THE INCREDIBLY ABRIDGED DICTIONARY OF COMPOSERS
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A
- Adam, Adolphe (1803 - 1856)
- Addinsell, Richard (1904 - 1977)
- Albéniz, Isaac (1860 - 1909)
- Albinoni, Tomaso (1671 - 1750)
- Alfven, Hugo (1872 - 1960)
- Alkan, charles-Valentin (1813 - 1888)
- Allegri, Gregorio (1582 - 1652), Italy
- Arensky, Anton Stepanovich (1861 - 1906)
- Arne, Thomas (1710 - 1778)
- Atterberg, Kurt (1887 - 1974)
- Auber, Daniel-Francois-Esprit (1782 - 1871)
- Aubert, Louis Francois Marie (1877 - 1968)
B
- Babbit, Milton (1916 - present), United States of America
- Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714 - 1788), Germany
- Bach, Johann Christian (1735 - 1782), Germany
- Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685 - 1750), Germany
- Balakirev, Mily Alexeyevich (1837 - 1910)
- Bantock, Granville (1868 - 1946)
- Barber, Samuel (1910 - 1981), United States of America
- Bargiel, Woldemar (1828 - 1897)
- Bartok, Bela (1881 - 1945), Hungary
- Bax, Arnold (1883 - 1953)
- Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 - 1827), Germany/Austria
- Bella, Jón Levoslav (1843 - 1936)
- Bellini, Vincenzo (1801 - 1835), Italy
- Benjamin, Arthur (1893 - 1960)
- Bennet, John (?1575 - 1614?)
- Bennett, William (1816 - 1875)
- Berg, Alban (1885 - 1935), Austria
- Berio, Luciano (1925 - ), Italy
- Beriot, Charles-Auguste de (1802 - 1870)
- Berlioz, Hector (1803 - 1869), France
- Bernstein, Leonard (1918 - 1990), United States of America
- Berwald, Franz (1796 - 1868)
- Biber, Heinrich (1644 - 1704)
- Binchois, Gilles (c. 1400 - 1460), France
- Binge, Ronald (1910 - 1979)
- Bingen, Hildegard von (1098 - 1179), Germany
- Bishop, Henry (1786 - 1855)
- Bizet, Georges (1838 - 1875), France
- Blacher, Boris (1903 - 1975)
- Bliss, Arthur (1891 - 1975)
- Bloch, Ernest (1880 - 1959)
- Blow, John (1649 - 1708)
- Blumenfeld, Felix (1863 - 1931)
- Boccherini, Luigi (1743 - 1805)
- de Boeck, August (1865 - 1936)
- Boellmann, Leon Ernest (1862 - 1897)
- Boieldieu, Franäois-Adrien (1775 - 1834)
- Boito, Arrigo (1842 - 1918)
- Borodin, Alexander Porfir'yevich (1833 - 1887), Russia
- Boulanger, Lili (1893 - 1918)
- Boulanger, Nadia (1887 - 1979)
- Boulez, Pierre (1925 - present), France
- Boyce, William (1711 - 1779)
- Brahms, Johannes (1833 - 1897), Germany
- Breton, Tomós (1850- 1923)
- Brian, Havergal (1876 - 9172)
- Bridge, Frank (1879 - 1941)
- Brito, Estêvâo de (c. 1571 - 1641)
- Britten, Benjamin (1913 - 1976), England
- Bruch, Max (1838 - 1920)
- Bruckner, Anton (1824 - 1896), Austria
- Bruneau, Alfred (1857 - 1934)
- Bull, John (?1562-3 - 1628)
- Bulow, Hans von (1830 - 1894)
- Busoni, Ferruccio (1866 - 1924)
- Buxtehude, Dietrich (c. 1637 - 1707), Germany
- Byrd, William (1543 - 1623), England
C
- Caccini, Giulio (1546 - 1618), Italy
- Cage, John (1912 - 1992), United States of America
- Campion, Thomas (1567 - 1620)
- Canteloube (de Calaret), Marie Joseph (1879 - 1957)
- Caplet, Andre (1878 - 1925)
- Carissimi, Giacomo (16050 - 1674)
- Carter, Elliot (1908 - present), United States of America
- Carulli, Ferdinando (1770 - 1841)
- Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario (1895 - 1968)
- Castillo, Ricardo (1894 - 1966)
- Cavalli, Francesco (1602 - 1676)
- Chabrier, Emmanuel (1841 - 1894)
- Charpentier, Gustave (1860 - 1956)
- Charpentier, Marc-Antoine (c. 1643 - 1704), France
- Chausson, Ernest (1855 - 1899)
- Cherubini, Luigi (1760 - 1842)
- Chopin, Frederic (1810 - 1849), Poland/France
- Cilea, Francesco (1866 - 1950)
- Cimarosa, Domenico (1749 - 1801)
- Ciurlionis, Mikolajus Konstantinas (1875 - 1911)
- Clarke, Jeremiah (c. 1674 - 1707)
- Clementi, Muzio (1752 - 1832)
- Coates, Eric (1886 - 1957)
- Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel (1875 - 1912)
- Copland, Aaron (1900 - 1990), United States of America
- Corelli, Arcangelo (1653 - 1713), Italy
- Corghi, Azio (b. 1937)
- Couperin, Francois (le grand) (1668 - 1733), France
- Cowell, Henry (1897 - 1965), United States of America
- Cowen, Frederic Hymen (1852 - 1935)
- Cui, Cesar (1835 - 1918)
- Curzon, Frederic (1899 - 1973)
D
- David, Felicien (1810 - 1876)
- Davies, Sir Peter Maxwell (1934 - present), England
- Debussy, Claude (1862 - 1918), France
- Delibes, Leo (1836 - 1891)
- Delius, Frederick (1862 - 1934), England
- Devreese, Frederic (b, 1929)
- Devreese, Godfried (1893 - 1972)
- Dohnányi, Ernö (1877 - 1960)
- Donizetti, Gaetano (1797 - 1848), Italy
- Dowland, John (1563 - 1626), England
- Dufay, Guillaume (c. 1400 - 1474), France
- Dukas, Paul (1865 - 1935)
- Duncan, Trevor (b. 1924)
- Dunstable, John (c. 1390 - 1453), England
- Duparc, Henri (1848 - 1933)
- Dvorak, Antonin (1841 - 1904), Czechoslovakia
E
- Einem, Gottfried von (b. 1918)
- Elgar, Edward (1857 - 1934), England
- Emmanuel, Maurice (1862 - 1938)
- Enescu, George (1881 - 1955)
- Erkel, Ferenc (1810 - 1893)
F
- Falla, Manuel de (1876 - 1946), Spain
- Farnon, Robert (b. 1917)
- Faure, Gabriel (1845 - 1924), France
- Feldman, Morton (1926 - 1987), United States of America
- Field, John (1782 - 1837)
- Flotow, Friedrich von (1812 - 1883)
- Foss, Lukas (1922 - present), Germany
- Franck, Cesar (1822 - 1890), France
- Franco of Cologne, (c.1250 - 1280), Germany
- Frescobaldi, Girolamo (1583 - 1643), Italy
- Furchs, Reobert (1847 - 1927)
- Furtwängler, Wilhelm (1886 -1954)
G
- Gabrieli, Giovanni (c. 1558 - 1613), Italy
- Geminiani, Francesco (1687 - 1762)
- German, Edward (1862 - 1936)
- Gershwin, George (1898 - 1937), United States of America
- Gibbs, Cecil Armstrong (1889 - 1960)
- Gibbons, Orlando (1583 - 1625), England
- Gilson, Paul (1865 - 1942)
- Giordano, Uemberto (1867 - 1948)
- Glass, Louis (1864 - 1936)
- Glass, Philip (1937 - present), United States of America
- Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich (1865 - 1936)
- Gliere, Reyngol'd Moritsevich (1875 - 1956)
- Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (1804 - 1857), Russia
- Gluck, Christoph Willibald von (1714 - 1787), Germany
- Godowsky, Leopold (1870 - 1938)
- Goldmark, Karl (1830 - 1915)
- Gorecki, Henryk (1933 - )
- Gounod, Charles (1818 - 1893), France
- Grainger, Percy (1882 - 1961)
- Granados, Enrique (1867 - 1916), Spain
- Grechaninov, Alexandr Tikhonovich (1864 - 1956)
- Gregorian, Chant
- Grieg, Edvard (1843 - 1907), Norway
- Guarneri, Carmago (b. 1907)
- Guastavino, Carlos (b. 1912)
H
- Handel, George Frideric (1685 - 1759), Germany/England
- Harris, Clement (1871 - 1897)
- Haydn, Franz Joseph (1732 - 1809), Austria
- Haydn, Michael (1737 - 1806)
- Heller, Stephen (1813 - 1888)
- Henze, Hans-Werner (1926 - present), Germany
- Herold, Ferdinand (1791 - 1833)
- Herrmann, Bernard (1911- 1975)
- Hill, Alfred (1870 - 1960)
- Hindemith, Paul (1895 - 1963), Germany
- Holbrooke, Joseph (1878 - 1958)
- Holmes, Augusta (1847 - 1903)
- Holst, Gustav (1874 - 1934), England
- Honegger, Arthur (1892 - 1955), Switzerland
- Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778 - 1837)
- Humperdinck, Engelbert (1854 - 1921)
- Husa, Karel (b. 1921)
I
- Ibert, Jacques (1890 - 1962)
- Indy, Vincent d' (1851 - 1931)
- Ippolitov-Ivanov, Mikhail (1859 - 1935)
- Ireland, John (1879 - 1962)
- Isaac, Heinrich (c. 1450 - 1517)
- Ives, Charles (1874 - 1954), United States of America
J
- Janacek, Leos (1854 - 1928), Czechoslovakia
- Janequin, Clement (c.1485 - 1560), France
- Jenkins, John (1592 - 1678)
- Joachim, Joseph (1831 - 1907)
- Josquin des Prez (c. 1440 - 1521), Holland
- Joyce, Archibald (1873 - 1963)
K
- Kabalevsky, Dmitry Borisovich (1904 - 1987)
- Kalinnikov, Vasily Sergeyevich (1866 - 1901)
- Ketelbey, Albert (1875 - 1959)
- Khachaturian, Aram Il'yich (1903 - 1978), Armenia
- Kiel, Friedrich (1821 - 1885)
- Kodaly, Zoltán (1882 - 1967)
- Koechlin, Charles (1867 - 1950)
- Korngold, Erich Wolfgang (1897 - 1957)
- Kuhlau, Friedrich (1786 - 1832)
L
- Labate, Bruno (1883 - 1968), Italy, United States of America
- Lachner, Franz (1803 - 1890)
- Lajtha, Laszlo (1892 - 1963)
- Lalo, Edouard (1823 - 1892)
- Landini, Francesco (1325 - 1397), Italy
- Lassus, Orlando de (1532 - 1542), Germany
- Lawes, Henry (1882 - 1967) William (1602 - 1645)
- Leclair, Jean-Marie (1697 - 1764)
- Le Flem, Paul (1881 - 1984)
- Lehar, Franz (1870 - 1948)
- Leoncavallo, Ruggero (1857 - 1919)
- Leonin, (c.1180 - 1220), France
- Leschetizky, Theodor (1830 - 1915)
- Liadov, Anatol Konstantinovich (1855 - 1914)
- Liapunov, Sergei Michailovich (1859 -1924)
- Ligeti, Gyorgy (1923 - present), Hungary/Austria
- Liszt, Franz (1811 - 1886), Hungary
- Lloveras, Guillermo Venegas (1915 - 1993), Puetro Rico
- Locke, Matthew (1621-2 - 1677)
- Lortzing, Albert (1801 - 1851)
- Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632 - 1687), Italy
- Lutoslawski, Witold (1913 - 1994), Poland
- Lyatoshynsky, Boris (1895 - 1968)
M
- Macdowell, Edward (1860 - 1908), United States of America
- Machaut, Guillaume de (c. 1300 - 1377), France
- Maes, Jef (b. 1905)
- Mahler, Gustav (1860 - 1911), Germany
- Malipiero, Gian Francesco (1882 - 1973)
- Marcello, Alessandro (1684 - 1750)
- Marcello, Benedetto (1686 - 1739)
- Marenzio, Luca (1553 or 1554 - 1599)
- Marschner, Heinrich (1795 - 1861)
- Martínez-Sobral, Manuel (1879 - 1946)
- Martinu, Bohuslav (1890 - 1959)
- Mascagni, Pietro (1863 - 1945)
- Massenet, Jules (1842 - 1912)
- Mayerl, Billy (1902 - 1959)
- Medtner, Nikolai Karlovich (1880 - 1951)
- Mehul, Etienne Nicolas (1763 - 1817)
- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (1809 - 1847), Germany
- Mennin, Peter (1923 - 1983), United States of America
- Messiaen, Olivier (1908 - 1992), France
- Meyerbeer, Giacomo (1791 - 1864), Germany/France
- Miaskovsky, Nikolai Yakovlevich (1881 - 1950)
- Milhaud, Darius (1892 - 1974), France
- Moeran, E. J. (1894 - 1950)
- Monteverdi, Claudio (1567 - 1643), Italy
- Montsalvatge, Xavier (b. 1912)
- Morley, Thomas (1557 - 1602), England
- Mozonyi, Mihály (1815 - 1870)
- Moyzes, Alexander (b. 1906)
- Mozart, Leopold (1719 - 1787)
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756 - 1791), Austria
- Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich (1839 - 1881), Russia
N
- Nepomuceno, Alberto (1864 - 1920)
- Nicolai, Otto (1810 - 1849)
- Nielsen, Carl (1863 - 1931)
- Nin-Culmell, Joaquõn Marõa (b. 1908)
- Novak, Vitezslav (1870 - 1949)
O
- Obrecht, Jacob (c. 1450 - 1505), Holland
- Ockeghem, Johannes (c. 1420 - 1496), Holland
- Offenbach, Jacques (1819 - 1880), Germany/France
- Orff, Carl (c. 1895 - 1982)
P
- Pachelbel, Johann (1653 - 1706)
- Paganini, Nicol (1782 - 1840)
- Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (1525 - 1542), Italy
- Parry, Hubert (1848 - 1918)
- Part, Arvo (1935 - present), Estonia/Austria
- Penderecki, Krzysztof (1933 - ), Poland
- Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista (1710 - 1736), Italy
- Peri, Jacopo (1561 - 1633), Italy
- Perotin (c.1183 - 1238), France
- Petrus de Cruce, (c.1270 - 1300), France
- Pfitzner, Hans (1869 - 1949)
- Pierne, Gabriel (1863 - 1937)
- Pizzetti, Ildebrando (1880 - 1968)
- Ponchielli, Amilcare (1834 - 1886)
- Poulenc, Francis (1899 - 1963), France
- Prokofiev, Sergei (1891 - 1953), Russia
- Puccini, Giacomo (1858 - 1924), Italy
- Purcell, Henry (1659 - 1695), England
Q
- Quilter, Roger (1877 - 1953)
R
- Rabaud, Henri (1873 - 1949)
- Rachmaninoff, Sergei (1873 - 1943), Russia
- Raff, Joachim (1822 - 1882)
- Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683 - 1764), France
- Ravel, Maurice (1875 - 1937), France
- Reger, Max (1873 - 1916)
- Reich, Steve (1936 - present), United States of America
- Reinecke, Karl (1824 - 1910)
- Respighi, Ottorino (1879 - 1936)
- Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay Andreyevich (1844 - 1908), Russia
- Rodrigo, Joaquin (1901 - ), Spain
- Roger-ducasse, Jean (1873 - 1954)
- Rozpartz, Joseph-Guy (1864 - 1955)
- Rosenthal, Manuel (b. 1904)
- Rossini, Gioacchino (1792 - 1868), Italy
- Roussel, Albert (1869 - 1937)
- Rubbra, Edmund (1901 - 1986)
- Rubinstein, Anton (1829 - 1894)
S
- Salieri, Antonio (1750 - 1825)
- Salter, Hans (b. 1896)
- Sammartini, Giovanni Battista (1701 - 1775), Italy
- Satie, Erik (1866 - 1925), France
- Scarlatti, Alessandro (1660 - 1725), Italy
- Scarlatti, Domenico (1685 - 1757), Italy
- Scheidt, Samuel (1587 - 1654)
- Schein, Johann Hermann (1586 - 1630)
- Schillings, Max von (1868 - 1933)
- Schmidt, Franz (1874 - 1939)
- Schnittke, Alfred (1934 - )
- Schoenberg, Arnold (1874 - 1951), Austria
- Schreker, Franz (1878 - 1945)
- Schubert, Franz (1797 - 1828), Austria
- Schuller, Gunther (1925 - present), United States of America
- Schuman, William (1910 - present), United States of America
- Schumann, Robert (1810 - 1856), Germany
- Schutz, Heinrich (1585 - 1672), Germany
- Scott, Cyril (1879 - 1970)
- Scriabin, Alexander (1872 - 1915), Russia
- Senfl, Ludwig (c. 1486 - 1542/1543)
- Sermisy, Claudin de (c. 1490 - 1562), France
- Sessions, Roger (1896 - 1985), United States of America
- Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906 - 1975), Russia
- Sibelius, Jean (1865 - 1957), Finland
- Sinding, Christian (1856 - 1941)
- Smetana, Bedrich (1824 - 1884), Czechoslovakia
- Sowerby, Leo (1895 - 1968)
- Spohr, Louis (1784 - 1859), Germany
- Stamitz, Johann (1717 - 1753), Germany
- Stanchinsky, Alexei Vladimirovieh (1888 - 1914)
- Stanford, Charles Villiers (1852 - 1924)
- Stevens, Bernard (1916 - 1983)
- Stevenson, Ronald (b. 1928)
- Stockhausen, Karlheinz (1928 - present), Germany
- Straus, Oscar (1870 - 1954)
- Strauss, Johann I (1804 - 1849)
- Strauss, Johann II (1825 - 1899), Austria
- Strauss, Josef (1827 - 1870)
- Strauss, Richard (1864 - 1949), Germany
- Stravinsky, Igor (1882 - 1971), Russia
- Suk, Josef (1874 - 1935)
- Sullivan, Sir Arthur (1842 - 1900), England
- Suppe, Franz von (1819 - 1895)
- Svendsen, Johan (1840 - 1911)
- Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562 - 1621)
- Szymanowski, Karol (1882 - 1937)
T
- Tallis, Thomas (c. 1505 - 1585), England
- Taneyev, Alexander Sergeyevich (1850 - 1918)
- Taneyev, Sergei Ivanovich (1856 - 1915)
- Tansman, Alexandre (1897 - 1986)
- Tartini, Giuseppe (1692 - 1770)
- Taverner, John (c. 1490 - 1545)
- Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840 - 1893), Russia
- Tcherepnin, Alexander (1899 - 1977)
- Tcherepnin, Nikolai (1873 - 1945)
- Telemann, George Philipp (1681 - 1767), Germany
- Thalberg, Sigismond (1812 - 1971)
- Thompson, Randall (1899 - 1984), United States of America
- Tippett, Michael (1905 - ), England
- Tomkins, Thomas (1572 - 1656)
- Tomlinson, Ernest (b. 1924)
- Torch, Sydney (1908 - 1990)
- Torelli, Giuseppe (1658 - 1709), Italy
- Tortiglione, Paolo (1965 - present), Italy
- Tournemire, Charles (1870 -1939)
- Tovey, Donald Francis (1875 - 1940)
- Truscott, Harold (1914 - 1992)
- Tye, Christopher (c. 1505 - ?1572)
V
- Varese, Edgar (1883 - 1965), France
- Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872 - 1958), England
- Vasilenko, Sergei (1872 - 1956)
- Velasquez, Glauco (1884 - 1914)
- Verdi, Giuseppe (1813 - 1901), Italy
- Victoria, Tomas Luis de (1549 - 1611), Spain
- Victory, Gerard (1921 - 1995)
- Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1887 - 1959), Brazil
- Vitols, Jazeps (1863 - 1948)
- Vitry, Philippe de (1291 - 1361), France
- Vivaldi, Antonio (1678 - 1741), Italy
W
- Wagner, Richard (1813 - 1883), Germany
- Wagner, Siegfried (1869 - 1930)
- Waldteufel, Emile (1837 - 1911)
- Walton, Sir William (1902 - 1983), England
- Warren, Elinor Remick (1900-1991), England
- Waxman, Franz (1906 - 1967)
- Weber, Carl Maria von (1786 - 1826), Germany
- Webern, Anton von (1883 - 1945), Austria
- Weelkes, Thomas (1576 - 1623)
- Weill, Kurt (1900 - 1950), Germany
- Weiss, Silvius Leopold (1686 - 1750)
- Welcher, Dan (b. 1948)
- White, Robert (c. 1538 - 1574)
- Widor, Charles-Marie (1844 - 1937)
- Wilbye, John (1574 - 1638)
- Willaert, Adrian (c. 1490 - 1562)
- Wolf, Hugo (1860 - 1903), Yugoslavia
- Wolpe, Stefan (1902 - 1972), U.S.A./Germany
- Wood, Haydn (1882 - 1959)
- Wright, Maurice (1949 - present), United States of America
X
- Xenakis, Iannis (1922 - present), Greece
Z
- Zemlinsky, Alexander von (1871 - 1942)
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