- Ahti Sonninen
- Alan Hovhaness
- Alan Rawsthorne
- Alberto Ginastera
- Aldo Clementi
- Aleksandr Tjerepnin
- Alexander Goehr
- Alexandre Tansman
- Alf Hurum
- Alfred Schnittke
- Allan Pettersson
- Alois Hába
- Alun Hoddinott
- Andrzej Dobrowolski
- Andrzej Panufnik
- André Boucourechliev
- André Jolivet
- Anthony Gilbert
- Antonio Bibalo
- Aram Khachaturian
- Aram Khatjaturjan
- Aribert Reimann
- Arne Mellnäs
- Arne Nordheim
- Arthur Bliss
- Arvo Pärt
- Bengt Hambraeus
- Benjamin Britten
- Bernd Alois Zimmermann
- Bo Nilsson
- Boris Blacher
- Brian Ferneyhough
- Bruno Bartolozzi
- Bruno Maderna
- Carl Orff
- Cecilie Ore
- Charles Wuorinen
- Chou Weng-chung
- Christian Wolff – amerikansk komponist
- Claude Ballif
- Conrad Beck
- Cornelius Cardew
- Cristóbal Halffter
- Cyril Scott
- Dag Wirén
- Daniel Börtz
- Darius Milhaud
- David Bedford
- David Blake
- David Monrad Johansen
- Dmitrij Kabalevskij
- Dmitrij Sjostakovitj
- Don Banks
- Earle Brown
- Edgard Varèse
- Edison Denisov
- Edmund Rubbra
- Edvard Hagerup Bull – norsk komponist
- Edvin Kallstenius
- Egil Hovland
- Egon Wellesz
- Einojuhani Rautavaara
- Elena Firsova
- Elisabeth Lutyens
- Elliott Carter
- Emmerich Kálmán
- Erik Bergman
- Erkki Salmenhaara
- Erland von Koch
- Ernest Bloch
- Ernst Křenek
- Ernst Pepping
- Eugène Bozza
- Finn Mortensen
- Folke Rabe
- Francis Poulenc
- Franco Donatoni
- Franco Evangelisti
- Frank Loesser
- François Bayle
- Frederick Loewe
- Friedrich Cerha
- Fukushima Kazuo
- Geirr Tveitt
- George Benjamin
- George Crumb
- George Rochberg
- Germaine Tailleferre
- Gian Francesco Malipiero
- Gian-Carlo Menotti
- Gilbert Amy
- Girolamo Arrigo
- Giselher Klebe
- Goffredo Petrassi
- Gordon Mumma
- Gottfried Michael Koenig
- Gottfried von Einem
- Grazyna Bacewicz
- Gunnar Bucht
- György Kurtág
- György Ligeti
- Gösta Nystroem
- Günther Becker
- Hanns Jelinek
- Hans Gefors
- Hans Werner Henze
- Hans-Erich Apostel
- Harald Genzmer
- Harald Sæverud
- Harrison Birtwistle
- Heinrich Sutermeister
- Helmut Lachenmann
- Henri Dutilleux
- Henri Pousseur
- Henry Cowell
- Henryk Górecki
- Herbert Eimert
- Howard Hanson
- Hugo Distler
- Hugo Weisgall
- Humphrey Searle
- Iannis Xenakis
- Ichiyanagi Toshi
- Igor Stravinskij
- Ildebrando Pizzetti
- Ingemar Liljefors
- Ingvar Lidholm
- Irving Berlin
- Isang Yun
- Jacques Ibert
- Jan Bark
- Jan Carlstedt
- Jan Wilhelm Morthenson
- Jaromír Weinberger
- Jean Barraqué
- Jean Françaix
- Joan Albert Amargós
- John Adams – amerikansk komponist
- John Cage
- John Tavener
- Joonas Kokkonen
- Joseph Marx
- Jouni Kaipainen
- Jurriaan Andriessen
- Jón Leifs
- Jürg Baur
- Kaija Saariaho
- Karel Ančerl
- Karel Goeyvaerts
- Karel Husa
- Karl Amadeus Hartmann
- Karl-Birger Blomdahl
- Karl-Erik Welin
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Kazimierz Serocki
- Kees van Baaren
- Klaus Egge
- Klaus Huber
- Knut Nystedt
- Krzysztof Penderecki
- La Monte Young
- Lars Johan Werle
- Lars-Erik Larsson
- Lejaren Hiller
- Lennox Berkeley
- Leonard Bernstein
- Leroy Anderson
- Lou Harrison
- Louis Andriessen
- Luc Ferrari
- Luciano Berio
- Ludvig Irgens Jensen
- Luigi Dallapiccola
- Luigi Nono
- Luis de Pablo
- Lukas Foss
- Magnus Lindberg
- Malcolm Arnold
- Mario Davidovsky
- Marius Constant
- Maurice Duruflé
- Maurice Karkoff
- Mauricio Kagel
- Michael Berkeley
- Michael Tippett
- Mikael Edlund
- Milko Kelemen
- Milton Babbitt
- Morten Lauridsen
- Morton Feldman
- Morton Gould
- Natanael Berg
- Niccolò Castiglioni
- Nikos Skalkottas
- Norman Dello Joio
- Oliver Knussen
- Olivier Messiaen
- Oscar Hammerstein II
- Paavo Heininen
- Paul Hindemith
- Pauline Oliveros
- Peter Maxwell Davies
- Peter Racine Fricker
- Philip Glass
- Pierre Boulez
- Pierre Henry
- Pierre Schaeffer
- René Leibowitz
- Richard Rodgers
- Richard Rodney Bennett
- Robert D. Levin
- Robert Stolz
- Robert Suter
- Roberto Gerhard
- Rodion Sjtjedrin
- Roger Sessions
- Rolf Gehlhaar
- Rolf Liebermann
- Roman Haubenstock-Ramati
- Roman Vlad
- Ross Lee Finney
- Rudolf Friml
- Rudolf Kelterborn
- Rudolf Wagner-Régeny
- Samuel Barber
- Serge Nigg
- Siegfried Naumann
- Sofja Gubajdulina
- Sorrel Hays
- Sparre Olsen
- Stefan Wolpe
- Steve Reich
- Sven-David Sandström
- Sven-Erik Bäck
- Sylvano Bussotti
- Sándor Veress
- Tadeusz Baird
- Takemitsu Toru
- Tan Dun
- Tauno Marttinen
- Terry Riley
- Thea Musgrave
- Thomas Adès
- Ton de Leeuw
- Toshiro Mayuzumi
- Tristan Murail
- Urmas Sisask
- Uuno Klami
- Vincent Youmans
- Vinko Globokar
- Walter Piston
- Werner Egk
- William Schuman
- William Walton
- Winfred Zillig
- Witold Lutosławski
- Wladimir Vogel
- Wolfgang Fortner
- Wolfgang Rihm
- Włodzimierz Kotoński
- Yngve Sköld
- Yrjö Kilpinen
- Yuji Takahashi
- Yves Baudrier
- Aaron Copland
- Aarre Merikanto
- Åse Hedstrøm
Udenlandske komponister efter 1950
Senest ændret
- Dmitrij Sjostakovitj: ændret af Nanna Dam Jørgensen (Trap)
- Igor Stravinskij: ændret af Nanna Dam Jørgensen (Trap)
- Friedrich Cerha: ændret af Jørgen Nørby Jensen (lex.dk)
- Friedrich Cerha: ændret af Jørgen Nørby Jensen (lex.dk)