List of organ composers
The list of organ composers includes names of composers of solo organ music who are well known. The names in the list are arranged chronologically by year of birth. If no article has yet been created, new entries are requested to provide brief, key information about life dates, places of work and, if necessary, special services.
Renaissance
- Paul Hofhaimer (1459–1537)
- Leonhard Kleber (1495–1556)
- Antonio de Cabezón (1510–1566)
Baroque
- Hieronymus Praetorius (1560–1629)
- Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)
- Jean Titelouze (1563-1633)
- Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643)
- Francisco Correa de Arauxo (1584–1654)
- Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654)
- Heinrich Scheidemann (around 1596 - 1663)
- Franz Tunder (1614–1667)
- Johann Erasmus Kindermann (1616–1655)
- Johann Jakob Froberger (1616–1667)
- Matthias Weckmann (before 1619 - 1674)
- Dietrich Buxtehude (1637–1707)
- Juan Bautista José Cabanilles (1644-1712)
- Johann Pachelbel (1653–1706)
- Georg Muffat (1653–1704)
- Vincent Lübeck (1654-1740)
- Georg Böhm (1661–1733)
- Nicolaus Bruhns (1665–1697)
- Louis Marchand (1669-1732)
- Nicolas de Grigny (1672–1703)
- Jean Adam Guilain (Johann Adam Wilhelm Freinsberg, around 1680 - after 1739)
- Jean-François Dandrieu (1682–1738)
- Johann Gottfried Walther (1684–1748)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
- Georg Friedrich Handel (1685-1759)
Classic
- Johann Ernst Eberlin (1702–1762)
- John Stanley (1712–1786)
- Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713–1780)
- Josef Seger (1716–1782)
- Claude Baluster (1724–1799)
- Johann Gottfried Müthel (1728–1788)
- Antonio Soler (1729–1783)
- Johann Christian Kittel (1732–1809)
- Jan Křtitel Vaňhal (1739-1813)
- Jan Křtitel Kuchař (1751–1829)
- Samuel Wesley (1766-1837)
- Christian Heinrich Rinck (1770–1846)
- Martin Vogt (1781-1854)
romance
- Alexandre-Pierre-François Boëly (1785-1858)
- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847)
- Adolf Friedrich Hesse (1809–1863)
- August Gottfried Ritter (1811–1885)
- Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
- Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély (1817–1869)
- Nils Wilhelm Gade (1817–1890)
- Georg Schmitt (1821–1900)
- César Franck (1822-1890)
- Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens (1823-1881)
- Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
- Gustav Adolf Merkel (1827–1885)
- Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
- Julius Reubke (1834-1858)
- Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
- Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911)
- Josef Rheinberger (1839–1901)
- Eugène Gigout (1844-1925)
- Charles-Marie Widor (1844–1937)
- Robert Fuchs (1847–1927)
- Philipp Wolfrum (1854-1919)
- Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
- Otto Barblan (1860-1943)
- Hans Fährmann (1860–1940)
- Ludwig Thuille (1861–1907)
- Marco Enrico Bossi (1861-1925)
- Léon Boëllmann (1862-1897)
- Wilhelm Middelschulte (1863-1943)
- Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937)
- Joseph Renner jun. (1868–1934)
- Charles Tournemire (1870-1939)
- Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
- Camillo Schumann (1872-1946)
- Max Reger (1873-1916)
- Joseph Jongen (1873-1953)
- Franz Schmidt (1874–1939)
- Charles Ives (1874–1954) (Variations on "America")
- Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877–1933)
- Feliks Nowowiejski (1877–1946)
- Augustin Barié (1883-1915)
- Marcel Dupré (1886–1971)
- Heinrich Kaminski (1886–1946)
- Gerard Bunk (1888-1958)
- Rued Langgaard (1893–1952)
Modern
- Herbert Baumann (1925-2020)
- Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)
- Johann Nepomuk David (1895–1977)
- Francis Poulenc (1899–1963) (Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani in G minor)
- Ernst Pepping (1901–1981)
- Maurice Duruflé (1902–1986)
- Flor Peeters (1903-1986)
- Günter Raphael (1903-1960)
- Theophil Laitenberger (1903-1996)
- Joseph Ahrens (1904–1997)
- Alfred Baum (1904-1993)
- Hermann Schroeder (1904–1984)
- Helmut Bornefeld (1906–1990)
- Jean Langlais (1907-1991)
- Hugo Distler (1908-1942)
- Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
- Miguel Bernal Jiménez (1910-1956)
- Jehan Alain (1911-1940)
- Albert Jenny (1912-1992)
- John Serry senior (1915-2003)
- Siegfried Reda (1916–1968)
- Max Baumann (1917–1999)
- Peter Racine Fricker (1920–1990)
- Johannes Driessler (1921–1998)
- Anton Heiller (1923–1979)
- György Ligeti (1923-2006) (volumes, 2 studies)
- Pierre Cochereau (1924–1984)
- Willem Hendrik Zwart (1925–1997)
- Bertold Hummel (1925-2002)
- Giselher Klebe (1925-2009)
- Ruth Zechlin (1926-2007)
- Manfred Kluge (1928–1971)
- Bengt Hambraeus (1928-2000)
- Petr Eben (1929-2007)
- Jean Guillou (1930-2019)
- Peter Hurford (1930-2019)
- Walther R. Schuster (1930–1992)
- Mauricio Kagel (1931–2008) (improvisation ajoutée)
- Wolfgang Stockmeier (1931–2015)
- William Mathias (1934-1992)
- Karl-Erik Welin (1934–1992)
- Robert T. Anderson (1934-2009)
- Augustinus Franz Kropfreiter (1936-2003)
- Yves Devernay (1937-1990)
- Robert M. Helmschrott (* 1938)
- Jean-Pierre Leguay (* 1939)
- Franz Hummel (* 1939)
- Tilo Medek (1940-2006)
- Daniel Roth (* 1942)
- Michael Radulescu (* 1943)
- Hans Uwe Hielscher (* 1945)
- Wolfram Rehfeldt (* 1945)
- Hartmut Schmidt (* 1946)
- Peter Planyavsky (* 1947)
- Theo Brandmüller (1948–2012)
- Kalevi Aho (* 1949)
- Albert Schönberger (* 1949)
- Thomas Meyer-Fiebig (* 1949)
- Carl Verbraeken (born 1950)
- Rupert Gottfried Frieberger (1951–2016)
- Theo Wegmann (* 1951)
- George C. Baker (born 1951)
- Naji Hakim (* 1955)
- Andreas Willscher (* 1955)
- Thomas Daniel Schlee (* 1957)
- Hans-Ola Ericsson (* 1958)
- Kalevi Kiviniemi (* 1958)
- Shigeru Kan-no (* 1959)
- Ludger Stühlmeyer (* 1961)
- Christian Minkowitsch (1962–2018)
- Frederik Magle (* 1977)
- Dominik Susteck (* 1977)
- Mathias Rehfeldt (* 1986)