List of piano composers

This is a list of piano composers.

Renaissance and Baroque periods

 * Domenico Alberti (1710–1740)
 * Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
 * William Byrd (c.1540-1623)
 * Louis Couperin (c.1626-1661)
 * François Couperin (1668–1733)
 * Louis-Claude Daquin (1694–1772)
 * Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
 * Johann Jacob Froberger (1616-1667)
 * Baldassare Galuppi (1706–1785)
 * Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
 * Lodovico Giustini (1685–1743)
 * Christoph Graupner (1683–1760)
 * George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
 * Johann Kuhnau (1660-1722)
 * Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
 * Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli (1710-1762)
 * Domenico Paradies (1707-1791)
 * Giovanni Benedetto Platti (1697–1763)
 * Henry Purcell (1659–1695)
 * Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764)
 * Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
 * Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757)
 * Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767)
 * Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741)

Classical period

 * Louis Adam (1758–1848)
 * Bonifazio Asioli (1769–1832)
 * Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788)
 * Johann Christian Bach (1735–1782)
 * Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732–1795)
 * Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710–1784)
 * Carlos Baguer (1768-1808)
 * Franz Ignaz Beck (1734–1809)
 * Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
 * Georg Benda (1722–1795)
 * Ludwig Berger (1777–1839)
 * João Domingos Bomtempo (1775–1842)
 * Domenico Cimarosa (1749–1801)
 * Muzio Clementi (1752–1832)
 * Philip Cogan (1750–1833)
 * Johann Baptist Cramer (1771–1858)
 * Franz Danzi (1763–1826)
 * Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739–1799)
 * František Xaver Dušek (1731–1799)
 * Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760–1812)
 * Anton Eberl (1765–1807)
 * Józef Elsner (1769–1854)
 * Joseph Leopold Eybler (1765–1846)
 * Emanuel Aloys Förster (1748–1823)
 * Joseph Gelinek (1758–1825)
 * Tommaso Giordani (1730–1806)
 * Johann Wilhelm Hässler (1747–1822)
 * Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
 * Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754–1812)
 * James Hook (1746–1827)
 * Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837)
 * Hyacinthe Jadin (1776–1800)
 * Leopold Kozeluch (1747–1818)
 * Joseph Martin Kraus (1756–1792)
 * Franz Krommer (1759–1831)
 * Nikolaus von Krufft (1779–1818)
 * Joseph Küffner (1776–1856)
 * Francesca Lebrun (1756–1791)
 * Étienne Méhul (1763–1817)
 * Leopold Mozart (1719–1787)
 * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
 * August Eberhard Müller (1767–1817)
 * Josef Mysliveček (1737–1781)
 * Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741–1801)
 * Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748–1798)
 * Sigismund von Neukomm (1778–1858)
 * Giovanni Paisiello (1740–1816)
 * Ignaz Pleyel (1757–1831)
 * Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752–1814)
 * Anton Reicha (1770–1836)
 * Antonio Rosetti (1750–1792)
 * Friedrich Wilhelm Rust (1739–1796)
 * Antonio Salieri (1750–1825)
 * Johann Schobert (1735–1767)
 * Johann Samuel Schroeter (1753–1788)
 * Joseph Anton Steffan (1726-1797)
 * Antonio Soler (1729–1783)
 * Fernando Sor (1778–1839)
 * Daniel Steibelt (1765–1823)
 * Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel (1750–1817)
 * Johann Baptist Wanhal (1739–1813)
 * Václav Jan Tomášek (1774–1850)
 * Daniel Gottlob Türk (1750–1813)
 * Samuel Wesley (1766–1837)
 * Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse (1774–1842)
 * Johann Wilhelm Wilms (1772–1847)
 * Joseph Wölfl (1773–1812)
 * Paul Wranitzky (1756–1808)

Romantic period

 * Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813–1888)
 * Anton Arensky (1861–1906)
 * Tekla Bądarzewska (1829/1834 – 1861)
 * Mily Balakirev (1837–1910)
 * Friedrich Baumfelder (1836–1916)
 * Amy Beach (1867–1944)
 * Franz Bendel (1832–1874)
 * William Sterndale Bennett (1816–1875)
 * Peter Benoit (1834–1901)
 * Wilhelm Berger (1861–1911)
 * Henri Bertini (1798–1876)
 * Felix Blumenfeld (1863–1931)
 * Charles Samuel Bovy-Lysberg (1821–1873)
 * Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
 * Friedrich Burgmüller (1806–1874)
 * Hans von Bülow (1830–1894)
 * Ignacio Cervantes (1847–1905)
 * Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894)
 * Cécile Chaminade (1857–1944)
 * Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)
 * Aloÿs Claussmann (1850–1926)
 * Carl Czerny (1791–1857)
 * Eugen d'Albert (1864–1932)
 * Élie-Miriam Delaborde (1839–1913)
 * Charles Delioux (1825–1915)
 * Anton Diabelli (1781–1858)
 * Theodor Döhler (1814–1856)
 * Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848)
 * Alexander Dreyschock (1818–1869)
 * Felix Dreyschock (1860–1906)
 * Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)
 * Michele Esposito (1855–1929)
 * Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)
 * Zdeněk Fibich (1850-1900)
 * John Field (1782–1837)
 * Julian Fontana (1810–1869)
 * Adolfo Fumagalli (1828–1856)
 * Mikhail Glinka (1804–1857)
 * Henri Gobbi (1842–1920)
 * Benjamin Godard (1849–1895)
 * Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829–1869)
 * Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
 * Agathe Backer Grøndahl (1847-1907)
 * Cornelius Gurlitt (1820–1901)
 * Adolphe Gutmann (1819–1882)
 * Charles-Louis Hanon (1819–1900)
 * Stephen Heller (1813–1888)
 * Swan Hennessy (1866–1929)
 * Adolf von Henselt (1814–1889)
 * Ferdinand Hérold (1791–1833)
 * Henri Herz (1803–1888)
 * Franz Hitz (1828–1891)
 * Ferdinand Hiller (1811–1885)
 * Franz Hünten (1792–1878)
 * Salomon Jadassohn (1831–1902)
 * Alfred Jaëll (1832–1882)
 * Marie Jaëll (1846-1925)
 * Rafael Joseffy (1852–1915)
 * Friedrich Kalkbrenner (1785–1849)
 * Jan Kalivoda (1801–1866)
 * Joseph Christoph Kessler (1800–1872)
 * Theodor Kirchner (1823–1903)
 * Anton de Kontski (1817–1899)
 * Wilhelm Kuhe (1823–1912)
 * Friedrich Kuhlau (1786–1832)
 * Theodor Kullak (1818–1882)
 * Franz Lachner (1803–1890)
 * Théodore Lack (1846–1921)
 * Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
 * Henry Litolff (1818–1891)
 * Sergei Lyapunov (1859–1924)
 * Mykola Lysenko (1842-1912)
 * Edward MacDowell (1860–1908)
 * George Alexander Macfarren (1813–1887)
 * Giuseppe Martucci (1856–1909)
 * Désiré Magnus (1828–1884)
 * Antoine François Marmontel (1816–1898)
 * William Mason (1829–1908)
 * Fanny Mendelssohn (1805–1847)
 * Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
 * Amédée Méreaux (1802–1874)
 * Aleksander Michalowski (1851–1938)
 * Ignaz Moscheles (1794–1870)
 * Moritz Moszkowski (1854–1925)
 * Franz Xaver Mozart (1791–1844)
 * Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881)
 * Vítězslav Novák (1870–1949)
 * Joseph O'Kelly (1828–1885)
 * Arthur O'Leary (1834–1919)
 * George Onslow (1784–1853)
 * Paul Pabst (1854–1897)
 * Jan Gerard Palm (1831–1906)
 * Cipriani Potter (1792–1871)
 * Émile Prudent (1817–1863)
 * Alfred Quidant (1815–1893)
 * Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
 * Joachim Raff (1822–1882)
 * Max Reger (1873–1916)
 * Carl Reinecke (1824–1910)
 * Julius Reubke (1834–1858)
 * Josef Rheinberger (1819-1901)
 * Ferdinand Ries (1784-1838)
 * Julius Rietz (1812–1877)
 * Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908)
 * Anton Rubinstein (1829–1894)
 * Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
 * Wassily Sapellnikoff (1867–1941)
 * Xaver Scharwenka (1850–1924)
 * Aloys Schmitt (1788–1866)
 * Friedrich Schneider (1786–1853)
 * Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
 * Julius Schulhoff (1825–1898)
 * Clara Schumann (1819–1896)
 * Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
 * Ludvig Schytte (1848–1909)
 * Giovanni Sgambati (1841–1914)
 * Jean Sibelius (1865–1957)
 * Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884)
 * Sydney Smith (1839–1889)
 * Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924)
 * Camille-Marie Stamaty (1811–1870)
 * Wilhelm Taubert (1811–1891)
 * Karl Tausig (1841–1871)
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
 * Thomas Tellefsen (1823–1874)
 * Sigismond Thalberg (1812–1871)
 * Jan Václav Voříšek (1791–1825)
 * Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826)
 * Józef Wieniawski (1837–1912)
 * Aleksander Zarzycki (1834–1895)
 * Władysław Żeleński (1837–1921)

Contemporary

 * Philip Aaberg (born 1949)
 * Thomas Adès (born 1971)
 * Lera Auerbach (born 1973)
 * Nicolas Bacri (born 1961)
 * Rich Batsford (born 1969)
 * Giorgio Battistelli (born 1953)
 * Jason Charles Beck (born 1972)
 * Luciano Berio (1925–2003)
 * Bart Berman (born 1938)
 * Dave Brubeck (1920–2012)
 * Dimitrije Bužarovski (born 1952)
 * Cornelius Cardew (1936–1981)
 * Roberto Carnevale (born 1966)
 * Unsuk Chin (born 1961)
 * Artur Cimirro (born 1982)
 * Aldo Clementi (1925–2011)
 * Julian Cochran (born 1974)
 * Chick Corea (1941–2021)
 * George Crumb (1929–2022)
 * Norman Dello Joio (1913–2008)
 * Alma Deutscher (b. 2005)
 * Franco Donatoni (1927–2000)
 * James Douglas (1932–2022)
 * Tan Dun (born 1957)
 * George Duke (1946–2013)
 * Julius Eastman (1940–1990)
 * Ludovico Einaudi (born 1955)
 * Tanya Ekanayaka (born 1977)
 * Roger Evernden (born 1954)
 * Mohammed Fairouz (born 1985)
 * Morton Feldman (1926–1987)
 * Lorenzo Ferrero (born 1951)
 * Graham Fitkin (born 1963)
 * Carlo Forlivesi (born 1971)
 * Nils Frahm (born 1982)
 * Ola Gjeilo (born 1978)
 * Philip Glass (born 1937)
 * Chilly Gonzales (born 1972)
 * Henryk Górecki (1933–2010)
 * Robert Greenberg (born 1954)
 * Christian Grøvlen (born 1990)
 * Marc-André Hamelin (born 1961)
 * Herbie Hancock (born 1940)
 * Ichiko Hashimoto (born 1952)
 * Kenneth Hesketh (born 1968)
 * Alistair Hinton (born 1950)
 * Joe Hisaishi (born 1950)
 * Christopher Hobbs (born 1950)
 * Stephen Hough (born 1961)
 * Abdullah Ibrahim (born 1934)
 * Airat Ichmouratov (born 1973)
 * Keith Jarrett (born 1945)
 * Aivars Kalējs (born 1951)
 * Shigeru Kan-no (born 1959)
 * Nikolai Kapustin (1937-2020)
 * Elena Kats-Chernin (born 1957)
 * Pierre Kolp (born 1969)
 * Martin Kutnowski (born 1968)
 * György Ligeti (1923–2006)
 * Ji Liu (born 1990)
 * Frederik Magle (born 1977)
 * Klaus Mertens (born 1973)
 * Fred Momotenko (born 1970)
 * Conlon Nancarrow (1912–1997)
 * David Nevue (born 1965)
 * Luka Okros (born 1991)
 * Yukie Nishimura (born 1967)
 * Christopher Norton (born 1953)
 * Michael Nyman (born 1944)
 * Chris Opperman (born 1978)
 * Ozymandias (born 1971)
 * Michael Parsons (born 1938)
 * David Pentecost (born 1940)
 * Wolfgang Plagge (born 1960)
 * Tomi Räisänen (born 1976)
 * Jan Randall (born 1952)
 * Anirudh Ravichander (born 1990)
 * Dino Residbegovic (born 1975)
 * Max Richter (born 1966)
 * Diana Ringo (born 1992)
 * Arturo Rodas (born 1954)
 * Alexander Rosenblatt (born 1956)
 * Lee Ru-ma a.k.a. Yiruma (born 1978)
 * Bernhard Ruchti (born 1974)
 * Frederic Rzewski (1938–2021)
 * Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952-2023)
 * Fazıl Say (born 1970)
 * Giacinto Scelsi (1905–1988)
 * Avi Schönfeld (born 1947)
 * Jon Schmidt (born 1966)
 * Salvatore Sciarrino (born 1947)
 * Peter Seabourne (born 1960)
 * Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin (born 1932)
 * Yoko Shimomura (born 1967)
 * Gregory Short (1938–1999)
 * Hugh Shrapnel (born 1947)
 * Arlene Sierra (born 1970)
 * Howard Skempton (born 1947)
 * Dave Smith (born 1949)
 * Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007)
 * William Susman (born 1960)
 * Yuji Takahashi (born 1938)
 * Karen Tanaka (born 1961)
 * Jennifer Thomas (born 1977)
 * Robert Scott Thompson (born 1959)
 * Yann Tiersen (born 1970)
 * Vladimir Titov (born 1984)
 * Julia Tsenova (1948–2010)
 * Pēteris Vasks (born 1946)
 * Carl Verbraeken (born 1950)
 * Carl Vine (born 1954)
 * Ezequiel Viñao (born 1960)
 * John White (1936–2024)
 * George Winston (1949–2023)
 * Yehuda Yannay (1937–2023)
 * Yanni (born 1954)
 * Joji Yuasa (born 1929)
 * Yitzhak Yedid (born 1971)
 * Isang Yun (1917–1995)
 * Yoshiki (born 1965)
 * Edson Zampronha (born 1963)
 * Joe Zawinul (1932–2007)
 * Ralph Zurmühle (born?)