# Chronological list of Belgian classical composers
## Medieval

* Johannes Ciconia (c. 1370–1412)

## Renaissance

* Guillaume Dufay (1397–1474)
* Gilles Binchois (c. 1400–1460)
* Johannes Brassart (c. 1400/1405–1455)
* Johannes Ockeghem (c. 1410/1425–1497)
* Antoine Busnois (c. 1430–1492)
* Johannes Tinctoris (c. 1435–1511)
* Hayne van Ghizeghem (c.  1445–after 1476)
* Johannes de Stokem (c. 1445–1487 or 1501)
* Gaspar van Weerbeke (c. 1445–after 1516)
* Loyset Compère (c. 1445–1518)
* Alexander Agricola (1445/1446–1506)
* Matthaeus Pipelare (c. 1450 – c. 1515)
* Heinrich Isaac (Henricus Ysaac) (c. 1450/1455–1517)
* Josquin des Prez (c. 1450/1455–1521)
* Pierre de la Rue (c. 1452–1518)
* Jacobus Barbireau (1455–1491)
* Jacob Obrecht (c. 1457/1458–1505)
* Antonius Divitis (Anthonius Rycke) (c. 1470 – c. 1530)
* Adrian Willaert (c. 1490–1562)
* Johannes Ghiselin (Verbonnet) (fl. 1491–1507)
* Nicolas Gombert (c. 1495 – c. 1560)
* Thomas Crecquillon (c. 1505–1557)
* Jean De Latre (c. 1505/1510–1569)
* Jacob Clemens non Papa (c. 1510/1515 – c. 1555)
* Cipriano de Rore (1515/1516–1565)
* Hubert Waelrant (c. 1517–1595)
* Geert van Turnhout (c. 1520–1580)
* Philippus de Monte (1521–1603)
* Theodor Evertz (fl. c. 1554)
* Jacobus Vaet (c.  1529–1567)
* Jacobus de Kerle (1531/1532–1591)
* Orlandus Lassus (c. 1532–1594)
* Giaches de Wert (1535–1596)
* Jean de Castro (c. 1540–1611)
* Andreas Pevernage (1542/1543–1591)
* Alexander Utendal (1543/1545–1581)
* George de La Hèle (1547–1586)
* Emmanuel Adriaenssen (c. 1554–1604)
* Carolus Luython (1557–1620)
* Philippus Schoendorff (1558–1617)
* Cornelis Verdonck (1563–1625)

## Baroque

* Peeter Cornet (c. 1570/1580–1633)
* Géry de Ghersem (1573/1575–1630)
* Léonard de Hodémont (c. 1575–1639)
* Mateo Romero (Mathieu Rosmarin) (c. 1575–1647)
* Guilielmus Messaus (1589–1640)
* Nicolaes a Kempis (c. 1600–1676)
* Henri Dumont (1610–1684)
* Jacques de Saint-Luc (1616 – c. 1710)
* Abraham van den Kerckhoven (c. 1618 – c. 1701)
* Gaspar Verlit (1622–1682)
* Daniel Danielis (1635–1696)
* Joannes Florentius a Kempis (1635–after 1711)
* Lambert Chaumont (c. 1635–1712)
* Carolus Hacquart (c. 1640–1701?)
* Alphonse d'Eve [it] (1666–1727)
* Petrus Hercules Brehy (1673–1737)
* Jean-Baptiste Loeillet of London (John Loeillet) (1680–1730)
* Jacques Loeillet (1685–1748)
* Jean-Joseph Fiocco (1686–1746)
* Jean Baptiste Loeillet of Ghent (1688 – c. 1720)
* Josse Boutmy (1697–1779)
* Joseph-Hector Fiocco (1703–1741)
* Henri-Jacques de Croes (1705–1786)
* Jean-Noël Hamal (1709–1778)

## Classical

* Joseph Abaco (1710–1805)
* Charles-Joseph van Helmont [de] (1715–1790)
* Matthias Vanden Gheyn (1721–1785)
* Henri Moreau (composer) (1728–1803)
* Pieter van Maldere (1729–1768)
* François Joseph Gossec (1734–1829)
* André Ernest Modeste Grétry (1741–1813)
* Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny (1762–1842)

## Romantic

* Martin-Joseph Mengal (1784–1851)
* François-Joseph Fétis (1784–1871)
* Nicolas Bosret (1799–1876)
* Jean-Valentin Bender [nl] (1801–1873)
* Charles Auguste de Bériot (1802–1870)
* Karel-Louis (Charles-Louis) Hanssens (1802–1871)
* Albert Grisar (1808–1869)
* Jean-Baptiste Singelée (1812–1875)
* Félix Godefroid (1818–1897)
* Henri Vieuxtemps (1820–1881)
* César Franck (1822–1890)
* Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens (1823–1881)
* Dieudonné Dagnelies [nl] (1825–1894)
* Constantin Bender [nl] (1826–1902)
* François-Auguste Gevaert (1828–1908)
* Désiré Magnus (1828–1884)
* Eduard Lassen (1830–1904)
* Peter Benoit (1834–1901)
* Jean-Théodore Radoux (1835–1911)
* Joseph Callaerts (1838–1901)
* Louis Brassin (1840–1884)
* Jan Blockx (1851–1912)
* Jacques Martin [nl] (1851–1930)
* Edgar Tinel (1854–1912)
* Sylvain Dupuis (1856–1931)
* César Thomson (1857–1931)
* Eugène Ysaÿe (1858–1931)
* Ivan Caryll (1861–1921)
* Arthur De Greef (1862–1940)
* Théo Ysaÿe (1865–1918)
* Guillaume Lekeu (1870–1894)

## Modern/Contemporary

* August de Boeck (1865–1937)
* Paul Gilson (1865–1942)
* Lodewijk Mortelmans (1868–1952)
* Joseph Ryelandt (1870–1965)
* Joseph Jongen (1873–1953)
* Flor Alpaerts (1876–1954)
* Albert Dupuis (1877–1967)
* Jean Rogister (1879–1964)
* Arthur Meulemans (1884–1966)
* Jef van Hoof (1886–1959)
* Lodewijk De Vocht [nl] (1887–1977)
* Francis de Bourguignon [nl] (1890–1961)
* Maurice Schoemaker (1890–1964)
* René Barbier [de] (1890–1981)
* Marinus de Jong [nl] (1891–1984)
* Jules Strens [nl] (1893–1971)
* Jean Absil (1893–1974)
* Albert Huybrechts (1899–1938)
* André Souris (1899–1970)
* Marcel Poot (1901–1988)
* Gérard Favere [nl] (1903–1975)
* Flor Peeters (1903–1986)
* Armand Preud'homme (1904–1986)
* René Bernier (1905–1984)
* Daniel Sternefeld (1905–1986)
* René Defossez [nl] (1905–1988)
* Jef Maes (1905–1996)
* Arthur Bosmans [nl] (1908–1991)
* Karel De Schrijver [nl] (1908–1992)
* Jos Moerenhout [nl] (1909–1985)
* Lucien Gekiere [nl] (1912–1990)
* Jos Hanniken [nl] (1912–1998)
* Willy Ostijn (1913–1993)
* Maurice Vaute (1913–2000)
* Ernest van der Eyken (1913–2010)
* Pierre Froidebise (1914–1962)
* Marcel Quinet (1915–1986)
* Victor Legley (1915–1994)
* Georges Follman [nl] (born 1920)
* Charles Frison [nl] (born 1921)
* Karel Goeyvaerts (1923–1993)
* Peter Cabus [nl] (1923–2000)
* Herman Roelstraete [nl] (1925–1985)
* Yolande Uyttenhove (1925–2000)
* Guy Duijck [nl] (1927–2008)
* Louis Marischal [nl] (1928–1999)
* Willem Kersters (1929–1998)
* Philibert Mees (1929–2006)
* Henri Pousseur (1929–2009)
* Didier van Damme (born 1929)
* Frédéric Devreese (1929–2020)
* Jan Segers [nl] (born 1929)
* Werner Van Cleemput [nl] (1930–2006)
* Jacqueline Fontyn (born 1930)
* Lucien Goethals (1931–2006)
* André Laporte (born 1931)
* Jean-Marie Simonis [fr] (born 1931)
* Jacques Leduc [fr] (born 1932)
* Elias Gistelinck [nl] (1935–2005)
* Philippe Boesmans (born 1936)
* Frans Geysen (born 1936)
* Pierre Bartholomée (born 1937)
* André Waignein (born 1942)
* Jan De Maeyer [nl] (born 1949)
* Carl Verbraeken (born 1950)
* Robert Groslot [nl] (born 1951)
* Karel De Wolf [nl] (1952–2011)
* Jan Haderman [nl] (born 1952)
* Lucien Posman (born 1952)
* Godfried-Willem Raes (born 1952)
* Wim Mertens (born 1953)
* Jan Van der Roost (born 1956)
* Nicholas Lens (born 1957)
* Hans Vermeersch [nl] (born 1957)
* Luc Brewaeys (1959–2015)
* Dirk Brossé (born 1960)
* Piet Swerts [nl] (born 1960)
* Wim Henderickx (1962–2022)
* Houman Khalaj (born 1980)
* Frank Bernaerts [de] (born 1967)
* Pierre Kolp (born 1969)
* Annelies Van Parys (born 1975)