List of piano composers
This is a list of piano composers.
Renaissance and Baroque periods
- Domenico Alberti
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- William Byrd
- Louis Couperin
- François Couperin
- Louis-Claude Daquin
- Girolamo Frescobaldi
- Johann Jacob Froberger
- Baldassare Galuppi
- Orlando Gibbons
- Lodovico Giustini
- Christoph Graupner
- George Frideric Handel
- Johann Kuhnau
- Johann Pachelbel
- Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli
- Domenico Paradies
- Giovanni Benedetto Platti
- Henry Purcell
- Jean-Philippe Rameau
- Alessandro Scarlatti
- Domenico Scarlatti
- Georg Philipp Telemann
- Antonio Vivaldi
Classical period
- Louis Adam
- Bonifazio Asioli
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- Johann Christian Bach
- Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach
- Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
- Carlos Baguer
- Franz Ignaz Beck
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Georg Benda
- Ludwig Berger
- João Domingos Bomtempo
- Domenico Cimarosa
- Muzio Clementi
- Philip Cogan
- Johann Baptist Cramer
- Franz Danzi
- Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
- František Xaver Dušek
- Jan Ladislav Dussek
- Anton Eberl
- Józef Elsner
- Joseph Leopold Eybler
- Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari
- Emanuel Aloys Förster
- Joseph Gelinek
- Tommaso Giordani
- Johann Wilhelm Hässler
- Joseph Haydn
- Franz Anton Hoffmeister
- James Hook
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel
- Hyacinthe Jadin
- Leopold Kozeluch
- Joseph Martin Kraus
- Franz Krommer
- Nikolaus von Krufft
- Joseph Küffner
- Francesca Lebrun
- Marianna Martines
- Étienne Méhul
- Hélène de Montgeroult
- Leopold Mozart
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- August Eberhard Müller
- Josef Mysliveček
- Johann Gottlieb Naumann
- Christian Gottlob Neefe
- Sigismund von Neukomm
- Giovanni Paisiello
- Ignaz Pleyel
- Johann Friedrich Reichardt
- Anton Reicha
- Antonio Rosetti
- Friedrich Wilhelm Rust
- Antonio Salieri
- Johann Schobert
- Johann Samuel Schroeter
- Joseph Anton Steffan
- Antonio Soler
- Fernando Sor
- Daniel Steibelt
- Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel
- Johann Baptist Wanhal
- Václav Jan Tomášek
- Daniel Gottlob Türk
- Samuel Wesley
- Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse
- Johann Wilhelm Wilms
- Joseph Wölfl
- Paul Wranitzky
Romantic period
- Charles-Valentin Alkan
- Anton Arensky
- Tekla Bądarzewska
- Mily Balakirev
- Friedrich Baumfelder
- Amy Beach
- Franz Bendel
- William Sterndale Bennett
- Peter Benoit
- Wilhelm Berger
- Henri Bertini
- Felix Blumenfeld
- Charles Samuel Bovy-Lysberg
- Johannes Brahms
- Friedrich Burgmüller
- Hans von Bülow
- Ignacio Cervantes
- Emmanuel Chabrier
- Cécile Chaminade
- Frédéric Chopin
- Aloÿs Claussmann
- Carl Czerny
- Eugen d'Albert
- Élie-Miriam Delaborde
- Charles Delioux
- Anton Diabelli
- Theodor Döhler
- Gaetano Donizetti
- Alexander Dreyschock
- Felix Dreyschock
- Antonín Dvořák
- Michele Esposito
- Gabriel Fauré
- Zdeněk Fibich
- John Field
- Julian Fontana
- Adolfo Fumagalli
- Mikhail Glinka
- Henri Gobbi
- Benjamin Godard
- Louis Moreau Gottschalk
- Edvard Grieg
- Agathe Backer Grøndahl
- Cornelius Gurlitt
- Adolphe Gutmann
- Charles-Louis Hanon
- Stephen Heller
- Swan Hennessy
- Adolf von Henselt
- Ferdinand Hérold
- Henri Herz
- Franz Hitz
- Ferdinand Hiller
- Franz Hünten
- Salomon Jadassohn
- Alfred Jaëll
- Marie Jaëll
- Scott Joplin
- Rafael Joseffy
- Friedrich Kalkbrenner
- Jan Kalivoda
- Joseph Christoph Kessler
- Theodor Kirchner
- Anton de Kontski
- Wilhelm Kuhe
- Friedrich Kuhlau
- Theodor Kullak
- Franz Lachner
- Théodore Lack
- Franz Liszt
- Henry Litolff
- Sergei Lyapunov
- Mykola Lysenko
- Edward MacDowell
- George Alexander Macfarren
- Giuseppe Martucci
- Désiré Magnus
- Antoine François Marmontel
- William Mason
- Fanny Mendelssohn
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Amédée Méreaux
- Aleksander Michalowski
- Ignaz Moscheles
- Moritz Moszkowski
- Franz Xaver Mozart
- Modest Mussorgsky
- Vítězslav Novák
- Joseph O'Kelly
- Arthur O'Leary
- George Onslow
- Paul Pabst
- Jan Gerard Palm
- Cipriani Potter
- Émile Prudent
- Alfred Quidant
- Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Joachim Raff
- Max Reger
- Carl Reinecke
- Julius Reubke
- Josef Rheinberger
- Ferdinand Ries
- Julius Rietz
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Anton Rubinstein
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Wassily Sapellnikoff
- Xaver Scharwenka
- Aloys Schmitt
- Friedrich Schneider
- Franz Schubert
- Julius Schulhoff
- Clara Schumann
- Robert Schumann
- Ludvig Schytte
- Giovanni Sgambati
- Jean Sibelius
- Bedřich Smetana
- Sydney Smith
- Charles Villiers Stanford
- Camille-Marie Stamaty
- Wilhelm Taubert
- Karl Tausig
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Thomas Tellefsen
- Sigismond Thalberg
- Jan Václav Voříšek
- Carl Maria von Weber
- Józef Wieniawski
- Aleksander Zarzycki
- Władysław Żeleński
Contemporary
- Philip Aaberg
- Thomas Adès
- Lera Auerbach
- Nicolas Bacri
- Rich Batsford
- Giorgio Battistelli
- Jason Charles Beck
- Luciano Berio
- Bart Berman
- Dave Brubeck
- Dimitrije Bužarovski
- Cornelius Cardew
- Roberto Carnevale
- Unsuk Chin
- Artur Cimirro
- Aldo Clementi
- Julian Cochran
- Chick Corea
- George Crumb
- Norman Dello Joio
- Alma Deutscher
- Franco Donatoni
- James Douglas
- Tan Dun
- George Duke
- Julius Eastman
- Ludovico Einaudi
- Tanya Ekanayaka
- Roger Evernden
- Mohammed Fairouz
- Morton Feldman
- Lorenzo Ferrero
- Graham Fitkin
- Carlo Forlivesi
- Nils Frahm
- Ola Gjeilo
- Philip Glass
- Chilly Gonzales
- Henryk Górecki
- Robert Greenberg
- Christian Grøvlen
- Marc-André Hamelin
- Herbie Hancock
- Ichiko Hashimoto
- Kenneth Hesketh
- Alistair Hinton
- Joe Hisaishi
- Christopher Hobbs
- Stephen Hough
- Abdullah Ibrahim
- Airat Ichmouratov
- Keith Jarrett
- Aivars Kalējs
- Shigeru Kan-no
- Nikolai Kapustin
- Elena Kats-Chernin
- Pierre Kolp
- Martin Kutnowski
- György Ligeti
- Ji Liu
- Frederik Magle
- Klaus Mertens
- Fred Momotenko
- Conlon Nancarrow
- David Nevue
- Luka Okros
- Yukie Nishimura
- Christopher Norton
- Michael Nyman
- Chris Opperman
- Ozymandias
- Michael Parsons
- David Pentecost
- Wolfgang Plagge
- Tomi Räisänen
- Jan Randall
- Anirudh Ravichander
- Dino Residbegovic
- Max Richter
- Diana Ringo
- Arturo Rodas
- Alexander Rosenblatt
- Lee Ru-ma a.k.a. Yiruma
- Bernhard Ruchti
- Frederic Rzewski
- Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Fazıl Say
- Giacinto Scelsi
- Avi Schönfeld
- Jon Schmidt
- Salvatore Sciarrino
- Peter Seabourne
- Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin
- Yoko Shimomura
- Gregory Short
- Hugh Shrapnel
- Arlene Sierra
- Howard Skempton
- Dave Smith
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Ananda Sukarlan
- William Susman
- Yuji Takahashi
- Karen Tanaka
- Jennifer Thomas
- Robert Scott Thompson
- Yann Tiersen
- Julia Tsenova
- Pēteris Vasks
- Carl Verbraeken
- Carl Vine
- Ezequiel Viñao
- John White
- George Winston
- Yehuda Yannay
- Yanni
- Joji Yuasa
- Yitzhak Yedid
- Isang Yun
- Yoshiki
- Edson Zampronha
- Joe Zawinul
- Ralph Zurmühle