List of Swiss composers
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- Johannes AalJohannes AalJohannes Aal was a Swiss Roman Catholic theologian, composer and dramaturg.Aal was born in Bremgarten, Switzerland, and was pastor there until 1529, then Leutpriester in Baden until 1536. In the monastery of Solothurn, he became preacher and choir leader in 1538...
(c. 1500–1551) - Georges Aeby (1902–1953)
- Walther AeschbacherWalther AeschbacherWalther Gottlieb Aeschbacher was a Swiss conductor and composer of classical music.-References:...
(1901–1969) - Raffaele d'Alessandro (1911–1959)
- Jakob Alder (1915–2004)
- Ulrich Alder (born 1922)
- Walter Alder (born 1952)
- Benno Ammann (1904–1986)
- Dieter Ammann (born 1962)
- Daniel Andres (born 1937)
- Volkmar AndreaeVolkmar AndreaeVolkmar Andreae was a Swiss conductor and composer.Andreae was born in Bern. He received piano instruction as a child and his first lessons in composition with Karl Munzinger. From 1897 to 1900, he studied at the Cologne Conservatory and was a student of Fritz Brun, Franz Wüllner, and Friedrich...
(1879–1962) - Ivo Antognini (born 1963)
- Hans Aregger (born 1930)
- Gustav Arnold (1831–1900)
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- Walter Baer (born 1928)
- Diego Baldenweg (born 1979)
- Jean BalissatJean BalissatJean Balissat was a composer, a professor of music and head of Swiss orchestra.-Biography:Jean Balissat was born in Lausanne, Switzerland. He studied counterpoint and harmony with Hans Haug in Lausanne. In 1954, he moved to Geneva, where he studied the orchestration of Andre-Francois Marescotti...
(1936–2007) - Susanne Baltensperger (born 1946)
- Otto Barblan (1860–1943)
- Edi Bär (born 1913)
- Alfred BaumAlfred Baum (composer)Alfred Baum was a Swiss composer, pianist, and organist....
(1904–1993) - Felix Baumann (born 1961)
- Wilhelm Baumgartner (1820–1867)
- Dieter Bäumle (1935–1981)
- Conrad BeckConrad BeckConrad Beck was a Swiss composer.Beck was the son of a pastor. His stay in Paris between 1924 and 1933 proved crucial to his artistic development, where he studied with Jacques Ibert and also made contact with Arthur Honegger, Nadia Boulanger, and Albert Roussel...
(1901–1989) - Albert Benz (1927–1988)
- Mario BerettaMario BerettaMario Beretta is an Italian association football manager, last serving as head coach of Brescia in the Serie A league.-Career:Beretta had a short career as footballer, playing only for Pro Patria of Serie D....
(born 1942) - Gary Berger (born 1967)
- Artur BeulArtur BeulArtur Beul was a Swiss songwriter. He was married to the German chanteuse Lale Andersen from 1949 until her death in 1972.- Discography :...
(1915–2010) - Jakob Bichsel (born 1931)
- Jean Binet (1893–1961)
- Emile-Robert BlanchetEmile-Robert BlanchetEmile Robert Blanchet was a Swiss pianist and composer....
(1877–1943) - Ernest BlochErnest BlochErnest Bloch was a Swiss-born American composer.-Life:Bloch was born in Geneva and began playing the violin at age 9. He began composing soon afterwards. He studied music at the conservatory in Brussels, where his teachers included the celebrated Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe...
(1880–1959) - Adele Bloesch-Stöcker (1875–1978)
- Robert Blum (1900–1994)
- Guy BovetGuy BovetGuy Bovet is a Swiss organist and composer.Bovet studied under Marie Dufour in Lausanne, Pierre Segond in Geneva and Marie-Claire Alain in Paris. From 1979 to 1999 he taught Spanish organ music at the University of Salamanca, and since 1989 he has been Professor of Organ at the Musikhochschule in...
(born 1942) - Joseph Bovet (1879–1951)
- Charles-Samuel Bovy-Lysberg (1821–1873)
- Thüring BrämThüring BrämThüring Bräm is a Swiss composer and conductor.Bräm graduated from a high school in Basel. He then studied piano, conducting and composition in Basel and musicology at the University of Basel and the University of Heidelberg...
(born 1944) - Fritz BrunFritz BrunFritz Brun was a Swiss conductor and composer of classical music.Brun was born in Lucerne. He was a student of Franz Wüllner at the conservatory at Köln, and studied piano and theory there until 1902. The following year he became a piano teacher at the music school in Bern...
(1878–1958) - Adolf Brunner (1901–1992)
- Paul BurkhardPaul BurkhardPaul Burkhard was Swiss composer. He wrote primarily Oratoria, Musicals and Operettas.His probably most famous artistic creation was the song Oh mein Papa , about the death of a beloved clown-father, written for the musical "Der Schwarze Hecht" that premiered in April 1939...
(1911–1977) - Willy BurkhardWilly BurkhardWilly Burkhard was a Swiss composer.Willy Burkhard was an extremely influential composer of the 20th century...
(1900–1955)
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- Armon Cantieni (1907–1962)
- Franco Cesarini (born 1961)
- Caroline Charrière (born 1960)
- Angelo Clematide (born 1954)
- Walter Courvoisier (1875–1931)
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- Jean DaetwylerJean DaetwylerJean Daetwyler was a Swiss composer and musician. He is remembered mostly for his largely forgotten works for alphorn inspired by Jozsef Molnar beginning in 1970. Also inspired by trombonist Branimir Slokar an other aspects of Swiss culture.Daetwyler was a pupil of Vincent d'Indy at the Paris...
(1907–1994) - Roland Dahinden (born 1962)
- Jörg Ewald Dähler (born 1933)
- Wilhelm Gustav Damm (1881–1949)
- Jean-Luc DarbellayJean-Luc DarbellayJean-Luc Darbellay is a Swiss composer, conductor, clarinetist and physician. He was chairman of the Swiss Society for New Music and board member of the International Society for Contemporary Music. Darbellay is a member of the composers group: Groupe Lacroix. He has published about 150 works...
(born 1946) - Enrico Dassetto (1874–1971)
- Christoph Delz (1950–1993)
- Thomas Demenga (born 1954)
- Alexandre Denéréaz (1875–1947)
- Gion Antoni Derungs (born 1935)
- Gion Giusep Derungs (born 1932)
- Martin Derungs (born 1943)
- Caspar Diethelm (1926–1996)
- Hans Diggelmann (1900–1929)
- Benedict Dolf (1918–1985)
- Jean-Jacques Dünki (born 1948)
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- Will EisenmannWill EisenmannWill Eisenmann was a German-Swiss composer. His opera Der König der dunklen Kammer, based on a work by Rabindranath Tagore, won the Emil Hertzka Prize.-Selected works:Stage...
(1906–1992) - ElectroboyElectroboyElectroboy, , is a Swiss electronic musician and music producer. He lives in Bochum, Germany and is often in Zürich, Switzerland. Electroboy produces electronic trash-pop and electroclash with simple, cheeky content.- Biography:At an early age, Burkhardt dreamt of becoming a professional snowboarder...
- Johann Carl Eschmann (1826–1882)
- Max (Markus Wolf) Ettinger (1874–1951)
- Kaspar Ewald (born 1969)
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- Felix Falkner (born 1964)
- Cantoni Febo (born 1926)
- Alfred Felder (born 1950)
- Walter Feldmann (born 1965)
- Gottfried von Fellenberg (1857–1924)
- Victor Fenigstein (born 1924)
- Richard Flury (1896–1967)
- Urs Joseph Flury (born 1941)
- Patrick Frank (born 1975)
- Joseph Frei (1872–1945)
- Emil Frey (1889–1946)
- Carl FriedemannCarl FriedemannCarl Bert Ulrich Friedemann was a German-Swiss composer, conductor and musician.Friedemann was born on April 29, 1862 in Mücheln at Merseburg, in the modern Saxony-Anhalt state of Germany....
(1862–1952) - Hans Eugen Frischknecht (born 1939)
- Gaspard Fritz (1716–1783)
- Friedrich Theodor Fröhlich (1803–1836)
- Huldreich Georg FrühHuldreich Georg FrühHuldreich Georg Früh was a Swiss composer, who produced music and songs for plays by Bertholt Brecht such as The Good Person of Sezuan....
(1903–1945) - Daniel Fueter (born 1949)
- Beat FurrerBeat FurrerBeat Furrer is an Austrian composer and conductor of Swiss birth.Born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, Furrer relocated to Vienna in 1975 to pursue studies with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati and Otmar Suitner . In 1985 he co-founded what is now one of Europe's leading contemporary music ensembles,...
(born 1954) - Franz Furrer-Münch (1924-2010)
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- Henri GagnebinHenri GagnebinHenri Gagnebin was a Belgian-born Swiss composer.His first studies were in Bienne and Lausanne. He studied the piano with Auguste Laufer and harmony with Justin Bischoff. In 1905, he spent eight months in Berlin, where he studied composition with Richard Rössler...
(1886–1977) - Rudolph GanzRudolph GanzRudolph Ganz was a Swiss pianist, conductor and composer. He claimed direct descent from Charlemagne.-Biography:...
(1877–1972) - Josef Garovi (1908–1985)
- Alfred Leonz Gassmann (1876–1962)
- Eric GaudibertEric GaudibertEric Gaudibert is a Swiss composer.He studied piano and composition in the conservatory of Lausanne particularely with Denise Bidal and Hans Haug, and later in Paris in the Ecole Normale de Musique with Alfred Cortot, Henri Dutilleux and Nadia Boulanger...
(born 1936) - Walther Geiser (1897–1993)
- Robert Gerhard (1896–1970)
- Lorenz Giovanelli (1915–1976)
- Daniel Glaus (born 1957)
- Hermann von Glenck (1883–1952)
- Johann Melchior Gletle (1626–1683)
- Hermann GoetzHermann GoetzHermann Gustav Goetz was a German composer.After studying in Berlin, he moved to Switzerland in 1863. After ten years spent as a critic, pianist and conductor as well, he spent the last three years of his life composing...
(1830–1876) - Franz Josef Greith (1799–1869)
- Walter Grob (born 1924)
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- Albert Häberling (born 1919)
- David Haladjian (born 1962)
- Hermann Haller (1914–2002)
- Josef Haselbach (1936–2002)
- Edu Haubensak (born 1954)
- Hans HaugHans HaugHans Haug was a Swiss composer in the primitivist style.The eminent Swiss composer, Hans Haug studied at the Basle Conservatory and the Munich Music Academy, also attending master classes with Busoni in Zurich. Haug’s catalogue of works includes orchestral music, concertos, operas, film scores,...
(1900–1967) - Emil Heer (1926–1994)
- David Philip HeftiDavid Philip HeftiDavid Philip Hefti , winner of the prestigious Gustav Mahler Competition and of the George Enescu Competition, studied at the Conservatories of Winterthur, Zurich and Carlsruhe, taking composition, conducting, clarinet and chamber music. His mentors included Wolfgang Rihm, Cristóbal Halffter,...
(born 1975) - Friedrich HegarFriedrich HegarFriedrich Hegar was a Swiss composer, conductor, violinist, and founding conductor of Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich from 1868 to 1906.Hegar was born in Basel and died in Zürich at age 85.-External links:...
(1841–1927) - Christian Henking (born 1961)
- Daniel Hess (born 1965)
- Ernst Hess (1912–1968)
- Willy HessWilly Hess (composer)Willy Hess was a Swiss musicologist, composer, and famous Beethoven scholar. He achieved fame after compiling and publishing a catalogue of works of Beethoven that were not listed in the "complete" edition. He orchertrated the Piano Concerto No...
(1906–1997) - Armand Hiebner (1898–1990)
- Heinz HolligerHeinz HolligerHeinz Holliger Heinz Holliger Heinz Holliger (born 21 May 1939 is a Swiss oboist, composer and conductor.-Biography:He was born in Langenthal, Switzerland, and began his musical education at the conservatories of Bern and Basel. He studied composition with Sándor Veress and Pierre Boulez...
(born 1939) - Arthur HoneggerArthur HoneggerArthur 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 is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam locomotive.-Biography:Born...
(1892–1955) - Felix Huber (born 1952)
- Hans HuberHans Huber (composer)Hans Huber was a composer from Switzerland.He was born in Eppenberg-Wöschnau . The son of an amateur musician, Huber became a chorister and showed an early talent for the piano. In 1870 he entered Leipzig Conservatory...
(1852–1921) - Klaus Huber (born 1924)
- Paul Huber (1918–2001)
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- Stephan Jaeggi (1903–1957)
- Michael JarrellMichael JarrellMichael Jarrell is a Swiss composer. Born in Geneva, he studied at the Conservatoire there, and later with Klaus Huber in Freiburg.His works span many genres...
(born 1958) - Emile Jaques-DalcrozeÉmile Jaques-DalcrozeÉmile Jaques-Dalcroze , was a Swiss composer, musician and music educator who developed eurhythmics, a method of learning and experiencing music through movement...
(1865–1950) - Hans JelmoliHans JelmoliHans Jelmoli was a Swiss composer and pianist.-Life:Jelmoli was came from a wealthy Swiss family who had founded a well known retailing business by the same name. He studied music with Bernhard Scholz, Iwan Knorr, and Engelbert Humperdinck at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. He first studied...
(1877–1936) - Paul JuonPaul JuonPaul Juon was a Germanised Russian composerHe was born in Moscow, where his father was an insurance official. His mother was German, and he went to a German school in Moscow. He entered the Moscow Conservatory in 1889, where he studied violin with Jan Hřímalý and composition with Anton Arensky...
(1872–1940)
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- Bruno Karrer (born 1956)
- Nico KaufmannNico KaufmannNico Kaufmann was a Swiss pianist and composer.In addition to his studies at the Zürich Conservatory he was for a short time Vladimir Horowitz's only disciple in his European time...
(1916–1996) - Max E. KellerMax E. KellerMax Eugen Keller is a Swiss composer, jazz pianist and improvising musician. He was one of the first free-jazz musicians in Switzerland...
(born 1947) - Niklaus A. Keller (born 1971)
- Rudolf KelterbornRudolf KelterbornRudolf Kelterborn is a Swiss musician and composer.-Life:Kelterborn studied in Basel, Detmold, Salzburg, and Zürich, among other places, with the composers Walther Geiser, Willy Burkhard, Boris Blacher, Günter Bialas, and Wolfgang Fortner...
(born 1931) - Lothar KempterLothar KempterLothar Kempter was a German-Swiss composer and conductor.-Early life and education:He was born in 1844 in Lauingen. His father was music teacher Friedrich Kempter. Following his father's wishes he started studying law at the University of Munich. In 1868, after his father had died, he changed to...
(1844–1918) - Christoph Kobelt (born 1955)
- Alfred Knüsel (born 1941)
- Rafael KubelíkRafael KubelíkRafael Jeroným Kubelík was a Czech conductor and composer.-Early life:Kubelík was born in Býchory, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary, today's Czech Republic. He was the sixth child of the Bohemian violinist Jan Kubelík, whom the younger Kubelík described as "a kind of god to me." His mother was a Hungarian...
(1914–1996) - Ernst KunzErnst KünzErnst Künz was an Austrian football player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.He was part of the Austrian team, which won the silver medal in the football tournament. He played all four matches as defender. He died in World War II-External links:*...
(1891–1980)
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- Walter Lang (1896–1966)
- Joseph Lauber (1864–1952)
- Thomas Läubli (born 1977)
- Jean Xavier Lefèvre (1763–1829)
- Hans Ulrich Lehmann (born 1937)
- Ernst LevyErnst LevyErnst Levy was a Swiss musicologist, composer, pianist and conductor....
(1895–1981)
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(born 1971)
- Rolf LiebermannRolf LiebermannRolf Liebermann , was a Swiss composer and music administrator born in Zurich, and associated with several different musical genres. His output included chansons, classical, and light music. His classical music often combines myriad styles and techniques, including those drawn from baroque,...
(1910–1999)
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- Ernst Markees (1863–1939)
- Heinz Marti (born 1934)
- Frank MartinFrank Martin (composer)Frank Martin was a Swiss composer, who lived a large part of his life in the Netherlands.-Childhood and youth:...
(1890–1974) - Pierre Maurice (1868–1936)
- Hermann Meier (1906–2002)
- Jost Meier (born 1939)
- Mela Meierhans (born 1961)
- Boris Mersson (born 1921)
- Laurent MettrauxLaurent MettrauxLaurent Mettraux is a composer and organist.-Studies:Mettraux is a graduate of the Conservatoire de Fribourg where he studied music theory with René Oberson, as well as piano, violin, and singing...
(born 1970) - Rudolf Meyer (born 1943)
- Paul Miche (1886–1960)
- Peter Mieg (1906–1990)
- Albert Moeschinger (1897–1985)
- Norbert MoretNorbert MoretNorbert Moret was a 20th century Swiss composer, as well as a conductor, pianist, and teacher....
(1921–1998) - Oscar Moret (1912–2003)
- Roland Moser (born 1943)
- Rudolf Moser (1892–1960)
- Karl Munzinger (1842–1911)
- Fabian MüllerFabian Müller (composer)-Biography:Fabian Müller is one of the leading Swiss composers of his generation. He first studied the cello with Claude Starck at the Zurich Conservatory, but then increasingly dedicated his energies to composition. He studied composition with Josef Haselbach at the Zurich Conservatory. After...
(born 1964) - Josef Ivar Müller (1892–1969)
- Paul Müller-Zürich (1898–1993)
- Thomas David Müller (born 1953)
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- Leo Nadelmann (1913–1998)
- Hans Georg NägeliHans Georg NägeliHans Georg Nägeli was a composer and music publisher.Nägeli was born in Wetzikon, Switzerland. He studied under his father as a child, and then opened a private music shop and publishing firm in the 1790s...
(1773–1836) - Arthur Ney (1887–1963)
- Andreas Nick (born 1953)
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- François Pantillon (born 1928)
- Ernst Pfiffner (born 1922)
- Mani Planzer (1939–1997)
- Felix Profos (born 1969)
- Andreas Pflüger (born 1941)
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- Joachim RaffJoachim RaffJoseph Joachim Raff was a German-Swiss composer, teacher and pianist.-Biography:Raff was born in Lachen in Switzerland. His father, a teacher, had fled there from Württemberg in 1810 to escape forced recruitment into the military of that southwestern German state that had to fight for Napoleon in...
(1822–1882) - Franz Rechsteiner (born 1941)
- Rolf Urs Ringger (born 1935)
- Katharina Rosenberger (born 1971)
- Anny Roth-Dalbert (1900–2004)
- Emil Ruh (1884–1946)
- Carl RüttiCarl RüttiCarl Rütti is a notable Swiss composer, who has written much choral music.In 2005, Rütti was commissioned by the Bach Choir to write a Requiem. This was completed in 2007.-See also:****...
(born 1949)
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- Maurice-Yves Sandoz (1892–1958)
- Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini (born 1971)
- Rodolphe Schacher (born 1973)
- Hans Schaeuble (1906–1988)
- Armin SchiblerArmin SchiblerArmin Schibler was a Swiss composer.-Biography:A high school student in the town of Aarau, he studied music under Walter Frey and Paul Müller in Zurich. From 1942 to 1945, he was the pupil of Willy Burkhard...
(1920–1986) - Martin Schlumpf (born 1947)
- Erich Schmid (1907–2000)
- Annette Schmucki (born 1968)
- Daniel Schnyder (born 1961)
- Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee (1786–1868)
- Othmar SchoeckOthmar SchoeckOthmar Schoeck was a Swiss composer and conductor.He was known mainly for his considerable output of art songs and song cycles, though he also wrote a number of operas and instrumental compositions including two string quartets and...
(1886–1957) - Marianne SchroederMarianne SchroederMarianne Schroeder is a Swiss pianist and composer. She studied with Giacinto Scelsi. She played at Carnegie Hall, Lucerne Festival and Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. She worked with John Cage and Shigeru Kan-no....
(born 1949) - Walter Schulthess (1894–1971)
- Meinrad SchütterMeinrad SchütterMeinrad Schütter was a Swiss composer. He studied with Willy Burkhard during World War II and with Paul Hindemith from 1950 to 1954....
(1910–2006) - Alfred Schweizer (born 1941)
- Ludwig SenflLudwig SenflLudwig 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...
(um 1486–1543) - Johannes Somary (1935-2011)
- Andreas Stahl (born 1955)
- Mathias Steinauer (born 1959)
- Josef Stump (1883–1929)
- Marcel SulzbergerMarcel SulzbergerJohann Heinrich Samuel "Marcel" Sulzberger was a Swiss composer, pianist and music author.-Life:There are few certain dates concerning his life, since Sulzberger himself contributed to keeping some facts unclear ....
(1876–1941) - Hermann SuterHermann SuterHermann Suter , was a Swiss composer and conductor.Born in Kaiserstuhl, Aargau, Suter studied in the conservatories at Basel, Stuttgart and Leipzig, under Hans Huber and Carl Reinecke. He was an organist and conductor in Zurich from 1892 to 1902, after which he moved to Basel, where he lived to his...
(1870–1926) - Robert Suter (1919–2008)
- Heinrich SutermeisterHeinrich SutermeisterHeinrich Sutermeister was a Swiss opera composer.-Life and career:During the early 1930s he was a student at the Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich where Carl Orff was his teacher and Orff remained a powerful influence on his music. Returning to Switzerland in the mid 1930s, he devoted his life to...
(1910–1995) - Iris SzeghyIris Szeghy-Biography:Iris Szeghy was born in Prešov, Slovakia. She studied piano and composition at the Conservatory in Košice and composition at the Music Academy in Bratislava. She continued her studies in Budapest, Warsaw, the University of California in San Diego, and at the STEIM Studio in Amsterdam...
(born 1956) - Erik Székely (born 1927)
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- János Tamás (1936–1995)
- Franz Tischhauser (born 1921)
- Fabio Tognetti (born 1965 )
- Balz Trümpy (born 1946)
- Antonio Tusa (1900–1982)
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- Nadir Vassena (born 1970)
- Sándor VeressSándor VeressSándor Veress was a Swiss composer of Hungarian origin. 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.Veress taught at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest...
(1907–1992) - Wladimir Vogel (1896–1984)
- Carl Vogler (1874–1951)
- Hans Vogt (1909–1978)
- Fritz Voegelin (born 1943)
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- Oliver Waespi (born 1971)
- Karl Gustav Weber (1845–1887)
- Martin Wehrli (born 1957)
- Werner Wehrli (1892–1944)
- Markus Wettstein (born 1963)
- Martin Wettstein (born 1970)
- Peter Wettstein (born 1939)
- Ernst Widmer (1927–1990)
- Kurt Widorski (1978)
- Jacques Wildberger (1922–2006)
- Helena Winkelman (born 1974)
- René WohlhauserRené WohlhauserRené Wohlhauser is a Swiss composer, pianist, singer, improviser, conductor and music teacher.- Life :From 1975 to 1979 Wohlhauser studied counterpoint, harmony, music analysis, score reading, orchestration and composition with Thomas Kessler, Robert Suter, Jacques Wildberger and Jürg Wyttenbach...
(born 1954) - Jürg Wyttenbach (born 1935)
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- Julien-François Zbinden (born 1917)
- Max Zehnder (1901–1972)
- Jakob ZeugheerJakob ZeugheerJakob Zeugheer , was a Swiss violinist, conductor and composer.-Childhood:...
(1803–1865) - Alfred Zimmerlin (born 1955)
- Alfons Karl Zwicker (born 1952)
- Conrad Zwicky (born 1946)
- Alberik ZwyssigAlberich ZwyssigFather Alberich or Alberik Zwyssig was a Cistercian monk who composed in 1841 the Swiss Psalm, the present Swiss national anthem.-Life:...
(1808–1854)