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1. Jean-Baptiste Lully Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-87) was a French composer of Italian birth. He became court composer Louis XIV, king of France. While at the French royal court, Lully pioneered the introduction of opera to France. In the period 1658-70, Lully composed b...
2. Maurice Ravel Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) was a great French composer of Impressionistic music. His works included piano compositions such as Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a Dead Infanta), Jeux d’eau (Fountains), Gaspard de la nuit (Gaspar...
3. Claude Debussy Claude Debussy (1862-1918) was a French Impressionist composer and critic. His major works included Clair de lune (Moonlight, in Suite bergamasque, 1890-1905), Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, 1894), the opera P...
4. Charles François Gounod Charles-François Gounod (1818-93) was a French composer of the Romantic era. His works include his operas, such as Faust (1859) and Roméo et Juliette (Romeo and Juliet) (1867), his songs, and his church music, such as La Redemption (Re...
5. Léo Delibes Léo Delibes (1836–91) was a French composer and organist. His works included the ballets Coppélia (1870) and Sylvia (1876), and a number of  operettas and operas, including Lakmé (1883). Delibes' ballet and opera music...
6. Guillaume Dufay Guillaume Dufay (c. 1400 - 1474) was a Franco-Flemish composer and music theorist of the early Renaissance. He was the most famous and influential composer in Europe in the mid-15th century. His works, according to Wapedia, included: (in the area of...
7. Édouard Lalo Edouard Lalo (1823–92) was a French composer. His works included the opera, Le Roi d'Ys (The King of Ys) (1888), the Symphonie espagnole (Spanish Symphony) for violin and orchestra (1875), the Cello Concerto in D minor (1876), and the ballet, N...
8. Jules Massenet Jules Massenet (1842-1912) was a French composer and teacher at the Paris Conservatoire. He is best known for his lyrical operas, such as Manon (1884), Werther (1892), Thais (1894), Cendrillon [Cinderella] (1899), Le jongleur de Notre-Dame [The Jugg...
9. Camille Saint-Saëns Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) was a French composer, conductor, organist and pianist. Some of his best-known works include Le Carneval des Animaux (The Carnival of the Animals) for two pianos and orchestra , Danse macabre for orchestra, the o...
10. François Couperin François Couperin (1668-1733) was a renowned French composer of Baroque music, organist and harpsichordist. His works included pieces for the harpsichord (including four books of harpsichord suites), but he also wrote organ works, concertos a...
11. Arthur Honegger Arthur Honegger (1892–1955) was a Swiss-French composer, and one of a group of Parisian composers called Les Six. One of his most famous works of music was the short orchestral piece, Pacific 231 (1923), that was inspired by the sounds and rhyt...
12. Paul Dukas Paul Dukas (1865–1935) was a French composer, teacher of classical music, and critic. His compositions included the symphonic poem, L'Apprenti sorcier) (The Sorcerer's Apprentice) (1897), the opera, Ariane et Barbe-Bleue (Ariadne and Bluebeard)...
13. Josquin des Prez Josquin des Prez (c.1440–1521) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. Josquin wrote both sacred and secular music. His works included all of the significant vocal forms of the age, which included masses, motets, chansons and instrum...
14. Olivier Messiaen Olivier Messiaen (1908-92) was a French composer, organist, teacher and ornithologist. He wrote many types of music, including electronic music and music using serial techniques of composition. Asian music (such as Hindu music), birdsong and religious...
15. Jean-Philippe Rameau Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) was a great French composer of Baroque music, an organist, and a music theorist. His book, Traite de l'harmonie (1722), was a pioneering treatise on the subject of musical harmony and is today regarded as one of foun...
16. Gilles Binchois Gilles Binchois (c.1400–1460) was a Franco-Flemish composer. He was one of the most famous composers of the early 15th century. Binchois wrote secular songs (chansons, rondeaux) of love and chivalry for the court of Burgundy (a part of modern-...
17. Gabriel Fauré Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) was a French composer (chiefly of piano pieces and songs), an organist and choirmaster, and a teacher of piano and composition. His songs included Apres un reve and Les Roses d'Ispahan, and his song cycles included La Bonne...
18. Jacques Offenbach Jacques Offenbach (1819-80) was a French composer of German origin who wrote music during the Romantic era and was one of the originators of the operetta form (light, frothy, satirical operas). In additions to his many operettas such as Orphee aux e...
19. Francis Poulenc Francis Poulenc (1899–1963) was a French composer and pianist. He was a member of the Parisian group of composers called Les Six (The Six). Poulenc wrote piano pieces such as Mouvements perpétuels (1918); the ballet Les Biches (1924); C...
20. Darius Milhaud Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) was a French composer. He was a member of the Parisian group of composers, Les Six (The Six). Milhaud's works were influenced by jazz and were noted for their use of polytonality (that is, "using more than one key at once)...