- Johann Sebastian Bach
- George Frideric Handel
- Francois Couperin
- Jacques Hotteterre
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Telemann
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- Johann Joachim Quantz
- Francesco Geminiani
- Pietro Locatelli
- Giuseppe Sammartini
- Giovanni Battista Sammartini
- Nicola Porpora
- Jean-Philippe Rameau
- Michel Blavet
- Jacques-Christophe Naudot
- Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin
- Johann Adolph Hasse
- Christoph Graupner
- Johann Friedrich Fasch
- Johann David Heinichen
- Johann Gottlieb Goldberg
- Johann Sebastian Bach's sons: Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Johann Christian Bach, and Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach
- Georg Philipp Telemann's sons: Georg Michael Telemann, Carl Gottfried Telemann, and Heinrich Matthias Telemann
- Johann Mattheson
- Johann Kuhnau
- Johann Christoph Pepusch
- Maurice Greene
- William Boyce
- John Stanley
- Thomas Arne
- Christopher Simpson
- Tobias Hume
- John Dowland
- William Byrd
- Orlando Gibbons
- Thomas Morley
- John Jenkins
- Matthew Locke
- Henry Purcell
- John Blow
- Pelham Humfrey
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier
- Marin Marais
- Louis-Nicolas Clérambault
- Jean-Baptiste Lully
- Jean-Féry Rebel
- François Francoeur
- Louis-Claude Daquin
- Jacques Duphly
- Claude Balbastre
- Domenico Scarlatti
- Benedetto Marcello
- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
- Nicola Fumo
- Leonardo Vinci
- Giovanni Paisiello
- Domenico Cimarosa
- Franz Joseph Haydn
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Carl Maria von Weber
- Franz Schubert
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Robert Schumann
- Johannes Brahms
- Antonin Dvorak
- Bedrich Smetana
- Leoš Janáček
- Claude Debussy
- Maurice Ravel
- Igor Stravinsky
- Paul Hindemith
- Carl Orff
- Darius Milhaud
- Francis Poulenc
- Jean Françaix
- Jacques Ibert
- Henri Dutilleux
- Pierre Boulez
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
- György Ligeti
- Luciano Berio
- John Cage
- Morton Feldman
- Philip Glass
- Steve Reich
- Terry Riley
- La Monte Young
- Alvin Lucier
- Pauline Oliveros
- David Tudor
- Gordon Mumma
- Robert Ashley
- Charlemagne Palestine
- Eliane Radigue
- Phill Niblock
- David Behrman
- Richard Pinhas
- Henry Kaiser
- Fred Frith
- Tom Cora
- John Zorn
- Ikue Mori
- Zeena Parkins
- Miya Masaoka
- Otomo Yoshihide
- Keiji Haino
- Merzbow
- Boredoms
- Acid Mothers Temple
- Ghost
- Sunn O)))