List of French People - Composers

Composers

• Georges Auric
• Hector Berlioz
• Georges Bizet, composer of Carmen
• Nicolas-Charles Bochsa
• Pierre Boulez, avant-garde composer
• Emmanuel Chabrier, composer of España
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier
• Frédéric Chopin Polish and French composer
• François Couperin
• Michel Richard Delalande
• Georges Delerue
• Claude Debussy, Impressionist composer
• Alexandre Desplat
• Paul Dukas, composer of The Sorcerer's Apprentice
• Henri Duparc
• Gabriel Fauré
• César Franck, also considered Belgian
• Gérard Grisey, avant-garde composer
• Reynaldo Hahn
• Pierre Henry, writer of musique concrète and electronic music
• Jean Michel Jarre
• Maurice Jarre, film music composer
• Louis-Antoine Jullien
• Michel Legrand
• Jean-François Le Sueur
• Fabien Lévy, avant-garde composer
• Jean Baptiste Lully, court composer to Louis XIV
• Olivier Messiaen
• Darius Milhaud
• Tristan Murail, avant-garde composer
• Jacques Offenbach, noted for his operettas
• Gabriel Pierné
• Francis Poulenc
• Jean-Philippe Rameau
• Maurice Ravel
• Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, composer of "La Marseillaise", French National Anthem
• Camille Saint-Saëns
• Erik Satie, composer of Musiques d'ameublement
• Pierre Schaeffer, inventor of musique concrète
• Florent Schmitt
• Les Six, group of composers
• Germaine Tailleferre
• Charles-Marie Widor