List of composers influenced by the Holocaust

This is a list of composers who have written music about the Holocaust, or who were directly influenced by the holocaust. This list is alphabetical by name.

A

 * Chava Alberstein
 * David Amram (1930– )

B

 * Dawid Beigelman (1887–1945)
 * Karel Berman
 * David Botwinik (1920–2022)

C

 * John Cage (1912–1992)

E

 * Hanns Eisler (1898–1962)

F

 * Grigory Frid (1915–2012)
 * Erich Frost

G

 * Mordechai Gebirtig (1877–1942)
 * Sylvia Glickman (1932–2006)
 * Hirsh Glick
 * Osvaldo Golijov (1960– )
 * Henryk Górecki (1933–2010)
 * Olivier Greif (1950–2000)

H

 * Pavel Haas (1899–1944)
 * Marilyn Herman (1960– ) "Rozsa's Wish" and "The Angel of Chomutov"
 * Michael Horvit
 * William B. Hoskins (1917–1997)

J

 * Wilfred Josephs

K

 * Shmerke Kaczerginski
 * Peysakh Kaplan
 * Ståle Kleiberg (1958– )
 * Gideon Klein (1919–1945)
 * Wally Kleucker (1947– )
 * Douglas Knehans (1957– )
 * Józef Koffler
 * Max Kowalski (1882–1956)


 * Hans Krása (1899–1944)
 * Jozef Kropinski
 * Meyer Kupferman (1926–2003)

L

 * Szymon Laks
 * Aron Liebeskind
 * György Ligeti (1923–2006)
 * Ruth Lomon

M

 * Mesías Maiguashca (born 1938) See Los Enemigos (opera) (1997)
 * Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)
 * Darius Milhaud (1892–1974)
 * Oskar Morawetz

N

 * Lior Navok (born 1971)
 * Șerban Nichifor (born 1954)
 * Luigi Nono 1924–1990)

O

 * Tera de Marez Oyens

P

 * Thomas Pasatieri (born 1945)
 * Krzysztof Penderecki (1933–2020)
 * Dmitri Pokrass
 * Yehuda Poliker
 * Marta Ptaszynska

R

 * Shulamit Ran
 * Steve Reich

S

 * Salem, band
 * Simon Sargon
 * Arnold Schoenberg
 * Erwin Schulhoff
 * William Schuman
 * Ronald Senator
 * Dmitri Shostakovich
 * Leo Smit
 * Ben Steinberg
 * Karlheinz Stockhausen
 * Karel Švenk (1917–1945)
 * Władysław Szpilman

T

 * Carlo Taube
 * Sir Michael Tippett
 * Mikis Theodorakis
 * Marcel Tyberg

U

 * Viktor Ullmann

W

 * Ilse Weber
 * Mieczysław Weinberg
 * László Weiner (1916–1944)
 * Lazar Weiner

Z

 * Herbert Zipper
 * John Zorn
 * Krystyna Żywulska