Music composers of the world

Composer

A composer (Latin com+ponere, literally "one who puts together") is a person who creates , music either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music. In the development of Eouropian music, the function of composing music initially did not have much greater importance than that of performing it. The preservation of individual compositions did not receive enormous attention and musicians generally had no qualms about modifying compositions for performance. Over time, however, the written notation of the composer came to be treated as strict instructions from which performers should not deviate without good practical or artistic reason. Performers do, however, play the music and interpret it in a way that is all their own. In fact, in the concerto form, the soloist would often compose and perform a cadenza as a way to express their individual interpretation of the piece.

In as much as the role of the composer in westwern art music has seen continued solidification, in alternative idioms (i.e. jazz, experimental music) it has in some ways become increasingly complex or vague. For instance, in certain contexts - the line between composer and performer, sound designer, arrenger, producer, and other roles - can be quite blurred.

The term "composer" is often used to refer to composers of instrumental music, such as those found in classical, jazz other forms of art and traditional music. In popular and folk music, the composer is usually called a songwriter, since the music generally takes the form of a song. Since the mid-20th century, the term has expanded to accommodate creators of electronic music, in which composers directly create sonic material in any of the various electronic media. This is distinct from instrumental composition, where the work is represented by a musical score to be interpreted by performers.
Lists of composers

By genre

List of Carnatic composers

* Annama (1408 – 1503 CE)
* Purandaradasa (1484 – 1564 CE)
* Muthu Thandavar (1525 – 1625)
* Kshetragna (1600 – 1680 )
* Bhadrachala Ramdas (1620 – 1688)
* Papanasa Mudaliar (1650 – 1725)
* Sarangapani (17th century)
* Paidala Gurumurti Sastri (17th century)
* Arunachala Kavi (1711 – 1788)
* Marimutthu Pillai (?1717 – ?1787 CE)
* Pacchimiriam Adiyappa (18th century)
* Sadasiva Brahmendra (18th century)
* Oottukkadu Venkata Kavi (18th century)
* Tyagaraja (1767 – 1847)
* Muthuswami Dikshitar (1775 – 1835)
* Syama Sastri (1762 – 1827)
* Thanjavur Quartet (18th century)
* Iraiyamman Tampi (1782 – 1856)
* Ghanam Krishna Iyer (1790 – 1854)
* Veena Kuppayyar (1798 – 1860)
* Tiruvarur Ramaswami Pillai (1798 – 1852)
* Gopalakrishna Bharathi (1811 – 1896)
* Swati Tirunal (1813 – 1847)
* Anai Ayya brothers (19th century)
* Kavi Kunjara Bharati (1810 – 1896)
* Subbaraya Sastri (1803 – 1862)
* Subbarama Dikshitar (1839 – 1906)
* Neelakanta Sivan (1839 – 1900)
* Kurainadu Natesa Pillai (1830 – 1925)
* Pallavi Seshayyar (1842 – 1905)
* Maha Vaidyanatha Iyer (1844 – 1893)
* Patnam Subramania Iyer (1845 – 1902)
* Tiruvottriyur Tyagayyar (1845 – 1917)
* Manambuchavadi Venkatasubbayyar (19th century)
* Dharmapuri Subbarayar (19th century)
* Pattabhiramayya(19th century)
* Poochi Srinivasa Iyengar (1860 – 1919)
* Annamalai Reddiyar (1865 – 1891)
* Koteeswara Iyer (1870 – 1940)
* Ennappadam Venkatarama Bhagavatar (1880 – 1961)[1]
* Papanasam Sivan (1890 – 1973)
* Mayuram Viswanatha Sastri (1893 – 1958)
* Rallapalli Anantha Krishna Sharma (1893 – 1979) [1]
* Dandapani Desikar (1908 – 1972)
* Periyasaamy Thooran (1908 – 1987)
* K.M. Soundaryavalli (July 22, 1914 – October 8, 1994)
* S. Ramanathan (1917 – 1988)
* Prof. Mysore Sri V. Ramarathnam (1917 – 2008)
* M. D. Ramanathan (1923 – 1984)
* Mangalam Ganapathy
* N. S. Ramachandran
* Tanjavur Sankara Iyer
* M. Balamuralikrishna (b. 1930)
* K. R. Kumaraswamy Iyer
* K. R. Kedaranathan (1925 – 2007)
* Lalgudi Jayaraman
* N. Ramani (b. 1934)
* L. Subramaniam (b. 1947)
* N. Ravikiran (b. 1967)
* Tanjavur S.Kalyanaraman
* Tirupati Narayanaswami Naidu
* Kadaloor M. Subramaniam
* Sri Swami Dayananda Saraswati

Composers in Mysore Kingdom
See also: Musicians of Mysore Kingdom

* Vaikunta Dasaru (1680)
* Krishnaraja Wodeyar III (1799 – 1868)
* Mysore Sadashiva Rao (1790)
* Veena Venkata Subbiah (1750)
* Shunti Venkataramaniah (1780)
* Aliya Lingaraja Urs (1823 – 1874)
* Chinniah (1902)
* Krishnappa
* Veena Chikka Lakshminaranappa
* Veene Krishnappa
* Piteelu Seenappa
* Bhairavi Lakshminaranappa (1878 – 1934)
* Pedda Lakshminaranappa
* Devalapurada Nanjunda
* Veena Shamanna (1832 – 1908)
* Veena Padmanabiah (1842 – 1900)
* Veene Sheshanna (1852 – 1926)
* Mysore Karigiri Rao (1853 – 1927)
* Veena Subbanna (1861 – 1939)
* Mysore Vasudevachar (1865 – 1961)
* Bidaram Krishnappa (1866 – 1931)
* Tiruppunandal Pattabhiramiah (1863)
* Sosale Ayya Shastry (1854 – 1934)
* Rallapalli Anantha Krishna Sharma (1893 – 1979)[2]
* Jayarayacharya (d. 1910)
* Giribhattara Tammayya (1865 – 1920)
* Nanjangud Subba Shastry (1834 – 1906)
* Chandrashekara Shastry
* Veena Subramanya Iyer (1864 – 1919)
* Harikesanallur Muthaiah Bhagavatar (1877 – 1945)
* Veena Shivaramiah (1886 – 1946)
* Veena Venkatagiriappa (1887 – 1952)
* Belakawadi Srinivasa Iyengar (1888 – 1952)
* Chikka Ramarao (1891 – 1945)
* Mysore T. Chowdiah (1894 – 1967)
* Jayachamaraja Wodeyar (1919 – 1974)
* Dr. B. Devendrappa (1899 – 1986)
* Gotuvadyam Narayana Iyengar (1903 – 1959)
* Tiruvayyar Subramanya Iyer
* Anavatti Rama Rao (1860)
* Tiger Varadachariar (1876 – 1950)
* Chennakeshaviah (1895 – 1986)
* Titte Krishna Iyengar (1902 – 1997)
* S.N. Mariappa (1914 – 1986)
* Chintalapalli Ramachandra Rao (1916 – 1985)
* R.N.Doreswamy (1916 – 2002)
* Prof. Mysore Sri V. Ramarathnam (1917 – 2008)
* H.M. Vaidyalinga Bhagavatar (1924 – 1999)

Bhakti Saints

In addition to the above composers, various Bhakti saints of medieval India also composed devotional hymns, verses and songs. These compositions, though strictly not of Carnatic or classical character, have contributed to the gradual evolution of the Carnatic musical tradition over the centuries.

* Karaikkal Ammeiyar (5th century)
* Thirunavukkarasar (7th century)
* Thirugnana Sambanthar (7th century)
* Sundaramurti (7th century)
* Andal (9th century)
* Manikkavasagar (10th century)
* Jayadeva (12th century)
* Basavanna (12th century)
* Akka Mahadevi (12th century)
* Allama Prabhu (12th century)
* Muthu Thandavar (14th century)
* Arunagirinathar (15th century)
* Sripadaraya (1404 – 1502)
* Vyasatirtha (1460 &nddsh; 1539)
* Vadirajatirtha (1480 &nddsh; 1600)
* Narayana Teertha (1580 – 1660)
* Kanakadasa (1509 – 1609)
* Raghavendra Swami (1595 – 1671)
* Mahipathidasa (1611 – 1681)
* Vijaya Dasa (1682 – 1755)
* Prasanna Venkatadasa (1680 – 1752)
* Gopaladasa (1722 – 1762)
* Jagannathadasa (1727 – 1809)
* Praneshadasa (1736 – 1822)
* Venugopaladasa (1728 – 1751)
* Mohanadasa (1728 – 1751)
* Helevanakatte Giriamma (18th century)
* Harapanhalli Bhimavva (1822 – 1903)
* Guru Jagananatha Dasa (1837 – 1918)


List of film score composers

The following is a list of notable people who predominantly (or most famously) compose soundtrack music for films (i.e. film scores), and television and radio. Contents: Top · 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
[edit] A

* Rod Abernethy — video game composer; Star Trek: Encounters, Wheelman
* Amanda Abizaid — The 13th Alley
* J. J. Abrams (b. 1966) — Felicity, Lost, Alias, Fringe[1]
* André Abujamra (b. 1965) — Durval Discos, Carandiru[2]
* Bojan Adamič (1912–1995) — Valter Brani Sarajevo[3]
* John Adams (b. 1947) — Matter of Heart[4]
* Barry Adamson (b. 1958) — Lost Highway, Delusion
* Richard Addinsell (1904–1977) — Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Dangerous Moonlight, Beau Brummell[5]
* John Addison (1920–1988) — Tom Jones, A Bridge Too Far[6]
* Larry Adler (1914–2001) — Genevieve[7]
* Mirwais Ahmadzaï (b. 1960) — No Body Is Perfect, Pardonnez-moi
* Air (formed 1995) — The Virgin Suicides[8]
* Masami Akita (Merzbow; formed 1979) — The Dead Man 2: Return of the Dead Man, Lost Paradise
* Yasushi Akutagawa (1925–1989) — Gate of Hell, Fires on the Plain, Mount Hakkoda[9]
* Mazhar Alanson (b. 1950) — Everything's Gonna Be Great[10]
* Damon Albarn (b. 1968) — Ordinary Decent Criminal, Ravenous, 101 Reykjavík[11]
* Timothy Albee — Kaze, Ghost Warrior[12]
* Dan Andrei Aldea (b. 1950) — Nunta de piatră
* Edesio Alejandro (b. 1958) — Life Is to Whistle, Suite Habana, Un rey en la Habana[13]
* Alessandro Alessandroni (b. 1925) — Any Gun Can Play
* Jeff Alexander (1910–1989) — The Tender Trap, Jailhouse Rock, Kid Galahad[14]
* Hugo Alfvén
* Hossein Alizadeh (b. 1951)
* A. R. Rahman (b. 1966) — Slumdog Millionaire[15]
* Herb Alpert (b. 1935)
* John Altman (b. 1949) — Little Voice[16]
* William Alwyn
* Masamichi Amano (b.1957) — Battle Royale, Giant Robo
* W. D. Amaradeva
* Alejandro Amenábar (b.1972)) — The Sea Inside, The Others
* Daniele Amfitheatrof
* David Amram (b.1930) — The Manchurian Candidate, Splendor in the Grass
* Anand Raj Anand
* Kai Normann Andersen
* Murray C. Anderson
* Benny Andersson (b.1946) — Mio in the Land of Faraway, Songs from the Second Floor, You, the Living
* Michael Andrews (b.1959) — Donnie Darko, Orange County, Me and You and Everyone We Know
* Jurriaan Andriessen
* George Antheil (1900-1959) — In a Lonely Place, Ballet Mécanique
* Paul Antonelli
* Yoshino Aoki — video game music composer; Breath of Fire III, Breath of Fire IV
* Louis Applebaum (1918-2000) — The Story of G.I. Joe
* Takanori Arisawa
* David Arkenstone
* Harold Arlen (1905-1986) — The Wizard of Oz
* Craig Armstrong (b.1959) — Romeo + Juliet, Ray, Moulin Rouge!
* Leo Arnaud
* David Arnold (b.1962) — Independence Day, Quantum of Solace, Little Britain
* Sir Malcolm Arnold
* Len Arran
* Jorge Arriagada — Time Regained, Klimt, Salvador Allende
* Claude Arrieu
* Eduard Artemyev (b.1937) — Solaris, Stalker, Burnt by the Sun
* Joseph Arthur
* Art Zoyd (formed 1968) — new scores for Nosferatu, Metropolis, Häxan
* Jeff Arwady
* Noriyuki Asakura — video game composer; Onimusha, Way of the Samurai
* Assassin (formed 1985) — La Haine
* Edwin Astley
* Richard Attree
* Georges Auric (1899-1983) — La Belle et la bete, Bonjour Tristesse
* Eric Avery
* Mark Ayres
* Alexandre Azaria
* Charles Aznavour

[edit] B

* Luis Bacalov — Django
* Burt Bacharach
* Pierre Bachelet
* Chris P. Bacon
* Michael Bacon
* Angelo Badalamenti — Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, The City of Lost Children
* Klaus Badelt — Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Equilibrium, Wu ji
* Constantin Bakaleinikoff
* Mischa Bakaleinikoff
* Buddy Baker — The Fox and the Hound
* Alexander Bălănescu
* Iain Ballamy — MirrorMask
* Glen Ballard
* Richard Band — Re-Animator, Puppet Master
* Thomas Bangalter
* Don Banks
* Claus Bantzer — Cherry Blossoms
* Lesley Barber
* Gato Barbieri — Last Tango in Paris
* Blixa Bargeld
* Mister Bark
* Warren Barker
* Andrew Barnabas — MediEvil, Primal
* Erran Baron Cohen — Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Brüno, Da Ali G Show
* Alejandro Gutiérrez del Barrio
* Bebe Barron — Forbidden Planet
* Louis Barron — Forbidden Planet
* John Barry
* Steve Bartek — Novocaine
* Dee Barton
* Stephen Barton
* Fabio Barzagli
* Tyler Bates — 300, Watchmen, The Devil's Rejects
* Hubert Bath
* Mark Batson
* Mike Batt
* Jules Bass
* George Bassman
* Arnold Bax
* Les Baxter
* Jeff Beal — Monk, Pollock
* John Beal
* Robin Beanland — Conker's Bad Fur Day, Conker: Live and Reloaded
* Guy Béart
* Bobby Beausoleil — Lucifer Rising
* Giuseppe Becce
* Christophe Beck
* Jeff Beck
* David Bell
* Andrew Belling — Wizards
* Richard Bellis
* Marco Beltrami
* Arthur Benjamin
* Richard Rodney Bennett
* Irving Berlin
* James Bernard
* Charles Bernstein — A Nightmare on Elm Street
* Elmer Bernstein
* Leonard Bernstein — On the Waterfront
* Harry Betts
* Amin Bhatia
* Bruno Bizarro
* Adam Berry
* Dennis Berry
* Peter Best
* Kurt Bestor
* Harry Betts
* Vishal Bhardwaj
* Vanraj Bhatia
* Christian Biegai
* Anil Biswas
* Ragnar Bjerkreim
* Björk — Dancer in the Dark, Drawing Restraint 9
* Stanley Black
* Richard Blackford
* Howard Blake
* Art Blakey
* Terence Blanchard
* Jamie Blanks
* Teddy Blass
* Arthur Bliss
* The Blue Hawaiians
* Len Blum
* Armando Bo
* Wes Boatman
* Michael Boddicker
* Ed Bogas
* Carsten Bohn
* Claude Bolling
* Bernardo Bonezzi
* Luiz Bonfá
* Fred Bongusto
* R C Boral
* Simon Boswell
* Martin Böttcher
* Frédéric Botton
* Roddy Bottum
* Ned Bouhalassa
* Pierre Boulez
* Pieter Bourke
* David Bowie
* Scott Bradley
* Steven Bramson
* Glenn Branca
* Otto Brandenburg
* Angelo Branduardi — Momo
* Stephen Bray
* Michael Breckenridge
* Buddy Bregman
* Goran Bregović
* Joseph Carl Breil
* Willem Breuker
* Philip Brigham
* Jon Brion
* Benjamin Britten
* Jeff Britting
* Timothy Brock
* Michael Brook
* Mel Brooks
* Michael Bross — Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee, Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath
* Dirk Brossé
* Bruce Broughton
* William Broughton
* Leo Brouwer
* Bill Brown
* James Brown
* George Bruns
* Joanna Bruzdowicz
* Jimmy Bryant
* Gavin Bryars
* David Buckley
* Paul Buckmaster — 12 Monkeys
* Harold Budd
* Roy Budd
* Peter Buffett
* Bun Bun
* Roman Bunka
* Velton Ray Bunch
* Geoffrey Burgon
* Rahul Dev Burman
* Sachin Dev Burman
* Justin Burnett
* T-Bone Burnett
* Ralph Burns
* Carter Burwell
* David Buttolph
* Joseph Byrd
* David Byrne

[edit] C

* C.G mix
* John Cacavas
* John Cage (1912-1992) — Dreams That Money Can Buy, Works of Calder
* Peter Calandra
* John Cale
* Cali
* Sean Callery
* Pino Calvi
* Pedro Camacho
* Francisco Canaro
* Paul Cantelon
* Gerard Carbonara
* Sam Cardon
* Wendy Carlos
* John Carpenter
* Pete Carpenter
* Hans Carste
* Gaylord Carter
* Kristopher Carter
* Doreen Carwithen
* Tristram Cary
* Carles Cases
* Johnny Cash
* Teddy Castellucci
* Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
* Brian Castillo
* Nick Cave
* Ryan Cayabyab
* Sapan Chakraborty
* Chakri
* Charlie Chaplin
* Benoît Charest
* Kenneth Chasen
* Ken Chastain
* Stuart Chatwood
* Jay Chattaway
* Matthieu Chedid
* Yury G. Chernavsky
* Don Cherry
* Paul Chihara
* Ghulam Ahmed Chishti
* Chitragupta
* Salil Chowdhury
* Sandeep Chowta
* Jamie Christopherson
* Toby Chu
* Frank Churchill
* Suzanne Ciani
* Alessandro Cicognini
* Grzegorz Ciechowski
* The Cinematic Orchestra
* Stelvio Cipriani
* Julien Civange
* Dolores Claman
* Clannad
* Malcolm Clarke
* Stanley Clarke
* Alf Clausen
* Richard Clements
* Brian Clifton
* George S. Clinton
* Charlie Clouser
* Elia Cmiral
* Eric Coates
* Coil
* Ozan Çolakoğlu (b.1972) — G.O.R.A., Organize İşler, Sınav
* Ray Colcord
* Lisa Coleman
* Cyril Collard
* Anthony Vincent Collins
* Phil Collins
* Michel Colombier
* Zebedy Colt
* Peter Connelly
* Con Conrad
* Marius Constant
* Paul Constantinescu
* Bill Conti
* Ry Cooder
* Jason Cooper
* Ray Cooper
* Stewart Copeland
* Aaron Copland
* Cecil Copping
* John Corigliano
* Bruno Coulais
* Alexander Courage
* Vladimir Cosma
* Alexander Courage
* Crush 40
* Douglas J. Cuomo
* Mike Curb
* Hoyt Curtin

[edit] D

* Juan D'Arienzo
* Ben Daglish
* V. Dakshinamoorthy
* Burkhard Dallwitz
* Đặng Hữu Phúc
* Britt Daniel
* John Dankworth
* Jeff Danna
* Mychael Danna
* Ken Darby
* Mason Daring
* David Darling
* Samar Das
* Peter Dasent
* Vladimir Dashkevich
* Evelyne Datl
* Shaun Davey
* Iva Davies
* Peter Maxwell Davies
* Carl Davis
* Don Davis
* Jonathan Davis
* Miles Davis
* Guido De Angelis
* Maurizio De Angelis
* Francesco De Masi
* Tullio De Piscopo
* Frank De Vol
* Barry De Vorzon
* Dead Can Dance
* Richard DeBenedictis
* John Debney
* Charles Deenen
* Fabian Del Priore
* Jack Delano
* Georges Delerue
* Julie Delpy
* Éric Demarsan
* Olivier Derivière
* Jean Derome
* Russ DeSalvo
* Alexandre Desplat
* Paul Dessau
* Adolph Deutsch
* Stephen Deutsch
* Deva
* Srikanth Deva
* DeVotchKa
* Frédéric Devreese
* Sussan Deyhim
* James Di Pasquale
* Neil Diamond
* Michelle DiBucci
* Vince DiCola
* Enrique Santos Discépolo
* Ramin Djawadi
* Simon Dobson
* Robert E. Dolan
* Thomas Dolby
* Klaus Doldinger
* Pino Donaggio
* Walter Donaldson
* James Dooley
* Pierre van Dormael
* Paul Doucette
* Joel Douek
* Patrick Doyle
* Carmen Dragon
* Christopher Drake
* Robert Drasnin
* Jojo Draven
* Dennis Dreith
* Jorge Drexler
* George Dreyfus
* Howard Drossin
* Jack Curtis Dubowsky
* John Du Prez
* Anne Dudley
* Antoine Duhamel
* Charles Dumont
* Isaak Dunayevsky
* Maksim Dunayevsky
* Clay Duncan
* Robert Duncan
* Trevor Duncan
* George Duning
* The Dust Brothers
* Frank Duval
* Jeff van Dyck
* Dado Dzihan

[edit] E

* E.S. Posthumus
* Brian Easdale — The Red Shoes, Peeping Tom
* Clint Eastwood
* Kyle Eastwood
* Nicolas Economou
* Randy Edelman
* Greg Edmonson
* Carl Edouarde
* Ross Edwards
* Stefan Eichinger
* Philippe Eidel
* Cliff Eidelman
* Christian Eigner — Die Viertelliterklasse
* Ludovico Einaudi
* F. M. Einheit
* Richard Einhorn — The Prowler, Voices of Light
* Einstürzende Neubauten
* Der Eisenrost
* Hanns Eisler
* Element of Crime
* Danny Elfman
* Jonathan Elias
* Rachel Elkind
* Boris Elkis
* Duke Ellington
* Dean Elliott
* Jack Elliott
* Don Ellis
* Warren Ellis
* Albert Elms
* Elwood
* Keith Emerson
* Jon English
* Tobias Enhus
* Jeremy Enigk
* Brian Eno — The Lovely Bones, Sebastiane
* Roger Eno
* Enya
* Harry Escott
* Ilan Eshkeri
* Juan García Esquivel
* Ray Evans

F

* Adam F
* Bent Fabric
* Asser Fagerström
* Brian Fahey
* Sammy Fain
* Percy Faith
* Nima Fakhrara
* Harold Faltermeyer
* David Fanshawe
* Paul Farrer
* Toufic Farroukh
* Bruce Faulconer
* Jeffrey Fayman
* George Fenton
* Jay Ferguson
* Paul Ferris
* Nico Fidenco
* Brad Fiedel
* Jerry Fielding
* Mike Figgis
* Eveline Fischer
* Luboš Fišer
* Frank Fitzpatrick
* Stephen Flaherty
* Tom Flannery
* Flo & Eddie
* Adrian Foley, 8th Baron Foley
* Tim Follin
* Ari Folman
* Troels Brun Folmann
* Dan Forden
* Keith Forsey
* Bruce Fowler
* Charles Fox
* Christopher Franke
* Benjamin Frankel
* Jason Frederick
* Freur
* Gerald Fried
* Hugo Friedhofer
* Bill Frisell
* Fred Frith
* John Frizzell
* Fabio Frizzi
* Edgar Froese
* Dominic Frontiere
* Hideyuki Fukasawa
* Matt Furniss
* Giovanni Fusco

G

* Peter Gabriel
* Serge Gainsbourg
* Vincent Gallo
* Martin Galway
* Douglas Gamley
* Gara Garayev
* Anja Garbarek
* Jan Garbarek
* Antón García Abril
* Russell Garcia
* Ruy Garcia
* Dan Gardopée
* Snuff Garrett
* Georges Garvarentz
* Giorgio Gaslini
* Tony Gatlif
* Mohammed Gauss
* Marvin Gaye
* Justin Geer
* Ron Geesin
* Grant Geissman
* Lisa Gerrard
* Matthew Gerrard
* George Gershwin
* Irving Gertz
* Ghantasala
* Michael Giacchino
* Michael Gibbs
* Richard Gibbs
* Herschel Burke Gilbert
* Gary Gilbertson
* Alan Gill
* Terry Gilkyson
* Daniel Giorgetti
* Paul Giovanni
* Lutz Glandien
* Scott Glasgow
* Philip Glass
* Paul Glass
* Patrick Gleeson
* Evelyn Glennie
* Nick Glennie-Smith
* Goblin
* Erik Godal
* Vladimír Godár
* Lucio Godoy
* Ramana Gogula
* Matthias Gohl
* Ernest Gold
* Jeffrey Gold
* Murray Gold
* Billy Goldenberg
* Elliot Goldenthal
* Jerry Goldsmith
* Joel Goldsmith
* Osvaldo Golijov
* Benny Golson
* Alejandro González Iñárritu
* Miles Goodman
* Ron Goodwin
* Alain Goraguer
* Michael Gordon
* Michael Gore
* Adam Gorgoni
* Manami Gotoh
* Louis F. Gottschalk
* Morton Gould
* Patrick Gowers
* Paul Grabowsky
* Ron Grainer
* Allan Gray
* Barry Gray
* Clifford Gray
* Jody Gray
* Gavin Greenaway
* Johnny Green
* Walter Greene
* Jonny Greenwood
* Gustaf Grefberg
* Harry Gregson-Williams
* Rupert Gregson-Williams
* Mark Griskey
* Raymond van het Groenewoud
* Launy Grøndahl
* Herbert Grönemeyer
* Charles Gross
* Dave Grusin
* Sofia Gubaidulina
* Fuat Güner
* Christopher Gunning
* Gurukiran
* Olof Gustafsson

H

* Alexander Hacke
* Manos Hadjidakis
* Georg Haentzschel
* Richard Hageman
* Earle Hagen
* Uzeyir Hajibeyov
* Taro Hakase
* Halfdan E
* Dick Halligan
* Shirō Hamaguchi
* Chico Hamilton
* Marvin Hamlisch
* Chuck Hammer
* Jan Hammer
* Oscar Hammerstein II
* Hamsalekha
* Herbie Hancock
* Frederic Hand
* Kentarō Haneda
* James Hannigan
* Ilmari Hannikainen
* Glen Hansard
* Raymond Hanson
* Chihiro Harada
* Hagood Hardy
* Jon Hare
* Leigh Harline
* Joe Harnell
* Don Harper
* Don L. Harper
* Johnny Harris
* Sue Harris
* John Harrison
* Jimmy Harry
* Jimmy Hart
* Hal Hartley
* Richard Hartley
* Paul Hartnoll
* Mick Harvey
* Richard Harvey
* Tomoki Hasegawa
* Ichiko Hashimoto
* Paul Haslinger
* Aki Hata
* Tony Hatch
* Donny Hathaway
* Marvin Hatley
* Katsuhisa Hattori
* M. Maurice Hawkesworth
* Alan Hawkshaw
* Fumio Hayasaka
* Isaac Hayes
* Tim Haywood
* Richard Hazard
* Jim Hedges
* Neal Hefti
* Reinhold Heil
* Michael Hennagin
* Joe Henry
* Hans Werner Henze
* Paul Hepker
* Victor Herbert
* Michel Herr
* Bernard Herrmann
* Dan Hess
* David Hess
* Nigel Hess
* Eric Hester
* Andrew Hewitt
* David Hewson
* Miki Higashino
* Masanori Hikichi
* Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson
* Paul Hindemith
* Yoshihisa Hirano
* Hajime Hirasawa
* Susumu Hirasawa
* David Hirschfelder
* Joel Hirschhorn
* Joe Hisaishi
* Peter Hajba
* Michael Hoenig
* Derrick Hodge
* Friedrich Hollaender
* Dulcie Holland
* David Holmes
* Arthur Honegger
* Hannu Honkonen
* Johan Hoogewijs
* Les Hooper
* Nicholas Hooper
* Nellee Hooper
* Anthony Hopkins
* Antony Hopkins
* Keith Hopwood
* Trevor Horn
* James Horner
* Richard Horowitz
* André Hossein
* Tomoyasu Hotei
* James Newton Howard
* Ken Howard
* Alan Howarth
* Peter Howell
* Robert Hughes
* Scott Humphrey
* Craig Huxley
* Søren Hyldgaard
* Dick Hyman
* Nihad Hrustanbegovic

I

* Jacques Ibert
* Abdullah Ibrahim
* Akira Ifukube
* Alberto Iglesias
* Ilaiyaraaja
* John Illsley
* Jerrold Immel
* In the Nursery
* John Ireland
* Markéta Irglová
* Pat Irwin
* Mark Isham
* Chu Ishikawa
* Emir Işılay
* Masumi Itō
* Teiji Ito (1935-1982) —Meshes of the Afternoon, The Very Eye of Night
* Peter Ivers
* Taku Iwasaki
* Masaharu Iwata

J

* Steve Jablonsky
* Richard Jacques
* Mick Jagger
* Jaidev
* Shankar Jaikishan
* Ravindra Jain
* Bob James
* Chas Jankel
* Werner Janssen
* Jean Michel Jarre
* Maurice Jarre
* Michael Jary
* Maurice Jaubert
* Harris Jayaraj
* Wyclef Jean
* Jeet
* Merrill Jenson
* Zhao Jiping
* Antonio Carlos Jobim (Tom Jobim)
* Adan Jodorowsky
* Alejandro Jodorowsky
* Jóhann Jóhannsson
* Elton John
* Johnson
* J. J. Johnson
* Laurie Johnson
* Nathan Johnson
* Arthur Johnston
* Bobby Johnston
* Jim Johnston
* Brian Jones
* Dan Jones
* John Paul Jones
* Quincy Jones
* Tim Jones- Film Composer
* Raymond Jones
* Ron Jones
* Trevor Jones
* Richard Joseph
* Michael Josephs
* David Julyan
* Junkie XL
* Walter Jurmann
* Patrick Juvet

K

* John Erik Kaada
* Dmitri Kabalevsky
* Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
* Mauricio Kagel
* Gus Kahn
* Akari Kaida
* Yuki Kajiura
* Edd Kalehoff
* George Kallis
* Bert Kalmar
* Michael Kamen
* John Kander
* Shigeru Kan-no
* Yoko Kanno
* Tuomas Kantelinen
* Bronisław Kaper
* Sol Kaplan
* Eleni Karaindrou
* Nele Karajlić
* Anton Karas
* Fred Karlin
* Laura Karpman
* Kent Karlsson
* Peter Kater
* Emilio Kauderer
* Jake Kaufman
* Kenji Kawai
* Norman Kay
* Yakov Kazyansky
* John E. Keane
* John M. Keane
* M. M. Keeravani
* Roger Kellaway
* Paul Kelly
* Rolfe Kent
* Walter Kent
* Jerome Kern
* Premasiri Kernadasa
* Aram Khachaturian
* Khaled
* Aashish Khan
* Ali Akbar Khan
* Praga Khan
* Usha Khanna
* Alex Khaskin
* Mohammed Zahur Khayyam
* Tikhon Khrennikov
* Khawaja Khurshid Anwar
* Shunsuke Kikuchi
* Wojciech Kilar
* Mark Kilian
* Alastair King
* John King
* Kaki King
* Gershon Kingsley
* Gökhan Kırdar
* Grant Kirkhope
* Martin Kiszko
* Kitarō
* Mark Klem
* Johnny Klimek
* Jan Klusák
* Mark Knight
* David Knopfler
* Mark Knopfler
* Chiho Kobayashi
* Krzysztof Komeda
* Robbie Kondor
* Joseph Koo
* Ben Kopec
* Hermann Kopp
* Anders Koppel
* Erich Wolfgang Korngold
* Danny Kortchmar
* Richard Kosinski
* Joseph Kosma
* Irwin Kostal
* Robert Kraft
* William Kraft
* Robert J. Kral
* John Henry Kreitler
* K. M. Radha Krishnan
* David Kristian
* Mina Kubota
* Vivian Kubrick
* Taro Kudou
* G. V. Prakash Kumar
* Gary Kuo
* Hitomi Kuroishi
* Emir Kusturica
* Keisuke Kuwata
* Chan Kwong-Wing
* Jesper Kyd

L

* John T. La Barbera
* Fariborz Lachini
* Thorsten Laewe
* Bappi Lahiri
* Francis Lai
* Nick Laird-Clowes
* Constant Lambert
* Russ Landau
* Marcel Landowski
* Bruce Langhorne
* Daniel Lanois
* Laraaji
* Glen A. Larson
* Nathan Larson
* Richard LaSalle
* James Last
* Giorgi Latsabidze
* Felice Lattuada
* Tats Lau
* Ken Lauber
* William Lava
* Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
* Tom Lavin
* James Lavino
* David Nessim Lawrence
* Elliot Lawrence
* Stephen J. Lawrence
* Maury Laws
* Raam Laxman
* Jean-Marc Lederman
* Lee Byung-woo
* Raymond Lefèvre
* Michel Legrand
* Barry Leitch
* Christopher Lennertz
* Sean Lennon
* Nicholas Lens
* Patrick Leonard
* Raymond Leppard
* Sondre Lerche
* César Lerner
* Jérôme Leroy
* Yaacov Bilansky Levanon
* Sylvester Levay
* Laurent Levesque
* James S. Levine
* Michael A. Levine
* Krishna Levy
* Louis Levy
* Shuki Levy
* Frank Lewin
* Herschell Gordon Lewis
* Leslie Lewis
* Paul Lewis
* Jan Leyers
* Blake Leyh
* Sven Libaek
* Michael Licari
* György Ligeti
* Russell Lieblich
* Krister Linder
* Paul Linford
* Zdeněk Liška
* Jay Livingston
* Andrew Lloyd Webber
* Lowell Lo
* Los Lobos
* Didier Lockwood
* Malcolm Lockyer
* Joseph LoDuca
* John Loeffler
* Frederick Loewe
* Henning Lohner
* Jon Lord
* Rob Lord
* Saša Lošić
* Alexina Louie
* Louiguy
* Jacques Loussier
* Chris Lowe
* David Lowe
* Mundell Lowe
* Jaye Luckett
* Ralph Lundsten
* Evan Lurie
* John Lurie
* Danny Lux
* David Lynch
* Liam Lynch

M

* Lebo M
* Galt MacDermot
* Madonna
* Jun Maeda
* K. V. Mahadevan
* Shankar Mahadevan
* Taj Mahal
* Vusi Mahlasela
* Anu Malik
* Kalyani Malik
* Albert Hay Malotte
* Riichiro Manabe
* Josh Mancell
* Mark Mancina
* Henry Mancini
* Johnny Mandel
* Christopher Mann
* Roger Joseph Manning Jr.
* Franco Mannino
* Manohar
* Clint Mansell
* Keith Mansfield
* Marilyn Manson
* Kevin Manthei
* Homero Manzi
* Dario Marianelli
* Chris Marker
* Clair Marlo
* Richard Marriott
* Branford Marsalis
* Wynton Marsalis
* George Martin
* Jerry Martin
* Cliff Martinez
* J Mascis
* Massive Attack
* Diego Masson
* Toshio Masuda
* Muir Mathieson
* Masaya Matsuura
* Dave Matthews
* Siegfried Matthus
* Billy May
* Brian May
* Simon May
* Curtis Mayfield
* Toshiro Mayuzumi
* Dennis McCarthy
* Paul McCartney
* Craig McConnell
* Bear McCreary
* Nathan McCree
* Keff McCulloch
* Gary McFarland
* Rory McFarlane
* Don McGlashan
* Bill McGuffie
* Tim McIntire
* Rod McKuen
* Joel McNeely
* Joe Meek
* DJ Mehdi
* Edmund Meisel
* Gil Mellé
* Wendy Melvoin
* Loy Mendonsa
* Alan Menken
* Dean Menta
* Johnny Mercer
* Freddie Mercury
* Wim Mertens
* Mateo Messina
* Dominic Messinger
* Micki Meuser
* Mickey J Meyer
* Lanny Meyers
* Guy Michelmore
* Mario Migliardi
* Darius Milhaud
* Marcus Miller
* Robyn Miller
* Chieli Minucci
* Paul Misraki
* Shyamal Mitra
* Shinkichi Mitsumune
* Hajime Mizoguchi
* Vic Mizzy
* Moby
* Cyril J. Mockridge
* Mogwai
* Ghulam Mohammed
* Madan Mohan
* S. Mohinder
* Charlie Mole
* Paddy Moloney
* Money Mark
* Francis Monkman
* Egil Monn-Iversen
* Hugo Montenegro
* Guy Moon
* Anthony Moore
* Dudley Moore
* Lennie Moore
* Mike Moran
* Mark Morgan
* Akihiko Mori
* Nobuhiko Morino
* Angela Morley
* Giorgio Moroder
* Jerome Moross
* Andrea Morricone (b. 1964) — Cinema Paradiso, Capturing the Friedmans[17]
* Ennio Morricone (b. 1928) — A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Untouchables[18]
* John Morris
* Trevor Morris
* Peter Moss
* Bob Mothersbaugh
* Mark Mothersbaugh
* Rob Mounsey
* Dominic Muldowney
* Mugison
* Nico Muhly
* Manas Mukherjee
* Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay
* Pankaj Mullick
* David Munrow
* Vano Muradeli
* Rika Muranaka
* John Murphy
* Stanley Myers

N

* Hideki Naganuma
* Kōtarō Nakagawa
* Masato Nakamura
* Takayuki Nakamura
* Desmond Nakano
* Naked Lunch
* Gianna Nannini
* Michiko Naruke
* Mario Nascimbene
* Nashad
* Naushad
* Javier Navarrete
* Robert Anthony Navarro
* O. P. Nayyar
* Blake Neely
* Oliver Nelson
* Neo
* Michael Nesmith
* Olga Neuwirth
* Ira Newborn
* Alfred Newman
* David Newman
* Emil Newman
* Lionel Newman
* Joey Newman
* Randy Newman
* Thomas Newman
* Mbongeni Ngema
* Bruno Nicolai
* Lennie Niehaus
* Tomohito Nishiura
* Joy Nilo
* Harry Nilsson
* Jack Nitzsche
* Hirosato Noda
* Yuji Nomi
* Ehsaan Noorani
* Per Nørgård
* Graeme Norgate
* Monty Norman
* Alex North
* Christopher North
* Julian Nott
* The Notwist
* Michael Nyman
* Molly Nyman

O

* Karen O
* Richard O'Brien
* Martin O'Donnell
* Tom O'Horgan
* Walter O'Keefe
* Sharon O'Neill
* Paul Oakenfold
* Erkan Oğur
* Hisayoshi Ogura
* Mike Oldfield
* Yoko Ono
* Hal Oppenheim
* Orbital
* Buxton Orr
* Shinji Orito
* Riz Ortolani
* Michiru Oshima
* John Ottman
* Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov
* Atilla Özdemiroğlu

P

* Craig Padilla
* Gene Page
* Jimmy Page
* Marty Paich
* Shelly Palmer
* Alan Parker
* Clifton Parker
* Elizabeth Parker
* Jim Parker
* Dean Parks
* Gordon Parks
* Van Dyke Parks
* Ioan Gyuri Pascu
* Johnny Pate
* R. P. Patnaik
* Mike Patton
* Arun Paudwal
* Alex Paul
* Gene de Paul
* Johnny Pearson
* Gunner Møller Pedersen
* Bernard Peiffer
* Ahmad Pejman
* Krzysztof Penderecki
* Michael Penn
* Heitor Pereira
* Frank Perkins
* Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
* Brendan Perry
* William P. Perry
* Jean-Claude Petit
* Tom Petty
* Sudhir Phadke
* Barrington Pheloung
* Britta Phillips
* John Phillips
* Stu Phillips
* Winifred Phillips
* Lucian Piane
* Ástor Piazzolla
* Piero Piccioni
* Stéphane Picq
* Enrico Pieranunzi
* Jason Pierce
* Pink Floyd
* Antonio Pinto
* Nicola Piovani
* Douglas Pipes
* Plaid
* Dmitry Pokrass
* Pier Paolo Polcari
* Basil Poledouris
* David Pomeranz
* Gillo Pontecorvo
* Jocelyn Pook
* Popol Vuh
* Gavriil Nikolayevich Popov
* Steve Porcaro
* Pornosonic
* Michel Portal
* Cole Porter
* Rachel Portman
* Mike Post
* Sally Potter
* Andrew Powell
* John Powell
* Vasant Prabhu
* Devi Sri Prasad
* Prashant-Krishnan
* Pray for Rain
* Zbigniew Preisner
* Don Preston
* André Previn
* Dory Previn
* Alan Price
* Prince
* Robert Prince
* Pritam
* Sergei Prokofiev
* Craig Pruess

Q

* Queen
* Quintessence

R

* R.E.M. (formed 1980) — Man on the Moon
* Jaan Rääts
* Peer Raben (1950-2007) — Berlin Alexanderplatz, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Querelle
* Trevor Rabin
* James Rado
* Robert O. Ragland
* A. R. Rahman
* Yuvan Shankar Raja
* Brian Ralston
* Yuvan Shankar Raja
* Rajan-Nagendra
* David Raksin
* S. Rajeswara Rao
* Ernö Rapée
* Roop Kumar Rathod
* François Rauber
* Raveendran
* Ravi
* Simon Ravn
* Satyajit Ray
* Ray Reach
* Alto Reed
* Steve Reich
* Ernst Reijseger
* Brian Reitzell
* Franz Reizenstein
* Mike Renzi
* Himesh Reshammiya
* Graeme Revell
* Gian Piero Reverberi
* Silvestre Revueltas
* Graham Reynolds
* Trent Reznor
* Rheostatics
* Andi Rianto
* Fred Rich
* Neil Richardson
* Max Richter
* Chris Rickwood
* Nelson Riddle
* Stan Ridgway
* Hugo Riesenfeld
* Waldo de los Ríos
* Stephen Rippy
* Laza Ristovski
* Lolita Ritmanis
* Paul Robb
* Richard Robbins
* Andy Roberts
* Jamie Robertson
* J. Peter Robinson
* Nile Rodgers
* Robert Rodriguez
* Heinz Eric Roemheld
* Roger Roger
* Alain Romans
* Douglas Romayne
* Sigmund Romberg
* Philippe Rombi
* Manuel Romero
* Jeff Rona
* Ann Ronell
* David Rose
* Max van der Rose
* Leonard Rosenman
* Laurence Rosenthal
* Roshan
* Atticus Ross
* William Ross
* Renzo Rossellini
* Hubert Rostaing
* Nino Rota
* Glen Roven
* Hahn Rowe
* Bruce Rowland
* Miklós Rózsa
* Arthur B. Rubinstein
* Donald Rubinstein
* John Rubinstein
* Harry Ruby
* Steve Rucker
* Pete Rugolo
* Mark Russell
* Carlo Rustichelli
* Paolo Rustichelli
* Mark Rutherford
* RZA

S

* S.E.N.S.
* Haim Saban
* Danny Saber
* Shigeaki Saegusa
* Craig Safan
* Jamie Saft
* Toshihiko Sahashi
* Camille Saint-Saëns
* Ryuichi Sakamoto
* Salim-Sulaiman
* Hans J. Salter
* Michael Salvatori
* Leonard Salzedo
* Adnan Sami
* George Sanger
* John Sangster
* Stéphane Sanseverino
* Carlos Santana
* Gustavo Santaolalla
* Cláudio Santoro
* Philippe Sarde
* David Sardy
* Masaru Satō
* Naoki Satō
* Tenpei Sato
* Jordi Savall
* Paul Sawtell
* Walter Scharf
* Victor Schertzinger
* Peter Schickele
* Lalo Schifrin
* Adam Schlesinger
* Irmin Schmidt
* Johannes Schmoelling
* Helge Schneider
* Alfred Schnittke
* Gaili Schoen
* Eberhard Schoener
* Scott Schreer
* Ralph Schuckett
* Norbert Schultze
* Klaus Schulze
* Walter Schumann
* Sigi Schwab
* David Schwartz
* Stephen Schwartz
* Garry Schyman
* John Scott
* Tom Scott
* Humphrey Searle
* Fat Segal
* Misha Segal
* Mátyás Seiber
* Mark Seibert
* Tsuyoshi Sekito
* Jun Senoue
* Kristian Sensini
* Alex Seropian
* Éric Serra
* Arban Severin
* Steven Severin
* Thomas Edward Seymour
* Kyriakos Sfetsas
* Marc Shaiman
* Vladimir Shainsky
* Gingger Shankar
* Ravi Shankar
* Ray Shanklin
* Shantel
* Theodore Shapiro
* Jamshied Sharifi
* Shark
* Mani Sharma
* Monty Sharma
* Edward Shearmur
* Bert Shefter
* William Sheller
* Richard M. Sherman
* Robert B. Sherman
* Tetsuya Shibata
* Leroy Shield
* Kevin Shields
* Yasunori Shiono
* Sumio Shiratori
* David Shire
* Howard Shore
* Ryan Shore
* Dmitri Shostakovich
* Aadesh Shrivastava
* Shudder to Think
* Leo Shuken
* Louis Siciliano
* Steve Sidwell
* Valgeir Sigurðsson
* Louis Silvers
* Alan Silvestri
* Samuel Sim
* Zoran Simjanović
* Carly Simon
* Claudio Simonetti
* Madan Gopal Singh
* Uttam Singh
* 16Volt
* Lucijan Marija Škerjanc
* Frank Skinner
* Leland Sklar
* Andys Skordis
* Cezary Skubiszewski
* Mark Slater
* Michael Small
* Bruce Smeaton
* Paul J. Smith
* Mark Snow
* Sofa Surfers
* Martial Solal
* Stephen Sondheim
* Nicolás Sorín
* Ondřej Soukup
* André Souris
* Leonid Soybelman
* Stamatis Spanoudakis
* Benjamin Speed
* Sam Spence
* Herbert W. Spencer
* Spiralmouth
* Glenn Stafford
* Carl Stalling
* Stuart A. Staples
* Herman Stein
* Ronald Stein
* Fred Steiner
* Max Steiner
* Aage Stentoft
* Cat Stevens
* Leith Stevens
* Morton Stevens
* David A. Stewart
* Karlheinz Stockhausen
* Ethan Stoller
* Robert Stolz
* Richard Stone
* Herbert Stothart
* Patricia Lee Stotter
* Matthew Strachan
* Oscar Straus
* Charles Strouse
* Joe Strummer
* Ike Stubblefield
* Andy Sturmer
* Cong Su
* Morton Subotnick
* Jeff Sudakin
* Andy Summers
* Sun City Girls
* Keiichi Suzuki
* Georgy Sviridov
* Karel Svoboda
* Mola Sylla
* Władysław Szpilman

T

* Mousse T.
* Germaine Tailleferre
* Masafumi Takada
* Joby Talbot
* Frédéric Talgorn
* Tōru Takemitsu
* Tan Dun
* Kōhei Tanaka
* Tangerine Dream
* Mikael Tariverdiev
* Brian Tarquin
* John Tavener
* Michael Tavera
* Mick Taylor
* Boris Tchaikovsky
* Team Shanghai Alice
* Jeroen Tel
* Sébastien Tellier
* Tenacious D
* Tenmon
* Neil Tennant
* John Tesh
* Jeanine Tesori
* Francois Tetaz
* Alan Tew
* Third Ear Band
* Mikis Theodorakis
* They Might Be Giants
* Maurice Thiriet
* Chance Thomas
* Pete Thomas
* Peter Thomas
* Stuart Michael Thomas
* Virgil Thomson
* Jon Mikl Thor
* Ken Thorne
* Throbbing Gristle
* Yann Tiersen
* Martin Tillman
* Chris Tilton
* Christopher Tin
* Tindersticks
* Dimitri Tiomkin
* George Tipton
* Boris Tishchenko
* Ernst Toch
* Pyotr Todorovsky
* Richard Tognetti
* Magome Togoshi
* Sotaro Tojima
* Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra
* James Tomalin
* tomandandy
* Tomatito
* Isao Tomita
* Sheridan Tongue
* Pınar Toprak
* Ceiri Torjussen
* Veljo Tormis
* David Torn
* Raúl de la Torre
* Kazumi Totaka
* Toto
* Colin Towns
* Kazuhiko Toyama
* Jeff Toyne
* The Transcenders
* Brian Transeau (as BT)
* Stephen Trask
* Armando Trovaioli
* Andrzej Trzaskowski
* Mark Tschanz
* Yuka Tsujiyoko
* Tuxedomoon
* Tom Tykwer
* Brian Tyler
* Christopher Tyng
* Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners

U

* Matt Uelmen
* Nobuo Uematsu (b.1959) —primarily video game music composer; Final Fantasy series, Lost Odyssey, Final Fantasy VII Advent Children
* Tatsuya Uemura
* Kōji Ueno
* Yoko Ueno
* Özkan Uğur
* Shigeru Umebayashi
* Piero Umiliani
* Underworld
* Vladimir Ussachevsky (1911-1990) —No Exit, Line of Apogee
* Hikaru Utada

V

* Andersen Viana
* Steve Vai
* Gary Valenciano
* Frank Valentini
* Nils-Aslak Valkeapää
* Jonne Valtonen
* John Van Tongeren
* David Vanacore
* Vangelis
* Melvin Van Peebles
* Ralph Vaughan Williams
* Ben Vaughn
* Eddie Vedder
* Cris Velasco
* Caetano Veloso
* James L. Venable
* G K Venkatesh
* S.P. Venkatesh
* Stéphane Venne
* Peter Vermeersch
* Vertexguy
* Mike Vickers
* Vidyasagar
* Emil Viklický
* Heitor Villa-Lobos
* Carl Vine
* Anandji Virji Shah
* Kalyanji Virji Shah
* Vishal-Shekhar
* M. S. Viswanathan
* José María Vitier
* Roman Vlad
* Tolis Voskopoulos
* Neil D. Voss
* Chris Vrenna
* Henny Vrienten

W

* Waddy Wachtel
* Kaoru Wada
* Derek Wadsworth
* Loudon Wainwright III
* Tom Waits
* W. G. Walden
* Mark Walk
* Scott Walker
* Shirley Walker
* Simon Walker
* Jack Wall
* William Walton
* Wang Chung
* Thomas Wanker
* Stephen Warbeck
* Edward Ward
* Kyle Ward
* Dean Wareham
* Régis Wargnier
* Mervyn Warren
* Henryk Wars
* Don Was
* Ned Washington
* Toshiyuki Watanabe
* Roger Waters
* Franz Waxman
* Jeff Wayne
* Jimmy Webb
* Roy Webb
* Simon Webb
* Konstantin Wecker
* Craig Wedren
* Mieczysław Weinberg
* Wendy & Lisa
* Walter Werzowa
* Fred Wesley
* Bugge Wesseltoft
* Mel Wesson
* Nigel Westlake
* David Whitaker
* Richard A. Whiting
* Guy Whitmore
* David Whittaker
* George Whitty
* Zygmunt Wiehler
* Clarence Wijewardena
* Gert Wilden
* Matthew Wilder
* Simon Wilkinson
* Steve Willaert
* Charles Williams
* Jim Williams
* John Williams
* Joseph Williams
* Patrick Williams
* Paul Williams
* Malcolm Williamson
* Meredith Willson
* Mortimer Wilson
* Nancy Wilson
* Sam Winans
* Herbert Windt
* Jean Wiener
* David Wise
* Debbie Wiseman
* Charles Wolcott
* Peter Wolf
* Richard Wolf
* Jonathan Wolff
* Byron Wong
* Christopher Wong
* Raymond Wong Ying-Wah
* D. Wood
* Ronnie Wood
* John Wooldridge
* Lyle Workman
* Tim Wright
* Allie Wrubel
* Alex Wurman
* Bill Wyman

X

* Stavros Xarchakos
* Iannis Xenakis

Y

* Shoji Yamashiro
* Stomu Yamashta
* Yanni
* Gabriel Yared
* Peyman Yazdanian
* Wandly Yazid
* Jack Yellen
* Yello
* Narciso Yepes
* Gary Yershon
* Yiruma
* Seiji Yokoyama
* Yo La Tengo
* Yuji Yoshino
* Christopher Young
* Neil Young
* Victor Young

Z

* Dorin Liviu Zaharia
* Geoff Zanelli
* Frank Zappa
* Richard Zarou
* Marcelo Zarvos
* Aleksandr Zatsepin
* Paul Zaza
* Zazie
* Pablo Ziegler
* Aaron Zigman
* Winfried Zillig
* Hans Zimmer
* Rob Zombie
* John Zorn
* Zuntata
* Inon Zur
* Otto Zykan