List of Polish composers

This is a list of notable and representative Polish composers.

Note: This list should contain notable composers, best with an existing article on Wikipedia. If a notable Polish composer is missing and without an article, please add the name here.



Middle Ages

 * Wincenty z Kielczy (before 1200 –c. 1261)
 * Mikołaj z Radomia (15th century)
 * Piotr z Grudziądza (c. 1400 –c. 1480)

Renaissance

 * Sebastian z Felsztyna (c. 1480/1490 –after 1543)
 * Nicolaus Cracoviensis (1st half of the 16th century)
 * Wacław z Szamotuł (c. 1526 –1560)
 * Mikołaj Gomółka (1535–1591)
 * Marcin Leopolita (c. 1540 –c.1589)
 * Cyprian Bazylik (c.1535 –c. 1600)
 * Jan z Lublina (late 15th century –1540)
 * Jakub Polak (1540–1605)
 * Sebastian Klonowic (c. 1545 –1602)
 * Krzysztof Klabon (c. 1550 –after 1616)
 * Wojciech Długoraj (1557–1619)
 * Diomedes Cato (c. 1570 –c. 1603)

Baroque

 * Mikołaj Zieleński (1st half of the 17th century)
 * Adam Jarzębski (c. 1590 –1649)
 * Franciszek Lilius (c. 1600 –1657)
 * Marcin Mielczewski (1600–1651)
 * Bartłomiej Pękiel (c. 1600 –c.1670)
 * Jacek Różycki (1625/35 –1703/04)
 * Stanisław Sylwester Szarzyński (prob. 2nd half of the 17th century)
 * Andrzej Siewiński (died by 1726)
 * Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki (1665/67 –1734)

18th and 19th centuries

 * Michał Kazimierz Ogiński (1728–1800)
 * Bazyli Bohdanowicz (1740–1817)
 * Jan Stefani (1746–1829)
 * Maciej Radziwiłł (1749–1800)
 * Wojciech Żywny (1756–1842)
 * Feliks Janiewicz (1762-1848)
 * Michał Kleofas Ogiński (1765–1833)
 * Ludwig-Wilhelm Tepper de Ferguson (1768–1838)
 * Józef Ksawery Elsner (1769–1854)
 * Franciszek Lessel (1780–1838)
 * Franciszek Ścigalski (1782–1846)
 * Karol Kurpiński (1785–1857)
 * Maria Szymanowska (1789–1831)
 * Karol Lipiński (1790–1861)
 * Franciszek Mirecki (1791–1862)
 * Feliks Horecki (1796–1870)
 * Eduard Sobolewski (1804–1872)
 * Jan Nepomucen Bobrowicz (1805–1881)
 * Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński (1807–1867)
 * Mateusz Rudkowski (1809–1887)
 * Julian Fontana (1810–1869)
 * Fryderyk Chopin (1810–1849)
 * Józef Władysław Krogulski (1815–1842)
 * Stanisław Moniuszko (1819–1872)
 * Michał Bergson (1820–1898)
 * Ignacy Krzyżanowski (1826–1905)
 * Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1829–1861)
 * Theodor Leschetizky (1830–1915)
 * Henryk Wieniawski (1835–1880)
 * Józef Wieniawski (1837–1912)
 * Władysław Żeleński (1837–1921)
 * Zygmunt Noskowski (1846–1909)
 * Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka (1847–1917)
 * Xaver Scharwenka (1850–1924)
 * Józef Pławiński (1853–1880)
 * Maurycy Moszkowski (1854–1925)
 * Juliusz Zarębski (1854–1885)

20th century and contemporary

 * Aleksander Michałowski (1851–1938)
 * Natalia Janotha (1856–1932)
 * Timothee Adamowski (1858–1943)
 * Konstanty Gorski (1859–1924)
 * Roman Statkowski (1859–1925)
 * Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1864–1941)
 * Otton Mieczysław Żukowski (1867–1942)
 * Leopold Godowsky (1870–1938)
 * Wiktor Łabuński (1895–1974)
 * Emil Młynarski (1870–1935)
 * Zygmunt Denis Antoni Jordan de Stojowski (1870–1946)
 * Witold Maliszewski (1873–1939)
 * Mieczysław Karłowicz (1876–1909)
 * Feliks Nowowiejski (1877–1946)
 * Grzegorz Fitelberg (1879–1953)
 * Karol Szymanowski (1882–1937)
 * Ludomir Różycki (1883–1953)
 * Apolinary Szeluto (1884–1966)
 * Anna Maria Klechniowska (1888–1973)
 * Jerzy Petersburski (1895–1979)
 * Józef Koffler (1896–1944)
 * Bolesław Szabelski (1896–1979)
 * Tadeusz Szeligowski (1896–1963)
 * Zygmunt Białostocki (1897–1942)
 * Alexandre Tansman (1897–1986)
 * Bolesław Woytowicz (1899–1980)
 * Alexander Lipsky (1900–1985)
 * Kazimierz Wiłkomirski (1900–1995)
 * Bronisław Kaper (1902–1983)
 * Henryk Wars (1902–1977)
 * Roman Palester (1907–1989)
 * Zbigniew Turski (1908–1979)
 * Grażyna Bacewicz (1909–1969)
 * Roman Maciejewski (1910–1998)
 * Stefan Kisielewski (1911–1991)
 * Władysław Szpilman (1911–2000)
 * Irena Pfeiffer (1912–1996)
 * Witold Lutosławski (1913–1994)
 * Witold Rudziński (1913–2004)
 * Daniel Sternberg (1913–2000)
 * Jerzy Wasowski (1913–1984)
 * Andrzej Panufnik (1914–1991)
 * Edward Olearczyk (1915–1994)
 * Mieczysław Weinberg (1919–1996)
 * Janina Skowronska (1920–1992)
 * Witold Silewicz (1921–2007)
 * Kazimierz Serocki (1922–1981)
 * Henryk Czyż (1923–2003)
 * Krystyna Moszumańska-Nazar (1924–2009)
 * Włodzimierz Kotoński (1925–2014)
 * Witold Szalonek (1927–2001)
 * Tadeusz Baird (1928–1981)
 * Josima Feldschuh (1929–1943)
 * Bogusław Schaeffer (born 1929)
 * Józef Świder (1930–2014)
 * Krzysztof Komeda (1931–1969)
 * Andrzej Kurylewicz (1932–2007)
 * Wojciech Kilar (1932–2013)
 * Henryk Górecki (1933–2010)
 * Krzysztof Penderecki (1933–2020)
 * Marian Borkowski (born 1934)
 * Aleksander Szeligowski (1934–1993)
 * André Tchaikowsky (1935–1982)
 * Marek Stachowski (1936–2004)
 * Marian Sawa (1937–2005)
 * Zygmunt Konieczny (born 1937)
 * Zygmunt Krauze (born 1938)
 * Tomasz Sikorski (1939–1988)
 * Andrzej Korzyński (born 1940)
 * Krzysztof Meyer (born 1943)
 * Joanna Bruzdowicz (born 1943)
 * Marta Ptaszyńska (born 1943)
 * Elżbieta Sikora (born 1943)
 * Paweł Łukaszewski (born 1945)
 * Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil (born 1947)
 * Grażyna Krzanowska (born 1952)
 * Jan A. P. Kaczmarek (born 1953)
 * Krzesimir Dębski (born 1953)
 * Paweł Szymański (born 1954)
 * Zbigniew Preisner (born 1955)
 * Zbigniew Karkowski (1958–2013)
 * Piotr Moss (born 1949)
 * Michał Lorenc (born 1955)
 * Jan Pogány (born 1960)
 * Hanna Kulenty (born 1961)
 * Bettina Skrzypczak (born 1962)
 * Paweł Łukaszewski (born 1968)
 * Piotr Rubik (born 1968)
 * Paweł Mykietyn (born 1971)
 * Maciej Zieliński (born 1971)
 * Marcel Chyrzyński (born 1971)
 * Abel Korzeniowski (born 1972)
 * Adam Sztaba (born 1975)
 * Kasia Glowicka (born 1977)
 * Aleksandra Gryka (born 1977)
 * Marcin Stańczyk (born 1977)
 * Agata Zubel (born 1978)
 * Klaudia Pasternak (born 1980)
 * Jagoda Szmytka (born 1982)
 * Hania Rani (born 1990)