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LGBTQ classical composers

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer (1840–1893)
Frederick II of Prussia
King of Prussia from 1740 to 1786 (1712-1786)
Leonard Bernstein
American conductor and composer (1918–1990)
John Cage
American avant-garde composer (1912-1992)
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Italian-born French composer (1632–1687)
Benjamin Britten
English composer, conductor, and pianist (1913-1976)
Aaron Copland
American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor (1900-1990)
Vladimir Horowitz
Russian and American pianist (1903–1989)
Francis Poulenc
French composer and pianist (1899–1963)
Samuel Barber
American composer (1910-1981)
Karol Szymanowski
Polish composer (1882–1937)
Gian Carlo Menotti
Italian-American composer and librettist (1911–2007)
Wendy Carlos
American composer and electronic musician (born 1939)
Ethel Smyth
English composer and suffragette (1858–1944)
Harry Partch
American composer, music theorist, creator of musical instruments
Peter Maxwell Davies
English composer and conductor (1934-2016)
Dimitri Mitropoulos
Greek and American conductor (1896–1960)
Hans Werner Henze
German composer (1926–2012)
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
English composer, music critic, pianist and writer (1892–1988)
Siegfried Wagner
German opera producer and composer, son of Richard Wagner and Cosima Liszt (1869–1930)
Michael Tippett
English composer (1905-1996)
Thomas Adès
British composer, pianist and conductor
Reynaldo Hahn
Venezuelan-French composer (1874-1947)
Henry Cowell
American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario (1897-1965)
Virgil Thomson
American composer and critic (1896–1989)
Meredith Monk
American musician (born 1942)
Michael Tilson Thomas
American conductor, pianist and composer
Richard Rodney Bennett
British composer and pianist (1936-2012)
John Corigliano
American composer (born 1938)
Charles Wuorinen
American composer (1938–2020)
Arthur Benjamin
Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher
Richard Addinsell
English composer (1904–1977)
Aribert Reimann
German composer, pianist and accompanist
Pauline Oliveros
American composer and musician (1932–2016)
Ned Rorem
American composer and diarist (1923–2022)
David Diamond
American classical composer (1915-2005)
Johann Rosenmüller
German Baroque composer (1619–1684)
Henri Sauguet
French composer (1901–1989)
Lou Harrison
American composer (1917-2003)
David Del Tredici
American composer (1937–2023)
Lennox Berkeley
British composer (1903–1989)
Stephen Hough
British-born classical pianist, composer and writer
Charles Tomlinson Griffes
American composer (1884-1920)
Claude Vivier
Canadian composer (1948–1983)
Jean Barraqué
French composer (1928-1973)
Colin McPhee
Canadian composer and musicologist
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Italian composer (1931–2021)
George Benjamin
British composer, conductor, pianist and teacher
Peer Raben
German composer and actor (1940–2007)
Lord Berners
British composer, writer, painter, politician, novelist and autobiographer (1883-1950)
Marc Blitzstein
American composer, lyricist, and librettist (1905–1964)
Karel Goeyvaerts
Belgian composer (1923-1993)
Joaquín Nin-Culmell
American composer and pianist of Cuban descent (1908-2004)
Wolfgang Fortner
German composer and conductor (1907–1987)
Jennifer Higdon
American composer
Mark Adamo
American composer and librettist (born 1962)
Nico Muhly
American contemporary classical composer
Douglas Lilburn
New Zealand composer (1915–2001)
Justus Frantz
German pianist and conductor
Henriëtte Bosmans
Dutch composer (1895-1952)