The following is a chronological list of classical music composers who lived in, worked in, or were citizens of France.
Medieval
Leonin (c. 1150 – 1201) Perotin (1160 – 1230) Adam de la Halle (1240 – 1287) Philippe de Vitry (1291 – 1361) Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300 – 1377)
Renaissance
Guillaume Dufay (c. 1397 – 1474) Gilles Binchois (c. 1400 – 1460) Loÿset Compère (c. 1445 – 1518) Josquin des Prez (c. 1450 – 1521), born near Franco-Flemish border Pierre de La Rue (c. 1452 – 1518) Jean Mouton (c. 1459 – 1522) Antoine Brumel (c. 1460 – 1512/1513) Clément Janequin (c. 1485 – 1558) Claudin de Sermisy (c. 1490 – 1562) Nicolas Gombert (c. 1495 – c. 1560) Ninot le Petit (fl. c. 1500 – 1520) Pierre de Manchicourt (c. 1510 – 1564) Claude Gervaise (fl. 1540 – 1560) Jean Titelouze (c. 1562/63 – 1633)
Baroque
Pierre Guédron (c. 1570 – c. 1620) Antoine Boësset (1586–1643) Étienne Moulinié (c. 1599 – after 1669) Jacques Champion de Chambonnières (c. 1601 – 1672) Denis Gaultier (1603–1672) François Dufault (before 1604 – c. 1672) Jacques de Gouy (c. 1610 – after 1650) Michel Lambert (1610–1696) Louis Couperin (c. 1626 – 1661) Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (1629–1691) Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687) Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe (c. 1640 – c. 1700) Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704) Robert de Visée (c. 1655 – 1732/1733) Marin Marais (1656–1728) Michel Richard Delalande (1657–1726) André Campra (1660–1744) Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665–1729) Jean-Féry Rebel (1666–1747) Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (1667–1737) François Couperin (1668–1733) Louis Marchand (1669–1732) Louis de Caix d'Hervelois (c. 1670 – c. 1760) Gaspard Corrette (1671–before 1733) Antoine Forqueray (1671–1745) Nicolas de Grigny (1672–1703) Jacques-Martin Hotteterre (1674–1763) Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676–1749) Jean-François Dandrieu (c. 1682 – 1738) Jean-Joseph Mouret (1682–1738) Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764) François d'Agincourt (1684–1758) Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689–1755) Louis-Claude Daquin (1694–1772) Jean-Marie Leclair the elder (1697–1764) François Francoeur (1698–1787) Michel Blavet (1700–1768) Christophe Moyreau (1700–1774) Jean-Marie Leclair the Younger (1703–1777) Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer (c. 1705 – 1755) Louis-Gabriel Guillemain (1705–1770) Michel Corrette (1707–1795) Jean-Joseph de Mondonville (1711–1772)
Classical era
Jacques Duphly (1715–1789) François-André Danican Philidor (1726–1795) Joseph Touchemoulin (1727–1801) François Joseph Gossec (1734–1829) André Grétry (1741–1813) Simon Le Duc (1742–1777) Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745–1799) Nicolas Dalayrac (1753–1809) Jean-Baptiste Bréval (1753–1823) Ignaz Pleyel (1757–1831) Jean-François Lesueur (1760–1837) Olivier Aubert (1763–c.1830) Étienne Méhul (1763–1817) Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766–1831) Louis-Emmanuel Jadin (1768–1853) Charles Simon Catel (1773–1830) Pierre Rode (1774–1830) François-Adrien Boieldieu (1775–1834) Hyacinthe Jadin (1776–1800) Pauline Duchambge (1778–1858) Jacques Féréol Mazas (1782–1849)
Romantic
Daniel Auber (1782–1871) George Onslow (1784–1853) Nicolas-Charles Bochsa (1789–1856) Ferdinand Hérold (1791–1833) Fromental Halévy (1799–1862) Victor Magnien (1802–1885) Adolphe Adam (1803–1856) Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) Louise Farrenc (1804–1875) Louise Bertin (1805–1877) Napoléon Coste (1805–1883) Auguste Pilati (1810–1877) Ambroise Thomas (1811–1896) Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813–1888) Eugène Louis-Marie Jancourt (1815–1901) Jean-Chrisostome Hess (1816–1900) Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély (1817–1869) Charles Dancla (1817–1907) Charles Gounod (1818–1893) Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880) Charles-Louis Hanon (1819–1900) Pauline Viardot (1821–1910) César Franck (1822–1890) Édouard Lalo (1823–1892) Joseph Jean-Baptiste Laurent Arban (1825–1889) Charles Delioux (1825–1915) Joseph O'Kelly (1828–1885) Georges Pfeiffer (1835–1908) Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Léo Delibes (1836–1891) Alexandre Guilmant (1837–1911) Théodore Dubois (1837–1924) Georges Bizet (1838–1875) Henri Ghys (1839–1908) Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894) Georges Lamothe (1842–1894) Jules Massenet (1842–1912) Claude-Paul Taffanel (1844–1908) Charles-Marie Widor (1844–1937) Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Henri Duparc (1848–1933) Benjamin Godard (1849–1895) Clément Broutin (1851–1889) Vincent d'Indy (1851–1931) André Messager (1853–1929) Ernest Chausson (1855–1899) Alfred Bruneau (1857–1934) Cécile Chaminade (1857–1944) Jules Auguste Wiernsberger (1857–1925) Mélanie Bonis (1858–1937) Gustave Charpentier (1860–1956)