List of piano composers

This is a list of piano composers.

Baroque period

Classical period

Romantic period

20th century

Composer Born Died Nationality Notable works for piano Remarks
Theodor Adorno19031969German
Miguel del Aguila1957Uruguayan-American
  • Toccata
  • Sonata No.2
  • Conga
  • Nocturne
Roy Agnew18911944Australian
Willem Andriessen18871964Dutch
Samuel Barber19101981American
  • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra op.38 (1962)
  • Nocturne for Piano (Homage to John Field), Op. 33
  • Sonata for Piano (Op. 26, 1949)
Béla Bartók18811945Hungarian Folksong-influenced, Centric, Modal, Polymodal/Polytonal
Arnold Bax18831953English
  • 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
Emile-Robert Blanchet18771943Swiss
York Bowen18841961English Romantic
Frank Bridge18791941English Late-Romantic, hints of Second Viennese School
Ferruccio Busoni18661924Italian Mature works of indeterminate key; Late in career, neoclassical
Alfredo Casella18831947Italian
Cécile Chaminade18571944French
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis18751911Lithuanian
  • Piano Sonata in F major
  • Nocturne in C-sharp minor
  • Nocturne in F minor
  • Impromptu in F-sharp minor
Aaron Copland19001990American
  • Appalachian Spring
  • Salon Mexico
  • Quiet City
Claude Debussy18621918French Impressionist
Duke Ellington18991974American Jazz
Samuil Feinberg18901962Russian
Ossip Gabrilowitsch18781936Russian, American
George Gershwin18981937American Jazz-influenced
Alberto Ginastera19161983Argentine Earlier works often integrate Argentine folk themes; later works increasingly abstracted
Alexander Glazunov18651936Russian Romantic
Leopold Godowsky18701938Polish, American
Percy Grainger18821961Australian, English, American
Enrique Granados18671916Spanish Distinctly Spanish
Alexander Gretchaninov18641956Russian
Gabriel Grovlez18791944French
Vladimir Horowitz19031989Ukrainian, American
Charles Ives18741954American
Scott Joplin18671917American Ragtime
Dmitri Kabalevsky19041987Russian, Soviet
Aram Khachaturian19031978Soviet, Armenian
Viktor Kosenko18961938Ukrainian
Joseph Lamb18871960American Ragtime
Constant Lambert19051951English
  • Piano Sonata (1928–1929)
  • Suite in 3 Movements (1925)
  • Elegiac Blues (1927)
Ernesto Lecuona18951963Cuban
André Mathieu19291968Canadian
  • Concerto Romantique (Concerto de Québec, 1943)
  • Piano Concerto No. 4 (1947)
Romantic
Nikolai Medtner18801951Russian
Erkki Melartin18751937Finnish
Olivier Messiaen19061992French
Federico Mompou18931987Catalan, Spanish
Thelonious Monk19171982American Jazz
Nikolai Myaskovsky18811950Russian, Soviet
Ernesto Nazareth18631934Brazilian Eclectic influences; primarily dance music (tangos, waltzes, polkas, etc.), influenced by African and Argentine styles
Walter Niemann18761953German Impressionist and exotic influences
Ignacy Jan Paderewski18601941Polish
Jacobo Palm18871982Curaçao-born
John Palm18851925Curaçao-born
Rudolph Palm18801950Curaçao-born
Selim Palmgren18781951Finnish
Isidor Philipp18631958French, Hungarian
Francis Poulenc18991963French
Sergei Prokofiev18911953Russian
Sergei Rachmaninoff18731943Russian Romantic
Maurice Ravel18751937French Impressionist; sometimes jazz-influenced
Vladimir Rebikov18661920Russian Impressionist, Romantic
Hugo Reinhold18571935Austrian Romantic
Emmanuel Rhené-Baton18791940French
Jean Roger-Ducasse18731954French
Erik Satie18661925French Impressionist; Minimalist (precursor)
Ahmed Adnan Saygun19071991Turkish Neoclassical, traditional Turkish folksong influence
Florent Schmitt18701958French Impressionist, Late-Romantic
Arnold Schoenberg18741951Austrian, American Serial (mature/late career), Late-Romantic (early career)
James Scott18851938American, African-American Ragtime
Alexander Scriabin18721915Russian
  • 10 piano sonatas
Late-Romantic (early); Atonal, Mystical (mature)
Verdina Shlonsky19051990Israeli
  • Still Life
  • Pages from the Diary
  • Youth Suite
  • Five Sketches
  • Reflection
Polystylism
Dmitri Shostakovich19061975Russian, Soviet Post-Romantic; neoclassical; elements of grotesque
Jean Sibelius18651957Finnish Late-Romantic; post-Romantic
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji18921988English Neoclassical, neoromantic, postimpressionistic
Enrique Soro18841954Chilean
  • Gran concierto en Re Mayor para piano y orquesta
Late-Romantic; post-Romantic
Alexei Stanchinsky18881914Russian Post-Romantic, modal
Wilhelm Stenhammar18711927Swedish
Richard Strauss18641949German
Igor Stravinsky18821971Russian, French, American Post-Romantic (early); Neoclassical (middle); Serial (late career)
Soulima Stravinsky19101994Swiss, American Igor Stravinsky son
Tōru Takemitsu19301996Japanese Eclectic, with influences ranging from jazz, popular music, avant-garde procedures, and traditional Japanese music; strongly influenced by Debussy and Messiaen
Eduard Tubin19051982Estonian
Joaquin Turina18821949Spanish
Galina Ustvolskaya19192006Russian Eclectic
Heitor Villa-Lobos18871959Brazilian
Ángel Villoldo18611919Argentine Tango
Pancho Vladigerov18991978Bulgarian
Fats Waller19041943American Jazz
Henry Cowell18971965American Avant-garde, tone cluster

Contemporary

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