List of Romanian composers
The following is a list of Romanian composers.
- Liana Alexandra, neoromantic composer and pianist
- Elena Asachi, Austrian-born Romanian composer, pianist, and singer
- Nicolas Astrinidis, composer who settled and worked in Greece
- Anton Pann, composer, folklorist, orthodox chanter
- Esmeralda Athanasiu-Gardeev, composer and pianist
- Ana-Maria Avram, spectral music composer
- Maya Badian, Romanian-born Canadian composer and musicologist
- Filaret Barbu, composer, known for the operetta Ana Lugojana
- Pascal Bentoiu, Modernist composer
- Tiberiu Brediceanu, composer and folklorist
- Nicolae Bretan, opera composer, also baritone, conductor and critic
- Ion Căianu, the first to record the custom Călușari dance
- Dimitrie Cantemir, composer, historian, writer, folklorist
- Eduard Caudella, composer, wrote the first Romanian opera, Petru Rareș
- Sergiu Celibidache, composer and conductor
- Maia Ciobanu
- Paul Constantinescu, composer, especially of religious and vocal music, also wrote music for Romanian films
- Vladimir Cosma, composer, conductor and violinist
- Dimitrie Cuclin, classical music composer, musicologist, philosopher, translator, and writer
- Constantin Dimitrescu, composer of Peasant Dance
- Violeta Dinescu, composer and pianist
- Grigoraș Dinicu, composer best known for his violin showpiece Hora staccato
- Felicia Donceanu, composer best known for chamber works, painter, and sculptor
- Sabin Drăgoi, composer and folklorist, one of the pioneers of scientific gathering of Romanian folklore
- Iancu Dumitrescu, avant-garde music composer
- George Enescu, composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and teacher
- Valentin Gheorghiu, pianist and composer
- Irina Olga Hasnaș
- Philip Herschkowitz, Romanian-born American composer
- , pianist, improviser, composer and teacher
- Ion Ivanovici, composer of The Danube Waves waltz
- Mihail Jora, "the father of Romanian ballet"; works include Intoarcerea din adâncuri and La piață
- Nicolae Kirculescu, composer of theatre and film music, including the theme of the television programme Teleenciclopedia
- Dumitru Georgescu Kiriac
- Sorin Lerescu
- Sammy Lerner, Romanian-born American composer
- György Ligeti, Transylvanian-born Hungarian and Austrian composer
- Dinu Lipatti, pianist and composer
- Myriam Marbe, composer and pianist
- Cristian Matei
- Marcel Mihalovici
- Teo Milea, pianist and composer
- Gavriil Musicescu, composer, conductor and musicologist
- Octavian Nemescu, composer and professor
- Șerban Nichifor, neoromantic composer and cellist
- Ştefan Niculescu, composer and professor
- Irina Odăgescu, music educator and composer
- Tiberiu Olah, composer, teacher, and musicologist
- Anton Pann, wrote Romania's national anthem and music for the Orthodox Divine Liturgy
- Cristian Pațurcă
- Ionel Perlea, composer and conductor
- Carmen Petra Basacopol, composer, pianist, and academic
- Ciprian Porumbescu, composer
- Horațiu Rădulescu, Romanian-French composer of spectral music
- Doina Rotaru, composer of mainly orchestral and chamber works
- Constantin Silvestri, composer, lived in England
- Matei Socor, composer and musician
- Cornelia Tăutu, composer best known for film soundtracks
- Octave Octavian Teodorescu
- Sigismund Toduță
- Cornel Trăilescu, opera composer and conductor
- Anatol Vieru, composer of symphonic, chamber and choral music; winner of Herder Prize in 1986
- Marina Marta Vlad, composer
- Roman Vlad, Romanian-born Italian composer, pianist and musicologist