CORDA DB
Documented composer catalogue

Classical music composers

Browse classical music composers by chronology, historical period and geographical relationships in the documented CORDA DB catalogue.

Composers

220
  1. Igor Stravinsky1882–1971 · Modernism and 20th Century91 dated works
  2. Karol Szymanowski1882–1937 · Late Romanticism53 dated works
  3. Percy Grainger1882–1961 · Modernism and 20th Century42 dated works
  4. Zoltán Kodály1882–1967 · Modernism and 20th Century33 dated works
  5. Anton Webern1883–1945 · Modernism and 20th Century39 dated works
  6. Arnold Bax1883–1953 · Modernism and 20th Century152 dated works
  7. Edgard Varèse1883–1965 · Modernism and 20th Century11 dated works
  8. Alban Berg1885–1935 · Modernism and 20th Century23 dated works
  9. Heitor Villa-Lobos1887–1959 · Modernism and 20th Century94 dated works
  10. Bohuslav Martinů1890–1959 · Modernism and 20th Century144 dated works
  11. Jacques Ibert1890–1962 · Modernism and 20th Century51 dated works
  12. Sergei Prokofiev1891–1953 · Modernism and 20th Century0 dated works
  13. Arthur Honegger1892–1955 · Modernism and 20th Century70 dated works
  14. Darius Milhaud1892–1974 · Modernism and 20th Century216 dated works
  15. Ernest Moeran1894–1950 · Modernism and 20th Century0 dated works
  16. Carl Orff1895–1982 · Modernism and 20th Century0 dated works
  17. Paul Hindemith1895–1963 · Modernism and 20th Century171 dated works
  18. Howard Hanson1896–1981 · Modernism and 20th Century3 dated works
  19. Erich Wolfgang Korngold1897–1957 · Modernism and 20th Century44 dated works
  20. Francisco Mignone1897–1986 · Modernism and 20th Century0 dated works
  21. George Gershwin1898–1937 · Modernism and 20th Century24 dated works
  22. Roy Harris1898–1979 · Modernism and 20th Century0 dated works
  23. Carlos Chávez1899–1978 · Modernism and 20th Century2 dated works
  24. Francis Poulenc1899–1963 · Modernism and 20th Century87 dated works
  25. Aaron Copland1900–1990 · Modernism and 20th Century10 dated works
  26. George Antheil1900–1959 · Modernism and 20th Century29 dated works
  27. Kurt Weill1900–1950 · Modernism and 20th Century22 dated works
  28. Joaquín Rodrigo1901–1999 · Modernism and 20th Century3 dated works
  29. Maurice Duruflé1902–1986 · Modernism and 20th Century1 dated works
  30. William Walton1902–1983 · Modernism and 20th Century6 dated works
  31. Aram Khachaturian1903–1978 · Modernism and 20th Century0 dated works
  32. Dmitry Kabalevsky1904–1987 · Modernism and 20th Century0 dated works
  33. Michael Tippett1905–1998 · Modernism and 20th Century0 dated works
  34. Dmitri Shostakovich1906–1975 · Modernism and 20th Century0 dated works
  35. Fernando Lopes-Graça1906–1994 · Modernism and 20th Century0 dated works
  36. Camargo Guarnieri1907–1993 · Modernism and 20th Century0 dated works
  37. Elliott Carter1908–2012 · Post-War0 dated works
  38. Olivier Messiaen1908–1992 · Modernism and 20th Century2 dated works
  39. Vagn Holmboe1909–1996 · Modernism and 20th Century0 dated works
  40. Samuel Barber1910–1981 · Modernism and 20th Century0 dated works
  41. William Schuman1910–1992 · Modernism and 20th Century0 dated works
  42. John Cage1912–1992 · Post-War1 dated works
  43. Benjamin Britten1913–1976 · Modernism and 20th Century0 dated works
  44. Morton Gould1913–1996 · Post-War1 dated works
  45. Witold Lutoslawski1913–1994 · Post-War0 dated works
  46. Alberto Ginastera1916–1983 · Modernism and 20th Century0 dated works
  47. Henri Dutilleux1916–2013 · Post-War0 dated works
  48. Milton Babbitt1916–2011 · Post-War0 dated works

How to use the composer index

The index orders canonical composer records chronologically and connects each identity to historical periods, dated works, life events, places and authority identifiers. Period labels are controlled CORDA DB classifications and may overlap when a composer belongs to more than one historical context.