Organ Literature 2 Composer List

Following is a list of selected composers for the BYU Organ Literature 2 course.

Germany after Bach: 1725–1800

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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
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

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Composer	Dates	Nationality
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

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Composer	Dates	Nationality
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]

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Composer	Dates	Nationality
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)

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Composer	Dates	Nationality
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

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Composer	Dates	Nationality
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

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Composer	Dates	Nationality
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

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Composer	Dates	Nationality
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

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Composer	Dates	Nationality
Lynwood Farnam	1885-1930	Canada
Healey Willan	1880-1968	Canada
Frederick Karam	1926-1978	Canada

Denmark since 1550

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Composer	Dates	Nationality
Melchior Schildt	1592-1667	Denmark
Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann	1805-1900	Denmark
Niels Wilhelm Gade	1817-1890	Denmark
Carl August Nielsen	1865-1931	Denmark

Switzerland

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Composer	Dates	Nationality
Otto Barblan	1860-1943	Switzerland
Willy Burkhard	1900-1955	Switzerland
Frank Martin	1890-1974	Switzerland
Paul Müller-Zürich	1898-1993	Switzerland
new contemporary composer (copy this, don't type over it)	19xx-19xx	country

Hungary

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Composer	Dates	Nationality
Zoltán Kodály	1882-1967	Hungary

Serbia

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Composer	Dates	Nationality
Josip Slavenski	1896-1955	Serbia