Composer List – Classics for Kids

List of Composers

Michael Abels

John Adams

Isaac Albéniz

Eleanor Alberga

Tomaso Albinoni

Amanda Ira Aldridge

Ephraim Amu

Guido of Arezzo

Lera Auerbach

Johann Sebastian Bach

Louis W. Ballard

Samuel Barber

Cacilda Borges Barbosa

Bela Bartók

Amy Beach

Ludwig van Beethoven

Hector Berlioz

Leonard Bernstein

Hildegard von Bingen

Georges Bizet

Joseph Bologne

Margaret Bonds

Alexander Borodin

Nadia Boulanger

William Boyce

Johannes Brahms

Benjamin Britten

Leo Brouwer

Max Bruch

Anton Bruckner

Harry T. Burleigh

William Byrd

Francesca Caccini

John Cage

Mathilde Casazola

Raven Chacon

Cecile Chaminade

Yi Chen

Frédéric Chopin

Rebecca Clarke

Muzio Clementi

Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland

Roque Cordero

Arcangelo Corelli

Brent Michael Davids

Manuel de Falla

Orlando de Lassus

Josquin de Prez

Claude Debussy

Guillaume Du Fay

Paul Dukas

Tan Dun

Antonin Dvorák

Edward Elgar

Duke Ellington

Joseph Emidy

George Enescu

Reena Esmail

Ali Farka Touré

Louise Farrenc

Gabriel Fauré

John Field

Stephen Foster

César Franck

Gabriela Lena Frank

Niels Gade

Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia

George Gershwin

Carlo Gesualdo

Orlando Gibbons

Alberto Ginastera

Philip Glass

Alexander Glazunov

Chiquinha Gonzaga

Percy Grainger

Edvard Grieg

Ferde Grofe

Mozart Camargo Guarnieri

Adolphus Hailstork

George Frederick Handel

Joy Harjo

Hamilton Harty

Franz Joseph Haydn

Jennifer Higdon

Moses Hogan

Gustav Holst

Nora Douglas Holt

Ahmad & Mohammed Hussain

Charles Ives

Elizabeth Claude Jacquet de la Guerre

Antonio Carlos Jobim

Francis Johnson

James P. Johnson

Scott Joplin

Dmitri Kabalevsky

Eunice Katunda

Ulysses Kay

Aashish Khan

Zoltán Kodály

Libby Larsen

Morten Lauridsen

Antonio Lauro

Tania Leon

Lili'uokalani

Franz Liszt

Gustav Mahler

Wynton Marsalis

Marianna Martines

Missy Mazzoli

Fanny Mendelssohn

Felix Mendelssohn

Darius Milhaud

Claudio Monteverdi

Undine Smith Moore

Thomas Morley

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Thea Musgrave

Modest Mussorgsky

R. Carlos Nakai

J.H. Kwabena Nketia

Jacqueline Nova

Johannes Ockeghem

Jacques Offenbach

Tawnie Olson

Johann Pachelbel

Nicolò Paganini

Jim Pepper

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

Astor Piazzolla

Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina

Manuel Ponce

Francis Poulenc

Baden Powell

Florence Price

Sergei Prokofiev

Giacomo Puccini

Henry Purcell

Sergei Rachmaninoff

A.R. Rahman

Joseph-Maurice Ravel

Ottorino Resphigi

Silvestre Revueltas

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Joaquín Rodrigo

Amadeo Roldan y Gardes

Gioachino Rossini

Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein

John Rutter

Kaija Saariaho

Camille Saint-Saëns

Adnan Sami

Ignatius Sancho

Erik Satie

Domenico Scarlatti

Arnold Schoenberg

Franz Schubert

Robert Schumann

Clara Schumann

Ravi Shankar

Caroline Shaw

Bright Sheng

Dmitri Shostakovich

Aadesh Shrivastava

Jean Sibelius

Bedrich Smetana

Ethel Smyth

John Philip Sousa

Fela Sowande

William Grant Still

Richard Strauss

Johann Strauss, Jr.

Igor Stravinsky

Barbara Strozzi

Ellen Taafe Zwilich

Germaine Tailleferre

Toru Takemitsu

Thomas Tallis

Jerod Impichchaachaaha Tate

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Georg Philipp Telemann

Randall Thompson

Anna Thorvaldsdottir

Joan Tower

Joan Trimble

Chinary Ung

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Philippe Verdelot

Giuseppe Verdi

Heitor Villa-Lobos

Antonio Vivaldi

Maria Theresa von Paradis

Richard Wagner

George Walker

Gwyneth Walker

Errollyn Wallen

Carl Maria von Weber

Thomas Weelkes

Eric Whitacre

Jose White Lafitte

John Williams

James Kimo Williams

Olly Wilson Jr

Julia Wolfe

David Yeagley

Isang Yun