List of composers of musicals

This is a list of notable composers of musicals.

See also List of musicals by composer

## A–B

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* Richard Adler
* Harry Akst
* Lynn Ahrens
* Jerome Alden
* Leroy Anderson
* Benny Andersson
* Harold Arlen
* Nat D. Ayer
* Burt Bacharach
* Sara Bareilles
* Gary Barlow
* Edward Barnes
* Lionel Bart
* George Bassman
* Irving Berlin
* Elmer Bernstein
* Leonard Bernstein
* Eva Best
* Eubie Blake
* Marc Blitzstein
* Jeff Blumenkrantz
* Jerry Bock
* John Walter Bratton
* Leslie Bricusse
* Mel Brooks
* Jason Robert Brown
* Lew Brown
* David Bryan

## C–D

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* F. Osmond Carr
* Ivan Caryll
* Alfred Cellier
* Moose Charlap
* Petula Clark
* Pippa Cleary
* George M Cohan
* Cy Coleman
* Noël Coward
* Roberto Danova
* Joel Derfner
* Robert E. Dolan
* Ervin Drake
* Vernon Duke

## E–F

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* Gus Edwards
* Danny Elfman
* William Finn
* Stephen Flaherty
* Scott Frankel
* Harold Fraser-Simson
* Gary William Friedman
* Rudolf Friml

## G-H

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* Noel Gay
* George Gershwin
* Zina Goldrich
* Jonathan Goldstein (composer)
* Howard Goodall
* Ricky Ian Gordon
* Micki Grant
* Adam Guettel
* Hal Hackady
* Herbert Haines
* Marvin Hamlisch
* E.Y. Harburg
* Edward W. Hardy
* Edward Harrigan
* Tony Hatch
* Jerry Herman
* Victor Herbert
* Louis Hirsch
* Mark Hollmann
* Rupert Holmes

## I–J

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* Isaac Albéniz
* Elton John
* Sidney Jones

## K–L

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* John Kander
* Yakov Kazyansky
* Gustave Kerker
* Jerome Kern
* Edward Kleban
* Michael John LaChiusa
* Burton Lane
* Kirke La Shelle
* Jonathan Larson
* Liza Lehmann
* Cyndi Lauper
* Carolyn Leigh
* Mitch Leigh
* Sylvester Levay
* Andrew Lippa
* Andrew Lloyd Webber
* Frank Loesser
* Frederick Loewe
* Robert Lopez
* Bree Lowdermilk
* Meyer Lutz
* Steven Lutvak

## M–N

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* Galt MacDermot
* Mesias Maiguashca
* Dave Malloy
* Jeff Marx
* Alan Menken
* Johnny Mercer
* Roger Miller
* Tim Minchin
* Lin-Manuel Miranda
* Lionel Monckton
* Marguerite Monnot
* Jerome Moross
* Clarence Wainwright Murphy
* Wolfgang Mozart
* Gerd Natschinski
* Anthony Newley
* Frederic Norton
* Ivor Novello

## O–P

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* Richard O'Brien
* Laurence O'Keefe
* Ryan Scott Oliver
* Clifton Parker
* Trey Parker
* Pasek and Paul
* William Perry
* Robert Planquette
* Cole Porter
* Jacques Presburg
* André Previn
* Jonathan Price

## R

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* Arturo Rodas
* Mary Rodgers
* Richard Rodgers
* Sigmund Romberg
* Harold Rome
* Jerry Ross
* Dana P. Rowe
* Paul Rubens
* Willy Russell

## S

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* Luis H. Salgado
* Harvey Schmidt
* Arthur Schwartz
* Stephen Schwartz
* Claude-Michel Schönberg
* Marc Schubring
* Al Sherman
* Robert B. Sherman
* Richard M. Sherman
* Robert J. Sherman
* Matthew Sklar
* Ted Snyder
* Julian Slade
* Walter Slaughter
* Charlie Smalls
* Edward Solomon
* Stephen Sondheim
* John Philip Sousa
* George Stansbury
* Matt Stone
* Oscar Straus
* Charles Strouse
* Leslie Stuart
* Jule Styne

## T–Y

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* Howard Talbot
* James W. Tate
* Jeanine Tesori
* Harry Tierney
* Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
* Pete Townshend
* Björn Ulvaeus
* James Valcq
* Jimmy Van Heusen
* Julian Wagstaff
* John Wallowitch
* Harry Warren
* Kurt Weill
* Richard A. Whiting
* Frank Wildhorn
* Meredith Willson
* Sandy Wilson
* Robert Wright
* Laurence Mark Wythe
* David Yazbek
* Maury Yeston
* Vincent Youmans