–2015
- David Wynne (composer)1900–1983
- Dee Libbey1919–1988
- Deems Taylor1885–1966
- Denes Agay1911–2007
- Dénes von Buday1890–1963
- Denis ApIvor1916–2004
- Dezso d'Antalffy1885–1945
- Dick Kattenburg1919–1944
- Dick Rogers1912–1970
- Dietrich Erdmann1917–2009
- Dilys Elwyn-Edwards1918–2011
- Dimitrie Cuclin1885–1978
- Dimitrios Levidis1886–1951
- Dimitris Dragatakis1914–2001
- Ding Shande1911–1995
- Dinorá de Carvalho1905–1980
- Djane Lavoie-Herz1888–1982
- Djumshud Ashurov1913–1980
- Dmitri Klebanov1907–1987
- Dmitri Shostakovich1906–1975
- Dmitry Kabalevsky1904–1987
- Dol Dauber1894–1950
- Domenico Bartolucci1917–2013
- Domingo Prat1886–1944
- Don Wright (composer)1908–2006
- Dora Pejačević1885–1923
- Dorian Le Gallienne1915–1963
- Dorothy Freed1919–2000
- Dorothy Howell (composer)1898–1982
- Dorothy Parke1904–1990
- Dorothy Wanderman1897–1988
- Dorsey Dixon1897–1968
- Douglas Guest1916–1996
- Douglas Lilburn1915–2001
- Douglas Mews (composer)1918–1993
- Douglas Moore1893–1969
- Duke Ellington1899–1974
- Dulcie Holland1913–2000
- Éamonn Ó Gallchobhair1906–1982
- Earl Robinson1910–1991
- Ebbe Grims-land1915–2015
- Eda Rapoport1890–1968
- Eddie Kilfeather1900–1950
- Edith Swepstone1885–1930
- Edmund Jenkins1894–1926
- Edmund Meisel1894–1930
- Edmund Nick1891–1974
- Edmund Rubbra1901–1986
- Edmund von Borck1906–1944
- Édouard Devernay1889–1952
- Édouard Woolley1916–1991
- Edric Cundell1893–1961
- Edu da Gaita1916–1982
- Eduard Erdmann1896–1958
- Eduard Flipse1896–1973
- Eduard Künneke1885–1953
- Eduard Oja1905–1950
- Eduard Pütz1911–2000
- Eduard Toldrà1895–1962
- Eduard Tubin1905–1982
- Eduard Zuckmayer1890–1972
- Eduardo Hernández Moncada1899–1995
- Edvard Bræin1887–1957
- Edward Ballantine1886–1971
- Edward Boatner1898–1981
- Edward Joseph Collins1886–1951
- Edward Laska1894–1959
- Edward Olearczyk1915–1994
- Edward T. Cone1917–2004
- Edward Ward (composer)1900–1971
- Edward White (composer)1910–1994
- Edwin Bélanger1910–2005
- Edwina Florence Wills1915–2002
- Egon Kenton1891–1987
- Egon Kornauth1891–1959
- Egon Neumann1894–1948
- Egon Wellesz1885–1974
- Eiluned Davies1913–1999
- Einar Englund1916–1999
- Eivind Groven1901–1977
- Eldon Rathburn1916–2008
- Eleni Lambiri1889–1960
- Elie Siegmeister1909–1991
- Elisabeth Lutyens1906–1983
- Elisse Boyd1910–1979
- Elizabeth Gyring1889–1970
- Elizabeth Maconchy1907–1994
- Elizabeth Poston1905–1987
- Elliott Carter1908–2012
- Elmer Diktonius1896–1961
- Els Aarne1917–1995
- Elsa Barraine1910–1999
- Elsa Respighi1894–1996
- Else Schmitz-Gohr1901–1987
- Emanuel Amiran-Pougatchov1909–1993
- Emanuel Melik-Aslanian1915–2003
- Emanuel Schlechter1904–1943
- Emil Bohnke1888–1928
- Emil Hlobil1901–1987
- Emil Newman1911–1984
- Emil Reesen1887–1964
- Émile Damais1906–2003
- Émile Goué1904–1946
- Emilia Gubitosi1887–1972
- Emiliana de Zubeldia1888–1987
- Émilien Allard1915–1976
- Emilio Pujol1886–1980
- Emirto de Lima1890–1972
- Emma Martínez de la Torre Shelton1889–1989
- Emmanuel Bondeville1898–1987
- Emmy Brady Rogers1897–1985
- Emmy Wegener1901–1973
- Endre Szervánszky1911–1977
- Ennio Porrino1910–1959
- Enrique Iturriaga1918–2019
- Ephraim Amu1899–1995
- Erhard Mauersberger1903–1982
- Eric Coates1886–1957
- Eric Fenby1906–1997
- Eric Fogg1903–1939
- Eric Wild (conductor)1910–1989
- Erich Böhlke1895–1979
- Erich Katz1900–1973
- Erich Walter Sternberg1891–1974
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold1897–1957
- Erik Bergman1911–2006
- Erik Chisholm1904–1965
- Erik Nordgren1913–1992
- Erland von Koch1910–2009
- Erling Brene1896–1980
- Erna Tauro1916–1993
- Erna Woll1917–2005
- Ernani Braga1888–1948
- Ernest Charles1895–1984
- Ernest Farrar1885–1918
- Ernest John Moeran1894–1950
- Ernest Kanitz1894–1978
- Ernest MacMillan1893–1973
- Ernest Manheim1900–2002
- Ernest Pingoud1887–1942
- Ernest Seitz1892–1978
- Ernest van der Eyken1913–2010
- Ernesto Halffter1905–1989
- Ernst Bacon1898–1990
- Ernst Hermann Meyer1905–1988
- Ernst Hess (composer)1912–1968
- Ernst Klusen1909–1988
- Ernst Krenek1900–1991
- Ernst Laaff1903–1987
- Ernst Levy1895–1981
- Ernst Pepping1901–1981
- Ernst Toch1887–1964
- Ernst-Lothar von Knorr1896–1973
- Erwin Dressel1909–1972
- Erwin Schulhoff1894–1942
- Esther Allan1914–1985
- Esther Ballou1915–1973
- Esther Rofe1904–2000
- Eta Tyrmand1917–2008
- Ethel Edith Bilsland1892–1982
- Ethel Leginska1886–1970
- Ethel Tench Rogers1914–2008
- Ettore Campogalliani1903–1992
- Eugen Papst1886–1956
- Eugen Suchoň1908–1993
- Eugène Bigot1888–1965
- Eugene Bonner1889–1983
- Eugène Bozza1905–1991
- Eugène Lapierre1899–1970
- Eugène Reuchsel1900–1988
- Eugene Zador1894–1977
- Eunice Katunda1915–1990
- Eunice Lea Kettering1906–2000
- Eva Jessye1895–1992
- Evelyn Faltis1887–1937
- Evelyn LaRue Pittman1910–1992
- Evgeny Golubev1910–1988
- Eyvin Andersen1914–1968
- Farid al-Atrash1917–1974
- Fartein Valen1887–1952
- Fay Foster1886–1960
- Federico Mompou1893–1987
- Federico Moreno Torroba1891–1982
- Fela Sowande1905–1987
- Felicitas Kukuck1914–2001
- Felipe Pinglo Alva1899–1936
- Felix Arndt1889–1918
- Felix Mills1901–1987
- Ferde Grofé1892–1972
- Ferdinand Haberl1906–1985
- Ferdinand Leitner1912–1996
- Ferenc Farkas1905–2000
- Fernande Decruck1896–1954
- Fernando Lopes-Graça1906–1994
- Fernando Obradors1897–1945
- Fernando Remacha1898–1984
- Fidelio F. Finke1891–1968
- Filip Kutev1903–1982
- Filip Lazăr (musician)1894–1936
- Finn Høffding1899–1997
- Fiorenzo Carpi1918–1997
- Flemming Weis1898–1981
- Florence Price1887–1953
- Florizel von Reuter1890–1985
- Frances McCollin1892–1960
- Frances Ziffer1917–1996
- Francesco Mander1915–2004
- Francine Benoît1894–1990
- Francis Bousquet1890–1942
- Francis Chagrin1905–1972
- Francis Judd Cooke1910–1995
- Francis MacMillen1885–1973
- Francis Poulenc1899–1963
- Francisco Alonso1887–1948
- Francisco Cristancho Camargo1905–1977
- Francisco Escudero (composer)1912–2002
- Francisco Llácer Pla1918–2002
- Francisco Mignone1897–1986
- Francisco Palaviccini1912–1996
- Franciszek Zachara1898–1966
- Franco Casavola1891–1955
- Franco Margola1908–1992
- Frank Hutchens1892–1965
- Frank Marsales1886–1975
- Frank Martin (composer)1890–1974
- František Brož1896–1962
- František Domažlický1913–1997
- František Hertl1906–1973
- Franz Biebl1906–2001
- Franz Grothe1908–1982
- Franz Mittler1893–1970
- Franz Philipp1890–1972
- Franz R. Friedl1892–1977
- Franz Reizenstein1911–1968
- Franz Servatius Bruinier1905–1928
- Franz Syberg1904–1955
- Franz von Vecsey1893–1935
- Fred Elizalde1907–1979
- Fred Hartley1905–1980
- Fred Lohse1908–1987
- Freda Swain1902–1985
- Frederic Bayco1913–1970
- Frederic Curzon1899–1973
- Frederick Jacobi1891–1952
- Frederick May (composer)1911–1985
- Frederick T. Durrant1895–
- Fried Walter1907–1996
- Frieda Schmitt-Lermann1885–
- Friederike Schwarz1910–1945
- Friedrich Hollaender1896–1976
- Friedrich Wildgans1913–1965
- Fritz Büchtger1903–1978
- Fritz Cohen1904–1967
- Fritz Dietrich1905–1945
- Fritz Heinrich Klein1892–1977
- Fritz Ihlau1909–1995
- Fritz Lubrich1888–1971
- Fritz Müller-Rehrmann1889–1949
- Fritz Reuter (composer)1896–1963
- Fritz Spielmann (composer)1906–1997
- Fumio Hayasaka1914–1955
- Gábor Darvas1911–1985
- Gabriel Cusson1903–1972
- Gabriel von Wayditch1888–1969
- Gaetano Giuffrè1918–2018
- Gail Kubik1914–1984
- Galina Konstantinovna Smirnova1910–1980
- Galina Ustvolskaya1919–2006
- Gardner Read1913–2005
- Gaspar Cassadó1897–1966
- Gaston Allaire1916–2011
- Gaston Litaize1909–1991
- Gavriil Popov (composer)1904–1972
- Gayane Chebotaryan1918–1998
- Geirr Tveitt1908–1981
- Gene Gutchë1907–2000
- Gene Krupa1909–1973
- Geoffrey Gwyther1890–1944
- George Andreani1901–1979
- George Antheil1900–1959
- George Butterworth1885–1916
- George Frederick McKay1899–1970
- George Gershwin1898–1937
- George Kleinsinger1914–1982
- George Lloyd (composer)1913–1998
- George Lynn (composer)1915–1989
- George Perle1915–2009
- George Posford1906–1976
- George Rochberg1918–2005
- George Selwyn English1912–1980
- George Szell1897–1970
- George Tompkins (composer)1888–1972
- George Tremblay1911–1982
- Georges Auric1899–1983
- Georges Favre1905–1993
- Georges Migot1891–1976
- Georges Savaria1916–1998
- Georges Tzipine1907–1987
- Georges Van Parys1902–1971
- Georges-Émile Tanguay1893–1964
- Georgi Dimitrov (composer)1904–1979
- Georgios Poniridis1887–1982
- Georgy Sviridov1915–1998
- Gerald Cockshott1915–1979
- Gerald Finzi1901–1956
- Gerald Strang1908–1983
- Geraldine Mucha1917–2012
- Gerard Bunk1888–1958
- Gerard Carbonara1886–1959
- Gerhart von Westerman1894–1963
- Germaine Tailleferre1892–1983
- Gertrude Martin Rohrer
- Gertrude Price Wollner1900–1985
- Géza Frid1904–1989
- Giacinto Scelsi1905–1988
- Giacomo Benvenuti (composer)1885–1943
- Gian Carlo Menotti1911–2007
- Gianandrea Gavazzeni1909–1996
- Gică Petrescu1915–2006
- Gideon Klein1919–1945
- Gilardo Gilardi1889–1963
- Gilbert Vinter1909–1969
- Giorgio Federico Ghedini1892–1965
- Giovanna Bruna Baldacci1886–
- Giovanni D'Anzi1906–1974
- Giovanni Fusco1906–1968
- Giovanni Gioviale1885–1949
- Gisela Hernández1912–1971
- Giulia Recli1890–1970
- Giulio Confalonieri1896–1972
- Giuseppe Mulè1885–1951
- Giuseppe Pietri1886–1946
- Glad Robinson Youse1898–1985
- Gladys Rich1892–1972
- Glenn Miller1904–1944
- Godfrey Ridout1918–1984
- Godfrey Sampson1902–1949
- Goffredo Petrassi1904–2003
- Gonzalo Brenes1907–2003
- Gordon Delamont1918–1981
- Gordon Jacob1895–1984
- Gösta Nystroem1890–1966
- Gottfried Huppertz1887–1937
- Gottfried Müller (composer)1914–1993
- Gottfried von Einem1918–1996
- Gottfried Wolters1910–1989
- Grace Adele Freebey1885–1943
- Grace Leboy1890–1983
- Grace Williams1906–1977
- Graciela Olmos1895–1962
- Graham George1912–1993
- Grete Hinterhofer1899–1985
- Grete von Zieritz1899–2001
- Grigor Yeghiazaryan1908–1988
- Grigori Gamburg1900–1967
- Grigory Frid1915–2012
- Guido Guerrini (composer)1890–1965
- Guido Pannain1891–1977
- Guido Santórsola1904–1994
- Guillermo Venegas Lloveras1915–1993
- Guirne Creith1907–1996
- Gunnar Berg (composer)1909–1989
- Gunnar de Frumerie1908–1987
- Gunnar Sønstevold1912–1991
- Günter Bialas1907–1995
- Günter Raphael1903–1960
- Gustaf Nordqvist1886–1949
- Gustav Ernesaks1908–1993
- Guy de Lioncourt1885–1961
- Guy Warrack1900–1986
- György Kósa1897–1984
- György Ránki1907–1992
- Gyula Dávid1913–1977
- H. Maurice Jacquet1886–1954
- H. Owen Reed1910–2014
- Haig Gudenian1886–1972
- Haim Alexander1915–2012
- Halsey Stevens1908–1989
- Hanning Schröder1896–1987
- Hanns Eisler1898–1962
- Hanns Jelinek1901–1969
- Hanns Ludwig Kormann1889–1965
- Hanns Wolf1894–1968
- Hanoch Jacoby1909–1990
- Hans Blüher1888–1955
- Hans Carste1909–1971
- Hans Chemin-Petit1902–1981
- Hans Erich Apostel1901–1972
- Hans Ewald Heller1894–1966
- Hans Felix Husadel1897–1964
- Hans Friedrich Micheelsen1902–1973
- Hans Gahlenbeck1896–1975
- Hans Gál1890–1987
- Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt1901–1988
- Hans Jürgen von der Wense1894–1966
- Hans Lang (Austrian composer)1908–1992
- Hans Redlich1903–1968
- Hans Schimmerling1900–1967
- Hans Spialek1894–1983
- Hans Ulrich Staeps1909–1988
- Hans Vogt (composer)1911–1992
- Hans Weisbach1885–1961
- Hans-Joachim Koellreutter1915–2005
- Hans-Martin Majewski1911–1997
- Hans-Otto Borgmann1901–1977
- Harald Genzmer1909–2007
- Harcourt Whyte1905–1977
- Harilaos Perpessas1907–1995
- Harl McDonald1899–1955
- Harold Craxton1885–1971
- Harold Gramatges1918–2008
- Harold L. Walters1918–1984
- Harold Levey1894–1967
- Harold Morris (composer)1890–1964
- Harold Van Heuvelen1919–2017
- Harold Vincent Milligan1888–1951
- Harriet Bolz1909–1995
- Harry Archer (composer)1888–1960
- Harry Partch1901–1974
- Harutyun Hanesyan1911–1987
- Harvey Samuel Whistler1907–1976
- Hasan Rashid1896–1969
- Hashimoto Kunihiko1904–1949
- Hazel Volkart1907–1985
- Heathcote Dicken Statham1889–1973
- Hector Gratton1900–1970
- Heidi Sundblad-Halme1903–1973
- Heino Eller1887–1970
- Heino Kaski1885–1957
- Heinrich Konietzny1910–1983
- Heinrich Lemacher1891–1966
- Heinrich Lindlar1912–2009
- Heinrich Schalit1886–1976
- Heinrich Sutermeister1910–1995
- Heinrich Weber (composer)1901–1970
- Heinz Roemheld1901–1985
- Heinz Röttger1909–1977
- Heinz Schubert (composer)1908–1945
- Heinz Tiessen1887–1971
- Heinz Wunderlich1919–2012
- Heitor Villa-Lobos1887–1959
- Helen Eugenia Hagan1891–1964
- Helen Glatz1908–1996
- Helen Roessing1891–1957
- Helen Searles Westbrook1889–1967
- Helen Taylor (composer)1915–1950
- Helmer Alexandersson1886–1927
- Helmut Bornefeld1906–1990
- Helmut Degen1911–1995
- Helmut Huchzermeyer1904–1984
- Helmut Schiff1918–1982
- Helmuth Osthoff1896–1983
- Helvi Leiviskä1902–1982
- Hemanga Biswas1912–1987
- Hendrik Andriessen1892–1981
- Henk Badings1907–1987
- Henri Bourtayre1915–2009
- Henri Carol1910–1984
- Henri Cliquet-Pleyel1894–1963
- Henri Collet1885–1951
- Henri Dutilleux1916–2013
- Henri Gagnon1887–1961
- Henri Martelli1895–1980
- Henri Nibelle1886–1967
- Henri Sauguet1901–1989
- Henri Tomasi1901–1971
- Henry Barraud (composer)1900–1997
- Henry Brant1913–2008
- Henry Cowell1897–1965
- Henry Jolles1902–1965
- Henry Ley (organist)1887–1962
- Henry Sullivan (composer)1895–1975
- Henryk Gold1902–1977
- Heraclius Djabadary1891–1937
- Herbert Brün1918–2000
- Herbert Collum1914–1982
- Herbert Eimert1897–1972
- Herbert Elwell1898–1974
- Herbert Howells1892–1983
- Herbert Menges1902–1972
- Herbert Sandberg (conductor)1902–1966
- Herbert Sumsion1899–1995
- Herman Berlinski1910–2001
- Herman David Koppel1908–1998
- Hermann Ambrosius1897–1983
- Hermann Erdlen1893–1972
- Hermann Grabner1886–1969
- Hermann Haller (composer)1914–2002
- Hermann Heiss1897–1966
- Hermann Reutter1900–1985
- Hermann Schroeder1904–1984
- Hermann Unger1886–1958
- Hershy Kay1919–1981
- Hidemaro Konoye1898–1973
- Hilda Dederich1901–1969
- Hilda Emery Davis1895–1995
- Hilda Pires dos Reis1919–2001
- Hildegard Quiel1888–1972
- Hilding Hallnäs1903–1984
- Hilding Rosenberg1892–1985
- Hisatada Otaka1911–1951
- Hisato Ohzawa1907–1953
- Holger Gilbert-Jespersen1890–1975
- Homer Keller1915–1996
- Hong Nan-pa1897–1941
- Hooper Brewster-Jones1887–1949
- Howard Hanson1896–1981
- Hryhoriy Veryovka1895–1964
- Hubert Klyne Headley1906–1996
- Hugh Armigel Wade1907–1949
- Hugo Chaim Adler1894–1955
- Hugo Distler1908–1942
- Hugo Friedhofer1901–1981
- Hugo Kauder1888–1972
- Humphrey Procter-Gregg1895–1980
- Humphrey Searle1915–1982
- Hunter Johnson (composer)1906–1998
- Hyam Greenbaum1901–1942
- Ian Whyte (conductor)1901–1961
- Ichirō Fujiyama1911–1993
- Ida Vivado1913–1989
- Iet Stants1903–1968
- Ignace Strasfogel1909–1994
- Ignacio Fernández Esperón1894–1968
- Igor Markevitch1912–1983
- Igor Stravinsky1882–1971
- Ilmari Hannikainen1892–1955
- Ilse Fromm-Michaels1888–1986
- Ilza Niemack1903–1993
- Imogen Holst1907–1984
- Ina Boyle1889–1967
- Ina Lohr1903–1983
- Inglis Gundry1905–2000
- Ingolf Dahl1912–1970
- Ion Nonna Otescu1888–1940
- Irene Britton Smith1907–1999
- Irene Cozad1888–1970
- Irene M. Giblin1888–1974
- Irmgard Farden Aluli1911–2001
- Irving Actman1907–1967
- Irving Berlin1888–1989
- Irving Fine1914–1962
- Irwin Dash1892–1984
- Irwin Heilner1908–1991
- Irwin Leroy Fischer1903–1977
- Irwin Swack1916–2006
- Iša Krejčí1904–1968
- Isabel Aretz1909–2005
- Isabel McNeill Carley1918–2011
- Isabelle Delorme1900–1991
- Isadore Freed1900–1960
- Isang Yun1917–1995
- Isao Hayashi1912–1995
- Ismail Marzuki1914–1958
- Isotaro Sugata1907–1952
- Israel Citkowitz1909–1974
- Issa El-Saieh1919–2005
- István Anhalt1919–2012
- Ivan Dzerzhinsky1909–1978
- Ivan Romanoff1914–1997
- Ivan Wyschnegradsky1893–1979
- Ivana Lang1912–1982
- Ivor Darreg1917–1994
- Ivor Gurney1890–1937
- J. Harold Brown1902–1982
- J.-J. Gagnier1885–1949
- Jack Beaver1900–1963
- Jack Delano1914–1997
- Jack Fascinato1915–1994
- Jack Lathrop1913–1987
- Jack Mills (music publisher)1891–1979
- Jack Shaindlin1909–1978
- Jack Westrup1904–1975
- Jacob Avshalomov1919–2013
- Jacob Schaefer (composer)1888–1936
- Jacobo Ficher1896–1978
- Jacobo Palm1887–1982
- Jacques Chailley1910–1999
- Jacques de Menasce1905–1960
- Jacques Ibert1890–1962
- Jacques Leguerney1906–1997
- Jadwiga Szajna-Lewandowska1912–1994
- Jakob van Domselaer1890–1960
- Jakov Gotovac1895–1982
- Jakub Kagan1896–1942
- James Gayfer1916–1997
- James Scott (composer)1885–1938
- Ján Cikker1911–1989
- Jan Ekier1913–2014
- Jan Hanuš (composer)1915–2004
- Jan Koetsier1911–2006
- Jan Meyerowitz1913–1998
- Jan Rychlík1916–1964
- Jan Zdeněk Bartoš1908–1981
- Jane Bos1897–1975
- Jane Corner Young1915–2001
- Jane Joseph1894–1929
- Jane Vignery1913–1974
- Jānis Ivanovs1906–1983
- Jānis Kalniņš (composer)1904–2000
- Jaromír Vejvoda1902–1988
- Jaromír Weinberger1896–1967
- Jaroslav Ježek (composer)1906–1942
- Jaroslav Kvapil (composer)1892–1958
- Jaroslav Řídký1897–1956
- Javier Ruiz Rueda1909–1993
- Jay Blackton1909–1994
- Jay Livingston1915–2001
- Jean Absil1893–1974
- Jean Berger1909–2002
- Jean Coulthard1908–2000
- Jean Déré1886–1970
- Jean Deslauriers1909–1978
- Jean Doyen1907–1982
- Jean Françaix1912–1997
- Jean Hubeau1917–1992
- Jean Kurt Forest1909–1975
- Jean Langlais1907–1991
- Jean Rivier1896–1987
- Jean Vallerand1915–1994
- Jean Wiener1896–1982
- Jean-Étienne Marie1917–1989
- Jean-Jacques Grunenwald1911–1982
- Jean-Siegfried Blumann1887–1965
- Jeanne Barbillion1895–1992
- Jeanne Behrend1911–1988
- Jeanne Boyd1890–1968
- Jeanne Leleu1898–1979
- Jef van Hoof1886–1959
- Jeffrey Mark1898–1965
- Jehan Alain1911–1940
- Jenő Ádám1896–1982
- Jenő Takács1902–2005
- Jens Bjerre Jacobsen1903–1986
- Jeronimas Kačinskas1907–2005
- Jerzy Fitelberg1903–1951
- Jessie Baetz1894–1980
- Jesús Arámbarri1902–1960
- Jesús Bal y Gay1905–1993
- Jesús García Leoz1904–1953
- Jesús Guridi1886–1961
- Jimmy McHugh1894–1969
- Jiří Reinberger1914–1977
- Joachim Ulric Voyer1892–1935
- Joan Mary Last1908–2002
- Joan Trimble1915–2000
- Joaquín Pardavé1900–1955
- Joaquín Rodrigo1901–1999
- Johan Kvandal1919–1999
- Johana Harris1912–1995
- Johann Nepomuk David1895–1977
- Johanna Beyer1888–1944
- Johannes Petzold1912–1985
- John Cage1912–1992
- John Cozens (musician)1906–1999
- John Donald Robb1892–1989
- John Fernström1897–1961
- John Gardner (composer)1917–2011
- John J. Becker1886–1961
- John Jacob Niles1892–1980
- John Laurence Seymour1893–1986
- John Lee (composer of church music)1908–1990
- John Rippiner Heath1887–1950
- John Rox1902–1957
- John Serry Sr.1915–2003
- John Vincent (composer)1902–1977
- John W. Duarte1919–2004
- John W. Schaum1905–1988
- John Weinzweig1913–2006
- John Wesley Work III1901–1967
- John Whitney (animator)1917–1995
- John Woods Duke1899–1984
- John Worley1919–1999
- Jón Leifs1899–1968
- Jón Þórarinsson1917–2012
- Jørgen Jersild1913–2004
- Jórunn Viðar1918–2017
- José Muñoz Molleda1905–1988
- José Pablo Moncayo1912–1958
- Josée Vigneron-Ramackers1914–2002
- Josef Tal1910–2008
- Joseph Achron1886–1943
- Joseph Ahrens1904–1997
- Joseph Beaulieu1895–1965
- Joseph Beer1908–1987
- Joseph Kosma1905–1969
- Joseph Meyer (songwriter)1894–1987
- Joseph R. Wood1915–2000
- Joseph Schillinger1895–1943
- Jovdat Hajiyev1917–2002
- Joyce Barthelson1900–1986
- Joyce Howard Barrell1917–1989
- Józef Koffler1896–
- Juan de Dios Filiberto1885–1964
- Juan Francisco García (composer)1892–1974
- Juan García Esquivel1918–2002
- Juan José Castro1895–1968
- Juan Orrego-Salas1919–2019
- Juan Vert1890–1931
- Julia Kerr1898–1965
- Julia Smith (composer)1905–1989
- Julián Bautista1901–1961
- Julian Work1910–1995
- Julie Reisserová1888–1938
- Julien-François Zbinden1917–2021
- Julio de Caro1899–1980
- Julius Bürger1897–1995
- Julius Harrison1885–1963
- June Weybright1903–1996
- Juraj Stahuljak1901–1975
- Jürg Baur1918–2010
- Jussi Jalas1908–1985
- K. P. H. Notoprojo1909–2007
- Kai Aage Bruun1899–1971
- Kai Gullmar1905–1982
- Kai Normann Andersen1900–1967
- Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji1892–1988
- Kalitha Dorothy Fox1894–1934
- Kálmán Mihalik1896–1922
- Kan'ichi Shimofusa1898–1962
- Karel Berman1919–1995
- Karel Boleslav Jirák1891–1972
- Karel Reiner1910–1979
- Karl Amadeus Hartmann1905–1963
- Karl Clausen1904–1972
- Karl Hajos1889–1950
- Karl Höller1907–1987
- Karl Komma1913–2012
- Karl L. King1891–1971
- Karl Leichter1902–1987
- Karl Ludwig Gerok1906–1975
- Karl Marx (composer)1897–1985
- Karl Pilß1902–1979
- Karl Rautio1889–1963
- Karl Schiske1916–1969
- Karl-Birger Blomdahl1916–1968
- Karl-Rudi Griesbach1916–2000
- Kathe Volkart-Schlager1897–1976
- Katherine Kennicott Davis1892–1980
- Kathleen Richards1895–1984
- Kay Swift1897–1993
- Kazuo Yamada1912–1991
- Kees van Baaren1906–1970
- Keith Bissell1912–1992
- Kemp Stillings1888–1967
- Kenneth Duffield1885–1958
- Kent Kennan1913–2003
- Kerstin Thieme1909–2001
- Kikuko Kanai1911–1986
- Kim Won-gyun1917–2002
- Kiyoshige Koyama1914–2009
- Kjell Roikjer1901–1999
- Klaus Egge1906–1979
- Knudåge Riisager1897–1974
- Knut Nystedt1915–2014
- Koharik Gazarossian1907–1967
- Kōmei Abe1911–2006
- Konrad Pałubicki1910–1992
- Kōsaku Yamada1886–1965
- Kosti Vehanen1887–1957
- Kostiantyn Dankevych1905–1984
- Kristian Hauger1905–1977
- Kristo Kono1907–1991
- Kurken Alemshah1907–1947
- Kurt Atterberg1887–1974
- Kurt Hessenberg1908–1994
- Kurt Roger1895–1966
- Kurt Schwaen1909–2007
- Kurt Striegler1886–1958
- Kurt Thomas (composer)1904–1973
- Kurt Weill1900–1950
- L. Scinti Roger1885–1964
- Lajos Bárdos1899–1986
- Lamartine Babo1904–1963
- Lars-Erik Larsson1908–1986
- Lasse Dahlquist1910–1979
- László Lajtha1892–1963
- László Weiner1916–1944
- Lauma Reinholde1906–1986
- Launy Grøndahl1886–1960
- Lawrence Benjamin Brown1893–1972
- Lazar Weiner1897–1982
- Lee Pattison1890–1966
- Leevi Madetoja1887–1947
- Leif Halvorsen1887–1959
- Leith Stevens1909–1970
- Lemuel McPherson Christian1913–2000
- Lennie Tristano1919–1978
- Lennox Berkeley1903–1989
- Léo Chauliac1913–1977
- Léo Ferré1916–1993
- Leo Funtek1885–1965
- Leo Leux1893–1951
- Leo Maguire1903–1985
- Leo Ornstein1893–2002
- Leo Quayle1918–2005
- Leo Rowlands1891–1967
- Leo Smit (Dutch composer)1900–1943
- Leo Sowerby1895–1968
- Leó Weiner1885–1960
- Léo-Pol Morin1892–1941
- Leon Carr1910–1976
- Leon Kirchner1919–2009
- Leon Stein1910–2002
- Leonard B. Meyer1918–2007
- Leonard Bernstein1918–1990
- Leonard Woods (sculptor)1919–2014
- Léonce de Saint-Martin1886–1954
- Leopold Spinner1906–1980
- Leroy Anderson1908–1975
- Leroy Ostransky1918–1993
- Leroy Robertson1896–1971
- Les C. Copeland1887–1942
- Letty Katts1919–2007
- Lev Knipper1898–1974
- Lewis Lane1901–1977
- Lex van Delden1919–1988
- Lila Lalauni1918–1996
- Lila-Gene George1918–2017
- Lili Boulanger1893–1918
- Lili Wieruszowski1899–1971
- Lilian Elkington1900–1969
- Lino Liviabella1902–1960
- Lionel Daunais1901–1982
- Lionel Newman1916–1989
- Liu Xue'an1905–1985
- Ljubica Marić1909–2003
- Lois Albright1904–1995
- Lois Rhea1916–2004
- Lojze Bratuž1902–1937
- Lola Folman1908–1979
- Lora Aborn1907–2005
- Lorenc Antoni1909–1991
- Lothar Windsperger1885–1935
- Lotte Backes1901–1990
- Lou Carter1918–2005
- Lou Harrison1917–2003
- Lou Koster1889–1973
- Louiguy1916–1991
- Louis Applebaum1918–2000
- Louis Beydts1895–1953
- Louis De Francesco
- Louis Durey1888–1979
- Louis Forbes1902–1981
- Louis Fourestier1892–1976
- Louis Levy1894–1957
- Louise E. Stairs1892–1975
- Louise Talma1906–1996
- Loulou Gasté1908–1995
- Lü Ji (composer)1909–2002
- Luciano Gallet1893–1931
- Luciano Sgrizzi1910–1994
- Lucie Vellère1896–1966
- Lucien Cailliet1891–1985
- Lucien Martin1908–1950
- Lūcija Garūta1902–1977
- Lucio Agostini1913–1996
- Lucrecia Roces Kasilag1918–2008
- Ludmila Frajt1919–1999
- Ludvig Irgens-Jensen1894–1969
- Ludwig Lenel1914–2002
- Ludwig Roselius (composer)1902–1977
- Ludwig Schmidseder1904–1971
- Luella Totten
- Luigi Dallapiccola1904–1975
- Luigi Russolo1885–1947
- Luis Abraham Delgadillo1887–1961
- Luís de Freitas Branco1890–1955
- Luis Gianneo1897–1968
- Luis Pacheco de Céspedes1895–1982
- Luis Sandi1905–1996
- Luther Henderson1919–2003
- Lycia de Biase Bidart1910–1991
- Lydia Auster1912–1993
- Lydia Boucher1890–1971
- Lyubomir Pipkov1904–1974
- Lyubov Streicher1885–1958
- Ma Ke (composer)1918–1976
- Madalyn Akers Phillips1889–1949
- Madelene Van Aardt1896–1982
- Mae Doelling Schmidt1889–1965
- Maj Sønstevold1917–1996
- Mana-Zucca1885–1981
- Manfred Gurlitt1890–1973
- Manoah Leide-Tedesco1895–1982
- Mansi Barberis1899–1986
- Manuel de Falla1876–1946
- Manuel Esperón1911–2011
- Manuel Palau1893–1967
- Manuel Ponce1886–1948
- Manuel Quiroga (violinist)1892–1961
- Marc Blitzstein1905–1964
- Marc Delmas1885–1931
- Marc Lavry1903–1967
- Marc Vaubourgoin1907–1983
- Marcel Delannoy1898–1962
- Marcel Dupré1886–1971
- Marcel Grandjany1891–1975
- Marcel Landowski1915–1999
- Marcel Lanquetuit1894–1985
- Marcel Mihalovici1898–1985
- Marcel Poot1901–1988
- Marcel Quinet1915–1986
- Marcel Rubin1905–1995
- Marcel Stern (composer)1909–1989
- Marcel Tyberg1893–1944
- Marcelle Soulage1894–1970
- Marcelo Koc1918–2006
- Marco Antonio Rivera Useche1895–1990
- Margaret Bonds1913–1972
- Margaret Drynan1915–1999
- Margaret Purcell1914–1991
- Margaret Sutherland1897–1984
- Margaret Wigham1904–1972
- Margareta Xenopol1892–1979
- Margarete Schweikert1887–1957
- Margaritis Kastellis1907–1972
- Marģeris Zariņš1910–1993
- Marguerite Canal1890–1978
- Marguerite Monnot1903–1961
- Marguerite Roesgen-Champion1894–1976
- Maria Bach1896–1978
- María de Baratta1890–1978
- María Grever1885–1951
- Maria Hofer1894–1977
- María Luisa Escobar1903–1985
- Maria Rodrigo1888–1967
- María Teresa Lara1904–1984
- Maria Teresa Pelegrí i Marimón1907–1995
- María Teresa Prieto1896–1982
- Mariano Mores1918–2016
- Marij Kogoj1892–1956
- Marija Hladnik Berden1892–1924
- Marinus De Jong1891–1984
- Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco1895–1968
- Mario Cazes1890–1972
- Mario Nascimbene1913–2002
- Mario Ruiz Armengol1914–2002
- Mario Talavera1885–1960
- Marion Morrey Richter1900–1996
- Marion W. Easterling1910–1989
- Marius Flothuis1914–2001
- Marius Monnikendam1896–1977
- Marius Ulfrstad1890–1968
- Marjan Kozina1907–1966
- Marjorie Goetschius1915–1997
- Mark Brunswick1902–1971
- Mark Fax1911–1974
- Mark Fradkin1914–1990
- Mark Lothar1902–1985
- Mark Wessel (composer)1894–1973
- Marko Rothmüller1908–1993
- Marta Canales1893–1986
- Marthinus Lourens de Villiers1885–1977
- Marti Montserrat Guillemat1906–1990
- Martin Mulvihill1919–1987
- Martin Scherber1907–1974
- Martindale Sidwell1916–1998
- Marvin Duchow1914–1979
- Mary Chandler (composer)1911–1996
- Mary Elaine Gentemann1909–2008
- Mary Watson Weaver1903–1990
- Mary Wiggins1904–1974
- Masao Koga1904–1978
- Matei Socor1908–1980
- Matelo Ferret1918–1989
- Matilde Capuis1913–2017
- Matilde Salvador i Segarra1918–2007
- Matthijs Vermeulen1888–1967
- Matvey Blanter1903–1990
- Mátyás Seiber1905–1960
- Maurice Besly1888–1945
- Maurice Blackburn (composer)1914–1988
- Maurice Duruflé1902–1986
- Maurice Franck1897–1983
- Maurice Jaubert1900–1940
- Maurice Ohana1913–1992
- Maurice Thiriet1906–1972
- Maurice Vaute1913–2000
- Maurice Yvain1891–1965
- Max Baumann1917–1999
- Max Butting1888–1976
- Max Deutsch1892–1982
- Max Drischner1891–1971
- Max Fishman1915–1985
- Max Janowski1912–1991
- Max Kortlander1890–1961
- Max Trapp1887–1971
- Max Wohlberg1907–1996
- Maxime Jacob1906–1977
- Melville Cook1912–1993
- Menachem Avidom1908–1995
- Meredith Willson1902–1984
- Merle J. Isaac1898–1996
- Mervyn Roberts1906–1990
- Michael Bowles1909–1998
- Michael Head (composer)1900–1976
- Michael Jary1906–1988
- Michael Krasznay-Krausz1897–1940
- Michael Mosoeu Moerane1909–1981
- Michael P. Grace II1917–1995
- Michael Tippett1905–1998
- Michał Kondracki1902–1984
- Michalis Souyioul1906–1958
- Michel Boulnois1907–2008
- Michiko Toyama1908–2000
- Mieczysław Weinberg1919–1996
- Miguel Ablóniz1917–2001
- Miguel Bernal Jiménez1910–1956
- Miguel Sandoval (composer)1903–1953
- Mihail Andricu1894–1974
- Mikalay Shchahlou-Kulikovich1893–1969
- Mikhail Goldstein1917–1989
- Mikhail Zhukov (conductor)1901–1960
- Miklós Radnai1892–1935
- Miklós Rózsa1907–1995
- Mikola Ravienski1886–1953
- Mildred Adair1895–1943
- Milenko Paunović1889–1924
- Miloslav Kabeláč1908–1979
- Milton Adolphus1913–1988
- Milton Ager1893–1979
- Milton Babbitt1916–2011
- Milton Samuels1904–1990
- Milton Suskind1898–1975
- Mimi Wagensonner1897–1970
- Minuetta Kessler1914–2002
- Mireille Hartuch1906–1996
- Miriam Gideon1906–1996
- Miriam Hyde1913–2005
- Mirrie Hill1889–1986
- Mischa Portnoff1901–1979
- Mohamed El Qasabgi1892–1966
- Mohamed Iguerbouchène1907–1966
- Mohammed Abdel Wahab1898–1991
- Mohammed Flayfel1899–1985
- Montague Phillips1885–1969
- Mordecai Seter1916–1994
- Mordechai Zeira1905–1968
- Morfydd Llwyn Owen1891–1918
- Morishige Takei1890–1949
- Morris Davis (composer)1904–1968
- Morton Gould1913–1996
- Moses Milner1886–1953
- Moshe Wilensky1910–1997
- Muriel Herbert1897–1984
- Muriel Pollock1895–1971
- Murray Adaskin1906–2002
- Muslim Magomayev (composer)1885–1937
- Mykhailo Verykivsky1896–1962
- Myrtle Elvyn1887–1975
- Näcip Cihanov1911–1988
- Nadia Boulanger1887–1979
- Naida McCullough1901–1989
- Najla Jabor1915–2001
- Nancy Plummer Faxon1914–2005
- Nathaniel Cleophas Davis1888–1972
- Necil Kazım Akses1908–1999
- Nellie Weldon Cocroft1885–1986
- Netty Simons1913–1994
- Nicanor Abelardo1893–1934
- Nicholas G. J. Ballanta1893–1962
- Nico Dostal1895–1981
- Nicolae Bretan1887–1968
- Nicolas Nabokov1903–1978
- Nicolas Slonimsky1894–1995
- Niels Viggo Bentzon1919–2000
- Nikolai Peiko1916–1995
- Nikolai Rakov1908–1990
- Nikos Gounaris1915–1965
- Nikos Skalkottas1904–1949
- Nina Makarova1906–1976
- Nino Marcelli1890–1967
- Nino Rota1911–1979
- Ninón Lapeiretta de Brouwer1907–1989
- Noel Estrada1918–1979
- Norbert Glanzberg1910–2001
- Norbert von Hannenheim1898–1945
- Norman Cazden1914–1980
- Norman Dello Joio1913–2008
- Norman Demuth1898–1968
- Norman Fulton1909–1980
- Norman Peterkin1886–1982
- Norman Spencer (composer)1892–1985
- Ödön Pártos1907–1977
- Olav Kielland1901–1985
- Olav Roots1910–1974
- Ole Windingstad1886–1959
- Olga de Blanck1916–1998
- Olga Diener1890–1963
- Oliver Wallace1887–1963
- Olivier Alain1918–1994
- Olivier Messiaen1908–1992
- Omer Létourneau1891–1983
- Osamu Shimizu1911–1986
- Óscar Esplá1886–1976
- Oscar Lorenzo Fernández1897–1948
- Oscar O'Brien1892–1958
- Oscar Rasbach1888–1975
- Oscar van Hemel1892–1981
- Oskar Lindberg (composer)1887–1955
- Oskar Morawetz1917–2007
- Oskar Sala1910–2002
- Osvald Chlubna1893–1971
- Osvaldo Fresedo1897–1984
- Otakar Jeremiáš1892–1962
- Othmar Schoeck1886–1957
- Othmar Steinbauer1895–1962
- Otis René1898–1970
- Ottalie Mark1896–1979
- Ottmar Gerster1897–1969
- Otto Abel1905–1977
- Otto Albert Tichý1890–1973
- Otto Ebel von Sosen1899–1974
- Otto Frickhoeffer1892–1968
- Otto Joachim (composer)1910–2010
- Otto Luening1900–1996
- Otto Mortensen1907–1986
- Otto Wartisch1893–1969
- Paiboon Butkhan1916–1972
- Pál Kadosa1903–1983
- Páll Ísólfsson1893–1974
- Palmira Jaquetti i Isant1895–1963
- Pamela Harrison (composer)1915–1990
- Pamela Motley Verrall1915–1996
- Parashkev Hadjiev1912–1992
- Parsegh Ganatchian1885–1967
- Patricia Blomfield Holt1910–2003
- Patrick Hadley1899–1973
- Patrick Piggott1915–1990
- Paul Abraham1892–1960
- Paul Arma1905–1987
- Paul Ben-Haim1897–1984
- Paul Bonneau1918–1995
- Paul Bowles1910–1999
- Paul Creston1906–1985
- Paul de Maleingreau1887–1956
- Paul Dessau1894–1979
- Paul Hermann (composer)1902–1944
- Paul Hindemith1895–1963
- Paul Lamkoff1888–1953
- Paul Lavalle1908–1997
- Paul Misraki1908–1998
- Paul Nordoff1909–1977
- Paul Pratt1894–1967
- Paul Sawtell1906–1971
- Paul van Katwijk1885–1974
- Paula Nenette Pepin1908–1990
- Pauline Alderman1893–1983
- Pauline Hall (composer)1890–1969
- Pavel Bořkovec1894–1972
- Pavel Haas1899–1944
- Pavel Šivic1908–1995
- Pedro Espinel Torres1908–1981
- Peggy Glanville-Hicks1912–1990
- Peggy Hubicki1915–2006
- Peggy Stuart Coolidge1913–1981
- Per-Martin Hamberg1912–1974
- Percy Code1888–1953
- Percy Faith1908–1976
- Percy Turnbull1902–1976
- Pete Rugolo1915–2011
- Peter Crossley-Holland1916–2001
- Peter Gellhorn1912–2004
- Peter Kreuder1905–1981
- Peter Paul Fuchs1916–2007
- Peter Pope (composer)1917–1991
- Peter Schacht1901–1945
- Peter Warlock1894–1930
- Peter Zauner (composer)1886–1973
- Pēteris Barisons1904–1947
- Philip Bezanson1916–1975
- Philip Gbeho1904–1976
- Philip Herschkowitz1906–1989
- Philip James1890–1975
- Philip Martell1907–1993
- Philip Radcliffe1905–1986
- Philipp Jarnach1892–1982
- Phyllis Fergus1887–1964
- Phyllis Tate1911–1987
- Piero Coppola1888–1971
- Pierre Camonin1903–2003
- Pierre Capdevielle (musician)1906–1969
- Pierre Sancan1916–2008
- Pierre Schaeffer1910–1995
- Pierre-Octave Ferroud1900–1936
- Pietro Grossi1917–2002
- Pippo Barzizza1902–1994
- Poul Allin Erichsen1910–1970
- Predrag Milošević (composer)1904–1988
- Prenk Jakova1917–1969
- Priaulx Rainier1903–1986
- Puttaparthi Narayanacharyulu1914–1990
- Pylyp Kozytskiy1893–1960
- Pyotr Ivanovich Isakov
- Qu Xixian1919–2008
- Quddus Khojamyarov1918–1994
- Quincy Porter1897–1966
- Quinto Maganini1897–1974
- R. O. Morris1886–1948
- R. Sudarsanam1914–1991
- Rabon Tarrant1908–1975
- Radie Britain1899–1994
- Ralph Erwin1896–1943
- Raphaël Fumet1898–1979
- Ray Evans1915–2007
- Ray Martin (orchestra leader)1918–1988
- Raymond B. Egan1890–1952
- Raymond Hanson (composer)1913–1976
- Raymond Loucheur1899–1979
- Reba Paeff Mirsky1902–1966
- Rebecca Clarke (composer)1886–1979
- Rebekah Harkness1915–1984
- Regin Dahl1918–2007
- Regina Hansen Willman1914–1965
- Reginald King (composer)1904–1991
- Reginald Smith Brindle1917–2003
- Renato Dionisi (composer)1910–2000
- René Alix1907–1966
- René Challan1910–1978
- René Gagnier1892–1951
- René Guillou1903–1958
- René Herbin1911–1953
- René Leibowitz1913–1972
- René Mercier1896–1973
- Renzo Rossellini (composer)1908–1982
- Rezső Kókai1906–1962
- Rezső Seress1899–1968
- Rhoda Coghill1903–2000
- Riccardo Malipiero1914–2003
- Richard Addinsell1904–1977
- Richard Arnell1917–2009
- Richard Donovan (composer)1891–1970
- Richard Flury1896–1967
- Richard Fuchs1887–1947
- Richard Johnston (composer)1917–1997
- Richard Klemm1902–1988
- Richard Mohaupt1904–1957
- Richard Rodgers1902–1979
- Ricky Hyslop1915–1998
- Rita Brondi1889–1941
- Rito Selvaggi1898–1972
- Robert Alexander Anderson (composer)1894–1995
- Robert Bruce (Scottish composer)1917–2012
- Robert Casadesus1899–1972
- Robert Dalley-Scarlett1887–1959
- Robert Delaney (composer)1903–1956
- Robert Docker1918–1992
- Robert Elmore1913–1985
- Robert Erickson1917–1997
- Robert Farnon1917–2005
- Robert Heger1886–1978
- Robert Hughes (composer, born 1912)1912–2007
- Robert Kelly (composer)1916–2007
- Robert Köbler1912–1970
- Robert Lannoy1915–1979
- Robert Moffat Palmer1915–2010
- Robert Planel1908–1994
- Robert Russell Bennett1894–1981
- Robert Schollum1913–1987
- Robert Scholz (pianist)1902–1986
- Robert Siohan1894–1985
- Robert Still1910–1971
- Robert Strassburg1915–2003
- Robert Talbot (conductor)1893–1954
- Robert Ward (composer)1917–2013
- Roberta Bitgood1908–2007
- Roberto García Morillo1911–2003
- Roberto Gerhard1896–1970
- Roberto Lupi1908–1971
- Rodolfo Halffter1900–1987
- Rodolfo Narciso Chavarría1901–1968
- Rodolphe Mathieu1890–1962
- Roger Boucher1885–1918
- Roger Dumas (composer)1897–1951
- Roger Goeb1914–1997
- Roger Roger (composer)1911–1995
- Roger Sacheverell Coke1912–1972
- Roger Sessions1896–1985
- Roh Ogura1916–1990
- Rolf Liebermann1910–1999
- Roman Haubenstock-Ramati1919–1994
- Roman Maciejewski1910–1998
- Roman Palester1907–1989
- Roman Simovych1901–1984
- Roman Toi1916–2018
- Roman Vlad1919–2013
- Ronald Binge1910–1979
- Ronald Center1913–1973
- Ronald Settle1909–1998
- Rosa Nepgen1909–2000
- Rosalie Housman1888–1949
- Rosario Bourdon1885–1961
- Roslyn Brogue1919–1981
- Ross Lee Finney1906–1997
- Rosy Wertheim1888–1949
- Roy Agnew1891–1944
- Roy Bargy1894–1974
- Roy Douglas1907–2015
- Roy Harris1898–1979
- Rudi Stephan1887–1915
- Rudolf Alberth1918–1992
- Rudolf Escher1912–1980
- Rudolf Hindemith1900–1974
- Rudolf Jettel1903–1981
- Rudolf Mauersberger1889–1971
- Rudolf Neuhaus1914–1990
- Rudolf Wagner-Régeny1903–1969
- Rudolph Edward Schirmer Jr.1919–2000
- Rudolph Reti1885–1957
- Rudy Schrager1900–1983
- Rued Langgaard1893–1952
- Ruth Crawford Seeger1901–1953
- Ruth Shaw Wylie1916–1989
- Ruth Tripp1897–1971
- S. Drummond Wolff1916–2004
- S. M. Subbaiah Naidu1914–1979
- Saburō Moroi1903–1977
- Salvador Contreras1910–1982
- Sam Rydberg1885–1956
- Samuel Barber1910–1981
- Samuel Dolin1917–2002
- Samuel Gardner1891–1984
- Samuel L. M. Barlow II1892–1982
- Samuel Pokrass1897–1939
- Sandor Harmati1892–1936
- Sándor Jemnitz1890–1963
- Sándor Veress1907–1992
- Sara Opal Search1890–1961
- Sarane Ferret1912–1970
- Sasha Argov1914–1995
- Saul Tepper1899–1987
- Schahan Berberian1891–1956
- Scott Bradley (composer)1891–1977
- Sebastián Piana1903–1994
- Sergei Prokofiev1891–1953
- Sergey Balasanian1902–1982
- Sergio de Karlo1911–2010
- Shaul Berezovsky1908–1975
- Shena Fraser1910–1993
- Sholom Secunda1894–1974
- Shwe Pyi Aye
- Sidney Torch1908–1990
- Siegfried Borris1906–1987
- Silvestre Revueltas1899–1940
- Simeon G. Murafa1887–1917
- Sirvart Kalpakyan Karamanuk1912–2008
- Sofía Cancino de Cuevas1897–1982
- Sol Kaplan1919–1990
- Solon Michaelides1905–1979
- Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté1899–1974
- Stanisław Wiechowicz1893–1963
- Stanley Bate1911–1959
- Stanley Black1913–2002
- Stanley Vann1910–2010
- Stanley Wilson (composer)1915–1970
- Stasys Šimkus1887–1943
- Stefan Bolesław Poradowski1902–1967
- Ștefan Neaga1900–1951
- Stefan Wolpe1902–1972
- Stefania Zaranek1904–1972
- Stephanus Le Roux Marais1896–1979
- Stevan Hristić1885–1958
- Sven Arefeldt1908–1956
- Sven-Eric Johanson1919–1997
- Sven-Erik Bäck1919–1994
- Sverre Jordan1889–1972
- Sydney John Kay1906–1970
- Szymon Kataszek1898–1943
- T. C. Kelly1917–1985
- Tadeusz Szeligowski1896–1963
- Tālivaldis Ķeniņš1919–2008
- Tamara Vakhvakhishvili1894–1976
- Teresa de Rogatis1893–1979
- Teresa Rampazzi1914–2001
- Terig Tucci1897–1973
- Thelonious Monk1917–1982
- Théo De Joncker1894–1964
- Theo Mackeben1897–1953
- Theodor Schaefer1904–1969
- Theodor W. Adorno1903–1969
- Theodora Troendle1893–1972
- Theodore Chanler1902–1961
- Thomas Canning1911–1989
- Thomas de Hartmann1885–1956
- Thomas Henderson Kerr Jr.1915–1988
- Thomas Mervyn Horder, 2nd Baron Horder1910–1997
- Thomas Pitfield1903–1999
- Thomas Vincent Cator1888–1931
- Tibor Harsányi1898–1954
- Tibor Polgár1907–1993
- Tibor Serly1901–1978
- Tikhon Khrennikov1913–2007
- Titos Xirellis1898–1985
- Tolib Sodiqov1907–1957
- Tom Scott (composer)1912–1961
- Tomás Garbizu1901–1989
- Toni Beaulieu1905–1994
- Tony Aubin1907–1981
- Tony Muréna1915–1971
- Troy Sanders (composer)1901–1959
- Trude Rittmann1908–2005
- Tudor Ciortea1903–1982
- Udo Kasemets1919–2014
- Ulpio Minucci1917–2007
- Ulric Cole1905–1992
- Ulysses Kay1917–1995
- Undine Smith Moore1904–1989
- Urato Watanabe1909–1994
- Uuno Klami1900–1961
- Václav Dobiáš1909–1978
- Václav Kaprál1889–1947
- Václav Nelhýbel1919–1996
- Václav Smetáček1906–1986
- Václav Trojan1907–1983
- Vadim Salmanov1912–1978
- Vagn Holmboe1909–1996
- Väinö Raitio1891–1945
- Valentina Crespi1892–
- Valentina Ramm1888–1968
- Valerie Rodway1919–1970
- Valery Zhelobinsky1913–1946
- Vally Weigl1894–1982
- Vano Muradeli1908–1970
- Varvara Adrianovna Gaigerova1903–1944
- Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy1907–1979
- Vera Brady Shipman1889–1932
- Vera McKenna Clayton1896–1978
- Verdina Shlonsky1905–1990
- Vic Legley1915–1994
- Vic Mizzy1916–2009
- Vicente Asencio1908–1979
- Vicente Gómez (composer)1911–2001
- Victor Baravalle1885–1939
- Victor Bruns1904–1996
- Victor de Sabata1892–1967
- Victor Dolidze (composer)1890–1933
- Victor Hely-Hutchinson1901–1947
- Victor Kraft (photographer)1915–1976
- Victor Urbancic1903–1958
- Viking Dahl1895–1945
- Viktor Kosenko1896–1938
- Viktor Ullmann1898–1944
- Vilém Tauský1910–2004
- Vincent Persichetti1915–1987
- Violet Archer1913–2000
- Violet Reiser1905–1981
- Virgil Thomson1896–1989
- Vissarion Shebalin1902–1963
- Vítězslava Kaprálová1915–1940
- Vito Frazzi1888–1975
- Vittorio Giannini1903–1966
- Vittorio Gui1885–1975
- Vittorio Rieti1898–1994
- Vivian Fine1913–2000
- Vladimir Bakaleinikov1885–1953
- Vladimir Fédorov1901–1979
- Vladimir Fere1902–1971
- Vladimir Shcherbachov1887–1952
- Vladimir Ussachevsky1911–1990
- Vladimir Vlasov1902–1986
- Vlado Milošević1901–1990
- Vsevolod Zaderatsky1891–1953
- Vytautas Bacevičius1905–1970
- W. Franke Harling1887–1958
- Wade Hemsworth1916–2002
- Wallace Southam1900–1990
- Wallingford Riegger1885–1961
- Walter Abendroth1896–1973
- Walter Beckett (composer)1914–1996
- Walter Bricht1904–1970
- Walter Draeger1888–1976
- Walter Goehr1903–1960
- Walter Jurmann1903–1971
- Walter Kaufmann (composer)1907–1984
- Walter Kent1911–1994
- Walter Leigh1905–1942
- Walter MacNutt1910–1996
- Walter Piston1894–1976
- Walter Schumann1913–1958
- Wasif Jawhariyyeh1897–1972
- Wayne Barlow1912–1996
- Weli Muhadow1916–2005
- Werner Bochmann1900–1993
- Werner Egk1901–1983
- Werner Eisbrenner1908–1981
- Werner Gößling1898–1992
- Werner Janssen1899–1990
- Werner Josten1885–1963
- Werner R. Heymann1896–1961
- Werner Wehrli1892–1944
- Werner Wolf Glaser1913–2006
- Wesley LaViolette1894–1978
- Wiktor Łabuński1895–1974
- Wilfred Heaton1918–2000
- Wilfrid Mellers1914–2008
- Wilfrid Pelletier1896–1982
- Wilhelm Furtwängler1886–1954
- Wilhelm Grosz1894–1939
- Wilhelm Keilmann1908–1989
- Wilhelm Weismann1900–1980
- Will Eisenmann1906–1992
- Willem Andriessen1887–1964
- William Alwyn1905–1985
- William Axt1888–1959
- William Burton Walbert1886–1959
- William Busch1901–1945
- William C. K. Irwin1907–1998
- William Denis Browne1888–1915
- William F. Hanson1887–1969
- William G. James1892–1977
- William Grant Still1895–1978
- William Heinesen1900–1991
- William L. Dawson (composer)1899–1990
- William Lawrence Hanson1905–
- William Lloyd Webber1914–1982
- William McKie (musician)1901–1984
- William Merrigan Daly1887–1936
- William Raskin1896–1942
- William Reed (English composer)1910–2002
- William Schuman1910–1992
- William Walton1902–1983
- William Wordsworth (composer)1908–1988
- Willie Eckstein1888–1963
- Willson Osborne1906–1979
- Willy Berking1910–1979
- Willy Burkhard1900–1955
- Willy Ostijn1913–1993
- Winfried Zillig1905–1963
- Winifred Emily Rees
- Witold Friemann1889–1977
- Wladimir Vogel1896–1984
- Władysław Daniłowski1902–2000
- Władysław Szpilman1911–2000
- Wolfgang Fortner1907–1987
- Xavier Montsalvatge1912–2002
- Xian Xinghai1905–1945
- Xiao Shuxian1905–1991
- Yankel Talmud1885–1963
- Yasuji Kiyose1900–1981
- Yaya Sherfedinov1894–1975
- Yedidya Admon1894–1982
- Yevgeny Brusilovsky1905–1981
- Yngve Sköld1899–1992
- Yoritsune Matsudaira1907–2001
- Yrjö Kilpinen1892–1959
- Yukihiko Haida1909–1986
- Yuliy Meitus1903–1997
- Yuri Shaporin1887–1966
- Yusef Greiss1899–1961
- Yves de la Casinière1897–1971
- Yves Nat1890–1956
- Yvonne Adair1897–1989
- Yvonne Desportes1907–1993
- Yvonne Rokseth1890–1948
- Zacarías Salmerón1919–2011
- Zagir Ismagilov1916–2003
- Zakir Baghirov (composer)1916–1996
- Zara Levina1906–1976
- Zdenka Ticharich1900–1979
- Zez Confrey1895–1971
- Zheng Lücheng1914–1976
- Žiga Hirschler1894–1941
- Zikmund Schul1916–1944
- Zinovy Feldman1893–1942
- Zoltán Gárdonyi1906–1986
- Zoltán Pongrácz1912–2007
- Zygmunt Mycielski1907–1987