List of musical composers
The list of musical composers includes the most famous composers and their most important musicals.
The list is sorted alphabetically by the composer's last name.
A.
- Richard Adler ( The Pajama Game , Damn Yankees )
- Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus ( Chess , Kristina från Duvemåla , Mamma Mia! )
- Harold Arlen ( The Wizard of Oz , Jamaica )
B.
- Burt Bacharach ( Promises, Promises )
- Lionel Bart ( Oliver! )
- Irving Berlin ( Annie Get Your Gun , Miss Liberty, Call Me Madam )
- Leonard Bernstein ( On the Town , Wonderful Town , West Side Story , Candide , 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue )
- Jerry Bock ( She Loves Me , Anatevka )
- Jason Robert Brown ( Songs For A New World , Parade , The Last Five Years , Urban Cowboy )
C.
- Warren Casey and Barry Gibb ( Grease )
- Frank Churchill ( Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , Dumbo , Bambi )
- Cy Coleman ( Little Me , Sweet Charity , Seesaw , I Love My Wife , On the Twentieth Century , Barnum , City of Angels , The Life )
- Phil Collins ( Tarzan )
F.
G
- George Gershwin ( Lady, Be Good ; Tip-Toes , Oh, Kay! , Strike Up the Band , Funny Face , Rosalie , showgirl , Girl Crazy , Of Thee I Sing , Pardon My English , Let 'Em Eat Cake , Shall We Dance )
- Barry Gibb and Warren Casey ( Grease )
H
- Marvin Hamlisch ( A Chorus Line , They're Playing Our Song , Smile , The Goodbye Girl , Sweet Smell of Success )
- Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers ( Oklahoma ! , Carousel , South Pacific , The King and I , Cinderella , The Sound of Music )
- Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers ( On Your Toes , Babes in Arms , The Boys from Syracuse , Pal Joey )
- Jerry Herman ( Hello, Dolly! ; Mame , Dear World , La Cage aux Folles )
- Esther Hilsberg (Barricade)
J
- Elton John ( Aida , The Lion King , Billy Elliot )
- Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt ( The Fantasticks , Mirette )
K
- John Kander ( Cabaret , Chicago , The Act , Kiss of the Spider Woman )
- Jerome Kern ( Sally , Sunny, Show Boat , Roberta )
- Henry Krieger ( Dreamgirls , The Tap Dance Kid , Side Show )
L.
- Jonathan Larson ( Tick, Tick ... BOOM! ; Rent )
- Cyndi Lauper ( Kinky Boots )
- Mitch Leigh ( The Man from La Mancha )
- Alan Lerner and Frederick Loewe ( Brigadoon , Paint Your Wagon , My Fair Lady , Camelot , Gigi )
- Sylvester Levay ( Elisabeth , Mozart ! , Rebecca , Marie Antoinette )
- Frank Loesser ( Guys and Dolls , Hans Christian Andersen , How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying )
- Frederick Loewe and Alan Lerner ( Brigadoon , Paint Your Wagon , My Fair Lady , Camelot , Gigi )
- Robert Lopez ( Avenue Q , The Book of Mormon )
- Heiner Lürig ( A Midsummer Night's Dream , Clothes make love or: What do you want , The Tempest - The Tempest , As You Like It )
M.
- Galt MacDermot ( Hair )
- Henry Mancini ( Victor / Victoria )
- Dennis Martin ( Bonifatius - The Musical , Elisabeth - The Legend of a Saint , The Popess - The Musical , Kolping's Dream , The Treasure Island , The Medicus )
- Alan Menken ( Little Shop of Horrors . (English title: Little Shop of Horrors ), Beauty and the Beast . (English title: Beauty and the Beast ), The Hunchback of Notre Dame , The Little Mermaid , Sister Act , Newsies , Aladdin )
N
O
P
- Benj Pasek and Justin Paul ( Dogfight - An Ugly Game , A Christmas Story: The Musical )
- Robert Persché (The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, The Wizard of Oz, A Christmas Story [and others])
- Cole Porter ( Gay Divorce , Anything Goes ; Kiss Me, Kate ; Can-Can , Silk Stockings )
- Gerard Presgurvic ( Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour , Autant en Emporte le Vent (Gone with the Wind))
R.
- AR Rahman ( Bombay Dreams )
- Jimmy Roberts ( I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change ; The Thing About Men )
- Mary Rodgers ( Once Upon a Matress )
- Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein ( Oklahoma ! , Carousel , South Pacific , The King and I , Cinderella , The Sound of Music )
- Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart ( On Your Toes , Babes in Arms , The Boys from Syracuse , Pal Joey )
S.
- Harry Schärer ( Space Dream , Twist of Time )
- Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones ( The Fantasticks , Mirette )
- Jochen Frank Schmidt , ( The lust for life ), ( Palpitations (musical) ), ( Lichterloh (musical) ), Bikini scandal (musical)
- Claude-Michel Schönberg ( Les Misérables , Miss Saigon , Martin Guerre , The Pirate Queen )
- Arthur Schwartz ( The Band Wagon , By the Beautiful Sea )
- Stephen Schwartz ( Godspell , Pippin , Pocahontas , The Prince of Egypt , Wicked - The Witches of Oz )
- Marc Shaiman ( Hairspray , Catch Me If You Can , Charlie and the Chocolate Factory )
- Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman ( Mary Poppins (film) and Mary Poppins (stage version), The Jungle Book , Tschitti Tschitti Bang Bang , Aristocats , The daredevil witch in her flying bed )
- Stephen Sondheim ( A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum , Anyone Can Whistle , Evening Primrose , Company , Follies , A Little Night Music , Pacific Overtures , Sweeney Todd , Merrily We Roll Along , Sunday in the Park with George , Into the Woods , Assassins , Passion , The Frogs , Road Show , also lyrics to West Side Story and Gypsy )
- Jim Steinman ( Dance of the Vampires , Dance of the Vampires )
- Dave Stewart ( Barbarella )
- Charles Strouse ( Bye Bye Birdie , Applause , Annie )
- Jule Styne ( Blondes preferred , Gypsy , Funny Girl )
- Karel Svoboda ( Dracula , Monte Christo)
T
- Jeanine Tesori ( Violet , Thoroughly Modern Millie ; Caroline, or Change )
- Pete Townshend ( Tommy , Quadrophenia )
U
W.
- Oliver Wallace ( Dumbo , Cinderella , Alice in Wonderland , Peter Pan , Lady and the Tramp )
- Harry Warren ( 42nd Street )
- Andrew Lloyd Webber ( The Likes of Us , Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat , Jesus Christ Superstar , By Jeeves , Evita , Tell Me on a Sunday , Cats , Song and Dance , Starlight Express , Cricket , Das Phantom der Oper , Aspects of Love , Sunset Boulevard , Whistle Down the Wind , The Beautiful Game , The Woman in White , Love Never Dies , Stephen Ward )
- Konstantin Wecker ( Hundertwasser Musical , Ludwig² )
- Kurt Weill ( Knickerbocker Holiday , Lady in the Dark , One Touch of Venus , Street Scene , Lost in the Stars )
- Frank Wildhorn ( Jekyll & Hyde , The Scarlet Pimpernel , Dracula , Rudolf - Affaire Mayerling , Der Graf von Monte Christo , Bonnie & Clyde, Wonderland, Arthus-Excalibur; three additional titles to Victor / Victoria )
- Meredith Willson ( The Music Man , The Unsinkable Molly Brown )
- Eric Woolfson ( Freudiana , Gaudí , Gambler , Dancing with Shadows , Edgar Allan Poe )