List of Australian composers
This is a list of Australian composers of classical music, contemporary music and film soundtracks.
These names are largely drawn from the following:
- Music Australia an online service developed by the National Library of Australia and the National Film and Sound Archive ;
- Australian Music Centre's list of "Represented artists";
- lists entitled "Australian Composers" and "Australian Repertoire" published by Australian Choral Conductors Education and Training ;
- the "Catalogue of Australian Organ Compositions 1866–2002" published by the Organ Historical Trust of Australia ;
- the "Australian Composers" list;
Wherever possible, dates of birth and death are shown. The pseudonyms used by some composers are listed along with a reference back to their legal name. Entries are cross-referenced to one or more sources to provide further information.
A
- Roy Agnew
- David Ahern
- Hugo Alpen
- Ernie Althoff
- John Henry Antill
- Albert Arlen
- Martin Armiger
- Keith Asboe
B
- Tony Backhouse
- Don Banks
- David Banney
- Michael Barkl
- Betty Beath
- Ross Bolleter
- Anne Elizabeth Boyd
- George Frederick Boyle
- Philip Bračanin
- May (or Mary) Hannah Brahe
- Hooper Brewster-Jones
- Brenton Broadstock
- Amanda Gabrielle Brown
- Colin Brumby
- Vera Buck
- Thomas (Tom) Edward Bulch
- Warren Burt
- Nigel Butterley
C
- John Carmichael
- Ann Carr-Boyd
- Tristram Ogilvie Cary
- Nick Cave
- Herbert Hedwan Chandler.
- Charles Cawthorne
- Alice Charbonnet-Kellermann
- Charlie Chan
- Arthur Chanter
- Deborah Cheetham
- David Chesworth
- Andrew Chubb
- Paul Clift
- Judith Clingan
- George H. Clutsam
- Julian Cochran
- Percy Code
- Barry Conyngham
- Herbert Cosgrove
- Vince Courtney
- Kate Crawford
- Ian Cresswell
- Ian Cugley
- Leah Curtis
- Cesare Cutolo
D
- Robert Davidson
- Ruby Claudia Davy
- Brett Dean
- George De Cairos Rego
- George Savin De Chanéet
- John Albert Delany
- Herbert De Pinna
- Matthew Dewey
- Joe Dolce
- Paul Doornbusch
- George Dreyfus
- Jon Drummond
- Catherine Duc
- Melissa Dunphy
E
F
- Billy Field
- Mary Finsterer
- Thomas Fitzgerald
- Samantha Fonti
- Andrew Ford
- Riccardo Formosa
- Grant Foster
- Jennifer Fowler
- Edwin Fowles
G
- Lisa Gerrard
- Helen Gifford
- Richard Gill
- Paolo Giorza
- Peggy Glanville-Hicks
- Isador Goodman
- Eugene Goossens
- Christopher Gordon
- Tony Gould
- Paul Grabowsky
- Ron Grainer
- George Percy Aldridge Grainger
- Sally Greenaway
- Stuart Greenbaum
- Maria Grenfell
- Eric Gross
H
- Gordon Hamilton
- Ronald Hanmer
- Raymond Hanson
- Edith Harrhy
- Ian Keith Harris
- Fritz Bennicke Hart
- Mick Harvey
- Miska Hauser
- Fiona Joy Hawkins
- Christian Heim
- Christian Helleman
- Moya Henderson
- Laurence Henry Hicks
- Francis Hartwell Henslowe
- Moritz Heuzenroeder
- Alfred Francis Hill
- Matthew Hindson
- David Hirschfelder
- Dulcie Sybil Holland
- Alan Holley
- Wilfrid Holland
- Charles Edward Horsley
- Robert Watson Hughes
- Frank Hutchens
- Miriam Beatrice Hyde
I
J
K
- Elena Kats-Chernin
- Donald H. Kay
- Norman Kaye
- Horace Keats
- Paul Kelly
- Paul Kenny
- Frederick Septimus Kelly
- Gordon Kerry
- Henry John King
- Ashley Klose
- William Robert Knox
- Douglas Knehans
- Julian Knowles
- Graeme Koehne
- Constantine Koukias
- Henri Kowalski
- Henry Krips
L
- Brenton Langbein
- Guglielmo Enrico Lardelli
- Louis Lavater
- Lê Tuấn Hùng
- Stephen Leek
- Dorian Le Gallienne
- John Lemmone
- Georges Lentz
- Liza Lim
- Carl (or Karl) Ferdinand August Linger (a.k.a. Charles Linger)
- Michael Lira
- Alexander Frame Lithgow
- Jonathan Little
- William Lovelock
- David Lumsdaine
- Jack Lumsdaine
M
- Mary Mageau
- Raffaele Marcellino
- Stephen Hale Marsh
- George Marshall-Hall
- Arthur Massey (composer)
- John Boswell Maver
- Mona McBurney
- John McAll
- Daniel Clive McCallum
- Charles William McCarthy
- David McCormack
- Peter Dodds McCormick
- Brett McKern
- Sir William McKie
- Richard Meale
- Doris Rosetta Elizabeth Mendoza, Australian pianist and theatre composer
- Sir Jonathan Mills
- Richard Mills
- Ernest Edwin Mitchell
- Kate Moore
- Stephen Moreno
- Graeme Morton
- Ian Munro
- William Murdoch
N
O
P
- Charles Sandys Packer
- Frederick Augustus Packer
- George Palmer
- Katharine "Kitty" Parker
- Anthony Pateras
- Raimund Pechotsch
- James Penberthy
- Michael (Mike) Perjanik
- Barrington Somers Pheloung
- Linda Phillips
Q
R
- Bert Rache
- Stephen Rae
- Alan Rattray
- Graeme Revell
- Ruby Reynolds-Lewis
- Damien Ricketson
- Arthur Rivers
- Sir William Robinson
- John Rodgers
- Hermann Rosendorff
- David Rumsey
S
- Wilbur Sampson
- Arline Sauer
- Albert Bokhare Saunders
- Andrew Schultz
- Peter Sculthorpe
- Luscombe Searelle
- Matthew Shlomowitz
- Thanapoom Sirichang
- Larry Sitsky
- Cezary Skubiszewski
- Jan Skubiszewski
- Joe Slater
- Roger Smalley
- Michael Sollis
- Benjamin Speed, film composer
- William Stanley (composer)
- Reginald Alberto Agrati Stoneham
- Robert James Stove
- Joseph Summers
- May Summerbelle
- Margaret Sutherland
T
- Peter Tahourdin
- Henry Tate
- George Tibbits
- Katia Tiutiunnik
- Richard Tognetti
- George William Torrance
- Ernest Truman
- Costas Tsicaderis
- Walter J. Turner
- Joseph Twist
V
W
- Don Walker
- Simon Walker
- Felix Werder
- Martin Wesley-Smith
- Fred Werner
- Nigel Westlake
- Alfred Wheeler
- Gillian Whitehead
- Stephen Whittington
- Christopher Willcock
- Malcolm Williamson
- David Worrall