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
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 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 Germany
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
Ralph Vaughan Williams 1872-1958 England
Herbert Howells 1892-1983 England
Percy Whitlock 1903-1946 England
William Mathias 1934-1992 Wales
new contemporary composer (copy this, don't type over it) 19xx-19xx country