List of French composers
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[edit] Born 1300-1550
- Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377)
- Guillaume Dufay (?1397-1474)
- Josquin Desprez (c.1450-1521) born near Franco-Flemish border
- Pierre de La Rue (c.1460-1518)
- Nicolas Gombert (c.1495–c.1560) born in Flanders
[edit] Born 1550-1700
- Jacques Champion de Chambonnières (c.1601-1672)
- Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) Baroque composer, first significant composer of French opera
- Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (1635-1691)
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704)
- Marin Marais (1656-1728)
- André Campra (1660 -1744)
- Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729)
- Jean-Féry Rebel (1666-1747)
- François Couperin (1668-1733)
- Louis Marchand (1669-1732)
- Antoine Forqueray (1671-1745)
- Nicolas de Grigny (1672-1703)
- Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676-1749)
- Jean-François Dandrieu (1682-1738)
- Jean-Joseph Mouret (1682-1738), Baroque composer, known today for his 'Rondeau' (theme song to the TV show Masterpiece Theatre)
- Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), Baroque composer, wrote Les Indes galantes
- Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689-1755)
- Louis-Claude Daquin (1694-1772)
- Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764), significant Baroque era composer
[edit] Born 1700-1800
- Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer (1705-1755) born in Italy
- Jean-Joseph Mondonville (1711-1772)
- François-André Danican Philidor (1726-1795)
- Jean-Baptiste Breval (1753-1823)
- Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766-1831), composer known for his 42 études used by violin students
- François-Adrien Boïeldieu (1775-1834)
- Daniel Auber (1782-1871), opera composer, well known in his time, but rarely performed today
- Jacques-Fereol Mazas (1782-1849), 18th century violinist and composer
- Nicolas-Charles Bochsa (1789-1856)[1], composer best known today for his studies and exercises for the harp.
- Fromental Halévy (1799-1862)
[edit] Born 1800-1880
- Adolphe Adam (1803-1856)
- Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), composer famous for his programmatic symphony, the Symphonie Fantastique
- Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896)
- Louis-Antoine Jullien (1812-1860)[2]
- Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813-1888), Romantic era composer and pianist
- Charles Dancla (1817-1907), 19th century violin teacher and composer
- Charles Gounod (1818-1893), composer, best known for his opera Faust
- Jean-Henri Ravina (1818-1906)
- Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), French operetta composer, known for The Tales of Hoffmann and Orpheus in the Underworld
- Edouard Lalo (1823-1892), Romantic composer remembered primarily for his Symphonie Espagnole for violin and orchestra
- Adolphe Blanc (1828–1885)
- Jean-Baptiste Accolay (1833-1900), 19th century violin teacher and composer
- Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921), Romantic composer perhaps best known for The Carnival of the Animals
- Léo Delibes (1836-1891), composer known for his Coppelia, Sylvia, and Lakmé
- Georges Bizet (1838-1875), Romantic composer famous for his opera Carmen
- Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894)
- Jules Massenet (1842-1912), Romantic composer best known for "Meditation" from his opera Thaïs
- Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937), Romantic composer, noted for his works for the organ
- Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924), Romantic composer, known for his chamber music and a requiem among other pieces
- Henri Duparc (1848-1933)
- Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931)
- Ernest Chausson (1855-1899)
- Alfred Bruneau (1857-1934)
- Guy d'Hardelot (c.1858-1936)
- Claude Debussy (1862-1918), 20th century composer, his music is often described as impressionist, although he dismissed the term, wrote 'Clair de Lune' from Suite bergamasque
- Paul Dukas (1865-1935), late Romantic composer known today for his piece of program music, The Sorcerer's Apprentice
- Erik Satie (1866-1925), 20th century modernist and impressionist composer, known for his Gymnopedies
- Charles Koechlin (1867-1950)
- Claude Terrasse (1867-1923)
- Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
- Florent Schmitt (1870-1958)
- Charles Tournemire (1870-1939)
- Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
- Henri Büsser (1872-1973)
- Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947)
- Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), 20th century piano and orchestra composer in the impressionist and neoclassicist styles, noted for his Daphnis et Chloé, Bolero, and Ma Mère l'Oye (Mother Goose) suite
[edit] Born 1880-
[edit] Les Six
- Louis Durey (1888–1979)
- Arthur Honegger (1892–1955)
- Darius Milhaud (1892–1974)
- Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983), the female member of Les Six, her Jeux de Pleine Aire caused Satie to call her his "musical daughter"
- Georges Auric (1899-1983)
- Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)
[edit] Others
- Paul Le Flem (1881-1984)
- Edgard Varèse (1883-1965) became American
- Marcel Dupré (1886-1971)
- Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979)
- Jacques Ibert (1890-1962)
- Lili Boulanger (1893-1918), the first French woman composer to win the Prix de Rome, with her cantata Faust and Helena
- Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)
- Andre Jolivet (1905-1974)
- Eugène Bozza (1905-1991)
- Jean Langlais (1907-1991)
- Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), 20th century modernist composer
- Gaston Litaize (1909-1991)
- Jehan Alain (1911-1940)
- Alfred Désenclos (1912-1971)
- Jean Françaix (1912-1997)
- Charles Trenet (1913-2001), composer of French songs, including La Mer, Douce France, La Folle Complainte and Je Chante
- Henri Dutilleux (1916- )
- Raymond Gallois-Montbrun (1918-1994)
- Jeanne Demessieux (1921-1968)
- Claude Pascal (1921- )
- Jeanine Rueff (1922-1999)
- Pierre Boulez (1925- )
- Jean-Michel Damase (1928- )
- Gérard Grisey (1946-1998)
- Max Méreaux (1946- )
- Tristan Murail (1947- )
- Joseph-François Kremer (1954- )
- Eryck Abecassis (1956- )
- Eric Serra (1959-)
- Jean-Yves Malmasson (1963- )
- Laurent Laffineur (1968 - )
- Yann Tiersen (1970- )sl:Seznam francoskih skladateljev
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