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
- Maurice Duruflé, organist and composer
- 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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“More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)