1. Henri Bertini (1798)

French Composer

Classical musician skilled in chamber music. He was a well-known soloist admired for his evenness, clarity, and quality of sound.

2. Hector Berlioz (1803)

French Composer

French composer of the Romantic era best remembered for compositions like Symphonie Fantastique and for his influential Treatise on Instrumentation.

3. Adolphe Adam (1803)

French Composer

Best known for his 1844 Christmas carol "Minuit, chrétiens!" It was later given English lyrics and popularized as "O Holy Night" in 1847.

4. Charles Gounod (1818)

French Composer

19th century French composer who was best known for "Ave Maria" and "Faust," an opera. His opera "Roméo et Juliette" was lesser known, but still occasionally performed by successive generations...

5. Édouard Lalo (1823)

French Composer

French composer best remembered for famous works like Symphonie Espagnole and Cello Concerto in D minor.

6. Georges Bizet (1838)

French Composer

Romantic-era composer of the immortal operatic masterpiece "Carmen" one of his only successes. Other works, such as "Les pêcheurs de perles," struggled to find an audience.

7. Louis Diémer (1843)

French Composer

Virtuoso who founded the Société des Instruments Anciens in the 1890s. He was known for his harpsichord recitals and prolific works as a composer.

8. Edmond Audran (1840)

French Composer

French composer known for writing several internationally successful operettas during the late 19th century. One his best known oeuvre's was "Les noces d'Olivette" in 1879.

9. Paul Dukas (1865)

French Composer

Best known for composing "The Sorcerer's Apprentice." His intense perfectionism often led him to destroy his works.

10. Darius Milhaud (1892)

French Composer

French jazz-influenced modernist composer who rose to fame as a member of the group Les Six. His compositions make use of polytonality.

11. Francis Poulenc (1899)

French Composer

Versatile composer whose works included art song, solo piano, chamber, oratorio, choral, opera, ballet, and orchestral. He wrote "Le bestiaire, ou Le cortège d'Orphée" in 1917 as a cycle of...

12. Henri Dutilleux (1916)

French Composer

20th century French composer best remembered for concertos like Tout un Monde Lointain. He was the Head of Music Production for Radio France for nearly two decades.

13. Alexandre Desplat (1961)

French Composer

Film composer who earned Original Score Academy Award nominations for "Argo," "The King's Speech," "Fantastic Mr. Fox," and "Philomena." He also provided the soundtracks for commercially successful film Harry Potter...

14. Maurice Jarre (1924)

French Composer

Won three Oscars for Best Original Score for 1962's "Lawrence of Arabia," 1965's "Doctor Zhivago," and "A Passage to India" from 1984.

15. Georges Delerue (1925)

French Composer

Academy Award-winning French composer who wrote over 350 scores for film and television. He was named Commander of Arts and Letters. He scored Julia in 1977, for which he received...

16. Betsy Jolas (1926)

French Composer

Internationally beloved French composer known for pieces that were often heavy on lyricism and based in poetry and emotion. Her works included "Plupart du temps II" from 1989, "Come follow...

17. Jean-Jacques Perrey (1929)

French Composer

Electronic music producer and member of Perrey and Kingsley.

18. Michel Legrand (1932)

French Composer

Composer of over 200 film and television scores, including 'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg' from 1964 and 'The Thomas Crown Affair' from 1968. He collaborated with such notable jazz artists as...

19. Roland Dyens (1955)

French Composer

Award-winning classical musician, composer, and arranger who became known for his improvisational abilities.

20. Bruno Mantovani (1974)

French Composer

Bruno Mantovani is a French composer. He has been awarded first prizes from the Paris Conservatory which he joined in 1993. His work has been commissioned by the French government...

21. Christophe Bertrand (1981)

French Composer

Christophe Bertrand was a French composer of contemporary classical music.

22. Ginette Keller (Unknow)

French Composer

Ginette Keller is a French composer.

23. Francis Dhomont (1926)

French Composer

s Dhomont is a French composer of electroacoustic / acousmatic music.

24. Pierre Yves Lenik (1958)

French Composer

Pierre Yves Lenik is a French composer known for his work in French documentaries. His work included the scores for TV series :Régis l'éventreur' by Georges Combe and TV documentaries...

25. Alain Goraguer (1931)

French Composer

Alain Goraguer is a French jazz pianist sideman of Boris Vian and Serge Gainsbourg arranger and composer. He reached his creative peak in the 1960s and 1970s. He also recorded...

26. François Bayle (1932)

French Composer

çois Bayle is a composer of Electronic Music Musique concrète. He coined the term Acousmatic Music. In the 1950s he studied with Olivier Messiaen Pierre Schaeffer and Karlheinz Stockhausen. In...

27. Ida Gotkovsky (1933)

French Composer

Ida Rose Esther Gotkovsky is a French composer and pianist. She is currently a professor of music theory at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in France.

28. François-Bernard Mâche (1935)

French Composer

çois-Bernard Mâche is a French composer of contemporary music. Born into a family of musicians he is a former student of Émile Passani and Olivier Messiaen and has also received...

29. Thérèse Brenet (1935)

French Composer

Thérèse Brenet is a French composer. She studied at the Conservatoire de Reims and since 1954 the Conservatoire de Paris. Among her teachers were Maurice Duruflé Henri Dutilleux Darius Milhaud...

30. Éric Demarsan (1938)

French Composer

Éric Demarsan born on October 2 1938 in Paris is a French film score composer.

31. Costin Miereanu (1943)

French Composer

Costin Miereanu is a French composer and musicologist of Romanian birth.

32. Jacques Lenot (1945)

French Composer

Jacques Lenot is a French composer. His compositional techniques are derived from serialism.

33. Patrick Ascione (1953)

French Composer

Patrick Ascione is a French composer of electroacoustic and acousmatic music.

34. Olivier Greif (1950)

French Composer

Olivier Greif was a French composer of Polish-Jewish parentage. His father was an Auschwitz survivor a fact which affected Greif deeply and led him to compose a number of Holocaust-themed...

35. Frédéric Durieux (1959)

French Composer

édéric Durieux is a noted French composer of orchestral vocal and chamber works. He is currently professor of composition at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur.

36. Thierry Lancino (1954)

French Composer

Thierry Lancino is a French composer. Thierry Lancino was appointed Pensionnaire of the Académie de France à Rome at the Villa Médicis. During that time he wrote his often performed...

37. Éric Serra (1959)

French Composer

Éric Serra is a French composer. He has often worked on films by Luc Besson.

38. Bruno Coulais (1954)

French Composer

Bruno Coulais is a French composer most widely known for his music on film soundtracks. He recently composed the score for the animated film The Secret of Kells released 12...

39. Dominique Probst (Unknow)

French Composer

Dominique Probst is a French composer. The son of a noted playwright Gisèle Casadesus and an actor and director with the Comédie-Française Lucien Probst Dominique Probst won the First Prize...

40. Laurent Petitgirard (1950)

French Composer

Laurent Petitgirard is a French classical composer and conductor.

41. Christian Zanési (1952)

French Composer

Christian Zanési is a French composer born in Lourdes in 1952.

42. Pierre Henry (1927)

French Composer

Pierre Henry is a French composer considered a pioneer of the musique concrète genre of electronic music.

43. Krishna Levy (1964)

French Composer

Krishna Levy born on May 27 1964 in New Delhi is a French film score composer.

44. Joël-François Durand (1954)

French Composer

Joël-François Durand is a French composer.

45. Thierry Pécou (1965)

French Composer

Thierry Pécou is a modern French composer. The composer's own Ensemble Zellig was named after the eponymous hero of Woody Allen's Zelig.

46. Pascal Comelade (1955)

French Composer

Pascal Paul Vincent Comelade is a French Catalan musician. Comelade was born in Montpellier France. After living for several years in Barcelona he made his first album Fluences influenced by...

47. Pascal Dusapin (1955)

French Composer

Pascal Dusapin is a contemporary French composer born in Nancy France. His music is marked by its microtonality tension and energy. A pupil of Iannis Xenakis and Franco Donatoni and...

48. Jacques Burtin (1955)

French Composer

Jacques Burtin is a French composer writer and filmmaker.

49. Kasper T. Toeplitz (1960)

French Composer

Kasper T. Toeplitz is a French composer and musician of Polish origin born in 1960. He lives in Paris.

50. François Paris (1961)

French Composer

çois Paris is a French composer and professor born in 1961 in Valenciennes. He is known for being part of the young generation of composers using microtonal music in the...