Organ Literature 2 Composer List
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Following is a list of selected composers for the BYU Organ Literature 2 course.
Germany after Bach: 1725–1800
Composer | Dates | Nationality |
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Wilhelm Friedemann Bach | 1710-1784 | Germany |
Johann Ludwig Krebs | 1713-1780 | Germany |
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach | 1714-1788 | Germany |
Johann Kirnberger | 1721-1783 | Germany |
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 |
Abbé Georg Joseph Vogler | 1749-1814 | Germany |
Justin Heinrich Knecht | 1752-1817 | Germany |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 1756-1791 | Germany |
Ludwig van Beethoven | 1770-1827 | Germany |
new Classical composer | 17xx-18xx | country |
Germany 1800-1900
Composer | Dates | Nationality |
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Johann Christian Hienrich Rinck | 1770-1846 | Germany |
Adolphe Hesse | 1809-1847 | Germany |
Felix Mendelssohn | 1809-1847 | Germany |
Robert Schumann | 1810-1856 | Germany |
August Gottfried Ritter | 1811-1885 | Germany |
Franz Liszt | 1811-1886 | Germany |
Josef Anton Bruckner | 1824-1896 | Germany |
Gustav Adolph Merkel | 1827-1885 | Germany |
Johannes Brahms | 1833-1897 | Germany |
Julius Reubke | 1834-1858 | Germany |
Josef Rheinberger | 1839-1901 | Germany |
new Romantic composer | 18xx-19xx | country |
England 1800-1900
Composer | Dates | Nationality |
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Samuel Wesley | 1766-1837 | England |
Samuel Sebastian Wesley | 1810-1876 | England |
Thomas Attwood Walmisley | 1814-1856 | England |
William Thomas Best | 1826-1897 | England |
C Hubert H Parry | 1848-1918 | England |
Charles Villiers Stanford | 1852-1924 | England |
Edward Elgar | 1857-1934 | England |
Basil Harwood | 1859-1949 | England |
Charles Wood | 1866-1926 | England |
new Romantic composer | 18xx-19xx | country |
France 1800-1900 [begin editing from here]
Composer | Dates | Nationality |
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Claude Balbastre | 1724-1799 | France |
Alexandre Pierre Francois Boёly | 1785-1858 | France |
Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wely | 1817-1869 | France |
Antoine-Edouard Batiste | 1820-1876 | France |
César-Auguste Franck | 1822-1890 | France |
Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens | 1823-1881 | France |
Camille Saint-Saéns | 1835-1921 | France |
Félix Alexandre Guilmant | 1837-1911 | France |
Théodore Dubois | 1837-1942 | France |
Eugène Gigout | 1844-1925 | France |
Charles-Marie Widor | 1844-1937 | France |
Léon Boëllmann | 1862-1897 | France |
Gabriel Pierné | 1863-1937 | France |
Louis Vierne | 1870-1937 | France |
Charles Tournemire | 1870-1939 | France |
Jean (Jules Aimable) Roger-Ducasse | 1873-1954 | France |
Henri Mulet | 1878-1967 | France |
Joseph-Ermend Bonnal | 1880-1944 | France |
Joseph Bonnet | 1884-1944 | France |
new Romantic composer | 18xx-19xx | country |
Twentieth-century and contemporary organ composers (born since 1870)
Composer | Dates | Nationality |
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Louis Vierne | 1870-1937 | France |
Georges Jacob | 1877-1950 | France |
Ernst Bloch | 1880-1959 | United States |
Marcel Dupré | 1886-1971 | France |
Arthur Honegger | 1892-1955 | France |
(Dom) Paul Benoit | 1893-1979 | France |
Francis Poulenc | 1899-1963 | France |
Maurice Duruflé | 1902-1986 | France |
Flor Peeters | 1903-1986 | Belgium |
Jean Langlais | 1907-1991 | France |
Olivier Messiaen | 1908-1992 | France |
Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur | 1908-2002 | 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 |
Joseph Jongen | 1873-1953 | Belgium |
new contemporary composer (copy this, don't type over it) | 19xx-19xx | country |
Germany and Austria since 1900
Composer | Dates | Nationality |
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Franz Schmidt | 1874-1939 | Germany |
Sigfrid Karg-Elert | 1877-1933 | Germany |
(Johann Baptist Joseph) Maximilian Reger | 1873-1916 | Germany |
Armin Knab | 1881-1951 | Germany |
Karl Hasse | 1883-1961 | Germany |
Heinrich Kaminski | 1886-1946 | Germany |
Paul Hindemith | 1895-1963 | Germany |
Johann Nepomuk David | 1895-1977 | Austria |
Ernst Krenek | 1900-1991 | Germany |
Ernst Pepping | 1901-1981 | Germany |
Hans Friedrich Micheelsen | 1902-1973 | Germany |
Hermann Schroeder | 1904-1984 | Germany |
Joseph Ahrens | 1904-1997 | Germany |
Helmut Bornefeld | 1906-1990 | Germany |
Helmut Walcha | 1907-1991 | Germany |
Hugo Distler | 1908-1942 | Germany |
Siegfried Reda | 1916-1968 | Germany |
Anton Heiller | 1923-1979 | Germany |
new contemporary composer (copy this, don't type over it) | 19xx-19xx | country |
Great Britain since 1900
Composer | Dates | Nationality |
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Sir Walford Davies | 1869-1941 | England |
Geoffrey Shaw | 1879-1943 | England |
Ralph Vaughan Williams | 1872-1958 | England |
Martin Shaw | 1875-1958 | England |
George Oldroyd | 1887-1956 | England |
Herbert Howells | 1892-1983 | England |
Percy Whitlock | 1903-1946 | England |
Herbert Murrill | 1909-1952 | England |
Harold Darke | 1888-1976 | England |
Gordon Jacob | 1892-1983 | England |
Peter Racine Fricker | 1920-1990 | England |
Kenneth Leighton | 1929-1988 | England |
William Mathias | 1934-1992 | Wales |
Alun Hoddinott | 1929-2008 | England |
Bryan Kelly | 1934 | England |
Simon Preston | 1938 | England |
John McCabe | 1939 | Enlgand |
new contemporary composer (copy this, don't type over it) | 19xx-19xx | country |
Belgium since 1900
Composer | Dates | Nationality |
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Joseph Jongen | 1873-1953 | Belgium |
Paul de Maleingreau | 1887-1956 | Belgium |
Guy Weitz | 1883-1970 | Belgium |
Flor Peters | 1903-1986 | Belgium |
new contemporary composer (copy this, don't type over it) | 19xx-19xx | country |
Canada since 1900
Composer | Dates | Nationality |
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Lynwood Farnam | 1885-1930 | Canada |
Healey Willan | 1880-1968 | Canada |
Frederick Karam | 1926-1978 | Canada |
Denmark since 1550
Composer | Dates | Nationality |
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Melchior Schildt | 1592-1667 | Denmark |
Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann | 1805-1900 | Denmark |
Niels Wilhelm Gade | 1817-1890 | Denmark |
Carl August Nielsen | 1865-1931 | Denmark |