List of organ composers

Modern

Alberto Ginastera

Renaissance

Elias Ammerbach

Christian Erbach

Hans Leo Hassler

Jakob Hassler

Paul Hofhaimer

Hans Kotter

Conrad Paumann

Hieronymus Praetorius

Arnolt Schlick

Baroque

Johann Friedrich Alberti

Johann Sebastian Bach

Georg Böhm

Jakob Bölsche

Nicolaus Bruhns

Arnold Brunckhorst

Johann Heinrich Buttstett

Dieterich Buxtehude (born in Denmark)

Andreas Düben

Johann Ernst Eberlin

Daniel Erich

Werner Fabricius

Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer

Christian Flor

Johann Philipp Förtsch

Johann Jakob Froberger

Christian Geist

Daniel Magnus Gronau

George Frideric Handel

Johann Nikolaus Hanff

Peter Hasse

Petrus Heydorn

Ewaldt Hintz

Wilhelm Karges

Johann Caspar Kerll

Johann Erasmus Kindermann

Andreas Kneller

Jakob Kortkamp

Johann Ludwig Krebs

Johann Tobias Krebs

Johann Krieger

Joseph Kromolicki

Johann Kuhnau

Georg Dietrich Leyding

Johan Lorentz the Younger

Vincent Lübeck

Johann Mattheson

Peter Mohrhardt

Georg Muffat

Gottlieb Muffat

Franz Xaver Murschhauser

Andreas Neunhaber

Johann Pachelbel

Alessandro Poglietti

Jacob Praetorius

Michael Praetorius

Johann Adam Reincken

Ferdinand Tobias Richter

Christian Ritter

Georg Wilhelm Saxer

Heinrich Scheidemann

Gottfried Scheidt

Samuel Scheidt

Sebastian Anton Scherer

Melchior Schildt

Heinrich Schütz

Paul Siefert

Johann Speth

Johann Staden

Johann Steffens

Johann Ulrich Steigleder

Delphin Strungk

Franz Tunder

Nicolaus Vetter

Johann Gottfried Walther

Georg Caspar Wecker

Matthias Weckmann

Andreas Werckmeister

Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow

Classical

Johann Georg Albrechtsberger

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Johann Ernst Eberlin

Johann Wilhelm Hertel

Gottfried August Homilius

Johann Christian Kittel

Justin Heinrich Knecht

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Christian Heinrich Rinck

Simon Sechter

Romantic

Johannes Brahms

Anton Bruckner

Otto Dienel

Robert Fuchs

Johann Georg Herzog

Heinrich von Herzogenberg

Adolf Friedrich Hesse

Sigfrid Karg-Elert

Theodor Kirchner

Franz Paul Lachner

Felix Mendelssohn

Wilhelm Middelschulte

Max Reger

Julius Reubke

Josef Rheinberger (born in Liechtenstein)

August Gottfried Ritter

Franz Schmidt

Robert Schumann

Heinrich Wilhelm Stolze

Wilhelm Valentin Volckmar

Waldemar von Baußnern

Max Wagenknecht

Alexander Winterberger

Karl Wolfrum

Philipp Wolfrum

Modern

Joseph Ahrens

Juan Allende-Blin (born in Chile)

Peter Bares

Max Baumann

Jürg Baur

Joachim Blume

Helmut Bornefeld

Gerard Bunk (born in Netherlands)

Johann Nepomuk David

Hugo Distler

Max Drischner

Hans Gál

Zsolt Gárdonyi (born in Hungary)

Harald Genzmer

Hermann Grabner

Joseph Haas

Peter Michael Hamel

Josef Matthias Hauer

Anton Heiller

Jörg Herchet

Kurt Hessenberg

Paul Hindemith

Karl Höller

Karl Hoyer

Bertold Hummel

Werner Jacob

Mauricio Kagel (born in Argentina)

Heinrich Kaminski

Peter Jona Korn

Ernst Krenek

Augustinus Franz Kropfreiter

Theophil Laitenberger

Arno Landmann

Norbert Linke

Fritz Lubrich

Tilo Medek

Wolfgang Mitterer

Ernst Pepping

Peter Planyavsky

Günter Raphael

Siegfried Reda

Wolfgang Rihm

Thomas Daniel Schlee

Dieter Schnebel

Hermann Schroeder

Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling

Johanna Senfter

Oskar Sigmund

Gerhard Stäbler

Wolfgang Stockmeier

Dominik Susteck

Gottfried von Einem

Heinz Wunderlich

Gerd Zacher

Ruth Zechlin

Baroque

Lambert Chaumont

Peeter Cornet

Abraham van den Kerckhoven

Classical

Josse-François-Joseph Benaut

Mathias van den Gheyn

Romantic

Joseph Callaerts

Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens

Alphonse Mailly

Raymond Moulaert

Désiré Pâque

Modern

Maurice Guillaume

Joseph Jongen

Paul de Maleingreau

Benoît Mernier

Arthur Meulemans

Flor Peeters

Firmin Swinnen

Joris Verdin

Guy Weitz

Brazil

Fabio Costa

Alberto Nepomuceno

Romantic

Joseph-Arthur Bernier

Gustave Gagnon

Benoit Poirier

Healey Willan

Modern

Gerald Bales

H. Hugh Bancroft

Denis Bédard

Barrie Cabena

Raymond Daveluy

Jacobus Kloppers (born in South Africa)

Rachel Laurin

Georges-Émile Tanguay

Classical

Fortunat Pintarić

Modern

Anđelko Klobučar

Baroque

Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský

Václav Jan Kopřiva

Josef Seger

Jan Zach

Classical

František Xaver Brixi

Karel Blažej Kopřiva

Jan Křtitel Kuchař

Romantic

Josef Klička

Josef Labor

Modern

Petr Eben

Alois Hába

Miloslav Kabeláč

Michal Novenko

Zdeněk Pololáník

Luboš Sluka

Miloš Sokola

Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann

Romantic

Camillo Carlsen

Niels Gade

Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann

Gustav Helsted

Edgar Henrichsen

Johan Adam Krygell

Otto Malling

Gottfred Matthison-Hansen

Hans Matthison-Hansen

Carl Nielsen

Modern

Bernhard Christensen

Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen

Erik Haumann

Knud Høgenhaven

Knud Jeppesen

Leif Kayser

Rued Langgaard

Bernhard Lewkovitch

Jesper Madsen

Frederik Magle

Svend-Ove Møller

Otto Sandberg Nielsen

Per Nørgård

Ib Nørholm

Niels Otto Raasted

Poul Ruders

Paul Rung-Keller

Leif Thybo

Finn Viderø

Romantic

Rudolf Tobias

Modern

Alfred Karindi

Arvo Pärt

Peeter Süda

Romantic

Richard Faltin

Modern

Kalevi Aho

Paavo Heininen

Aimo Känkänen

Kalevi Kiviniemi

Joonas Kokkonen

Taneli Kuusisto

Armas Maasalo

Väinö Raitio

Einojuhani Rautavaara

Sulo Salonen

Santeri Siimes

Renaissance

Jean Titelouze

Baroque (French classical)

Louis Archimbaud

Jacques Boyvin

Guillaume-Antoine Calvière

Louis-Nicolas Clérambault

Gaspard Corrette

François Couperin

Louis Couperin

François d'Agincourt

Jean-François Dandrieu

Pierre Dandrieu

Jean-Henri d'Anglebert

Louis-Claude Daquin

Nicolas de Grigny

Louis-Antoine Dornel

Pierre Dumage

Dom George Franck

Nicolas Gigault

Jean-Adam Guilain (born in Germany)

Gilles Jullien

Mathieu Lanes

Nicolas Lebègue

Louis Marchand

Christophe Moyreau

Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers

Charles Piroye

Charles Racquet

André Raison

François Roberday

Late Classical

Claude-Bénigne Balbastre

Jacques-Marie Beauvarlet-Charpentier

Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier

Alexandre Pierre François Boëly

Jean-Baptiste Charbonnier

Michel Corrette

Armand-Louis Couperin

Guillaume Lasceux

Jean-Nicolas Marrigues

Jean-Baptiste Nôtre

Louis-Nicolas Séjan

Nicolas Séjan

Romantic

Albert Alain

Augustin Barié

Édouard Batiste

François Benoist

Émile Bernard

Léon Boëllmann

Joseph-Ermend Bonnal

Joseph Bonnet

Joseph Boulnois

Henri Büsser

Alexandre Eugène Cellier

Charles-Alexis Chauvet

Henri Dallier

Léonce de Saint-Martin

Théodore Dubois

Paul Fauchet

Félix Fourdrain

César Franck (born in Belgium)

Dynam-Victor Fumet

Eugène Gigout

Alexandre Guilmant

Charles Koechlin

Louis Lebel

Maurice Le Boucher

Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély

Henri Letocart

Clément Loret (born in Belgium)

Édouard Mignan

Henri Mulet

Henri Nibelle

Gabriel Pierné

Albert Renaud

Samuel Rousseau

Camille Saint-Saëns

Alphonse Schmitt

Déodat de Séverac

Charles Tournemire

Louis Vierne

René Vierne

Charles-Marie Widor

Modern

Jehan Alain

Paul Allix

Valéry Aubertin

Dom Paul Benoit, OSB

Jacques Berthier

Jean Marie Berveiller

Michel Boulnois

Pierre Camonin

Pierre Cochereau

Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur

Jeanne Demessieux

Marcel Dupré

Maurice Duruflé

Rolande Falcinelli

André Fleury

Jean-Louis Florentz

Jean Froidevaux

Raphaël Fumet

Jean-Jacques Grunenwald

Jean Guillou

Naji Hakim (born in Lebanon)

André Jolivet

Germaine Labole

Jean Langlais

Jean-Pierre Leguay

Gaston Litaize

Loïc Mallié

Olivier Messiaen

Guy Morançon

Thierry Pallesco

Jacques Pichard

Henriette Puig-Roget

Eugène Reuchsel

Jean-Baptiste Robin

Daniel Roth

Romantic

Franz Liszt

Modern

Dezső Antalffy-Zsiross

Zoltán Gárdonyi

György Ligeti

Zsigmond Szathmáry

Renaissance

Vincenzo Bellavere

Girolamo Cavazzoni

Marco Antonio Cavazzoni

Giovanni de Macque (born in Netherlands)

Girolamo Diruta

Andrea Gabrieli

Giovanni Gabrieli

Luzzasco Luzzaschi

Ascanio Mayone

Claudio Merulo

Rocco Rodio

Antonio Valente

Adrian Willaert (born in what is now Belgium)

Baroque

Girolamo Frescobaldi

Gaetano Greco

Tarquinio Merula

Pietro Domenico Paradisi

Bernardo Pasquini

Michelangelo Rossi

Giovanni Salvatore

Alessandro Scarlatti

Domenico Scarlatti

Bernardo Storace

Gregorio Strozzi

Giovanni Maria Trabaci

Domenico Zipoli

Classical

Ignacio Cirri

Francesco Corbisieri

Padre Davide da Bergamo

Fedele Fenaroli

Giacomo Insanguine

Giuseppe Sarti

Romantic

Giulio Bas

Marco Enrico Bossi

Filippo Capocci

Giovanni Morandi

Oreste Ravanello

Roberto Remondi

Giovanni Tebaldini

Modern

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

Raffaele Manari

Luigi Molfino

Massimo Nosetti

Japan

Shigeru Kan-no

Lithuania

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis

Juozas Naujalis

Latvia

Aivars Kalējs

Pēteris Vasks

Mexico

Miguel Bernal Jiménez

Alfonso de Elías

Mario Lavista

Renaissance

Hendrik Speuy

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

Baroque

Gisbert Steenwick

Quirinus van Blankenburg

Anthoni van Noordt

Romantic

Johannes Gijsbertus Bastiaans

Richard Hol

Daniël de Lange

Samuel de Lange Jr.

Samuel de Lange Sr.

Jean-Baptiste de Pauw

Hendrik de Vries

Christiaan Frederik Hendriks

Johannes Barend Litzau

Edouard Silas

Jan Albert van Eijken

Marius Hendrik van’t Kruijs

Johan Wagenaar

Johannes Worp

Jan Zwart

Modern

Hendrik Andriessen

Henk Badings

Bernard Bartelink

Jacob Bijster

Ton Bruynèl

Cornelis Bute

Albert de Klerk

Ton de Leeuw

Wim de Ruiter

Piet Groenendijk

Cor Kee

Piet Kee

Arie Keijzer

Cor Kint

Hans Kox

Daan Manneke

Bert Matter

Marius Monnikendam

Jan Mul

Herman Nieland

Jan Nieland

Rob Peters

Joep Straesser

Herman Strategier

Simeon ten Holt

Louis Toebosch

Jos van Amelsvoort

Anthon van der Horst

Jan van Dijk

Paul Christiaan van Westering

Niek Verkruisen

Jan Vriend

Ad Wammes

Jan Welmers

Frank Zabel

Romantic

Fridthjov Anderssen

Johannes Haarklou

Peter Brynie Lindeman

Modern

Magnar Åm

Egil Hovland

Thorolf Høyer-Finn

Kjell Mørk Karlsen

Rolf Kåre Karlsen

Arnljot Kjeldaas

Trond Kverno

Ludvig Nielsen

Knut Nystedt

Arild Sandvold

Bjarne Sløgedal

Renaissance

Nicolaus Cracoviensis

Jan of Lublin

Baroque

Adam of Wągrowiec

Classical

Karol Kurpiński

Romantic

Konstanty Gorski

Stanisław Moniuszko

Feliks Nowowiejski

Mieczysław Surzyński

Władysław Żeleński

Modern

Grażyna Bacewicz

Augustyn Bloch

Karol Hławiczka

Jan Janca

Jan Adam Maklakiewicz

Marian Sawa

Bolesław Szabelski

Aleksander Szeligowski

Alexandre Tansman

Renaissance

António Carreira

Manuel Rodrigues Coelho

Baroque

Carlos Seixas

Classicism

João de Sousa Carvalho

Modern

Luís de Freitas Branco

Modern

Christian Wilhelm Berger

Romantic

Alexander Glazunov

Alexander Goedicke

Modern

Georgi Alexandrowitsch Mushel

Mikael Tariverdiev (born in Georgia)

Baroque

Pavlín Bajan

Leopold Gaudentius Dettelbach

Samuel Marckfelner

Jozef Pantaleón Roškovský

Ján Adam Šantroch

Zachariáš Zarevúcky

Romantic

Ján Levoslav Bella

Modern

Peter Machajdik

Modern

Stefans Grové

Renaissance

Francisco Correa de Arauxo

Antonio de Cabezón

Sebastian Aguilera de Heredia

Joaquín Martínez de Oxinagas

Tomás de Santa María

Baroque

Pablo Bruna

Juan Cabanilles

Josep Elies

Antonio Martín y Coll

José Ximénez

Classical

Pedro Carrera y Lanchares

Joaquín Martínez de Oxinagas

José Lidón

Antonio Soler

Romantic

Felipe Gorriti

Eduardo Torres

Modern

José María Beobide

Tomás de Elduayen

Jesús Guridi

Nemesio Otaño

Luís Urteaga

Romantic

Elfrida Andrée

Harald Fryklöf

Gustaf Hägg

Oskar Lindberg

Otto Olsson

Emil Sjögren

Modern

Thomas Åberg

Hans-Ola Ericsson

Bengt Hambraeus

Torsten Nilsson

Hilding Rosenberg

Fredrik Sixten

Erland von Koch

Michael Waldenby

Kurt Wiklander

Renaissance

Fridolin Sicher

Modern

Alfred Baum

Conrad Beck

Ernest Bloch

Guy Bovet

Adolf Brunner

Willy Burkhard

Max Kuhn

Paul Müller-Zürich

Bernard Reichel

Benjamin Righetti

Lionel Rogg

Carl Rütti

Bernard Schulé

Renaissance

William Byrd

Orlando Gibbons

John Lugge

Thomas Tallis

Baroque

John Blow

Jeremiah Clarke

William Croft

Henry Purcell

Classical

William Boyce

Benjamin Cooke

John Stanley

Romantic

Walter Galpin Alcock

Edward Bairstow

Herbert Brewer

E. T. Cook

Edward Elgar

Basil Harwood

John Ireland

Hubert Parry

Ronald Richardson Potter

John Stainer

Charles Villiers Stanford (born in Ireland)

William Litton Viner

Samuel Sebastian Wesley

William Wolstenholme

Charles Wood

Modern

Lennox Berkeley

Jonathan Bielby

Judith Bingham

Hugh Blair

Frank Bridge

David Briggs

James Francis Brown

Lawrence Crane

Harold Darke

David Gwerfyl Davies

Peter Maxwell Davies

Peter Dickinson

James Douglas

George Dyson

Michael Finnissy

Graham Fitkin

Percy Fletcher

Sebastian Forbes

Peter Fribbins

Alan Gibbs

Patrick Gowers

Thomas Vernon Griffiths

William Henry Harris

Herbert Howells

Peter Hurford

Francis Jackson

Gabriel Jackson

Craig Sellar Lang (born in New Zealand)

Kenneth Leighton

William Mathias

Peter McGarr

Herbert Murrill

Harrison Oxley

Ian Parrott

Paul Patterson

Simon Preston

Alan Ridout

Martin Shaw

Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji

Christopher Steel

Herbert Sumsion

George Thalben-Ball (born in Australia)

Eric Thiman

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Percy Whitlock

Malcolm Williamson (born in Australia)

Arthur Wills

Modern

Valeri Kikta

Mykola Kolessa

Romantic

Dudley Buck

George Whitefield Chadwick

Arthur Foote

John Knowles Paine

Horatio Parker

Fela Sowande

Frank Speller

Whitney Eugene Thayer

Modern

Samuel Adler

Miguel del Aguila

William Albright

George C. Baker

Samuel Barber

Edward Shippen Barnes

Seth Bingham

William Bolcom

John Cage

Joseph W. Clokey

Carson Cooman

Pamela Decker

Emma Lou Diemer

Robert Elmore

Philip Glass

Calvin Hampton

David N. Johnson

Paul Manz

Joel Martinson

Charlemagne Palestine

Stephen Paulus

Vincent Persichetti

Daniel Pinkham

Richard Purvis

Steve Reich

Terry Riley

Myron J. Roberts

McNeil Robinson II

Ned Rorem

John Serry Sr.

Leo Sowerby

Giles Swayne

Richard White

Charles Wuorinen

Pietro Yon (born in Italy)

Richard Zarou