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 |
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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 |
Baroque era organ composers (born 1550–1700)
Composer | Dates | Nationality |
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Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck | 1562-1621 | The Neatherlands |
Andreas Düben | 1597-1662 | Germany |
Samuel Scheidt | 1587-1654 | Germany |
Pablo Bruna | 1611-1679 | Spain |
Juan Cabanilles | 1644-1712 | Spain |
Girolamo Frescobaldi | 1583-1643 | Italy |
Jean Titelouze | 1562-1633 | France |
Matthias Weckmann | 1616-1674 | Germany |
Heinrich Scheidemann | 1595-1663 | Germany |
Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer | 1656-1746 | Germany |
Georg Muffat | 1653-1704 | Germany |
Johann Pachelbel | 1653-1706 | Germany |
Johann Jakob Froberger | 1616-1667 | Germany |
Nicolas-Antoine Lebègue | 1631-1702 | France |
Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers | 1632-1714 | France |
Johann Heinrich Buttstett | 1666-1727 | Germany |
Georg Böhm | 1661-1733 | Germany |
André Raison | 1640-1719 | France |
Johann Sebastian Bach | 1685-1750 | Germany |
François Couperin | 1668-1733 | France |
Dieterich Buxtehude | 1637-1707 | Germany |
Nicolaus Bruhns | 1665-1697 | Germany |
Classical era organ composers (born 1700–1770)
Composer | Dates | Nationality |
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach | 1714-1788 | Germany |
Johann Ludwig Krebs | 1713-1780 | Germany |
Johann Kirnberger | 1721-1783 | Germany |
Claude Balbastre | 1724-1799 | France |
Romantic era organ composers (born 1770–1870)
Composer | Dates | Nationality |
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César Franck | 1822-1890 | France |
Felix Mendelssohn | 1809-1847 | Germany |
Twentieth-century and contemporary organ composers (born since 1870)
Composer | Dates | Nationality |
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Louis Vierne | 1870-1937 | France |
Marcel Dupré | 1886-1971 | France |
Max Reger | 1873-1916 | Germany |
Hermann Schroeder | 1904-1984 | Germany |
Jean Langlais | 1907-1991 | France |
Gerald Near | 1942- | United States |
Ernst Bloch | 1880-1959 | United States |
Wayne L. Wold | 1954- | United States |