==Música medieval==

*Hildegard de Bingen
*Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377)
*Guido de Arezzo (c.995-c.1050)
*Andrieu
*Gilles Binchois (c.1400-1460)
*Antoine Brumel (c.1475-c.1520)
*Ciconia
*Francesco Landini (1325-1397)
*Johannes Ockeghem (c.1430-c.1495)
*Philipe de Vitry (1291-1361)
*Oswald von Wolkenstein
*Martinus Fabri
*Perusio

==Música renacentista==

*Martin Agricola (1466-1506)
*William Byrd (1543-1623)
*John Dowland (1563-1626)
*Guillaume Dufay (c.1400-1474)
*Andrea Gabrieli (c.1510-1586)
*Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612)
*Carlo Gesualdo
*Orlando Gibbons
*Heinrich Isaac (c.1450-1517)
*Josquin Des Prez (c.1440-1521)
*Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
*Jacopo Peri (1561-1633)
*Thomas Tallis
*John Taverner

==Música barroca==

*Karl Friedrich Abel
*Tomaso Albinoni
*Domenico Alberti
*Gregorio Allegri
*Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
*Johann Christian Bach
*Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
*Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
*Heinrich Ignaz Biber
*Dietrich Buxtehude
*Gustave Charpentier
*Marc-Antoine Charpentier
*Arcángelo Corelli
*François Couperin
*Girolamo Frescobaldi
*Baldassare Galuppi
*Francesco Geminiani
*Maurice Greene
*Georg Friedrich Händel
*Richard Leveridge
*Jean Baptiste Lully
*Claudio Monteverdi
*Johann Pachelbel
*Henry Purcell
*Johann Joachim Quantz
*Jean Phillippe Rameau
*Alessandro Scarlatti
*Domenico Scarlatti
*Heinrich Schutz
*Antonio Soler
*Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
*Giuseppe Tartini
*Georg Philipp Telemann
*Antonio Vivaldi
*Jan Dismas Zelenka

==Música del Neoclasicismo==

*Luigo Boccherini
*Luigi Cherubini
*Domenico Cimarosa
*Franz Danzi
*Christoph Willibald Gluck
*Franz Joseph Haydn
*Joseph Martin Kraus
*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
*Niccolò Paganini
*Antonio Salieri
*Fernando Sor (1778-1839)
*Louis Spohr
*Carl Maria von Weber

==Música romántica==

*Adolphe-Charles Adam
*Isaac Albéniz
*Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga
*Daniel-François Auber
*Francis Edward Bache
*Michael William Balfe (1808 - 1870)
*Amy Beach
*Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
*Vincenzo Bellini
*Hector Berlioz
*Frans Berwald
*Georges Bizet
*Arrigo Boito (1842-1918)
*Alexander Borodin
*Johannes Brahms
*Max Bruch
*Anton Bruckner
*Ferruccio Busoni
*Joseph Canteloube
*Piotr Ilich Chaikovski (1840-1893)
*Ernest Chausson
*Whitefield Chadwick
*Frédéric Chopin (18101849)
*Carl Czerny (1791-1857)
*Léo Delibes
*Gaetano Donizetti
*Paul Dukas
*Antonín Dvo?ják (1841-1904)
*Gabriel Fauré
*Cesar Franck
*Niels Wilhelm Gade
*Edward German
*Alexander Glazunov
*Reinhold Gliere
*Mikhail Glinka
*Karl Goldmark
*Louis Gottschalk
*Charles Gounod
*Edvard Grieg
*Johann Nepomuk Hummel
*Ruggiero Leoncavallo
*Franz Liszt
*Carl Loewe
*Fanny Mendelssohn
*Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
*Giacomo Meyerbeer
*Modest Petróvich Músorgski (1839-1881)
*Jacques Offenbach
*Giacomo Puccini
*Max Reger (1873-1916)
*Ottorino Respighi
*Nikolái Andréievich Rimski-Kórsakov
*Gioacchino Rossini
*Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894)
*Camille Saint Saens (1835-1921)
*Pablo Sarasate (1844-1908)
*Franz Schmidt (1874-1939)
*Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
*Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
*Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
*Alexánder Nikoláievich Scriabin (1872-1915)
*Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)
*Johann Strauss, padre (1804-1849)
*Johann Strauss, hijo (1825-1899)
*Joseph Strauss
*Arthur S. Sullivan
*Francisco Tarrega (1852-1909)
*Giuseppe Verdi
*Richard Wagner
*Charles-Marie Widor
*Hugo Wolf
*Eugene Ysaÿe

==Música del siglo XX==

*John Adams
*Louis Andriessen
*George Antheil
*Malcolm Arnold
*Milton Babbitt
*Samuel Barber
*Jean Barraqué (1928-1973)
*Béla Bartók
*Arnold Bax
*Alban Berg
*Luciano Berio
*Irving Berlin
*Leonard Bernstein
*Ronald Binge
*Harrison Birtwistle
*Arthur Bliss
*Ernest Bloch
*William Bolcom
*Lili Boulanger
*Nadia Boulanger
*Pierre Boulez
*Frank Bridge
*Benjamin Britten
*Gavin Bryars
*Diana Burrell
*Alan Bush (1900-1995)
*George Butterworth
*John Cage
*Elliott Carter
*Carlos Chávez (1899-1978), mexicano.
*Mikolajus Konstantinas Ciurlionis
*Eric Coates
*Cecil Coles
*Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
*John Corigliano
*George Crumb
*Luigi Dallapiccola
*Claude Debussy
*Manuel de Falla (1876-1946), español.
*Frederick Delius
*David Diamond
*Madeleine Dring
*Hanns Eisler
*Edward Elgar
*Georges Enesco
*Morton Feldman
*Brian Ferneyhough
*Luc Ferrari
*Gerald Finzi
*Peter Racine Fricker
*George Gershwin
*Cecil Armstrong Gibbs
*Paul Gilson
*Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983), argentino.
*Umberto Giordano
*Gilbert and Sullivan
*Philip Glass
*Leopold Godowsky
*Carl Goldmark
*Henryk Górecki
*Morton Gould
*Percy Grainger
*Enrique Granados
*Gérard Grisey
*Carmago Guarnieri
*Sofia Gubaidulina
*Howard Hanson
*Karl Amadeus Hartmann
*Pieter Hellendaal
*Hans Werner Henze
*Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975)
*Paul Hindemith
*Gustav Holst
*Arthur Honegger (1892-1955)
*Alan Hovhaness
*Philippe Hurel
*Charles Ives
*Aram Ilich Jachaturián
*Leoš Janá?ek (1854-1928)
*Mauricio Kagel (1931)
*Oliver Knussen
*Zoltán Kodáyl
*Ladislav Karol Kupkovi? (n.1936)
*Philippe Leroux
*György Lígueti
*Witold Lutos?awski
*Elisabeth Lutyens
*James Macmillan
*Elizabeth Maconchy
*Gustav Mahler
*Frank Martin

*Steve Martland
*Peter Maxwell-Davies
*Bohuslav Martin? (1890-1959)
*Nicholas Maw
*Gian Carlo Menotti
*Olivier Messiaen
*Darius Milhaud
*Ernest John Moeran (1894-1950), británico
*Tristan Murail (n.1947)
*Conlon Nancarrow
*Carl Nielsen
*Luigi Nono (1924-1990)
*Michael Nyman
*Sergio Roberto de Oliveira
*Carl Orff
*Andrzej Panufnik
*Roxanna Panufnik
*Charles Hubert Parry
*Arvo Pärt
*Harry Partch
*Krzysztof Penderecki
*Alan Pettersson
*Walter Piston
*Francis Poulenc
*Serguéi Serguéievich Prokófiev (1891-1953)
*Horatiu Radulescu (n.1942)
*Serguéi Vasílievich Rajmáninov (1873-1943)
*Einojuhani Rautavaara
*Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
*Alan Rawsthorne
*Steve Reich
*Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940), mexicano.
*Terry Riley
*Ned Rorem
*Nino Rota (1911-1979)
*Albert Roussel
*Edmund Rubbra
*Carl Ruggles
*John Rutter
*Frederic Rzewski
*Aulis Sallinen
*Erik Satie (1866-1925)
*Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988)
*Florent Schmidt
*Franz Schmidt
*Alfred Schnittke
*Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
*Gunther Schuller
*William Schuman
*Peter Sculthorpe
*Roger Sessions (1896- )
*Dimitri Dimítriyevich Shostakóvich (1906-1975)
*Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
*Robert Simpson
*Nikos Skalkottas
*Charles Villiers Stanford
*Rudi Stephan
*Karlheinz Stockhausen
*Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
*Ígor Fiódorovich Stravinski (1882-1971), ruso
*Giles Swayne
*Karol Szymanowski
*T?ru Takemitsu (1930-1996)
*Mikis Theodorakis (n.1925)
*Virgil Thomson
*Michael Tippett
*Michael Torke
*David Del Tredici
*Eduard Tubin
*Mark-Anthony Turnage
*Erkki-Sven Tüür
*Geirr Tveitt
*Galina Ivánovna Ustvolskaya (n.1919)
*Moisei Vainberg
*Edgard Varèse
*Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
*Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
*David Ward-Steinman
*Anton Webern (1883-1945)
*Kurt Weill (1900-1950)
*Alberto Williams (1862-1952), argentino.
*Malcolm Williamson
*Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001)
*La Monte Young
*Ellen Zwilich (1939- )