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Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer (1882–1971)
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
Guillaume de Machaut
Medieval French composer and poet (c. 1300–1377)
Iannis Xenakis
Greek-French composer, architect and engineer (1922–2001)
Pérotin
Pérotin () was a composer associated with the Notre Dame school of polyphony in Paris and the broader musical style of high medieval music. He is credited with developing the polyphonic practices of his predecessor Léonin, with the introduction of three and four-part harmonies.
Edgard Varèse
French composer (1883-1965)
Léonin
Léonin (also Leoninus, Leonius, Leo; ) was the first known significant composer of polyphonic organum. He was probably French, probably lived and worked in Paris at the Notre-Dame Cathedral and was the earliest member of the Notre Dame school of polyphony and the ars antiqua style who is known by name, thanks to the writer known as Anonymous IV. Though no further identification is certain, the name "Leoninus" and its Latin diminutive Leo have the French equivalents Léonin/Léo.
Philippe de Vitry
French composer, music theorist and poet
Alexandre Guilmant
French composer (1837–1911)
Conon de Béthune
crusader and "trouvère" poet, born in 1150 in north of France
Henri Rabaud
French composer (1873-1949)
Alexandre Tansman
Franco-Polish musician (1897-1986)
Igor Markevitch
Russian conductor and composer (1912–1983)
Adam of Saint Victor
Medieval composer
Arturo Rodas
Ecuadorian composer
Betsy Jolas
French composer
Gautier de Coincy
French abbot, poet and musical arranger
Éliane Radigue
French composer
Petrus de Cruce
Cleric and composer
Jacob Senleches
Franco-Flemish composer and harpist
Jehan de Lescurel
French composer
Vinko Globokar
Slovenian musician
Albert Louis Wolff
French conductor and composer (1884-1970)
René Leibowitz
French composer and conductor (1913-1972)
Arnold de Lantins
Franco-Flemish composer
Gilbert Amy
French composer and conductor
Solage
Solage (; or Soulage), possibly Jean , was a French composer, and probably also a poet. He composed the most pieces in the Chantilly Codex, the principal source of music of the ars subtilior, the manneristic compositional school centered on Avignon at the end of the century.
Henri Marteau
French violinist and composer (1874-1934)
Horațiu Rădulescu
French-Romanian composer (1942-2008)
Johannes Regis
Franco-Flemish composer
F. Andrieu
14th-century medieval French composer
André Bloch
French composer (1873–1960)
Sylvio Lazzari
French composer (1857–1944)
Guy d'Hardelot
French-English composer (1858-1936)
Naji Hakim
Lebanese-French composer, organist and improviser
Marcel Tournier
French harpist, composer, and pedagogue (1879–1951)
Émile Paladilhe
French composer
Hugo de Lantins
Burgundian musician
Carlos Salzedo
French harpist, pianist, conductor and composer (1885–1961)
Jean Baptiste Loeillet of Ghent
Belgian composer
Nicolas Vallet
Dutch lute composer of French descent
Max d'Ollone
French composer (1875–1959)
Johannes Ghiselin
Franco-Flemish composer
Jacobus Vide
Franco-Flemish composer
Johannes Tapissier
French composer
Fernand Oubradous
French bassoonist, conductor and composer (1903–1986)
Nicolas Bacri
French composer
Xavier Darasse
French organist, composer, musicologist and music educator (1934-1992)
Alain Louvier
French conductor, composer and musicologist
Maurice Duhamel
French musician (1884-1940)
Charles Levadé
French composer (1869-1948)
Auguste-Emmanuel Vaucorbeil
French composer (1821-1884)
Piotr Moss
Polish composer
Robert Planel
French composer, musicologist and music educator
Oscar Comettant
French composer (1819-1898)
Georges Caussade
Composer, music theorist, music educator (1873–1936)
Johannes Prioris
Netherlandish Renaissance composer
Paul Benoit
Benedictine monk, organist, and composer (1893-1979)
Suzanne Joly
French pianist (1914-2012)
Trebor
French composer