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

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Composer Dates Nationality
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach 1710-1784 Germany
*Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714-1788 Germany
*Johann Ludwig Krebs 1713-1780 Germany
Johann Kirnberger 1721-1783 Germany
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach 1732-1795 Germany
Johann Christian Bach 1735-1783 Germany
*Johann Christian Kittel 1732-1809 Germany
*Franz Joseph Haydn 1732-1809 Germany
*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791 Germany
Abbé Georg Joseph Vogler 1749-1814 Germany
Justin Heinrich Knecht 1752-1817 Germany
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770-1827 Germany
new Classical composer 17xx-18xx country

Romantic era organ composers (born 1770–1870)

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Composer Dates Nationality
Claude Balbastre 1724-1799 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
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
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
Joseph Willcox Jenkins 1928-2014 country
new twentieth-century composer 19xx-20xx country