songwriter, arranger, writer, author, melodist, hymnist, symphonist, songsmith*, tunesmith*; see also author 2, musician, poet, writer.

Major classical and orchestral composers include: Giovanni Palestrina, Claudio Monteverdi, Henry Purcell, Georg Telemann, Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frederick Handel, Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, Georges Bizet, Hector Berlioz, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, Antonin Dvořák, Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Modest Mussorgsky, Nicolas Rimsky-Korsakov, Giacomo Puccini, Jean Sibelius, Claude Debussy, Arthur S. Sullivan, Maurice Ravel, Camille Saint-Saëns, Béla Bartók, Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Gershwin, Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, Paul Hindemith, Aaron Copland, John Cage, Benjamin Britten, Leonard Bernstein.