n. 25B6; noun melodist, symphonist, songwriter, songster, writer; informal tunesmith, songsmith. See list.
Composers
Albinoni, Tomaso (Italian) Lambert, Constant (English)
Alkan, (Charles-)Valentin (French) Lassus, Orlande de (Flemish)
Allegri, Gregorio (Italian) Léhar, Franz (Hungarian)
Arne, Thomas (English) Leoncavallo, Ruggiero (Italian)
Arnold, Malcolm (English) Ligeti, György (Hungarian)
Auric, Georges (French) Liszt, Franz (Hungarian)
Babbitt, Milton (American) Lloyd-Webber, Andrew (English)
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (German) Lully, Jean-Baptiste (French, b. in Italy)
Bach, Johann Sebastian (German) Lutos 0142; awski, Witold (Polish)
Barber, Samuel (American) Lutyens, Elisabeth (English)
Bartók, Béla (Hungarian) Mahler, Gustav (Austrian)
Bax, Arnold (English) Mascagni, Pietro (Italian)
Beethoven, Ludwig van (German) Massenet, Jules (French)
Bellini, Vincenzo (Italian) Mendelssohn, Felix (German)
Bennett, Richard Rodney (English) Messiaen, Olivier (French)
Berg, Alban (Austrian) Meyerbeer, Giacomo (German)
Berio, Luciano (Italian) Milhaud, Darius (French)
Berkeley, Lennox (English) Monteverdi, Claudio (Italian)
Berlioz, Hector (French) Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (Austrian)
Bernstein, Leonard (American) Mussorgsky, Modest (Russian)
Birtwistle, Harrison (English) Nielsen, Carl (Danish)
Bizet, Georges (French) Nyman, Michael (English)
Bliss, Arthur (English) Offenbach, Jacques (German)
Bloch, Ernest (Swiss) Orff, Carl (German)
Blow, John (English) Pachelbel, Johann (German)
Boccherini, Luigi (Italian) Paganini, Niccolò (Italian)
Borodin, Aleksandr (Russian) Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (Italian)
Boulanger, Nadia (French) Parry, Hubert (English)
Boulez, Pierre (French) Pärt, Arvo (Estonian)
Boyce, William (English) Penderecki, Krzysztof (Polish)
Brahms, Johannes (German) Ponchielli, Amilcare (Italian)
Bridge, Frank (English) Poulenc, Francis (French)
Britten, Benjamin (English) Prokofiev, Sergei (Russian)
Bruch, Max (German) Puccini, Giacomo (Italian)
Bruckner, Anton (Austrian) Purcell, Henry (English)
Busoni, Ferruccio (Italian) Rachmaninov, Sergei (Russian)
Buxtehude, Dietrich (Danish) Rameau, Jean-Philippe (French)
Byrd, William (English) Ravel, Maurice (French)
Cage, John (American) Reich, Steve (American)
Campion, Thomas (English) Respighi, Ottorino (Italian)
Carrillo, Julián (Mexican) Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (Russian)
Carter, Elliott (American) Rodgers, Richard (American)
Cherubini, Luigi (Italian) Rodrigo, Joaquín (Spanish)
Chopin, Frédéric (Polish) Romberg, Sigmund (Hungarian)
Copland, Aaron (American) Rossini, Gioacchino (Italian)
Corelli, Arcangelo (Italian) Rubbra, Edmund (English)
Couperin, François (French) Rubinstein, Anton (Russian)
Czerny, Karl (Austrian) Saint-Saëns, Camille (French)
Dallapiccola, Luigi (Italian) Salieri, Antonio (Italian)
Davies, Peter Maxwell (English) Satie, Erik (French)
Debussy, Claude (French) Scarlatti, Alessandro (Italian)
Delibes, Léo (French) Scarlatti, Domenico (Italian)
Delius, Frederick (English) Schnittke, Alfred (Russian, of German descent)
Donizetti, Gaetano (Italian) Schoenberg, Arnold (American, b. in Austria)
Dufay, Guillaume (French) Schubert, Franz (Austrian)
Dukas, Paul (French) Schumann, Robert (German)
Dunstable, John (English) Schütz, Heinrich (German)
Durey, Louis (French) Scriabin, Aleksandr (Russian)
Duruflé, Maurice (French) Shostakovich, Dmitri (Russian)
Dvo 0159; ák, Antonín (Czech) Sibelius, Jean (Finnish)
Elgar, Edward (English) Smetana, Bed 0159; ich (Czech)
Falla, Manuel de (Spanish) Sondheim, Stephen (American)
Fauré, Gabriel (French) Sousa, John (American)
Field, John (Irish) Stainer, John (English)
Flotow, Friedrich (German) Stanford, Charles (British, b. in Ireland)
Franck, César (French, b. in Belgium) Stockhausen, Karlheinz (German)
Gabrieli, Giovanni (Italian) Strauss, Richard (German)
Gershwin, George (American) Strauss the Elder, Johann (Austrian)
Gibbons, Orlando (English) Strauss the Younger, Johann (Austrian)
Glass, Philip (American) Stravinsky, Igor (Russian)
Glazunov, Aleksandr (Russian) Sullivan, Arthur (English)
Glinka, Mikhail (Russian) Szymanowski, Karol (Polish)
Gluck, Christoph Willibald von (German) Tailleferre, Germaine (French)
Goehr, Alexander (German) Tallis, Thomas (English)
Górecki, Henryk (Polish) Tavener, John (English)
Gounod, Charles (French) Taverner, John (English)
Grainger, Percy (American, b. in Australia) Tchaikovsky, Pyotr (Russian)
Grieg, Edvard (Norwegian) Telemann, Georg Philipp (German)
Handel, George Frederick (German) Tippett, Michael (English)
Haydn, Franz Joseph (Austrian) Varèse, Edgar (American, b. in France)
Henze, Hans Werner (German) Vaughan Williams, Ralph (English)
Hindemith, Paul (German) Verdi, Giuseppe (Italian)
Holst, Gustav (English) Villa-Lobos, Heitor (Brazilian)
Honegger, Arthur (French) Vivaldi, Antonio (Italian)
Humperdinck, Engelbert (German) Wagner, Richard (German)
Ives, Charles (American) Walton, William (English)
Janá 010D; ek, Leo (Czech) Weber, Carl Maria von (German)
Kern, Jerome (American) Webern, Anton von (Austrian)
Khachaturian, Aram (Soviet) Weill, Kurt (German)
Knussen, Oliver (Scottish) Wolf, Hugo (Austrian)
Kodály, Zoltán (Hungarian) Xenakis, Iannis (French, b. in Romania of Greek parentage)