List of female composers by birth year

The following is a list of female composers, ordered by their year of birth.

Female composers are also listed alphabetically at List of female composers by name.

until 1500

• Sappho (born c. 612 BCE)
• Xosroviduxt (fl. early 8th century)
• Sahakduxt (fl. early 8th century)
• Kassia (c.810–before 867)
• Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179)
• Azalais de Porcairagues (fl. mid-12th century)
• Tibors (fl. mid-12th century)
• Marie de France (1175?–1225?)
• Alamanda de Castelnau (fl. second half of 12th century)
• Maria de Ventadorn (fl. late 12th century)
• Comtessa de Dia (more commonly as Beatriz de Dia, fl. late 12th/early 13th centuries)
• Blanche of Castile (1188–1252)
• Castelloza (fl. early 13th century)
• Dame Margot (fl. 13th century)
• Duchess of Lorraine (fl. 13th century)
• Maroie de Dregnau de Lille (fl. 13th century)
• Dame Maroie (fl. 13th century)
• Garsenda de Proensa (fl. early 13th century)

1500

Painting of Anne Boleyn, probably a later copy of an image of about 1534, see [1]

• Anne Boleyn (1507–1536)
• Gaspara Stampa (1523–1554)
• Maddalena Casulana (c.1540–c.1590)
• Paola Massarenghi (fl. 1565–1585)
• Lucia Quinciani (born c. 1566, fl. 1611)
• Claudia Sessa (c. 1570–between 1613 and 1619)
• Cesarina Ricci de Tingoli (born c. 1573, fl. 1597)
• Vittoria Aleotti (c.1575–after 1620)
• Caterina Assandra (1580–1632)
• Adriana Basile (c. 1580–c. 1640)
• Francesca Caccini (1587–1640?)
• Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (1590–1662)
• Settimia Caccini (1591–1638?)
• Claudia Rusca (1593–1676)

1600

• Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (1602–1678)
• Sulpitia Cesis (fl. 1619)
• Leonora Duarte (1610–1678)
• Leonora Baroni (1611–1670)
• Sophie Elisabeth, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1613–1676)
• Barbara Strozzi (1619–1677)
• Isabella Leonarda (1620–1704)
• Mlle Bocquet (early 17th century–after 1660)
• Alba Trissina (fl. 1622)
• Lady Mary Dering (1629–1704)
• Amalia Catharina (1640–1697)
• Antonia Bembo (c. 1640–1720)
• Esther Elizabeth Velkiers (born 1640)
• Francesca Campana (died 1665)
• Maria Cattarina Calegari (1644–1675)

1650

• Maria Francesca Nascinbeni (born 1658, fl. 1674)
• Rosa Giacinta Badalla (1660–1710)
• Angiola Teresa Moratori Scanabecchi (1662–1708)
• Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665–1729)
• Françoise-Charlotte de Senneterre Ménétou (1679–1845)
• Marieta Morosina Priuli (fl. 1665)
• Maria de Raschenau (fl. 1690s–1703)
• Michielina Della Pietà (fl. c. 1701–1744)
• Caterina Benedicta Grazianini (fl. 1705-15 [b.ca.1685])
• Camilla de Rossi ((fl. 1707–1710)
• Julie Pinel (fl. 1710–1737)
• Maria Margherita Grimani (fl. 1713-1718 [b.ca.1690])
• Mrs Philarmonica (fl. 1715)
• Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault (1695–1791)

1700

Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia

• Rosanna Scalfi Marcello (fl. 1723–1742)
• Santa della Pietà (fl. c. 1725–1750, d. after 1774)
• Elisabeth de Haulteterre (fl. 1737–1768)
• Wilhelmine of Bayreuth (1709–1758)
• Mlle Guédon de Presles (early 18th century–1754)
• Barbara of Portugal (1711–1758)
• Luise Adelgunda Gottsched (1713–1762)
• Mlle Duval (1718–after 1775)
• Maria Teresa Agnesi (1720–1795)
• Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia (1723–1787)
• Maria Antonia of Bavaria (1724–1780)
• Diamante Medaglia Faini (1724–1770)
• Miss Davis (c. 1726–after 1755)
• Elisabetta de Gambarini (1731–1765)
• Josina Anna Petronella van Boetzelaer (1733–1787)
• Mme Papavoine (born c. 1735, fl. 1755-61)
• Hélène-Louise Demars (b. c. 1736)
• Anna Bon (born 1738/1739)
• Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1739–1807)
• Mlle Guerin (born c. 1739, fl. 1755)
• Isabelle de Charrière (1740–1805)
• Zanetta Farussi (1707-1776)
• Elisabeth Olin (1740–1828)
• Maria Carolina Wolf (1742–1820)
• Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt Brillon de Jouy (1744–1824)
• Marianne von Martinez (1744–1812)
• Maddalena Laura Sirmen (1745–1818)
• Marie Emmanuelle Bayon Louis (1746–1825)
• Henriette Adélaïde Villard de Beaumesnil (1748–1813)
• Polly Young, or Maria Barthélemon (1749–1799)

1750

• Gertrud Elisabeth Mara ((1749–1833)
• Elizabeth Anspach (1750–1828)
• Elizabeth Joanetta Catherine von Hagen (1750–1809/10)
• Maria Anna Mozart (1751–1829)
• Mary Ann Pownall (1751–1796)
• Corona Elisabeth Wilhelmine Schröter (1751–1802)
• Mary Ann Wrighten (1751–1796)
• Juliane Reichardt (1752–1783)
• Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757–1806)
• Jane Savage (1752/3–1824)
• Charlotte von Brandenstein (1754–1813)
• Josepha Duschek (1754–1824)
• Maria Theresia Ahlefeldt (1755–1810)
• Mary Linwood (1755/6–1845)
• Francesca Lebrun (1756–1791)
• Charlotte Caroline Wilhelmine Bachmann (1757–1817)
• Harriett Abrams (1758–1821)
• Josepha Barbara Auernhammer (1758–1820)
• Marianna von Auenbrugger (1759–1782)
• Maria Rosa Coccia (1759–1833)
• Maria Theresa Paradis (1759–1824)
• Sophia Maria Westenholz (1759–1838)
• Christina Charlotta Cederström (1760–1832)
• Maria Hester Park, (1760–1813)
• Marie-Elizabeth Cléry (1761–after 1795)
• Dorothea Jordan (1761–1816)
• Adelheid Maria Eichner (1762–1787)
• Jane Mary Guest (c. 1762–1846)
• Ann Valentine (1762–1842)
• Helene de Montgeroult (1764–1836)
• Charlotte Wilhelmina Franziska Brandes (1765–1788)
• Jeanne-Hippolyte Devismes (1765-?1834)
• Anne-Marie Krumpholtz (1766–1813)
• Caroline Wuiet (1766–1835)
• Julie Candeille (1767–1834)
• Elizabeth Billington (c. 1768–1818)
• Margarethe Danzi (1768–1800)
• Maria Theresa Bland (c. 1769–1838)
• Kateřina Veronika Anna Dusíkova (1769–1833)
• Vincenta Da Ponte (fl. second half 18th century)
• Cecilia Maria Barthélemon (c. 1769–after 1840)
• Yekaterina Sinyavina (died 1784)
• Klementyna Grabowska (Countess Clementine) (1771–1831)
• Lucile Grétry (1772–1790)
• Maria Frances Parke (1772–1822)
• Sophie Bawr (1773–1860)
• Anna Maria Crouch (1773–1805)
• Maria Brizzi Giorgi (1775–1822)
• Sophia Corri Dussek (1775–1847)
• Margaret Essex (1775–1807)
• Sophie Gail (1775–1819)
• Sophie Gay (1776–1852)
• Pauline Duchambge (1778–1858)
• Louise Reichardt (1779–1826)
• Ekaterina Likoshin (fl. 1800–1810)
• Katerina Maier (fl. c. 1800)
• Sophie Lebrun (1781–1863)
• Charlotta Seuerling (1782–1828)
• Hortense de Beauharnais (1783–1837)
• Teresa Belloc-Giorgi (1784–1855)
• Bettina Brentano (1785–1859)
• Catherina Cibbini-Kozeluch (1785–1858)
• Isabella Colbran (1785–1845)
• Fanny Krumpholtz Pittar (1785–1815)
• Marie Bigot (1786–1820)
• Le Sénéchal de Kerkado (c. 1786–after 1805)
• Elena Asachi (1789–1877)
• Maria Agata Szymanowska (1789–1831)
• Harriet Browne (1790–1858)
• Gertrude van den Bergh (1793–1840)
• Amalie, Princess of Saxony (1794–1870)
• Olivia Buckley (born mid-1790s–after 1845)
• Mme Delaval (fl. 1791–1802)
• Agata Della Pietà (fl. c. 1800)
• Caroline Ridderstolpe (1793–1878)
• Helene Liebmann (1796–1835)
• Mathilda d'Orozco (1796–1863)
• Emilie Zumsteeg (1796–1857)
• Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797–1848)
• Mme Ravissa (fl. late 18th century)
• Virginie Morel-du Verger (1799–1869)
• Maria Frederica von Stedingk (1799–1868)

1800

• Filipina Brzezińska-Szymanowska (1800–1886)
• Susanna Nerantzi (fl. 1830–1840)
• Marion Dix Sullivan (fl. 1840–50)
• Marianna Bottini (1802–1858)
• Eliza Flower (1803–1846)
• Isidora Zegers (1803–1869)
• Louise Farrenc (1804–1875)
• Louise Bertin (1805–1877)
• Fanny Mendelssohn (1805–1847)
• Elizabeth Masson (1806–1865)
• Adelaide Orsola Appignani (1807–1884)
• Helen Blackwood (1807–1867)
• Emma Hartmann (1807–1851)
• Princess Cecilia of Sweden (1807–1844)
• Maria Malibran (1808–1836)
• Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (1808–1877)
• Anna Caroline Oury (1808–1880)
• Leopoldine Blahetka (1809–1885)
• Baronne Almaury de Maistre (1809–1875)
• Johanna Kinkel (1810–1858)
• Louise Geneviève de Le Hye (1810–1838)
• Loïsa Puget (1810–1889)
• Alicia Ann Scott (1810–1900)
• Carolina Uccelli (1810–1885)
• Ann Mounsey (1811–1891)
• Julie von Webenau née Baroni-Cavalcabò (1813–1887)
• Delphine von Schauroth (1814–1887)
• Thérèse Wartel (1814–1865)
• Fredrikke Egeberg (1815–1861)
• Josephine Lang (1815–1880)
• Mary Anne à Beckett (1817–1863)
• Caroline Orger (1818–1892)
• Caroline Reinagle (1818–1892)
• Ellen Dickson (1819–1878)
• Clara Schumann (1819–1896)
• Elizabeth Stirling (1819–1895)
• Augusta Browne (1820–1882)
• Felicita Casella (c. 1820–after 1865)
• Emilie Hammarskjöld (1821–1854)
• Clara Angela Macirone (1821–1895)
• Emilie Mayer (1821–1883)
• Charlotte Sainton-Dolby (1821–1885)
• Maria Anna Stubenberg (1821–1912)
• Pauline Viardot (1821–1910)
• Faustina Hasse Hodges (1822–1895)
• Emma Maria Macfarren (1824–1895)
• Marie Siegling (1824–1919)
• Jane Sloman (1824–after 1850)
• Virginia Gabriel (1825–1877)
• Kate Loder (1825–1904)
• Maria Lindsay (1827–1898)
• Teresa Milanollo (1827–1904)
• Julia Niewiarowska-Brzozowska (1827–1891)
• Elizabeth Philp (1827–1885)
• Clémence de Grandval (1828–1907)
• Charlotte Alington Barnard (1830–1869)
• Fanny Arthur Robinson (1831–1879)
• Martha von Sabinin (1831–1892)
• Julia Woolf (1831–1893)
• Sophia Dellaporta (fl. second half of the 19th century)
• Esmeralda Athanasiu-Gardeev (1834–1917)
• Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834–1861)
• Anna Pessiak-Schmerling (1834–1896)
• Johanne Amelie Fenger (1836–1913)
• Susan McFarland Parkhurst (1836–1918)
• Anaïs Perrière-Pilte (1836–1878)
• Constance Faunt Le Roy Runcie (1836–1911)
• Pauline-Marie-Elisa Thys (c. 1836–1909)
• Caroline Wichern (1836–1906)
• Carlotta Ferrari (1837–1907)
• Bertha Tammelin (1836–1915)
• Georgina Weldon (1837–1914)
• Liliʻuokalani (1838–1917)
• Louise Haenel de Cronenthall (1839–c. 1876)
• Laura Constance Netzel (1839–1927)
• Alice Mary Smith (1839–1884)
• Ingeborg von Bronsart (1840–1913)
• Elfrida Andrée (1841–1929)
• Louise Héritte-Viardot (1841–1918)
• Josefina Brdlíková (1843–1910)
• Florence Ashton Marshall (1843–after 1911)
• Oliveria Louisa Prescott (1843–1919)
• Marguerite Olagnier (1844–1906)
• Clara Kathleen Rogers (1844–1931)
• Ella Adayevskaya (née Schultz) (1846–1926)
• Marie Jaëll (1846–1925)
• Sophie Menter (1846–1918)
• Valentina Serova (1846–1924)
• Agnes Tyrrell (1846–1883)
• Agathe Backer Grøndahl (1847–1907)
• Chiquinha Gonzaga (1847–1935)
• Augusta Holmès (1847–1903)
• Agnes Zimmermann (1847–1925)
• Nadezhda Rimskaya-Korsakova (1848–1919)
• Frances Allitsen (1849–1912)
• Soledad Bengoecha de Cármena (1849–1893)
• Catalina Berroa (1849–1911)
• Roberta Geddes-Harvey (1849–1930)
• Ludmila Jeske-Choińska-Mikorska (1849–1898)
• Nanna Magdalene Liebmann (1849–1935)
• Stephanie Wurmbrand-Stuppach (1849–1919)

1850

• Luise Adolpha Le Beau (1850–1927)
• Emma Roberto Steiner (1850–1928)
• Edith Swepstone (fl. 1885–1930)
• Mary Grant Carmichael (1851–1935)
• Gabrielle Ferrari (1851–1921)
• Annie Fortescue Harrison (1851–1944)
• Helena Munktell (1852–1919)
• Teresa Carreño (1853–1917)
• Julie Rivé-King (1854–1937)
• Maude Valérie White (1855–1937)
• Cecilia Arizti (1856–1930)
• Eva Dell'Acqua (1856–1930)
• Kateřina Emingerová (1856–1934)
• Clotilde Kainerstorfer (fl. second half 19th century)
• Helen Hopekirk (1856–1945)
• Natalia Janotha (1856–1932)
• Gilda Ruta (1856–1932)
• Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter (1856–1938)
• Berta Bock (1857–1945)
• Cécile Chaminade (1857–1944)
• Rosalind Frances Ellicott (1857–1924)
• Mathilde Kralik von Mayerswalden (1857–1944)
• Mary Knight Wood (1857–1944)
• Mélanie Bonis (1858–1937)
• Catherine Rennes (1858–1940)
• Guy d'Hardelot (1858–1936)
• Hilda Sehested (1858–1936)
• Ethel Smyth (1858–1944)
• Stella Stocker (1858–1925)
• Hedwige Chrétien (1859–1944)
• Laura Sedgwick Collins (1859–1927)
• Narcisa Freixas (1859–1926)
• Vincenza Garelli della Morea (1859–after 1924)
• Susie Frances Harrison (1859–1935)
• Elisabeth Meyer (1859–1927)
• Ida Georgina Moberg (1859–1947)
• Teresa Tanco Cordovez de Herrera (1859–1946)
• Hope Temple (1859–1938)
• Ellen Wright (1859–1904)
• Valborg Aulin (1860–1928)
• Celeste de Longpré Heckscher (1860–1928)
• Halina Krzyżanowska (1860–1937)
• Amy Woodforde-Finden (1860–1919)
• Mary J. A. Wurm (1860–1938)
• Florence Everilda Goodeve (1861–1915)
• Florence Aylward (1862–1950)
• Carrie Bond (1862–1946)
• Dora Bright (1862–1951)
• Liza Lehmann (1862–1918)
• Mona McBurney (1862–1932)
• Adela Maddison (1862/63–1929)
• Marian Arkwright (1863–1922)
• Luisa Casagemas (1863–after 1894)
• Maria Chefaliady-Taban (1863–1932)
• Abbie Gerrish-Jones (1863–1929)
• Helen Francis Hood (1863–1949)
• Izabella Kuliffay (1863–1945)
• Cornélie van Oosterzee (1863–1943)
• Florence Maude Ewart (1864–1949)
• Eleanor Everest Freer (1864–1942)
• Alice Tegnér (1864–1943)
• Borghild Holmsen (1865–1938)
• Amanda Ira Aldridge (1866–1956)
• Henriette van den Boorn-Coclet (1866–1945)
• Clara Anna Korn (1866–1941)
• Laura Lemon (1866–1924)
• Tekla Griebel Wandall (1866–1940)
• Amy Beach (1867–1944)
• Margherita Galeotti (1867–after 1912)
• Amy Elsie Horrocks (1867–after 1915)
• Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867–1972)
• Gisella Delle Grazie (born 1868, fl. 1894–95)
• Signe Lund (1868–1950)
• Annie Patterson (1868–1934)
• Joséphine Boulay (1869–1925)
• Virginia Mariani Campolieti (1869–1941)
• Maria Antonietta Picconi (1869–1926)
• Caro Roma (1869–1937)
• Patty Stair (1869–1926)
• Eugénie-Emilie Juliette Folville (1870–1946)
• Mon Schjelderup (1870–1934)
• Hélène-Frédérique de Faye-Jozin (1871–1942) (name often abbreviated as Fréd. de Faye-Jozin)
• Jane Vieu (1871–1955)
• Alicia Adélaide Needham (1872–1945)
• María de las Mercedes Adam de Aróstegui (1873–1957)
• Ethel Barns (1874–1948)
• Anna Cramer (1873–1968)
• Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Celeste (1873–1938)
• Emma Lomax (1873–1963)
• Mary Carr Moore (1873–1957)
• Maude Nugent (1873/4–1958)
• Ethel R. Harraden (1857–1917)
• Bertha Frensel Wegener (1874–1953)
• Katharine Emily Eggar (1874–1961)
• Henriette Renié (1875–1956)
• Vilma von Webenau (1875–1953)
• Sara Wennerberg-Reuter (1875–1959)
• Lucia Contini Anselmi (1876–after 1913)
• Armande de Polignac (1876–1962)
• Teresa Clotilde del Riego (1876–1968)
• Mabel Wheeler Daniels (1877–1971)
• Elisabeth Kuyper (1877–1953)
• Jeanne Beijerman-Walraven (1878–1969)
• Eugenia Calosso (1878–1914)
• Johanna Müller-Hermann (1878–1941)
• Yuliya Veysberg (1878/1880–1942)
• Wanda Landowska (1879–1959)
• Carmela Mackenna (1879–1962)
• Alma Mahler (1879–1964)
• Poldowski (1879–1932)
• Johanna Senfter (1879–1961)
• Ethel Scarborough (1880–1956)
• Gena Branscombe (1881–1977)
• Reine Colaço Osorio-Swaab (1881–1971)
• Nancy Dalberg (1881–1949)
• Fannie Charles Dillon (1881–1974)
• Marion Bauer (1882–1955)
• Mary Howe (1882–1964)
• Eleni Lambiri (c. 1882-8–1960)
• Ernestina Lecuona Casado (1882–1951)
• Mary Lucas (1882–1952)
• Dina Appeldoorn (1884–1938)
• Marguerite Béclard d'Harcourt (1884–1964)
• May Brahe (1884–1956)
• Giulia Recli (1884–1970)
• Blanche Selva (1884-1942]
• María Grever (1885–1951)
• Eva Jessye (1885–1992)
• Mana Zucca (1885–1981)
• Dora Pejačević (1885–1923)
• Giovanna Bruna Baldacci (1886–after 1910)
• Alice Barnett (1886–1975)
• Christabel Baxendale (1886–after 1951)
• Rebecca Helferich Clarke (1886–1979)
• Ellen Coleman (1886–1973)
• Elizabeth Gyring (1886–1970)
• Ethel Leginska (1886–1970)
• Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979)
• Mildred Couper (1887–1974)
• Clara Edwards (1887–1974)
• Emilia Gubitosi (1887–1972)
• Florence Beatrice Price (1887–1953)
• Lily Strickland (1887–1958)
• May Aufderheide (1888–1972)
• Carmen Barradas (1888–1963)
• Johanna Beyer (1888–1944)
• Ilse Fromm-Michaels (1888–1986)
• Anna Maria Klechniowska (1888–1973)
• Julie Reisserová (1888–1938)
• Maria Rodrigo (1888–1967)
• Rosy Wertheim (1888–1949)
• Emiliana de Zubeldia (1888–1987)
• Ina Boyle (1889–1967)
• Ethel Glenn Hier (1889–1971)
• Vally Weigl (1889–1982)
• Lydia Boucher (1890–1971)
• Marguerite Canal (1890–1978)
• Evelyn Faltis (1890–1937)
• Pauline Hall (1890–1969)
• Kathleen Lockhart Manning (1890–1951)
• Frida Kern (1891–1988)
• Florentina Mallá (1891–1973)
• Morfydd Owen (1891–1918)
• Catherine Murphy Urner (1891–1942)
• Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman (1892–1971)
• Mirrie Hill (1892–1986)
• Katherine K. Davis (1892–1980)
• Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983)
• Lili Boulanger (1893–1918)
• Marta Canales (1893–1986)
• Dorothy Gow (1893–1982)
• Helen Eugenia Hagan (1893–1964)
• Kalitha Dorothy Fox (1894–1934)
• Jane M. Joseph (1894–1929)
• Elsa Respighi (1894–1996)
• Sláva Vorlová (1894–1973)
• Henriëtte Bosmans (1895–1952)
• Kathleen Dale (1895–1984)
• Kathleen Richards (1895–1984)
• Maria Bach (1896–1978)
• Shirley Graham Du Bois (1896–1977)
• María Teresa Prieto (1896–1982)
• María Luisa Sepúlveda (1896–1958)
• Lucie Vellère (1896–1966)
• Benna Moe (1897–1983)
• Margaret Sutherland (1897–1984)
• Kay Swift (1897–1993)
• Barbara Giuranna (1898–1998)
• Dorothy Howell (1898–1982)
• Jeanne Leleu (1898–1979)
• Mansi Barberis (1899–1986)
• Radie Britain (1899–1994)
• Marcelle de Manziarly (1899–1989)
• Grete von Zieritz (1899–2001)

1900

• Carmelina Delfin (c. 1900–after 1948)
• Lola Castegnaro (1900–1979)
• Zdenka Ticharich (1900–1979)
• Elinor Remick Warren (1900–1991)
• Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901–1953)
• Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté (1901–1974)
• Dorothy James (1901–1982)
• Emmy Wegener (1901–1973)
• Hedy Frank-Autheried (1902–1979)
• Lūcija Garūta (1902–1977)
• Helvi Leiviskä (1902–1982)
• Freda Swain (1902–1985)
• Rose Thisse-Derouette (1902–1989)
• Claude Arrieu (1903–1990)
• María Enma Botet Dubois (born 1903)
• Rhoda Coghill (1903–2000)
• Avril Coleridge-Taylor (1903–1998)
• Lillian Fuchs (1903–1991)
• Jessie Furze (1903–1984)
• Marianne Gary-Schaffhauser (born 1903)
• Priaulx Rainier (1903–1986)
• Joanídia Sodré (1903–1975)
• Martha Alter (1904–1976)
• Dinorá de Carvalho (1904–1980)
• Undine Smith Moore (1904–1989)
• Dorothy Parke (1904–1990)
• Esther Rofe (1904–2000)
• Andrée Bonhomme (1905–1982)
• Ulric Cole (1905–1992)
• Elizabeth Poston (1905–1987)
• Verdina Shlonsky (1905–1990)
• Shuxian Xiao (1905–1991)
• Claire Delbos (1906–1959)
• Miriam Gideon (1906–1996)
• Zara Levina (1906–1976)
• Elisabeth Lutyens (1906–1983)
• Berta Alves de Sousa (1906–1997)
• Louise Talma (1906–1996)
• Grace Williams (1906–1977)
• Ann Ronell (1906 or 1908–1993)
• Lora Aborn (1907–2005)
• Yvonne Desportes (1907–1993)
• Koharik Gazarossian (1907–1967)
• Imogen Holst (1907–1984)
• Elizabeth Maconchy (1907–1994)
• Roberta Martin (1907–1969)
• Maria Teresa Pelegrí i Marimón (1907–1995)
• Roberta Bitgood (born 1908)
• Jean Coulthard (1908–2000)
• Helen Glatz (1908–1996)
• Joan Mary Last (1908-?)
• Trude Rittmann (1908–2005)
• Alice Samter (1908–2004)
• Ida Vivado (1908–1989)
• Grażyna Bacewicz (1909–1969)
• Maria Dziewulska (1909–2006)
• Minna Keal (1909–1999)
• Ljubica Marić (1909–2003)
• Dana Suesse (1909–1987)

1910

• Elsa Barraine (1910–1999)
• Lycia de Biase Bidart (1910–1990)
• Patricia Blomfield Holt (1910–2003)
• Shena Fraser (1910–1993)
• Lila Lalauni (1910–1996)
• Mary Lou Williams (1910–1981)
• Kikuko Kanai (1911–1986)
• Anne-Marie Ørbeck (1911-1996)
• Julia Smith (1911–1989)
• Phyllis Tate (1911–1987)
• Lydia Auster (1911–1989)
• Jeanne Behrend (1912–1988)
• Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912–1990)
• Gisela Hernández (1912–1971)
• Sirvart Karamanuk (1912–2008)
• Barbara Pentland (1912–2000)
• Jadwiga Szajna-Lewandowska (1912–1994)
• Josephine Troup (died 1912)
• Violet Archer (1913–2000)
• Isabel Aretz (1913–2005)
• Margaret Allison Bonds (1913–1972)
• Matilde Capuis (born 1913)
• Peggy Stuart Coolidge (1913–1981)
• Sylvia Fine (1913-1991)
• Vivian Fine (1913–2000)
• Dulcie Holland (1913–2000)
• Miriam Hyde (1913–2005)
• Netty Simons (1913–1994)
• Cacilda Borges Barbosa (1914-2010)
• Suzanne Joly (born 1914)
• Teresa Rampazzi (1914–2001)
• Josée Vigneron-Ramackers (born 1914)
• Esther Ballou (1915–1973)
• Eunice Catunda (1915–1991)
• Júlia Hajdú (1915–1987)
• Pamela Harrison (1915–1990)
• Najla Jabor (1915–2001)
• Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915–1940)
• Eunice Katunda (1915–1991)
• Joan Trimble (1915–2000)
• Berthe di Vito-Delvaux (1915–2005)
• Olga De Blanck Martín (1916-1998)
• Carin Malmlöf-Forssling (1916–2005)
• Nydia Pereyra-Lizaso (born 1916)
• Erna Tauro (1916–1993)
• Ruth Shaw Wylie (1916–1989)
• Joyce Howard Barrell (1917–1989)
• Clarisse Leite (1917–2003)
• Geraldine Mucha (born 1917)
• Maj Sønstevold (1917–1996)
• Ėta Mayseyewna Tïrmand (1917-?)
• Erna Woll (1917–2005)
• Lina Pires de Campos (born 1918)
• Gayane Č'ebotaryan (1918–1998)
• Dilys Elwyn-Edwards (born 1918)
• Lucrecia Roces Kasilag (born 1918)
• Matilde Salvador (born 1918-2007)
• Denise Tolkowsky (1918–1991)
• Jórunn Viðar (born 1918)
• Roslyn Brogue (1919–1981)
• Eleonora Eksanishvili (born 1919)
• Ludmila Frajt (born 1919)
• Dorothy Whitson Freed (born 1919)
• Hilda Jerea (1919–1980)
• Qu Xixian (born 1919)
• Galina Ustvolskaya (1919–2006)

1920

• Rolande Falcinelli (1920–2006)
• Dorothea Anne Franchi (1920–2003)
• Chaya Arbel (1921–2007)
• Adrienne Clostre (born 1921)
• Jeanne Demessieux (1921–1968)
• Ruth Gipps (1921–1999)
• Nazife Güran (1921–1993)
• Mara Petrova (1921–1997)
• Rosalina Abejo (1922–1991)
• Dorothea Austin (born 1922)
• Margaret Buechner (1922–1998)
• Doreen Carwithen (1922–2003)
• Ester Mägi (born 1922)
• Sylvia Rexach (1922–1961)
• Jeanine Rueff (1922–1999)
• Doris Akers (1923–1995)
• Teresa Borràs i Fornell (1923–2010)
• Madeleine Dring (1923–1977)
• Jean Eichelberger Ivey (born 1923)
• Ursula Mamlok (born 1923)
• Dika Newlin (born 1923)
• Elena Romero (born 1923)
• Ludmila Ulehla (1923–2009)
• Leni Alexander (1924–2005)
• Jeanne Colin-De Clerck (born 1924)
• Heimo Erbse (born 1924)
• Zhivka Klinkova (born 1924)
• Angela Morley (born 1924)
• Krystyna Moszumańska-Nazar (born 1924)
• Tatyana Nikolayeva (1924–1993)
• Gladys Nordenstrom (born 1924)
• Else Marie Pade (born 1924)
• Julia Perry (1924–1979)
• Ruth Schonthal (1924–2006)
• Jitka Snížková (1924–1989)
• Erzsébet Szőnyi (born 1924)
• Tui St. George Tucker (1924–2004)
• Consuelo Velázquez (1924–2005)
• Cathy Berberian (1925–1983)
• Edith Borroff (born 1925)
• Hilda Dianda (born 1925)
• Lyudmila Lyadova (born 1925)
• Nelly Moretto (1925–1978)
• Daphne Oram (1925–2003)
• Alice Parker (born 1925)
• Amado Santos Ocampo (born 1925)
• Yolande Uyttenhove (1925–2000)
• Ruth White (born 1925)
• Puchi Balseiro (1926–2007)
• Modesta Bor (1926–1998)
• Janine Charbonnier (born 1926)
• Irina Elcheva (born 1926)
• Zhun Huang (born 1926)
• Betsy Jolas (born 1926)
• Melinda Kistétényi (born 1926)
• Maria de Lourdes Martins (born 1926)
• Carmen Petra-Basacopol (born 1926)
• Claire Polin (1926–1995)
• Marga Richter (born 1926)
• Esther Scliar (1926–1978)
• Natela Svanidze (born 1926)
• Irina Yel'cheva (born 1926)
• Ruth Zechlin (born 1926)
• Marilyn J Ziffrin (born 1926)
• Bebe Barron (born 1927)
• Dolores Claman (born 1927)
• Emma Lou Diemer (born 1927)
• Judith Dvorkin (born c. 1927)
• Elaine Hugh-Jones (born 1927)
• Eva Schorr (born 1927)
• Mary Jeanne Van Appledorn (born 1927)
• Gaziza Zhubanova (born 1927)
• Margrit Zimmermann (born 1927)
• Luna Alcalay (born 1928)
• Ruth Anderson (born 1928)
• Sarah Feigin (born 1928)
• Beverly Grigsby (born 1928)
• Gladys Smuckler Moskowitz (born 1928)
• Nadežka Mosusova (born 1928)
• Thea Musgrave (born 1928)
• Adelaide Pereira da Silva (born 1928)
• Zlata Tcaci (born 1928)
• Toshiko Akiyoshi (born 1929)
• Nini Bulterijs (1929–1989)
• Geghuni Hovannesi Chitchian (born 1929)
• Siegrid Ernst (born 1929)
• Nada Ludvig-Pečar (1929–2008)
• Aleksandra Pakhmutova (born 1929)
• Elena Petrová (born 1929)
• Irma Urteaga (born 1929)

1930

• Yardena Alotin (1930–1994)
• Vera Baeva (born 1930)
• Jacqueline Fontyn (born 1930)
• Joan Franks Williams (born 1930)
• Antoinette Kirkwood (born 1930)
• Ruth Lomon (born 1930)
• Gudrun Lund (born 1930)
• Jana Obrovská (1930–1987)
• Betty Roe (born 1930)
• Clotilde Rosa (born 1930)
• Naomi Shemer (1930–2004)
• Nancy Van de Vate (born 1930)
• Nancy Laird Chance (born 1931)
• Lucia Dlugoszewski (1931–2000)
• Felicia Donceanu (born 1931)
• Sofia Gubaidulina (born 1931)
• Rosa Guraieb (born 1931)
• Yüksel Koptagel (born 1931)
• Young-ja Lee (born 1931)
• Maria Dolores Malumbres (born 1931)
• Myriam Marbe (1931–1997)
• Joyce Mekeel (1931–1997)
• Phillipa Duke Schuyler (1931–1967)
• Alida Vázquez (born 1931)
• Elaine Barkin (born 1932)
• Betty Beath (born 1932)
• Diana Pereira Hay (born 1932)
• Marta Jiráčková (born 1932)
• Zhuang Liu (born 1932)
• Tera de Marez Oyens (1932–1996)
• Pauline Oliveros (born 1932)
• Eliane Radigue (born 1932)
• Dorothy Ashby (1932-1986)
• Kilza Setti (born 1932)
• Gitta Steiner (1932–1990)
• Ruth Watson Henderson (born 1932)
• Pozzi Escot (born 1933)
• Ida Gotkovsky (born 1933)
• Elena Karastoyanova (born 1933)
• Yoko Ono (born 1933)
• Charlotte Moorman (1933–1991)
• Maria Helena Rosas Fernandes (born 1933)
• Rocio Sanz (1933–1993)
• Alicia Urreta (1933–1987)
• Tat'yana Voronina (born 1933)
• Huguang Xin (born 1933)
• Norma Beecroft (born 1934)
• Nicole Lachartre (1934–1992)
• Mary Mageau (born 1934)
• Zhanneta Lazarevna Metallidi (born 1934)
• Teresa Procaccini (born 1934)
• Alicia Terzian (born 1934)
• Arlene Zallman (1934–2006)
• Thérèse Brenet (born 1935)
• Biancamaria Furgeri (born 1935)
• Helen Gifford (born 1935)
• Kazuko Hara (born 1935)
• Enid Luff (born 1935)
• Jacqueline Nova (1935–1975)
• Shirley Walker (1935-2006)
• Qiang Wang (born 1935)
• Mirjana Živković (born 1935)
• Sieglinda Ahrens (born 1936)
• Izabella Arazova (born 1936)
• Monic Cecconi-Botella (born 1936)
• Erika Radermacher (born 1936)
• Erika Fox (born 1936)
• Barbara Heller (born 1936)
• Trisutji Kamal (born 1936)
• Sheila Mary Nelson (born 1936)
• Jocy de Oliveira (born 1936)
• Vivian Adelberg Rudow (born 1936)
• Brunhilde Sonntag (born 1936)
• Keiko Abe (born 1937)
• Janet Beat (born 1937)
• Constança Capdeville (1937–1992)
• Delia Derbyshire (1937–2001)
• Irina Odăgescu (born 1937)
• Beatriz Ferreyra (born 1937)
• Katherine Hoover (born 1937)
• Marta Lambertini (born 1937)
• Diana McIntosh (born 1937)
• Kikuko Masumoto (born 1937)
• Bernadetta Matuszczak (born 1937)
• Irma Ravinale (born 1937)
• Ann Southam (born 1937)
• Isabelle Aboulker (born 1938)
• Elizabeth R. Austin (born 1938)
• Carla Bley (born 1938)
• Ann Carr-Boyd (born 1938)
• Gloria Coates (born 1938)
• Piera Pistono (born 1938)
• Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux (1938–1985)
• Tona Scherchen (born 1938)
• Mieko Shiomi (born 1938)
• Cornelia Tăutu (born 1938)
• Joan Tower (born 1938)
• Elinor Armer (born 1939)
• Wendy Carlos (born 1939)
• Marcelle Deschênes (born 1939)
• Lesya Dychko (born 1939)
• Maija Einfelde (born 1939)
• Jennifer Fowler (born 1939)
• Barbara Kolb (born 1939)
• Annea Lockwood (born 1939)
• María Luisa Ozaita (born 1939)
• Inger Wikström (born 1939)
• Margaret Lucy Wilkins (born 1939)
• Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (born 1939)

1940

• Heidi Baader-Nobs (born 1940)
• Margaret Brouwer (born 1940)
• Eleanor Hovda (born 1940)
• Maria Teresa Luengo (born 1940)
• Dorothy Rudd Moore (born 1940)
• Graciela Paraskevaidis (born 1940)
• Judith Margaret Bailey (born 1941)
• Anđelka Bego-Šimunić (born 1941)
• Kay Gardner (1941–2002)
• Micki Grant (born 1941)
• Sorrel Hays (born 1941)
• Moya Henderson (born 1941)
• Viera Janárčeková (born 1941)
• Edith Lejet (born 1941)
• Ivana Loudová (born 1941)
• Jenny Helen McLeod (born 1941)
• Sook-Ja Oh (born 1941)
• Terry Winter Owens (born 1941)
• Magaly Ruiz Lastres (born 1941)
• Elizabeth Walton Vercoe (born 1941)
• Gillian Whitehead (born 1941)
• Birgitte Alsted (born 1942)
• Silvana Di Lotti (born 1942)
• Canary Lee Burton (born 1942)
• Helen Fisher (born 1942)
• Usha Khanna (born 1942)
• Priscilla McLean (born 1942)
• Haruna Miyake (born 1942)
• Meredith Monk (born 1942)
• Kyungsun Suh (born 1942)
• Diane Thome (born 1942)
• Maryanne Amacher (born 1943)
• Solange Ancona (born 1943)
• Christine Berl (born 1943)
• Michèle Bokanowski (born 1943)
• Joanna Bruzdowicz (born 1943)
• Laura Clayton (born 1943)
• Eleanor Cory (born 1943)
• Margriet Ehlen (born 1943)
• Judy Klein (born 1943)
• Anne Lauber (born 1943)
• Tania León (born 1943)
• Marta Ptaszynska (born 1943)
• Michèle Reverdy (born 1943)
• Alice Shields (born 1943)
• Elżbieta Sikora (born 1943)
• Pril Smiley (born 1943)
• Françoise Barrière (born 1944)
• Alison Bauld (born 1944)
• Ana Bofill Levi (born 1944)
• Gabriella Cecchi (born 1944)
• Tatyana Chudova (born 1944)
• ‎Gloria González (born 1944)
• Beatriz Lockhart (born 1944)
• Gabriela Moyseowicz (born 1944)
• Claire Renard (born 1944)
• Marisa Rezende (born 1944)
• Rhian Samuel (born 1944)
• Silvia Sommer (born 1944)
• Graciela Castillo (born before 1945)
• Graciela Agudela (born 1945)
• Maya Badian (born 1945)
• Gillian Bibby (born 1945)
• Victoria Bond (born 1945)
• Dorothy Quita Buchanan (born 1945)
• Judith Ann Clingan (born 1945)
• Melanie Ruth Daiken (born 1945)
• Graciane Finzi (born 1945)
• Ig Henneman (born 1945)
• Nagako Konishi (born 1945)
• Chan-Hae Lee (born 1945)
• Vânia Dantas Leite (born 1945)
• Younghi Pagh-Paan (born 1945)
• Maggi Payne (born 1945)
• Elizabeth Raum (born 1945)
• Marielli Sfakianaki (born 1945)
• Laurie Spiegel (born 1945)
• Julia Usher (born 1945)
• Judith Lang Zaimont (born 1945)
• Barbara Benary (born 1946)
• Renate Birnstein (born 1946)
• Anne Boyd (born 1946)
• Geneviève Calame (1946–1993)
• Suzanne Ciani (born 1946)
• Dora Draganova (born 1946)
• Tsippi Fleischer (born 1946)
• Janice Giteck (born 1946)
• Ann-Elise Hannikainen (born 1946)
• Ho Wai-On (born 1946)
• Neva Krasteva (born 1946)
• Jane O'Leary (born 1946)
• Anna Rubin (born 1946)
• Claire Schapira (born 1946)
• Daria Semegen (born 1946)
• Marilyn Shrude (born 1946)
• Sheila Silver (born 1946)
• Annette Vande Gorne (born 1946)
• Joelle Wallach (born 1946)
• Hildegard Westerkamp (born 1946)
• Pınar Köksal (born 1946)
• Liana Alexandra (born 1947)
• Laurie Anderson (born 1947)
• Franghiz Ali-Zadeh (born 1947)
• Ruth Bakke (born 1947)
• Ada Gentile (born 1947)
• Mayako Kubo (born 1947)
• Joan La Barbara (born 1947)
• Nicola LeFanu (born 1947)
• Zarrina Mirshakar (born 1947)
• Vojna Nešić (born 1947)
• Rosica Petkova (born 1947)
• Gail Leven Pollock (born 1947)
• Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil (born 1947)
• Faye-Ellen Silverman (born 1947)
• Hilary Tann (born 1947)
• Gwyneth Van Anden Walker (born 1947)
• Susan Cohn Lackman (born 1947)
• Gisèle Barreau (born 1948)
• Diana Burrell (born 1948)
• Julia Cenova (1948–2010)
• Janet Graham (born 1948)
• Kerstin Jeppsson (born 1948)
• Christina Kubisch (born 1948)
• Junko Mori (born 1948)
• Ilza Nogueira (born 1948)
• Sally Johnston Reid (born 1948)
• Shoshana Riseman (born 1948)
• Ilona Sekacz (born 1948)
• Lyudmila Karpawna Shleh (born 1948)
• Bernadette Speach (born 1948)
• Ivana Stefanović (born 1948)
• Julia Tsenova (1948–2010)
• Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph (born 1948)
• Eleanor Alberga (born 1949)
• Carol E Barnett (born 1949)
• Rachel Galinne (born 1949)
• Alexina Louie (born 1949)
• Odaline de la Martinez (born 1949)
• Zhanna Vasil'yevna Pliyeva (born 1949)
• Shulamit Ran (born 1949)
• Angela Ro Ro (born 1949)
• Kimi Sato (born 1949)
• Judith Shatin (born 1949)
• Marina Marta Vlad (born 1949)

1950

• Lejla Agolli (born 1950)
• Beth Anderson (born 1950)
• Edith Canat de Chizy (born 1950)
• Elena Firsova (born 1950)
• Åse Hedstrøm (born 1950)
• Yelena Sergeyevna Konshina (born 1950)
• Libby Larsen (born 1950)
• Elodie Lauten (born 1950)
• Lam Manyee (born 1950)
• Vivienne Olive (born 1950)
• Synne Skouen (born 1950)
• Pamela St. John (born 1950)
• Nancy Telfer (born 1950)
• Anneli Arho (born 1951)
• Beatriz Bilbao (born 1951)
• Karólína Eiríksdóttir (born 1951)
• Halina Harelava (born 1951)
• Patricia Jünger (born 1951)
• Cecilia McDowall (born 1951)
• Liz Phillips (born 1951)
• Jeanne Pool (born 1951)
• Marcela Rodríguez (born 1951)
• Doina Rotaru (born 1951)
• Tat'yana Sergeyeva (born 1951)
• Elizabeth Swados (born 1951)
• Lois V Vierk (born 1951)
• Kristi Allik (born 1952)
• Judith Bingham (born 1952)
• Helen Bowater (born 1952)
• Maya Ciobanu (born 1952)
• Tina Davidson (born 1952)
• Janet Dunbar (born 1952)
• Margriet Hoenderdos (born 1952)
• Grażyna Krzanowska (born 1952)
• Bunita Marcus (born 1952)
• Alla Pavlova (born 1952)
• Chris Poole (born 1952)
• Kaija Saariaho (born 1952)
• Avril Anderson (born 1953)
• Sonja Beets (fr) (born 1953)
• Susan Morton Blaustein (born 1953)
• Wendy Mae Chambers (born 1953)
• Chen Yi (born 1953)
• Jody Diamond (born 1953)
• Violeta Dinescu (born 1953)
• Eibhlis Farrell (born 1953)
• Adriana Hölszky (born 1953)
• Anne LeBaron (born 1953)
• Hope Anne Keng-Wai Lee (born 1953)
• Anne Linnet (born 1953)
• Cindy McTee (born 1953)
• Lidia Zielińska (born 1953)
• Sylvie Bodorová (born 1954)
• Elisabetta Brusa (born 1954)
• María Escribano (born 1954)
• Susan Frykberg (born 1954)
• Irina Hasnaş (born 1954)
• Birgit Havenstein (born 1954)
• Brenda Hutchinson (born 1954)
• Denise Kelly (born 1954)
• Hi Kyung Kim (born 1954)
• Renata Kunkel (born 1954)
• Bun-Ching Lam (born 1954)
• Pamela J. Marshall (born 1954)
• Ella Milch-Sheriff (born 1954)
• Betty Olivero (born 1954)
• Cecilie Ore (born 1954)
• Elizabeth Hayden Pizer (born 1954)
• Clare Shore (born 1954)
• Judith Weir (born 1954)
• Eleanor Joanne Daley (born 1955)
• Susanne Erding-Swiridoff (born 1955)
• Diamanda Galás (born 1955)
• Gerda Geertens (born 1955)
• Anne La Berge (born 1955)
• Masguda Shamsutdinova (born 1955)
• Iryna Kyrylina (born 1955)
• Marilyn Mazur (born 1955)
• Karmella Tsepkolenko (born 1955)
• Janika Vandervelde (born 1955)
• Regina Harris Baiocchi (born 1956)
• Sally Beamish (born 1956)
• Chiara Benati (born 1956)
• Eve de Castro-Robinson (born 1956)
• Anne Dudley (born 1956)
• Michelle Ekizian (born 1956)
• Madeleine Isaksson (born 1956)
• Laura Kaminsky (born 1956)
• Makiko Kinoshita (born 1956)
• Silvina Milstein (born 1956)
• Wynn-Anne Rossi (born 1956)
• Marie Samuelsson (born 1956)
• Carla Scaletti (born 1956)
• Carolyn Steinberg (born 1956)
• Iris Szeghy (born 1956)
• Marcela Pavia (born 1957)
• Chaya Czernowin (born 1957)
• Linda Bouchard (born 1957)
• Ellen Fullman (born 1957)
• Regina Irman (born 1957)
• Elena Kats-Chernin (born 1957)
• Karin Rehnqvist (born 1957)
• Pan Shiji (born 1957)
• Linda Catlin Smith (born 1957)
• Joan Szymko (born 1957)
• Eve Beglarian (born 1958)
• Maura Bosch (born 1958)
• Zulema de la Cruz (born 1958)
• Beth Denisch (born 1958)
• Consuelo Díez (born 1958)
• Suzanne Giraud (born 1958)
• Hanna Havrylets' (born 1958)
• Sarah Hopkins (born 1958)
• Errollyn Wallen (born 1958)
• Julia Wolfe (born 1958)
• Barbara Woof (born 1958)
• Sinta Wullur (born 1958)
• Caroline Ansink (born 1959)
• Carola Bauckholt (born 1959)
• Ilona Breģe (born 1959)
• Adina Izarra (born 1959)
• Ana Lara (born 1959)
• Marianella Machado (born 1959)
• Hilda Paredes (born 1959)

1960

• Maria de Alvear (born 1960)
• Sonia Bo (born 1960)
• Yekaterina Chemberdzhi (born 1960)
• Annie Gosfield (born 1960)
• Priti Paintal (born 1960)
• Rachel Portman (born 1960)
• Unsuk Chin (born 1961)
• Hanna Kulenty (born 1961)
• Michiru Oshima (born 1961)
• Lourdes Perez (born 1961)
• Isabel Soveral (born 1961)
• Karen Tanaka (born 1961)
• Julie Giroux (born 1961)
• Mary Finsterer (born 1962)
• Jennifer Higdon (born 1962)
• Victoria Poleva (born 1962)
• Rosephanye Powell (born 1962)
• Laura Schwendinger (born 1962)
• Alex Shapiro (born 1962)
• Chen Shihui (born 1962)
• Bettina Skrzypczak (born 1962)
• Allison Cameron (born 1963)
• Keiko Fujiie (born 1963)
• Veronika Krausas (born 1963)
• Isabel Mundry (born 1963)
• Halyna Ovcharenko (born 1963)
• Lucia Ronchetti (born 1963)
• Calliope Tsoupaki (born 1963)
• Hana Vejvodová (1963–1994)
• Debbie Wiseman (born 1963)
• Michiru Yamane (born 1963)
• Julia Gomelskaya (born 1964)
• Yoko Kanno (born 1964)
• Gabriela Ortiz (born 1964)
• Sarah Peebles (born 1964)
• Annette Schlünz (born 1964)
• Augusta Read Thomas (born 1964)
• Mariana Villanueva (born 1964)
• Carin Bartosch Edström (sv) (born 1965)
• Zana Clarke (born 1965)
• Evelyn Glennie (born 1965)
• Yuki Kajiura (born 1965)
• Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska (born 1965)
• Georgia Spiropoulos (born 1965)
• Liza Lim (born 1966)
• Gráinne Mulvey (born 1966)
• Rebecca Saunders (born 1967)
• Yoko Shimomura (born 1967)
• Katia Tiutiunnik (born 1967)
• Laura Andel (born 1968)
• Vanessa Lann (born 1968)
• Olga Neuwirth (born 1968)
• Roxanna Panufnik (born 1968)

1970

• Graziella Concas (born 1970)
• Marina Leonardi (born 1970)
• Arlene Sierra (born 1970)
• Aleksandra Vrebalov (born 1970)
• Malika Kishino (de) (born 1971)
• Soe Tjen Marching (born 1971)
• Christine Aufderhaar (de) (born 1972)
• Amber Ferenz (born 1972)
• Gabriela Lena Frank (born 1972)
• Hiba Kawas (born 1972)
• Analia Llugdar (born 1972)
• Deborah Lurie (born 1972)
• Helena Tulve (born 1972)
• Lera Auerbach (born 1973)
• Meri von KleinSmid (born 1974)
• Jennifer Walshe (born 1974)
• Kati Agócs (born 1975)
• Sia Furler (born 1975)
• Svitlana Azarova (born 1976)
• Eunshin Jung (de) (born 1976)
• Andrea Reinkemeyer (born 1976)
• Britta Byström (sv) (born 1977)
• Karola Obermüller (de) (born 1977)
• Kerry Andrew (born 1978)
• Vanessa-Mae (born 1978)
• Anna Meredith (born 1978)
• Emily Howard (born 1979)

1980

• Anna Clyne (born 1980)
• Ann Eysermans (nl) (born 1980)
• Cheryl Frances-Hoad (born 1980)
• Dobrinka Tabakova (born 1980)
• Anne Cawrse (born 1981)
• Helen Grime (born 1981)
• Diana Rotaru (ro) (born 1981)
• Charlotte Bray (born 1982)
• Ai Otsuka (born 1982)
• Donika Rudi (born 1982)
• Reena Esmail (born 1983)
• Sarah Horick (born 1984)
• Sasha Siem (born 1984)
• Cristina Spinei (born 1984)
• Dafina Zeqiri (born 1984)
• Kathryn Salfelder (nl) (born 1987)
• Bàrbara Ardanuy i Queldra (ca) (born 1988)

Unknown

• Sussan Deyhim (born in the 20th Century)
• Claire Liddell (born in the 20th Century)
• Amy X Neuburg (living; born in the 20th Century)
• Winifred Phillips (living; born in the 20th Century)
• Yuka Tsujiyoko (born in the 20th Century)

See also

• List of Australian women composers
• List of composers
• List of 20th century classical composers
• List of female film score composers
• Trobairitz women troubadours, currently includes bios of Azalais de Porcairagues, Castelloza, and the Comtessa de Dìa.
• Category:Women composers

Source

• List partially created using Grove's "Explore" function, Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed September 23, 2006), grovemusic.com (subscription access).

Further reading

• Historical Anthology of Music by Women. James R. Briscoe, ed. Indiana University Press, 1986 (ISBN 0-253-21296-0)
• "Les Compositrices en France au XIXe siècle", by Florence Launay, Fayard, Paris, 2006. ISBN 2-213-62458-5

External links

• International Alliance for Women in Music
• The Woman Composer Question a bibliography by Dr. Eugene Gates
• Database of women composers by Kapralova Society
• French women composers (in French)
• List of Iberoamerican and Spanish Women composers by Dr. Cecilia Piñero Gil
• And Don't Call Them 'Lady' Composers by Pauline Oliveros
• Historical Notes for collection of melodies by women composers