Symphony composers
A
Komei Abe
Samuel Adler
Kalevi Aho
Yasushi Akutagawa
Stephen Albert
Hugo Alfvén
William Alwyn
Elfrida Andrée
George Antheil
Anton Arensky
Richard Arnell
Sir Malcolm Arnold
Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga
Daniel Asia
B
Grażyna Bacewicz
Edgar L. Bainton
Leonardo Balada
Mily Balakirev
Sir Granville Bantock
George Barati
Samuel Barber
Béla Bartók
Arnold Bax
Irwin Bazelon
Amy Beach
David Bedford
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sadao Bekku
Arthur Benjamin
Niels Viggo Bentzon
Luciano Berio
Hector Berlioz
Leonard Bernstein
Franz Berwald
Hermann Bischoff
Georges Bizet
Boris Blacher
Sir Arthur Bliss
Ernest Bloch
August De Boeck
William Bolcom
Alexander Borodin
Rutland Boughton
Johannes Brahms
Glenn Branca
Luís de Freitas Branco
Havergal Brian
Benjamin Britten
Max Bruch
Anton Bruckner
Norbert Burgmüller
Dennis Busch
Arthur Butterworth
Dietrich Buxtehude
Hakon Børresen
Paul Büttner
C
Antonio Casimir Cartellieri
Elliott Carter
Robert Casadesus
Alfredo Casella
Carlos Cruz de Castro
Wendy Mae Chambers
Ernest Chausson
Carlos Chavez
Luigi Cherubini
Erik Chisholm
Muzio Clementi
Frederic Cliffe
Hubert Clifford
Gloria Coates
Edward Joseph Collins
Aaron Copland
John Corigliano
Frederick Hymen Cowen
Paul Creston
Carl Czerny
D
Eugen D'Albert
Vincent D'Indy
Richard Danielpour
Michael Daugherty
M
Peter Maxwell Davies
D
William Levi Dawson
Claude Debussy
Léo Delibes
Paul Dessau
Godefroid Devreese
David Diamond
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
Ernö von Dohnányi
Gaetano Donizetti
Cornelis Dopper
Felix Draeseke
Paul Dukas
Tan Dun
Thomas Dunhill
Henri Duparc
Henri Dutilleux
Antonín Dvorák
George Dyson
E
Sir Edward Elgar
George Enescu
Sven Einar Englund
Eduard Erdmann
Andrei Eshpai
F
Louise Farrenc
Morton Feldman
Friedrich Ernst Fesca
Zdenek Fibich
Irving Fine
Nicolas Flagello
Paul Le Flem
Josef Bohuslav Foerster
César Franck
Benjamin Frankel
William Henry Fry
Eric Funk
Wilhelm Furtwängler
G
Niels Gade
John Gardner
Carlo Giorgio Garofalo
Jerry Gerber
Steven R. Gerber
Roberto Gerhard
Sir Edward German
Vittorio Giannini
Don Gillis
Jan van Gilse
Philip Glass
Louis Glass
Alexander Glazunov
Reinhold Gliere
Hermann Goetz
Karl Goldmark
Morton Gould
Charles Gounod
Théodore Gouvy
Jay Greenberg
Alexander Gretchaninov
Edvard Grieg
Louis Gruenberg
Camargo Guarnieri
Sofia Gubaidulina
Felix Alexandre Guilmant
Christopher Gunning
Henryk Mikolaj Górecki
H
Henry Hadley
Johan Halvorsen
Asger Hamerik
George Frideric Handel
Howard Hanson
Jan Hanus
John Harbison
Roy Harris
Karl Amadeus Hartmann
Sir Hamilton Harty
Kunihiko Hashimoto
Halvor Haug
Siegmund von Hausegger
Joseph Haydn
Paavo Heininen
Hans Werner Henze
J. Ritter von Herbeck
Paul Hindemith
Alun Hoddinott
Roman Hoffstetter
Richard Hol
Vagn Holmboe
Gustav Holst
Arthur Honegger
Francois-Louis Houbart
Alan Hovhaness
Edgar Hovhannessian
Hans Huber
Albert Hurwit
Eero Hämeenniemi
Komei Abe
Samuel Adler
Kalevi Aho
Yasushi Akutagawa
Stephen Albert
Hugo Alfvén
William Alwyn
Elfrida Andrée
George Antheil
Anton Arensky
Richard Arnell
Sir Malcolm Arnold
Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga
Daniel Asia
B
Grażyna Bacewicz
Edgar L. Bainton
Leonardo Balada
Mily Balakirev
Sir Granville Bantock
George Barati
Samuel Barber
Béla Bartók
Arnold Bax
Irwin Bazelon
Amy Beach
David Bedford
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sadao Bekku
Arthur Benjamin
Niels Viggo Bentzon
Luciano Berio
Hector Berlioz
Leonard Bernstein
Franz Berwald
Hermann Bischoff
Georges Bizet
Boris Blacher
Sir Arthur Bliss
Ernest Bloch
August De Boeck
William Bolcom
Alexander Borodin
Rutland Boughton
Johannes Brahms
Glenn Branca
Luís de Freitas Branco
Havergal Brian
Benjamin Britten
Max Bruch
Anton Bruckner
Norbert Burgmüller
Dennis Busch
Arthur Butterworth
Dietrich Buxtehude
Hakon Børresen
Paul Büttner
C
Antonio Casimir Cartellieri
Elliott Carter
Robert Casadesus
Alfredo Casella
Carlos Cruz de Castro
Wendy Mae Chambers
Ernest Chausson
Carlos Chavez
Luigi Cherubini
Erik Chisholm
Muzio Clementi
Frederic Cliffe
Hubert Clifford
Gloria Coates
Edward Joseph Collins
Aaron Copland
John Corigliano
Frederick Hymen Cowen
Paul Creston
Carl Czerny
D
Eugen D'Albert
Vincent D'Indy
Richard Danielpour
Michael Daugherty
M
Peter Maxwell Davies
D
William Levi Dawson
Claude Debussy
Léo Delibes
Paul Dessau
Godefroid Devreese
David Diamond
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
Ernö von Dohnányi
Gaetano Donizetti
Cornelis Dopper
Felix Draeseke
Paul Dukas
Tan Dun
Thomas Dunhill
Henri Duparc
Henri Dutilleux
Antonín Dvorák
George Dyson
E
Sir Edward Elgar
George Enescu
Sven Einar Englund
Eduard Erdmann
Andrei Eshpai
F
Louise Farrenc
Morton Feldman
Friedrich Ernst Fesca
Zdenek Fibich
Irving Fine
Nicolas Flagello
Paul Le Flem
Josef Bohuslav Foerster
César Franck
Benjamin Frankel
William Henry Fry
Eric Funk
Wilhelm Furtwängler
G
Niels Gade
John Gardner
Carlo Giorgio Garofalo
Jerry Gerber
Steven R. Gerber
Roberto Gerhard
Sir Edward German
Vittorio Giannini
Don Gillis
Jan van Gilse
Philip Glass
Louis Glass
Alexander Glazunov
Reinhold Gliere
Hermann Goetz
Karl Goldmark
Morton Gould
Charles Gounod
Théodore Gouvy
Jay Greenberg
Alexander Gretchaninov
Edvard Grieg
Louis Gruenberg
Camargo Guarnieri
Sofia Gubaidulina
Felix Alexandre Guilmant
Christopher Gunning
Henryk Mikolaj Górecki
H
Henry Hadley
Johan Halvorsen
Asger Hamerik
George Frideric Handel
Howard Hanson
Jan Hanus
John Harbison
Roy Harris
Karl Amadeus Hartmann
Sir Hamilton Harty
Kunihiko Hashimoto
Halvor Haug
Siegmund von Hausegger
Joseph Haydn
Paavo Heininen
Hans Werner Henze
J. Ritter von Herbeck
Paul Hindemith
Alun Hoddinott
Roman Hoffstetter
Richard Hol
Vagn Holmboe
Gustav Holst
Arthur Honegger
Francois-Louis Houbart
Alan Hovhaness
Edgar Hovhannessian
Hans Huber
Albert Hurwit
Eero Hämeenniemi
I
Kamran Ince
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
Andrés Isasi
Charles Ives
J
Gordon Jacob
Leoš Janáček
Zhu Jianer
Werner Josten
John Joubert
K
Dmitri Kabalevsky
Jouni Kaipainen
Vasily Kalinnikov
Manolis Kalomiris
Giya Kancheli
Kara Karayev
Mieczyslaw Karlowicz
Rudolf Kelterborn
Aaron Jay Kernis
Aram Khachaturian
Carson Kievman
Wojciech Kilar
Uuno Klami
Paul von Klenau
Paul Kletzki
Zoltán Kodály
Charles Koechlin
Réné Koering
Joonas Kokkonen
Herman David Koppel
Aleksandr A. Kopïlov
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Leopold Kozeluch
Leo Kraft
Ernst Krenek
Meyer Kupferman
Robert Kurka
L
László Lajtha
Edouard Lalo
Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller
Rued Langgaard
Libby Larsen
Lars-Erik Larsson
Henri Lazarof
Sylvio Lazzari
Benjamin Lees
Jón Leifs
Kenneth Leighton
Leon Levitch
Ernst Levy
Frank Ezra Levy
Ulrich Leyendecker
Sigurd Lie
Douglas Lilburn
Oskar Lindberg
Karol Lipinski
Franz Liszt
Jonathan Lloyd
George Lloyd
Alexander Lokshin
Nikolai Lopatnikoff
Fernando Lopes-Graça
Thomas Ludwig
Witold Lutoslawski
Sergei Lyapunov
Boris Lyatoshinsky
M
Sir James MacMillan
Leevi Madetoja
Jef Maes
Albéric Magnard
Gustav Mahler
Gian Francesco Malipiero
Jeff Manookian
Niels Marthinsen
Bohuslav Martinu
Tauno Marttinen
Giuseppe Martucci
David Maslanka
Teizo Matsumura
Michael Matthews
David Matthews
Siegfried Matthus
Toshiro Mayuzumi
John Blackwood McEwen
Erkki Melartin
Felix Mendelssohn
Peter Mennin
Usko Meriläinen
Olivier Messiaen
Ernst Mielck
Darius Milhaud
Ernest John Moeran
Saburo Moroi
Jerome Moross
Ignaz Moscheles
Mihály Mosonyi
Alexander Moyzes
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Leopold Mozart
Modest Mussorgsky
Nikolai Myaskovsky
N
Peter Paul Nash
Carl Nielsen
Ludolf Nielsen
Lee Noble
Teruyuki Noda
Pehr Henrik Nordgren
Gösta Nystroem
Gösta Nyström
Per Nørgård
Ib Nørholm
O
Masao Ohki
Hisato Ohzawa
Otto Emanuel Olsson
Carl Orff
David Ott
P
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
John Knowles Paine
Andrzej Panufnik
Paul Paray
Charles Hubert Parry
Alla Pavlova
Dora Pejačević
Krzysztof Penderecki
Jean Perrin
Vincent Persichetti
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
Allan Pettersson
Hans Pfitzner
Willem Pijper
Walter Piston
Marcel Poot
Gavriil N. Popov
Quincy Porter
Florence Price
Alex Prior
Sergei Prokofiev
Arvo Pärt
Kamran Ince
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
Andrés Isasi
Charles Ives
J
Gordon Jacob
Leoš Janáček
Zhu Jianer
Werner Josten
John Joubert
K
Dmitri Kabalevsky
Jouni Kaipainen
Vasily Kalinnikov
Manolis Kalomiris
Giya Kancheli
Kara Karayev
Mieczyslaw Karlowicz
Rudolf Kelterborn
Aaron Jay Kernis
Aram Khachaturian
Carson Kievman
Wojciech Kilar
Uuno Klami
Paul von Klenau
Paul Kletzki
Zoltán Kodály
Charles Koechlin
Réné Koering
Joonas Kokkonen
Herman David Koppel
Aleksandr A. Kopïlov
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Leopold Kozeluch
Leo Kraft
Ernst Krenek
Meyer Kupferman
Robert Kurka
L
László Lajtha
Edouard Lalo
Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller
Rued Langgaard
Libby Larsen
Lars-Erik Larsson
Henri Lazarof
Sylvio Lazzari
Benjamin Lees
Jón Leifs
Kenneth Leighton
Leon Levitch
Ernst Levy
Frank Ezra Levy
Ulrich Leyendecker
Sigurd Lie
Douglas Lilburn
Oskar Lindberg
Karol Lipinski
Franz Liszt
Jonathan Lloyd
George Lloyd
Alexander Lokshin
Nikolai Lopatnikoff
Fernando Lopes-Graça
Thomas Ludwig
Witold Lutoslawski
Sergei Lyapunov
Boris Lyatoshinsky
M
Sir James MacMillan
Leevi Madetoja
Jef Maes
Albéric Magnard
Gustav Mahler
Gian Francesco Malipiero
Jeff Manookian
Niels Marthinsen
Bohuslav Martinu
Tauno Marttinen
Giuseppe Martucci
David Maslanka
Teizo Matsumura
Michael Matthews
David Matthews
Siegfried Matthus
Toshiro Mayuzumi
John Blackwood McEwen
Erkki Melartin
Felix Mendelssohn
Peter Mennin
Usko Meriläinen
Olivier Messiaen
Ernst Mielck
Darius Milhaud
Ernest John Moeran
Saburo Moroi
Jerome Moross
Ignaz Moscheles
Mihály Mosonyi
Alexander Moyzes
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Leopold Mozart
Modest Mussorgsky
Nikolai Myaskovsky
N
Peter Paul Nash
Carl Nielsen
Ludolf Nielsen
Lee Noble
Teruyuki Noda
Pehr Henrik Nordgren
Gösta Nystroem
Gösta Nyström
Per Nørgård
Ib Nørholm
O
Masao Ohki
Hisato Ohzawa
Otto Emanuel Olsson
Carl Orff
David Ott
P
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
John Knowles Paine
Andrzej Panufnik
Paul Paray
Charles Hubert Parry
Alla Pavlova
Dora Pejačević
Krzysztof Penderecki
Jean Perrin
Vincent Persichetti
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
Allan Pettersson
Hans Pfitzner
Willem Pijper
Walter Piston
Marcel Poot
Gavriil N. Popov
Quincy Porter
Florence Price
Alex Prior
Sergei Prokofiev
Arvo Pärt
R
Sergei Rachmaninov
Joseph Joachim Raff
Karol Rathaus
Einojuhani Rautavaara
Alan Rawsthorne
Igor Raykhelson
Carl Reinecke
E. Nikolaus von Reznicek
Joseph Rheinberger
Ferdinand Ries
Wolfgang Rihm
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
John Donald Robb
George Rochberg
Joseph Guy Ropartz
Ned Rorem
Gioachino Rossini
Nino Rota
Hans Rott
Christopher Rouse
Albert Roussel
Edmund Rubbra
Anton Rubinstein
Poul Ruders
Vladimir Ryabov
Joseph Ryelandt
S
Harald Saeverud
Camille Saint-Saëns
Aulis Sallinen
Vadim Salmanov
Claudio Santoro
Joly Braga Santos
Henri Sauguet
Ahmed Adnan Saygun
Martin Scherber
Nicolas Scherrer
Lalo Schifrin
Franz Schmidt
Alfred Schnittke
Arnold Schoenberg
Franz Schubert
Erwin Schulhoff
William Schuman
Georg Schumann
Robert Schumann
Heinrich Schweizer
Cyril Scott
Alexander Scriabin
Leif Segerstam
José Serebrier
Roger Sessions
Giovanni Sgambati
Harold Shapero
Rodion K. Shchedrin
Dmitri Shostakovich
Jean Sibelius
Valentin Silvestrov
Robert Simpson
Christian Sinding
Roger Smalley
Bedrich Smetana
Leo Sowerby
Louis Spohr
Charles Villiers Stanford
Wilhelm Stenhammar
Daniël Sternefeld
William Grant Still
Johann Strauss
Richard Strauss
Igor Stravinsky
Josef Suk
Arthur Sullivan
Lepo Sumera
Hermann Suter
Johan Svendsen
Tomás Svoboda
Piet Swerts
Karol Szymanowski
Reinhard Süss
T
Alexander Taneyev
Sergei Taneyev
Alexander Tansman
Matthew Taylor
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Boris Tchaikovsky
Alexander Tcherepnin
Mikis Theodorakis
Virgil Thomson
Ludwig Thuille
Leifur Thórarinsson
Michael Tippett
Boris Tishchenko
Ernst Toch
Charles Tournemire
Donald Francis Tovey
Traditional
Eduard Tubin
Joaquin Turina
Geirr Tveitt
Marcel Tyberg
Erkki-Sven Tüür
U
Galina Ustvolskaya
V
Johann Baptist Vanhal
Peteris Vasks
Carlos Veerhoff
Giuseppe Verdi
Johannes Verhulst
Louis Vierne
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Carl Vine
Salvatore Di Vittorio
Antonio Vivaldi
Jan Vaclav Vorisek
Peeter Vähi
W
Richard Wagner
Chris Walden
Sir William Walton
Robert Ward
Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee
Hayden Wayne
Carl Maria von Weber
Anton von Webern
Karl Weigl
Kurt Weill
Mieczyslaw Weinberg
Felix Weingartner
Richard Wetz
Charles-Marie Widor
Alberto Williams
V
Ralph Vaughan Williams
W
Meredith Willson
Olly Wilson
Hugh Wood
Felix Woyrsch
Y
Kosaku Yamada
James Yannatos
Richard Yardumian
Akio Yashiro
Takashi Yoshimatsu
Isang Yun
Z
Alexander Zemlinsky
Bernard Zweers
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Sergei Rachmaninov
Joseph Joachim Raff
Karol Rathaus
Einojuhani Rautavaara
Alan Rawsthorne
Igor Raykhelson
Carl Reinecke
E. Nikolaus von Reznicek
Joseph Rheinberger
Ferdinand Ries
Wolfgang Rihm
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
John Donald Robb
George Rochberg
Joseph Guy Ropartz
Ned Rorem
Gioachino Rossini
Nino Rota
Hans Rott
Christopher Rouse
Albert Roussel
Edmund Rubbra
Anton Rubinstein
Poul Ruders
Vladimir Ryabov
Joseph Ryelandt
S
Harald Saeverud
Camille Saint-Saëns
Aulis Sallinen
Vadim Salmanov
Claudio Santoro
Joly Braga Santos
Henri Sauguet
Ahmed Adnan Saygun
Martin Scherber
Nicolas Scherrer
Lalo Schifrin
Franz Schmidt
Alfred Schnittke
Arnold Schoenberg
Franz Schubert
Erwin Schulhoff
William Schuman
Georg Schumann
Robert Schumann
Heinrich Schweizer
Cyril Scott
Alexander Scriabin
Leif Segerstam
José Serebrier
Roger Sessions
Giovanni Sgambati
Harold Shapero
Rodion K. Shchedrin
Dmitri Shostakovich
Jean Sibelius
Valentin Silvestrov
Robert Simpson
Christian Sinding
Roger Smalley
Bedrich Smetana
Leo Sowerby
Louis Spohr
Charles Villiers Stanford
Wilhelm Stenhammar
Daniël Sternefeld
William Grant Still
Johann Strauss
Richard Strauss
Igor Stravinsky
Josef Suk
Arthur Sullivan
Lepo Sumera
Hermann Suter
Johan Svendsen
Tomás Svoboda
Piet Swerts
Karol Szymanowski
Reinhard Süss
T
Alexander Taneyev
Sergei Taneyev
Alexander Tansman
Matthew Taylor
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Boris Tchaikovsky
Alexander Tcherepnin
Mikis Theodorakis
Virgil Thomson
Ludwig Thuille
Leifur Thórarinsson
Michael Tippett
Boris Tishchenko
Ernst Toch
Charles Tournemire
Donald Francis Tovey
Traditional
Eduard Tubin
Joaquin Turina
Geirr Tveitt
Marcel Tyberg
Erkki-Sven Tüür
U
Galina Ustvolskaya
V
Johann Baptist Vanhal
Peteris Vasks
Carlos Veerhoff
Giuseppe Verdi
Johannes Verhulst
Louis Vierne
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Carl Vine
Salvatore Di Vittorio
Antonio Vivaldi
Jan Vaclav Vorisek
Peeter Vähi
W
Richard Wagner
Chris Walden
Sir William Walton
Robert Ward
Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee
Hayden Wayne
Carl Maria von Weber
Anton von Webern
Karl Weigl
Kurt Weill
Mieczyslaw Weinberg
Felix Weingartner
Richard Wetz
Charles-Marie Widor
Alberto Williams
V
Ralph Vaughan Williams
W
Meredith Willson
Olly Wilson
Hugh Wood
Felix Woyrsch
Y
Kosaku Yamada
James Yannatos
Richard Yardumian
Akio Yashiro
Takashi Yoshimatsu
Isang Yun
Z
Alexander Zemlinsky
Bernard Zweers
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich