Organ Composers
From Organ Playing Wiki
Following is a list of selected composers of works for classical organ solo.
Pre-Baroque era organ composers (born before 1550)
| Composer | Dates | Nationality
|
Conrad Paumann | 1410c-1473 | Germany |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arnolt Schlick | 1455c-1521c | Germany | |||
| Antonio de Cabezón | 1510c-1566 | Spain | |||
| Elias Ammerbach | 1530c-1597 | Germany | |||
| Jakob Hassler | 1569-1622 | Germany | |||
| new pre-Baroque composer | 15xx-15xx | country |
Baroque era organ composers (born 1550–1700)
| Composer | Dates | Nationality |
|---|---|---|
| Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck | 1562-1621 | The Neatherlands |
| Jean Titelouze | 1562-1633 | France |
| Girolamo Frescobaldi | 1583-1643 | Italy |
| Samuel Scheidt | 1587-1654 | Germany |
| Heinrich Scheidemann | 1595-1663 | Germany |
| Andreas Düben | 1597-1662 | Germany |
| Pablo Bruna | 1611-1679 | Spain |
| Johann Jakob Froberger | 1616-1667 | Germany |
| Matthias Weckmann | 1616-1674 | Germany |
| Jean-Henri d'Anglebert | 1629-1691 | France |
| Nicolas-Antoine Lebègue | 1631-1702 | France |
| Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers | 1632-1714 | France |
| Dieterich Buxtehude | 1637-1707 | Germany |
| André Raison | 1640-1719 | France |
| Juan Cabanilles | 1644-1712 | Spain |
| Georg Muffat | 1653-1704 | Germany |
| Johann Pachelbel | 1653-1706 | Germany |
| Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer | 1656-1746 | Germany |
| Georg Böhm | 1661-1733 | Germany |
| Nicolaus Bruhns | 1665-1697 | Germany |
| Johann Heinrich Buttstett | 1666-1727 | Germany |
| François Couperin | 1668-1733 | France |
| Nicolas de Grigny | 1671-1703 | France |
| Jeremiah Clarke | 1674-1707 | England |
| Louis-Nicolas Clérambault | 1676-1749 | France |
| Johann Gottfried Walther | 1684-1748 | Germany |
| Johann Sebastian Bach | 1685-1750 | Germany |
| Georg Frederic Handel | 1685-1759 | Germany |
| Louis-Claude d'Aquin | 1694-1772 | France |
| new Baroque composer | 16xx-17xx | country |
Classical era organ composers (born 1700–1770)
| Composer | Dates | Nationality |
|---|---|---|
| Wilhelm Friedemann Bach | 1710-1784 | Germany |
| Johann Ludwig Krebs | 1713-1780 | Germany |
| Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach | 1714-1788 | Germany |
| Johann Kirnberger | 1721-1783 | Germany |
| Claude Balbastre | 1724-1799 | France |
| Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach | 1732-1795 | Germany |
| Johann Christian Kittel | 1732-1809 | Germany |
| Franz Joseph Haydn | 1732-1809 | Germany |
| Johann Christian Bach | 1735-1783 | Germany |
| Abbe Georg Joseph Vogler | 1749-1814 | Germany |
| Justin Heinrich Knecht | 1752-1817 | Germany |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 1756-1791 | Germany |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | 1770-1827 | Germany |
| Christian Heinrich Rinck | 1770-1846 | Germany |
| new Classical composer | 17xx-18xx | country |
Romantic era organ composers (born 1770–1870)
| Composer | Dates | Nationality |
|---|---|---|
| Samuel Wesley | 1766-1837 | England |
| Alexandre Pierre Francois Boёly | 1785-1858 | France |
| Simon Sechter | 1788-1867 | Germany |
| Felix Mendelssohn | 1809-1847 | Germany |
| Samuel Sebastian Wesley | 1810-1876 | England |
| August Gottfried Ritter | 1811-1885 | Germany |
| Franz Liszt | 1811-1886 | Germany |
| Thomas Attwood Walmisley | 1814-1856 | England |
| Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wely | 1817-1869 | France |
| César Franck | 1822-1890 | France |
| Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens | 1823-1881 | France |
| Josef Anton Bruckner | 1824-1896 | Germany |
| William Thomas Best | 1826-1897 | England |
| Gustav Adolph Merkel | 1827-1885 | Germany |
| Johannes Brahms | 1833-1897 | Germany |
| Julius Reubke | 1834-1858 | Germany |
| Camille Saint-Saéns | 1835-1921 | France |
| Alexandre Guilmant | 1837-1911 | France |
| Théodore Dubois | 1837-1942 | France |
| Josef Rheinberger | 1839-1901 | Germany |
| Eugène Gigout | 1844-1925 | France |
| Charles-Marie Widor | 1844-1937 | France |
| C. Hubert H. Parry | 1848-1918 | England |
| Charles Villiers Stanford | 1852-1924 | England |
| Edward Elgar | 1857-1934 | England |
| Basil Harwood | 1859-1949 | England |
| Léon Boëllmann | 1862-1897 | France |
| Gabriel Pierné | 1863-1937 | France |
| Charles Wood | 1866-1926 | England |
| Louis Vierne | 1870-1937 | France |
| Charles Tournemire | 1870-1939 | France |
| Franz Schmidt | 1874-1939 | Germany |
| Sigfrid Karg-Elert | 1877-1933 | Germany |
| Henri Mulet | 1878-1967 | France |
| Joseph-Ermend Bonnal | 1880-1994 | France |
| Joseph Bonnet | 1884-1944 | France |
| new Romantic composer | 18xx-19xx | country
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Twentieth-century and contemporary organ composers (born since 1870)
| Composer | Dates | Nationality |
|---|---|---|
| Louis Vierne | 1870-1937 | France |
| Max Reger | 1873-1916 | Germany |
| Ernest Bloch | 1880-1959 | United States |
| Marcel Dupré | 1886-1971 | France |
| Herbert Howells | 1892-1983 | England |
| Ernst Pepping | 1901-1981 | Germany |
| Maurice Duruflé | 1902-1986 | France |
| Flor Peeters | 1903-1986 | Belgium |
| Hermann Schroeder | 1904-1984 | Germany |
| Jean Langlais | 1907-1991 | France |
| Hugo Distler | 1908-1942 | Germany |
| Olivier Messiaen | 1908-1992 | France |
| Jehan Alain | 1911-1940 | France |
| Joseph Willcox Jenkins | 1928-2014 | country |
| Gerald Near | 1942- | United States |
| Wayne L. Wold | 1954- | United States |
| Chelsea Chen | 1983- | United States |
| new twentieth-century composer | 19xx-20xx | country |
