Composers
- John Adams
- Thomas Adès
- Isaac Albéniz
- Gregorio Allegri
- William Alwyn
- Leroy Anderson
- Malcolm Arnold
- Lera Auerbach
- Grażyna Bacewicz
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- Johann Christian Bach
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Samuel Barber
- Gerald Barry
- Béla Bartók
- Arnold Bax
- Sally Beamish
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- George Benjamin
- Alban Berg
- Hector Berlioz
- Leonard Bernstein
- Heinrich Biber
- Georges Bizet
- Howard Blake
- Mel Bonis
- Alexander Borodin
- Lili Boulanger
- Johannes Brahms
- Frank Bridge
- Benjamin Britten
- Max Bruch
- Anton Bruckner
- George Butterworth
- Dieterich Buxtehude
- William Byrd
- Britta Byström
- John Cage
- Ernest Chausson
- Unsuk Chin
- Frédéric Chopin
- Rebecca Clarke
- Anna Clyne
- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
- Aaron Copland
- Arcangelo Corelli
- John Corigliano
- François Couperin
- Peter Maxwell Davies
- Claude Debussy
- Bryce Dessner
- Leonid Desyatnikov
- James Dillon
- Jonathan Dove
- John Dowland
- Paul Dukas
- Antonín Dvořák
- John Eccles
- Edward Elgar
- Duke Ellington
- George Enescu
- Ēriks Ešenvalds
- Manuel de Falla
- Louise Farrenc
- Gabriel Fauré
- Morton Feldman
- David Fennessy
- Edmund Finnis
- Gerald Finzi
- César Franck
- Dai Fujikura
- Carlos Gardel
- George Gershwin
- Philip Glass
- Mikhail Glinka
- Christoph Willibald Gluck
- Osvaldo Golijov
- Jonny Greenwood
- Edvard Grieg
- Helen Grime
- HK Gruber
- Camargo Guarnieri
- Sofia Gubaidulina
- Pavel Haas
- Reynaldo Hahn
- George Frideric Handel
- Joseph Haydn
- Jake Heggie
- Bernard Herrmann
- Anders Hillborg
- Paul Hindemith
- Gustav Holst
- Dorothy Howell
- Herbert Howells
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel
- Gottfried Huppertz
- Johann Strauss II
- Charles Ives
- Leoš Janáček
- Willem Jeths
- Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges
- Aram Khachaturian
- Zoltán Kodály
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold
- György Kurtág
- Helmut Lachenmann
- Lars-Erik Larsson
- William Lawes
- György Ligeti
- Franz Liszt
- Witold Lutosławski
- Anatoly Lyadov
- James MacMillan
- Gustav Mahler
- Bohuslav Martinů
- Jules Massenet
- Emilie Mayer
- Missy Mazzoli
- Cecilia McDowall
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Olivier Messiaen
- Darius Milhaud
- Meredith Monk
- Claudio Monteverdi
- Jessie Montgomery
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Georg Muffat
- Nico Muhly
- Thea Musgrave
- Modest Mussorgsky
- Carl Nielsen
- Carl Orff
- Diego Ortiz
- Johann Pachelbel
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
- Dora Pejačević
- François-André Danican Philidor
- Astor Piazzolla
- Francis Poulenc
- Florence Price
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Giacomo Puccini
- Henry Purcell
- Arvo Pärt
- Sergei Rachmaninov
- Jean-Philippe Rameau
- Maurice Ravel
- Jean-Féry Rebel
- Steve Reich
- Ottorino Respighi
- Josef Rheinberger
- Max Richter
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Joaquín Rodrigo
- Gioachino Rossini
- Nino Rota
- Kaija Saariaho
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Pablo de Sarasate
- Domenico Scarlatti
- Alfred Schnittke
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Franz Schreker
- Franz Schubert
- Erwin Schulhoff
- Clara Schumann
- Robert Schumann
- Alexander Scriabin
- Caroline Shaw
- Alexey Shor
- Howard Shore
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Jean Sibelius
- Robert Simpson
- Bedřich Smetana
- William Grant Still
- Richard Strauss
- Igor Stravinsky
- Josef Suk
- Arthur Sullivan
- Franz von Suppé
- Karol Szymanowski
- Dobrinka Tabakova
- Giuseppe Tartini
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Georg Philipp Telemann
- Michael Tippett
- Veljo Tormis
- Eduard Tubin
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Tomás Luis de Victoria
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Sebastián de Vivanco
- Richard Wagner
- Errollyn Wallen
- William Walton
- Peter Warlock
- Huw Watkins
- Carl Maria von Weber
- Anton Webern
- Kurt Weill
- Mieczysław Weinberg
- Judith Weir
- Eric Whitacre
- Jörg Widmann
- John Williams
- Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Hugo Wolf
- Julia Wolfe
- Jan Dismas Zelenka
- Alexander von Zemlinsky