User:(RT)/Major composer lists

Details of reference lists for use with the template Timeline Classical Composers Famous.

  • It is suggested that the criteria used should be major composers and that the name of the timeline is changed to reflect this.
  • It is envisaged limiting the timeline to between 100 and 150 names as: (a) it is intended to be an brief overview; and (b) so that the graphic generated does not become too large.

Source selection

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  • Expert and published sources used.
  • The lists used are all selections of major composers - although the actual criteria may vary (eg 'top', notable, famous, influential, etc); lists used are not simply collections of composers' names.
  • Lists address all eras to be shown on the timeline - ie from the medieval period up to recent times.
  • Optimum list length should be about 100 or so names (as this is about the number of composers envisaged to be included in the timeline).
  • More suitable sources sought, noting that List of major opera composers used 10 relevant lists.

Sources

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Source # List # Reference Composers in list Comments
1 List 1 Sadie, Stanley; Latham, Alison, eds. (2001). The Cambridge Music Guide. Judith Nagley, Paul Griffiths. Cambridge University Press. pp. 5–9. ISBN 0521399424. 115
2 List 2 Staines, Joe (2001). The Rough Guide to Classical Music (Third ed.). London: Rough Guides Ltd. pp. v–vii. ISBN 1858287219. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help) 209 All the featured composers listed in the book's contents pages. The introduction states that it's a selective list of 'the most interesting composers'.
3 List 3a "Top Classical Composers - Top 50". All Music Guide. Retrieved 22 December 2009. 49
List 3b "Top Classical Composers - Top 200". All Music Guide. Retrieved 22 December 2009. 197
4 List 4 Lampson, Dave; McComb, Todd; et al. "Basic Repertoire - Quick Composer Reference". Classical Net. Retrieved 22 December 2009. {{cite web}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |first2= (help) Only those composers with starred repertoire, see also [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6] and [7]. 113
5 List 5 Dubal, David (2003). The Essential Canon of Classical Music (First paperback ed.). New York: North Point Press. pp. ix–xvi. ISBN 0865476640. 237 Book contents pages. From the Baroque era to 20th century, the author singles out a few major composers and then adds selected 'others'; this distinction is not used in the Medieval and Renaissance section. Both types are included here.
6 List 6 "287 Notable Composers". Classical Archives (Pierre R. Schwob). 1994–2009. Retrieved 2 January 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date format (link) 287 An editorial selection of 287 'notable' composers taken from the 4587 plus in the Classical Archive database. (Note: 283 with audio are shown unless list set to show 'All')
7 List 7 Chaffin, L W. "Review of Music History - Composers". LCS. Retrieved 2 January 2010. 149 List created in conjunction with academic summary of western music history. Main sources used are indicated [8]

Lists

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Composers appearing in one or more source lists: Dates
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Hildegard of Bingen 1098–1179
Léonin 1150–1201 (fl)
Pérotin 1160–1240
Philippe le Chancelier 1165–1236
Walther von der Vogelweide 1170–1230
Alfonso X of Castile 1221–1284
Adam de la Halle 1237–1288
Philippe de Vitry 1291–1361
Guillaume de Machaut 1300–1377
Francesco Landini 1325–1397
Johannes Ciconia 1370–1412
Oswald von Wolkenstein 1376–1445
John Dunstable 1390–1453
Guillaume Dufay 1397–1474
Gilles Binchois 1400–1460
Johannes Ockeghem 1425–1497
Antoine Busnois 1430–1492
Josquin Desprez 1440–1521
Loyset Compère 1445–1518
Alexander Agricola 1446–1506
Heinrich Isaac 1450–1517
Pierre de La Rue 1452–1518
Jacob Obrecht 1457–1505
Johannes Cornago 1455–1485
Antoine Brumel 1460–1512
William Cornysh 1465–1523
Marchetto Cara 1470–1525
Francisco de Peñalosa 1470–1528
Bartolomeo Tromboncino 1470–1535
Robert Carver 1485–1570
Clément Janequin 1485–1558
Philippe Verdelot 1485–1530
Ludwig Senfl 1486–1543
Claudin de Sermisy 1490–1562
John Taverner 1490–1545
Adrian Willaert 1490–1562
Nicolas Gombert 1495–1560
Luis de Milán 1500–1561
Cristóbal de Morales 1500–1553
Thomas Tallis 1505–1585
Christopher Tye 1505–1572
Jacques Arcadelt 1507–1568
Bálint Bakfark 1507–1576
Antonio de Cabezón 1510–1566
Jacob Clemens non Papa 1510–1555
Tielman Susato 1510–1570
John Sheppard 1515–1558
Cipriano de Rore 1516–1565
Claude Goudimel 1520–1572
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525–1594
Francisco Guerrero 1528–1599
William Mundy 1529–1591
Claude Le Jeune 1530–1600
Andrea Gabrieli 1532–1585 ♦*
Orlande de Lassus 1532-1594
Claudio Merulo 1533–1604
Cesare Negri 1535–1605
Hernando de Cabezón 1541–1602
William Byrd 1540–1623
Tomás Luis de Victoria 1548–1611
Eustache Du Caurroy 1549–1609
Giulio Caccini 1551–1618
Giovanni Gabrieli 1554–1612 ♦*
Alonso Lobo 1555–1617
Luca Marenzio 1555–1599
Thomas Morley 1557–1602
Peter Philips 1560–1628
Jacopo Peri 1561–1633
John Bull 1562–1628
Carlo Gesualdo 1566–1613
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck 1562–1621
John Dowland 1563–1626
Jehan Titelouze 1563–1633
Hans Leo Hassler 1564–1612
Manuel Cardoso 1566–1650
Alessandro Piccinini 1566–1638
Thomas Campion 1567–1620
Claudio Monteverdi 1567–1643
Adriano Banchieri 1568–1634
Salamone Rossi 1570–1630
Michael Praetorius 1571–1621
Thomas Weelkes 1576–1623
Gregorio Allegri 1582–1652
Girolamo Frescobaldi 1583–1643
Orlando Gibbons 1583–1625
Heinrich Schütz 1585–1672
Johann Schein 1586–1630
Samuel Scheidt 1587–1654
John Jenkins 1592–1678
Biagio Marini 1594–1663
Jacques Champion de Chambonnières 1601–1676
Francesco Cavalli 1602–1676
William Lawes 1602–1645
Giacomo Carissimi 1605–1674
Christopher Simpson 1606–1669
Maurizio Cazzati 1616–1678
Johann Jacob Froberger 1616–1667
Matthias Weckmann 1616–1674
Barbara Strozzi 1619–1677
Matthew Locke 1621–1677
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer 1623–1680
Louis Couperin 1626–1661
Giovanni Legrenzi 1626–1690
Jean-Henri d'Anglebert 1629–1691
Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632–1687
Dietrich Buxtehude 1637–1707
Alessandro Stradella 1639–1682
Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe 1640–1700
Marc-Antoine Charpentier 1643–1704
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber 1644–1704
John Blow 1649–1708
Petronio Franceschini 1651–1680
Johann Jacob Walther 1650–1704
Georg Muffat 1653–1704
Johann Pachelbel 1653–1706
Arcangelo Corelli 1653–1713
Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer 1656–1746
Marin Marais 1656–1728
Michel Richard Delalande 1657–1726
Giuseppe Torelli 1658–1709
Henry Purcell 1659–1695
Johann Joseph Fux 1660–1741
Johann Kuhnau 1660–1722
Alessandro Scarlatti 1660–1725
Antonio Lotti 1667–1740
Johann Christoph Pepusch 1667–1752
François Couperin 1668–1733
Alessandro Marcello 1669–1747
Tomaso Albinoni 1671–1751
Nicolas de Grigny 1672–1703
Antonio Vivaldi 1678–1741
Jan Dismas Zelenka 1679–1745
Jean-Baptiste Loeillet of London 1680–1730
Georg Philipp Telemann 1681–1767
Johann David Heinichen 1683–1729
Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683–1764
Francesco Manfredini 1684–1762
Johann Sebastian Bach 1685–1750
George Frideric Handel 1685–1759
Domenico Scarlatti 1685–1757
Benedetto Marcello 1686–1739
Francesco Geminiani 1687–1762
Sylvius Leopold Weiss 1687–1750
Johann Friedrich Fasch 1688–1758
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier 1689–1755
Giuseppe Tartini 1692–1770
Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer 1692–1766
Johan Helmich Roman 1694–1758
Pietro Locatelli 1695–1764
Jean-Marie Leclair 1697–1764
Johann Joachim Quantz 1697–1773
Johann Adolf Hasse 1699–1783
Giovanni Battista Sammartini 1700–1775
Carlos Seixas 1704–1742
Baldassare Galuppi 1706–1785
Michel Corrette 1707–1795
Pietro Domenico Paradisi 1707–1791
Charles Avison 1709–1770
Thomas Arne 1710–1778
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach 1710–1784
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi 1710–1736
William Boyce 1711–1779
John Hebden 1712–1765
John Stanley 1712–1786
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714–1788
Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714–1787
Johann Stamitz 1717–1757
Pietro Nardini 1722–1793
Carl Friedrich Abel 1723–1787
Johann Gottlieb Goldberg 1727–1756
Antonio Soler 1729–1783
Joseph Haydn 1732–1809
Johann Christian Bach 1735–1782
Johann Schobert 1735–1767
Johann Georg Albrechtsberger 1736–1809
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf 1739–1799
Luigi Boccherini 1743–1805
Carl Stamitz 1745–1801
William Billings 1746–1800
Christian Gottlob Neefe 1748–1798
Domenico Cimarosa 1749–1801
Antonio Salieri 1750–1825
Muzio Clementi 1752–1832
Giovanni Battista Viotti 1755–1824
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791
François Devienne 1759–1803
Franz Krommer 1759–1831
Luigi Cherubini 1760–1842
Jan Ladislav Dussek 1760–1812
Franz Danzi 1763–1826
Franz Xaver Süssmayr 1766–1803
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1827
Ferdinando Carulli 1770–1841
Anton Reicha 1770–1836
François-Adrien Boieldieu 1775–1834
Bernhard Crusell 1775–1838
ETA Hoffman 1776–1822
Johann Nepomuk Hummel 1778–1837
Fernando Sor 1778–1839
Anton Diabelli 1781–1858
Mauro Giuliani 1781–1829
Daniel Auber 1782–1871
John Field 1782–1837
Niccolò Paganini 1782–1840
Louis Spohr 1784–1859
Friedrich Kuhlau 1786–1832
Carl Maria von Weber 1786–1826
Carl Czerny 1791–1857
Giacomo Meyerbeer 1791–1864
Jan Václav Voříšek 1791–1825
Gioachino Rossini 1792–1868
Ignaz Moscheles 1794–1870
Saverio Mercadante 1795–1870
Franz Berwald 1796–1868
Franz Schubert 1797–1828 *
Gaetano Donizetti 1797–1848
Vincenzo Bellini 1801–1835
Albert Lortzing 1801–1851
Adolphe Adam 1803–1856
Hector Berlioz 1803–1869
Mikhail Glinka 1804–1857
Johann Strauss I 1804–1849
Felix Mendelssohn 1809–1847
Frédéric Chopin 1810–1849
Ferenc Erkel 1810–1893
Otto Nicolai 1810–1849
Robert Schumann 1810–1856
Franz Liszt 1811–1886
Ambroise Thomas 1811–1896
Charles-Valentin Alkan 1813–1888
Giuseppe Verdi 1813–1901
Richard Wagner 1813–1883
Niels Gade 1817–1890
Charles Gounod 1818–1893
Jacques Offenbach 1819–1880
Clara Schumann 1819–1896
Franz von Suppé 1819–1895
César Franck 1822–1890
Édouard Lalo 1823–1892
Anton Bruckner 1824–1896
Bedřich Smetana 1824–1884
Johann Strauss II 1825–1899 ♦*
Louis Moreau Gottschalk 1829–1869
Anton Rubenstein 1829–1894
Karl Goldmark 1830–1915
Alexander Borodin 1833–1887
Johannes Brahms 1833–1897
Amilcare Ponchielli 1834–1886
César Cui 1835–1918
Camille Saint-Saëns 1835–1921
Henryk Wieniawski 1835–1880
Léo Delibes 1836–1891
Mily Balakirev 1837–1910
Georges Bizet 1838–1875
Max Bruch 1838–1920
Modest Mussorgsky 1839–1881
John Knowles Paine 1839–1906
Hermann Goetz 1840–1876
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840–1893
Emmanuel Chabrier 1841–1894
Antonín Dvořák 1841–1904
Arrigo Boito 1842–1918
Jules Massenet 1842–1912
Arthur Sullivan 1842–1900
Edvard Grieg 1843–1907
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 1844–1908
Pablo de Sarasate 1844–1908
Charles-Marie Widor 1844–1937
Gabriel Fauré 1845–1924
Henri Duparc 1848–1933
Hubert Parry 1848–1918
Vincent d'Indy 1851–1931
Engelbert Humperdinck 1854–1921
Leoš Janáček 1854–1928
Moritz Moszkowski 1854–1925
John Philip Sousa 1854–1932
Ernest Chausson 1855–1899
Anatoly Lyadov 1855–1914
Edward Elgar 1857–1934
Ruggero Leoncavallo 1857–1919
Giacomo Puccini 1858–1924
Ethel Smyth 1858–1944
Eugène Ysaÿe 1858–1931
Victor Herbert 1859–1924
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov 1859–1935
Isaac Albéniz 1860–1909
Gustave Charpentier 1860–1956
Edward MacDowell 1860–1908
Gustav Mahler 1860–1911
Ignacy Jan Paderewski 1860–1941
Hugo Wolf 1860–1903
Anton Arensky 1861–1906
Charles Martin Loeffler 1861–1935
Claude Debussy 1862–1918
Frederick Delius 1862–1934
Pietro Mascagni 1863–1945
Richard Strauss 1864–1949
Paul Dukas 1865–1935
Alexander Glazunov 1865–1936
Carl Nielsen 1865–1931
Jean Sibelius 1865–1957
Ferruccio Busoni 1866–1924
Francesco Cilea 1866–1950
Erik Satie 1866–1925
Amy Beach 1867–1944
Umberto Giordano 1867–1948
Enrique Granados 1867–1916
Scott Joplin 1868–1917
Hans Pfitzner 1869–1949
Albert Roussel 1869–1937
Komitas Vardapet 1869–1935
Franz Lehár 1870–1948
Charles Tournemire 1870–1939
Alexander Zemlinsky 1871–1942
Alexander Scriabin 1872–1915
Ralph Vaughan Williams 1872–1958
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873–1943
Max Reger 1873–1916
Gustav Holst 1874–1934
Charles Ives 1874–1954
Franz Schmidt 1874–1939
Arnold Schoenberg 1874–1951
Josef Suk 1874–1935
Reinhold Glière 1875–1956
Fritz Kreisler 1875–1962
Maurice Ravel 1875–1937
Havergal Brian 1876–1972
John Alden Carpenter 1876–1951
Manuel de Falla 1876–1946
Carl Ruggles 1876–1971
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari 1876–1948
Ernst von Dohnányi 1877–1960
Franz Schreker 1878–1934
Frank Bridge 1879–1941
Joseph Canteloube 1879–1957
Ottorino Respighi 1879–1936
Ernest Bloch 1880–1959
Nikolai Medtner 1880–1951
Béla Bartók 1881–1945
George Enescu 1881–1955
Percy Grainger 1882–1961
Zoltán Kodály 1882–1967
Manuel Ponce 1882–1948
Igor Stravinsky 1882–1971
Karol Szymanowski 1882–1937
Joaquín Turina 1882–1949
Arnold Bax 1883–1953
Alfredo Casella 1883–1947
Edgard Varèse 1883–1965
Anton Webern 1883–1945
Charles Griffes 1884–1920
Agustín Barrios 1885–1944
Alban Berg 1885–1935
George Butterworth 1885–1916
Wallingford Riegger 1885–1961
Marcel Dupré 1886–1971
Nadia Boulanger 1887–1979
Heitor Villa-Lobos 1887–1959
Frank Martin 1890–1974
Jacques Ibert 1890–1962
Bohuslav Martinů 1890–1959
Sergei Prokofiev 1891–1953
Ferde Grofé 1892–1972
Arthur Honegger 1892–1955
Herbert Howells 1892–1983
Darius Milhaud 1892–1974
Lili Boulanger 1893–1918
Federico Mompou 1893–1987
Douglas Moore 1893–1969
Walter Piston 1894–1976
Peter Warlock 1894–1930
Paul Hindemith 1895–1963
Carl Orff 1895–1982
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco 1895–1968
Roberto Gerhard 1896–1970
Howard Hanson 1896–1981
Roger Sessions 1896–1985
Virgil Thomson 1896–1989
Henry Cowell 1897–1965
Erich Wolfgang Korngold 1897–1957
Hanns Eisler 1898–1962
George Gershwin 1898–1937
Roy Harris 1898–1979
Viktor Ullmann 1898–1944
Georges Auric 1899–1983
Carlos Chávez 1899–1978
Francis Poulenc 1899–1963
Silvestre Revueltas 1899–1940
Randall Thompson 1899–1984
George Antheil 1900–1959
Aaron Copeland 1900–1990
Ernst Krenek 1900–1991
Kurt Weill 1900–1950
Gerald Finzi 1901–1956
Harry Partch 1901–1974
Joaquín Rodrigo 1901–1999
Edmund Rubbra 1901–1986
Ruth Crawford Seeger 1901–1953
Maurice Duruflé 1902–1986
William Walton 1902–1983
Stefan Wolpe 1902–1972
Aram Khachaturian 1903–1978
Luigi Dallapiccola 1904–1975
Dmitri Kabalevsky 1904–1987
Karl Amadeus Hartmann 1905–1963
André Jolivet 1905–1974
Giacinto Scelsi 1905–1988
Michael Tippett 1905–1998
Eduard Tubin 1905–1982
Elisabeth Lutyens 1906–1983
Dmitri Shostakovich 1906–1975
Wolfgang Fortner 1907–1987
Elizabeth Maconchy 1907–1994
Elliott Carter 1908–2012
Olivier Messiaen 1908–1992
Grażyna Bacewicz 1909–1969
Samuel Barber 1910–1981
William Schuman 1910–1992
Alan Hovhaness 1911–2000
Gian Carlo Menotti 1911–2007
John Cage 1912–1992
Conlon Nancarrow 1912–1997
Benjamin Britten 1913–1976
Norman Dello Joio 1913–2008
Morton Gould 1913–1996
Witold Lutosławski 1913–1994
George Perle 1915–2009
Vincent Persichetti 1915–1987
Milton Babbitt 1916–2011
Henri Dutilleux 1916–2013
Alberto Ginastera 1916–1983
Lou Harrison 1917–2003
Leonard Bernstein 1918–1990
Malcolm Arnold 1921–2006
Karel Husa 1921–
Joonas Kokkonen 1921–1996
Astor Piazzolla 1921–1992
Robert Simpson 1921–1997
Lukas Foss 1922–2009
Iannis Xenakis 1922–2001
György Ligeti 1923–2006
Ned Rorem 1923–
Luigi Nono 1924–1990
Luciano Berio 1925–2003
Pierre Boulez 1925–
Gunther Schuller 1925–
Morton Feldman 1926–1987
Hans Werner Henze 1926–2012
György Kurtág 1926–
Dominick Argento 1927–
Jean Barraqué 1928–1973
Einojuhani Rautavaara 1928–
Karlheinz Stockhausen 1928–2007
George Crumb 1929–
Edison Denisov 1929–1996
Tōru Takemitsu 1930–1996
Sofia Gubaidulina 1931–
Rodion Shchedrin 1932–
John Williams 1932–
Henryk Górecki 1933–2010
Krzysztof Penderecki 1933–
Morton Subotnick 1933–
Harrison Birtwistle 1934–
Peter Maxwell Davies 1934–
Roger Reynolds 1934–
Alfred Schnittke 1934–1998
Nicholas Maw 1935–2009
Arvo Pärt 1935–
Terry Riley 1935–
Aulis Sallinen 1935–
Steve Reich 1936–
Philip Glass 1937–
William Bolcom 1938–
John Corigliano 1938–
Charles Wuorinen 1938–
Louis Andriessen 1939–
Jonathan Harvey 1939–2012
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich 1939–
Gavin Bryars 1943–
Brian Ferneyhough 1943–
Michael Nyman 1944–
John Tavener 1944–2013
John Adams 1947–
Poul Ruders 1949–
Wolfgang Rihm 1952–
Kaija Saariaho 1952–
Judith Weir 1954–
Tan Dun 1957–
Magnus Lindberg 1958–
James MacMillan 1959–
George Benjamin 1960–
Aaron Jay Kernis 1960–
Mark-Anthony Turnage 1960–
Michael Torke 1961–
Thomas Adès 1971–