This is a list of piano composers.
Composer | Born | Died | Nationality | Notable piano works | Remarks |
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Nicanor Abelardo | 1893 | 1934 | Filipino | ||
Theodor Adorno | 1903 | 1969 | German | ||
Miguel del Aguila | 1957 | Uruguayan-American |
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Roy Agnew | 1891 | 1944 | Australian | ||
Isaac Albéniz | 1860 | 1909 | Spanish | Iberia | |
Willem Andriessen | 1887 | 1964 | Dutch | ||
Samuel Barber | 1910 | 1981 | American |
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Béla Bartók | 1881 | 1945 | Hungarian | Folksong-influenced, Centric, Modal, Polymodal/Polytonal | |
Arnold Bax | 1883 | 1953 | English |
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Romantic, Impressionist |
Emile-Robert Blanchet | 1877 | 1943 | Swiss | ||
Sergei Bortkiewicz | 1877 | 1952 | Ukrainian | ||
York Bowen | 1884 | 1961 | English | Romantic | |
Frank Bridge | 1879 | 1941 | English | Late-Romantic, hints of Second Viennese School | |
Ferruccio Busoni | 1866 | 1924 | Italian |
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Mature works of indeterminate key; Late in career, neoclassical |
Alfredo Casella | 1883 | 1947 | Italian | ||
Cécile Chaminade | 1857 | 1944 | French | ||
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis | 1875 | 1911 | Lithuanian |
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Aaron Copland | 1900 | 1990 | American |
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Claude Debussy | 1862 | 1918 | French | Impressionist | |
Ernst von Dohnanyi | 1877 | 1960 | Hungarian |
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Duke Ellington | 1899 | 1974 | American | Jazz | |
Samuil Feinberg | 1890 | 1962 | Russian | ||
Ossip Gabrilowitsch | 1878 | 1936 | Russian, American | ||
George Gershwin | 1898 | 1937 | American |
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Jazz-influenced |
Alberto Ginastera | 1916 | 1983 | Argentine | Earlier works often integrate Argentine folk themes; later works increasingly abstracted | |
Alexander Glazunov | 1865 | 1936 | Russian | Romantic | |
Leopold Godowsky | 1870 | 1938 | Polish, American |
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Percy Grainger | 1882 | 1961 | Australian, English, American | ||
Enrique Granados | 1867 | 1916 | Spanish | Distinctly Spanish | |
Alexander Gretchaninov | 1864 | 1956 | Russian | ||
Gabriel Grovlez | 1879 | 1944 | French | ||
Vladimir Horowitz | 1903 | 1989 | Ukrainian, American | ||
Charles Ives | 1874 | 1954 | American |
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Scott Joplin | 1867 | 1917 | American | Ragtime | |
Dmitri Kabalevsky | 1904 | 1987 | Russian, Soviet | ||
Aram Khachaturian | 1903 | 1978 | Soviet, Armenian | ||
Viktor Kosenko | 1896 | 1938 | Ukrainian | ||
Joseph Lamb | 1887 | 1960 | American | Ragtime | |
Constant Lambert | 1905 | 1951 | English |
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Ernesto Lecuona | 1895 | 1963 | Cuban | ||
André Mathieu | 1929 | 1968 | Canadian |
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Romantic |
Nikolai Medtner | 1880 | 1951 | Russian | ||
Erkki Melartin | 1875 | 1937 | Finnish | ||
Olivier Messiaen | 1908 | 1992 | French |
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Federico Mompou | 1893 | 1987 | Catalan, Spanish | ||
Thelonious Monk | 1917 | 1982 | American | Jazz | |
Nikolai Myaskovsky | 1881 | 1950 | Russian, Soviet | ||
Ernesto Nazareth | 1863 | 1934 | Brazilian | Eclectic influences; primarily dance music (tangos, waltzes, polkas, etc.), influenced by African and Argentine styles | |
Walter Niemann | 1876 | 1953 | German | Impressionist and exotic influences | |
Ignacy Jan Paderewski | 1860 | 1941 | Polish | ||
Jacobo Palm | 1887 | 1982 | Curaçao-born | ||
John Palm | 1885 | 1925 | Curaçao-born | ||
Rudolph Palm | 1880 | 1950 | Curaçao-born | ||
Selim Palmgren | 1878 | 1951 | Finnish | ||
Isidor Philipp | 1863 | 1958 | French, Hungarian | ||
Francis Poulenc | 1899 | 1963 | French | ||
Florence Price | 1887 | 1953 | African American | ||
Sergei Prokofiev | 1891 | 1953 | Russian |
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Sergei Rachmaninoff | 1873 | 1943 | Russian | Romantic | |
Maurice Ravel | 1875 | 1937 | French |
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Impressionist; sometimes jazz-influenced |
Vladimir Rebikov | 1866 | 1920 | Russian | Impressionist, Romantic | |
Hugo Reinhold | 1857 | 1935 | Austrian | Romantic | |
Emmanuel Rhené-Baton | 1879 | 1940 | French | ||
Jean Roger-Ducasse | 1873 | 1954 | French | ||
Julius Röntgen | 1855 | 1932 | Dutch | ||
Erik Satie | 1866 | 1925 | French | Impressionist; Minimalist (precursor) | |
Ahmed Adnan Saygun | 1907 | 1991 | Turkish | Neoclassical, traditional Turkish folksong influence | |
Florent Schmitt | 1870 | 1958 | French | Impressionist, Late-Romantic | |
Arnold Schoenberg | 1874 | 1951 | Austrian, American |
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Serial (mature/late career), Late-Romantic (early career) |
James Scott | 1885 | 1938 | American, African-American | Ragtime | |
Alexander Scriabin | 1872 | 1915 | Russian |
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Late-Romantic (early); Atonal, Mystical (mature) |
Verdina Shlonsky | 1905 | 1990 | Israeli |
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Polystylism |
Dmitri Shostakovich | 1906 | 1975 | Russian, Soviet |
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Post-Romantic; neoclassical; elements of grotesque |
Jean Sibelius | 1865 | 1957 | Finnish |
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Late-Romantic; post-Romantic |
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji | 1892 | 1988 | English | Neoclassical, neoromantic, postimpressionistic | |
Enrique Soro | 1884 | 1954 | Chilean |
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Late-Romantic; post-Romantic |
Alexei Stanchinsky | 1888 | 1914 | Russian | Post-Romantic, modal | |
Wilhelm Stenhammar | 1871 | 1927 | Swedish | ||
Richard Strauss | 1864 | 1949 | German | ||
Igor Stravinsky | 1882 | 1971 | Russian, French, American | Post-Romantic (early); Neoclassical (middle); Serial (late career) | |
Soulima Stravinsky | 1910 | 1994 | Swiss, American | Igor Stravinsky son | |
Harald Sæverud | 1897 | 1992 | Norwegian |
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Late-Romantic; post-Romantic; neo-classical |
Tōru Takemitsu | 1930 | 1996 | Japanese | Eclectic, with influences ranging from jazz, popular music, avant-garde procedures, and traditional Japanese music; strongly influenced by Debussy and Messiaen | |
Eduard Tubin | 1905 | 1982 | Estonian | ||
Joaquin Turina | 1882 | 1949 | Spanish | ||
Galina Ustvolskaya | 1919 | 2006 | Russian | Eclectic | |
David Vaughan Thomas | 1873 | 1934 | Welsh | Nationalist | |
Heitor Villa-Lobos | 1887 | 1959 | Brazilian |
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Ángel Villoldo | 1861 | 1919 | Argentine | Tango | |
Pancho Vladigerov | 1899 | 1978 | Bulgarian | ||
Fats Waller | 1904 | 1943 | American | Jazz | |
Henry Cowell | 1897 | 1965 | American | Avant-garde, tone cluster |