List of Polish composers

This is a list of notable and representative Polish composers.

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Frédéric Chopin

Stanisław Moniuszko

Michał Kleofas Ogiński

Karol Szymanowski

Witold Lutosławski

Krzysztof Penderecki

Henryk Górecki

Wojciech Kilar

Zbigniew Preisner

Grażyna Bacewicz

Andrzej Kurylewicz

Jan A. P. Kaczmarek

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)
• Andreas Chyliński (c. 1590 - c. 1635)
• Adam Jarzębski (c. 1590 – 1649)
• Franciszek Lilius (c. 1600 – 1657)
• Marcin Mielczewski (c. 1600–1651)
• Bartłomiej Pękiel (c. 1600 – c. 1670)
• Jacek Różycki (1625/35 – 1703/04)
• Damian Stachowicz (1658 - 1699)
• Andrzej Siewiński (died by 1726)
• Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki (1665/67 – 1734)
• Stanisław Sylwester Szarzyński (c. 1670 - c. 1713)

18th and 19th centuries

• Michał Kazimierz Ogiński (1728–1800)
• Jakub Gołąbek (1739-1789)
• 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)
• Carl Tausig (1841–1871)
• 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)
• Moriz Rosenthal (1862–1946)
• Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1864–1941)
• Otton Mieczysław Żukowski (1867–1942)
• Halina Krzyżanowska (1867–1937)
• Leopold Godowsky (1870–1938)
• Ignaz Friedman (1882–1948)
• Wiktor Łabuński (1895–1974)
• Emil Młynarski (1870–1935)
• Zygmunt Denis Antoni Jordan de Stojowski (1870–1946)
• Witold Maliszewski (1873–1939)
• Josef Hofmann (1876–1957)
• 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)
• Simon Laks (1901–1983)
• 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 (1929–2019)
• 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)
• Zbigniew Bargielski (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)
• Andrzej Krzanowski (1951–1990)
• Eugeniusz Knapik (born 1951)
• Aleksander Lasoń (born 1951)
• Rafał Augustyn (born 1951)
• Grażyna Krzanowska (born 1952)
• Jan A. P. Kaczmarek (1953-2024)
• 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)

See also

• List of Polish people
• Music of Poland

External links

• "The Briefest History of Polish Music" by Maria Anna Harley (Maja Trochimczyk)
• "Schools of Polish Composers: A Quick Guide", culture.pl
• "What Makes a Composer Polish?", culture.pl