Chronological list of English classical composers

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This is a chronological list of classical music composers living or working in England or originating from there. Entries are alphabetical within each year.

Medieval[]

Renaissance[]

Baroque[]

Classical era[]

Romantic[]

Modern[]

  • Frederick Delius (1862–1934)
  • Edward German (1862–1936)
  • Liza Lehmann (1862–1918)
  • Arthur Somervell (1863–1937)
  • Edwin Lemare (1866–1934)
  • Granville Bantock (1868–1946)
  • Haldane Stewart (1868–1942)
  • Walford Davies (1869–1941)
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)
  • Ethel Barns (1874–1948)
  • Gustav Holst (1874–1934)
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912)
  • Donald Tovey (1875–1940)
  • Havergal Brian (1876–1972)
  • William Hurlstone (1876–1906)
  • Thomas Dunhill (1877–1946)
  • Henry Balfour Gardiner (1877–1950)
  • Roger Quilter (1877–1953)
  • Rutland Boughton (1878–1960)
  • Adam Carse (1878–1958)
  • Joseph Holbrooke (1878–1958)
  • Theodore Holland (1878–1947)
  • Frank Bridge (1879–1941)
  • John Ireland (1879–1962)
  • Cyril Scott (1879–1970)
  • Edgar Bainton (1880–1956)
  • John Foulds (1880–1939)
  • Hubert Bath (1883–1945)
  • Arnold Bax (1883–1953)
  • George Dyson (1883–1964)
  • William Henry Harris (1883–1973)
  • Lord Berners (1883–1950)
  • York Bowen (1884–1961)
  • George Butterworth (1885–1916)
  • Ernest Farrar (1885–1918)
  • Rebecca Clarke (1886–1979)
  • Eric Coates (1886–1957)
  • Armstrong Gibbs (1889–1960)
  • Ivor Gurney (1890–1937)
  • Arthur Bliss (1891–1975)
  • Herbert Howells (1892–1983)
  • Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892–1988)
  • Eugene Goossens (1893–1962)
  • Peter Warlock (1894–1930)
  • Ernest John Moeran (1894–1950)
  • Gordon Jacob (1895–1984)
  • George Thalben-Ball (1896–1987)
  • William Baines (1899–1922)
  • Herbert Sumsion (1899–1995)
  • Alan Bush (1900–1995)
  • Gerald Finzi (1901–1956)
  • Victor Hely-Hutchinson (1901–1947)
  • Edmund Rubbra (1901–1986)
  • William Walton (1902–1983)
  • Lennox Berkeley (1903–1989)
  • Leighton Lucas (1903–1982)
  • Robin Milford (1903–1959)
  • Thomas Pitfield (1903–1999)
  • Percy Whitlock (1903–1946)
  • Richard Addinsell (1904–1977)
  • William Alwyn (1905–1985)
  • Constant Lambert (1905–1951)
  • Walter Leigh (1905–1942)
  • Alan Rawsthorne (1905–1971)
  • Michael Tippett (1905–1998)
  • Arnold Cooke (1906–2005)
  • Eric Fenby (1906–1997)
  • Benjamin Frankel (1906–1973)
  • Elisabeth Lutyens (1906–1983)
  • Roy Douglas (1907–2015)
  • Imogen Holst (1907–1984)
  • Elizabeth Maconchy (1907–1994)
  • Brian Easdale (1909–1995)
  • Ronald Binge (1910–1979)
  • Stanley Bate (1911–1959)
  • Phyllis Tate (1911–1987)
  • Percy M. Young (1912–2004)
  • Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)
  • George Lloyd (1913–1998)
  • Harold Truscott (1914–1992)
  • William Lloyd Webber (1914–1982)
  • Humphrey Searle (1915–1982)
  • Denis ApIvor (1916–2004)
  • Bernard Stevens (1916–1983)
  • Richard Arnell (1917–2009)
  • John Gardner (1917–2011)
  • Francis Jackson (1917—2022)
  • John W. Duarte (1919–2004)
  • Geoffrey Bush (1920–1998)
  • Peter Racine Fricker (1920–1990)
  • Malcolm Arnold (1921–2006)
  • Ruth Gipps (1921–1999)
  • Robert Simpson (1921–1997)
  • Peter Wishart (1921–1984)
  • Raffaello de Banfield (1922–2008)
  • Doreen Carwithen (1922–2003)
  • Arthur Butterworth (1923–2014)
  • Madeleine Dring (1923–1977)
  • Stephen Dodgson (1924–2013)
  • Angela Morley (1924–2009)
  • Buxton Orr (1924–1997)
  • Ernest Tomlinson (1924–2015)
  • Christopher Shaw (1925–1995)
  • Arthur Wills (1926–2020)
  • Wilfred Josephs (1927–1997)
  • John Joubert (1927–2019)
  • Graham Whettam (1927–2007)
  • Kenneth Leighton (1929–1988)
  • Betty Roe (born 1930)
  • Alexander Goehr (born 1932)
  • Justin Connolly (1933–2020)
  • Harrison Birtwistle (born 1934)
  • Peter Maxwell Davies (1934–2016)
  • Peter Dickinson (born 1934)
  • Anthony Gilbert (composer) (born 1934)
  • Nicholas Maw (1935–2009)
  • Richard Rodney Bennett (1936–2012)
  • Nigel Brooks (born 1936)
  • Cornelius Cardew (1936–1981)
  • Patrick Gowers (1936–2014)
  • Colin Mawby (1936–2019)
  • Anthony Payne (1936–2021)
  • John White (born 1936)
  • David Bedford (1937–2011)
  • Gordon Crosse (born 1937)
  • Edwin Roxburgh (born 1937)
  • Michael Parsons (born 1938)
  • Christopher Steel (1938–1991)
  • Andrew Carter (born 1939)
  • Jonathan Harvey (1939–2012)
  • John McCabe (1939–2015)
  • Patric Standford (1939–2014)
  • Geoffrey Burgon (1941–2010)
  • Derek Bourgeois (1941–2017)
  • Timothy Salter (born 1942)
  • Gavin Bryars (born 1943)
  • Edward Cowie (born 1943)
  • Frank Denyer (born 1943)
  • Brian Ferneyhough (born 1943)
  • Robin Holloway (born 1943)
  • Bill Hopkins (1943–1981)
  • David Matthews (born 1943)
  • Michael Nyman (born 1944)
  • John Tavener (1944–2013)

Contemporary

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Robert Johnson (1)". HOASM. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
  2. ^ Partington, Angela (11 March 2003). "One enchanted evening". The Guardian (UK). London. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
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