List of composers for classical guitar

The list of composers for classical guitar names well-known composers who have composed or arranged works for classical guitar.

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The list shows the name, year of birth, year of death and nationality of the composer and can be sorted according to these columns.

List of composers for classical guitar

Surname	Year of birth	Year of death	nationality
Miguel Ablóniz	1917	2001	Italy
Jean Absil	1893	1974	Belgium
Rafael Adame	1906	1963	Mexico
Samuel Adler	1928		United States
Dionisio Aguado	1784	1849	Spain
Miguel del Aguila	1957		United States
Kalevi Aho	1949		Finland
Mateo Albéniz	1755	1831	Spain
Heinrich Albert	1870	1950	Germany
Laurindo Almeida	1917	1995	Brazil
Hermann Ambrosius	1897	1983	Germany
André Amellér	1912	1990	France
Johannes Amon	1763	1825	Germany
Julian Anderson	1967		United Kingdom
William Anderson	1962		United States
Louis Andriessen	1939		Netherlands
Maria Luisa Anido	1907	1996	Argentina
Denis ApIvor	1916	2004	United Kingdom
Julián Arcas	1832	1882	Spain
Johann Gottfried Arnold	1773	1806	Germany
Malcolm Arnold	1921	2006	United Kingdom
Eduardo Arolas	1892	1924	Argentina
Vicente Asencio	1908	1979	Spain
Daniel Asia	1953		United States
Sergio Assad	1952		Brazil
Boris Assafiev	1884	1949	Russia
Hector Ayala	1914	1990	Argentina
Milton Babbitt	1916	2011	United States
Salvador Bacarisse	1898	1963	Spain
Henk Badings	1907	1987	Netherlands
Simon Bainbridge	1952		United Kingdom
Leonardo Balada	1933		United States
Claude Ballif	1924	2004	France
Carlos Barbosa-Lima	1944		Brazil
Vytautas Barkauskas	1931	2020	Lithuania
Milton Barnes	1931	2001	Canada
Richard Barrett	1959		United Kingdom
Ángel Barrios	1882	1964	Spain
Agustín Barrios	1885	1944	Paraguay
Ary Barroso	1903	1964	Brazil
René Bartoli	1938		France
Bruno Bartolozzi	1911	1980	Italy
Abramo Basevi	1818	1885	Italy
Leslie Bassett	1923	2016	United States
Herbert Baumann	1925	2020	Germany
Max Baumann	1917	1999	Germany
Juerg Baur	1918	2010	Germany
Julian Bautista	1901	1961	Argentina
Eduard Bayer	1822	1908	Germany
Sally Beamish	1956		United Kingdom
Robert Beaser	1954		United States
Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt	1925	2010	Chile
David Bedford	1937	2011	United Kingdom
Franz Behr	1837	1898	Germany
Siegfried Behrend	1933	1990	Germany
Paulo Bellinati	1950		Brazil
Carl Michael Bellman	1740	1795	Sweden
Georg Anton Benda	1722	1795	Bohemia
Richard Rodney Bennett	1936	2012	United Kingdom
Gunnar Berg	1909	1989	Denmark
Luciano Berio	1925	2003	Italy
Lennox Berkeley	1903	1989	United Kingdom
Michael Berkeley	1948		United Kingdom
Hector Berlioz	1803	1869	France
Leonard Bernstein	1918	1990	United States
Bruno Bettinelli	1913	2004	Italy
Frank Michael Beyer	1928	2008	Germany
Günter Bialas	1907	1995	Germany
Antonio Bibalo	1922	2008	Norway
Gilbert Biberian	1944		Turkey
Ronald Binge	1910	1979	United Kingdom
Howard Blake	1938		United Kingdom
Michael Blake	1951		South Africa
Juan Blanco	1919	2008	Cuba
Manuel Blasco de Nebra	1750	1784	Spain
Carl Blum	1786	1844	Germany
Carey Blyton	1932	2002	United Kingdom
Vladimir Bobri	1898	1986	United States
Jan Nepomucen Bobrowicz	1805	1881	Poland
Luigi Boccherini	1743	1805	Italy
John Boda	1922	2002	United States
Seóirse Bodley	1933		Ireland
Philippe Boesmans	1936		Belgium
Dusan Bogdanovic	1955		Serbia
Rob du Bois	1934	2013	Netherlands
William Bolcom	1938		United States
Claude Bolling	1930		France
Carlos Bonell	1949		United Kingdom
Luiz Bonfá	1922	2001	Brazil
Carlos Bonilla Chavez	1923	2010	Ecuador
Carlos Bonnet	1892	1983	Venezuela
Raúl Borges	1882	1967	Venezuela
Axel Borup-Jørgensen	1924	2012	Denmark
Jacques Bosch	1825	1895	Spain
Jean-Yves Bosseur	1947		France
Pierre Boulez	1925	2016	France
Brian Boydell	1917	2000	Ireland
Eugène Bozza	1905	1991	France
Philip Bračanin	1942		Australia
Charlotte Bray	1982		United Kingdom
Reiner Bredemeyer	1929	1995	Germany
Ben bridges	1953		United States
Benjamin Britten	1913	1976	United Kingdom
José Brocá	1805	1882	Spain
Jerome de Bromhead	1945		Ireland
Leo Brouwer	1939		Cuba
Humberto Bruni Lamanna	1957		Venezuela
Ole Buck	1944		Denmark
John Buckley	1951		Ireland
Jarmil Burghauser	1921	1997	Czechoslovakia
Geoffrey Burgon	1941	2010	United Kingdom
Willy Burkhard	1900	1955	Switzerland
Sylvano Bussotti	1931		Italy
Charlie Byrd	1925	1999	United States
Javier Farías Caballero	1973		Chile
Germán Cáceres	1954		El Salvador
Bartolome Calatayud	1882	1973	Spain
Leonhard von Call	1767	1815	Austria
Charles Camilleri	1931	2009	Malta
Dmitri Capyrin	1960		Russia
Matteo Carcassi	1792	1853	Italy
Cornelius Cardew	1936	1981	United Kingdom
Jorge Cardoso	1949		Argentina
Carlo Carfagna	1940		Italy
Abel Carlevaro	1916	2001	Uruguay
Roberto Carnevale	1966		Italy
Inocente Carreño	1919	2016	Venezuela
Elliott Carter	1908	2012	United States
Ferdinando Carulli	1770	1841	Italy
Tristram Cary	1925	2008	United Kingdom
Benet Casablancas	1956		Spain
Francisco Casanovas	1899	1986	Spain
Philip Cashian	1963		United Kingdom
Gaspar Cassadó	1897	1966	Spain
Frantz Casseus	1915	1993	Haiti
Luigi Castellacci	1797	1845	Italy
Evencio Castellanos	1915	1984	Venezuela
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco	1895	1968	Italy
Jacques Casterede	1926	2014	France
Nestor de Hollanda Cavalcanti	1949		Brazil
Ignacio Cervantes	1847	1905	Cuba
Luciano Chailly	1920	2002	Italy
Aram Khachaturian	1903	1978	Soviet Union
Carlos Chavez	1899	1978	Mexico
Flores Chaviano	1946		Cuba
Charles Chaynes	1925	2016	France
Gian Paolo Chiti	1939		Italy
Loris Chobanian	1933		Iraq
Il-Ryun Chung	1964		Germany
Domenico Cimarosa	1749	1801	Italy
Pier Luigi Cimma	1941	2006	Italy
Charles Clagget	1740	1790	Ireland
Aldo Clementi	1925	2011	Italy
Joaquín Clerch	1965		Cuba
Graziella Concas	1970		Italy
Marius Constant	1925	2004	France
Sidney Corbett	1960		United States
Ernesto Cordero	1946		Puerto Rico
Roque Cordero	1917	2008	Panama
John Corigliano	1938		United States
Dan Cosley	1979		United States
Napoleon Coste	1805	1883	France
Terence Croucher	1944		United Kingdom
George Crumb	1929		United States
Salim Dada	1975		Algeria
Tomás Damas	1825	1890	Spain
Georges Dandelot	1895	1975	France
Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur	1908	2002	France
Adam Darr	1811	1866	Germany
Johann Nepomuk David	1895	1977	Austria
Thomas Christian David	1925	2006	Austria
Mario Davidovsky	1934	2019	Argentina
Peter Maxwell Davies	1934	2016	United Kingdom
Ernesto De Curtis	1875	1937	Italy
Jean-Michel Defaye	1932		France
Søffren sword	1816	1885	Denmark
David Del Tredici	1937		United States
Georges Delerue	1925	1992	France
Mark Delpriora	1959		United States
Michael Denhoff	1955		Germany
Luigi Denza	1846	1922	Italy
Ettore Desderi	1892	1974	Italy
Yvonne Desportes	1907	1993	France
Paul Dessau	1894	1979	Germany
Eduardo Di Capua	1865	1917	Italy
Anton Diabelli	1781	1858	Austria
David Diamond	1915	2005	United States
James Dillon	1950		United Kingdom
Violeta Dinescu	1953		Romania
Stephen Dodgson	1924	2013	United Kingdom
Friedhelm Döhl	1936	2018	Germany
Uroš Dojčinović	1959		Serbia
Carlo Domeniconi	1947		Italy
Franco Donatoni	1927	2000	Italy
John Dowland	1563	1626	United Kingdom
Andrew Downes	1950		United Kingdom
František Drdla	1868	1944	Bohemia
Riccardo Drigo	1846	1930	Italy
John W. Duarte	1919	2004	United Kingdom
Johann Dubez	1828	1891	Austria
Pierre-Max Dubois	1930	1995	France
Zsolt Durkó	1934	1997	Hungary
František Xaver Dušek	1731	1799	Bohemia
Antonín Dvořák	1841	1904	Bohemia
Benjamin Dwyer	1965		Ireland
Roland Dyens	1955	2016	France
Tom Eastwood	1922	1999	United Kingdom
Petr Eben	1929	2007	Czechoslovakia
Ross Edwards	1943		Australia
René Eespere	1953		Estonia
Gottfried von One	1918	1996	Austria
Richard Emsley	1951		United Kingdom
Manuel Enriquez	1926	1994	Mexico
József Eötvös	1962		Hungary
Heimo pea	1924	2005	Germany
Susanne Erding-Swiridoff	1955		Germany
Óscar Esplá	1889	1976	Spain
Sveinn Eythorsson	1964		Iceland
Kenjiro Ezaki	1926		Japan
Sebastian Fagerlund	1972		Finland
Markus Fagerudd	1961		Finland
Manuel de Falla	1876	1946	Spain
Eduardo Falú	1923	2013	Argentina
Juan Falú	1948		Argentina
Dimitris Fampas	1921	1996	Greece
Carlos Fariñas	1934	2002	Cuba
Ferenc Farkas	1905	2000	Hungary
David Farquhar	1928	2007	New Zealand
Ciaran Farrell	1969		Ireland
Jindrich Field	1925	2007	Czechoslovakia
Jim Ferguson	1948		United States
Heraclio Fernández	1851	1886	Venezuela
Oscar Lorenzo Fernández	1897	1948	Brazil
Gabriel Fernández Álvez	1943	2008	Spain
Brian Ferneyhough	1943		United Kingdom
José Ferrer	1835	1916	Spain
Paul Fetler	1920	2018	United States
Michael Finnissy	1946		United Kingdom
Graciane Finzi	1945		France
Graham Fitkin	1963		United Kingdom
David Flynn	1977		Ireland
William Foden	1860	1947	United States
Daniel Fortea	1878	1953	Spain
Lukas Foss	1922	2009	United States
François de Fossa	1775	1849	France
Yorgos Foudoulis	1964		Greece
Jean Françaix	1912	1997	France
Peter Racine Fricker	1920	1990	United Kingdom
Gunnar de Frumerie	1908	1987	Sweden
James Fulkerson	1945		United States
Blow Galindo	1910	1993	Mexico
Baldassare Galuppi	1706	1785	Italy
Mario Gangi	1923	2010	Italy
Boris Gaquere	1977		Belgium
Gerald García	1949		United Kingdom
Antón García Abril	1933		Spain
Rosa García Ascot	1902	2002	Spain
Celso Garrido Lecca	1926		Peru
Odette garden foliage	1922	2014	France
Theodor Gaude	1782	1846	Germany
Eric Gaudibert	1936	2012	Switzerland
Hans Gefors	1952		Sweden
Harald Genzmer	1909	2007	Germany
Robert Gerhard	1896	1970	Spain
Giorgio Federico Ghedini	1892	1965	Italy
Gilardo Gilardi	1889	1963	Argentina
Angelo Gilardino	1941		Italy
Alberto Ginastera	1916	1983	Argentina
Egberto Gismonti	1947		Brazil
Mauro Giuliani	1781	1829	Italy
Barbara Giuranna	1899	1998	Italy
Detlev Glanert	1960		Germany
Stanley Glasser	1926	2018	South Africa
Anthony Glise	1956		United States
Radamés Gnattali	1906	1988	Brazil
Vincente Gomez	1911	2001	Spain
Chiquinha Gonzaga	1847	1935	Brazil
Nikos Gounaris	1915	1965	Greece
Filippo Gragnani	1768	1820	Italy
Harold Gramatges	1918	2008	Cuba
Agustí gray	1893	1964	Spain
Deirdre Gribbin	1967		Ireland
Cor de Groot	1914	1993	Netherlands
Camargo Guarnieri	1907	1993	Brazil
Carlos Guastavino	1912	2000	Argentina
Gerardo Guevara	1930		Ecuador
Robert Gulya	1973		Hungary
Gustav Gunsenheimer	1934		Germany
Alexander Gurilev	1803	1858	Russia
Sampo Haapamäki	1979		Finland
Alois Hába	1893	1973	Czechoslovakia
Manos Hadjidakis	1925	1994	Greece
Georg Hajdu	1960		Germany
Kimmo Hakola	1958		Finland
Cristóbal Halffter	1930		Spain
Ernesto Halffter	1905	1989	Spain
Rodolfo Halffter	1900	1987	Spain
Hafliði Hallgrímsson	1941		Iceland
Hilding Hallnäs	1903	1984	Sweden
Eero Hämeenniemi	1951		Finland
Peter Michael Hamel	1947		Germany
Albert Harris	1916	2005	United States
Lou Harrison	1917	2003	United States
Heinz Friedrich Hartig	1907	1969	Germany
Jonathan Harvey	1939	2012	United Kingdom
Roman Haubenstock-Ramati	1919	1994	Austria
Halvor Haug	1952		Norway
Hans Haug	1900	1967	Switzerland
Brian Head	1964		United States
Hans de Heer	1927		Netherlands
Anton Heiller	1923	1979	Austria
Paavo Heininen	1938		Finland
Mikko Heiniö	1948		Finland
Walter Hekster	1937	2012	Netherlands
Bruno Henze	1900	1978	Germany
Carl Henze	1872	1946	Germany
Hans Werner Henze	1926	2012	Germany
Ernst Hess	1912	1968	Switzerland
Jacques Hétu	1938	2010	Canada
Paul Hindemith	1895	1963	Germany
Takekuni Hirayoshi	1936	1998	Japan
Evan Hirschelman	1976		United States
Theodor Hlouschek	1923	2010	Germany
Alun Hoddinott	1929	2008	United Kingdom
Justin Holland	1819	1887	United States
Vagn Holmboe	1909	1996	Denmark
Joaquim Homs	1906	2003	Spain
Joseph Horovitz	1926		United Kingdom
Alan Hovhaness	1911	2000	United States
Klaus Huber	1924	2017	Switzerland
Josiah Andrew Hudleston	1799	1865	United Kingdom
Georges Hugon	1904	1980	France
Bertold Hummel	1925	2002	Germany
Oliver Hunt	1934	2000	United Kingdom
Jacques Ibert	1890	1962	France
Akira Ifukube	1914	2006	Japan
Adina Izarra	1959		Venezuela
David A. Jaffe	1955		United States
Stephen Jaffe	1954		United States
Hanns Jelinek	1901	1969	Austria
Jiří Jirmal	1925	2019	Czechoslovakia
Otto Joachim	1910	2010	Canada
Antonio Carlos Jobim	1927	1994	Brazil
Bryan Johanson	1951		United States
André Jolivet	1905	1974	France
Antonio José	1902	1936	Spain
Wilfred Josephs	1927	1997	United Kingdom
Dmitri Kabalevsky	1904	1987	Russia
Pál Kadosa	1903	1983	Hungary
Mauricio Kagel	1931	2008	Argentina
Jouni Kaipainen	1956	2015	Finland
Viktor Kalabis	1923	2006	Czechoslovakia
Shigeru Kanno	1959		Japan
Ahti Karjalainen	1907	1986	Finland
Elena Kats-Chernin	1957		Australia
Bryan Kelly	1934		United Kingdom
Rudolf Kelterborn	1931		Switzerland
Aaron Jay Kernis	1960		United States
Harrison Kerr	1897	1978	United States
Peter Klatzow	1945		South Africa
Giselher Klebe	1925	2009	Germany
Anđelko Klobučar	1931	2016	Croatia
Erland by Koch	1910	2009	Sweden
Gareth cook	1962		Australia
Miklos Kocsar	1933	2019	Hungary
Oliver Kohlenberg	1957		Finland
Karl Kohn	1926		United States
Barbara Kolb	1939		United States
Heinrich Konietzny	1910	1983	Germany
Heinz Koenig	1924	2007	Germany
Olli Kortekangas	1955		Finland
Nikita Koschkin	1956		Russia
Leon Koudelak	1961		Czechoslovakia
Leopold Koželuh	1747	1818	Bohemia
Joseph-François Kremer	1954		France
Ernst Krenek	1900	1991	Austria
Joseph Kreutzer	1790	1840	Germany
Annette Kruisbrink	1958		Netherlands
Andrei Krylov	1959		Russia
Augustin Kubizek	1918	2009	Austria
Joseph Küffner	1776	1856	Germany
Felicitas Kukuck	1914	2001	Germany
György Kurtág	1926		Hungary
Helmut Lachenmann	1935		Germany
Alexandre Lagoya	1929	1999	France
Gordon Langford	1930	2017	United Kingdom
Paul Lansky	1944		United States
Libby Larsen	1950		United States
Anne Lauber	1943		Canada
Antonio Lauro	1917	1986	Venezuela
Mario Lavista	1943		Mexico
Alan Lawrence	1949		United Kingdom
Ernesto Lecuona	1895	1963	Cuba
Ton de Leeuw	1926	1996	Netherlands
Victor Legley	1915	1994	Belgium
Luigi Legnani	1790	1877	Italy
David Leisner	1953		United States
Edith Lejet	1941		France
John Anthony Lennon	1950		United States
James Lentini	1958		United States
Tania León	1943		Cuba
Pierre Lerich	1937	2008	France
Peter Scott Lewis	1953		United States
Antoine de Lhoyer	1768	1852	France
Lowell Liebermann	1961		United States
Douglas Lilburn	1915	2001	New Zealand
Magnus Lindberg	1958		Finland
Jukka Linkola	1955		Finland
Maria Linnemann	1947		United Kingdom
Anatoly Lyadov	1855	1914	Russia
Miguel Llobet	1878	1938	Spain
Guillermo Venegas Lloveras	1915	1993	Puerto Rico
Andrew Lloyd Webber	1948		United Kingdom
Manos Loïzos	1937	1982	Greece
Luca Lombardi	1945		Italy
Dang Ngoc Long	1957		Vietnam
Fernando Lopes-Graca	1906	1994	Portugal
Bent Lorentzen	1935	2018	Denmark
Paco de Lucía	1947	2014	Spain
Otto Luening	1900	1996	United States
Vilho Luolajan-Mikkola	1911	2005	Finland
Witold Lutosławski	1913	1994	Poland
Elisabeth Lutyens	1906	1983	United Kingdom
Diego Luzuriaga	1955		Ecuador
Bruce MacCombie	1943	2012	United States
Celso Machado	1953		Brazil
Peter Machajdík	1961		Slovakia
Steven Mackey	1956		United States
Bruno Maderna	1920	1973	Germany
Jef Maes	1905	1996	Belgium
Ivor Mairants	1908	1988	United Kingdom
Gui Mallon	1953		Brazil
Gian Francesco Malipiero	1882	1973	Italy
Riccardo Malipiero	1914	2003	Italy
Ursula Mamlok	1923	2016	United States
Henry Mancini	1924	1994	United States
Joan Manén	1883	1971	Spain
Daan Manneke	1939		Netherlands
Tomás Marco	1942		Spain
Tera de Marez Oyens	1932	1996	Netherlands
Franco Margola	1908	1992	Italy
Heinrich Marschner	1795	1861	Germany
Ingram Marshall	1942		United States
Frank Martin	1890	1974	Switzerland
Giovanni Battista Martini	1706	1784	Italy
Jean Paul Egide Martini	1741	1816	Germany
Tauno Marttinen	1912	2008	Finland
Wenzel Thomas Matiegka	1773	1830	Bohemia
Colin Matthews	1946		United Kingdom
Nicholas Maw	1935	2009	United Kingdom
John McCabe	1939	2015	United Kingdom
Edward McGuire	1948		United Kingdom
Gordon McPherson	1965		United Kingdom
Chiel Meijering	1954		Netherlands
Cord Meijering	1955		Netherlands
Wilfrid Mellers	1914	2008	United Kingdom
Usko Meriläinen	1930	2004	Finland
Caspar Joseph Mertz	1806	1856	Hungary
Josep Mestre's Quadreny	1929		Spain
John Metcalfe	1964		New Zealand
Francisco Mignone	1897	1986	Brazil
Georges Migot	1891	1976	France
Darius Milhaud	1892	1974	France
Ronaldo Miranda	1948		Brazil
Behzad Mirkhani	1969		Iran
Akira Miyoshi	1933	2013	Japan
Bagher Moazen	1948		Canada
Luis Manuel Molina	1959		Cuba
Francesco Molino	1768	1847	Italy
Simon Molitor	1766	1848	Germany
Federico Mompou	1893	1987	Spain
François Morel	1926	2018	Canada
Jorge Morel	1931		Argentina
Federico Moreno Torroba	1891	1982	Spain
Federico Moretti	1769	1839	Spain
Luigi Moretti	1780	1850	Spain
Ennio Morricone	1928	2020	Italy
Robert Morris	1943		United States
Virgilio Mortari	1902	1993	Italy
Luigi Mosca	1775	1824	Italy
Carlos Moscardini	1959		Argentina
Ricardo Moyano	1961		Argentina
José Muñoz Molleda	1905	1988	Spain
Tristan Murail	1947		France
Santiago de Murcia	1673	1739	Spain
Thea Musgrave	1928		United Kingdom
Olli Mustonen	1967		Finland
Wolfgang Muthspiel	1965		Austria
Stanley Myers	1933	1993	United Kingdom
Jiro Nakano	1902	2000	Japan
Antonio Maria Nava	1775	1826	Italy
Lior Navok	1971		Israel
Ernesto Nazareth	1863	1934	Brazil
Remilson Nery	1961		Brazil
Wilhelm new territory	1806	1889	Germany
Ulrik Neumann	1918	1994	Denmark
Dimitri Nicolau	1946	2008	Italy
Michael Nicolella	1963		United States
Days Nielsen	1929	2003	Denmark
Alfred Nieman	1913	1997	United Kingdom
Kai Nieminen	1950		Finland
Joaquin Nin-Culmell	1908	2004	Spain
Marlos Nobre	1939		Brazil
Paulinho Nogueira	1929	2003	Brazil
Pehr Henrik Nordgren	1944	2008	Finland
Per Nørgård	1932		Denmark
Ib Nørholm	1931	2019	Denmark
Bayan Northcott	1940		United Kingdom
Christopher Norton	1953		New Zealand
Jan Novák	1921	1984	Czechoslovakia
Peter Oberg	1953		United States
Jana Obrovská	1930	1987	Czechoslovakia
Helmut Oehring	1961		Germany
Maurice Ohana	1913	1992	France
Jane O'Leary	1946		Ireland
Stephen Oliver	1950	1992	United Kingdom
Poul Rovsing Olsen	1922	1982	Denmark
Marco Oppedisano	1971		United States
Julián Orbón	1925	1991	United States
Juan Orrego-Salas	1919	2019	Chile
Ivan Padovec	1800	1873	Croatia
Niccolò Paganini	1782	1840	Italy
Manuel Palau Boix	1893	1967	Spain
Boris Papandopulo	1906	1991	Yugoslavia
Sophocles papas	1893	1986	Greece
Åke Parmerud	1953		Sweden
Apostolos Paraskevas	1964		Greece
Stephen Paulus	1949	2014	United States
Carlos Pedrell	1878	1941	Uruguay
Felip Pedrell	1841	1922	Spain
Ferdinand Pelzer	1801	1861	Germany
Andreas Paolo Perger	1970		Austria
Nick Peros	1963		Canada
Vincent Persichetti	1915	1987	United States
Jean-Louis Petit	1937		France
Pierre Petit	1922	2000	France
Goffredo Petrassi	1904	2003	Italy
Pietro Pettoletti	1795	1870	Italy
Ástor Piazzolla	1921	1992	Argentina
Richard Pick	1915	2001	United States
CA Pinto Fonseca	1933	2006	Brazil
Lina Pires de Campos	1918	2003	Brazil
Thomas Pitfield	1903	1999	United Kingdom
Pixinguinha	1897	1973	Brazil
Kenneth Platts	1946	1989	United Kingdom
Fotis Polymeris	1920	2013	Greece
Manuel Ponce	1882	1948	Mexico
Ennio Porrino	1910	1959	Italy
Pierre-Jean Porro	1750	1831	France
Francis Poulenc	1899	1963	France
Baden Powell	1937	2000	Brazil
Mel Powell	1923	1998	United States
José Antonio de Almeida Prado	1943	2010	Brazil
Catharina Josepha Pratten	1821	1895	Germany
Stanko Prek	1915	1999	Slovenia
Ida Presti	1924	1967	France
André Previn	1929	2019	United States
Claudio Prieto	1934	2015	Spain
Teresa Procaccini	1934		Italy
Emilio Pujol	1886	1980	Spain
Maximo Diego Pujol	1957		Argentina
John Purser	1942		United Kingdom
Eduard Pütz	1911	2000	Germany
Veli-Matti Puumala	1965		Finland
Relly Raffman	1921	1988	United States
Osmo Tapio Räihälä	1964		Finland
Tomi Räisänen	1976		Finland
Štěpán Rak	1945		Czechoslovakia
Ariel Ramirez	1921	2010	Argentina
Luis Felipe Ramón y Rivera	1913	1993	Venezuela
Primoz Ramovs	1921	1999	Slovenia
Einojuhani Rautavaara	1928	2016	Finland
Irma Ravinale	1937	2013	Italy
Alan Rawsthorne	1905	1971	United Kingdom
Gardner Read	1913	2005	United States
Ferdinand Rebay	1880	1953	Austria
Max Reger	1873	1916	Germany
Giulio Regondi	1822	1872	Switzerland
Steve Reich	1936		United States
Dilermando rice	1916	1977	Brazil
Ottorino Respighi	1879	1936	Italy
Hermann Reutter	1900	1985	Germany
Roger Reynolds	1934		United States
Alan Ridout	1934	1996	United Kingdom
Rodrigo Riera	1923	1999	Venezuela
Terry Riley	1935		United States
Anthony Ritchie	1960		New Zealand
John Anthony Ritchie	1921	2014	New Zealand
Carlos Rafael Rivera	1970		United States
Jean Rivier	1896	1987	France
George Rochberg	1918	2005	United States
Arturo Rodas	1954		Ecuador
Joaquín Rodrigo	1901	1999	Spain
Betty Roe	1930		United Kingdom
Amadeo Roldan	1900	1939	Cuba
Alessandro Rolla	1757	1841	Italy
Celedonio Romero	1913	1996	Cuba
Ludovico Roncalli	1654	1713	Italy
Ned Rorem	1923		United States
Christopher Rouse	1949		United States
Albert Roussel	1869	1937	France
Alec Rowley	1892	1958	United Kingdom
Miklós Rózsa	1907	1995	Hungary
Marcel Rubin	1905	1995	Austria
Poul oar	1949		Denmark
Antonio Ruiz-Pipó	1934	1997	France
Henrik Rung	1807	1871	Denmark
John Rutter	1945		United Kingdom
Jarmo Saari	1970		Finland
Kaija Saariaho	1952		Finland
Sabicas	1912	1990	Spain
Arturo Sacchetti	1941		Italy
Julio Salvador Sagreras	1879	1942	Argentina
Eduardo Sainz de la Maza	1903	1982	Spain
Regino Sáinz de la Maza	1896	1981	Spain
Adolfo Salazar	1890	1958	Spain
Luis H. Salgado	1903	1977	Ecuador
Aulis Sallinen	1935		Finland
Erkki Salmenhaara	1941	2002	Finland
Esa-Pekka Salonen	1958		Finland
Matilde Salvador	1918	2007	Spain
Gustave Samazeuilh	1877	1967	France
Luis Sandi	1905	1996	Mexico
Sven-David Sandström	1942	2019	Sweden
Cláudio Santoro	1919	1989	Brazil
Guido Santorsola	1904	1994	Brazil
Turibio Santos	1943		Brazil
Gaspar Sanz	1640	1710	Spain
Heikki Sarmanto	1939		Finland
Henri Sauguet	1901	1989	France
Manuel Saumell	1810	1870	Cuba
Robert Saxton	1953		United Kingdom
Giacinto Scelsi	1905	1988	Italy
R. Murray Schafer	1933		Canada
Gerhard Schedl	1957	2000	Austria
Armin Schibler	1920	1986	Switzerland
Peter Schickele	1935		United States
Thomas Daniel Schlee	1957		Austria
Annette Schlünz	1964		Germany
Gary Schneider	1957		United States
Arnold Schoenberg	1874	1951	Austria
Olexander Shchetynsky	1960		Ukraine
Franz Schubert	1797	1828	Austria
Gunther Schuller	1925	2015	United States
Joseph Schwantner	1943		United States
Kurt Schwertsik	1935		Austria
Ludvig Schytte	1848	1909	Denmark
Cyril Scott	1879	1970	United Kingdom
Peter Sculthorpe	1929	2014	Australia
Humphrey Searle	1915	1982	United Kingdom
Leif Segerstam	1944		Finland
Andrés Segovia	1893	1987	Spain
Matyas Seiber	1905	1960	Hungary
Carlos Seixas	1704	1742	Portugal
Ernest Shand	1868	1924	United Kingdom
Jean Sibelius	1865	1957	Finland
Roberto Sierra	1953		Puerto Rico
Larry Sitsky	1934		Australia
Fredrik Sixten	1962		Sweden
Howard Skempton	1947		United Kingdom
Reginald Smith Brindle	1917	2003	United Kingdom
Vicente Emilio Sojo	1887	1974	Venezuela
Charles Michael Alexis Sola	1786	1857	Italy
Antonio Soler	1729	1783	Spain
Harry Somers	1925	1999	Canada
Fernando Sor	1778	1839	Spain
Bent Sørensen	1958		Denmark
Michalis Souyioul	1906	1958	Greece
Frank Lee Sprague	1958		United States
Pieter van der Staak	1930	2007	Netherlands
Hans Stadlmair	1929	2019	Austria
Robert Starer	1924	2001	United States
Michael Starobin	1956		United States
Walter Steffens	1934		Germany
Pavel Steidl	1961		Czechoslovakia
Roger Steptoe	1953		United Kingdom
Bernard Stevens	1916	1983	United Kingdom
Ronald Stevenson	1928	2015	United Kingdom
Anton Stingl	1908	2000	Germany
Richard Stoker	1938		United Kingdom
Ignace Strasfogel	1909	1994	Poland
Johann Strauss (father)	1804	1849	Austria
Johann Strauss (son)	1825	1899	Austria
Soulima Stravinsky	1910	1994	Switzerland
Aurel Stroe	1932	2008	Romania
Rezső Sugár	1919	1988	Hungary
Carlos Surinach	1915	1997	Spain
Giles Swayne	1946		United Kingdom
Ricardo Tacuchian	1939		Brazil
Germaine Tailleferre	1892	1983	France
Jenő Takács	1902	2005	Austria
Yuji Takahashi	1938		Japan
Toru Takemitsu	1930	1996	Japan
Joby Talbot	1971		United Kingdom
Tan Dun	1957		People's Republic of China
Hilary Tann	1947		United Kingdom
Alexandre Tansman	1897	1986	France
Sebastião Tapajós	1943		Brazil
Francisco Tarrega	1852	1909	Spain
John Tavener	1944	2013	United Kingdom
Matthew Taylor	1964		United Kingdom
Mikis Theodorakis	1925		Greece
Augusta Read Thomas	1964		United States
Virgil Thomson	1896	1989	United States
Eythor Thorlaksson	1930	2018	Iceland
Jukka Tiensuu	1948		Finland
Koos Tigges	1917	1991	Netherlands
Michael Tippett	1905	1998	United Kingdom
Camillo Togni	1922	1993	Italy
Henri Tomasi	1901	1971	France
Colin Tommis	1958		United Kingdom
Jaume Torrent i Rius	1953		Spain
Enrico Toselli	1883	1926	Italy
Vladimir Tošić	1949		Serbia
Francesco Paolo Tosti	1846	1916	Italy
Joan Tower	1938		United States
Ralph Towner	1940		United States
Manfred Trojahn	1949		Germany
Eldad Tsabary	1969		Israel
Antonin Tucapsky	1928	2014	Czechoslovakia
Joaquín Turina	1882	1949	Spain
José Luis Turina	1952		Spain
Alfred Uhl	1909	1992	Austria
Erich Urbanner	1936		Austria
Horacio Vaggione	1943		Argentina
Pēteris Vasks	1946		Latvia
Andersen Viana	1962		Brazil
Lois V. Vierk	1951		United States
Heitor Villa-Lobos	1887	1959	Brazil
Giulio Viozzi	1912	1984	Italy
Param Vir	1952		United Kingdom
Olli Virtaperko	1973		Finland
Claude Vivier	1948	1983	Canada
Roman Vlad	1919	2013	Italy
Roger Craig Vogel	1947		United States
Vladimir Vogel	1896	1984	Switzerland
Kevin Volans	1949		Ireland
Melinda Wagner	1957		United States
Rudolf Wagner-Régeny	1903	1969	Germany
Luise Walker	1910	1998	Austria
Errollyn Wallen	1958		United Kingdom
Gareth Walters	1928	2012	United Kingdom
William Walton	1902	1983	United Kingdom
Johann Baptist Wanhal	1739	1813	Bohemia
Alexander Varlamov	1801	1848	Russia
Carl Maria von Weber	1786	1826	Germany
Anton Webern	1883	1945	Austria
John Weinzweig	1913	2006	Canada
Flemming Weis	1898	1981	Denmark
Ferdinand Weiss	1932	2002	Austria
Harald Weiss	1949		Germany
Egon Wellesz	1885	1974	Austria
Eberhard Werdin	1911	1991	Germany
Richard Wernick	1934		United States
Harri Kristian Wessman	1949		Finland
Graham Whettam	1927	2007	United Kingdom
John Whitworth	1951		United States
Johan Wikmansson	1753	1800	Sweden
John Williams	1941		United Kingdom
Mason Williams	1938		United States
Rex willis	1956		United States
Arthur Wills	1926		United Kingdom
Thomas Wilson	1927	2001	United Kingdom
Wanja van Winsen	1946		Netherlands
Pierre Wissmer	1915	1992	France
Charles Wuorinen	1938	2020	United States
Klaus Wüsthoff	1922		Germany
Stavros Xarchakos	1939		Greece
Narciso Yepes	1927	1997	Spain
Andrew York	1958		United States
Kenneth Young	1955		New Zealand
Isang Yun	1917	1995	South Korea
Atahualpa Yupanqui	1908	1992	Argentina
Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph	1948		South Africa
Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti	1801	1878	Italy
Frank Zappa	1940	1993	United States
Richard Zarou	1981		United States
Julien-François Zbinden	1917		Switzerland
Friedrich Zehm	1923	2007	Germany
Milan Zelenka	1939		Czechoslovakia
Jaime Mirtenbaum Zenamon	1953		Bolivia
Marilyn J. Ziffrin	1926	2018	United States
Bernd Alois Zimmermann	1918	1970	Germany
Sauli Zinovjev	1988		Finland

See also

• guitar
• Classical guitar
• List of guitarists
• List of composers of classical music

Web links

• Classical Guitar Composers List at muscated.com
• Famous composers at schott-music.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ Classical Guitar Composers List - Alphabetical. In: musicated.com. Accessed April 12, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Famous Guitar Composers. In: Schott-music.com. Retrieved April 13, 2018 .