Organ Composers

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Following is a list of selected composers of works for classical organ solo.


Pre-Baroque era organ composers (born before 1550)

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Composer Dates Nationality
Elias Ammerbach 1530c-1597 Germany
Antonio de Cabezón 1510c-1566 Spain
Jakob Hassler 1569-1622 Germany
Conrad Paumann 1410c-1473 Germany
Arnolt Schlick 1455c-1521c Germany
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Classical era organ composers (born 1700–1770)

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Composer Dates Nationality
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714-1788 Germany
Johann Ludwig Krebs 1713-1780 Germany
Justin Heinrich Knecht 1752-1817 Germany
Christian Heinrich Rinck 1770-1846 Germany
Johann Kirnberger 1721-1783 Germany
Claude Balbastre 1724-1799 France
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Romantic era organ composers (born 1770–1870)

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Composer Dates Nationality
César Franck 1822-1890 France
C. Hubert H. Parry 1848-1918 England
Simon Sechter 1788-1867 Germany
Léon Boëllmann 1862-1897 France
Felix Mendelssohn 1809-1847 Germany
Théodore Dubois 1837-1942 France
Eugène Gigout 1844-1925 France
Alexandre Guilmant 1837-1911 France
Charles Tournemire 1870-1939 France
Louis Vierne 1870-1937 France
Charles-Marie Widor 1844-1937 France
Josef Rheinberger 1839-1901 Germany
August Gottfried Ritter 1811-1885 Germany
Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens 1823-1881 France
Julius Reubke 1834-1858 Germany
Johannes Brahms 1833-1897 Germany
Sigfrid Karg-Elert 1877-1933 Germany
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Twentieth-century and contemporary organ composers (born since 1870)

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Composer Dates Nationality
Louis Vierne 1870-1937 France
Marcel Dupré 1886-1971 France
Max Reger 1873-1916 Germany
Hermann Schroeder 1904-1984 Germany
Jehan Alain 1911-1940 France
Flor Peeters 1903-1986 Belgium
Jean Langlais 1907-1991 France
Marcel Dupré 1886-1971 France
Maurice Duruflé 1902-1986 France
Herbert Howells 1892-1983 England
Gerald Near 1942- United States
Olivier Messiaen 1908-1992 France
Ernst Bloch 1880-1959 United States
Wayne L. Wold 1954- United States
Hugo Distler 1908-1942 Germany
Ernst Pepping 1901-1981 Germany
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