26 Composers of Christian music

Cory Hunter Asbury is an American Christian musician, worship pastor and songwriter. He is a worship pastor at Radiant Church in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and is a member of the Bethel Music collective.

David L. Cook is an American Christian country music singer, songwriter and comedian.

Clarence Dickinson was an American composer and organist.

Edwin Othello Excell, commonly known as E. O. Excell, was a prominent American publisher, composer, song leader, and singer of music for church, Sunday school, and evangelistic meetings during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Some of the significant collaborators in his vocal and publishing work included Sam P. Jones, William E. Biederwolf, Gipsy Smith, Charles Reign Scoville, J. Wilbur Chapman, W. E. M. Hackleman, Charles H. Gabriel and D. B. Towner.

John Gowans was a Scottish clergyman, who was the 16th General of The Salvation Army from 1999 to 2002, succeeding General Paul Rader. He is also notable for pairing with General John Larsson in the composition of many songs and musicals.

Roger William Jones is an English musician and composer of Church music. Alongside writing cantatas and hymn tunes he leads workshops and conducts performances of his works both around the UK and other countries.

Kalistrat Zografski or Kalistrat of Zograf was a 19th-century Orthodox Christian composer, chanter, educator, Bulgarian abbot and archimandrite of the Zograf monastery, and reformer of Orthodox Church music, originating from Struga, Vardar Macedonia. Extensively educated and absorbed ascetic theologian, musicologist and philologist. While as a student in his pre-monastic period, he worked as a Greek language teacher, but also as a professor in Byzantine church music. While residing in the monastery Zograf(Mount Athos, Greece) founded the music school and the translation calligraphic literary school. As а brilliant theorist of the nematic Byzantine musical tradition, furthermore composer and chanter on the one hand and an expert linguist in ancient Greek, Slavic, new Greek and Romanian language on the other hand, he created timeless masterpieces and translations, thereby enriching the cultural heritage spiritual barns of the Orthodox ecumene to the utmost. Kalistrat Zografski is likely to be regarded as the best connoisseur of Byzantine neumatic ladder, created by the famous ascetic, composer and chanter, St. John Kukuzel. He died in 1914, as Archimandrite of the monastery Zograf, in Mount Athos, Greece.

Nikolay Nikolayevich Kedrov Sr. was a Russian composer of liturgical music. His setting of Otche Nash is one of the best-known in the repertoire.

Phoebe Palmer Knapp was an American composer of music for hymns and an organist.

Soghomon Soghomonian, ordained and commonly known as Komitas, was an Armenian priest, musicologist, composer, arranger, singer, and choirmaster, who is considered the founder of the Armenian national school of music. He is recognized as one of the pioneers of ethnomusicology.

John Koukouzelis or Jan Kukuzeli was a Byzantine medieval Orthodox Christian composer, singer and reformer of Eastern Orthodox music. He was recognized as a saint by the Eastern Orthodox Church after his death. His music is held in high esteem by Albanians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Macedonians, Romanians and Serbs.

John Alfred Larsson, is a Swedish Salvationist, writer and composer of Christian music and hymns, who was the 17th General of The Salvation Army.

Miloje Milojević was a Serbian composer, musicologist, music critic, folklorist, music pedagogue, and music promoter.

William Augustine Ogden was an American composer, especially of church music and hymns, choir conductor and educator.

Peter Reulein is a German composer, organ improviser, academic teacher and church musician, from 2000 at the church Liebfrauen in Frankfurt am Main. In 2016 he composed for the Catholic Diocese of Limburg the Franciscan oratorio Laudato si'.

Jeremy Michael Riddle is an American Christian musician, songwriter, and worship leader, best known for a long tenure as an ensemble leader with Bethel Music.

Mary Holden Coggeshall Seward, commonly known as Mary C. Seward, was an American poet, composer, and prominent parliamentarian serving humanitarian and woman's club movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A number of her works were published under the pseudonym "Agnes Burney" , including several developed in collaboration with her spouse, Theodore F. Seward, an internationally known composer and music educator in his day. She became a groundbreaking advocate for the care and education of blind babies and young children during her later years, serving as president of the department for the blind of the International Sunshine Society.

Theodore Frelinghuysen Seward was the Founder of the Brotherhood of Christian Unity and the Don't Worry Club.

Kornelije Stanković was Serbian composer, melographer, conductor, pianist and musical writer. He is notable for his four volumes of harmonized Serbian melodies, which were published in Vienna between 1858 and 1863 and are one of the most important foundations for later Serbian music.

Lieutenant Colonel (Dr) Ray Steadman-Allen was a British composer of choral and brass band music for the Salvation Army and for band competition.

George Coles Stebbins (1846–1945) was a gospel song writer. Stebbins was born February 26, 1846, in Orleans County, New York, where he spent the first 23 years of his life on a farm. In 1869 he moved to Chicago, Illinois, which marked the beginning of his musical career.

Frederick L. Swann is an American church and concert organist, choral conductor, composer, recording artist, and former president of the American Guild of Organists. He is the former Director of Music and Organist at New York City's Riverside Church and Organist Emeritus of the Crystal Cathedral and the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles. Playing the Crystal Cathedral organ on the weekly Hour of Power television program, he was reportedly seen by an audience of 20 million viewers in 165 countries. Critics such as Tim Smith have called Swann "one of the country's most distinguished organists". Other critics have praised his playing as "brilliant" and "masterly", having a "commanding sense of pace and color". The New York Times said his performance at a Riverside Church recital in 2006, "demonstrated that organists are complete athletes, needing both lightning-fast fingers and the fleet footwork of a dancer".

Charles Davis Tillman —also known as Charlie D. Tillman, Charles Tillman, Charlie Tillman, and C. D. Tillman—was a popularizer of the gospel song. He had a knack for adopting material from eclectic sources and flowing it into the mix now known as southern gospel, becoming one of the formative influences on that genre.

Christopher Dwayne Tomlin is an American contemporary Christian music singer, songwriter, and worship leader from Grand Saline, Texas, United States who has sold over 7 million records. He is a member of Passion Conferences and is signed to EMI's sixstepsrecords. Some of his most well-known songs are "How Great Is Our God", "Our God", "Whom Shall I Fear " and his cover of "Good Good Father".

Joseph Philbrick Webster, also known as J.P. Webster, was an American songwriter and composer most notable for his musical compositions during the antebellum and American Civil War periods of United States history, and his post-war hymns.

Jason Whitehorn is an American contemporary worship music singer and songwriter. He has been writing, performing and releasing both country and worship music for over a decade since his career began in early 2000. He originally lived just outside Savannah, Tennessee where he and Darryl Worley attended high school.He has performed or worked with Darryl Worley, Thrasher Shiver, Bryan White, David Allan Coe, Matt Maher, Casting Crowns, Matt Redman and has collaborated with others.