List of Roman Catholic Church Musicians - Traditional and Hymnal

Traditional and Hymnal

• Paolo Agostino, all his surviving works are religious.
• Vittoria Aleotti, Augustinian nun and composer.
• Giovenale Ancina, Beatified writer of spiritual songs.
• Caterina Assandra, Benedictine nun and composer.
• Thoinot Arbeau, Catholic priest who composed the originally secular Ding Dong Merrily on High.
• Jean de Brébeuf, A Canonized Jesuit who composed the Huron Carol.
• William Byrd, English Catholic (in the era of Elizabeth I and the Stuarts), composer of 5 polyphonic masses and other sacred music.
• Hermannus Contractus, the Alma Redemptoris Mater said to have been written by him.
• Tommaso da Celano, Dies Irae
• Orlando de Lassus, late Renaissance composer polyphonic masses and sacred music.
• Guillaume de Machaut, medieval French composer.
• Cristobal de Morales, Renaissance Spanish composer of sacred music.
• Josquin des Prez, composer of Renaissance polyphonic masses and sacred music.
• Guillaume Dufay, worked for the Papal chapel, composer of Renaissance polyphonic masses and sacred music.
• John Dunstaple or Dunstable, early Renaissance English composer of polyphonic sacred music.
• Frederick William Faber, Catholic convert who wrote Catholic hymns like Faith of Our Fathers.
• Giovanni Gabrieli, late Renaissance/early Baroque Italian composer who composed much sacred music.
• Jacobus Gallus, A Slovenian composer of sacred music and member of the Cistercians.
• Joseph Gelineau, French composer of Gelineau psalmody and music for the Taizé Community.
• Carlo Gesualdo, late Renaissance Italian composer, most famous for madrigals, but also composed some sacred music.
• Francisco Guerrero, late Renaissance Spanish composer of both sacred and secular music.
• Hildegard of Bingen, Benedictine abbess and one of the earliest known female composers.
• Hucbald, ninth century Benedictine composer and music theorist.
• Luca Marenzio, Madrigale spirituale
• Domenico Mustafà, Castrato composer for the Sistine Chapel choir.
• Johannes Ockeghem, composer of Renaissance polyphonic masses.
• Frederick Oakeley, convert who translated Adeste Fideles
• Paul the Deacon, Benedictine who wrote Ut queant laxis.
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, late Renaissance Italian composer of polyphonic sacred music, considered by many the greatest such composer, "a tremendous influence on the development of Catholic Church music."
• Thomas Tallis, devoutly Catholic composer of polyphonic church music in Tudor England. "The earliest works by Tallis that survive are devotional antiphons to the Virgin Mary."
• Tomás Luis de Victoria, late Renaissance Spanish composer of polyphoic sacred music, a priest at Descalzas Reales.
• Samuel Webbe, English composer of Catholic hymns.