Conrad BeckW
Conrad Beck

Conrad Arthur Beck was a Swiss composer.

Ernest BlochW
Ernest Bloch

Ernest Bloch was a Swiss-born American composer. Bloch was a preeminent artist in his day, and left a lasting legacy. He is recognized as one of the greatest Swiss composers in history. As well as producing musical scores, Bloch had an academic career that culminated in his recognition as Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley in 1952.

Geneviève CalameW
Geneviève Calame

Geneviève Calame was a Swiss pianist, music educator and composer.

Sylvie CourvoisierW
Sylvie Courvoisier

Sylvie Courvoisier is a composer, pianist and improviser.

Gustave DoretW
Gustave Doret

Gustave Doret was a Swiss composer and conductor.

Édouard Du PuyW
Édouard Du Puy

Jean Baptiste Édouard Louis Camille Du Puy was a Swiss-born singer, composer, director, and violinist. He lived and worked in Copenhagen and Stockholm from 1793 until his death in 1822.

Gaspard FritzW
Gaspard Fritz

Gaspard Fritz, was a Genevan violonist and composer of the preclassical period. He composed symphonies and chamber music.

Friedrich Theodor FröhlichW
Friedrich Theodor Fröhlich

Friedrich Theodor Fröhlich was a Swiss early Romantic composer.

Johannes HadlaubW
Johannes Hadlaub

Johannes Hadlaub is one of the Minnesingers whose works are recorded in Codex Manesse. He was a citizen of Zürich, and is on record as buying a house there in 1302.

Friedrich HegarW
Friedrich Hegar

Friedrich Hegar was a Swiss composer, conductor, and founding conductor of Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich.

Heinz HolligerW
Heinz Holliger

Heinz Robert Holliger is a Swiss oboist, composer and conductor.

Arthur HoneggerW
Arthur Honegger

Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les Six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which was inspired by the sound of a steam locomotive.

Hans Huber (composer)W
Hans Huber (composer)

Hans Huber was a Swiss composer. Between 1894 and 1918, he composed five operas. He also wrote a set of 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 100, for piano four-hands in all major and minor keys.

Klaus HuberW
Klaus Huber

Klaus Huber was a Swiss composer and academic based in Basel and Freiburg. Among his students were Brian Ferneyhough, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Toshio Hosokawa, Wolfgang Rihm, and Kaija Saariaho. He received the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in 2009, among other awards.

Michael JarrellW
Michael Jarrell

Michael Jarrell is a Swiss composer and academic teacher, whose operas, such as Cassandre, have been performed internationally.

Werner Kaegi (composer)W
Werner Kaegi (composer)

Werner Kaegi is a Swiss electronic music composer, musicologist and educator. During the 1960s, he promoted electronic music in his home country. In the 1970s, as a composer and researcher at Utrecht's Institute of Sonology, The Netherlands, he developed pioneering programs in the field of computer-generated music.

Rudolf KelterbornW
Rudolf Kelterborn

Rudolf Kelterborn is a Swiss musician and composer.

Paul KletzkiW
Paul Kletzki

Paul Kletzki was a Polish conductor and composer.

Rolf LiebermannW
Rolf Liebermann

Rolf Liebermann, was a Swiss composer and music administrator. He served as the Artistic Director of the Hamburg State Opera from 1959–1973 and again from 1985–1988. He was also Artistic Director of the Paris Opera from 1973–1980.

Frank Martin (composer)W
Frank Martin (composer)

Frank Martin was a Swiss composer, who spent much of his life in the Netherlands.

Peter MiegW
Peter Mieg

Peter Mieg was a Swiss composer, painter and journalist.

Hans Georg NägeliW
Hans Georg Nägeli

Hans Georg Nägeli was a composer and music publisher.

Louis NiedermeyerW
Louis Niedermeyer

Abraham Louis Niedermeyer was a Swiss and naturalized French composer.

Joachim RaffW
Joachim Raff

Joseph Joachim Raff was a German-Swiss composer, pedagogue and pianist.

Giulio RegondiW
Giulio Regondi

Giulio Regondi was a Swiss-born classical guitarist, concertinist and composer active in France and (mainly) the United Kingdom.

Bernard ReichelW
Bernard Reichel

Bernard Reichel was a 20th-century classical composer from the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

Franz Xaver Schnyder von WartenseeW
Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee

Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee was a Swiss-born composer, teacher of composition and writer on music, resident in Frankfurt-am-Main for most of his career.

Ludwig SenflW
Ludwig Senfl

Ludwig Senfl was a Swiss composer of the Renaissance, active in Germany. He was the most famous pupil of Heinrich Isaac, was music director to the court of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, and was an influential figure in the development of the Franco-Flemish polyphonic style in Germany.

Joachim StutschewskyW
Joachim Stutschewsky

Joachim-Yehoyachin Stutschewsky, was a Ukraine-born Austrian and Israeli cellist, composer, musicologist.

Hermann SuterW
Hermann Suter

Hermann Suter was a Swiss composer and conductor.

Heinrich SutermeisterW
Heinrich Sutermeister

Heinrich Sutermeister was a Swiss composer, most famous for his opera Romeo und Julia.

Sándor VeressW
Sándor Veress

Sándor Veress was a Swiss composer of Hungarian origin. He was born in Kolozsvár/Klausenburg, Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire, nowadays called Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and died in Bern. The first half of his life was spent in Hungary; the second, from 1949 until his death, in Switzerland, of which he became a citizen in the last months of his life.

René WohlhauserW
René Wohlhauser

René Wohlhauser is a Swiss composer, pianist, singer, improviser, conductor and music teacher.