The following is a list of organ composers. As well as citing the most regarded composers of music for the pipe organ, this list includes important anonymous and early music sources, as well as composers from under-researched regions and countries.

Eras of composition are roughly categorized as follows:
 Medieval: before 1440
 Renaissance: 1440–1600 
 Baroque: 1600–1750
 Classical: 1750–1810
 Romantic: 1810–1870
 Late Romantic: 1870–1910
 20th Century: 1910-1990
 Millennial: after 1990 (composers born after 1960)

Tablatures, manuscripts, and printed music before 1580 

 Robertsbridge Codex (c. 1360)
 Groningen University: Incunabulum No. 70 (late 14th C.) 
 Codex Faenza (c. 1420)
 Ileborgh Tablature (1448)
 Lochamer-Liederbuch: Fundamentum Organisandi of Conrad Paumann (mid-15th century)
 Buxheimer Orgelbuch (1460/1470)
 Codex of Nikolaus Apel (c. 1500)
 Tabulaturen etlicher Lobgesang of Arnolt Schlick (1512) First known printed organ music
 Frottole intabulate da sonare of Andrea Antico (1517)
 British Library: Royal Appendix MS 58 (early 16th C.) 
 Venice: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana ital. 1227  (early 16th C.) 
 Recerchari Motetti Canzoni of Marc'Antonio Cavazzoni (1523)
 Tablature of Leonhard Kleber (1524)
 St. Gallen: Tablature of Fridolin Sicher (sometime between 1517 and 1531)
 Organ tablatures of Pierre Attaingnant, in 7 Volumes (1531)
 Intavolatura cioè recercari, canzoni, himni, Magnificat...libro primo of Girolamo Cavazzoni (1543)
 Bergamo Organ Book, Bergamo, Italy (16th C.) 
 Krakow "Holy Ghost" Tablature, Poland (1548)
 Intavolatura d'organo, cioè misse, himni, Magnificat...libro secondo of Girolamo Cavazzoni (before 1549)
 The Tablature of Jan of Lublin, Poland (mid-16th C.)
 Amerbach Tablatures of Hans Kotter (mid-16th C.)
 Castell'Arquato Manuscript (mid-16th C.)  
 Libro primero de la Declaración de instrumentos of Juan Bermudo (1549)
 Intavolatura Nova di Balli of Antonio Gardano (1551)
 Libro de cifra nueva para tecla, arpa, y vihuela of Luis Venegas de Henestrosa (1557)
 Klagenfurt Tablature (c. 1560) http://adartemmusicae.com/klagenfurt_en.html
 Arte de tañer fantasía of Tomás de Santa María (1565)
 The Mulliner Book (1570)
 Obras de música para tecla, arpa y vihuela of Antonio de Cabezón (1578)
 British Library: Add MS 29996 (16th–17th C.)

Argentina

Australia

Austria 
(see also Germany)

Belgium 
(see also France)

Brazil

Canada

Chile

China

Croatia

Cuba

Czech Republic (Bohemia)

Denmark

Romantic
 Camillo Carlsen
 Niels Gade
 Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann
 Gustav Helsted
 Edgar Henrichsen
 Otto Malling
 Carl Nielsen

20th-21st Centuries 
 Bernhard Christensen
 Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen
 Knud Jeppesen
 Leif Kayser
 Rued Langgaard
 Bernhard Lewkovitch
 Frederik Magle
 Per Nørgård
 Ib Nørholm
 Niels Otto Raasted
 Poul Ruders
 Paul Rung-Keller
 Leif Thybo
 Finn Viderø

Estonia

Romantic 
 Rudolf Tobias

20th-21st Centuries 
 Alfred Karindi
 Arvo Pärt
 Peeter Süda

Finland

Romantic 
 Oskar Merikanto

20th-21st Centuries 
 Kalevi Aho
 Paavo Heininen
 Kalevi Kiviniemi
 Joonas Kokkonen
 Taneli Kuusisto
 Erkki Melartin
 Väinö Raitio
 Einojuhani Rautavaara

France 
(see also Belgium)

Renaissance
 Pierre Attaingnant (publisher)
 Jean Titelouze

Baroque (French classical)

Late Classical
 Claude-Bénigne Balbastre
 Jacques-Marie Beauvarlet-Charpentier
 Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier
 Alexandre Pierre François Boëly
 Jean-Baptiste Charbonnier
 Michel Corrette
 Armand-Louis Couperin
 Guillaume Lasceux
 Jean-Nicolas Marrigues
 Jean-Baptiste Nôtre
 Louis-Nicolas Séjan
 Nicolas Séjan

Romantic

20th-21st centuries

Germany 
(See also Austria)

Renaissance
 Elias Ammerbach
 Hans Buchner
 Christian Erbach
 Hans Leo Hassler
 Jakob Hassler
 Leonhard Kleber
 Hans Kotter
 Conrad Paumann
 Hieronymus Praetorius
 Arnolt Schlick

Baroque

Classical 

 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
 Johann Ernst Eberlin
 Johann Wilhelm Hertel
 Gottfried August Homilius
 Johann Christian Kittel
 Justin Heinrich Knecht
 Christian Heinrich Rinck

Romantic

20th-21st centuries

Hungary

Romantic 
 Franz Liszt

20th-21st Centuries 
 Dezső Antalffy-Zsiross
 Zoltán Gárdonyi
 György Ligeti
 Zsigmond Szathmáry

Israel

20th-21st Centuries 
Josef Tal

Italy

Renaissance 
 Vincenzo Bellavere
 Jacques Buus (born in Belgium)
 Marc'Antonio Cavazzoni
 Girolamo Cavazzoni
 Giovanni de Macque (born in Netherlands)
 Girolamo Diruta
 Giacomo Fogliano
 Andrea Gabrieli
 Giovanni Gabrieli
 Luzzasco Luzzaschi
 Ascanio Mayone
 Claudio Merulo
 Annibale Padovano
 Girolamo Parabosco
 Rocco Rodio
 Giulio Segni
 Antonio Valente
 Claudio Veggio
 Adrian Willaert (born in Belgium)

Baroque 
 Girolamo Frescobaldi
 Gaetano Greco
 Tarquinio Merula
 Pietro Domenico Paradisi
 Bernardo Pasquini
 Michelangelo Rossi
 Giovanni Salvatore
 Alessandro Scarlatti
 Domenico Scarlatti
 Bernardo Storace
 Giovanni Maria Trabaci
 Domenico Zipoli (emigrated to Córdoba, Peru: in present-day Argentina)

Classical 
 Padre Davide da Bergamo
 Domenico Cimarosa
 Fedele Fenaroli
 Baldassarre Galuppi
 Giacomo Insanguine
 Niccolò Jommelli
 Giovanni Battista Martini
 Antonio Salieri
 Giuseppe Sarti

Romantic 
 Giulio Bas
 Marco Enrico Bossi
 Filippo Capocci
 Giovanni Morandi
 Oreste Ravanello
 Giovanni Tebaldini

20th-21st Centuries 
 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
 Roberto Carnevale

Japan 
 Shigeru Kan-no

Korea 
 Isang Yun

Latvia 
 Aivars Kalējs
 Pēteris Vasks

Lithuania 
 Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
 Juozas Naujalis

Mexico 
 Miguel Bernal Jiménez
 Alfonso de Elías 
 Mario Lavista

Netherlands

Renaissance 
 Hendrik Speuy
 Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

Baroque 
 Gisbert Steenwick
 Anthoni van Noordt

Romantic 
 Johannes Gijsbertus Bastiaans
 Richard Hol
 Samuel de Lange Jr.
 Edouard Silas
 Jan Albert van Eijken
 Johan Wagenaar

20th-21st Centuries 
 Hendrik Andriessen
 Henk Badings
 Ton de Leeuw
 Piet Kee
 Daan Manneke
 Fred Momotenko
 Jan Mul
 Herman Strategier
 Simeon ten Holt
 Jan Vriend
 Ad Wammes

Norway

Romantic 
 Johannes Haarklou
 Peter Brynie Lindeman

20th-21st Centuries 
 Magnar Åm
 Egil Hovland
 Kjell Mørk Karlsen
 Trond Kverno
 Knut Nystedt
 Arild Sandvold

Peru 

Domenico Zipoli (emigrated to Córdoba, Peru from Italy)

Philippines 
 Marcelo Adonay

Poland

Renaissance 
 Nicolaus Cracoviensis
 Jan of Lublin

Baroque 
 Adam of Wągrowiec

Classical 
 Karol Kurpiński

Romantic 
 Wojciech Albert Sowiński (1803 or 1805 – 1880)
 Konstanty Gorski
 August Freyer
 Stanisław Moniuszko
 Feliks Nowowiejski
 Władysław Żeleński

20th-21st Centuries 
 Grażyna Bacewicz
 Augustyn Bloch
 Karol Hławiczka
 Jan Adam Maklakiewicz
 Marian Sawa
 Bolesław Szabelski
 Aleksander Szeligowski
 Karol Szymanowski
 Alexandre Tansman
 Elżbieta Sikora
 Paweł Łukaszewski
 Zygmunt Krauze
 Bolesław Woytowicz

Portugal 
(see also Spain)

Renaissance 
 António Carreira
 Manuel Rodrigues Coelho

Baroque 
 Carlos Seixas

Classical 
 João de Sousa Carvalho

20th-21st Centuries 
 Luís de Freitas Branco

Romania

20th-21st Centuries 
 Christian Wilhelm Berger

Russia

Romantic 
 Alexander Glazunov
 Alexander Goedicke

20th-21st Centuries 
 Fred Momotenko (Russian-Dutch composer)
 Mikael Tariverdiev (born in Georgia)
 Valeri Kikta (born in Ukraine)

Slovakia

Romantic 
 Ján Levoslav Bella
Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský
Franz Schmidt (active in Austria)

20th-21st Centuries 
Viliam Figuš-Bystrý
Alexander Moyzes
Juraj Beneš
Ilja Zeljenka
Peter Machajdik
Marián Varga

South Africa

20th-21st Centuries 
Stefans Grové

Spain 
(see also Portugal)

Renaissance 
 Francisco Correa de Arauxo
 Antonio de Cabezón
 Sebastian Aguilera de Heredia
 Tomás de Santa María

Baroque 
 Pablo Bruna
 Juan Cabanilles
 Antonio Martín y Coll
 José Ximénez

Classical 
 Pedro Carrera y Lanchares
 José Lidón
 Antonio Soler

Romantic 
 Eduardo Torres

20th-21st Centuries 
 Jesús Guridi

Sweden

Baroque
 Andreas Düben

Romantic
 Elfrida Andrée
 Gustaf Hägg
 Oskar Lindberg
 Otto Olsson
 Emil Sjögren

20th-21st Centuries 
Olle Elgenmark
Hans-Ola Ericsson
 Bengt Hambraeus
 Torsten Nilsson
 Hilding Rosenberg
 Fredrik Sixten
 Erland von Koch

Switzerland

Renaissance 
 Fridolin Sicher

20th-21st Centuries 
 Alfred Baum
 Conrad Beck
 Ernest Bloch
 Guy Bovet
 Adolf Brunner
 Willy Burkhard
 Bernard Reichel
 Lionel Rogg
 Carl Rütti

Ukraine 

 Mykola Kolessa
 Valentin Bibik
 Dmitry Bortniansky
 Reinhold Glière
 Mykola Kolessa
 Zhanna Kolodub
 Roman Krasnovsky (emigrated to Israel)
 Leonid Nikolayev (pianist)
 Piotr Perkowski
 Alexander Shchetynsky
 Vladimir Tarnopolsky
 Karmella Tsepkolenko

United Kingdom

Renaissance 
 William Byrd
 Orlando Gibbons
 William Inglot
 John Lugge
 John Redford
 Thomas Tallis
 Thomas Tomkins

Baroque 
 John Blow
 Jeremiah Clarke
 William Croft
 Henry Purcell

Classical 
 William Boyce
 Benjamin Cooke
 John Stanley

Romantic

20th-21st centuries

United States

Romantic

20th-21st centuries

Uruguay 

 Miguel del Águila (emigrated to the U.S.)
 Pedro Ipuche Riva
 Beatriz Lockhart
 Héctor Tosar

See also
 Organ repertoire
 Organ (music)
 List of Anglican church composers

External links
Biographical Dictionary
of
Organists, Composers for Organ and Organ Builders: <https://www.organ-biography.info/>

Sources 
 A Directory of Composers for Organ by Dr. John Henderson, Hon. Librarian to the Royal School of Church Music, 2005, 3rd edition. 
 Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Venetian Instrumental Music, from Gabrieli to Vivaldi. New York, Dover Publications, 1994. 
 Christopher S. Anderson (Ed.), Twentieth-Century Organ Music. New York, Routledge, 2012, 

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