List of English Classical Composers (388 items)report

• Godric (c. 1065–1170) (Medieval)

• W. de Wycombe (fl. c. 1275–1279) (Medieval)

• John Hanboys (14th century); may be J. de Alto Bosco (fl. c. 1370) (Medieval)

• Johannes Alanus (14th century; died 1373?) (Medieval)

• Aleyn (fl. c. 1400) (Medieval)

• Byttering (fl. c. 1410–1420) (Medieval)

• Pycard (fl. c. 1410) (Medieval)

• Roy Henry (fl. c. 1410) (Medieval)

• Leonel Power (c. 1370/1385–1445) (Renaissance)

• John Dunstaple (c. 1390–1453) (Renaissance)

• John Hothby (c. 1410–1487) (Renaissance)

• John Plummer (c. 1410–c. 1483) (Renaissance)

• Henry Abyngdon (c. 1418–1497) (Renaissance)

• William Haute (c. 1430–1497) (Renaissance)

• Robert Morton (c. 1430–after 1479) (Renaissance)

• Richard Hygons (c. 1435–c. 1509) (Renaissance)

• Walter Frye (fl. c. 1443–c. 1474) (Renaissance)

• Gilbert Banester (c. 1445–1487) (Renaissance)

• Walter Lambe (c. 1450–c. 1504) (Renaissance)

• John Browne (b. 1453?; fl. c. 1490) (Renaissance)

• Robert Fayrfax (1464–1521) (Renaissance)

• Richard Davy (c. 1465–1538?) (Renaissance)

• William Cornysh the younger (1468–1523) (Renaissance)

• Robert Johnson (c.1470–after 1554) (Renaissance)

• Thomas Ashewell (c. 1478–after 1513) (Renaissance)

• John Redford (c. 1486–1547) (Renaissance)

• Nicholas Ludford (c. 1490–1557) (Renaissance)

• Henry VIII (1491–1547) (Renaissance)

• John Taverner (1495–1545) (Renaissance)

• Christopher Tye (c. 1505–c. 1572) (Renaissance)

• Anthony de Countie (died 1579) (Renaissance)

• Thomas Tallis (c. 1505–1585) (Renaissance)

• John Merbecke (c. 1510–c. 1585) (Renaissance)

• John Sheppard (c. 1515–1559) (Renaissance)

• Richard Farrant (c. 1525–1580) (Renaissance)

• William Mundy (c. 1528–before 1591) (Renaissance)

• Robert Parsons (c. 1535–1572) (Renaissance)

• Robert White (c. 1538–1574) (Renaissance)

• William Byrd (c. 1540–1623) (Renaissance)

• Anthony Holborne (c. 1545–1602) (Renaissance)

• Francis Cutting (c.1550–1595/6) (Renaissance)

• John Mundy (c. 1555–1630) (Renaissance)

• Thomas Morley (1557–1602) (Renaissance)

• Peter Philips (c. 1560–1628) (Renaissance)

• William Brade (1560–1630) (Renaissance)

• John Bull (c. 1562–1628) (Renaissance)

• John Dowland (1563–1626) (Renaissance)

• Giles Farnaby (c. 1563–1640) (Renaissance)

• William Leighton (c. 1565–1622) (Renaissance)

• Thomas Campion (1567–1620) (Renaissance)

• Philip Rosseter (1568–1623) (Renaissance)

• Tobias Hume (1569?–1645) (Renaissance)

• John Coprario (John Cooper; Giovanni Coperario) (1570–1626) (Renaissance)

• John Farmer (c. 1570–c. 1601) (Renaissance)

• Thomas Lupo (1571–1627) (Renaissance)

• Martin Peerson (1571/1573–1650) (Renaissance)

• John Ward (1571–1638) (Renaissance)

• Daniel Bacheler (1572–1618) (Renaissance)

• Thomas Tomkins (1572–1656) (Renaissance)

• Ellis Gibbons (1573–1603) (Renaissance)

• John Wilbye (1574–1638) (Renaissance)

• John Bennet (c. 1575–after 1614) (Renaissance)

• Thomas Cutting (son of Francis Cutting, Lutenist to Arbella Stuart, then Christian IV, then Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, dates unknown) (Renaissance)

• Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger (c. 1575–1628) (Renaissance)

• Thomas Weelkes (1576–1623) (Renaissance)

• John Maynard (c. 1577–c. 1633) (Renaissance)

• Richard Dering (c. 1580–1630) (Renaissance)

• Michael East (c. 1580–1648) (Renaissance)

• Thomas Ford (c. 1580–1648) (Renaissance)

• Orlando Gibbons (1583–1625) (Renaissance)

• Robert Johnson (1583–1633) (Renaissance)

• Thomas Robinson (c. 1588–after 1609) (Renaissance)

• Nicholas Lanier (1588–1666) (Baroque)

• Richard Mico (1590–1661) (Baroque)

• John Jenkins (1592–1678) (Baroque)

• Henry Lawes (1595–1662) (Baroque)

• John Wilson (1595–1674) (Baroque)

• John Hilton (1599–1657) (Baroque)

• William Lawes (1602–1645) (Baroque)

• Christopher Simpson (c. 1602/1606–1669) (Baroque)

• William Child (1606–1697) (Baroque)

• Thomas Brewer (1611 – c. 1660) (Baroque)

• Henry Cooke (c. 1616–1672) (Baroque)

• Christopher Gibbons (1615–1676) (Baroque)

• Matthew Locke (c. 1621–1677) (Baroque)

• John Banister (c. 1624/1630–1679) (Baroque)

• Pelham Humphrey (1647–1674) (Baroque)

• Michael Wise (1647–1687) (Baroque)

• John Blow (1649–1708) (Baroque)

• William Turner (1651–1740) (Baroque)

• Henry Purcell (1659–1695) (Baroque)

• Daniel Purcell (1664–1717) (Baroque)

• Johann Christoph Pepusch (John Christopher Pepusch) (1667–1742) (Baroque)

• John Eccles (1668–1735) (Baroque)

• Henry Eccles (1670–1742) (Baroque)

• Jeremiah Clarke (c. 1674–1707) (Baroque)

• John Weldon (1676–1736) (Baroque)

• William Croft (1678–1727) (Baroque)

• William Corbett (1680–1748) (Baroque)

• Abiell Whichello (1683–1747) (Baroque)

• George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) (Baroque)

• Thomas Roseingrave (1688–1766) (Baroque)

• William Babell (1689/1690–1723) (Baroque)

• Robert Woodcock (c. 1690–1728) (Baroque)

• Maurice Greene (1696–1755) (Baroque)

• Richard Jones (late 17th century – 1744) (Baroque)

• Joseph Gibbs (1699–1788) (Baroque)

• Thomas Chilcot (c. 1707–1766) (Classical era)

• Charles Avison (1709–1770) (Classical era)

• Thomas Arne (1710–1778) (Classical era)

• Thomas Gladwin (1710–1799) (Classical era)

• William Boyce (1711–1779) (Classical era)

• John Stanley (1712–1786) (Classical era)

• James Nares (1715–1783) (Classical era)

• John Garth (1721–1810) (Classical era)

• Charles Burney (1726–1814) (Classical era)

• Capel Bond (1730–1790) (Classical era)

• William Jackson (1730–1803) (Classical era)

• Thomas Sanders Dupuis (1733–1796) (Classical era)

• Thomas Linley the elder (1733–1795) (Classical era)

• Benjamin Cooke (1734–1793) (Classical era)

• John Bennett (c. 1735–1784) (Classical era)

• Philip Hayes (1738–1797) (Classical era)

• William Herschel (1738–1822) (Classical era)

• Michael Arne (1740/1741–1786) (Classical era)

• Samuel Arnold (1740–1802) (Classical era)

• Samuel Webbe (1740–1816) (Classical era)

• James Hook (1746–1827) (Classical era)

• William Shield (1748–1829) (Classical era)

• John Stafford Smith (1750–1836) (Classical era)

• John Marsh (1752–1828) (Classical era)

• Thomas Linley the younger (1756–1778) (Classical era)

• Stephen Storace (1762–1796) (Classical era)

• Matthew Camidge (1764–1844) (Classical era)

• John Addison (c. 1765–1844) (Classical era)

• Thomas Attwood (1765–1838) (Classical era)

• Samuel Wesley (1766–1837) (Classical era)

• William Crotch (1775–1847) (Romantic)

• John Field (Irish, 1782–1837) (Romantic)

• Thomas Adams (1785–1858) (Romantic)

• George Pinto (1785–1806) (Romantic)

• Cipriani Potter (1792–1871) (Romantic)

• Robert Lucas de Pearsall (1795–1856) (Romantic)

• John Goss (1800–1880) (Romantic)

• John Lodge Ellerton (1801–1873) (Romantic)

• Elias Parish Alvars (1808–1849) (Romantic)

• Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810–1876) (Romantic)

• George Alexander Macfarren (1813–1887) (Romantic)

• William Christian Sellé (1813–1898) (Romantic)

• Henry Smart (1813–1879) (Romantic)

• William Sterndale Bennett (1816–1875) (Romantic)

• Henry Charles Litolff (1818–1891) (Romantic)

• Edmund Chipp (1823–1886) (Romantic)

• Henry Hiles (1826–1904) (Romantic)

• John Baptiste Calkin (1827–1905) (Romantic)

• George Tolhurst (1827–1877) (Romantic)

• Francis Edward Bache (1833–1858) (Romantic)

• Ebenezer Prout (1835–1909) (Romantic)

• Joseph Barnby (1838–1896) (Romantic)

• Alice Mary Smith (1839–1884) (Romantic)

• Sydney Smith (1839–1889) (Romantic)

• John Stainer (1840–1901) (Romantic)

• Michael Maybrick (Stephen Adams) (1841–1913) (Romantic)

• Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) (Romantic)

• Hubert Parry (1848–1918) (Romantic)

• Arthur Goring Thomas (1850–1892) (Romantic)

• Frederick Corder (1852–1932) (Romantic)

• Frederic Cowen (1852–1935) (Romantic)

• Charles Villiers Stanford (Irish, 1852–1924) (Romantic)

• Bertram Luard-Selby (1853–1918) (Romantic)

• Maude Valérie White (French-born, 1855–1937) (Romantic)

• Frederic Cliffe (1857–1931) (Romantic)

• Rosalind Ellicott (1857–1924) (Romantic)

• Edward Elgar (1857–1934) (Romantic)

• Isidore de Lara (1858–1935) (Romantic)

• Ethel Smyth (1858–1944) (Romantic)

• John Henry Maunder (1858–1920) (Romantic)

• Basil Harwood (1859–1949) (Romantic)

• Frederick Delius (1862–1934) (Modern/contemporary)

• Edward German (1862–1936) (Modern/contemporary)

• Liza Lehmann (1862–1918) (Modern/contemporary)

• Arthur Somervell (1863–1937) (Modern/contemporary)

• Edwin Lemare (1866–1934) (Modern/contemporary)

• Granville Bantock (1868–1946) (Modern/contemporary)

• Haldane Stewart (1868–1942) (Modern/contemporary)

• Walford Davies (1869–1941) (Modern/contemporary)

• Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) (Modern/contemporary)

• Ethel Barns (1874–1948) (Modern/contemporary)

• Gustav Holst (1874–1934) (Modern/contemporary)

• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912) (Modern/contemporary)

• Donald Tovey (1875–1940) (Modern/contemporary)

• Havergal Brian (1876–1972) (Modern/contemporary)

• William Hurlstone (1876–1906) (Modern/contemporary)

• Thomas Dunhill (1877–1946) (Modern/contemporary)

• Henry Balfour Gardiner (1877–1950) (Modern/contemporary)

• Roger Quilter (1877–1953) (Modern/contemporary)

• Rutland Boughton (1878–1960) (Modern/contemporary)

• Joseph Holbrooke (1878–1958) (Modern/contemporary)

• Theodore Holland (1878–1947) (Modern/contemporary)

• Frank Bridge (1879–1941) (Modern/contemporary)

• Hamilton Harty (1879–1941) (Modern/contemporary)

• John Ireland (1879–1962) (Modern/contemporary)

• Cyril Scott (1879–1970) (Modern/contemporary)

• Edgar Bainton (1880–1956) (Modern/contemporary)

• John Foulds (1880–1939) (Modern/contemporary)

• Hubert Bath (1883–1945) (Modern/contemporary)

• Arnold Bax (1883–1953) (Modern/contemporary)

• George Dyson (1883–1964) (Modern/contemporary)

• William Henry Harris (1883–1973) (Modern/contemporary)

• Lord Berners (1883–1950) (Modern/contemporary)

• York Bowen (1884–1961) (Modern/contemporary)

• George Butterworth (1885–1916) (Modern/contemporary)

• Ernest Farrar (1885–1918) (Modern/contemporary)

• Rebecca Clarke (1886–1979) (Modern/contemporary)

• Eric Coates (1886–1957) (Modern/contemporary)

• Armstrong Gibbs (1889–1960) (Modern/contemporary)

• Ivor Gurney (1890–1937) (Modern/contemporary)

• Arthur Bliss (1891–1975) (Modern/contemporary)

• Herbert Howells (1892–1983) (Modern/contemporary)

• Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892–1988) (Modern/contemporary)

• Eugene Goossens (1893–1962) (Modern/contemporary)

• Peter Warlock (1894–1930) (Modern/contemporary)

• Ernest John Moeran (1894–1950) (Modern/contemporary)

• Gordon Jacob (1895–1984) (Modern/contemporary)

• George Thalben-Ball (1896–1987) (Modern/contemporary)

• William Baines (1899–1922) (Modern/contemporary)

• Herbert Sumsion (1899–1995) (Modern/contemporary)

• Alan Bush (1900–1995) (Modern/contemporary)

• Gerald Finzi (1901–1956) (Modern/contemporary)

• Victor Hely-Hutchinson (1901–1947) (Modern/contemporary)

• Edmund Rubbra (1901–1986) (Modern/contemporary)

• William Walton (1902–1983) (Modern/contemporary)

• Lennox Berkeley (1903–1989) (Modern/contemporary)

• Leighton Lucas (1903–1982) (Modern/contemporary)

• Robin Milford (1903–1959) (Modern/contemporary)

• Thomas Pitfield (1903–1999) (Modern/contemporary)

• Percy Whitlock (1903–1946) (Modern/contemporary)

• Richard Addinsell (1904–1977) (Modern/contemporary)

• William Alwyn (1905–1985) (Modern/contemporary)

• Constant Lambert (1905–1951) (Modern/contemporary)

• Walter Leigh (1905–1942) (Modern/contemporary)

• Alan Rawsthorne (1905–1971) (Modern/contemporary)

• Michael Tippett (1905–1998) (Modern/contemporary)

• Arnold Cooke (1906–2005) (Modern/contemporary)

• Eric Fenby (1906–1997) (Modern/contemporary)

• Benjamin Frankel (1906–1973) (Modern/contemporary)

• Elisabeth Lutyens (1906–1983) (Modern/contemporary)

• Roy Douglas (1907–2015) (Modern/contemporary)

• Imogen Holst (1907–1984) (Modern/contemporary)

• Elizabeth Maconchy (1907–1994) (Modern/contemporary)

• Brian Easdale (1909–1995) (Modern/contemporary)

• Ronald Binge (1910–1979) (Modern/contemporary)

• Stanley Bate (1911–1959) (Modern/contemporary)

• Phyllis Tate (1911–1987) (Modern/contemporary)

• Percy M. Young (1912–2004) (Modern/contemporary)

• Benjamin Britten (1913–1976) (Modern/contemporary)

• George Lloyd (1913–1998) (Modern/contemporary)

• Harold Truscott (1914–1992) (Modern/contemporary)

• William Lloyd Webber (1914–1982) (Modern/contemporary)

• Humphrey Searle (1915–1982) (Modern/contemporary)

• Denis ApIvor (1916–2004) (Modern/contemporary)

• Bernard Stevens (1916–1983) (Modern/contemporary)

• Richard Arnell (1917–2009) (Modern/contemporary)

• John Gardner (1917–2011) (Modern/contemporary)

• Francis Jackson (born 1917) (Modern/contemporary)

• John W. Duarte (1919–2004) (Modern/contemporary)

• Geoffrey Bush (1920–1998) (Modern/contemporary)

• Peter Racine Fricker (1920–1990) (Modern/contemporary)

• Malcolm Arnold (1921–2006) (Modern/contemporary)

• Ruth Gipps (1921–1999) (Modern/contemporary)

• Robert Simpson (1921–1997) (Modern/contemporary)

• Peter Wishart (1921–1984) (Modern/contemporary)

• Raffaello de Banfield (1922–2008) (Modern/contemporary)

• Doreen Carwithen (1922–2003) (Modern/contemporary)

• Arthur Butterworth (1923–2014) (Modern/contemporary)

• Madeleine Dring (1923–1977) (Modern/contemporary)

• Stephen Dodgson (1924–2013) (Modern/contemporary)

• Angela Morley (1924–2009) (Modern/contemporary)

• Buxton Orr (1924–1997) (Modern/contemporary)

• Ernest Tomlinson (1924–2015) (Modern/contemporary)

• Christopher Shaw (1925–1995) (Modern/contemporary)

• Arthur Wills (born 1926) (Modern/contemporary)

• Wilfred Josephs (1927–1997) (Modern/contemporary)

• John Joubert (1927-2019) (Modern/contemporary)

• Graham Whettam (1927–2007) (Modern/contemporary)

• Kenneth Leighton (1929–1988) (Modern/contemporary)

• Alexander Goehr (born 1932) (Modern/contemporary)

• Justin Connolly (born 1933) (Modern/contemporary)

• Harrison Birtwistle (born 1934) (Modern/contemporary)

• Peter Maxwell Davies (1934–2016) (Modern/contemporary)

• Peter Dickinson (born 1934) (Modern/contemporary)

• Anthony Gilbert (composer) (born 1934) (Modern/contemporary)

• Nicholas Maw (1935–2009) (Modern/contemporary)

• Richard Rodney Bennett (1936–2012) (Modern/contemporary)

• Nigel Brooks (born 1936) (Modern/contemporary)

• Cornelius Cardew (1936–1981) (Modern/contemporary)

• Patrick Gowers (1936–2014) (Modern/contemporary)

• Colin Mawby (1936-2019) (Modern/contemporary)

• Anthony Payne (born 1936) (Modern/contemporary)

• John White (born 1936) (Modern/contemporary)

• David Bedford (1937–2011) (Modern/contemporary)

• Edwin Roxburgh (born 1937) (Modern/contemporary)

• Michael Parsons (born 1938) (Modern/contemporary)

• Christopher Steel (1938–1991) (Modern/contemporary)

• Andrew Carter (born 1939) (Modern/contemporary)

• Jonathan Harvey (1939–2012) (Modern/contemporary)

• John McCabe (1939–2015) (Modern/contemporary)

• Patric Standford (1939-2014) (Modern/contemporary)

• Geoffrey Burgon (1941–2010) (Modern/contemporary)

• Derek Bourgeois (1941–2017) (Modern/contemporary)

• Timothy Salter (born 1942) (Modern/contemporary)

• Gavin Bryars (born 1943) (Modern/contemporary)

• Edward Cowie (born 1943) (Modern/contemporary)

• Frank Denyer (born 1943) (Modern/contemporary)

• Brian Ferneyhough (born 1943) (Modern/contemporary)

• Robin Holloway (born 1943) (Modern/contemporary)

• Bill Hopkins (1943–1981) (Modern/contemporary)

• David Matthews (born 1943) (Modern/contemporary)

• Michael Nyman (born 1944) (Modern/contemporary)

• John Tavener (1944–2013) (Modern/contemporary)

• John Rutter (born 1945) (Modern/contemporary)

• Michael Finnissy (born 1946) (Modern/contemporary)

• Colin Matthews (born 1946) (Modern/contemporary)

• Giles Swayne (born 1946) (Modern/contemporary)

• Paul Patterson (born 1947) (Modern/contemporary)

• Hugh Shrapnel (born 1947) (Modern/contemporary)

• Howard Skempton (born 1947) (Modern/contemporary)

• Michael Berkeley (born 1948) (Modern/contemporary)

• Diana Burrell (born 1948) (Modern/contemporary)

• John Casken (born 1949) (Modern/contemporary)

• Sam Richards (born 1949) (Modern/contemporary)

• Dave Smith (born 1949) (Modern/contemporary)

• Philip Wilby (born 1949) (Modern/contemporary)

• Nicholas Sackman (born 1950) (Modern/contemporary)

• Ronald Corp (born 1951) (Modern/contemporary)

• Cecilia McDowall (born 1951) (Modern/contemporary)

• Judith Bingham (born 1952) (Modern/contemporary)

• Oliver Knussen (1952–2018) (Modern/contemporary)

• Dominic Muldowney (born 1952) (Modern/contemporary)

• Patrick Doyle (born 1953) (Modern/contemporary)

• Peter McGarr (born 1953) (Modern/contemporary)

• Robert Saxton (born 1953) (Modern/contemporary)

• Richard Blackford (born 1954) (Modern/contemporary)

• Benedict Mason (born 1954) (Modern/contemporary)

• Judith Weir (born 1954) (Modern/contemporary)

• John Woolrich (born 1954) (Modern/contemporary)

• Ian Venables (born 1955) (Modern/contemporary)

• Sally Beamish (born 1956) (Modern/contemporary)

• Philip Grange (born 1956) (Modern/contemporary)

• Francis Pott (composer) (born 1957) (Modern/contemporary)

• Janet Wheeler (born 1957) (Modern/contemporary)

• Howard Goodall (born 1958) (Modern/contemporary)

• Lionel Sainsbury (born 1958) (Modern/contemporary)

• Patrick Hawes (born 1958) (Modern/contemporary)

• Simon Holt (born 1958) (Modern/contemporary)

• Errollyn Wallen (born 1958) (Modern/contemporary)

• Jonathan Dove (born 1959) (Modern/contemporary)

• Steve Martland (1959–2013) (Modern/contemporary)

• John Palmer (born 1959) (Modern/contemporary)

• George Benjamin (born 1960) (Modern/contemporary)

• Mark-Anthony Turnage (born 1960) (Modern/contemporary)

• Paul Carr(born 1961) (Modern/contemporary)

• David Sawer (born 1961) (Modern/contemporary)

• Jack Gibbons (born 1962) (Modern/contemporary)

• Andrew Glover (born 1962) (Modern/contemporary)

• Philip Cashian (born 1963) (Modern/contemporary)

• Graham Fitkin (born 1963) (Modern/contemporary)

• Michael Zev Gordon (born 1963) (Modern/contemporary)

• John Pickard (born 1963) (Modern/contemporary)

• James Whitbourn (born 1963) (Modern/contemporary)

• Debbie Wiseman (born 1963) (Modern/contemporary)

• Ivan Moody (born 1964) (Modern/contemporary)

• Matthew Taylor (born 1964) (Modern/contemporary)

• Julian Anderson (born 1967) (Modern/contemporary)

• Joe Cutler (born 1968) (Modern/contemporary)

• Roxanna Panufnik (born 1968) (Modern/contemporary)

• James Francis Brown (born 1969) (Modern/contemporary)

• Patrick Nunn (born 1969) (Modern/contemporary)

• Thomas Adès (born 1971) (Modern/contemporary)

• Joby Talbot (born 1971) (Modern/contemporary)

• David Jennings (born 1972) (Modern/contemporary)

• Tansy Davies (born 1973) (Modern/contemporary)

• Andrew March (born 1973) (Modern/contemporary)

• Julian Cochran (born 1974) (Modern/contemporary)

• Tim Benjamin (born 1975) (Modern/contemporary)

• Luke Bedford (born 1978) (Modern/contemporary)

• Charlotte Bray (born 1982) (Modern/contemporary)

• Sasha Siem (born 1984) (Modern/contemporary)

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