List of Polish composers

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.

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 (died 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

• Marcin Józef Żebrowski (c. 1702–1770)
• Michał Kazimierz Ogiński (1728–1800)
• Bazyli Bohdanowicz (1740-1817)
• Jan Wański (1756-1830)
• Wojciech Dankowski (c.1760-after 1836)
• Michał Kleofas Ogiński (1765–1833)
• 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)
• Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński (1807–1867)
• Julian Fontana (1810-1869)
• Fryderyk Chopin (1810–1849)
• Stanisław Moniuszko (1819–1872)
• Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834-1861)
• Henryk Wieniawski (1835–1880)
• Władysław Żeleński (1837–1921)
• Zygmunt Noskowski (1846–1909)
• Maurycy Moszkowski (1854–1925)
• Juliusz Zarębski (1854–1885)

20th century and contemporary

• Konstanty Gorski (1859–1924)
• Roman Statkowski (1859–1925)
• Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1864–1941)
• Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938)
• Emil Młynarski (1870–1935)
• Zygmunt Denis Antoni Jordan de Stojowski (1870–1946)
• Mieczysław Karłowicz (1876–1909)
• Feliks Nowowiejski (1877–1946)
• Karol Szymanowski (1882–1937)
• Ludomir Różycki (1884–1953)
• Józef Koffler (1896–1944)
• Bolesław Szabelski (1896–1979)
• Tadeusz Szeligowski (1896-1963)
• Alexandre Tansman (1897–1986)
• Kazimierz Wiłkomirski (1900–1995)
• Bronisław Kaper (1902–1983)
• Roman Palester (1907-1989)
• Zbigniew Turski (1908–1979)
• Grażyna Bacewicz (1909–1969)
• Roman Maciejewski (1910–1998)
• Stefan Kisielewski (1911–1991)
• Władysław Szpilman (1911–2000)
• Witold Lutosławski (1913–1994)
• Witold Rudziński (1913–2004)
• Andrzej Panufnik (1914–1991)
• Henryk Hubertus Jabłoński (1915–1989)
• Edward Olearczyk (1915-1994)
• Mieczysław Weinberg (1919–1996)
• Kazimierz Serocki (1922–1981)
• Krystyna Moszumańska-Nazar (1924-2009)
• Włodzimierz Kotoński (1925-2014)
• Witold Szalonek (1927-2001)
• Tadeusz Baird (1928–1981)
• Benedykt Konowalski (born 1928)
• Bogusław Schaeffer (born 1929)
• Józef Świder (1930-2014)
• Krzysztof Komeda (1931–1969)
• Wojciech Kilar (1932-2013)
• Henryk Górecki (1933–2010)
• Krzysztof Penderecki (born 1933)
• Aleksander Szeligowski (1934-1993)
• André Tchaikowsky (1935–1982)
• Marek Stachowski (1936-2004)
• Marian Sawa (1937–2005)
• Zygmunt Konieczny (born 1937)
• Zygmunt Krauze (born 1938)
• Krzysztof Meyer (born 1943)
• Joanna Bruzdowicz (born 1943)
• Marta Ptaszyńska (born 1943)
• Elżbieta Sikora (born 1943)
• Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil (born 1947)
• Jan A. P. Kaczmarek (born 1953)
• Paweł Szymański (born 1954)
• Zbigniew Preisner (born 1955)
• Tadeusz Grabowski (born 1956)
• Zbigniew Karkowski (1958-2013)
• Hanna Kulenty (born 1961)
• Stanislas Syrewicz (born 1946)
• Bettina Skrzypczak (born 1962)
• Paweł Łukaszewski (born 1968)
• Paweł Mykietyn (born 1971)
• Kasia Glowicka (born 1977)
• Maciej Zieliński (born 1971)

See also

• List of Poles
• Music of Poland

External links

• Professor Adrian Thomas: Before Chopin (lecture)
• The Briefest History of Polish Music by Maria Anna Harley (Maja Trochimczyk)