Chronological list of Canadian classical composers
This is a list of notable Canadian classical music composers ordered by date of birth.
Baroque
Classical
Romantic
- Stephen Codman
- James P. Clarke
- Robert Ambrose
- Jean-Baptiste Labelle
- Célestin Lavigueur
- Ernest Gagnon
- Adélard Joseph Boucher
- Frantz Jehin-Prume
- Calixa Lavallée
- Gustave Gagnon
- Romain-Octave Pelletier I
- Joseph-A. Fowler
- Guillaume Couture
- J. E. P. Aldous
- Alexis Contant
- Alfred De Sève
- W. O. Forsyth
Post romantic/Early modern
- Louis-Phillipe Laurendeau
- Humfrey Anger
- Charles A.E. Harriss
- Achille Fortier
- Clarence Lucas
- Paul Ambrose
- Frédéric Pelletier
- W. H. Hewlett
- Joseph Allard
- Romain Pelletier
- Donald Heins
- Henri Miro
- Healey Willan
- Robert Nathaniel Dett
- Alfred La Liberté
- W.H. Anderson
- Robert Graham Manson
- J.-J. Gagnier
- Albertine Morin-Labrecque
- Albert Chamberland
- Frank Marsales
- Henri Gagnon
- Allard de Ridder
- Rodolphe Mathieu
- Lydia Boucher
- Claude Champagne
- Alexander Chuhaldin
- René Gagnier
- Omer Létourneau
- Léo-Pol Morin
- Ernest MacMillan
- Alfred Mignault
- Joseph Beaulieu
- Amice Calverley
- Eugène Lapierre
- Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté
Modern/Early postmodern
- Colin McPhee
- Hector Gratton
- Isabelle Delorme
- Lionel Daunais
- Gabriel Cusson
- Morris Davis
- Allan McIver
- Conrad Bernier
- Charles Houdret
- Bruce Holder
- Albertine Caron-Legris
- Murray Adaskin
- Boris Berlin
- Lucien Martin
- Jean Coulthard
- Jean Deslauriers
- Walter MacNutt
- Charles Jones
- Patricia Blomfield Holt
- Otto Joachim
- Keith Bissell
- Graham George
- Johana Harris
- Barbara Pentland
- Lucio Agostini
- Violet Archer
- John Weinzweig
- Henry Brant
- Hugh Le Caine
- Émilien Allard
- Ricky Hyslop
- Alexander Brott
- James Gayfer
- Jean Papineau-Couture
- Gaston Allaire
- Richard Johnston
- Herbert Belyea
- Samuel Dolin
- Robert Farnon
- Oskar Morawetz
- Godfrey Ridout
- Gordon Delamont
- Lorne Betts
- Louis Applebaum
- Gerald Bales
- Talivaldis Kenins
- István Anhalt
- Udo Kasemets
- Neil Chotem
- Robert Turner
- Howard Cable
- Robert Fleming
- Kelsey Jones
- Harry Freedman
- Jocelyne Binet
- Kenneth G. Mills
- Jack Kane
- Mort Garson
- Harry Somers
- Pierre Brabant
- Gérald Gagnier
- Victor Bouchard
- Alan Detweiler
- Raymond Daveluy
- François Morel
- Clermont Pépin
- Pierre Mercure
- John Beckwith
- Dolores Claman
- Carleton Elliott
- Lloyd Blackman
- André Mathieu
- Serge Garant
- Alfred Kunz
- Alcides Lanza
- Roger Matton
- Ron Collier
- Gustav Ciamaga
- Hugh Davidson
- Richard Hunt
- Ruth Lomon
- Milton Barnes
- F. R. C. Clarke
- Derek Holman
- Rudolf Komorous
- Glenn Gould
- Michael Colgrass
- Boyd McDonald
- Walter Buczynski
- R. Murray Schafer
- Ben McPeek
- Srul Irving Glick
- Norma Beecroft
- Jack Behrens
- John Arpin
- Milan Kymlicka
- Léon Bernier
- Malcolm Forsyth
- Hagood Hardy
- Ann Southam
- Michael Conway Baker
- Diana McIntosh
- Jacques Hétu
- Alain Gagnon
- Robert Aitken
- Victor Davies
- Bruce Mather
- Marc Bélanger
- John Wyre
- Brian Cherney
- José Evangelista
- Larry Lake
- Anne Lauber
- John Mills-Cockell
- James Montgomery
- John Hawkins
- John Fodi
- Bruce Carlson
- Raynald Arseneault
Contemporary/Postmodern
- Bruce Cockburn
- Yves Daoust
- René Dupéré
- Yves Lapierre
- Michel Longtin
- Nikolai Korndorf
- Walter Boudreau
- Clifford Ford
- Steven Gellman
- Peter Paul Koprowski
- Gene Martynec
- Claude Vivier
- Stephen Brown
- Jim Hiscott
- Lubomyr Melnyk
- Marjan Mozetich
- Chan Ka Nin
- David Foster
- Fariborz Lachini
- Alexina Louie
- Denis Bédard
- Christian Calon
- Stephen Chatman
- Michael Matthews
- John Burke
- Lisle Ellis
- Denis Gougeon
- Peter Allen
- Gilles Bellemare
- Jacques Faubert
- David MacIntyre
- Peter Hannan
- Christos Hatzis
- Scott Irvine
- Robin Minard
- Gary Kulesha
- Denys Bouliane
- Eleanor Joanne Daley
- Jean Derome
- William Beauvais
- Timothy Brady
- Paul Dolden
- Larysa Kuzmenko
- Linda Bouchard
- René Lussier
- Mychael Danna
- Colin Eatock
- Andrew Paul MacDonald
- John Abram
- James Gelfand
- James Keelaghan
- Omar Daniel
- Amin Bhatia
- John Burge
- Andrew Ager
- Ned Bouhalassa
- Arne Eigenfeldt
- Alain Lefèvre
- Leo Marchildon
- Allison Cameron
- Veronika Krausas
- Edwin Orion Brownell
- Benoît Charest
- Jeff Danna
- Brent Lee
- Allan Gilliland
- John Estacio
- Melissa Hui
- David Kristian
- André Éric Létourneau
- Lesley Barber
- Éric Morin
- Jocelyn Morlock
- Desmond Gaspar
- Chris Harman
- Analia Llugdar
- Emily Doolittle
- Airat Ichmouratov
- Derek Charke
- Kati Agócs
- Jimmie LeBlanc
- Andrew Staniland
- Aaron Gervais
- Christopher Mayo
- Vahram Sargsyan
- Samuel Andreyev
- Kyle Bobby Dunn
- Sarah Davachi
Jazz and other composers (listed alphabetically)
- Moe Koffman
- Phil Nimmons
- Robert Normandeau
- Oscar O'Brien
- Michael Oesterle
- John Oliver
- Charles O'Neill
- John Oswald
- Owen Pallett
- Donald Patriquin
- Trevor W. Payne
- Kenneth Peacock
- Paul Pedersen
- Oscar Peterson
- Michel Perrault
- Jean Piché
- Dave Pierce
- Randolph Peters
- Benoît Poirier
- Paul Pratt
- Albert Pratz
- André Prévost
- Harry Puddicombe
- Donald Quan
- Allan Rae
- Imant Raminsh
- Jan Randall
- Eldon Rathburn
- Elizabeth Raum
- John Rea
- William Reed
- Bill Richards
- Doug Riley
- André Ristic
- Normand Roger
- Stan Rogers
- James Rolfe
- Ivan Romanoff
- Clark Ross
- Myke Roy
- Stéphane Roy
- Welford Russell
- Jeffrey Ryan
- Marc Sabat
- Charles Wugk Sabatier
- Patrick Saint-Denis
- Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux
- Herbert Sanders
- Armando Santiago
- Charles Sauvageau
- Oliver Schroer
- Ernest Seitz
- Paul Shaffer
- Rodney Sharman
- Howard Shore
- Anita Sleeman
- Linda Catlin Smith
- Leo Smith
- David Squires
- Paul Steenhuisen
- Ben Steinberg
- Donald Steven
- Fred Stone
- Timothy Sullivan
- Norman Symonds
- Boleslaw Szczeniowski
- Robert Talbot
- Georges-Émile Tanguay
- Oscar Ferdinand Telgmann
- Steve Tittle
- Peter Togni
- Roman Toi
- Jerry Toth
- Rudy Toth
- Bramwell Tovey
- Jiří Traxler
- Amédée Tremblay
- George Tremblay
- Gilles Tremblay
- Barry Truax
- Ian Tyson
- Owen Underhill
- Jean Vallerand
- Stéphane Venne
- Benoît Verdickt
- Joseph Vézina
- Albert Viau
- Michael Vincent
- Augustus Stephen Vogt
- Calvin Vollrath
- Arnold Walter
- Ruth Watson Henderson
- Frank Welsman
- John Welsman
- Hildegard Westerkamp
- Dinuk Wijeratne
- Eric Wild
- Rick Wilkins
- Charles Wilson
- Scott Wilson
- Édouard Woolley
- Kathleen Yearwood
- Gayle Young
- Maurice Zbriger
- Rui Shi Zhuo
- Joel Zimmerman
- León Zuckert