London

Country

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Part of

Greater London

Coordinates

51.5072, -0.1275

History

• London (–47)
• London (47–410), Roman Empire
• London (410–500)
• London (500–730), Kingdom of Essex
• London (730–918), Kingdom of Mercia
• London (918–927), Kingdom of Wessex
• London (927–1707), Kingdom of England
• London (1707–1800), Kingdom of Great Britain
• London (1800–1801)
• London (1801–1922), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
• London (1922–), United Kingdom

Composers

• John Dunstaple (John Dunstable) (1390–1453), died in London
• Gilbert Banester (1445–1487), was born in London
• John Redford (1486–1547), died in London
• Philip van Wilder (1500–1554), died in London
• John Blitheman (1525–1591), died in London
• Richard Edwardes (1525–1566), died in London
• Robert White (1538–1574), was born in London
• Anthony Holborne (1545–1602), died in London
• John Johnson (1545–1594), died in London
• Edmund Hooper (1553–1621), died in London
• Thomas Morley (1557–1603), died in London
• Peter Philips (1560–1628), was born in London
• Giles Farnaby (1563–1640), was born in London
• John Dowland (1563–1626), was born and died in London
• John Milton (1563–1647), died in London
• John Danyel (1564–1625), died in London
• Michael Cavendish (1565–1628), died in London
• Thomas Campion (1567–1620), was born and died in London
• Philip Rosseter (1568–1623), was born and died in London
• William Tisdale (1570–), died in London
• Martin Peerson (1572–1650), died in London
• John Coprario (1575–1626), died in London
• Thomas Weelkes (1576–1623), died in London
• Michael East (1580–1648), was born in London
• Richard Dering (1580–1630), was born in London
• Thomas Ford (1580–1648), died in London
• Thomas Ravenscroft (1582–1633), died in London
• Robert Johnson (1583–1633), was born and died in London
• John Adson (1587–1640), was born and died in London
• Nicholas Lanier (1588–1666), was born in London
• Richard Mico (1590–1661), died in London
• Robert Dowland (1591–1641), died in London
• Henry Lawes (1595–1662), died in London
• John Wilson (1595–1674), died in London
• Christopher Gibbons (1615–1676), was born and died in London
• Matthew Locke (1621–1677), died in London
• Robert Cambert (1628–1677), died in London
• John Banister (1630–1679), was born and died in London
• Thomas Baltzar (1631–1663), died in London
• Giovanni Battista Draghi (1640–1708), died in London
• Johann Wolfgang Franck (1644–1710), died in London
• Pelham Humfrey (1647–1674), was born in London
• William Turner (1651–1740), died in London
• James Paisible (1656–1721), died in London
• Daniel Purcell (1664–1717), was born and died in London
• Attilio Ariosti (1666–1729), died in London
• Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667–1752), died in London
• John Eccles (1668–1735), was born and died in London
• Henry Eccles (1670–1742), was born in London
• Jeremiah Clarke (1674–1707), was born and died in London
• John Weldon (1676–1736), died in London
• Jean-Baptiste Loeillet ''of London'' (1680–1730), died in London
• Richard Jones (1680–1744), died in London
• William Corbett (1680–1748), was born and died in London
• Giacobbe Cervetto (1682–1783), died in London
• George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), died in London
• Henry Carey (1687–1743), was born and died in London
• Johann Ernst Galliard (1687–1749), died in London
• Willem de Fesch (1687–1761), died in London
• William Babell (1689–1723), was born in London
• Francesco Barsanti (1690–1772), died in London
• Robert Woodcock (1690–1728), died in London
• Giuseppe Sammartini (1695–1750), died in London
• Luigi Merci (1695–1750), died in London
• Maurice Greene (1696–1755), was born and died in London
• Michael Christian Festing (1705–1752), was born and died in London
• Thomas Arne (1710–1778), was born and died in London
• William Boyce (1711–1779), was born in London
• John Christopher Smith (1712–1795), died in London
• John Stanley (1712–1786), was born and died in London
• John Alcock (1715–1806), was born in London
• Carl Friedrich Abel (1723–1787), died in London
• François-André Danican Philidor (1726–1795), died in London
• Antonín Kammel (1730–1788), died in London
• Elisabetta de Gambarini (1731–1765), was born and died in London
• Giuseppe Demachi (1732–1791), died in London
• Johann Christian Fischer (1733–1800), died in London
• Thomas Linley the elder (1733–1795), died in London
• Thomas Sanders Dupuis (1733–1796), died in London
• Benjamin Cooke (1734–1793), was born in London
• Johann Christian Bach (1735–1782), died in London
• Philippe-Jacques Meyer (1737–1819), died in London
• Michael Arne (1740–1786), was born and died in London
• Samuel Webbe the elder (1740–1816), died in London
• François Hippolyte Barthélemon (1741–1808), died in London
• Johann Peter Salomon (1745–1815), died in London
• William Shield (1748–1829), died in London
• John Stafford Smith (1750–1836), died in London
• William Smethergell (1751–1836), was born and died in London
• Jane Savage (1752–1824), died in London
• Federigo Fiorillo (1755–1823), died in London
• Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755–1824), died in London
• Stephen Storace (1762–1796), was born and died in London
• Domenico Dragonetti (1763–1846), died in London
• Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari (1763–1842), died in London
• Anne-Marie Krumpholtz (1766–1813), died in London
• Benjamin Carr (1768–1831), was born in London
• Elizabeth Billington (1768–1818), was born in London
• Cecilia Maria Barthélemon (1769–1840), was born in London
• Johann Baptist Cramer (1771–1858), died in London
• Maria Frances Parke (1772–1822), was born and died in London
• Sophia Dussek (1775–1831), died in London
• Sophie Lebrun (1781–1863), was born in London
• Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826), died in London
• Henry Bishop (1786–1855), was born and died in London
• Cipriani Potter (1792–1871), was born and died in London
• Olivia Buckley (1799–1847), was born and died in London
• George Alexander Macfarren (1813–1887), was born and died in London
• Ferdinand Praeger (1815–1891), died in London
• Henry Litolff (1818–1891), was born in London
• Francesco Berger (1834–1933), was born and died in London
• Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900), was born and died in London
• Oliveria Prescott (1843–1919), was born and died in London
• Luigi Denza (1846–1922), died in London
• Agnes Zimmermann (1847–1925), died in London
• Alexander Mackenzie (1847–1935), died in London
• Mary Grant Carmichael (1851–1935), died in London
• Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924), died in London
• Émile Sauret (1852–1920), died in London
• Frederic Hymen Cowen (1852–1935), died in London
• Frederick Corder (1852–1932), was born and died in London
• Maude Valérie White (1855–1937), died in London
• Achille Simonetti (1857–1928), died in London
• Guy d'Hardelot (1858–1936), died in London
• Isidore de Lara (1858–1935), was born in London
• Thomas Bidgood (1858–1925), died in London
• Ellen Riley Wright (1859–1904), was born in London
• Florence Everilda Goodeve (1861–1915), died in London
• Edward German (1862–1936), died in London
• Granville Bantock (1868–1946), was born and died in London
• Hamish MacCunn (1868–1916), died in London
• John Blackwood McEwen (1868–1948), died in London
• Frederic Austin (1872–1952), was born and died in London
• Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), died in London
• Ernest Austin (1874–1947), was born in London
• Ethel Barns (1874–1948), was born in London
• Gustav Holst (1874–1934), died in London
• Katharine Emily Eggar (1874–1961), was born and died in London
• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912), was born and died in London
• Teresa del Riego (1876–1968), died in London
• Roger Quilter (1877–1953), died in London
• Harry Farjeon (1878–1948), died in London
• Joseph Holbrooke (1878–1958), died in London
• Rutland Boughton (1878–1960), died in London
• Paul Corder (1879–1942), was born and died in London
• Nikolai Medtner (1880–1951), died in London
• Arthur Willner (1881–1959), died in London
• Kenneth J. Alford (1881–1945), was born in London
• Haydn Wood (1882–1959), was born and died in London
• Mary Lucas (1882–1952), was born in London
• York Bowen (1884–1961), was born and died in London
• George Butterworth (1885–1916), was born in London
• Lawrance Collingwood (1887–1982), was born in London
• Arthur Bliss (1891–1975), was born and died in London
• Arthur Benjamin (1893–1960), died in London
• Dorothy Gow (1893–1982), was born and died in London
• Jane Joseph (1894–1929), was born and died in London
• Peter Warlock (1894–1930), was born and died in London
• Gordon Jacob (1895–1984), was born in London
• Kathleen Richards (1895–1984), was born in London
• Frederic Curzon (1899–1973), was born in London
• Alan Bush (1900–1995), was born in London
• Gerald Finzi (1901–1956), was born in London
• Serly Tibor (1901–1978), died in London
• Victor Hely-Hutchinson (1901–1947), died in London
• Berthold Goldschmidt (1903–1996), died in London
• Leighton Lucas (1903–1982), was born and died in London
• Jack Westrup (1904–1975), was born in London
• Richard Addinsell (1904–1977), was born and died in London
• Constant Lambert (1905–1951), was born and died in London
• Michael Tippett (1905–1998), died in London
• Walter Leigh (1905–1942), was born in London
• Benjamin Frankel (1906–1973), was born and died in London
• Elisabeth Lutyens (1906–1983), was born in London
• Leopold Spinner (1906–1980), died in London
• William Wordsworth (1908–1988), was born in London
• Robert Still (1910–1971), was born in London
• Vilém Tauský (1910–2004), died in London
• Franz Reizenstein (1911–1968), died in London
• Stanley Bate (1911–1959), died in London
• Constantin Silvestri (1913–1969), died in London
• George Lloyd (1913–1998), died in London
• Harold Truscott (1914–1992), was born in London
• William Lloyd Webber (1914–1982), was born and died in London
• Bernard Stevens (1916–1983), was born in London
• Ian Parrott (1916–2012), was born in London
• Geraldine Mucha (1917–2012), was born in London
• Hidayat Inayat Khan (1917–2016), was born in London
• Richard Arnell (1917–2009), was born and died in London
• Geoffrey Bush (1920–1998), was born and died in London
• John Vallier (1920–1991), was born in London
• Peter Racine Fricker (1920–1990), was born in London
• Antony Hopkins (1921–2014), was born in London
• Iain Hamilton (1922–2000), died in London
• James Wilson (1922–2005), was born in London
• Donald Swann (1923–1994), died in London
• Madeleine Dring (1923–1977), was born and died in London
• Stephen Dodgson (1924–2013), died in London
• Elaine Hugh-Jones (1927–2021), was born in London
• Wilfred Josephs (1927–1997), died in London
• Antonín Tučapský (1928–2014), died in London
• Antoinette Kirkwood (1930–2014), was born in London
• Justin Connolly (1933–2020), was born and died in London
• Anthony Gilbert (1934–2023), was born in London
• Carlo Martelli (1935–), was born in London
• David Blake (1936–), was born in London
• John White (1936–2024), died in London
• Sheila Nelson (1936–2020), died in London
• David Bedford (1937–2011), was born in London
• John Ogdon (1937–1989), died in London
• Howard Blake (1938–), was born in London
• Naresh Sohal (1939–2018), died in London
• David Matthews (1942–), was born in London
• Hugh Davies (1943–2005), died in London
• John Tavener (1944–2013), was born in London
• John Rutter (1945–), was born in London
• Colin Matthews (1946–), was born in London
• Michael Finnissy (1946–), was born in London
• Alan Bullard (1947–), was born in London
• Barry Guy (1947–), was born in London
• Michael Berkeley (1948–), was born in London
• Stephen Oliver (1950–1992), died in London
• James Erber (1951–), was born in London
• Philip Sparke (1951–), was born in London
• Simon Bainbridge (1952–2021), was born in London
• Anthony Powers (1953–), was born in London
• Robert Saxton (1953–), was born in London
• Oliver Kentish (1954–), was born in London
• Richard Blackford (1954–), was born in London
• Sinan Savaskan (1954–), was born in London
• Philip Grange (1956–), was born in London
• Sally Beamish (1956–), was born in London
• James Clarke (1957–), was born in London
• George Benjamin (1960–), was born in London
• Cecilia McDowall (1961–), was born in London
• Geoffrey Álvarez (1961–), was born in London
• Graham Waterhouse (1962–), was born in London
• Michael Zev Gordon (1963–), was born in London
• Ivan Moody (1964–2024), was born in London
• Matthew Taylor (1964–), was born in London
• Julian Anderson (1967–), was born in London
• Joe Cutler (1968–), was born in London
• Roxanna Panufnik (1968–), was born in London
• James Francis Brown (1969–), was born in London
• Peter Fribbins (1969–), was born in London
• Thomas Adès (1971–), was born in London
• Gabriel Prokofiev (1975–), was born in London
• Tarik O'Regan (1978–), was born in London
• Anna Clyne (1980–), was born in London
• Iain Bell (1980–), was born in London
• Sasha Siem (1984–), was born in London
• Alex Prior (1992–), was born in London
• Nicola Matteis (?–1713), died in London