List of French composers
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Medieval and Renaissance composers (born 1300-1550)
- Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377)
- Guillaume Dufay (1400-1474)
- Josquin Desprez (c.1440-1521) born near Franco-Flemish border
- Pierre de La Rue (c.1460-1518)
- Nicolas Gombert (c.1495–c.1560) born in Flanders
Baroque composers (born 1550-1700)
- Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) born in Italy
- Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (1635-1691)
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704)
- Marin Marais (1656-1728)
- André Campra (1660 -1744)
- Jean-Féry Rebel (1666-1747)
- François Couperin (1668-1733)
- Louis Marchand (1669-1732)
- Antoine Forqueray (1671-1745)
- Nicolas de Grigny (1672-1703)
- Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676-1749)
- Jean-François Dandrieu (1682-1738)
- Jean-Joseph Mouret (1682-1738), Baroque composer, known today for his 'Rondeau' (theme song to the TV show Masterpiece Theatre)
- Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
- Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689-1755)
- Louis-Claude Daquin (1694-1772)
- Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764)
Classical era composers (born 1700-1800)
- Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer (1705-1755) born in Italy
- Jean-Joseph Mondonville (1711-1772)
- François-André Danican Philidor (1726-1795)
- Jean-Baptiste Breval (1753-1823)
- Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766-1831), composer known for his 42 études used by most violin students
- François-Adrien Boïeldieu (1775-1834)
- Daniel Auber (1782-1871), opera composer, well known in his time, but rarely performed today
- Jacques-Fereol Mazas (1782-1849), 18th century violinist and composer
- Nicolas-Charles Bochsa (1789-1856)[link], composer best known today for his studies and exercises for the harp.
- Fromental Halévy (1799-1862)
Romantic composers (born 1800-1880)
- Adolphe Adam (1803-1856)
- Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
- Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896)
- Louis-Antoine Jullien (1812-1860)[link]
- Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813-1888), Romantic era composer and pianist
- Charles Dancla (1817-1907)[link], 19th century violin teacher and composer
- Charles Gounod (1818-1893), composer, best known for his opera Faust
- Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), French operetta composer, known for The Tales of Hoffmann
- Edouard Lalo (1823-1892), Romantic composer remembered primarily for his Symphonie Espagnole for violin and orchestra
- Adolphe Blanc (1828–1885)
- Jean-Baptiste Accolay (1833-1900), 19th century violin teacher and composer
- Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921), Romantic composer perhaps best known for The Carnival of the Animals
- Leo Delibes (1836-1891), ballet composer known for his Coppelia, Sylvia, and Lakmé
- Georges Bizet (1838-1875), Romantic composer famous for his opera Carmen
- Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894)
- Jules Massenet (1842-1912), Romantic composer best known for "Meditation" from his opera Thaïs
- Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937), Romantic composer, noted for his works for the organ
- Gabriel Faure (1845-1924), Romantic composer, known for his chamber music and a requiem among other pieces
- Henri Duparc (1848-1933)
- Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931)
- Ernest Chausson (1855-1899)
- Alfred Bruneau (1857-1934)
- Claude Debussy (1862-1918), 20th century composer, his music is often described as impressionist, although he dismissed the term, wrote 'Clair de Lune' from Suite bergamasque
- Paul Dukas (1865-1935), late Romantic composer known today for his piece of program music, The Sorcerer's Apprentice
- Erik Satie (1866-1925), 20th century modernist and impressionist composer, known for his Gymnopedies
- Charles Koechlin (1867-1950)
- Claude Terrasse (1867-1923)
- Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
- Florent Schmitt (1870-1958)
- Charles Tournemire (1870-1939)
- Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
- Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947)
- Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), 20th century composer in the impressionist and neoclassicist styles
20th century composers (born 1880- )
- Louis Durey (1888–1979)
- Arthur Honegger (1892–1955)
- Darius Milhaud (1892–1974)
- Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983)
- Georges Auric (1899-1983)
- Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)
Other 20th century composers
- Edgar Varèse (1883-1965) became American
- Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979)
- Jacques Ibert (1890-1962)
- Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)
- Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)
- Andre Jolivet (1905-1974)
- Jean Langlais (1907-1991)
- Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), 20th century modernist composer
- Jehan Alain (1911-1940)
- Jean Françaix (1912-1997)
- Henri Dutilleux (1916- )
- Pierre Boulez (1925- )
- Gérard Grisey (1946-1998)
- Max Méreaux (1946- )
- Tristan Murail (1947- )
- Jean-Thierry Boisseau (1949- )
- Joseph-François Kremer (1954- )
- Eric Serra (1959-)
- Jean-Yves Malmasson (1963- )
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