Chronological list of Belgian classical composers

Medieval

 * Johannes Ciconia (c. 1370–1412)

Renaissance

 * Guillaume Dufay (1397–1474)
 * Gilles Binchois (c. 1400–1460)
 * Johannes Brassart (c. 1400/1405–1455)
 * Johannes Ockeghem (c. 1410/1425–1497)
 * Antoine Busnois (c. 1430–1492)
 * Johannes Tinctoris (c. 1435–1511)
 * Hayne van Ghizeghem (c.  1445–after 1476)
 * Johannes de Stokem (c. 1445–1487 or 1501)
 * Gaspar van Weerbeke (c. 1445–after 1516)
 * Loyset Compère (c. 1445–1518)
 * Alexander Agricola (1445/1446–1506)
 * Matthaeus Pipelare (c. 1450 – c. 1515)
 * Heinrich Isaac (Henricus Ysaac) (c. 1450/1455–1517)
 * Josquin des Prez (c. 1450/1455–1521)
 * Pierre de la Rue (c. 1452–1518)
 * Jacobus Barbireau (1455–1491)
 * Jacob Obrecht (c. 1457/1458–1505)
 * Antonius Divitis (Anthonius Rycke) (c. 1470 – c. 1530)
 * Adrian Willaert (c. 1490–1562)
 * Johannes Ghiselin (Verbonnet) (fl. 1491–1507)
 * Nicolas Gombert (c. 1495 – c. 1560)
 * Thomas Crecquillon (c. 1505–1557)
 * Jean De Latre (c. 1505/1510–1569)
 * Jacob Clemens non Papa (c. 1510/1515 – c. 1555)
 * Cipriano de Rore (1515/1516–1565)
 * Hubert Waelrant (c. 1517–1595)
 * Geert van Turnhout (c. 1520–1580)
 * Philippus de Monte (1521–1603)
 * Theodor Evertz (fl. c. 1554)
 * Jacobus Vaet (c.  1529–1567)
 * Jacobus de Kerle (1531/1532–1591)
 * Orlandus Lassus (c. 1532–1594)
 * Giaches de Wert (1535–1596)
 * Jean de Castro (c. 1540–1611)
 * Andreas Pevernage (1542/1543–1591)
 * Alexander Utendal (1543/1545–1581)
 * George de La Hèle (1547–1586)
 * Emmanuel Adriaenssen (c. 1554–1604)
 * Carolus Luython (1557–1620)
 * Philippus Schoendorff (1558–1617)
 * Cornelis Verdonck (1563–1625)

Baroque

 * Peeter Cornet (c. 1570/1580–1633)
 * Géry de Ghersem (1573/1575–1630)
 * Léonard de Hodémont (c. 1575–1639)
 * Mateo Romero (Mathieu Rosmarin) (c. 1575–1647)
 * Guilielmus Messaus (1589–1640)
 * Nicolaes a Kempis (c. 1600–1676)
 * Henri Dumont (1610–1684)
 * Jacques de Saint-Luc (1616 – c. 1710)
 * Abraham van den Kerckhoven (c. 1618 – c. 1701)
 * Gaspar Verlit (1622–1682)
 * Daniel Danielis (1635–1696)
 * Joannes Florentius a Kempis (1635–after 1711)
 * Lambert Chaumont (c. 1635–1712)
 * Carolus Hacquart (c. 1640–1701?)
 * (1666–1727)
 * Petrus Hercules Brehy (1673–1737)
 * Jean-Baptiste Loeillet of London (John Loeillet) (1680–1730)
 * Jacques Loeillet (1685–1748)
 * Jean-Joseph Fiocco (1686–1746)
 * Jean Baptiste Loeillet of Ghent (1688 – c. 1720)
 * Josse Boutmy (1697–1779)
 * Joseph-Hector Fiocco (1703–1741)
 * Henri-Jacques de Croes (1705–1786)
 * Jean-Noël Hamal (1709–1778)

Classical

 * Joseph Abaco (1710–1805)
 * (1715–1790)
 * Matthias Vanden Gheyn (1721–1785)
 * Henri Moreau (composer) (1728–1803)
 * Pieter van Maldere (1729–1768)
 * François Joseph Gossec (1734–1829)
 * André Ernest Modeste Grétry (1741–1813)
 * Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny (1762–1842)

Romantic

 * Martin-Joseph Mengal (1784–1851)
 * François-Joseph Fétis (1784–1871)
 * Nicolas Bosret (1799–1876)
 * (1801–1873)
 * Charles Auguste de Bériot (1802–1870)
 * Karel-Louis (Charles-Louis) Hanssens (1802–1871)
 * Albert Grisar (1808–1869)
 * Jean-Baptiste Singelée (1812–1875)
 * Félix Godefroid (1818–1897)
 * Henri Vieuxtemps (1820–1881)
 * César Franck (1822–1890)
 * Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens (1823–1881)
 * (1825–1894)
 * (1826–1902)
 * François-Auguste Gevaert (1828–1908)
 * Désiré Magnus (1828–1884)
 * Eduard Lassen (1830–1904)
 * Peter Benoit (1834–1901)
 * Jean-Théodore Radoux (1835–1911)
 * Joseph Callaerts (1838–1901)
 * Louis Brassin (1840–1884)
 * Jan Blockx (1851–1912)
 * (1851–1930)
 * Edgar Tinel (1854–1912)
 * Sylvain Dupuis (1856–1931)
 * César Thomson (1857–1931)
 * Eugène Ysaÿe (1858–1931)
 * Ivan Caryll (1861–1921)
 * Arthur De Greef (1862–1940)
 * Théo Ysaÿe (1865–1918)
 * Guillaume Lekeu (1870–1894)

Modern/Contemporary

 * August de Boeck (1865–1937)
 * Paul Gilson (1865–1942)
 * Lodewijk Mortelmans (1868–1952)
 * Joseph Ryelandt (1870–1965)
 * Joseph Jongen (1873–1953)
 * Flor Alpaerts (1876–1954)
 * Albert Dupuis (1877–1967)
 * Jean Rogister (1879–1964)
 * Arthur Meulemans (1884–1966)
 * Jef van Hoof (1886–1959)
 * (1887–1977)
 * (1890–1961)
 * Maurice Schoemaker (1890–1964)
 * (1890–1981)
 * (1891–1984)
 * (1893–1971)
 * Jean Absil (1893–1974)
 * Albert Huybrechts (1899–1938)
 * André Souris (1899–1970)
 * Marcel Poot (1901–1988)
 * (1903–1975)
 * Flor Peeters (1903–1986)
 * Armand Preud'homme (1904–1986)
 * René Bernier (1905–1984)
 * Daniel Sternefeld (1905–1986)
 * (1905–1988)
 * Jef Maes (1905–1996)
 * Arthur Bosmans (1908–1991)
 * (1908–1992)
 * (1909–1985)
 * (1912–1990)
 * (1912–1998)
 * Willy Ostijn (1913–1993)
 * Maurice Vaute (1913–2000)
 * Ernest van der Eyken (1913–2010)
 * Pierre Froidebise (1914–1962)
 * Marcel Quinet (1915–1986)
 * Victor Legley (1915–1994)
 * (born 1920)
 * (born 1921)
 * Karel Goeyvaerts (1923–1993)
 * (1923–2000)
 * (1925–1985)
 * Yolande Uyttenhove (1925–2000)
 * (1927–2008)
 * (1928–1999)
 * Willem Kersters (1929–1998)
 * Philibert Mees (1929–2006)
 * Henri Pousseur (1929–2009)
 * Didier van Damme (born 1929)
 * Frédéric Devreese (1929–2020)
 * (born 1929)
 * (1930–2006)
 * Jacqueline Fontyn (born 1930)
 * Lucien Goethals (1931–2006)
 * André Laporte (born 1931)
 * (born 1931)
 * (born 1932)
 * (1935–2005)
 * Philippe Boesmans (born 1936)
 * Frans Geysen (born 1936)
 * Pierre Bartholomée (born 1937)
 * André Waignein (born 1942)
 * (born 1949)
 * Carl Verbraeken (born 1950)
 * (born 1951)
 * (1952–2011)
 * (born 1952)
 * Lucien Posman (born 1952)
 * Godfried-Willem Raes (born 1952)
 * Wim Mertens (born 1953)
 * Jan Van der Roost (born 1956)
 * Nicholas Lens (born 1957)
 * (born 1957)
 * Luc Brewaeys (1959–2015)
 * Dirk Brossé (born 1960)
 * (born 1960)
 * Wim Henderickx (1962–2022)
 * Houman Khalaj (born 1980)
 * (born 1967)
 * Pierre Kolp (born 1969)
 * Annelies Van Parys (born 1975)