Here is a list of Song composers. More composers will be added and links to their websites.
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.
Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897.
Bridge, Frank, 1879-1941.
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951.
Chabrier, Emmanuel, 1841-1894.
Chausson, Ernest, 1855-1899.
Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918.
Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918.
Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934.
Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864.
Faure, Gabriel, 1845-1924
Griffes, Charles Tomlinson, 1884-1920.
Ibert, Jacques, 1890-1962.
Loeffler, Charles Martin, 1861-1935.
Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911.
Milhaud, Darius, 1892-1974.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1781.
Poulenc, Francis, 1899-1963.
Quilter, Roger, 1877-1953.
Ravel, Maurice, 1875-1937.
Respighi, Ottorino, 1879-1936.
Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951.
Schubert, Franz, 1797-1829.
Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856.
Sibelius, Jean, 1865-1957.
Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949.
Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958.
Wolf, Hugo, 1860-1903.
Longer Composer list
15th and 16th Centuries -- The Renaissance
Josquin DePrez (c.1440-1521) Giovanni Palestrina (c.1525-94)
William Byrd (1543-1623) Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Jacob Arcadelt (1505-1568) Carlo Gesualdo (1560-1613)
John Dowland (1563-1626) Giovanni Gabrieli (1554-1612)
17th Century Baroque
Henry Purcell (1659-95) Jean-Baptiste LuIly (1632-1687)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Georg Frideric Handel (1685-1759) Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
18th Century Classical
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-87) Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91) Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) Johann Joachim Quantz (1697-1773)
19th Century Romantic
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
Hector Berlioz (1803-69) Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47)
Frédéric Chopin (1810-49) Robert Schumann (1810-56)
Franz Liszt (1811-86) Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)
Richard Wagner (1813-83) Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
César Franck (1822-90) Bedrich Smetana (1824-84)
Anton Bruckner (1824-96) Johann Strauss II (1825-99)
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-1847)
Clara Schumann (1819-1896) Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
Late Romantic
Johannes Brahms (1833-97) Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-81) Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-93)
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) Cesar Franck ( 1822-1890)
Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
Post Romantic
Antonin Dvorák (1841-1904) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
Leos Janácek (1854-1928) Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934) Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857-1919) Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Modern Romantic
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Impressionist
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Henri Duparc (1848-1933) Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947)
Erik Satie (1866-1925) Ernest Chausson (1855-1899)
20th Century Contemporary
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Amy Beach (1867-1944) Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Anton Webern (1883-1945) Alban Berg (1885-1935)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) Charles Ives (1874-1954)
George Gershwin (1898-1937) Scott Joplin (1868-1917)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-75) Olivier Messiaen (1908-92)
Benjamin Britten (1913-76) Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928- )
Duke Ellington (1899-1974) Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
György Ligeti (1923- ) Pierre Boulez (1925- )
George Crumb (1929- )