The following is a chronological list of classical music composers who lived in, worked in, or were citizens of France.
Medieval Leonin (c. 1150 – 1201) Perotin (1160 – 1230) Adam de la Halle (1240 – 1287) Philippe de Vitry (1291 – 1361) Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300 – 1377)
Renaissance Guillaume Dufay (c. 1397 – 1474) Gilles Binchois (c. 1400 – 1460) Loÿset Compère (c. 1445 – 1518) Josquin des Prez (c. 1450 – 1521), born near Franco-Flemish border Pierre de La Rue (c. 1452 – 1518) Jean Mouton (c. 1459 – 1522) Antoine Brumel (c. 1460 – 1512/1513) Clément Janequin (c. 1485 – 1558) Claudin de Sermisy (c. 1490 – 1562) Nicolas Gombert (c. 1495 – c. 1560) Ninot le Petit (fl. c. 1500 – 1520) Pierre de Manchicourt (c. 1510 – 1564) Godard () Claude Gervaise (fl. 1540 – 1560) Jean Titelouze (c. 1562/63 – 1633)
Baroque Pierre Guédron (c. 1570 – c. 1620) Ennemond Gaultier (c. 1575–1651) Antoine Boësset (1586–1643) Étienne Moulinié (c. 1599 – after 1669) Jacques Gaultier (c. 1600-1652) Jacques Champion de Chambonnières (c. 1601 – 1672) Denis Gaultier (1603–1672) François Dufault (before 1604 – c. 1672) Jacques de Gouy (c. 1610 – after 1650) Michel Lambert (1610–1696) Charles Mouton (1617 - before 1699) Louis Couperin (c. 1626 – 1661) Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (1629–1691) Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687) Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe (c. 1640 – c. 1700) Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704) Robert de Visée (c. 1655 – 1732/1733) 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 (c. 1670 – c. 1760) Antoine Favre (–) Gaspard Corrette (1671–before 1733) Antoine Forqueray (1671–1745) Nicolas de Grigny (1672–1703) Jacques-Martin Hotteterre (1674–1763) Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676–1749) Jean-François Dandrieu (c. 1682 – 1738) Jean-Joseph Mouret (1682–1738) Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764) François d'Agincourt (1684–1758) Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689–1755) Louis-Claude Daquin (1694–1772) Jean-Marie Leclair the elder (1697–1764) François Francoeur (1698–1787) Michel Blavet (1700–1768) Christophe Moyreau (1700–1774) Jean-Marie Leclair the Younger (1703–1777) Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer (c. 1705 – 1755) Louis-Gabriel Guillemain (1705–1770) Michel Corrette (1707–1795) Jean-Joseph de Mondonville (1711–1772)
Classical era Jacques Duphly (1715–1789) François-André Danican Philidor (1726–1795) Joseph Touchemoulin (1727–1801) François Joseph Gossec (1734–1829) André Grétry (1741–1813) Simon Le Duc (1742–1777) Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745–1799) Nicolas Dalayrac (1753–1809) Jean-Baptiste Bréval (1753–1823) Antoine Lacroix (1756–1806) Ignaz Pleyel (1757–1831) Jean-François Lesueur (1760–1837) Olivier Aubert (1763–c.1830) Étienne Méhul (1763–1817) Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766–1831) Louis-Emmanuel Jadin (1768–1853) Charles Simon Catel (1773–1830) Pierre Rode (1774–1830) François-Adrien Boieldieu (1775–1834) Hyacinthe Jadin (1776–1800) Pauline Duchambge (1778–1858) Jacques Féréol Mazas (1782–1849)
Romantic Daniel Auber (1782–1871) George Onslow (1784–1853) Nicolas-Charles Bochsa (1789–1856) Ferdinand Hérold (1791–1833) Fromental Halévy (1799–1862) Amédée Méreaux (1802–1874) Victor Magnien (1802–1885) Adolphe Adam (1803–1856) Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) Louise Farrenc (1804–1875) Louise Bertin (1805–1877) Napoléon Coste (1805–1883) Napoléon Henri Reber (1807–1880) Auguste Pilati (1810–1877) Félicien David (1810–1876) Ambroise Thomas (1811–1896) Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813–1888) Eugène Louis-Marie Jancourt (1815–1901) Jean-Chrisostome Hess (1816–1900) François Bazin (1816–1878) Ignace Leybach (1817–1891) Émile Prudent (1817–1863) Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély (1817–1869) Charles Dancla (1817–1907) Jean-Henri Ravina (1818–1906) Charles Gounod (1818–1893) Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880) Charles-Louis Hanon (1819–1900) Pauline Viardot (1821–1910) César Franck (1822–1890) Édouard Lalo (1823–1892) Joseph Jean-Baptiste Laurent Arban (1825–1889) Charles Delioux (1825–1915) Joseph O'Kelly (1828–1885) Georges Pfeiffer (1835–1908) Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Léo Delibes (1836–1891) Alexandre Guilmant (1837–1911) Théodore Dubois (1837–1924) Georges Bizet (1838–1875) Élie-Miriam Delaborde (1839–1913) Henri Ghys (1839–1908) Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894) Georges Lamothe (1842–1894) Jules Massenet (1842–1912) Claude-Paul Taffanel (1844–1908) Charles-Marie Widor (1844–1937) Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Marie Jaëll (1846–1925) Henri Duparc (1848–1933) Benjamin Godard (1849–1895) Clément Broutin (1851–1889) Vincent d'Indy (1851–1931) André Messager (1853–1929) Ernest Chausson (1855–1899) Alfred Bruneau (1857–1934) Cécile Chaminade (1857–1944) Jules Auguste Wiernsberger (1857–1925) Mélanie Bonis (1858–1937) Gustave Charpentier (1860–1956)
Modern/contemporary Claude Debussy (1862–1918) Maurice Emmanuel (1862–1938) Isidor Philipp (1863–1958) Gabriel Pierné (1863–1937) Guy Ropartz (1864–1955) Rita Strohl (1865–1941) Paul Dukas (1865–1935) Albéric Magnard (1865–1914) Erik Satie (1866–1925) Charles Koechlin (1867–1950) Jules Mouquet (1867–1946) Halina Krzyżanowska (1867–1937) Abel Decaux (1869–1943) Albert Roussel (1869–1937) Francis Casadesus (1870–1954) Louis Vierne (1870–1937) Charles Tournemire (1870–1939) Florent Schmitt (1870–1958) Henri Büsser (1872–1973) Déodat de Séverac (1872–1921) Jean Roger-Ducasse (1873–1954) Reynaldo Hahn (1874–1947) Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) Henriette Renié (1875–1956) Armande de Polignac (1876–1962) Jean Huré (1877–1930) Louis Aubert (1877–1968) Robert-Guillaume Casadesus (1878–1940) Lucien Durosoir (1878–1955) Gabriel Dupont (1878–1914) André Caplet (1878–1925) Henri Casadesus (1879–1947) Jean Cras (1879–1932) Philippe Gaubert (1879–1941) Maurice Delage (1879–1961) Marcel Tournier (1879–1951) Joseph Canteloube (1879–1957) Paul Le Flem (1881–1984) Edgard Varèse (1883–1965) Henri Collet (1885–1951) Marcel Dupré (1886–1971) Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979) Louis Durey (1888–1979) Jacques Ibert (1890–1962) Marcel Grandjany (1891–1975) Marius Casadesus (1892–1981) Darius Milhaud (1892–1974) Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983) Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) Marcel Lanquetuit (1894–1985) Jean Wiener (1896–1982) Jean Rivier (1896–1987) Robert Casadesus (1899–1972) Francis Poulenc (1899–1963) Georges Auric (1899–1983) Pierre-Octave Ferroud (1900–1936) Henri Sauguet (1901–1989) Henri Tomasi (1901–1971) Catherine Casadesus (1902–1985) Maurice Duruflé (1902–1986) Claude Arrieu (1903–1990) Manuel Rosenthal (1904–2003) Eugene Bozza (1905–1991) André Jolivet (1905–1974) Jean Langlais (1907–1991) Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992) Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur (1908–2002) Pierre Schaeffer (1910–1995) Jean Martinon (1910–1976) Paule Maurice (1910–1967) Jehan Alain (1911–1940) Alfred Desenclos (1912–1971) Jean Françaix (1912–1997) Maurice Ohana (1913–1992) Henri Dutilleux (1916–2013) Michel Philippot (1925–1996) Pierre Boulez (1925–2016) Betsy Jolas (born 1926) Pierre Henry (1927–2017) Bernard Parmegiani (1927–2013) Jean-Michel Damase (1928–2013) François Dufrene (1930–1982) Pierre Max Dubois (1930–1995) Claude Bolling (1930–2020) François Bayle (born 1932) Roger Boutry (1932–2019) Éliane Radigue (born 1932) Yves Prin (born 1933) Vinko Globokar (born 1934) Gilbert Amy (born 1936) Jean-Pierre Leguay (born 1939) Gérard Grisey (1946–1998) Tristan Murail (born 1947) Greco Casadesus (born 1951) Philippe Manoury (born 1952) Joël-François Durand (born 1954) Pascal Dusapin (born 1955) Pierre Pincemaille (1956–2018) Nicolas Bacri (born 1961) Marc-André Dalbavie (born 1961) Sophie Lacaze (born 1963) Thierry Escaich (born 1965) Yann Tiersen (born 1970) Christophe Bertrand (1981–2010)
See also
List of classical music composers by era List of French composers Classic 100 Music of France (ABC)
References