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 |
new pre-Baroque composer | 15xx-15xx | country |
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 |
Jeremiah Clarke | 1674-1707 | England |
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 |
new Baroque composer | 16xx-17xx | country |
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 |
Justin Heinrich Knecht | 1752-1817 | Germany |
Christian Heinrich Rinck | 1770-1846 | Germany |
Johann Kirnberger | 1721-1783 | Germany |
Claude Balbastre | 1724-1799 | France |
new Classical composer | 17xx-18xx | country |
Romantic era organ composers (born 1770–1870)
Composer | Dates | Nationality |
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Joseph Bonnet | 1884-1944 | France |
Joseph-Ermend Bonnal | 1880-1994 | France |
Henri Mulet | 1878-1967 | France |
Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wely | 1817-1869 | France |
Alexandre Pierre Francois Boёly | 1785-1858 | France |
César Franck | 1822-1890 | France |
Camille Saint-Saéns | 1835-1921 | 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 |
Gabriel Pierné | 1863-1937 | 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 |
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 |
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 |
Chelsea Chen | 1983- | United States |
new twentieth-century composer | 19xx-20xx | country |