List of piano composers

This is a list of piano composers.

Baroque period

• Domenico Alberti (1710–1740)
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
• Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801)
• François Couperin (1668–1733)
• Louis-Claude Daquin (1694–1772)
• Baldassare Galuppi (1706–1785)
• Lodovico Giustini (1685–1743)
• Christoph Graupner (1683–1760)
• George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
• Giovanni Benedetto Platti (1697–1763)
• Henry Purcell (1659–1695)
• Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764)
• Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757)

Classical period

• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788)
• Johann Christian Bach (1735–1782)
• Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732–1798)
• Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710–1784)
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
• Muzio Clementi (1752–1832)
• Philip Cogan (1750–1833)
• František Xaver Dušek (1731–1799)
• Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760–1812)
• Anton Eberl (1765–1807)
• Joseph Leopold Eybler (1765–1846)
• Joseph Gelinek (1758–1825)
• Johann Wilhelm Hässler (1747–1822)
• Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
• Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754–1812)
• Leopold Kozeluch (1747–1818)
• Nikolaus von Krufft (1779–1818)
• Francesca Lebrun (1756–1791)
• Leopold Mozart (1719–1787)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
• Ignaz Pleyel (1757–1831)
• Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752–1814)
• Anton Reicha (1770–1836)
• Antonio Rosetti (1750–1792)
• Antonio Salieri (1750–1825)
• Antonio Soler (1729–1783)
• Fernando Sor (1778–1839)
• Johann Samuel Schröter (1753–1788)
• Daniel Steibelt (1765–1823)
• Johann Baptist Vanhal (1739–1813)
• Daniel Gottlob Türk (1750–1813)
• Joseph Wölfl (1773–1812)

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)
• Ludwig Berger (1777–1839)
• 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)
• Johann Baptist Cramer (1771–1858)
• 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)
• Alexander Dreyschock (1818–1869)
• Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)
• Michele Esposito (1855–1929)
• Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)
• 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)
• 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)
• Henri Herz (1803–1888)
• Franz Hitz (1828–1891)
• Ferdinand Hiller (1811–1885)
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837)
• Alfred Jaëll (1832–1882)
• Friedrich Kalkbrenner (1785–1849)
• 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)
• Théodore Lack (1846–1921)
• Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
• Henry Litolff (1818–1891)
• Sergei Lyapunov (1859–1924)
• Edward MacDowell (1860–1908)
• 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)
• Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881)
• Vítězslav Novák (1870–1949)
• Joseph O'Kelly (1828–1885)
• Arthur O'Leary (1934–1919)
• George Onslow (1784–1853)
• Paul Pabst (1854–1897)
• Jan Gerard Palm (1831–1906)
• Émile Prudent (1817–1863)
• Alfred Quidant (1815–1893)
• Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
• Max Reger (1873–1916)
• Carl Reinecke (1824–1910)
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908)
• Anton Rubinstein (1829–1894)
• Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
• Xaver Scharwenka (1850–1924)
• Aloys Schmitt (1788–1866)
• 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)
• Karl Tausig (1841–1871)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
• Thomas Tellefsen (1823–1874)
• Sigismond Thalberg (1812–1871)
• Jan Václav Voříšek (1791–1825)
• Richard Wagner (1813–1883)
• Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826)
• Józef Wieniawski (1837–1912)
• Aleksander Zarzycki (1834–1895)
• Władysław Żeleński (1837–1921)

20th century

Composer	Born	Died	Nationality	Notable works for piano	Remarks
Theodor Adorno	1903	1969	German
Miguel del Aguila	1957		Uruguayan-American	Toccata Sonata No.2 Conga Nocturne
Roy Agnew	1891	1944	Australian
Willem Andriessen	1887	1964	Dutch
Samuel Barber	1910	1981	American	Concerto for Piano and Orchestra op.38 (1962) Nocturne for Piano (Homage to John Field), Op. 33 Sonata for Piano (Op. 26, 1949)
Béla Bartók	1881	1945	Hungarian	Mikrokosmos, Sz. 107, BB 105 Out of Doors, Sz. 81, BB 89 Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56, BB 68 Allegro barbaro, Sz. 49, BB 63	Folksong-influenced, Centric, Modal, Polymodal/Polytonal
Arnold Bax	1883	1953	English	Piano Sonata No. 1 (1910, 1917–1920) Piano Sonata No. 2 (1919) Piano Sonata in E-flat (1921) Piano Sonata No. 3 (1926) Piano Sonata No. 4 (1932)	Romantic, Impressionist
Emile-Robert Blanchet	1877	1943	Swiss
York Bowen	1884	1961	English		Romantic
Frank Bridge	1879	1941	English		Late-Romantic, hints of Second Viennese School
Ferruccio Busoni	1866	1924	Italian	Fantasia contrappuntistica (1910)	Mature works of indeterminate key; Late in career, neoclassical
Alfredo Casella	1883	1947	Italian
Cécile Chaminade	1857	1944	French
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis	1875	1911	Lithuanian	Piano Sonata in F major Nocturne in C-sharp minor Nocturne in F minor Impromptu in F-sharp minor
Aaron Copland	1900	1990	American	Appalachian Spring Salon Mexico Quiet City
Claude Debussy	1862	1918	French	Études, L 136 Préludes (L 117 and L 123) Suite bergamasque, L 75 Deux arabesques, L 66	Impressionist
Duke Ellington	1899	1974	American		Jazz
Samuil Feinberg	1890	1962	Russian
Ossip Gabrilowitsch	1878	1936	Russian, American
George Gershwin	1898	1937	American	Three Preludes George Gershwin's Songbook	Jazz-influenced
Alberto Ginastera	1916	1983	Argentine		Earlier works often integrate Argentine folk themes; later works increasingly abstracted
Alexander Glazunov	1865	1936	Russian		Romantic
Leopold Godowsky	1870	1938	Polish, American	Studies on Chopin's Études (1894–1914)
Percy Grainger	1882	1961	Australian, English, American
Enrique Granados	1867	1916	Spanish		Distinctly Spanish
Alexander Gretchaninov	1864	1956	Russian
Gabriel Grovlez	1879	1944	French
Vladimir Horowitz	1903	1989	Ukrainian, American
Charles Ives	1874	1954	American	Piano Sonata No. 2 (Concord Sonata) (1916-1919)
Scott Joplin	1867	1917	American		Ragtime
Dmitri Kabalevsky	1904	1987	Russian, Soviet
Aram Khachaturian	1903	1978	Soviet, Armenian
Viktor Kosenko	1896	1938	Ukrainian
Joseph Lamb	1887	1960	American		Ragtime
Constant Lambert	1905	1951	English	Piano Sonata (1928–1929) Suite in 3 Movements (1925) Elegiac Blues (1927)
Ernesto Lecuona	1895	1963	Cuban
André Mathieu	1929	1968	Canadian	Concerto Romantique (Concerto de Québec, 1943) Piano Concerto No. 4 (1947)	Romantic
Nikolai Medtner	1880	1951	Russian
Erkki Melartin	1875	1937	Finnish
Olivier Messiaen	1906	1992	French	Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus (1944) Quatre études de rythme (1949–1950) Catalogue d'oiseaux (1956–1958)
Federico Mompou	1893	1987	Catalan, Spanish
Thelonious Monk	1917	1982	American		Jazz
Nikolai Myaskovsky	1881	1950	Russian, Soviet
Ernesto Nazareth	1863	1934	Brazilian		Eclectic influences; primarily dance music (tangos, waltzes, polkas, etc.), influenced by African and Argentine styles
Walter Niemann	1876	1953	German		Impressionist and exotic influences
Ignacy Jan Paderewski	1860	1941	Polish
Jacobo Palm	1887	1982	Curaçao-born
John Palm	1885	1925	Curaçao-born
Rudolph Palm	1880	1950	Curaçao-born
Selim Palmgren	1878	1951	Finnish
Isidor Philipp	1863	1958	French, Hungarian
Francis Poulenc	1899	1963	French
Sergei Prokofiev	1891	1953	Russian	Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 82 (1940) Sonata No. 7 in B-flat major, Op. 83 (1942) Sonata No. 8 in B-flat major, Op. 84 (1944) Visions fugitives, Op. 22 (1915–1917) Toccata in D minor, Op. 11 (1912)
Sergei Rachmaninoff	1873	1943	Russian	Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 28 (1908) Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 36 (1914) Six moments musicaux, Op. 16 (1897)	Romantic
Maurice Ravel	1875	1937	French	Gaspard de la nuit (1908) Le tombeau de Couperin (1914–1917) Jeux d'eau (1901)	Impressionist; sometimes jazz-influenced
Vladimir Rebikov	1866	1920	Russian		Impressionist, Romantic
Hugo Reinhold	1857	1935	Austrian		Romantic
Emmanuel Rhené-Baton	1879	1940	French
Jean Roger-Ducasse	1873	1954	French
Erik Satie	1866	1925	French		Impressionist; Minimalist (precursor)
Ahmed Adnan Saygun	1907	1991	Turkish		Neoclassical, traditional Turkish folksong influence
Florent Schmitt	1870	1958	French		Impressionist, Late-Romantic
Arnold Schoenberg	1874	1951	Austrian, American	Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11 Fünf Klavierstücke, Op. 23 Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19 Suite für Klavier, Op. 25	Serial (mature/late career), Late-Romantic (early career)
James Scott	1885	1938	American, African-American		Ragtime
Alexander Scriabin	1872	1915	Russian	10 piano sonatas	Late-Romantic (early); Atonal, Mystical (mature)
Verdina Shlonsky	1905	1990	Israeli	Still Life Pages from the Diary Youth Suite Five Sketches Reflection	Polystylism
Dmitri Shostakovich	1906	1975	Russian, Soviet	Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 12 (1926) 24 Preludes, Op. 34 (1932–1933) Piano Sonata No. 2 in B minor, Op. 61 (1943) 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 (1950–1951)	Post-Romantic; neoclassical; elements of grotesque
Jean Sibelius	1865	1957	Finnish	Sonata in F major, Op. 12 Three Sonatinas, Op. 67	Late-Romantic; post-Romantic
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji	1892	1988	English	Opus clavicembalisticum Études transcendantes (100) Sequentia cyclica super "Dies irae" ex Missa pro defunctis Piano Symphony No. 2 "Gulistān"—Nocturne for Piano	Neoclassical, neoromantic, postimpressionistic
Enrique Soro	1884	1954	Chilean	Gran concierto en Re Mayor para piano y orquesta	Late-Romantic; post-Romantic
Alexei Stanchinsky	1888	1914	Russian		Post-Romantic, modal
Wilhelm Stenhammar	1871	1927	Swedish
Richard Strauss	1864	1949	German
Igor Stravinsky	1882	1971	Russian, French, American	Piano Sonata in F-sharp minor Quatre études, Op. 7 Piano-Rag-Music Trois mouvements de Petrouchka	Post-Romantic (early); Neoclassical (middle); Serial (late career)
Soulima Stravinsky	1910	1994	Swiss, American		Igor Stravinsky son
Tōru Takemitsu	1930	1996	Japanese		Eclectic, with influences ranging from jazz, popular music, avant-garde procedures, and traditional Japanese music; strongly influenced by Debussy and Messiaen
Eduard Tubin	1905	1982	Estonian
Joaquin Turina	1882	1949	Spanish
Galina Ustvolskaya	1919	2006	Russian		Eclectic
Heitor Villa-Lobos	1887	1959	Brazilian	Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4 Rudepoêma (1921–1926)
Ángel Villoldo	1861	1919	Argentine		Tango
Pancho Vladigerov	1899	1978	Bulgarian
Fats Waller	1904	1943	American		Jazz
Henry Cowell	1897	1965	American		Avant-garde, tone cluster

Contemporary

• Philip Aaberg (born 1949)
• Thomas Adès (born 1971)
• Vladimir Anisimoff (born 1950)
• 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 (born 1941)
• George Crumb (born 1929)
• Norman Dello Joio (1913–2008)
• Franco Donatoni (1927–2000)
• James Douglas (born 1932)
• Tan Dun (born 1957)
• George Duke (1946–2013)
• Julius Eastman (1940–1990)
• Ludovico Einaudi (born 1955)
• Tanya Ekanayaka (born 1977)
• 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)
• Marc-André Hamelin (born 1961)
• Herbie Hancock (born 1940)
• Ichiko Hashimoto (born 1952)
• Alistair Hinton (born 1950)
• Joe Hisaishi (born 1950)
• Christopher Hobbs (born 1950)
• Stephen Hough (born 1961)
• Abdullah Ibrahim (born 1934)
• Keith Jarrett (born 1945)
• Aivars Kalējs (born 1951)
• Shigeru Kan-no (born 1959)
• Nicolai Kapustin (born 1937)
• 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)
• Kento Masuda (born 1973)
• Klaus Mertens (born 1973)
• Fred Momotenko (born 1970)
• Conlon Nancarrow (1912–1997)
• David Nevue (born 1965)
• Luka Okros (born 1991)
• Joseph O'Neill (born 1988)
• Yukie Nishimura (born 1967)
• Christopher Norton (born 1953)
• Michael Nyman (born 1944)
• Chris Opperman (born 1978)
• Ozymandias (born 1971)
• Michael Parsons (born 1938)
• Fabrizio Paterlini (born 1973)
• Tomi Räisänen (born 1976)
• Jan Randall (born 1952)
• Anirudh Ravichander (born 1990)
• Dino Residbegovic (born 1975)
• Max Richter (born 1966)
• Arturo Rodas (born 1954)
• Lee Ru-ma a.k.a. Yiruma (born 1978)
• Frederic Rzewski (born 1938)
• Ryuichi Sakamoto (born 1952)
• 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)
• 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 (born 1936)
• George Winston (born 1949)
• Yehuda Yannay (born 1937)
• 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?)