Category
page 1French opera composers
Hector Berlioz
French composer and conductor (1803–1869)
Claude Debussy
French classical composer (1862–1918)

Maurice Ravel
French composer (1875–1937)

Jacques Offenbach
German-born French composer (1819–1880)
Georges Bizet
French composer (1838–1875)
Camille Saint-Saëns
French composer, organist, conductor and pianist (1835–1921)
Charles Gounod
French composer (1818–1893)
Jean-Philippe Rameau
French composer and music theorist (1683–1764)

Jean-Baptiste Lully
Italian-born French composer (1632–1687)
Gabriel Fauré
French composer, organist, pianist and teacher (1845–1924)
Jules Massenet
French composer (1842–1912)

Francis Poulenc
French composer and pianist (1899–1963)
Arthur Honegger
Swiss composer (1892-1955)

François-André Danican Philidor
French composer and chess player (1726-1795)

Paul Dukas
French composer (1865–1935)

Léo Delibes
French composer (1836–1891)

Adolphe Adam
French composer (1803–1856)
Daniel François Esprit Auber
French composer (1782-1871)

Marc-Antoine Charpentier
17th-century French composer

Darius Milhaud
French composer (1892–1974)

Charles-Marie Widor
French organist and composer (1844–1937)

Edgard Varèse
French composer (1883-1965)

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

Edouard Lalo
French composer
Georges Auric
French composer
Pauline Viardot
French mezzo-soprano and composer
Ernest Chausson
French composer (1855–1899)

Emmanuel Chabrier
French Romantic composer and pianist
Albert Roussel
French composer (1869–1937)
Fromental Halévy
French composer
François Joseph Gossec
French composer and conductor

François Adrien Boieldieu
French composer

Gustave Charpentier
French composer (1860-1956)

Pierre Schaeffer
French composer and musicologist (1910-1995)

Anton Reicha
Czech-born French composer (1770–1836)

Jacques Ibert
French composer

Ambroise Thomas
French composer
André Jolivet
French composer
Reynaldo Hahn
Venezuelan-French composer (1874-1947)
André Campra
French composer and conductor (1660-1744)
Rodolphe Kreutzer
French violinist, conductor, composer (1766-1831)
Jean-François Le Sueur
French composer
Germaine Tailleferre
French composer (1892-1983)
Chevalier de Saint-Georges
French virtuoso violinist, composer, conductor, and fencing master
André Messager
French opera composer and conductor (1853–1929)
Étienne Méhul
French composer (1763–1817)
Jean Françaix
French composer and pianist (1912–1997)
Henri Rabaud
French composer (1873-1949)
Nicolas-Charles Bochsa
French composer and harpist
Ernest Guiraud
French composer and music teacher (1837-1892)
Alexandre Tansman
Franco-Polish musician (1897-1986)
Gabriel Pierné
French composer, conductor, and organist (1863–1937)
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
French composer (1689-1755)
Louise Bertin
French composer (1805-1877)
Robert Planquette
French composer of songs and operettas (1848–1903)
Théodore Dubois
French composer and Organist (1837-1924)
Charles Tournemire
French composer and organist (1870–1939)
Maurice Emmanuel
French composer
Hervé
French singer, composer, librettist, conductor and scene painter (1825–1892)

Augusta Holmès
French composer of British-Irish origin