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 | ||