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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
N-Z COMPOSER INDEX
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NICOLAI,
Carl Otto
NIELSEN,
Carl
NILSSON,
Bo
NONO,
Luigi
NOVAK,
Vitezslav
OFFENBACH,
Jacques
OLIVER,
Stephen
ORFF,
Carl
PACHELBEL,
Johann
PADEREWSKI,
Ignace Jan
PAGANINI,
Niccolo
PAISIELLO,
Giovanni
PALESTRINA,
Giovanni Pierluigi da
PANUFNIK,
Andrzej
PARKER,
Horatio
PARRY,
Charles Hubert Hastings (Sir)
PATTERSON,
Paul
PENDERECKI,
Krzysztof
PERGOLESI,
Giovanni Battista
PETTERSSON,
Gustaf Allan
PIERNÉ,
Henri Constant Gabriel
PISTON,
Walter
PIZZETTI,
Ildebrando
PONCE,
Manuel
PONCHIELLI,
Amilcare
PORPORA,
Niccolo Antonio
POULENC,
Francis
PRAETORIUS,
Michael
PREVIN,
Andre
PROKOFIEV,
Sergei
PUCCINI,
Giacomo
PUJOL,
Juan Pablo
PURCELL,
Henry
QUILTER,
Roger
RACHMANINOV,
Sergei
RAFF,
Joachim
RAINIER,
Priaulx
RAMEAU,
Jean-Philippe
RAVEL,
Maurice
RAWSTHORNE,
Alan
REGER
Max
REICH,
Steve Michael
RESPIGHI,
Ottorino
RIEGGER,
Wallingford
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV,
Nicolai
ROBERTSON,
Leroy
ROCHBERG,
George
RODRIGO,
Joaquin
ROGERS,
Bernard
ROPARTZ,
Joseph Guy
ROSSINI,
Gioacchino Antonio
ROUSSEL,
Albert
RUBBRA,
Edmund
RUBINSTEIN,
Anton
RUGGLES,
Carl Sprague
SAINT-SAËNS,
Camille
SALLINEN,
Aulis
SAMMARTINI,
Giuseppe
SARASATE,
Pablo de
SATIE,
Eri k
SCARLATTI,
Alessandro
SCARLATTI,
Domenico
SCHEIDT,
Samuel
SCHMIDT,
Franz
SCHMITT,
Florent
SCHNITTKE,
Alfred
SCHOECK,
Othmar
SCHOENBERG,
Arnold
SCHREKER,
Franz
SCHUBERT,
Franz
SCHULLER,
Gunther
SCHUMAN,
William
SCHUMANN,
Robert
SCHUTZ,
Heinrich
SCOTT,
Cyril Meir
SEIBER,
Matyas
SESSIONS,
Roger
SHAPERO,
Harold
SHAPEY,
Ralph
SHCHEDRIN,
Rodion Konstantinovich
SHOSTAKOVICH,
Dmitri
SIBELIUS,
Jean
SIEGMEISTER,
Elie
SIMPSON,
Robert
SINDING,
Christian August
SKALKOTTAS,
Nickolaos
SKRIABIN,
Alexander
SMETANA,
Bedrich
SMYTH,
(Dame) Ethel
SOR,
Fernando
SOWERBY,
Leo
SPOHR,
Ludwig (Louis)
SPONTINI,
Gasparo
STAINER,
(Sir) John
STAMITZ,
Johann
STAMITZ,
Karl
STANFORD,
(Sir) Charles Villiers
STILL,
Robert
STOCKHAUSEN,
Karlheinz
STRAUSS,
Johann (II)
STRAUSS,
Richard
STRAVINSKY,
Igor
SUK,
Josef
SULLIVAN,
(Sir) Arthur
SUPPÉ,
Franz von
SWEELINCK,
Jan
SZYMANOWSKI,
Karol
TAKEMITSU,
Toru
TALLIS,
Thomas
TANSMAN,
Alexandre
TARREGA,
Francisco
TARTINI,
Giuseppe
TAVENER,
John
TAYLOR,
Deems
TCHAIKOVSKY,
Peter Ilych
TELEMANN,
Georg Philipp
THEODORAKIS,
Mikis
THOMAS,
Ambroise
THOMPSON,
Randall
THOMSON,
Virgil
TIPPETT,
(Sir) Michael
TOCH,
Ernst
TOMKINS,
Thomas
TORELLI,
Giuseppe
TURINA,
Joaquin
VARESE,
Edgard
VAUGHAN
WILLIAMS, Ralph
VERDI,
Giuseppe
VICTORIA
(Vittoria), Tomas Luis de
VIEUXTEMPS,
Henry
VILLA-LOBOS,
Heitor
VIVALDI,
Antonio Lucio
WAGNER,
Richard
WALTON,
(Sir) William
WARLOCK,
Peter (Philip Heseltine)
WEBER,
Carl Maria von
WEBERN,
Anton von
WEELKES,
Thomas
WEILL,
Kurt
WEINBERGER,
Jaromir
WELLESZ,
Egon
WIDOR,
Charles-Marie-Jean-Albert
WIENIAWSKI,
Henryk
WILBYE,
John
WILLIAMSON,
Malcolm
WOLF,
Hugo
WOLF-FERRARI,
Ermanno
WOOD,
Hugh
XENAKIS,
Iannis
ZELENKA,
Jan Dismas
ZEMLINSKY,
Alexander von
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