List of piano composers

This is a list of piano composers.

Renaissance and Baroque periods

Domenico Alberti (1710–1740) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) William Byrd (c.1540-1623) Louis Couperin (c.1626-1661) François Couperin (1668–1733) Louis-Claude Daquin (1694–1772) Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643) Johann Jacob Froberger (1616-1667) Baldassare Galuppi (1706–1785) Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) Lodovico Giustini (1685–1743) Christoph Graupner (1683–1760) George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) Johann Kuhnau (1660-1722) Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli (1710-1762) Domenico Paradies (1707-1791) Giovanni Benedetto Platti (1697–1763) Henry Purcell (1659–1695) Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764) Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757) Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767) Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741)

Classical period

Louis Adam (1758–1848) Bonifazio Asioli (1769–1832) Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788) Johann Christian Bach (1735–1782) Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732–1795) Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710–1784) Carlos Baguer (1768-1808) Franz Ignaz Beck (1734–1809) Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) Georg Benda (1722–1795) Ludwig Berger (1777–1839) João Domingos Bomtempo (1775–1842) Domenico Cimarosa (1749–1801) Muzio Clementi (1752–1832) Philip Cogan (1750–1833) Johann Baptist Cramer (1771–1858) Franz Danzi (1763–1826) Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739–1799) František Xaver Dušek (1731–1799) Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760–1812) Anton Eberl (1765–1807) Józef Elsner (1769–1854) Joseph Leopold Eybler (1765–1846) Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari (1763–1842) Emanuel Aloys Förster (1748–1823) Joseph Gelinek (1758–1825) Tommaso Giordani (1730–1806) Johann Wilhelm Hässler (1747–1822) Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754–1812) James Hook (1746–1827) Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837) Louis-Emmanuel Jadin (1768–1853) Hyacinthe Jadin (1776–1800) Leopold Kozeluch (1747–1818) Joseph Martin Kraus (1756–1792) Franz Krommer (1759–1831) Nikolaus von Krufft (1779–1818) Joseph Küffner (1776–1856) Francesca Lebrun (1756–1791) Marianna Martines (1744–1812) Étienne Méhul (1763–1817) Hélène de Montgeroult (1764–1836) Leopold Mozart (1719–1787) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) August Eberhard Müller (1767–1817) Josef Mysliveček (1737–1781) Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741–1801) Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748–1798) Sigismund von Neukomm (1778–1858) Giovanni Paisiello (1740–1816) Ignaz Pleyel (1757–1831) Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752–1814) Anton Reicha (1770–1836) Antonio Rosetti (1750–1792) Friedrich Wilhelm Rust (1739–1796) Antonio Salieri (1750–1825) Johann Schobert (1735–1767) Johann Samuel Schroeter (1753–1788) Joseph Anton Steffan (1726-1797) Antonio Soler (1729–1783) Fernando Sor (1778–1839) Daniel Steibelt (1765–1823) Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel (1750–1817) Johann Baptist Wanhal (1739–1813) Václav Jan Tomášek (1774–1850) Daniel Gottlob Türk (1750–1813) Samuel Wesley (1766–1837) Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse (1774–1842) Johann Wilhelm Wilms (1772–1847) Joseph Wölfl (1773–1812) Paul Wranitzky (1756–1808)

Romantic period

Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813–1888) Anton Arensky (1861–1906) Tekla Bądarzewska (1829/1834 – 1861) Mily Balakirev (1837–1910) Friedrich Baumfelder (1836–1916) Amy Beach (1867–1944) Franz Bendel (1832–1874) William Sterndale Bennett (1816–1875) Peter Benoit (1834–1901) Wilhelm Berger (1861–1911) Henri Bertini (1798–1876) Felix Blumenfeld (1863–1931) Charles Samuel Bovy-Lysberg (1821–1873) Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) Friedrich Burgmüller (1806–1874) Hans von Bülow (1830–1894) Ignacio Cervantes (1847–1905) Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894) Cécile Chaminade (1857–1944) Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) Aloÿs Claussmann (1850–1926) Carl Czerny (1791–1857) Eugen d'Albert (1864–1932) Élie-Miriam Delaborde (1839–1913) Charles Delioux (1825–1915) Anton Diabelli (1781–1858) Theodor Döhler (1814–1856) Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848) Alexander Dreyschock (1818–1869) Felix Dreyschock (1860–1906) Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904) Michele Esposito (1855–1929) Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Zdeněk Fibich (1850-1900) John Field (1782–1837) Julian Fontana (1810–1869) Adolfo Fumagalli (1828–1856) Mikhail Glinka (1804–1857) Henri Gobbi (1842–1920) Benjamin Godard (1849–1895) Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829–1869) Edvard Grieg (1843–1907) Agathe Backer Grøndahl (1847-1907) Cornelius Gurlitt (1820–1901) Adolphe Gutmann (1819–1882) Charles-Louis Hanon (1819–1900) Stephen Heller (1813–1888) Swan Hennessy (1866–1929) Adolf von Henselt (1814–1889) Fanny Hensel (1805–1847) Ferdinand Hérold (1791–1833) Henri Herz (1803–1888) Franz Hitz (1828–1891) Ferdinand Hiller (1811–1885) Franz Hünten (1792–1878) Salomon Jadassohn (1831–1902) Alfred Jaëll (1832–1882) Marie Jaëll (1846-1925) Scott Joplin (1868-1917) Rafael Joseffy (1852–1915) Friedrich Kalkbrenner (1785–1849) Jan Kalivoda (1801–1866) Joseph Christoph Kessler (1800–1872) Theodor Kirchner (1823–1903) Anton de Kontski (1817–1899) Wilhelm Kuhe (1823–1912) Friedrich Kuhlau (1786–1832) Theodor Kullak (1818–1882) Franz Lachner (1803–1890) Théodore Lack (1846–1921) Franz Liszt (1811–1886) Henry Litolff (1818–1891) Sergei Lyapunov (1859–1924) Mykola Lysenko (1842-1912) Edward MacDowell (1860–1908) George Alexander Macfarren (1813–1887) Giuseppe Martucci (1856–1909) Désiré Magnus (1828–1884) Antoine François Marmontel (1816–1898) William Mason (1829–1908) Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847) Amédée Méreaux (1802–1874) Aleksander Michalowski (1851–1938) Ignaz Moscheles (1794–1870) Moritz Moszkowski (1854–1925) Franz Xaver Mozart (1791–1844) Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881) Vítězslav Novák (1870–1949) Joseph O'Kelly (1828–1885) Arthur O'Leary (1834–1919) George Onslow (1784–1853) Paul Pabst (1854–1897) Jan Gerard Palm (1831–1906) Cipriani Potter (1792–1871) Émile Prudent (1817–1863) Alfred Quidant (1815–1893) Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) Joachim Raff (1822–1882) Max Reger (1873–1916) Carl Reinecke (1824–1910) Julius Reubke (1834–1858) Josef Rheinberger (1819-1901) Ferdinand Ries (1784-1838) Julius Rietz (1812–1877) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) Anton Rubinstein (1829–1894) Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Wassily Sapellnikoff (1867–1941) Xaver Scharwenka (1850–1924) Aloys Schmitt (1788–1866) Friedrich Schneider (1786–1853) Franz Schubert (1797–1828) Julius Schulhoff (1825–1898) Clara Schumann (1819–1896) Robert Schumann (1810–1856) Ludvig Schytte (1848–1909) Giovanni Sgambati (1841–1914) Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884) Sydney Smith (1839–1889) Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924) Camille-Marie Stamaty (1811–1870) Wilhelm Taubert (1811–1891) Karl Tausig (1841–1871) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) Thomas Tellefsen (1823–1874) Sigismond Thalberg (1812–1871) Jan Václav Voříšek (1791–1825) Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826) Józef Wieniawski (1837–1912) Aleksander Zarzycki (1834–1895) Władysław Żeleński (1837–1921)

20th century Composer Born Died Nationality Notable piano works Remarks 1893 1934 Filipino 1903 1969 German 1957 Uruguayan-American Toccata Sonata No.2 Conga Nocturne 1891 1944 Australian 1860 1909 Spanish Iberia 1887 1964 Dutch 1910 1981 American Concerto for Piano and Orchestra op.38 (1962) Nocturne for Piano (Homage to John Field), Op. 33 Sonata for Piano (Op. 26, 1949) 1881 1945 Hungarian Mikrokosmos, Sz. 107, BB 105 Out of Doors, Sz. 81, BB 89 Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56, BB 68 Allegro barbaro, Sz. 49, BB 63 Folksong-influenced, Centric, Modal, Polymodal/Polytonal 1883 1953 English Piano Sonata No. 1 (1910, 1917–1920) Piano Sonata No. 2 (1919) Piano Sonata in E-flat (1921) Piano Sonata No. 3 (1926) Piano Sonata No. 4 (1932) Romantic, Impressionist 1877 1943 Swiss 1877 1952 Ukrainian 1884 1961 English Romantic 1912 1941 English Late-Romantic, hints of Second Viennese School 1866 1924 Italian Fantasia contrappuntistica (1910) Mature works of indeterminate key; Late in career, neoclassical 1883 1947 Italian 1857 1944 French 1875 1911 Lithuanian Piano Sonata in F major Nocturne in C-sharp minor Nocturne in F minor Impromptu in F-sharp minor 1900 1990 American Appalachian Spring Salon Mexico Quiet City 1862 1918 French Études, L 136 Préludes (L 117 and L 123) Suite bergamasque, L 75 Deux arabesques, L 66 ImpressionistBill Evans19291980AmericanJazz 1877 1960 Hungarian Four Rhapsodies, op. 11 1899 1974 American Jazz 1890 1962 Russian 1878 1936 Russian, American 1898 1937 American Three Preludes George Gershwin's Songbook Jazz-influenced 1916 1983 Argentine Earlier works often integrate Argentine folk themes; later works increasingly abstracted 1865 1936 Russian Romantic 1870 1938 Polish, American Studies on Chopin's Études (1894–1914) 1882 1961 Australian, English, American 1867 1916 Spanish Distinctly Spanish 1864 1956 Russian 1879 1944 French 1903 1989 Ukrainian, American 1874 1954 American Piano Sonata No. 2 (Concord Sonata) (1916–1919) 1867 1917 American Ragtime 1904 1987 Russian, Soviet 1903 1978 Soviet, Armenian 1896 1938 Ukrainian 1887 1960 American Ragtime 1905 1951 English Piano Sonata (1928–1929) Suite in 3 Movements (1925) Elegiac Blues (1927) 1895 1963 Cuban 1929 1968 Canadian Concerto Romantique (Concerto de Québec, 1943) Piano Concerto No. 4 (1947) Romantic 1880 1951 Russian 1875 1937 Finnish 1908 1992 French Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus (1944) Quatre études de rythme (1949–1950) Catalogue d'oiseaux (1956–1958) 1893 1987 Catalan, Spanish 1917 1982 American Jazz 1881 1950 Russian, Soviet 1863 1934 Brazilian Eclectic influences; primarily dance music (tangos, waltzes, polkas, etc.), influenced by African and Argentine styles 1876 1953 German Impressionist and exotic influences 1860 1941 Polish 1887 1982 Curaçao-born 1885 1925 Curaçao-born 1880 1950 Curaçao-born 1878 1951 Finnish 1863 1958 French, Hungarian 1899 1963 French 1887 1953 African American 1891 1953 Russian Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 82 (1940) Sonata No. 7 in B-flat major, Op. 83 (1942) Sonata No. 8 in B-flat major, Op. 84 (1944) Visions fugitives, Op. 22 (1915–1917) Toccata in D minor, Op. 11 (1912) 1873 1943 Russian Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 28 (1908) Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 36 (1914) Six moments musicaux, Op. 16 (1897) Romantic 1875 1937 French Gaspard de la nuit (1908) Le tombeau de Couperin (1914–1917) Jeux d'eau (1901) Impressionist; sometimes jazz-influenced 1866 1920 Russian Impressionist, Romantic 1857 1935 Austrian Romantic 1879 1940 French 1873 1954 French 1855 1932 Dutch 1866 1925 French Impressionist; Minimalist (precursor) 1907 1991 Turkish Neoclassical, traditional Turkish folksong influence 1870 1958 French Impressionist, Late-Romantic 1874 1951 Austrian, American Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11 Fünf Klavierstücke, Op. 23 Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19 Suite für Klavier, Op. 25 Serial (mature/late career), Late-Romantic (early career) 1885 1938 American, African-American Ragtime 1872 1915 Russian 10 piano sonatas Late-Romantic (early); Atonal, Mystical (mature) 1905 1990 Israeli Still Life Pages from the Diary Youth Suite Five Sketches Reflection Polystylism 1906 1975 Russian, Soviet Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 12 (1926) 24 Preludes, Op. 34 (1932–1933) Piano Sonata No. 2 in B minor, Op. 61 (1943) 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 (1950–1951) Post-Romantic; neoclassical; elements of grotesque 1865 1957 Finnish Sonata in F major, Op. 12 Three Sonatinas, Op. 67 Late-Romantic; post-Romantic 1892 1988 English Opus clavicembalisticum 100 Transcendental Studies Sequentia cyclica super "Dies irae" ex Missa pro defunctis Piano Symphony No. 2 "Gulistān"—Nocturne for Piano Neoclassical, neoromantic, postimpressionistic Enrique Soro 1884 1954 Chilean