List of centenarians (musicians, composers and music patrons)

The following is a list of centenarians – specifically, people who became famous as musicians, composers and music patrons – known for reasons other than their longevity. For more lists, see: Lists of centenarians.

Name	Lifespan	Age	Notability
Frances Adaskin	1900–2001	100	Canadian pianist
Licia Albanese	1909–2014	105	Italian-born American operatic soprano
Van Alexander	1915–2015	100	American bandleader and composer
Robert Alexander Anderson	1894–1995	100	American composer
Katja Andy	1907–2013	106	German-American classical pianist and piano professor
Irving Berlin	1888–1989	101	Russian-American lyricist and composer
Ralph Berkowitz	1910–2011	100	American composer and classical pianist
Bernard Bierman	1908–2012	104	American composer
Esther Borja	1913–2013	100	Cuban singer
Slim Bryant	1908–2010	101	American country music singer and songwriter
Henri Büsser	1872–1973	101	French composer
Irving Caesar	1895–1996	101	American composer
Matilde Capuis	1913–	111	Italian composer
Elliott Carter	1908–2012	103	American classical music composer
Giacobbe Cervetto	1682–1783	100–101	Italian-English cellist
Alice Chalifoux	1908–2008	100	American harpist
Gina Cigna	1900–2001	101	Italian soprano
Orlando Cole	1908–2010	101	American cellist
Hugues Cuénod	1902–2010	108	Swiss tenor
Annette Richardson Dinwoodey	1906–2007	100	American Latter Day Saint vocalist
Roy Douglas	1907–2015	107	British composer
Jan Ekier	1913–2014	100	Polish pianist and composer
Hellmut Federhofer	1911–2014	102	Austrian musicologist
Lionel Ferbos	1911–2014	103	American jazz trumpeter
Irving Fields	1915–	108	American pianist
Anthony Galla-Rini	1904–2006	102	American accordionist
Manuel García	1805–1906	101	Spanish music and singing teacher
John Gerrish	1910–2010	100	American composer
Peggy Gilbert	1905–2007	102	American jazz saxophonist
Coleridge Goode	1914–2015	101	Jamaican jazz musician
Sidonie Goossens	1899–2004	105	English harpist
Roy Henderson	1899–2000	100	English baritone
Alice Herz-Sommer	1903–2014	110	Austro-Hungarian pianist
Randolph Hokanson	1915–	108	American pianist
Dolores Hope	1909–2011	102	American singer and philanthropist
Mieczysław Horszowski	1892–1993	100	Polish pianist
Herb Jeffries	1913–2014	100	American singer and actor
William Manuel Johnson	1872–1972	100	American jazz musician
Maurice Journeau	1898–1999	100	French composer
Abdul Rashid Khan	1908–	115	Indian musician
Mykola Kolessa	1903–2006	102	Ukrainian composer
Margaret Ruthven Lang	1867–1972	104	American composer
Johnny Lange	1905–2006	100	American Academy Award-nominated songwriter
André Lavagne	1913–2014	100	French composer
Paul Le Flem	1881–1984	103	French composer
Conrad Leonard	1898–2003	104	British pianist and composer
Huey Long	1904–2009	105	American jazz singer
Lawrence Lucie	1907–2009	101	American jazz musician
Nonie Lynch	1910–2011	101	Irish singer
Wade Mainer	1907–2011	104	American country music singer and banjoist
Léo Marjane	1912–	111	French singer
Draga Matković	1907–2013	105	German classical pianist
Sir Robert Mayer	1879–1985	105	German born British philanthropist
Buddy Moreno	1912–2015	103	American singer, bandleader, and radio personality
Blanche Honegger Moyse	1909–2011	101	Swiss-born American conductor
Marcel Mule	1901–2001	100	French classical saxophonist
Magda Olivero	1910–2014	104	Italian soprano
Leo Ornstein	1893–2002	108	Ukrainian-born American pianist and composer
Uncle Charlie Osborne	1890–1992	101	American Appalachian Mountains musician
Ernest "Doc" Paulin	1907–2007	100	American brass band leader
H. Owen Reed	1910–2014	103	American composer, conductor, and author
Elsa Respighi	1894–1996	101	Italian composer, singer and wife of Ottorino Respighi
Rosa Rio	1902–2010	107	American organist
Edmundo Ros	1910–2011	100	Trinidadian musician, vocalist, and bandleader
Thomas Round	1915–	108	English opera singer
Olga Rudge	1895–1996	100	American violinist and mistress of Ezra Pound
Joseph Salemi	1902–2003	100	American jazz trombonist
Teresa Saporiti	1763–1869	106	Italian soprano
George Beverly Shea	1909–2013	104	Canadian-born American gospel music singer and songwriter
Nicolas Slonimsky	1894–1995	101	Russian-American composer and conductor
Viola Smith	1912–	102	American drummer
Ljerko Spiller	1908–2008	100	Croatian and Argentine violinist
Sally Sweetland	1911–	112	American soprano
Jenő Takács	1902–2005	103	Austrian-Hungarian composer and pianist
Bill Tapia	1908–2011	103	American musician
Tillit Sidney Teddlie	1885–1987	102	American hymn composer
Roman Totenberg	1911–2012	101	Polish-born American violinist and educator
Orrin Tucker	1911–2011	100	American bandleader and composer
Stanley Vann	1910–2010	100	English composer
Elder Roma Wilson	1910–	113	American gospel harmonicist
Izabella Zielińska	1910–	113	Polish pianist