UNDER CONSTRUCTION
| GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN / SEX | Dates | |
| AFRICAN FEMALE COMPOSERS | ||
 | Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou (Ethiopia) | 1923- |
 | Stella Rambisai Chiweshe (Zimbabwe) | 1946- |
 | Edewede Oriwoh (Nigeria) | 1981- |
 | Noura Mint Seymali (Mauritania) | ? |
| AFRICAN MALE COMPOSERS | ||
 | Stefans Grové (South Africa) | 1922-2014 |
 | Stanley Glasser (South Africa) | 1926-2018 |
 | Francis Bebey (Cameroon) | 1929-2001 |
 | Justinian Tamusuza (Uganda) | 1951- |
 | Foday Musa Suso (Gambia) | 1953- |
| Ayub Ogada (Kenya) | 1956-2019 | |
 | Christian Onyeji (Nigeria) | 1967 |
| Soza Molesi Chisale (Malawi) | ? | |
| Sylvester Otieno (Kenya) | ? | |
| ASIAN FEMALE COMPOSERS | ||
| ASIAN MALE COMPOSERS | ||
 | Rentarō Taki (Japan) | 1879-1903 |
 | Kōsaku Yamada | 1886-1965 |
 | Ding Shande (China) | 1911-1995 |
 | Takashi Yoshimatsu (Japan) | 1953 |
| EASTERN EUROPEAN / CENTRAL ASIAN / RUSSIAN FEMALE COMPOSERS | ||
| EASTERN EUROPEAN / CENTRAL ASIAN / RUSSIAN MALE COMPOSERS | ||
 | Mussorgsky, Modest (Russia) | 1839-1881 |
 | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russia) | 1840-1893 |
 | Sergi Rachmaninov | 1873-1943 |
 | Arvo Pärt (Estonia) | 1935 |
| WESTERN EUROPEAN FEMALE COMPOSERS | ||
 | Hildegard of Bingen (German) | 1098-1179 |
 | Claudia Francesca Rusca | 1593-1676 |
 | Elisabeth Sophie (Germany) | 1613-1676 |
 | Maria Francesca Nascinbeni (Italy) | 1658-1680 |
 | Isabella Leonarda (Italy) | 1620-1704 |
 | Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (France) | 1665-1729 |
 | Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini (Italy) | 1720-1795 |
 | Elisabetta de Gambarini (England) | 1730-1765 |
 | Anna Bon (Italy) | 1738-1769 |
 | Anna Amalia (Germany) | 1739-1807 |
 | Marianna Martines (Austrian) | 1744-1812 |
 | Maddalena Laura Sirmen (Italy) | 1745-1818 |
| Charlotte von Brandenstein (Germany) | 1754-1813 |
 | Marianna Auenbrugger (Austria) | 1759-1782 |
 | Maria Theresia von Paradis (Austria) | 1759-1824 |
 | Hélène de Montgeroult (France) | 1764-1836 |
 | Louise Reichardt (Germany) | 1779-1826 |
 | Maria Szymanowska (Poland) | 1789-1831 |
 | Louise Farrenc (French) | 1804-1875 |
 | Fanny (Cäcilie) Mendelssohn Bartholdy (Germany) | 1805-1847 |
 | Emilie Luise Friderica Mayer (Germany) | 1812-1883 |
 | Josephine Caroline Lang (Germany) | 1815-1880 |
 | Clara Josephine Schumann (Germany) | 1819-1896 |
 | Elfrida Andrée (Sweden) | 1841-1929 |
 | Clara Kathleen Rogers (UK / United States) | 1844-1931 |
 | Marie Jaëll (France) | 1846-1925 |
 | Luise Adolpha Le Beau (Germany) | 1850-1927 |
 | Amanda Röntgen-Maier (Sweden) | 1853-1894 |
 | Mathilde Aloisia Kralik von Meyrswalden (Austria) | 1857-1944 |
 | Alma Mahler (Austria) | 1879-1964 |
 | Lili Boulanger (France) | 1893-1918 |
 | Ida Presti (French) | 1924-1967 |
 | Shirley J. Thompson OBE (UK) | 1958 |
 | Hannah Kendall (UK) | 1984 |
| WESTERN EUROPEAN MALE COMPOSERS | ||
 | George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower (UK) | 1778-1860 |
 | Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (UK) | 1875-1912 |
 | Béla Bartók (Hungarian) | 1881-1945 |
 | Ramin Djawadi (Iranian-German) | 1974 |
| MIDDLE EASTERN / NORTH AFRICAN FEMALE COMPOSERS | ||
| MIDDLE EASTERN / NORTH AFRICAN MALE COMPOSERS | ||
| Riad Al Sunbati (Egypt) | 1906-1981 | |
| El Hadj M’Hamed El Anka (Algeria) | 1907-1978 | |
| LATIN AMERICAN FEMALE COMPOSERS | ||
 | María Teresa Gertrudis de Jesús Carreño García (Venezuela) | 1853-1917 |
 | Errollyn Wallen (Belize / UK) | 1958 |
| LATIN AMERICAN MALE COMPOSERS | ||
 | Esteban Ponce de Leon (Peru) | 1692-175? |
 | Rafael Antonio Castellanos (Guatemala) | 1725-1791 |
 | Charles Ignatius Sancho (Viceroyalty of New Granada / UK) | 1729-1780 |
| José Francisco Velásquez – the elder (Venezuela) | 1755-60 – 1805 |
 | José Maurício Nunes Garcia (Brazil) | 1767-1830 |
| José Francisco Velásquez – the younger (Venezuela) | 1781-1822 |
 | Felipe de Jesús Villanueva Gutiérrez (Mexico) | 1862-1893 |
 | Alberto Nepomuceno (Brazil) | 1864-1920 |
 | Manuel María Ponce Cuéllar (Mexico) | 1882-1948 |
 | Enrique Soro Barriga (Chile) | 1884-1954 |
 | Agustín Pío Barrios (Paraguay) | 1885-1944 |
| CARIBBEAN FEMALE COMPOSERS | ||
 | Eleanor Alberga (UK-based) | 1949- |
| CARIBBEAN MALE COMPOSERS | ||
| Joseph Bologne (Guadeloupe / France) | 1745-1799 | |
| Jose Silvestre White (Cuba) | 1835-1918 | |
| Fernando Callejo Ferrer (Puerto Rico / United States) | 1862-1926 | |
| Juan Morel Campos (Puerto Rico / United States) | 1857-1896 | |
| Lin-Manuel Miranda (Puerto Rico / United States) | 1980 | |
| NORTH AMERICAN FEMALE COMPOSERS | ||
| Nkeiru Okoye (United States / Kenya) | 1972 | |
| Florence Price (United States) | 1887-1953 | |
| Amy Beach (United States) | 1867-1944 | |
| Constance Faunt Le Roy Runcie (United States) | 1836-1911 | |
| NORTH AMERICAN MALE COMPOSERS | ||
| Ulysses Kay (United States) | 1917-1995 | |
| Wallace McClain Cheatham (United States) | 1945-2021 | |
| Edmond Dédé (United States) | 1927-1903 | |
| Francis Johnson (United States) | 1792-1844 | |
| Jacob J. Sawyer (United States) | 1856-1885 | |
| Robert Nathaniel Dett (Canada) | 1882-1943 | |
| William Brady (United States) | ? – 1854 | |
| John Thomas Douglass (United States) | 1847-1886 | |
| Justin Holland (United States) | 1819-1887 | |
| Basile Barès (United States) | 1845-1902 | |
| Colin McPhee (Canada) | 1900-1964 | |
| AUSTRALIAN / OCEANIC FEMALE COMPOSER | ||
| May Brahe | 1884-1956 | |
| Alice Charbonnet-Kellermann | 1858-1914 | |
| Mirrie Hill | 1889-1986 | |
| Ruby Claudia Davy | 1883-1949 | |
| AUSTRALIAN / OCEANIC MALE COMPOSER | ||
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