Chronological list of Scottish classical composers

The following is a chronological list of classical music composers living and working in Scotland, or originating from Scotland.

Renaissance

• Robert Johnson (Scottish composer) (c. 1470 – after 1554)
• Robert Carver (composer) (c. 1485 – c. 1570)
• Tobias Hume (possibly 1579 – 1645)

Baroque

• John Abell (1653 – after 1724)
• John Clerk (1676–1755)
• William McGibbon (1690 – 1756)

Classical era

• James Oswald (1710–1769)
• Thomas Erskine (1732–1781)

Romantic

• Sophia Dussek (1775 – 1831)
• John Thomson (1805 – 1841)
• Alicia Ann Spottiswoode (1810 – 1900)
• Alexander Mackenzie (1847 – 1935)
• Helen Hopekirk (1856 – 1945)
• William Wallace (1860 – 1940)
• Eugen d'Albert (1864 – 1932)
• Learmont Drysdale (1866 – 1909)
• Frederic Lamond (1868 – 1948)
• Hamish MacCunn (1868 – 1916)
• John Blackwood McEwen (1868 – 1948)
• Donald Tovey (1875 – 1940)
• Cecil Coles (1888 – 1918)

Modern/Contemporary

• Francis George Scott (1880 – 1958)
• James Friskin (1886 – 1967)
• Erik Chisholm (1904 – 1965)
• Alan Richardson (1904 – 1978)
• William Wordsworth (1908 – 1988)
• Robin Orr (1909 – 2006)
• Shena Fraser (1910 – 1993)
• Ronald Center (1913 – 1973)
• Robert Bruce (1915 – 2012)
• Geraldine Mucha (1917 – 2012)
• Iain Ellis Hamilton (1922 – 2000)
• James Brian Bonsor (1926 – 2011)
• Thomas Wilson (1927 – 2001)
• Thea Musgrave (born 1928)
• Ronald Stevenson (1928 – 2015)
• James Douglas (born 1932)
• John McLeod (born 1934)
• Janet Beat (born 1937)
• John Hearne (born 1937)
• Claire Liddell (born 1937)
• John Maxwell Geddes (1941 – 2017)
• Martin Dalby (1942 – 2018)
• David Johnson (1942 – 2009)
• John Purser (born 1942)
• Lyell Cresswell (born 1944)
• Morris Pert (1947 – 2010)
• Derek Watson (1948 – 2018)
• Edward ("Eddie") McGuire (born 1948)
• Nigel Osborne (born 1948)
• James Dillon (born 1950)
• Alistair Hinton (born 1950)
• William Sweeney (born 1950)
• Sally Beamish (born 1956)
• John Lunn (born 1956)
• John Kenny (born 1957)
• Craig Armstrong (born 1959)
• James MacMillan (born 1959)
• Pete Stollery (born 1960)
• Jennifer Margaret Barker (born 1965)
• Gordon McPherson (born 1965)
• Stuart Mitchell (1965 – 2018)
• James Clapperton (born 1968)
• Alwynne Pritchard (born 1968)
• David Horne (born 1970)
• Julian Wagstaff (born 1970)
• Lorne Balfe (born 1976)
• Stuart MacRae (born 1976)
• Gordon Cree (born 1977)
• Gareth Williams (born 1977)
• Anna Meredith (born 1978)
• Helen Grime (born 1981)
• Harry Whalley (born 1984)
• Matthew Whiteside (born 1988)
• Cameron Sinclair (nd)

See also

• Classical music of the United Kingdom