List of composers for lute
This is a list of composers who wrote for lute and similar period instruments: theorbo, chitarrone, vihuela etc. Composers who worked outside of their country of origin are listed according to where they were most active, i.e. German-born Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger is listed under Italy. Within sections, the order is alphabetical by surname.
Renaissance and Baroque
Italy
Late 15th century to mid-16th century
- Giovanni Maria Alemanni
- Pietro Paolo Borrono
- Franciscus Bossinensis
- Vincenzo Capirola
- Marco Dall'Aquila
- Joan Ambrosio Dalza
- Francesco Canova da Milano
- Francesco Spinacino
- Giovanni Angelo Testagrossa
Mid 16th–17th centuries
- Bellerofonte Castaldi
- Francesco Corbetta, composer for Baroque guitar
- Fabrizio Dentice
- The Galilei family:
- * Vincenzo Galilei
- * Michelagnolo Galilei, his son
- Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger
- Simone Molinaro
- Alessandro Piccinini
- Giovanni Zamboni
Late 17th–18th centuries
France
- Pierre Attaingnant
- Robert Ballard
- Julien Belin
- Jean-Baptiste Besard
- Pierre Blondeau
- Mlle Bocquet
- François de Chancy
- François Dufaut
- Jacques Gallot
- The Gaultier family:
- * Denis Gaultier
- * Ennemond Gaultier, his cousin
- Jacques Gautier
- Pierre Gautier
- René Mesangeau
- Germain Pinel
- Guillaume Morlaye
- Charles Mouton
- Jean-Paul Paladin
- Julien Perrichon
- Jakub Reys
- Albert de Rippe
- Adrian Le Roy
- Robert de Visée
Spain
- Esteban Daza
- Miguel de Fuenllana
- Francisco Guerau
- Luys Milan
- Alonso de Mudarra
- Santiago de Murcia
- Luys de Narváez
- Diego Pisador
- Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz
- Gaspar Sanz
- Enríquez de Valderrábano
England
- Daniel Bacheler
- Thomas Campion
- Francis Cutting
- John Danyel
- The Dowland family:
- * John Dowland
- * Robert Dowland
- Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder
- Cuthbert Hely
- Anthony Holborne
- The Johnson family:
- * John Johnson
- * Robert Johnson
- Robert Jones
- Peter Philips
- Thomas Robinson
- Philip Rosseter
Netherlands/Belgium
- Emanuel Adriaenssen
- Joachim van den Hove
- Constantijn Huygens
- Philips van Marnix van Sint-Aldegonde
- Johannes Matelart
- Josquin des Prez
- Jacques de Saint-Luc
- Nicolas Vallet
- Philip van Wilder
Germany/Austria
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Jacques Bittner
- Ernst Gottlieb Baron
- Adam Falckenhagen
- Bernhard Joachim Hagen
- Hans Gerle
- Hans Judenkünig
- David Kellner
- Karl Kohaut
- Johann Kropfgans
- Wolff Jakob Lauffensteiner
- Elias Mertel
- Hans Neusidler
- Esaias Reusner
- Sebastian Anton Scherer
- Arnolt Schlick
- Silvius Leopold Weiss