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.

180px|thumb|[[Frédéric Chopin]]

180px|thumb|[[Stanisław Moniuszko]]

180px|thumb|[[Michał Kleofas Ogiński]]

thumb|180px|[[Karol Szymanowski]]

thumb|180px|[[Witold Lutosławski]]

180px|thumb|[[Krzysztof Penderecki]]

180px|thumb|[[Henryk Górecki]]

thumb|180px|[[Wojciech Kilar]]

thumb|180px|[[Zbigniew Preisner]]

thumb|180px|[[Grażyna Bacewicz]]

thumb|180px|[[Andrzej Kurylewicz]]

thumb|180px|[[Jan A. P. Kaczmarek]]

Middle Ages

  • Wincenty z Kielczy (before 1200)
  • Mikołaj z Radomia (15th century)
  • Piotr z Grudziądza (c. 1400c. 1480)

Renaissance

  • Sebastian z Felsztyna (c. 1480/1490after 1543)
  • Nicolaus Cracoviensis (1st half of the 16th century)
  • Wacław z Szamotuł (c. 15261560)
  • Mikołaj Gomółka (1535–1591)
  • Marcin Leopolita (c. 1540c.1589)
  • Cyprian Bazylik (c.1535c. 1600)
  • Jan z Lublina (late 15th century1540)
  • Jakub Polak (1540–1605)
  • Sebastian Klonowic (c. 15451602)
  • Krzysztof Klabon (c. 1550after 1616)
  • Wojciech Długoraj (1557–1619)
  • Diomedes Cato (c. 1570c. 1603)

Baroque

  • Mikołaj Zieleński (1st half of the 17th century)
  • Andreas Chyliński (c. 1590 - c. 1635)
  • Adam Jarzębski (c. 15901649)
  • Franciszek Lilius (c. 16001657)
  • Marcin Mielczewski (c. 1600–1651)
  • Bartłomiej Pękiel (c. 1600c. 1670)
  • Jacek Różycki (1625/351703/04)
  • Damian Stachowicz (1658 - 1699)
  • Andrzej Siewiński (died by 1726)
  • Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki (1665/671734)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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
  • "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