List of Polish composers
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This is a list of notable and representative Polish composers.
Note: This list should contain notable composers, best with an existing article on Wikipedia. If a notable Polish composer is missing and without an article, please add the name here.
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Middle Ages
- Wincenty z Kielczy (before 1200 – c. 1261)
- Mikołaj z Radomia (15th century)
- Piotr z Grudziądza (c. 1400 – c. 1480)
Renaissance
- Sebastian z Felsztyna (c. 1480/1490 – after 1543)
- Nicolaus Cracoviensis (1st half of the 16th century)
- Wacław z Szamotuł (c. 1526 – 1560)
- Mikołaj Gomółka (1535–1591)
- Marcin Leopolita (c. 1540 – c.1589)
- Cyprian Bazylik (c.1535 – c. 1600)
- Jan z Lublina (late 15th century – 1540)
- Jakub Polak (1540–1605)
- Sebastian Klonowic (c. 1545 – 1602)
- Krzysztof Klabon (c. 1550 – after 1616)
- Wojciech Długoraj (1557–1619)
- Diomedes Cato (c. 1570 – c. 1603)
Baroque
- Mikołaj Zieleński (1st half of the 17th century)
- Adam Jarzębski (c. 1590 – 1649)
- Franciszek Lilius (c. 1600 – 1657)
- Marcin Mielczewski (1600–1651)
- Bartłomiej Pękiel (c. 1600 – c.1670)
- Jacek Różycki (1625/35 – 1703/04)
- Stanisław Sylwester Szarzyński (prob. 2nd half of the 17th century)
- Andrzej Siewiński (died by 1726)
- Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki (1665/67 – 1734)
18th and 19th centuries
- Michał Kazimierz Ogiński (1728–1800)
- Bazyli Bohdanowicz (1740–1817)
- Jan Stefani (1746–1829)
- Maciej Radziwiłł (1749–1800)
- Wojciech Żywny (1756–1842)
- Feliks Janiewicz (1762-1848)
- Michał Kleofas Ogiński (1765–1833)
- Ludwig-Wilhelm Tepper de Ferguson (1768–1838)
- Józef Ksawery Elsner (1769–1854)
- Franciszek Lessel (1780–1838)
- Franciszek Ścigalski (1782–1846)
- Karol Kurpiński (1785–1857)
- Maria Szymanowska (1789–1831)
- Karol Lipiński (1790–1861)
- Franciszek Mirecki (1791–1862)
- Feliks Horecki (1796–1870)
- Eduard Sobolewski (1804–1872)
- Jan Nepomucen Bobrowicz (1805–1881)
- Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński (1807–1867)
- Mateusz Rudkowski (1809–1887)
- Julian Fontana (1810–1869)
- Fryderyk Chopin (1810–1849)
- Józef Władysław Krogulski (1815–1842)
- Stanisław Moniuszko (1819–1872)
- Michał Bergson (1820–1898)
- Ignacy Krzyżanowski (1826–1905)
- Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1829–1861)
- Theodor Leschetizky (1830–1915)
- Henryk Wieniawski (1835–1880)
- Józef Wieniawski (1837–1912)
- Władysław Żeleński (1837–1921)
- Zygmunt Noskowski (1846–1909)
- Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka (1847–1917)
- Xaver Scharwenka (1850–1924)
- Józef Pławiński (1853–1880)
- Maurycy Moszkowski (1854–1925)
- Juliusz Zarębski (1854–1885)
20th century and contemporary
- Aleksander Michałowski (1851–1938)
- Natalia Janotha (1856–1932)
- Timothee Adamowski (1858–1943)
- Konstanty Gorski (1859–1924)
- Roman Statkowski (1859–1925)
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1864–1941)
- Otton Mieczysław Żukowski (1867–1942)
- Leopold Godowsky (1870–1938)
- Wiktor Łabuński (1895–1974)
- Emil Młynarski (1870–1935)
- Zygmunt Denis Antoni Jordan de Stojowski (1870–1946)
- Witold Maliszewski (1873–1939)
- Mieczysław Karłowicz (1876–1909)
- Feliks Nowowiejski (1877–1946)
- Grzegorz Fitelberg (1879–1953)
- Karol Szymanowski (1882–1937)
- Ludomir Różycki (1883–1953)
- Apolinary Szeluto (1884–1966)
- Anna Maria Klechniowska (1888–1973)
- Jerzy Petersburski (1895–1979)
- Józef Koffler (1896–1944)
- Bolesław Szabelski (1896–1979)
- Tadeusz Szeligowski (1896–1963)
- Zygmunt Białostocki (1897–1942)
- Alexandre Tansman (1897–1986)
- Bolesław Woytowicz (1899–1980)
- Alexander Lipsky (1900–1985)
- Kazimierz Wiłkomirski (1900–1995)
- Bronisław Kaper (1902–1983)
- Henryk Wars (1902–1977)
- Roman Palester (1907–1989)
- Zbigniew Turski (1908–1979)
- Grażyna Bacewicz (1909–1969)
- Roman Maciejewski (1910–1998)
- Stefan Kisielewski (1911–1991)
- Władysław Szpilman (1911–2000)
- Irena Pfeiffer (1912–1996)
- Witold Lutosławski (1913–1994)
- Witold Rudziński (1913–2004)
- Daniel Sternberg (1913–2000)
- Jerzy Wasowski (1913–1984)
- Andrzej Panufnik (1914–1991)
- Edward Olearczyk (1915–1994)
- Mieczysław Weinberg (1919–1996)
- Janina Skowronska (1920–1992)
- Witold Silewicz (1921–2007)
- Kazimierz Serocki (1922–1981)
- Henryk Czyż (1923–2003)
- Krystyna Moszumańska-Nazar (1924–2009)
- Włodzimierz Kotoński (1925–2014)
- Witold Szalonek (1927–2001)
- Tadeusz Baird (1928–1981)
- Josima Feldschuh (1929–1943)
- Bogusław Schaeffer (born 1929)
- Józef Świder (1930–2014)
- Krzysztof Komeda (1931–1969)
- Andrzej Kurylewicz (1932–2007)
- Wojciech Kilar (1932–2013)
- Henryk Górecki (1933–2010)
- Krzysztof Penderecki (1933–2020)
- Marian Borkowski (born 1934)
- Aleksander Szeligowski (1934–1993)
- André Tchaikowsky (1935–1982)
- Marek Stachowski (1936–2004)
- Marian Sawa (1937–2005)
- Zygmunt Konieczny (born 1937)
- Zygmunt Krauze (born 1938)
- Tomasz Sikorski (1939–1988)
- Andrzej Korzyński (born 1940)
- Krzysztof Meyer (born 1943)
- Joanna Bruzdowicz (born 1943)
- Marta Ptaszyńska (born 1943)
- Elżbieta Sikora (born 1943)
- Paweł Łukaszewski (born 1945)
- Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil (born 1947)
- Grażyna Krzanowska (born 1952)
- Jan A. P. Kaczmarek (born 1953)
- Krzesimir Dębski (born 1953)
- Paweł Szymański (born 1954)
- Zbigniew Preisner (born 1955)
- Zbigniew Karkowski (1958–2013)
- Piotr Moss (born 1949)
- Michał Lorenc (born 1955)
- Jan Pogány (born 1960)
- Hanna Kulenty (born 1961)
- Bettina Skrzypczak (born 1962)
- Paweł Łukaszewski (born 1968)
- Piotr Rubik (born 1968)
- Paweł Mykietyn (born 1971)
- Maciej Zieliński (born 1971)
- Marcel Chyrzyński (born 1971)
- Abel Korzeniowski (born 1972)
- Adam Sztaba (born 1975)
- Kasia Glowicka (born 1977)
- Aleksandra Gryka (born 1977)
- Marcin Stańczyk (born 1977)
- Agata Zubel (born 1978)
- Klaudia Pasternak (born 1980)
- Jagoda Szmytka (born 1982)
- Hania Rani (born 1990)
See also
External links
- The Briefest History of Polish Music by Maria Anna Harley (Maja Trochimczyk)
- Schools of Polish Composers: A Quick Guide
- What Makes a Composer Polish?