Composers are generally people who write music. In certain musical genres, such as popular and folk music, the term "songwriter" means someone who authors both music and lyrics, but such a person may also be properly called a "composer." If a songwriter also performs, he or she is called a "singer/songwriter."

• List of composers by name (also female composers only)

Contents 1 By genre 2 By era 3 By nationality or ethnicity 4 By instrument composed for 5 Other classifications 6 See also

[edit] By genre

• List of Carnatic composers
• List of film score composers
• List of Hindustani/ North Indian music composers
• List of classical music composers
• List of major opera composers
• List of musical theatre composers
• List of musicals by composer
• List of ragtime composers
• List of acousmatic-music composers

[edit] By era

Lists of classical music composers by era
Medieval	(476 – 1400)
Renaissance	(1400 – 1600)
Baroque	(1600 – 1760)
Classical era	(1730 – 1820)
Romantic era	(1815 – 1910)
20th century	(1900 – 2000)
21st century	(since 2000)

• Medieval composers
• List of Renaissance composers
• List of Baroque composers
• List of Classical era composers
• List of Romantic era composers
• List of 20th century classical composers by birth date
• List of 20th century classical composers by death date
• List of 20th century classical composers by name
• List of 21st-century classical composers

[edit] By nationality or ethnicity

• see Category:Lists of composers by nationality

[edit] By instrument composed for

• List of composers for the classical guitar
• List of organ composers
• List of piano composers
• List of composers and their preferred lyricists
• List of string quartet composers

[edit] Other classifications

• List of composers of African descent
• List of composers of Caribbean descent
• List of Anglican church composers - See also Religious music
• List of female composers
• List of modernist composers (those with modernistic tendencies and innovations)

[edit] See also

• List of musicians
• List of singer-songwriters - See also Pop music and Rock music