Below is a list of composers who were, or almost certainly were, Jewish, or had Jewish relatives. Many remained deeply involved in their religious communities, but inevitably, many, such as the Bassano family, were required to give up their religion in order to be accepted. However, that we know them as Jewish today is testament to some level of religious involvement, since there must be many more composers of Jewish origin whose background was lost due to their level of assimilation.
| SURNAME | FORENAME | DATES | WHERE | NOTES |
| Bassano | Giovanni | c.1560/61-c.1617 | Venice | Director of St. Mark's, Venice; renowned as instrumentalist. |
| Bassano | Jeronimo | 1559-1635 | London, UK | Cousin of Giovanni Bassano. |
| Blochwitz | Johann Martin | 1687-1742 | Dresden | Flautist at the Dresden court; author of numerous instrumental works. |
| Bolaffi | Michele | 1768-1842 | Livorno, Italy | Most distinguished Jewish composer active in Livorno during the first half of the 19th century. |
| Casseres (Caceres) | Abraham | fl. early 18th century | Amsterdam | Of Portuguese origin; well-known composer of the Sephardi community in Amsterdam. First mention in 1718. |
| da Civita | Davit | fl. early 17th century | Italy (?Mantua) | 17 Italian pieces in collection from 1616 |
| Drei | Francesco | fl. 18th century | Italy | Music for the inauguration of a synagogue in Siena written by Drei and Gallachi in 1786. |
| Gallachi | Volunio | fl. 18th century | Italy | As above |
| haGer | Obadiah | fl. early 12th century | Italy/Egypt | Born Johannes de Oppido, convert to Judaism ('Obadiah the Proselyte'); responsible for earliest source of Jewish music in Cairo Genizah. |
| le Juif | Mahieu | 13th century | France | French trouvère. Although only 2 works survive, both deal with the problems of giving up his Jewish religion to serve his mistress. |
| Lanier | Nicolas | 1588-1666 | London, UK | Married to Emilia Bassano, granddaughter of Jeronimo Bassano |
| Massarano | Isacchino | fl.1580-1608 | Mantua, Italy | Known best as a dancing master; is known to have collaborated with Salamone Rossi |
| (de) Milan | Luys | 1500-after 1561 | Valencia, Spain | Best known as author of first printed vihuela music: Libro de musica de vihuela de mano intitulado El maestro (1536). |
| Modena | Rabbi (Leon) Yehudah Aryeh | 1571-1648 | Venice, Italy | Played leading role in aiding Rossi in his Songs of Solomon; wrote extensive preface to the work. All works lost. Controversial religious figure. |
| Najara | Israel | c.1555-1625 | Gaza | Enormous influence on piyyut (Hebrew liturgical poem), but no works survive. |
| Porto | Allegro | fl. early 1620s | Trieste, Italy/ Munich, Germany | 51 pieces in three collections, published 1619, 1622 and 1625. |
| Rachah | Samuel Nissim | fl. 18th century | Livorno, Italy | Author of eighteenth-century manuscript containing sacred Hebrew songs with secular titles (it, aria, recitativo, etc.) |
| Ricchi | Rabbi (Raphael) Emanuel Hay ben Abraham | 1688-1743 | Livorno, Italy | Author of hon 'ashir- a poem about the Sabbath, circumcision and tefillin, set to music after a commentary on the mishnah. Written in Amsterdam, 1731. |
| (de) Rossi | Asher (Anselmo) | fl. 17th century | Mantua, Italy | Son of Salamone Rossi's sister, the singer Madame Europa. |
| Rossi | Salamone | 1570-1630 | Mantua, Italy | Author of Shir haShirim asher liShlomo (1622-3): 33 polyphonic settings of Hebrew psalms, hymns and synagogal songs |
| Sacerdote | David | fl. late 16th century | Mantua, Italy | One collection (Il primo libro de madrigali a sei voci) of eighteen pieces published in 1575 |