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THE DICTIONARY OF COMPOSERS AND THEIR MUSIC
A LISTENER'S COMPANION
by
ERIC GILDER
CHRONOLOGY 1300 1600
1700-1750 1750-1800
1800-1825 1825-1850
1850-1875 1875-1900
1900-1910 1910-1920
1920-1930 1930-1940
1940-1950 1950-1960
1960-1970 1970-1980
1980-1983
A- M COMPOSER INDEX
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ADAM,
Adolphe ALBENIZ,
Isaac ALBINONI,
Tomaso Giovanni ALFVEN,
Hugo ALKAN,
Charles Valentin ALWYN,
William ANTHEIL,
George ARENSKY,
Anton Stepanovitch ARNE,
Thomas ARNELL,
Richard ARNOLD,
Malcolm ARRIAGA,
Juan Cristostomo AUBER,
Daniel AUBERT,
Louis AURIC,
Georges BABBITT,
Milton Byron BACH,
Carl Philipp Emanuel BACH,
Johann Christian BACH,
Johann Sebastian BALAKIREV,
Mily BALFE,
Michael William BANKS,
Don BANTOCK,
Granville BARBER,
Samuel BARTÓK,
Béla BAX,
Arnold Edward Trevor BEACH,
Amy Marcy Cheney BEDFORD,
David BEETHOVEN,
Ludwig van BELLINI,
Vincenzo BENJAMIN,
Arthur BENNETT,
Richard Rodney BERG,
Alban BERIO,
Luciano BERKELEY,
Lennox BERKELEY,
Michael BERLIOZ,
Hector BERNERS,
Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson BERNSTEIN,
Leonard BERWALD,
Franz BIRTWISTLE,
Harrison BIZET,
Georges BLACHER,
Boris BLAKE,
David BLISS,
Arthur BLITZSTEIN,
Marc BLOCH
Ernest BLOW,
John BOCCHERINI,
Luigi BOËLLMANN,
Leon BOIELDIEU,
François Adrien BOITO,
Arrigo BORODIN,
Alexander BOULEZ,
Pierre BOYCE,
William BRAHMS,
Johannes BRIAN,
Havergal BRIDGE,
Frank BRITTEN,
Benjamin BROWN,
Earle BRUCH,
Max BRUCKNER,
Anton BULL,
John BUSH,
Alan BUSH,
Geoffrey BUSONI,
Ferruccio BUTTERWORTH,
George BUXTEHUDE,
Diderik BYRD,
William
CAGE,
John CAMPION
(or CAMPIAN), Thomas CANTELOUBE
(de Calaret), Marie Joseph CARISSIMI,
Giacomo CARPENTER,
John Alden CARTER,
Elliott CASELLA,
Alfredo
CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO,
Mario CATALANI,
Alfredo CAVALLI,
Pietro Francesco CHABRIER,
Emmanuel CHAMINADE,
Cecile CHARPENTIER,
Gustave CHARPENTIER,
Marc-Antoine CHAUSSON,
Ernest CHAVEZ,
Carlos CHERUBINI,
Luigi CHOPIN,
Frederic CILEA,
Francesco
CIMAROSA,
Domenico CLEMENTI,
Muzio COATES,
Eric COLERIDGE-TAYLOR,
Samuel COOKE,
Arnold COPLAND,
Aaron CORELLI,
Arcangelo COUPERIN,
Francois COUPERIN,
Louis COWELL,
Henry COWIE,
Edward CROSSE,
Gordon CRUMB,
George CUI,
Cesar
d'ALBERT,
Eugene Francis Charles DALLAPICCOLA,
Luigi DARGOMIZHSKY,
Alexander Sergeivitch
DARKE,
Harold Edwin DAVIES,
(Sir) Henry Walford DAVIES,
Peter Maxwell DEBUSSY,
Claude DELIBES,
Leo
DELIUS,
Frederick DIAMOND,
David DICKINSON,
Peter D'INDY,
Vincent
DITTERSDORF,
Carl Ditters von DODGSON,
Stephen DOHNANYI,
Ernst von DONIZETTI,
Gaetano DOWLAND,
John DUFAY,
Guillaume DUKAS, Paul DUPARC,
Marie Eugene Henri Fouques DUPRE,
Marcel DURUFLE,
Maurice DVORAK,
Antonin ELGAR,
(Sir) Edward
ENESCO,
Georges FALLA,
Manuel de FARNABY,
Giles FAURÉ,
Gabriel FELDMAN,
Morton FERNEYHOUGH,
Brian FIELD,
John FINE,
Irving FINNISSY,
Michael
FINZI,
Gerald FLOTOW,
Friedrich von FOSS,
Lukas FRANÇAIX,
Jean FRANCK,
Cesar FRANKEL,
Benjamin FRESCOBALDI,
Girolamo FRICKER,
Peter Racine
FROBERGER,
Johann Jacob
FUX,
Johann Joseph GABRIELI,
Andrea GABRIELI,
Giovanni
GADE,
Niels Wilhelm GEMINIANI,
Francesco (Xaviero)
GERHARD,
Roberto
GERMAN,
(Sir) Edward (Edward German JONES) GERSHWIN,
George GESUALDO,
Carlo, Prince of Venosa GIBBONS,
Orlando GILDER,Eric GILLIS,
Don GINASTERA,
Alberto GIORDANO,
Umberto GIULIANI,
Mauro
GLASS,
Philip GLAZUNOV,
Alexander GLIERE,
Reinhold Moritzovitch GLINKA,
Mikhail GLUCK,
Christoph Willibald GODARD,
Benjamin Louis Paul GOEHR,
Alexander GOLDMARK,
Carl
GOSSEC,
Francois Joseph
GOTTSCHALK,
Louis Moreau GOULD,
Morton GOUNOD,
Charles
GRAINGER,
Percy Aldridge GRANADOS,
Enrique GRANDJANY,
Marcel GRETRY,
Andre GRIEG,
Edvard Hagerup GRIFFES,
Charles Tomlinson GROFE,
Ferde GRUENBERG,
Louis GURNEY,
Ivor (Bertie)
HAHN,
Reynaldo
HALEVY,
(original name Elias Levy) Jacques Francois Fromenhl HAMILTON,
Iain HANDEL,
George Frideric HANSON,
Howard HARRIS,
Roy HARTY,
Sir (Herbert) Hamilton HAYDN,
(Franz) Joseph HAYDN,
(Johann) Michael HENZE,
Hans Werner HEROLD,
Louis Joseph Ferdinand HlNDEMlTH,
Paul HODDINOTT,
Alun HOLBORNE,
Anthony HOLBROOKE,
Joseph HOLLOWAY,
Robin HOLMBOE,
Vagn HOLST,
Gustav
HONEGGER,
Arthur HOPKINSON,
Francis HOWELLS,
Herbert (Norman) HUMMEL,
Johann Nepomuk HUMPERDINCK,
Engelbert
IBERT,
Jacques
IPPOLITOF-IVANOF,
Michail Michailovitch IRELAND,
John
IVES,
Charles JACOB,
Gordon JANACEK,
Leos JOHNSON,
Robert
JONES,
Daniel Jenkyn JONGEN,
Joseph JOSEPHS,
Wilfred
JOSQUIN
des Prez JOUBERT,
John KABALEVSKY,
Dmitry KHACHATURI,AN
Aram
KNUSSEN,
Oliver
KODALY,
Zoltan
KOECHLIN,
Charles
KORNGOLD,
Erich Wolfgang KORTE,
Karl KRENEK,
Ernst KURTAG,
Gyorgy LALO,
Edouard LAMBERT,
Constant
LASSUS,
Orlando de LAWES,
William LECLAIR,
Jean-Marie LEHÁR,
Franz LEIGHTON,
Kenneth
LEONCAVALLO,
Ruggiero LIADOV,
Anatol LIGETI,
Gyorgy LISZT,
Franz (Ferencz) LITOLFF,
Henry Charles
LLOYD,
George LOCKE,
Matthew
LOEFFLER,
Charles LULLY,
Jean-Baptiste LUTOSLAWSKI,
Witold LUTYENS,
Elisabeth McCABE,
John MacDOWELL,
Edward Alexander MACHAUT,
Guillaume de MACONCHY,
Elizabeth MAHLER,
Gustav MALIPIERO,
Gian Francesco MARENZIO,
Luca MARTIN,
Frank MARTINU,
Bohuslav MASCAGNI,
Pietro MASSENET,
Jules MATHIAS,
William MAW,
Nicholas McCABE,
John MEALE,
Richard Graham MEDTNER,
Nikolay Karlovich MELLERS,
Wilfrid Howard MENDELSSOHN,
(-Bartholdy), Felix MENNIN,
Peter MENOTTI,
Gian-Carlo MESSAGER,
André Charles Prosper
MESSIAEN,
Oliver MEYERBEER,
Giacomo MIASKOVSKY,
Nikolai
MILHAUD,
Darius MOERAN,
Ernest John MONTEVERDI,
Claudio MOORE,
Douglas Stuart MORLEY,
Thomas MOSZKOWSKY,
Moritz MOZART,
Wolfgang Amadeus MULDOWNEY,
Dominic MUSGRAVE,
Thea MUSSORGSKY,
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