List of composers of musicals

This is a list of notable composers of musicals.

See also List of musicals by composer

A–B
• Richard Adler

• Harry Akst

• Lynn Ahrens

• Jerome Alden

• Leroy Anderson

• Benny Andersson

• Harold Arlen

• Nat D. Ayer

• Burt Bacharach

• Sara Bareilles

• Gary Barlow

• Edward Barnes

• Lionel Bart

• George Bassman

• Irving Berlin

• Elmer Bernstein

• Leonard Bernstein

• Eva Best

• Eubie Blake

• Marc Blitzstein

• Jeff Blumenkrantz

• Jerry Bock

• John Walter Bratton

• Leslie Bricusse

• Mel Brooks

• Jason Robert Brown

• Lew Brown

• David Bryan

C–D
• F. Osmond Carr

• Ivan Caryll

• Alfred Cellier

• Moose Charlap

• Petula Clark

• George M Cohan

• Cy Coleman

• Noël Coward

• Roberto Danova

• Joel Derfner

• Robert E. Dolan

• Ervin Drake

• Vernon Duke

E–F
• Gus Edwards

• Danny Elfman

• William Finn

• Stephen Flaherty

• Scott Frankel

• Harold Fraser-Simson

• Gary William Friedman

• Rudolf Friml

G-H
• Noel Gay

• George Gershwin

• Zina Goldrich

• Jonathan Goldstein (composer)

• Howard Goodall

• Ricky Ian Gordon

• Micki Grant

• Adam Guettel

• Hal Hackady

• Herbert Haines

• Marvin Hamlisch

• E.Y. Harburg

• Edward W. Hardy

• Edward Harrigan

• Tony Hatch

• Jerry Herman

• Victor Herbert

• Louis Hirsch

• Mark Hollmann

• Rupert Holmes

I–J
• Isaac Albéniz

• Elton John

• Sidney Jones

K–L
• John Kander

• Yakov Kazyansky

• Gustave Kerker

• Jerome Kern

• Edward Kleban

• Michael John LaChiusa

• Burton Lane

• Kirke La Shelle

• Jonathan Larson

• Liza Lehmann

• Cyndi Lauper

• Carolyn Leigh

• Mitch Leigh

• Sylvester Levay

• Andrew Lippa

• Andrew Lloyd Webber

• Frank Loesser

• Frederick Loewe

• Robert Lopez

• Bree Lowdermilk

• Meyer Lutz

• Steven Lutvak

M–N
• Galt MacDermot

• Mesias Maiguashca

• Dave Malloy

• Jeff Marx

• Alan Menken

• Johnny Mercer

• Roger Miller

• Tim Minchin

• Lin-Manuel Miranda

• Lionel Monckton

• Marguerite Monnot

• Jerome Moross

• Clarence Wainwright Murphy

• Wolfgang Mozart

• Gerd Natschinski

• Anthony Newley

• Frederic Norton

• Ivor Novello

O–P
• Richard O'Brien

• Laurence O'Keefe

• Ryan Scott Oliver

• Clifton Parker

• Trey Parker

• Pasek and Paul

• William Perry

• Robert Planquette

• Cole Porter

• André Previn

• Jonathan Price

R
• Arturo Rodas

• Mary Rodgers

• Richard Rodgers

• Sigmund Romberg

• Harold Rome

• Jerry Ross

• Dana P. Rowe

• Paul Rubens

• Willy Russell

S
• Luis H. Salgado

• Harvey Schmidt

• Arthur Schwartz

• Stephen Schwartz

• Claude-Michel Schönberg

• Marc Schubring

• Al Sherman

• Robert B. Sherman

• Richard M. Sherman

• Robert J. Sherman

• Matthew Sklar

• Ted Snyder

• Julian Slade

• Walter Slaughter

• Charlie Smalls

• Edward Solomon

• Stephen Sondheim

• John Philip Sousa

• George Stansbury

• Matt Stone

• Oscar Straus

• Charles Strouse

• Leslie Stuart

• Jule Styne

T–Y
• Howard Talbot

• James W. Tate

• Jeanine Tesori

• Harry Tierney

• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

• Pete Townshend

• Björn Ulvaeus

• James Valcq

• Jimmy Van Heusen

• Julian Wagstaff

• John Wallowitch

• Harry Warren

• Kurt Weill

• Richard A. Whiting

• Frank Wildhorn

• Meredith Willson

• Sandy Wilson

• Robert Wright

• Laurence Mark Wythe

• David Yazbek

• Maury Yeston

• Vincent Youmans