- List of French composers
=Born 1300–1550=
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Guillaume de Machaut (1300–1377)
*Guillaume Dufay (?1397–1474)
* Loÿset Compère (c.1445–1518)
*Josquin Desprez (c.1450–1521) born near Franco-Flemish border
*Pierre de La Rue (c.1460–1518)
*Claudin de Sermisy (c.1490–1562)
*Nicolas Gombert (c.1495–c.1560) born in Flanders
*Ninot le Petit (c.1500–1520)Born 1550–1700
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Étienne Moulinié (c.1600–after1669)
*Jacques Champion de Chambonnières (c.1601–1672)
*Denis Gaultier (1603–1672)
*Jacques de Gouy (c.1610-after 1650)
*Michel Lambert (1610–1696)
*Louis Couperin (c.1626–1661)
*Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (1629–1691)
*Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687) Baroque composer, first significant composer of Frenchopera
*Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe (c.1640–c.1700)
*Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704)
*Marin Marais (1656–1728)
*Michel Richard Delalande (1657–1726)
*André Campra (1660–1744)
*Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665–1729)
*Jean-Féry Rebel (1666–1747)
* Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (1667–1737)
*François Couperin (1668–1733)
*Louis Marchand (1669–1732)
*Louis de Caix d'Hervelois (ca.1670-ca.1760)
*Antoine Forqueray (1671–1745)
*Nicolas de Grigny (1672–1703)
*Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676–1749)
*Jean-François Dandrieu (1682–1738)
*Jean-Joseph Mouret (1682–1738), Baroque composer, known today for his 'Rondeau' (theme song to the TV showMasterpiece Theatre )
*Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764), Baroque composer, wrote "Les Indes galantes "
*Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689–1755)
*Louis-Claude Daquin (1694–1772)
*Jean-Marie Leclair (1697–1764), significant Baroque era composerBorn 1700–1800
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Jean-Marie Leclair the younger (1703-1777)
*Louis-Gabriel Guillemain (1705-1770)
*Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer (1705–1755) born in Italy
*Jean-Joseph Mondonville (1711–1772)
*Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1787) abandoned musical composition for philosophy
*François-André Danican Philidor (1726–1795)
*François Joseph Gossec (1734–1829)
*Jean-Baptiste Bréval (1753–1823)
*Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766–1831), composer known for his 42étude s used by violin students
*Louis Emmanuel Jadin (1768–1853)
*Charles Simon Catel (1773–1830)
*François-Adrien Boieldieu (1775–1834)
*Hyacinthe Jadin (1776–1800)
*Daniel Auber (1782–1871),opera composer, well known in his time, but rarely performed today
*Jacques-Fereol Mazas (1782–1849), 18th century violinist and composer
*Nicolas-Charles Bochsa (1789–1856) [http://bochsa.site.voila.fr] , composer best known today for his studies and exercises for theharp .
*Ferdinand Herold (1791–1833), composer best known for his operas, notablyZampa , and the balletLa Fille Mal Gardée
*Fromental Halévy (1799–1862)Born 1800–1880
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Adolphe Adam (1803–1856)
*Hector Berlioz (1803–1869), composer famous for his programmatic symphony, the "Symphonie Fantastique "
*Ambroise Thomas (1811–1896)
*Louis Antoine Jullien (1812–1860, famous eccentric conductor and composer of light music
*Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813–1888), Romantic era composer andpianist
*Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wely (1817–1869)
*Charles Dancla (1817–1907), 19th centuryviolin teacher and composer
*Charles Gounod (1818–1893), composer, best known for his opera "Faust "
*Jean-Henri Ravina (1818–1906)
*Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880), Frenchoperetta andopera composer, known for "The Tales of Hoffmann " and "Orpheus in the Underworld "
*Charles-Louis Hanon (1819–1900), French piano pedagogue
*Edouard Lalo (1823–1892), Romantic composer remembered primarily for his "Symphonie Espagnole " for violin and orchestra
*Adolphe Blanc (1828–1885)
*Jean-Baptiste Accolay (1833–1900), 19th century violin teacher and composer
*Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921), Romantic composer perhaps best known for "The Carnival of the Animals "
*Léo Delibes (1836–1891), composer known for his "Coppelia ", "Sylvia", and "Lakmé "
*Georges Bizet (1838–1875), Romantic composer famous for his opera "Carmen "
*Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894)
*Jules Massenet (1842–1912), Romantic composer best known for "Meditation" from his opera "Thaïs "
*Charles-Marie Widor (1844–1937), Romantic composer, noted for his works for the organ
*Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924), Romantic composer, known for hischamber music and arequiem among other pieces
* Henri Duparc (1848–1933)
*Benjamin Godard (1849–1895)
*Vincent d'Indy (1851–1931)
*Ernest Chausson (1855–1899)
*Alfred Bruneau (1857–1934)
*Cécile Chaminade (1857–1944)
*Guy d'Hardelot (c.1858–1936)
*Gustave Charpentier (1860–1956), composer best known for his opera "Louise "
*Claude Debussy (1862–1918), 20th century composer, his music is often described as impressionist, although he dismissed the term, wrote 'Clair de Lune' from "Suite bergamasque "
*Gabriel Pierné (1863–1937)
*Paul Dukas (1865–1935), late Romantic composer known today for his piece of program music, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice "
*Erik Satie (1866–1925), 20th century modernist and impressionist composer, known for his "Gymnopedies "
*Charles Koechlin (1867–1950)
*Claude Terrasse (1867–1923)
*Jean-Baptiste Lemire (1867–1945)
*Albert Roussel (1869–1937)
*Florent Schmitt (1870–1958)
*Charles Tournemire (1870–1939)
*Louis Vierne (1870–1937)
*Déodat de Séverac (1872–1921)
*Henri Büsser (1872–1973)
*Reynaldo Hahn (1874–1947)
*Maurice Ravel (1875–1937), 20th century piano and orchestra composer in the impressionist and neoclassicist styles, noted for his "Daphnis et Chloé ", "Bolero", and "Ma Mère l'Oye " (Mother Goose) suite
*André Caplet (1878-1925), Great friend of Debussy responsible for orchestrating some of his works, includingChildren's Corner . Survived a gas attack in the trenches during the First World War.Born 1880-
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Louis Durey (1888–1979)
*Arthur Honegger (1892–1955)
*Darius Milhaud (1892–1974)
*Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983), the female member ofLes Six , her "Jeux de Pleine Aire" caused Satie to call her his "musical daughter"
*Georges Auric (1899–1983)
*Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)Others
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Paul Le Flem (1881–1984)
*Edgard Varèse (1883–1965) became American
*Marcel Dupré (1886–1971)
*Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979)
*Jacques Ibert (1890–1962)
*Lili Boulanger (1893–1918), the first French female composer to win thePrix de Rome , with hercantata "Faust and Helena"
*Maurice Journeau (1898-1999)
*Maurice Duruflé (1902–1986)
*Andre Jolivet (1905–1974)
*Eugène Bozza (1905–1991)
*Jean Langlais (1907–1991)
*Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992), 20th century modernist composer
*Gaston Litaize (1909–1991)
*Paule Maurice (1910–1967)
*Jehan Alain (1911–1940)
*Alfred Désenclos (1912–1971)
*Jean Françaix (1912–1997)
*Charles Trenet (1913–2001), composer of French songs, including "La Mer", "Douce France", "La Folle Complainte" and "Je Chante"
*Henri Dutilleux (1916- )
*Raymond Gallois-Montbrun (1918–1994)
*Jeanne Demessieux (1921–1968)
* Claude Pascal (1921- )
*Jeanine Rueff (1922–1999)
*Pierre Boulez (1925- )
*Jean-Michel Damase (1928- )
*Gilbert Amy (1936-)
*Jean-Claude Risset (1936-)
*Jean-Claude Amiot (1939- )
*Gérard Grisey (1946–1998)
*Max Méreaux (1946- )
*Jean-Christian Michel (1938- )
*Jacques-Louis Monod (1927- )
*Tristan Murail (1947- )
*Joseph-François Kremer (1954- )
*Nigel Keay (1955- )
*Eryck Abecassis (1956- )
*Éric Serra (1959-)
*Jean-Yves Malmasson (1963- )
*Laurent Laffineur (1968- )
*Fabien Lévy (1968- )
*Yann Tiersen (1970- )
*Walter Taieb (1973- )
*Maxime Rodriguez (1975- )
*Sebastien Beranger (1977- )
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