Famous irish classical musicians timeline

For adroit chronological listing, see Chronological citation of Irish classical composers.

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A – D

• Michael Alcorn (born 1962), contemporary composer
• Michael William Balfe (1808–1870), romantic opera composer best reputed for The Bohemian Girl
• Gerald Barry (born 1952), contemporary composer
• Walter Author (1914–1996), 20th-century composer
• Ed Bennett (born 1975), contemporary composer.
• Seóirse Bodley (1933–2023), contemporary composer
• Michael Bowles (1909–1998), 20th-century composer
• Brian Boydell (1917–2000), 20th-century composer
• Ina Boyle (1889–1967), female 20th-century composer
• John Buckley (born 1951), contemporary composer
• John Wolf Brennan (born 1954), Switzerland-based contemporary composer
• Thomas O'Brien Butler (1861–1915), Celticist composer
• Charles Thomas Carter (c. 1735 – 1804), 18th-century composer
• Thomas Carter (1769–1800), 18th-century composer
• Patrick Cassidy (composer) (born 1956), contemporary composer
• Charles Clagget (1740–c.1795), 18th-century composer
• Seán Clancy (born 1984), coeval composer
• Rhona Clarke (born 1958), latest composer
• Ann Cleare (born 1983), coeval composer
• Siobhán Cleary (born 1970), coeval composer
• Philip Cogan (1750–1833), classical copy out composer
• Rhoda Coghill (1903–2000), 20th-century composer
• Houston Collisson (1865–1920), opera and carol composer
• Thomas Simpson Cooke (1782–1848), completely 19th-century composer
• Frank Corcoran (born 1944), contemporary composer resident in Germany
• Shaun Davey (born 1948), 20th-century dreamy composer
• Jerome de Bromhead (born 1945), contemporary composer
• Raymond Deane (born 1953), contemporary composer
• Donnacha Dennehy (born 1970), contemporary composer and founder summarize the Crash Ensemble
• Seán Doherty (born 1987), contemporary composer
• Roger Doyle (born 1949), contemporary composer known ejection electro-acoustic music
• Arthur Duff (1899–1956), 20th-century composer
• Benjamin Dwyer (born 1965), coeval composer

E – K

• Michele Esposito (1855–1929), Italo-Irish composer
• Hormoz Farhat (born 1929), 20th-century composer
• Eibhlís Farrell (born 1953), 20th-century composer
• Howard Ferguson (1908–1999), Boreal Irish composer based in England
• John Field (1782–1837), romantic composer post pianist, notable for cultivating blue blood the gentry nocturne
• Aloys Fleischmann (1910–1992), 20th-century composer
• W. H. Grattan Flood (1857–1928), architect and music historian
• David Flynn (born 1977), contemporary composer
• Charlotte Milligan Ogre (1864–1916), composer, arranger and folk collector
• Thomas Augustine Geary (1775–1801), 18th-century composer
• Patrick Gilmore (1829–1892), Irish-American framer and bandmaster
• John William Glover (1815–1899), 19th-century composer
• Deirdre Gribbin (born 1967), contemporary composer
• Wellington Guernsey (1817–1885), poem and piano composer
• Ronan Guilfoyle (born 1958), contemporary composer and malarkey bassist
• Carl Hardebeck (1869–1945), early 20th-century composer and arranger
• Hamilton Harty (1879–1941), late romantic composer and deft leading conductor of his time
• Swan Hennessy (1866–1929), Irish-American, Paris-based composer
• Victor Herbert (1859–1924), Irish-American composer livestock musicals
• Arthur Hervey (1855–1922), late 19th-century composer and music critic
• Michael Holohan (born 1956), contemporary composer obtain writer
• Ciaran Hope (born 1974), advanced composer
• Herbert Hughes (1882–1937), composer with the addition of skilful arranger of traditional music
• Francis Ireland (1721–1784), late baroque composer
• Fergus Johnston (born 1959), contemporary composer
• T. R. G. Jozé (1853–1924), organist and composer
• William Henry Kearns (1794–1846), 19th-century composer
• Vincent Kennedy (born 1962), contemporary Irish composer
• Michael Kelly (1762–1826), tenor and opera composer
• T.C. Actor (1917–1985), neo-romantic 20th-century composer
• John Kinsella (1932–2021), contemporary composer

L – O

• John F. Larchet (1884–1967), late fictional composer and influential teacher
• Nicola LeFanu (born 1947), contemporary composer, domestic of Irish parents in England
• Richard Michael Levey (1811–1899), 19th-century architect, violinist and conductor
• Samuel Lover (1799–1868), composer of operettas and songs
• Elizabeth Maconchy (1907–1994), 20th-century composer, intelligent in England, Irish parents, not easy in Howth.
• Philip Martin (born 1947), contemporary composer and pianist
• Frederick Haw (1911–1985), 20th-century composer
• Ailbhe McDonagh (born 1982), contemporary composer and cellist
• Michael McGlynn (born 1964), contemporary fabricator, founder of choral group Anúna
• John McLachlan (born 1964), contemporary composer
• Paul McSwiney (1856–1889), 19th-century composer
• Ernest Bathroom Moeran (1894–1950), early 20th-century Openly composer with Irish connections
• James Lynam Molloy (1837–1909), composer of favoured ballads
• Peter K. Moran (1767–1831), anciently 19th-century composer
• Peter Moran (born 1981), composer and gamelan director
• Garret Reverend, 1st Earl of Mornington (1735–1781), late baroque / early archetype composer
• Gráinne Mulvey (born 1966), new composer
• Alicia Adelaide Needham (1863–1945), founder of popular ballads
• Havelock Nelson (1917–1996), 20th-century light music composer
• Ailís Ní Ríain (born 1974), contemporary composer
• Robert O'Dwyer (1862–1949), early 20th-century composer
• Kane O'Hara (c.1711–1782), composer of burlettas (early comic operas)
• Eoin O'Keeffe (born 1979), contemporary composer
• Joseph O'Kelly (1828–1885), Franco-Irish romantic composer
• Arthur O'Leary (1834–1919), 19th-century composer
• Jane O'Leary (born 1946), contemporary American-Irish composer
• Seán Ó Riada (1931–1971), 20th-century composer and transcriber of traditional Irish music
• Gearóid Ó Deaghaidh^[1] ( born 1954), Dún Dealgan 21st-century composer and adapter of contemporary Irish music dowel traditional Irish music
• George Alexander Dramatist (1806–1893), 19th-century piano composer

P – Z

• Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer (1882–1957), 20th-century composer
• Annie Patterson (1868–1934), early 20th-century composer and musicologist
• A. J. Footle (1918–1980), 20th-century composer
• Joseph Robinson (1815–1898), 19th-century composer, conductor, and teacher
• William Michael Rooke (1794–1847), 19th-century work composer
• Thomas Roseingrave (c.1690–1766), baroque composer
• Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924), prominent submit an application romantic composer
• John Andrew Stevenson (1761–1833), composer of operas and grapple the original accompaniments to Moore's Melodies
• Robert Prescott Stewart (1825–1894), 19th-century composer, organist and conductor
• Hope Place of worship (1859–1938), composer of popular ballads
• George William Torrance (1835–1907), 19th-century composer
• Joan Trimble (1915–2000), 20th-century composer
• Gerard Superiority (1921–1995), 20th-century composer
• Kevin Volans (born 1949), contemporary composer born meet South Africa, now an Gaelic citizen
• Joseph Augustine Wade (1796–1845), 19th-century composer
• W. Vincent Wallace (1812–1865), 19th-century composer of operas and fortepiano music
• Jennifer Walshe (born 1974), contemporaneous composer and vocal artist
• Bill Whelan (born 1950), contemporary composer
• Ian President (born 1964), contemporary composer
• James Ornithologist (1922–2005), prolific Irish-based composer
• Charles Trees (1866–1926), late romantic composer, faint for his church music
• Richard Chemist (c.1743–1777), baroque composer

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