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page 1French male classical composers

Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer (1882–1971)

Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
Erik Satie
French composer and pianist (1866-1925)
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
French army officer (1760-1836)

Jean-Baptiste Lully
Italian-born French composer (1632–1687)
Olivier Messiaen
French composer, organist and ornithologist (1908–1992)
Pierre Boulez
French composer, conductor and writer (1925–2016)
César Franck
Belgian-French composer and organist (1822–1890)
François Couperin
French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist (1668–1733)
Arthur Honegger
Swiss composer (1892-1955)
Guillaume de Machaut
Medieval French composer and poet (c. 1300–1377)
Guillaume Dufay
composer of the Renaissance (1397–1474)
Josquin des Prez
composer of the Renaissance (c. 1450–1521)

Alexandre Desplat
French film composer

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.
Adam de la Halle
French poet, composer and trouvère

Darius Milhaud
French composer (1892–1974)
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.

Charles-Valentin Alkan
French composer and pianist (1813–1888)

Marin Marais
French composer and viol player (1656–1728)

André Grétry
composer from present-day Belgium (1741–1813)

Vincent d'Indy
French composer and teacher

Marcel Dupré
French organist and composer (1886–1971)
François Joseph Gossec
French composer and conductor

Henri Dutilleux
French composer

Philippe de Vitry
French composer, music theorist and poet

Louis Vierne
French organist and composer (1870–1937)

Antoine Busnois
French composer and poet

Émile Waldteufel
French composer (1837-1915)

Louis-Claude Daquin
French composer
Ignaz Pleyel
Austrian-born French composer and piano builder (1757–1831)

Charles Koechlin
French composer, teacher and writer on music

Clément Janequin
French composer
Reynaldo Hahn
Venezuelan-French composer (1874-1947)
Thomas Bangalter
French musician (born 1975)
Pierre Henry
French composer (1927–2017)

Louis Durey
French composer (1888–1979)

Jean-Marie Leclair
French Baroque violinist and composer
Jehan Alain
French organist and composer (1911-1940)
Rutebeuf
Rutebeuf (or Rustebeuf) (fl. 1245 – 1285) was a French trouvère (poet-composers who worked in France's northern dialects).
Florent Schmitt
French composer (1870-1958)
Maurice Duruflé
French composer and organist
Johannes Tinctoris
Flemish composer
Louis Marchand
French keyboardist and composer
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault
French composer and organist
Michel Richard Delalande
French composer
Henri Duparc
French composer (1848–1933)
Alexandre Guilmant
French composer (1837–1911)
Conon de Béthune
crusader and "trouvère" poet, born in 1150 in north of France
Alexandre Tansman
Franco-Polish musician (1897-1986)
Igor Markevitch
Russian conductor and composer (1912–1983)
Antoine-François Marmontel
French pianist, teacher and musicographer (1816–1898)
Claude Goudimel
French composer
Jacques-Martin Hotteterre
French composer and flautist (1673-1763)
Blondel de Nesle
French trouvère
Robert de Visée
French guitarist, theorbist, singer and composer
Léon Boëllmann
French organist and composer
Jean Martinon
French conductor and composer (1910–1976)