The Most Famous

Composers from Australia

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This page contains a list of the greatest Australians Composers. The pantheon dataset contains 1,451 Composers, 5 of which were born in Australia. This makes Australia the birth place of the 38th most number of Composers behind Serbia and China.

Top 5 Australian Composers

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Australians Composers of all time. This list of famous Australians Composers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

  1. #1
    Photo of Arthur Benjamin

    Arthur Benjamin

    1893 - 1960

    HPI 58.2620 langs

    Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher

  2. #2
    Photo of Percy Grainger

    Percy Grainger

    1882 - 1961

    HPI 56.5129 langs

    Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist

  3. #3
    Photo of Peter Sculthorpe

    Peter Sculthorpe

    1929 - 2014

    HPI 49.7616 langs

    Australian composer (1929-2014)

  4. #4
    Photo of Malcolm Williamson

    Malcolm Williamson

    1931 - 2003

    HPI 48.4316 langs

    Australian composer (1931–2003)

  5. #5
    Photo of Brett Dean

    Brett Dean

    b. 1961

    HPI 46.9917 langs

    Australian composer, conductor and violist

Overlapping Lives

Which Composers were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 4 most globally memorable Composers since 1700.

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