List of French People - Composers

Composers

  • Georges Auric
  • Hector Berlioz
  • Georges Bizet, composer of Carmen
  • Nicolas-Charles Bochsa
  • Pierre Boulez, avant-garde composer
  • Emmanuel Chabrier, composer of España
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier
  • Frédéric Chopin Polish and French composer
  • François Couperin
  • Michel Richard Delalande
  • Georges Delerue
  • Claude Debussy, Impressionist composer
  • Alexandre Desplat
  • Paul Dukas, composer of The Sorcerer's Apprentice
  • Henri Duparc
  • Gabriel Fauré
  • César Franck, also considered Belgian
  • Gérard Grisey, avant-garde composer
  • Reynaldo Hahn
  • Pierre Henry, writer of musique concrète and electronic music
  • Jean Michel Jarre
  • Maurice Jarre, film music composer
  • Louis-Antoine Jullien
  • Michel Legrand
  • Jean-François Le Sueur
  • Fabien Lévy, avant-garde composer
  • Jean Baptiste Lully, court composer to Louis XIV
  • Olivier Messiaen
  • Darius Milhaud
  • Tristan Murail, avant-garde composer
  • Jacques Offenbach, noted for his operettas
  • Gabriel Pierné
  • Francis Poulenc
  • Jean-Philippe Rameau
  • Maurice Ravel
  • Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, composer of "La Marseillaise", French National Anthem
  • Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Erik Satie, composer of Musiques d'ameublement
  • Pierre Schaeffer, inventor of musique concrète
  • Florent Schmitt
  • Les Six, group of composers
  • Germaine Tailleferre
  • Charles-Marie Widor

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