Claude Debussy22 August 1862
Composer
Erik Satie17 May 1866
Musician
Maurice Ravel07 March 1875
Composer
Camille Saint-Saëns09 October 1835
Composer, Organist, Pianist
Hector Berlioz11 December 1803
Music Composer
Gabriel Fauré12 May 1845
French Composer & Pianist
Georges Bizet25 October 1838
Composer
Nadia Boulanger16 September 1887
Musician
Charles Gounod17 June 1818
Composer
Paul Dukas01 October 1865
Composer
Cesar Franck10 December 1822
Composer, pianist, organist and music teacher
Walter Gieseking05 November 1895
Pianist
Alfred Cortot26 September 1877
Pianist
Jacques Offenbach20 June 1819
Composer, Cellist, Conductor, Impresario
Jules Massenet12 May 1842
Composer, Musicologist, Music educator, University
Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy16 December 1847
Military personnel, Spy, Composer
Tristan Tzara16 April 1896
Art collector, Poet, Writer, Diplomat, Film
Darius Milhaud04 September 1892
Classical composer, Conductor, Autobiographer,
Charles-Valentin Alkan30 November 1813
Composer, Pianist, Linguist, Translator, Music
Léo Delibes21 February 1836
Composer, Musicologist, University teacher
Lili Boulanger21 August 1893
Composer
Gabriel Marcel07 December 1889
Playwright, Philosopher, Writer, University
Cécile Chaminade08 August 1857
Pianist, Composer, Musician
Wanda Landowska05 July 1879
Harpsichordist
Reynaldo Hahn09 August 1874
Conductor, Composer, Choreographer, Music critic,
Adolphe Adam24 July 1803
Composer
Arthur Honegger10 March 1892
Composer, Musicologist, Music educator, Film score
Emmanuel Chabrier18 January 1841
Composer, Pianist
Raoul Pugno23 June 1852
Composer
Pauline Viardot18 July 1821
Soprano
Charles-Marie Widor21 February 1844
Composer, Organist, Music arranger, Music
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Louis Vierne08 October 1870
Composer, Organist, University teacher
Daniel Auber29 January 1782
Composer
Jacques Ibert15 August 1890
Conductor, Composer, Musician, Musicologist, Film
Édouard Lalo27 January 1823
Composer
Ernest Chausson20 January 1855
Conductor, Composer, Pianist
Maria Malibran24 March 1808
Singer
Ignaz Pleyel18 June 1757
Composer
Rodolphe Kreutzer16 November 1766
Violinist
Fromental Halévy27 May 1799
Composer
Marcel Dupré03 May 1886
Musician
Albert Roussel05 April 1869
Composer
François-Joseph Gossec17 January 1734
Composer
Charles Koechlin27 November 1867
Composer
Robert Casadesus07 April 1899
Pianist
Florent Schmitt28 September 1870
Composer
Étienne Méhul22 June 1763
Composer
André Grétry08 February 1741
Composer
Sébastien Érard05 April 1752
French musical instrument maker
Pierre-Jean de Béranger19 August 1780
Poet
Joseph Canteloube21 October 1879
Composer
André Messager30 December 1853
Composer
Alphonse Allais20 October 1854
Writer, Poet, Journalist, Screenwriter, Painter,
Isidor Philipp02 September 1863
Pianist
Théodore Dubois24 August 1837
Composer
Benjamin Godard18 August 1849
Violinist
Jacques Thibaud27 September 1880
Violinist
Henri Herz06 January 1803
Pianist
Louis Diémer14 February 1843
Pianist
Gustave Charpentier25 June 1860
Composer
Ferdinand Hérold28 January 1791
Composer
Arnold Dolmetsch24 February 1858
Musician
Félicien David13 April 1810
Composer
Charles Lecocq03 June 1832
Composer
Jean-François Le Sueur15 February 1760
Composer
Adolphe Nourrit03 March 1802
Musician
Gilbert Duprez06 December 1806
Tenor
Maurice Martenot14 October 1898
Cellist
Robert Planquette31 July 1848
Composer
Alfred Bruneau03 March 1857
Composer
François Habeneck22 January 1781
Violinist
Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray02 February 1840
French composer
Camilla Urso13 June 1842
Violinist
Francis Planté02 March 1839
Pianist
Charles Bordes12 May 1863
Musical Composer
Louis Duport01 January 1786
Ballet dancer
Henri Duparc21 January 1848
Composer
Charles Munch26 September 1891
Conductor
Emil Waldteufel09 December 1837
Pianist
Vincent d'Indy27 March 1851
Composer