# 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 (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)