The 100 Greatest Composers

Composers are chosen for their innovation and influence, as well as their aesthetic importance and historical significance.

Includes film score composers

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Nationality	Answer
American	Aaron Copland
American	Alan Silvestri
American	Bernard Herrmann
American	Danny Elfman
American	George Gershwin
American	James Horner
American	Jerry Goldsmith
American	John Cage
American	John Williams
American	Leonard Bernstein
American	Philip Glass
American	Thomas Newman
American	Samuel Barber
Armenian	Aram Khachaturian
Austrian	Alban Berg
Austrian	Anton Bruckner
Austrian	Arnold Schoenberg
Austrian	Franz Schubert
Austrian	Erich Korngold
Austrian	Gustav Mahler
Austrian	Johann Strauss II
Austrian	Joseph Haydn
Austrian	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Azerbaijani	Uzeyir Hajibeyov
Belgian	César Franck
Brazilian	Heitor Villa-Lobos
Canadian	Howard Shore
Czech	Antonín Dvořák
Czech	Bedrick Smetana
Czech	Leos Janácek
English	Arthur Sullivan
English	Benjamin Britten
English	Edward Elgar
English	Gustav Holst

Nationality	Answer
English	Henry Purcell
English	John Barry
English	Ralph Vaughan Williams
English	Thomas Tallis
English	William Byrd
Finnish	Jean Sibelius
French	Alexandre Desplat
French	Camille Saint-Saëns
French	Charles Gounod
French	Claude Debussy
French	Erik Satie
French	Gabriel Fauré
French	Georges Bizet
French	Hector Berlioz
French	Jean-Baptiste Lully
French	Josquin des Prez
French	Jules Massenet
French	Maurice Jarre
French	Maurice Ravel
French	Olivier Messiaen
French	Pierre Boulez
Georgian	Giya Kancheli
German	Carl Maria von Weber
German	Fanny Mendelssohn
German	Felix Mendelssohn
German	Georg Philipp Telemann
German	George Frideric Handel
German	Hans Zimmer
German	Johannes Brahms
German	Johann Sebastian Bach
German	Ludwig van Beethoven
German	Richard Strauss
German	Richard Wagner

Nationality	Answer
German	Robert Schumann
Greek	Mikis Theodorakis
Hungarian	Béla Bartók
Hungarian	Franz Liszt
Italian	Antonio Vivaldi
Italian	Arcangelo Corelli
Italian	Claudio Monteverdi
Italian	Domenico Scarlatti
Italian	Ennio Morricone
Italian	Gaetano Donizetti
Italian	Giacomo Puccini
Italian	Giovanni Gabrieli
Italian	Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Italian	Giuseppe Verdi
Italian	Luigi Boccherini
Italian	Nino Rota
Italian	Tomaso Albinoni
Italian	Vincenzo Bellini
Japanese	Toru Takemitsu
Norwegian	Edvard Grieg
Polish	Frederic Chopin
Polish	Krzysztof Penderecki
Russian	Alexander Borodin
Russian	Alexander Scriabin
Russian	Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian	Igor Stravinsky
Russian	Mikhail Glinka
Russian	Modest Mussorgsky
Russian	Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Russian	Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian	Serge Prokofiev
Russian	Sergei Rachmaninoff
Spanish	Manuel de Falla

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May 2, 2020

There seems to be a technical problem. Are you demanding both names for some of these? There are 33 that I answered but were not accepted - and I don't think that they were all spelling mistakes (though you have missed the S from Gershwin).