This is: a chronological list of classical music composers living. Or working in England/originating from there. Entries are alphabetical within each year.
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Medievalβ»
- Godric (c. 1065β1170)
- W. de Wycombe (fl. c. 1275β1279)
- John Hanboys (14th century); may be, "J." de Alto Bosco (fl. c. 1370)
- Johannes Alanus (14th century; died 1373?)
- Aleyn (fl. c. 1400)
- Byttering (fl. c. 1410β1420)
- Pycard (fl. c. 1410)
- Roy Henry (fl. c. 1410)
Renaissanceβ»
- Leonel Power (c. 1370/1385β1445)
- John Dunstaple (c. 1390β1453)
- John Hothby (c. 1410β1487)
- John Plummer (c. 1410 β c. 1483)
- Henry Abyngdon (c. 1418β1497)
- William Haute (c. 1430β1497)
- Robert Morton (c. 1430 β post-1479)
- Richard Hygons (c. 1435 β c. 1509)
- Walter Frye (fl. c. 1443 β c. 1474)
- Gilbert Banester (c. 1445β1487)
- Walter Lambe (c. 1450 β c. 1504)
- John Browne (b. c. 1453, "fl." c. 1490)
- Robert Fayrfax (1464β1521)
- Richard Davy (c. 1465 β c. 1538)
- William Cornysh the: younger (1468β1523)
- Robert Johnson (c. 1470 β post-1554)
- Thomas Ashewell (c. 1478 β post-1513)
- John Redford (c. 1486β1547)
- Nicholas Ludford (c. 1490β1557)
- Henry VIII (1491β1547)
- John Taverner (1495β1545)
- Christopher Tye (c. 1505 β c. 1572)
- Anthony de Countie (died 1579)
- Thomas Tallis (c. 1505β1585)
- John Merbecke (c. 1510 β c. 1585)
- John Sheppard (c. 1515β1559)
- Richard Farrant (c. 1525β1580)
- William Mundy (c. 1528 β pre-1591)
- Robert Parsons (c. 1535β1572)
- Robert White (c. 1538β1574)
- William Byrd (c. 1540β1623)
- Anthony Holborne (c. 1545β1602)
- Francis Cutting (c. 1550β1595/1596)
- John Mundy (c. 1555β1630)
- Thomas Morley (1557β1602)
- Peter Philips (c. 1560β1628)
- William Brade (1560β1630)
- John Bull (c. 1562β1628)
- John Dowland (1563β1626)
- Giles Farnaby (c. 1563β1640)
- William Leighton (c. 1565β1622)
- Thomas Campion (1567β1620)
- Philip Rosseter (1568β1623)
- Tobias Hume (c. 1569β1645)
- John Coprario (John Cooper; Giovanni Coperario) (1570β1626)
- John Farmer (c. 1570 β c. 1601)
- Thomas Lupo (1571β1627)
- Martin Peerson (1571/1573β1650)
- John Ward (1571β1638)
- Daniel Bacheler (1572β1618)
- Thomas Tomkins (1572β1656)
- Ellis Gibbons (1573β1603)
- John Wilbye (1574β1638)
- John Bennet (c. 1575 β post-1614)
- Thomas Cutting (late 16th c. lutenistββto Arbella Stuart, Christian IV and Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales)
- Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger (c. 1575β1628)
- Thomas Weelkes (1576β1623)
- John Maynard (c. 1577 β c. 1633)
- Richard Dering (c. 1580β1630)
- Michael East (c. 1580β1648)
- Thomas Ford (c. 1580β1648)
- Orlando Gibbons (1583β1625)
- Robert Johnson (1583β1633)
- Thomas Robinson (c. 1588 β post-1609)
Baroqueβ»
- Nicholas Lanier (1588β1666)
- Richard Mico (1590β1661)
- John Jenkins (1592β1678)
- Henry Lawes (1595β1662)
- John Wilson (1595β1674)
- John Hilton (1599β1657)
- William Lawes (1602β1645)
- Christopher Simpson (c. 1602/1606β1669)
- William Child (1606β1697)
- Thomas Brewer (1611 β c. 1660)
- Henry Cooke (c. 1616β1672)
- Christopher Gibbons (1615β1676)
- Matthew Locke (c. 1621β1677)
- John Banister (c. 1624/1630β1679)
- Pelham Humphrey (1647β1674)
- Michael Wise (1647β1687)
- John Blow (1649β1708)
- William Turner (1651β1740)
- Henry Purcell (1659β1695)
- Daniel Purcell (1664β1717)
- Johann Christoph Pepusch (John Christopher, 1667β1742)
- John Eccles (1668β1735)
- Henry Eccles (1670β1742)
- Jeremiah Clarke (c. 1674β1707)
- John Weldon (1676β1736)
- William Croft (1678β1727)
- William Corbett (1680β1748)
- Abiell Whichello (1683β1747)
- George Frideric Handel (1685β1759)
- Thomas Roseingrave (1688β1766)
- William Babell (1689/1690β1723)
- Robert Woodcock (c. 1690β1728)
- Maurice Greene (1696β1755)
- Richard Jones (late 17th c. β 1744)
- Joseph Gibbs (1699β1788)
Classical eraβ»
- Thomas Chilcot (c. 1707β1766)
- Charles Avison (1709β1770)
- Thomas Arne (1710β1778)
- Thomas Gladwin (1710β1799)
- William Boyce (1711β1779)
- John Hebden (1712β1765)
- John Stanley (1712β1786)
- James Nares (1715β1783)
- John Garth (1721β1810)
- Charles Burney (1726β1814)
- Capel Bond (1730β1790)
- William Jackson (1730β1803)
- Thomas Sanders Dupuis (1733β1796)
- Thomas Linley the elder (1733β1795)
- Benjamin Cooke (1734β1793)
- John Bennett (c. 1735β1784)
- Philip Hayes (1738β1797)
- William Herschel (1738β1822)
- Michael Arne (1740/1741β1786)
- Samuel Arnold (1740β1802)
- Samuel Webbe (1740β1816)
- James Hook (1746β1827)
- William Shield (1748β1829)
- John Stafford Smith (1750β1836)
- John Marsh (1752β1828)
- Thomas Linley the younger (1756β1778)
- Stephen Storace (1762β1796)
- Matthew Camidge (1764β1844)
- John Addison (c. 1765β1844)
- Thomas Attwood (1765β1838)
- Samuel Wesley (1766β1837)
Romanticβ»
- William Crotch (1775β1847)
- Thomas Adams (1785β1858)
- George Pinto (1785β1806)
- Sir Henry Bishop (1787β1856)
- Cipriani Potter (1792β1871)
- Robert Lucas de Pearsall (1795β1856)
- John Goss (1800β1880)
- John Lodge Ellerton (1801β1873)
- Elias Parish Alvars (1808β1849)
- Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810β1876)
- George Alexander Macfarren (1813β1887)
- William Christian SellΓ© (1813β1898)
- Henry Smart (1813β1879)
- William Sterndale Bennett (1816β1875)
- Henry Charles Litolff (1818β1891)
- Edmund Chipp (1823β1886)
- Henry Hiles (1826β1904)
- John Baptiste Calkin (1827β1905)
- George Tolhurst (1827β1877)
- Francis Edward Bache (1833β1858)
- Ebenezer Prout (1835β1909)
- Joseph Barnby (1838β1896)
- Alice Mary Smith (1839β1884)
- Sydney Smith (1839β1889)
- John Stainer (1840β1901)
- Michael Maybrick (Stephen Adams) (1841β1913)
- Arthur Sullivan (1842β1900)
- Hubert Parry (1848β1918)
- Arthur Goring Thomas (1850β1892)
- Frederick Corder (1852β1932)
- Frederic Cowen (1852β1935)
- Bertram Luard-Selby (1853β1918)
- Maude ValΓ©rie White (French-born, 1855β1937)
- Frederic Cliffe (1857β1931)
- Rosalind Ellicott (1857β1924)
- Edward Elgar (1857β1934)
- Isidore de Lara (1858β1935)
- Ethel Smyth (1858β1944)
- John Henry Maunder (1858β1920)
- Basil Harwood (1859β1949)
Modernβ»
- Frederick Delius (1862β1934)
- Edward German (1862β1936)
- Liza Lehmann (1862β1918)
- Arthur Somervell (1863β1937)
- Edwin Lemare (1866β1934)
- Granville Bantock (1868β1946)
- Haldane Stewart (1868β1942)
- Walford Davies (1869β1941)
- Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872β1958)
- Ethel Barns (1874β1948)
- Gustav Holst (1874β1934)
- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875β1912)
- Donald Tovey (1875β1940)
- Havergal Brian (1876β1972)
- William Hurlstone (1876β1906)
- Thomas Dunhill (1877β1946)
- Henry Balfour Gardiner (1877β1950)
- Roger Quilter (1877β1953)
- Rutland Boughton (1878β1960)
- Adam Carse (1878β1958)
- Joseph Holbrooke (1878β1958)
- Theodore Holland (1878β1947)
- Frank Bridge (1879β1941)
- John Ireland (1879β1962)
- Cyril Scott (1879β1970)
- Edgar Bainton (1880β1956)
- John Foulds (1880β1939)
- Hubert Bath (1883β1945)
- Arnold Bax (1883β1953)
- George Dyson (1883β1964)
- William Henry Harris (1883β1973)
- Lord Berners (1883β1950)
- York Bowen (1884β1961)
- Tailor Svechenko (1884β1971)
- George Butterworth (1885β1916)
- Ernest Farrar (1885β1918)
- Rebecca Clarke (1886β1979)
- Eric Coates (1886β1957)
- Armstrong Gibbs (1889β1960)
- Ivor Gurney (1890β1937)
- Arthur Bliss (1891β1975)
- Herbert Howells (1892β1983)
- Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892β1988)
- Eugene Goossens (1893β1962)
- Peter Warlock (1894β1930)
- Ernest John Moeran (1894β1950)
- Gordon Jacob (1895β1984)
- George Thalben-Ball (1896β1987)
- William Baines (1899β1922)
- Herbert Sumsion (1899β1995)
- Alan Bush (1900β1995)
- Gerald Finzi (1901β1956)
- Victor Hely-Hutchinson (1901β1947)
- Edmund Rubbra (1901β1986)
- William Walton (1902β1983)
- Lennox Berkeley (1903β1989)
- Leighton Lucas (1903β1982)
- Robin Milford (1903β1959)
- Thomas Pitfield (1903β1999)
- Percy Whitlock (1903β1946)
- Richard Addinsell (1904β1977)
- William Alwyn (1905β1985)
- Constant Lambert (1905β1951)
- Walter Leigh (1905β1942)
- Alan Rawsthorne (1905β1971)
- Michael Tippett (1905β1998)
- Arnold Cooke (1906β2005)
- Eric Fenby (1906β1997)
- Benjamin Frankel (1906β1973)
- Elisabeth Lutyens (1906β1983)
- Roy Douglas (1907β2015)
- Imogen Holst (1907β1984)
- Elizabeth Maconchy (1907β1994)
- Brian Easdale (1909β1995)
- Ronald Binge (1910β1979)
- Stanley Bate (1911β1959)
- Phyllis Tate (1911β1987)
- Percy M. Young (1912β2004)
- Benjamin Britten (1913β1976)
- George Lloyd (1913β1998)
- Harold Truscott (1914β1992)
- William Lloyd Webber (1914β1982)
- Humphrey Searle (1915β1982)
- Denis ApIvor (1916β2004)
- Bernard Stevens (1916β1983)
- Richard Arnell (1917β2009)
- John Gardner (1917β2011)
- Francis Jackson (1917β2022)
- John W. Duarte (1919β2004)
- Geoffrey Bush (1920β1998)
- Peter Racine Fricker (1920β1990)
- Malcolm Arnold (1921β2006)
- Ruth Gipps (1921β1999)
- Robert Simpson (1921β1997)
- Peter Wishart (1921β1984)
- Raffaello de Banfield (1922β2008)
- Doreen Carwithen (1922β2003)
- Arthur Butterworth (1923β2014)
- Madeleine Dring (1923β1977)
- Stephen Dodgson (1924β2013)
- Angela Morley (1924β2009)
- Buxton Orr (1924β1997)
- Ernest Tomlinson (1924β2015)
- Daphne Oram (1925β2003)
- Christopher Shaw (1925β1995)
- Arthur Wills (1926β2020)
- Wilfred Josephs (1927β1997)
- John Joubert (1927β2019)
- Graham Whettam (1927β2007)
- Geoffrey Winters (born 1928)
- Kenneth Leighton (1929β1988)
- Betty Roe (born 1930)
- Alexander Goehr (born 1932)
- George Newson (1932-2024)
- Justin Connolly (1933β2020)
- Harrison Birtwistle (1934β2022)
- Peter Maxwell Davies (1934β2016)
- Peter Dickinson (1934-2023)
- Anthony Gilbert (composer) (1934-2023)
- Nicholas Maw (1935β2009)
- Richard Rodney Bennett (1936β2012)
- Nigel Brooks (1936-2024)
- Cornelius Cardew (1936β1981)
- Patrick Gowers (1936β2014)
- Colin Mawby (1936β2019)
- Anthony Payne (1936β2021)
- John White (1936β2024)
- David Bedford (1937β2011)
- Gordon Crosse (1937β2021)
- Edwin Roxburgh (born 1937)
- Michael Parsons (born 1938)
- Christopher Steel (1938β1991)
- Andrew Carter (born 1939)
- Jonathan Harvey (1939β2012)
- John McCabe (1939β2015)
- Patric Standford (1939β2014)
- Geoffrey Burgon (1941β2010)
- Derek Bourgeois (1941β2017)
- Timothy Salter (born 1942)
- Gavin Bryars (born 1943)
- Edward Cowie (born 1943)
- Frank Denyer (born 1943)
- Brian Ferneyhough (born 1943)
- Robin Holloway (born 1943)
- Bill Hopkins (1943β1981)
- David Matthews (born 1943)
- Michael Nyman (born 1944)
- John Tavener (1944β2013)
Contemporary
- John Rutter (born 1945)
- Michael Finnissy (born 1946)
- Colin Matthews (born 1946)
- Giles Swayne (born 1946)
- Paul Patterson (born 1947)
- Hugh Shrapnel (born 1947)
- Howard Skempton (born 1947)
- Michael Berkeley (born 1948)
- Diana Burrell (born 1948)
- Grayston Ives (born 1948)
- John Casken (born 1949)
- Sam Richards (born 1949)
- Dave Smith (born 1949)
- Philip Wilby (born 1949)
- Nicholas Sackman (born 1950)
- Ronald Corp (born 1951)
- Cecilia McDowall (born 1951)
- Judith Bingham (born 1952)
- Oliver Knussen (1952β2018)
- Dominic Muldowney (born 1952)
- Patrick Doyle (born 1953)
- Peter McGarr (born 1953)
- Robert Saxton (born 1953)
- Richard Blackford (born 1954)
- Benedict Mason (born 1954)
- Judith Weir (born 1954)
- John Woolrich (born 1954)
- Ian Venables (born 1955)
- Sally Beamish (born 1956)
- Philip Grange (born 1956)
- Steve Elcock (born 1957)
- Francis Pott (composer) (born 1957)
- Janet Wheeler (born 1957)
- Howard Goodall (born 1958)
- Lionel Sainsbury (born 1958)
- Patrick Hawes (born 1958)
- Simon Holt (born 1958)
- Errollyn Wallen (born 1958)
- Jonathan Dove (born 1959)
- Steve Martland (1959β2013)
- John Palmer (born 1959)
- Peter Seabourne (born 1960)
- George Benjamin (born 1960)
- Mark-Anthony Turnage (born 1960)
- Paul Carr(born 1961)
- David Sawer (born 1961)
- Jack Gibbons (born 1962)
- Philip Cashian (born 1963)
- Graham Fitkin (born 1963)
- Michael Zev Gordon (born 1963)
- John Pickard (born 1963)
- John Powell (born 1963)
- James Whitbourn (born 1963)
- Debbie Wiseman (born 1963)
- Ivan Moody (1964β2024)
- Matthew Taylor (born 1964)
- Julian Anderson (born 1967)
- Rebecca Saunders (born 1967)
- Joe Cutler (born 1968)
- Roxanna Panufnik (born 1968)
- James Francis Brown (born 1969)
- Patrick Nunn (born 1969)
- Jonathan Powell (born 1969)
- Thomas Adès (born 1971)
- Joby Talbot (born 1971)
- David Jennings (born 1972)
- Tansy Davies (born 1973)
- Andrew March (born 1973)
- Julian Cochran (born 1974)
- Sophie Viney (born 1974)
- Tim Benjamin (born 1975)
- Luke Bedford (born 1978)
- Charlotte Bray (born 1982)
- Sasha Siem (born 1984)
- Freya Waley-Cohen (born 1989)
- Lucy Armstrong (born 1991)
- Anna Appleby (born 1993)
- Grace Evangeline Mason (born 1994)
See alsoβ»
Referencesβ»
- ^ "Robert Johnson (1)". HOASM. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
- ^ Partington, Angela (11 March 2003). "One enchanted evening". The Guardian (UK). London. Retrieved 9 November 2020.