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Page 1: Composer Dictionary for Website

A New Dictionary Of Composers

Dates and Nationalities - Chronological and Alphabetical

Compiled by Leonard Rhodes

© 2011 Len Rhodes Music (ASCAP) Inc.

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CONTENTS

Page two………………….Preface

Page three……………….….Chronological listing

Page twenty-four………………………………Alphabetical listing

Page forty-five…………… ……….Bibliography

© 2011 Len Rhodes Music (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved

ISBN: 978-0-9794269-2-6

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Preface

My intention in compiling this e-book is to simply provide an accurate and easy reference regarding the dates and nationalities of

well-known and lesser-known composers.

With regard to the ‘nationalities’ of the composers, I determined their country of birth to be the conclusive factor. A great many composers made their

reputations elsewhere; however, I feel it is important to identify, where reliable sources are available, the composer’s actual country of origin.

If any detail is incorrect, or any significant composer is missing in the listings, please advise us. Supply accurate dates, as well as the nationality and we will

supply you with a complimentary updated file.

I add composer information as it comes available on a daily basis – I believe this is one of the most up-to-date composer references available.

I sincerely hope you will find this reference a useful addition to your library.

Leonard Rhodes Silverthorne, Colorado August 2011

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CHRONOLOGICAL LIST

COMPOSER NAME DATES COUNTRY OF BIRTH Hildegard von Bingen 1098-1179 Germany Léoninus c.1150-c.1201 France Gautier de Coincy c.1177-1236 France Halle, Adam de la c.1240-c.1288 France Vitry, Philippe de 1291-1361 France Pastrano, Pedro de c.1480-1559 Spain Machaut, Guillaume de c.1300-1377 France Gherardello da Firenze c.1320-c.1362 Italy Landini, Francesco c.1325-1397 Italy Jacopa da Bologna active c. 1350 Italy Philippus de Caserta active c. 1370 Italy Dunstable, John c.1390-1453 England Binchois, Gilles de Bins c.1400-1460 France Dufay, Guillaume c.1400-1474 France Ockeghem, Johannes c.1420-1497 France Busnois, Antoine c.1430-1492 France Martini, Johannes c.1440-c.1498 Flanders Hayne, Ghizeghem van c.1445- before1495 Belgium Hofhaymer, Paulus 1449-1537 Germany Des Préz, Josquin c.1450-1521 France Isaac, Heinrich 1450-1517 Flanders Obrecht, Jacob 1450-1505 Netherlands Mouton, Jean 1459-1522 France Escobar, Pedro de c.1465-c.1540 Portugal Encina, Juan del 1468-1529 Spain Cara, Marchetto c.1470-c.1525 Italy De Silva, Andreas c.1475-c.1550 Spain Alberti, Gasparo c.1480-c.1560 Italy Stoltzer, Thomas c.1480-1526 Germany Luther, Martin 1483-1546 Germany Janequin, Clément c.1485-1558 France Senfl, Ludwig 1486-1543 Switzerland Claudin de Sermisy c.1490-1562 France Taverner, John c.1490-1545 England Festa, Sebastiano c.1495-1524 Italy Bruck, Arnold von c.1500-1554 Belgium Arcadelt, Jacques c.1505-1568 Flanders Tallis, Thomas 1505-1585 England Passereau, Pierre 1509-1547 France Bermudo, Juan c.1510-1565 Spain Bourgeois, Loys c.1510-c.1561 France Cabezon, Antonio de 1510-1566 Spain Gabrieli, Andrea c.1510-1586 Italy

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Mudarra, Alonso c.1510-1580 Spain Cipriano de Rore 1516-1565 Flanders Zarlino, Gioseffo 1517-1590 Italy Blitheman, John c.1525-1591 England Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da c.1525-1594 Italy Galilei, Vincenzo c.1526-1591 Italy Le Jeune Claude, C.1527-1600 France Guerrero, Francisco c.1528-1599 Spain Whythorne, Thomas 1528-1596 England Mundy, William c.1529-1591 England Le Bouteiller, Jean 1530-1542 France Strogers, Nicholas c.1530-c.1575 England Lassus, (Lasso) Orlando de 1532-1594 Netherlands Maillard, Jean c.1538-1570 France Byrd, William 1539/40-1623 England Regnart, Jacob c.1540-1599 Netherlands Caccini, Giulio c.1545-1618 Italy Victoria, Tomás Luis. de 1548-1611 Spain Caurroy, Eustache du 1549-1609 France Baccusi, Ippolito c.1550-1609 Italy Cavalieri, Emilio de c.1550-1602 Italy Handl, Jacob (Gallus) c.1550-1591 Slovenia Vecchi, Orazio 1550-1605 Italy Hooper, Edmund c.1553-1621 England Marenzio, Luca 1553-1599 Italy Lechner, Leonhard c.1553-1606 Germany Mundy, John c.1555-1630 England Croce, Giovanni 1557-1609 Italy Gabrielli, Giovanni 1557-1612 Italy Morley, Thomas 1557-1603 England Richardson, Ferdinand c.1558-1618 England Gumpelzhaimer, Adam 1559-1625 Germany Mudd, Thomas c.1559-c.1619 England Anerio, Felice c.1560-1614 Italy Brade, William c.1560-1630 England Philips, Peter c.1560-1628 England Viadana, Lodovico c.1560-1627 Italy Gesualdo, Carlo 1561-1613 Italy Peri, Jacopo 1561-1633 Italy Cornet, Pieter 1562-1626 Belgium Hassler, Hans Leo 1562-1612 Germany Sweelinck, Jan Pieter 1562-1621 Holland Bull, John c.1563-1628 England Dowland, John 1563-1626 England Farnaby, Giles c.1563-1640 England Titelouze, Jean 1563-1633 France Warwick, Thomas c.1565-1620 England Demantius, Christoph 1567-1643 Germany Monteverdi, Claudio 1567-1643 Italy

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Bateson, Thomas c.1570-1630 England Tisdall, William c.1570-c.1604 England Pichi, Giovanni c.1571-1643 England Praetorius, Michael 1571-1621 Germany Peerson, Martin c.1572-1651 England Allegri, Lorenzo c.1573-1648 Italy Wilbye, John 1574-1638 England Gaultier, Ennemond 1575-1651 France Grandi, Alessandro c.1575-1630 Italy Weelkes, Thomas 1576-1623 England Franck, Melchior c.1579-1639 Germany Dering, Richard c.1580-1630 England Allegri, Gregoria 1582-1652 Italy Frescobaldi, Girolamo 1583-1643 Italy Gibbons, Orlando 1583-1675 England Johnson, Robert c.1583-1633 England Schutz, Heinrich 1585-1672 Saxony Schein,Johann Hermann 1586-1630 Germany Scheidt, Samuel 1587-1654 Germany Lanier, Nicholas 1588-1666 England Turini, Francesco c.1589-1656 Czechoslovakia Okeover, John c.1590-c.1663 England Padilla, Juan Gutiérrez de c.1590-1664 Spain Abbatini, Antonio Maria 1595-1679 Italy Lawes, Henry 1596-1662 England Sabbatini, Galeazzo 1597-1662 Italy Crüger, Johannes 1598-1662 Germany Castello, Dario early 17th century Italy Alberghetti, Bernardino c.1600-1649 Italy Cavalli, Pietro Francesco 1602-1676 Italy Lawes, William 1602-1645 England Ferrari, Bernadetto c.1603-1681 Italy Gaultier, Denis 1603-1672 France Albert, Heinrich 1604-1651 Germany Carissimi, Giacomo 1605-1674 Italy Bateman, Robert 1609-1618 England Brewer, Thomas 1611-after 1660 England Gibbons, Christopher 1615-1676 England Rigatti, Antonio 1615-1649 Italy Froberger, Johann Jacob 1616-1667 Germany Kindermann, Johann Erasmus 1616-1655 Germany Locke, Matthew c.1622-1677 England Couperin, Louis c.1626-1661 France Legrenzi, Giovanni 1626-1690 Italy Gigault, Nicholas c.1627-1707 France Le Bègue, Nicolas 1630-1703 France Lully, Jean-Baptiste 1632-1687 Italy Colombi, Giuseppe 1635-1694 Italy D’Anglebert, Jean-Henri 1635-1691 France

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Berardi, Angelo c.1636-1694 Italy Speer, Daniel 1636-1707 Germany Buxtehude, Dietrich 1637-1707 Denmark Colonna, Giovanni Paolo c.1637-1695 Italy Pasquini, Bernardo 1637-1710 Italy Grandi, Alessandro 1638-1697 Italy Bach, Johann Christoph 1642-1703 Germany Bononcini, Giovanni Maria 1642-1678 Italy Stradella, Alessandro 1642-1682 Italy Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz 1644-1704 Bohemia; now Czech Republic Charpentier, Marc-Antoine c.1645-1704 France Bach, Johann Michael 1648-1694 Germany Blow, John 1649-1708 England Raison, André c.1649-1719 France Strengthfield, Thomas before 1650 England Krieger, Johann 1652-1735 Germany Boyvin, Jacques 1653-1706 France Corelli, Arcangelo 1653-1713 Italy Muffat, Georg 1653-1704 Germany; now France Pachelbel, Johann 1653-1706 Germany Marais, Marin 1656-1728 France Lalande, Michel-Richard de 1657-1726 France Pitoni, Giuseppe Ottavio 1657-1743 Italy Torelli, Giuseppe 1658-1709 Italy Purcell, Henry 1659-1695 England Scarlatti, A 1658-1725 Italy Campra, André 1660-1744 France Fux, Johann Joseph 1660-1741 Austria Kuhnau, Johann 1660-1722 Saxony Scarlatti, Alessandro 1660-1725 Italy Witte, Christian Friedrich c.1660-1717 Germany Böhm, Georg 1661-1733 Germany Albergati, Pirro 1663-1735 Italy Murschhauser, Franz Xavier Anton 1663-1738 Germany Zachau, Friedrich Wilhelm 1663-1712 Germany Dandrieu, Pierre 1664-1733 France Purcell, Daniel 1664-1717 England Schmidt, Johann Christoph 1664-1728 Germany Guerre, Elisabeth Jacquet de la 1665-1729 France Buttstedt, Johann Heinrich 1666-1727 Germany Rebel, Jean-Féry 1666-1747 France Lotti, Antonio 1667-1740 Germany Couperin, François 1668-1733 France Eccles , John c.1668-1735 England Gasparini, Francesco 1668-1727 Italy Beyer, Johann Samuel 1669-1744 Germany Bach, Johann Nicolaus 1669-1753 Germany Marchand, Louis 1669-1732 France Bononcini, Giovanni 1670-1747 Italy

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Caix-d’Hervelois, Louis de c.1670-1759 France Caldara, Antonio c.1670-1736 Italy Fischer, Johann Casper Ferdinand c.1670-1746 Germany Albinoni, Tomaso Giovanni 1671-1751 Italy Aldrovandini, Giuseppe 1671-1707 Italy Grigny, Nicolas de 1671-1703 France Rego, Pedro Vaz 1673-1736 Portugal Clarke, Jeremiah c.1674-1707 England Du Mage, Pierre 1674-1751 France Hotteterre, Jacques-Martin 1674-1763 France Clérambault, Louis-Nicolas 1676-1749 France Bach, Johann Ludwig 1677-1731 Germany Croft, William 1678-1727 England Vivaldi, Antonio 1678-1741 Italy Kaufmann, Georg Friedrich 1679-1735 Germany Zelenka, Jan Dismas 1679-1745 Bohemia Loeillet, Jean-Baptiste 1680-1730 Belgium Telemann, Georg Philipp 1681-1767 Germany Dandrieu, Jean-François c.1682-1738 France Mouret, Jean-Joseph 1682-1738 France Rathgeber, Johann Valentin 1682-1750 Germany Graupner, Johann Christoph 1683-1760 Germany Rameau, Jean Philippe 1683-1764 France D’Agincour, François 1684-1758 France Durante, Francesco 1684-1755 Italy Marcello, Alessandro 1684-1750 Italy Neufville, Johann Jacob de 1684-1712 Germany Walther, Johann Gottfried 1684-1748 Germany Bach, Johann Sebastian 1685-1750 Germany Händel, Georg Frederic 1685-1759 Germany Loeillet, Jacques 1685-1748 Belgium Reading, John c.1685-1764 England Scarlatti, Domenico 1685-1757 Italy Marcello, Benedetto 1686-1739 Italy Geminiani, Francesco 1687-1762 Italy Loeillet, Jean Baptiste 1688-c.1720 Belgium Zipoli, Domenico 1688-1726 Argentina Aubert, Jacques 1689-1753 France Babell , William c.1690-1723 England Muffat, Gottlieb 1690-1770 Austria Naudot, Jacques-Christophe c.1690-1762 France Stölzel, Gottfried Heinrich 1690-1749 Germany Boismortier, Joseph Bodin de 1691-1765 France Tartini, Giuseppe 1692-1770 Italy Wassenaer, Unico Willem van 1692-1766 Holland Daquin, Louis-Claude 1694-1772 France Leo, Leonardo 1694-1744 Italy Sammartini, Giuseppe 1695-c.1750 Italy Greene, Maurice 1696-1755 England

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Leclair, Jean-Marie 1697-1764 France Quantz, Johann Joachim 1697-1773 Germany Knapp, William 1698-1768 England Hasse. Johann Adolf 1699-1783 Germany Blavet, Michel 1700-1768 France Sammartini, Giovanni Battista c.1700-1775 Italy Rebel, François 1701-1775 France Besozzi, Alessandro 1702-1793 Italy Graun, Karl Heinrich 1704-1759 Germany Pescetti, Giovanni Battista c.1704-1766 Italy Chédeville, Nicholas le Cadet 1705-1782 France Sperontes, Johann Sigismund Scholze 1705-1750 Germany Galuppi, Baldassare 1706-1785 Italy Martini, Giovanni Battista 1706-1784 Italy Barriere, Jean 1707-1747 France Paradies, Domenico 1707-1791 Italy Avison, Charles 1709-1770 England Benda, Franz 1709-1786 Bohemia Corrette, Michel 1709-1795 France Nebra, Joaquin 1709-1782 Spain Richter, Franz Xaver 1709-1789 Moravia Alberti, Domenico c.1710-1740 Italy Arne, Thomas 1710-1778 England Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann 1710-1784 Germany Exaudet, André-Joseph c.1710-1762 France Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista 1710-1736 Italy Boyce, William 1711-1779 England Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 1712-1778 Switzerland Stanley, John 1712-1786 England Krebs, Johann Ludwig 1713-1780 Germany Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel 1714-1788 Germany Gluck, Christop Willibald 1714-1787 Germany Homilius, Gottfried August 1714-1785 Germany Dupuits, Jean-Baptiste c.1715-c.1758 France Wagenseil, Georg Christoph 1715-1777 Austria Alberghi, Paolo Tommaso 1716-1785 Italy Stamitz, Johann 1717-1757 Bohemia Barbella, Emanuele 1718-1777 Italy Marpurg, Friedrich Wilhelm 1718-1795 Germany Krause, Christian Gottfried 1719-1770 Germany Mozart, Leopold 1719-1787 Austria Denis, Jean-Baptiste c.1720-c.1765 France Lefebvre, Louis Antoine c.1720-1763 France Kirnberger, Johann Philipp 1721-1783 Germany Bach, Johann Ernst 1722-1777 Germany Benda, Georg Anton 1722-1795 Bohemia Abel, Carl Friedrich 1723-1787 Germany Gregor, Christian 1723-1801 USA Burney, Charles 1726-1814 England

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Berton, Pierre-Montan 1727-1780 France Noverre, Jean-Georges 1727-1810 France Guglielmi, Pietro 1728-1804 Italy Hiller, Johann Adam 1728-1804 Germany Deller, Florian Johann 1729-1773 Austria Soler, Antonio 1729-1783 Spain Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich 1732-1795 Germany Haydn, Franz Joseph 1732-1809 Austria Kittel, Johann Christian 1732-1809 Germany Dupuis, Thomas Sanders 1733-1796 England Giordani, Tommaso c.1733-1806 Ireland Linley, Thomas 1733-1795 England Beauvarlet-Charpentier, Jean-Jacques 1734-1794 France Gossec, François-Joseph 1734-1829 Netherlands Schmitt, Joseph 1734-1791 Germany Bach, Johann Christian 1735-1782 Germany Herbst, Johannes 1735-1812 Moravia Lyon, James 1735-1794 USA Albrechtsberger, Johann Georg 1736-1809 Austria Haydn, Michael 1737-1806 Austria Hopkinson, Francis 1737-1791 USA Oley, Johann Christoph 1738-1789 Germany Dittersdorf, Carl Ditters von 1739-1799 Austria Nuez, Pedro 1739-1809 Spain Antes, John 1740-1811 USA Arne, Michael c.1740-1786 England Baumgarten, Karl Friedrich c.1740-1824 Germany Bernardini, Marcello c.1740-c.1800 Italy Paisiello, Giovanni 1740-1816 Italy André, Johann 1741-1799 Germany Pichl, Václav 1741-1805 Czechoslovakia Désaugiers, Marc-Antoine 1742-1793 France Boccherini, Luigi 1743-1805 Italy Bach, Johann Michael 1745-1820 Germany Borghi, Luigi 1745-1806 Italy Jackson, George K. 1745-1823 USA Billings, William 1746-1800 USA Hook, James 1746-1827 England Peter, Johann Freidrich 1746-1813 Holland Hässler, Johann Wilhelm 1747-1822 Germany Morgan, Justin 1747-1798 USA Demmler, Johann Michael 1748-1785 Germany Leduc, Simon c.1748-1777 France Albertini, Joachim 1749-1812 Italy Cervetto, James 1749-1837 England Cimarosa, Domenico 1749-1801 Italy Rembt, Johann Ernst 1749-1810 Germany Türk, Daniel Gottlob 1750-1813 Germany Belcher, Supply 1751-1836 USA

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Campagnoli, Bartolomeo 1751-1827 Italy Witthauser, Johann Georg 1751-1802 Germany Clementi, Muzio 1752-1832 Italy Lebrun, Ludwig August 1752-1790 Germany Reichardt, Johann Friedrich 1752-1814 Germany Brevál, Jean-Baptiste 1753-1823 France French, Jacob 1754-1817 USA Viotti, Giovanni Battista 1755-1824 Italy Kraus, Joseph Martin 1756-1792 Germany Hüllmandel, Nicolas-Joseph 1756-1823 France Linley, Thomas (the younger) 1756-1778 England Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 1756-1791 Austria Reinagle, Alexander 1756-1809 England Bruni, Antonio Bartolomeo 1757-1821 Italy Pleyel, Ignaz Josef 1757-1831 Austria Read, Daniel 1757-1836 USA Wesley, Charles 1757-1834 England Galeazzi, Francesco 1758-1819 Italy Swan, Timothy 1758-1842 USA Bach, Wilhelm Friedrich 1759-1845 Germany Devienne, François 1759-1803 France Krommer, Franz 1759-1831 Czechoslovakia Olmstead, Timothy 1759-1848 USA Paradis, Maria Theresia von 1759-1824 Austria Rodriquez, Felipe 1759-1814 Spain Widerkehr, Jacques 1759-1823 France (Alsace) Cherubini, Luigi 1760-1842 Italy Dussek, Jan Ladislav 1760-1812 Bohemia Le Sueur, Jean-François 1760-1837 France Eler, André-Frédéric 1764-1821 France Ingalls, Jeremiah 1764-1838 USA Lebrun, Louis-Sébastien 1764-1829 France Addison, John 1765-1844 England Attwood, Thomas 1765-1838 England Himmel, Friedrich Heinrich 1765-1814 Germany Holden, Oliver 1765-1844 USA Burgmüller, Johann 1766-1824 Germany Wesley, Samuel 1766-1837 England Berton, Henri-Montan 1767-1844 France Della-Maria, Dominique 1769-1800 France Beethoven, Ludwig van 1770-1827 Germany Cramer, Johann Baptist 1771-1858 Germany Paer, Ferdinando 1771-1839 Italy Jenks, Stephen 1772-1856 USA Spontini, Gaspare 1774-1851 Italy Weyse, Christoph Ernst Friedrich 1774-1842 Germany André, Johann Anton 1775-1842 Germany Boieldieu, François-Adrien 1775-1834 France Latour , Jean Théodore 1776-1837 France

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Russell, William 1777-1813 England Belloli, Agostino 1778-1838 Italy Hummel, Johann Nepomuk 1778-1837 Austria Neukomm, Sigismond Ritter von 1778-1858 Austria Tolhurst, Henry 1778-1814 England Dourleu, Victor-Charles-Paul 1780-1864 France Kreutzer, Conradin 1780-1849 Germany Diabelli, Anton 1781-1858 Austria Giuliani, Mauro 1781-1829 Italy Auber, Daniel François 1782-1871 France Berbiguier, Antoine Benoit Tranquille 1782-1838 France Dare, Elkanah Kelsay 1782-1826 USA Field, John 1782-1837 Ireland Paganini, Niccolò 1782-1840 Italy Berton, Henri 1784-1832 France Hastings, Thomas 1784-1872 USA Onslow, George 1784-1853 France Spohr, Louis 1784-1859 Germany Boëly, Alexandre Pierre François 1785-1858 France

Kalkbrenner, Friedrich 1785-1849 Germany Pinto, George Frederick 1785-1806 England Kuhlau, Friedrich 1786-1832 Germany Lemoine, Antoine Henry 1786-1854 France Schneider, Johann Christian Friedrich 1786-1853 Germany Weber, Carl Maria von 1786-1826 Germany Bordogni, Giulio Marco 1789-1856 Italy Szymanowska, Maria 1789-1831 Poland Czerny, Carl 1791-1857 Austria Meyerbeer, Giacomo 1791-1864 Germany Mason, Lowell 1792-1872 USA Rossini, Gioacchino 1792-1868 Italy Böhm, Theobald 1794-1881 Bavaria Moscheles, Ignaz 1794-1870 Bohemia Berwald, Franz 1796-1868 Sweden Loewe, Karl 1796-1869 Germany Donizetti, Gaetano 1797-1848 Italy Leborne, Aimé 1797-1866 Belgium Schubert, Franz 1797-1828 Austria Bertini, Henri 1798-1876 England Brod, Henri 1799-1839 France Halévy, Jacques Fromental 1799-1862 France Bellini, Vincenzo 1801-1835 Italy Hill, Uri K. 1802-1875 USA Adam, Adolphe 1803-1856 France Berlioz, Hector 1803-1869 France Beyer, Ferdinand 1803-1863 Germany Farrenc, Louise 1804-1875 France Glinka, Mikhail 1804-1857 Russia Mendelssohn, Fanny 1805-1847 Germany

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Arriaga, Juan Crisostomo 1806-1826 Spain Burgmüller, Johann Friedrich Franz 1806-1874 Germany Kittl, Jan Berrich 1806-1868 Czechoslovakia Cavallini, Ernesto 1807-1874 Italy Balfe, Michael William 1808-1870 Ireland Mendelssohn, Felix 1809-1847 Germany Burgmüller, Norbert 1810-1836 Germany Chopin, Frederic 1810-1849 Poland Nicolai, Karl Otto 1810-1849 Germany Schumann, Robert 1810-1856 Germany Wesley, Samuel Sebastian 1810-1876 England Hiller, Ferdinand von 1811-1885 Germany Kingsley, George 1811-1884 USA Le Couppey, Felix 1811-1887 France Liszt, Franz 1811-1886 Hungary Thomas, Ambroise 1811-1896 France Flotow, Friedrich 1812-1883 Germany Singelée, Jean-Baptiste 1812-1875 Belgium Alkan, Charles-Valentin 1813-1888 France Heller, Stephen 1813-1888 Hungary Verdi, Giuseppe 1813-1901 Italy Wagner, Richard 1813-1883 Germany Abela, Placido 1814-1876 Italy Franz, Robert 1815-1892 Germany Pinto, Francisco 1815-1860 Portugal Volkmann, Robert 1815-1883 Germany Bradbury, William B. 1816-1868 USA Ellmenreich, Albert 1816-1905 Germany Lefébure-Wely, Louis James Alfred 1817-1870 France Bazzini, Antonio 1818-1897 Italy Briccialdi, Giulio 1818-1881 Italy Dreyschock, Alexander 1818-1869 Bohemia Gounod, Charles 1818-1893 France Gouvy, Louis Théodore 1819-1898 France (Alsace - now Germany) Offenbach, Jacques 1819-1880 Germany Suppé, Franz von 1819-1895 Dalmatia Willis, Richard Storrs 1819-1900 USA Gurlitt, Cornelius 1820-1901 Germany Köhler, Louis 1820-1886 Germany Vieuxtemps, Henri 1820-1881 Belgium Bartalus, István 1821-1899 Hungary Bottesini, Giovanni 1821-1889 Italy Franck, Cesar 1822-1890 Belgium Holbrook, Joseph P. 1822-1888 USA Kirchner, Theodore 1823-1903 Germany Lalo, Édouard 1823-1892 France Lemmens, Jacques 1823-1881 Belgium Reyer, Ernest 1823-1909 France Bruckner, Anton 1824-1896 Austria

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Reinecke, Carl 1824-1910 Germany Smetana, Bedrich 1824-1884 Bohemia Strauss II, Johann 1825-1899 Austria Foster, Stephen 1825-1894 USA Berens, Johann Hermann 1826-1880 Germany Gottschalk, Louis Moreau 1829-1869 USA Rubinstein, Anton 1829-1894 Russia Goldmark, Karl 1830-1915 Hungary Joachim, Joseph 1831-1907 Hungary Abert, Johann Joseph 1832-1915 Germany Lecocq, Charles 1832-1918 France Accolay, Jean Baptiste 1833-1900 Belgium Borodin, Alexander 1833-1887 Russia Brahms, Johannes 1833-1897 Germany Blodek, Vilém 1834-1874 Czechoslovakia Ponchielli, Amilcare 1834-1886 Italy Reubke, Julius 1834-1858 Germany Blumenstengel, Albrecht 1835-1895 Germany Cui, Cesar 1835-1918 Russia Saint-Saens, Camille 1835-1921 France Scholz, Bernard 1835-1916 Germany Wieniawski, Henri 1835-1880 Poland Barge, Wilhelm 1836-1925 Germany Delibes, Léo 1836-1891 France Gomes, Carlos 1836-1896 Brazil Abesser, Edmund 1837-1889 Germany Balakirev, Mily Alexeyevich 1837-1910 Russia Guilmant, Alexandre 1837-1911 France Lacombe, Paul 1837-1927 France Winter-Hjelm, Otto 1837-1931 Norway Bizet, Georges 1838-1875 France Bruch, Max 1838-1920 Germany Buck, Dudley 1839-1909 USA Mussorgsky, Modeste Petrovich 1839-1881 Russia Rheinberger, Josef 1839-1901 Germany Borne, François 1840-1920 France Stainer, John 1840-1901 England Svendsen, Johan S. 1840-1911 Norway Tchaikovsky, Pyotr 1840-1893 Russia Chabrier, Emmanuel 1841-1894 France Dvorák, Antonín 1841-1904 Bohemia Boïto, Arrigo 1842-1918 Italy Massenet, Jules 1842-1912 France Nordraak, Rikard 1842-1866 Norway Sullivan, Arthur 1842-1900 England Grieg, Edvard 1843-1907 Norway Lefebure, Charles Edouard 1843-1917 France Rimsky-Korsakov, Nicolai 1844-1908 Russia Sarasate, Pablo de 1844-1908 Spain

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Widor, Charles-Marie 1844-1937 France Faure, Gabriel 1845-1924 France Czeczott, Witold 1846-1929 Russia Andersen, Joachim 1847-1909 Denmark Fuchs, Robert 1847-1927 Austria Keeton, Haydn 1847-1921 England Duparc, Henri 1848-1933 France Parry, Hubert 1848-1918 England Schytte, Ludvig 1848-1909 Denmark Fibich, Zdenek 1850-1900 Bohemia Goring, Arthur Thomas 1850-1892 England Scharwenka, Xaver 1850-1924 Poland Blockx, Jan 1851-1912 Belgium Stanford, Charles Villiers 1852-1924 England Carreño, Teresa 1853-1917 Venezuela Foote, Arthur 1853-1937 USA Parisotti, Alessandro 1853-1913 Italy Catalani, Alfredo 1854-1893 Italy Chadwick, George W. 1854-1931 USA Humperdinck, Engelbert 1854-1921 Germany Janácek, Leos 1854-1928 Czechoslovakia Moszkowski, Moritz 1854-1925 Russia Sousa, John Philip 1854-1932 USA Chausson, Ernest 1855-1899 France Lyadov, Anatolli 1855-1914 Russia Schütt, Eduard 1856-1933 Russia Chaminade, Cécile 1857-1944 France Elgar, Edward 1857-1934 England Leoncavallo, Ruggero 1857-1919 Italy Puccini, Giacomo 1858-1924 Italy Smyth, Ethel 1858-1844 England Ysaÿe, Eugène 1858-1931 Belgium De Koven, Reginald 1859-1920 USA Harwood, Basil 1859-1949 England Herbert, Victor 1859-1924 Ireland Ippolitov-Ivanov, Mikhail 1859-1935 Russia Pachulski, Henryk 1859-1921 Poland Albéniz, Isaac 1860-1909 Spain Charpentier, Gustave 1860-1956 France Mahler, Gustav 1860-1911 Bohemia Morrison, Charles Sumner 1860-1933 USA Paderewski, Ignacy Jan 1860-1943 Poland Wolf, Hugo 1860-1903 Austria Arensky, Anton Stepanovich 1861-1906 Russia MacDowell, Edward 1861-1908 USA Boëllmann, Léon 1862-1897 France Debussy, Claude 1862-1918 France Delius, Frederick 1862-1934 England Emmanuel, Maurice 1862-1938 France

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Koch, Friedrich 1862-1927 Germany Becker, Hugo 1863-1941 Germany Mascagni, Pietro 1863-1945 Italy Parker, Horatio 1863-1937 USA Philipp, Isidore 1863-1958 France Pierne, Gabriel 1863-1937 France Albert, Eugene 1864-1932 Scotland Bachelet, Alfred 1864-1944 France Gretchaninoff, Alexander 1864-1956 Russia Ropartz, Joseph-Guy 1864-1955 France Strauss, Richard 1864-1949 Germany Dukas, Paul 1865-1935 France Glazunov, Alexander 1865-1936 Russia Nielsen, Carl 1865-1931 Denmark Sibelius, Jean 1865-1957 Finland Abbiate, Loius 1866-1933 Monaco Busoni, Ferruccio 1866-1924 Italy Cilèa, Francesco 1866-1950 Italy Rebikov, Vladimir Ivanovich 1866-1920 Russia Satie, Erik 1866-1925 France Beach, Amy Cheney 1867-1944 USA Cassadó, Joaquin 1867-1926 Spain Giordano, Umberto 1867-1948 Italy Granados, Enrique 1867-1916 Spain Joplin, Scott 1867-1917 USA Koechlin, Charles 1867-1950 France Bantock, Granville 1868-1946 England Brandt, Vassily 1869-1923 Russia Poldini, Eduard 1869-1957 Hungary Roussel, Albert 1869-1937 France Boehme, Oskar 1870-1938 Germany Lehár, Franz 1870-1948 Hungary Lekeu, Guillaume 1870-1894 Belgium Schmitt, Florent 1870-1958 France Straus, Oscar 1870-1954 Austria Vierne, Louis 1870-1937 France Zemlinsky, Alexander 1871-1942 Austria Alfvén, Hugo 1872-1960 Sweden Büsser, Henri-Paul 1872-1973 France Fucik, Julius 1872-1916 Czechoslovakia Skryabin, Alexander 1872-1915 Russia Vaughan Williams, Ralph 1872-1958 England Bloch, André 1873-1960 France Rachmaninov, Sergei 1873-1943 Russia Reger, Max 1873-1916 Germany Dugan, Franjo 1874-1948 Croatia Holst, Gustav 1874-1934 England Ives, Charles 1874-1954 USA Schönberg, Arnold 1874-1951 Austria

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Suk, Josef 1874-1935 Czech Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel 1875-1912 England Gliere, Reyngol’d 1875-1956 Russia Ketèlbey, Albert William 1875-1959 England Ravel, Maurice 1875-1937 France Brian, Havergal 1876-1972 England Carpenter, John 1876-1951 USA Casals, Pablo 1876-1973 Catalonia Falla, Manuel de 1876-1946 Spain Aubert, Louis François 1877-1968 France Dohnänyi, Ernö 1877-1960 Hungary Goedicke, Alexander 1877-1957 Russia Karg-Elert, Sigfried 1877-1933 Germany Quilter, Roger 1877-1953 England Caplet, André 1878-1925 France Mulet, Henri 1878-1967 France Palmgren, Selim 1878-1951 Finland Bridge, Frank 1879-1941 England Canteloube, Joseph 1879-1957 France Grovlez, Gabriel 1879-1944 France Ireland, John 1879-1962 England Respighi, Ottorino 1879-1936 Italy Scott, Cyril 1879-1970 England Bloch, Ernest 1880-1959 Switzerland Medtner, Nicholas 1880-1951 Germany Willan, Healey 1880-1968 England Bartók, Bela 1881-1945 Hungary Blazhevich, Vladislav 1881-1942 Russia Branscombe, Gena 1881-1977 Canada Cadman, Charles Wakefield 1881-1946 USA Enescu. George 1881-1955 Romania Miaskovsky, Nikolai 1881-1950 Russia Barat, Joseph Edouard 1882-1963 France Grainger, Percy 1882-1961 Australia Kodály, Zoltan 1882-1967 Hungary Pick-Mangiagalli, Riccardo 1882-1949 Czechoslovakia Ponce, Manuel 1882-1948 Mexico Stravinsky, Igor 1882-1971 Russia Szymanowski, Karol 1882-1937 Poland Turina , Joaquin 1882-1949 Spain Alexandrov, Alexander 1883-1946 Russia Barié, Augustin 1883-1915 France Bax, Arnold 1883-1950 England Berners, Gerald 1883-1950 England Bertoni, Umberto 1883-1953 Italy Dyson, George 1883-1964 England Harris, William H. 1883-1973 England Varèse, Edgard 1883-1965 France Webern, Anton von 1883-1945 Austria

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Bowen, York 1884-1961 England Griffes, Charles Tomlinson 1884-1920 USA Roques, Léon 1884-1923 France Berg, Alban 1885-1935 Austria Butterworth, George 1885-1916 England Farrar, Ernest Bristow 1885-1918 England Mangoré, Agustin Barrios 1885-1944 Paraguay Riegger, Wallingford 1885-1961 USA Salzedo, Carlos 1885-1961 France Dupre, Marcel 1886-1971 France Boulanger, Nadia 1887-1979 France Langstroth, Ivan 1887-1971 USA Toch, Ernst 1887-1964 USA Villa-Lobos, Heitor 1887-1959 Brazil Coleman, Henry 1888-1965 England Delvincourt, Claude 1888-1954 France Odak, Krsto 1888-1965 Croatia Antiufeyev, Boris 1889-1968 Russia Auric, Georges 1889-1983 France Balay, Guillaume 1889-1943 France Statham, Heathcote 1889-1973 England Gurlitt, Manfred 1890-1973 Germany Ibert, Jacques 1890-1962 France Martin, Frank 1890-1974 Switzerland Martinu, Bohuslav 1890-1959 Czechoslovakia Bliss, Arthur 1891-1975 England Lang, C.S. 1891-1972 New Zealand Prokofiev, Sergei 1891-1953 Russia Honegger, Arthur 1892-1955 Switzerland Howells, Herbert 1892-1983 England Lajtha, László 1892-1963 Hungary Milhaud, Darius 1892-1974 France Moore, Douglas 1892-1969 USA Rowley, Alec 1892-1958 England Tailleferre, Germaine 1892-1983 France Abelardo, Nicanor 1893-1934 Philippines Absil, Jean 1893-1974 Belgium Benjamin, Arthur 1893-1960 Australia Boulanger, Lili 1893-1918 France Mompou, Federico 1893-1987 Spain Dessau, Paul 1894-1979 Germany Griffiths, Vernon 1894-1985 England Moeren, Ernest 1894-1950 England Piston, Walter 1894-1976 USA Schulhoff, Edwin 1894-1942 Czech Republic Stoessel, Albert 1894-1943 USA Warlock, Peter (Philip Heseltine) 1894-1930 England Beydts, Louis 1895-1953 France Hindemith, Paul 1895-1963 Germany

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Orff, Carl 1895-1982 Germany Sowerby, Leo 1895-1968 USA Still, William Grant 1895-1978 USA Hanson, Howard 1896-1981 USA Slater, Gordon 1896-1979 England Thomson, Virgil 1896-1989 USA Vogel, Wladimir 1896-1984 Russia Weinberger, Jaromir 1896-1967 Czech Cassadó, Gaspar 1897-1966 Spain Chiron, Yves de la Casiniere 1897-1971 France Cowell, Henry 1897-1965 USA Korngold, Erich Wolfgang 1897-1957 Moravia Lehman, Evangeline 1897-1984 USA Porter, Quincy 1897-1966 USA Tansman, Alexandre 1897-1986 France Armstrong, Thomas 1898-1994 England Demuth, Norman 1898-1968 England Gershwin, George 1898-1937 USA Harris, Roy 1898-1979 USA Ullmann, Viktor 1898-1944 Silesia Casadesus, Robert 1899-1972 France Davidenko, Alexander 1899-1934 Russia Haas, Pavel 1899-1944 Moravia Klein, Gideon 1899-1945 Moravia Krása, Hans 1899-1944 Czechoslovakia Poulenc, Francis 1899-1963 France Reinhold, Otto 1899-1965 Germany Revueltas, Silvestre 1899-1940 Mexico Tchérépnin, Alexander 1899-1977 Russia Antheil, George 1900-1959 USA Borisovski, Vadim 1900-1972 Russia Bush, Alan 1900-1995 England Copland, Aaron 1900-1990 USA Klotz, Hans 1900-1987 Germany Krenek, Ernst 1900-1991 Austria Luening, Otto 1900-1996 USA Thiman, Eric H. 1900-1975 England Weill, Kurt 1900-1950 Germany Apostel, Hans Erich 1901-1972 Austria Finzi, Gerald 1901-1956 England Rodrigo, Joaquin 1901-1999 Spain Rubbra, Edmund 1901-1986 England Whyte, Ian 1901-1960 Scotland Duruflé, Maurice 1902-1986 France Takács, Jenö 1902-2005 Austria Walton, William 1902-1983 England Berkeley, Lennox 1903-1989 England Blacher, Boris 1903-1975 China Duke, Vernon 1903-1969 Russia

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Kadosa, Pál 1903-1983 Hungary Khachaturian, Aram 1903-1978 Russia Milford, Robin 1903-1959 England Peeters, Flor 1903-1986 Belgium Balasanyan, Suren 1904-1982 Russia Bruns, Victor 1904-1996 Finland Dallapiccola, Luigi 1904-1975 Italy Kabalevsky, Dmitri 1904-1987 Russia Alwyn, William 1905-1985 England Blitzstein, Marc 1905-1964 USA Chagrin, Francis 1905-1972 Rumania Hartmann, Karl Amadeus 1905-1963 Germany Jolivet, André 1905-1974 France Lambert, Constance 1905-1951 England Rawsthorne, Alan 1905-1971 England Tippett, Michael 1905-1998 England Lutyens, Elizabeth 1906-1983 England Creston, Paul 1906-1985 USA Gesensway, Louis 1906-1976 Latvia Shostakovitch, Dmitri 1906-1975 Russia Badings, Henk 1907-1987 Indonesia Langlais, Jean 1907-1991 France Maconchy, Elizabeth 1907-1994 England Aubin, Tony 1908-1981 France Carter, Elliott b.1908 USA Lesur, Daniel-Jean-Yves 1908-2002 France Messiaen, Olivier 1908-1992 France Bender, Jan Oskar 1909-1994 Netherlands Berger, Jean 1909-2002 Germany Bichsel, Marcel Alfred 1909-1992 Switzerland Genzmer, Harald 1909-2007 Germany Holmboe, Vagn 1909-1996 Denmark Murrill, Herbert 1909-1952 England Mushel, Georgi 1909-1989 Russia Orr, Robin 1909-2006 England Siegmeister, Elie 1909-1991 USA Barber, Samuel 1910-1981 USA Heiden, Bernhard 1910-2000 Germany Liebermann, Rolf 1910-1999 Switzerland Alain, Jehan 1911-1940 France Dolmetsch, Carl 1911-1997 France Hovhaness, Alan 1911-2000 USA Ussachevsky, Vladimir 1911-1990 Russia Amellér, André 1912-1990 France Andersen, Hans Aksel 1912-1977 USA Cage, John 1912-1992 USA Escher, Rudolf George 1912-1980 Holland Brant, Henry 1913-2008 Canada Britten, Benjamin 1913-1976 England

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Dello. Joio, Norman 1913-2008 USA Lutoslawski, Witold 1913-1994 Poland Hark, Friedrich 1914-1943 Germany Held, Wilbur b.1914 USA Lloyd Webber, William 1914-1982 England Diamond, David 1915-2005 USA Persichetti, Vincent 1915-1987 USA Babbitt, Milton 1916-2011 USA Blomdahl, Karl-Birger 1916-1968 Sweden Ginastera, Alberto 1916-1983 Argentina Arnell, Richard b.1917 England Cole, Hugo 1917-1995 London Jackson, Francis Alan b.1917 England Kay, Ulysses 1917-1995 USA Ratcliffe, Desmond b.1917 England Ward, Robert Eugene b.1917 USA Bernstein, Leonard 1918-1990 USA Cook, John 1918-1984 England Kirchner, Leon 1919-2009 USA Addison, John 1920-1998 England Arutiunian, Alexander b.1920 Armenia Bush, Geoffrey b.1920 England Arnold, Malcolm 1921-2006 England Simpson, Robert 1921-1997 England Serocki, Kazimierz 1922-1981 Poland Xenakis, Iannis 1922-2001 Romania Allard, Maurice 1923-1992 France Kalabis, Viktor 1923-2006 Czech Republic Karkoschka, Erhard 1923-2009 Czechoslovakia Ligeti, György Sándor 1923 -2006 Hungary Rorem, Ned b.1923 USA Lees, Benjamin b.1924 China Nono, Luigi 1924-1990 Italy Rausch, Carlos b.1924 Argentina Andriessen, Jurriaan b.1925 Netherlands Berio, Luciano 1925- 2003 Italy Boulez, Pierre b.1925 France Schuller, Gunther b.1925 USA Brown, Earle 1926-2002 USA Feldman, Morton 1926-1987 USA Henze, Hans Werner b.1926 Germany Leeuw, Ton de b.1926 Holland Oldham, Arthur 1926-2003 England Dreyfus, George b.1927 Germany Henry, Pierre b.1927 France Joubert, John b.1927 South Africa Whettam, Graham 1927-2007 England Adler, Samuel b.1928 USA Barraqué, Jean 1928-1973 France

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Stockhausen, Karlheinz 1928-2007 Germany Walacinski, Adam b.1928 Poland Berger, Wilhelm Georg 1929-1993 Romania Crumb, George b.1929 USA Denisov, Edison 1929-1996 Russia Eben, Petr 1929-2007 Czechoslovakia Gamer, Carlton b.1929 USA Leighton, Kenneth b.1929 England Muczynski, Robert b.1929 USA Karetnikov, Nikolay 1930-1994 Russia Takemitsu, Töru 1930-1996 Japan Tormis, Veljo b.1930 Estonia Bussotti, Sylvano b.1931 Italy Camilleri, Charles 1931-2009 Malta Goehr, Alexander b.1932 Germany Johnson, Robert Sherlaw b.1932 England Kilar, Wojciech b.1932 Poland King, Larry Peyton 1932-1990 USA Tremblay, Gilles b.1932 Canada Górecki, Henryk b.1933 Poland Lindberg, Nils b.1933 Sweden Penderecki, Krzysztof b.1933 Poland Subotnick, Morton b.1933 USA Ancelin, Pierre b.1934 France Birtwistle, Harrison b.1934 England Davidovsky, Mario b.1934 Argentina Mathias, William b.1934 Wales Maxwell Davies, Peter b.1934 England Schnittke, Alfred 1934-1998 Germany Bankole, Ayo 1935-1976 Nigeria Lachenmann, Helmut Friedrich b.1935 Germany Pärt, Arvo b.1935 Estonia Riley, Terry b.1935 USA Bennett, Richard Rodney b.1936 England Blake, David b.1936 England Cardew, Cornelius 1936-1981 England Payne, Anthony b.1936 England Reich, Steve b.1936 USA Reimann, Aribert b.1936 Germany Schwartz, Elliott b.1936 USA Bedford, David b.1937 England Del Tredici, David b.1937 USA Badinski, Nikolai b.1937 Bulgaria Glass, Philip b.1937 USA Kapustin, Nikolai b.1937 Russia Bolcom, William b.1938 USA Corigliano, John b.1938 USA Rzewski, Frederic b.1938 USA Tower, Joan b.1938 USA

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Andriessen, Louis b.1939 Netherlands Tishchenko, Boris b.1939 Russia Krieger, Armando b.1940 Argentina Zappa, Frank 1940-1993 USA Burgon, Geoffrey 1941-2010 England Finnissy, Michael b.1942 England Ferneyhough, Brian b.1943 England Holloway, Robin b.1943 England Iannaccone, Anthony b.1943 USA Albright, William Hugh 1944-1998 USA Nyman, Michael b.1944 England Tavener, John Kenneth b.1944 England Rutter, John b.1945 England Denev, Tzvetan b.1946 Bulgaria Frank, Andrew b.1946 USA Rübsam, Wolfgang b.1946 Germany Adams, John b.1947 USA Ortiz, William b. 1947 Puerto Rico Patterson, Paul b.1947 England Lifchitz, Max b.1948 Mexico Aho, Kalevi b.1949 Finland Catán, Daniel b.1949 Mexico Stucky, Steven b.1949 USA Valchanov, Marin b.1949 Bulgaria Vičar, Jan b.1949 Czech Republic Denev, Lyubomir b.1951 Bulgaria Curtis, Mike b.1952 USA Rhodes, Leonard b.1952 England Saxe, Ole b.1952 Sweden Fedak, Alfred V. b.1953 USA Mertens, Wim b.1953 Belgium Weir, Judith b.1954 England Ben-Amots, Ofer b.1955 Israel Bouliane, Denys b.1955 Canada Jirasek, Jan b.1955 Czech Republic Rouse, Mikel b.1957 USA Goodall, Howard b.1958 England Lindberg, Magnus b.1958 Finland MacMillan, James b.1959 Scotland Martland, Steve b.1959 England Schocker, Gary b.1959 USA Tüür, Erkki Sven b.1959 Estonia Adderley, Mark b.1960 Norway Benjamin, George b.1960 England Golijov, Osvaldo b.1960 Argentina Goshev, Yordan b.1960 Bulgaria Lezcano, Jose b.1960 Cuba Sokolov, Ivan b.1960 Russia Turnage, Mark-Anthony b.1960 England

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Paris, François b.1961 France

Higdon, Jennifer b.1962 USA Edlin, Paul Max b.1963 England Statkova, Silvia b.1964 Bulgaria Vodenicharov, Yassen b.1964 Bulgaria Malloy, Christopher b.1965 USA Jalbert, Pierre b.1967 USA Lindberg, Olle b.1967 Sweden Ferrante, Andrea b.1968 Italy Tsabary, Eldad b.1969 Israel Aguiar, Paulo Cesar Maia de b.1970 Brazil Ades, Thomas b.1971 England Adler, Christopher b.1972 USA Martinez, Patricia b.1973 Argentina Kellogg, Daniel b.1976 USA Cassinelli, Christian b.1979 Italy Gervais, Aaron b.1980 Canada Mayo, Christopher b.1980 Canada Gunnarsson, Gudmundur Steinn b.1982 Iceland Grigoryan, Karen b.1984 Armenia

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ALPHABETICAL LIST Abbatini, Antonio Maria 1595-1679 Italy Abbatsky, Yury 1911- Russia Abbiate, Loius 1866-1933 Monaco Abel, Carl Friedrich 1723-1787 Germany Abela, Placido 1814-1876 Italy Abelardo, Nicanor 1893-1934 Philippines Abert, Johann Joseph 1832-1915 Germany Abesser, Edmund 1837-1889 Germany Absil, Jean 1893-1974 Belgium Accolay, Jean Baptiste 1833-1900 Belgium Adam, Adolphe 1803-1856 France Adams, John b.1947 USA Adderley, Mark b.1960 Norway Addison, John 1765-1844 England Addison, John 1920-1998 England Ades, Thomas b.1971 England Adler, Christopher b.1972 USA Adler, Samuel b.1928 USA Aguiar, Paulo Cesar Maia de b.1970 Brazil Aho, Kalevi b.1949 Finland Alain, Jehan 1911-1940 France Albéniz, Isaac 1860-1909 Spain Albergati, Pirro 1663-1735 Italy Alberghetti, Bernardino c.1600-1649 Italy Alberghi, Paolo Tommaso 1716-1785 Italy Albert, Eugene 1864-1932 Scotland Albert, Heinrich 1604-1651 Germany Alberti, Domenico c.1710-1740 Italy Alberti, Gasparo c.1480-c.1560 Italy Albertini, Joachim 1749-1812 Italy Albinoni, Tomaso Giovanni 1671-1751 Italy Albrechtsberger, Johann Georg 1736-1809 Austria Albright, William Hugh 1944-1998 USA Alexandrov, Alexander 1883-1946 Russia Aldrovandini, Giuseppe 1671-1707 Italy Alfvén, Hugo 1872-1960 Sweden Alkan, Charles-Valentin 1813-1888 France Allard, Maurice 1923-1992 France Allegri, Gregoria 1582-1652 Italy Allegri, Lorenzo c.1573-1648 Italy Alwyn, William 1905-1985 England Amellér, André 1912-1990 France Ancelin, Pierre b.1934 France Andersen, Hans Aksel 1912-1977 USA Andersen, Joachim 1847-1909 Denmark André, Johann Anton 1775-1842 Germany

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André, Johann 1741-1799 Germany Andriessen, Louis b.1939 Netherlands Andriessen, Jurriaan b.1925 Netherlands Anerio, Felice c.1560-1614 Italy Antes, John 1740-1811 USA Antheil, George 1900-1959 USA Antiufeyev, Boris 1889-1968 Russia Apostel, Hans Erich 1901-1972 Austria Arcadelt, Jacques c.1505-1568 Flanders Arensky, Anton Stepanovich 1861-1906 Russia Armstrong, Thomas 1898-1994 England Arne, Michael c.1740-1786 England Arne, Thomas 1710-1778 England Arnell, Richard b.1917 England Arnold, Malcolm 1921-2006 England Arriaga, Juan Crisostomo 1806-1826 Spain Arutiunian, Alexander b.1920 Armenia Attwood, Thomas 1765-1838 England Auber, Daniel François 1782-1871 France Aubert, Jacques 1689-1753 France Aubert, Louis François 1877-1968 France Aubin, Tony 1908-1981 France Auric, Georges 1889-1983 France Avison, Charles 1709-1770 England Babbitt, Milton 1916-2011 USA Babell , William c.1690-1723 England Baccusi, Ippolito c.1550-1609 Italy Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel 1714-1788 Germany Bach, Johann Christian 1735-1782 Germany Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich 1732-1795 Germany Bach, Johann Christoph 1642-1703 Germany Bach, Johann Ernst 1722-1777 Germany Bach, Johann Ludwig 1677-1731 Germany Bach, Johann Michael 1648-1694 Germany Bach, Johann Michael 1745-1820 Germany Bach, Johann Nicolaus 1669-1753 Germany Bach, Johann Sebastian 1685-1750 Germany Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann 1710-1784 Germany Bach, Wilhelm Friedrich 1759-1845 Germany Bachelet, Alfred 1864-1944 France Badings, Henk 1907-1987 Indonesia Badinski, Nikolai b.1937 Bulgaria Balakirev, Mily Alexeyevich 1837-1910 Russia Balasanyan, Suren 1904-1982 Russia Balay, Guillaume 1889-1943 France Balfe, Michael William 1808-1870 Ireland Bankole, Ayo 1935-1976 Nigeria Bantock, Granville 1868-1946 England Barat, Joseph Edouard 1882-1963 France

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Barber, Samuel 1910-1981 USA Barbella, Emanuele 1718-1777 Italy Barge, Wilhelm 1836-1925 Germany Barié, Augustin 1883-1915 France Barraqué, Jean 1928-1973 France Barriere, Jean 1707-1747 France Bartalus, István 1821-1899 Hungary Bartók, Bela 1881-1945 Hungary Bateman, Robert 1609-1618 England Bateson, Thomas c.1570-1630 England Baumgarten, Karl Friedrich c.1740-1824 Germany Bax, Arnold 1883-1950 England Bazzini, Antonio 1818-1897 Italy Beach, Amy Cheney 1867-1944 USA Beauvarlet-Charpentier, Jean-Jacques 1734-1794 France Becker, Hugo 1863-1941 Germany Bedford, David b.1937 England Beethoven, Ludwig van 1770-1827 Germany Belcher, Supply 1751-1836 USA Bellini, Vincenzo 1801-1835 Italy Belloli, Agostino 1778-1838 Italy Ben-Amots, Ofer b.1955 Israel Benda, Franz 1709-1786 Bohemia Benda, Georg Anton 1722-1795 Bohemia Bender, Jan Oskar 1909-1994 Netherlands Benjamin, Arthur 1893-1960 Australia Benjamin, George b.1960 England Bennett, Richard Rodney b.1936 England Berardi, Angelo c.1636-1694 Italy Berbiguier, Antoine Benoit Tranquille 1782-1838 France Berens, Johann Hermann 1826-1880 Germany Berg, Alban 1885-1935 Austria Berger, Jean 1909-2002 Germany Berger, Wilhelm Georg 1929-1993 Romania Berio, Luciano 1925- 2003 Italy Berkeley, Lennox 1903-1989 England Berlioz, Hector 1803-1869 France Bermudo, Juan c.1510-1565 Spain Bernardini, Marcello c.1740-c.1800 Italy Berners, Gerald 1883-1950 England Bernstein, Leonard 1918-1990 USA Bertini, Henri 1798-1876 England Berton, Henri 1784-1832 France Berton, Henri-Montan 1767-1844 France Berton, Pierre-Montan 1727-1780 France Bertoni, Umberto 1883-1953 Italy Berwald, Franz 1796-1868 Sweden Besozzi, Alessandro 1702-1793 Italy Beydts, Louis 1895-1953 France

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Beyer, Ferdinand 1803-1863 Germany Beyer, Johann Samuel 1669-1744 Germany Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz 1644-1704 Bohemia; now Czech Republic Bichsel, Marcel Alfred 1909-1992 Switzerland Billings, William 1746-1800 USA Binchois, Gilles de Bins c.1400-1460 France Birtwistle, Harrison b.1934 England Bizet, Georges 1838-1875 France Blacher, Boris 1903-1975 China Blake, David b.1936 England Blavet, Michel 1700-1768 France Blazhevich, Vladislav 1881-1942 Russia Bliss, Arthur 1891-1975 England Blitheman, John c.1525-1591 England Blitzstein, Marc 1905-1964 USA Bloch, André 1873-1960 France Bloch, Ernest 1880-1959 Switzerland Blockx, Jan 1851-1912 Belgium Blodek, Vilém 1834-1874 Czechoslovakia Blomdahl, Karl-Birger 1916-1968 Sweden Blow, John 1649-1708 England Blumenstengel, Albrecht 1835-1895 Germany Boccherini, Luigi 1743-1805 Italy Boehme, Oskar 1870-1938 Germany Boëllmann, Léon 1862-1897 France Boëly, Alexandre Pierre François 1785-1858 France

Böhm, Georg 1661-1733 Germany Böhm, Theobald 1794-1881 Bavaria Boieldieu, François-Adrien 1775-1834 France Boismortier, Joseph Bodin de 1691-1765 France Boïto, Arrigo 1842-1918 Italy Bolcom, William b.1938 USA Bononcini, Giovanni 1670-1747 Italy Bononcini, Giovanni Maria 1642-1678 Italy Bordogni, Giulio Marco 1789-1856 Italy Borghi, Luigi 1745-1806 Italy Borisovski, Vadim 1900-1972 Russia Borne, François 1840-1920 France Borodin, Alexander 1833-1887 Russia Bottesini, Giovanni 1821-1889 Italy Boulanger, Lili 1893-1918 France Boulanger, Nadia 1887-1979 France Boulez, Pierre b.1925 France Bouliane, Denys b.1955 Canada Bourgeois, Loys c.1510-c.1561 France Bowen, York 1884-1961 England Boyce, William 1711-1779 England Boyvin, Jacques 1653-1706 France Bradbury, William B. 1816-1868 USA

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Brade, William c.1560-1630 England Brahms, Johannes 1833-1897 Germany Brandt, Vassily 1869-1923 Russia Branscombe, Gena 1881-1977 Canada Brant, Henry 1913-2008 Canada Brevál, Jean-Baptiste 1753-1823 France Brewer, Thomas 1611-after 1660 England Brian, Havergal 1876-1972 England Briccialdi, Giulio 1818-1881 Italy Bridge, Frank 1879-1941 England Britten, Benjamin 1913-1976 England Brod, Henri 1799-1839 France Brown, Earle 1926-2002 USA Bruch, Max 1838-1920 Germany Bruck, Arnold von c.1500-1554 Belgium Bruckner, Anton 1824-1896 Austria Bruni, Antonio Bartolomeo 1757-1821 Italy Bruns, Victor 1904-1996 Finland Buck, Dudley 1839-1909 USA Bull, John c.1563-1628 England Burgmüller, Johann Friedrich Franz 1806-1874 Germany Burgmüller, Johann 1766-1824 Germany Burgmüller, Norbert 1810-1836 Germany Burgon, Geoffrey 1941-2010 England Burney, Charles 1726-1814 England Bush, Alan 1900-1995 England Bush, Geoffrey b.1920 England Busnois, Antoine c.1430-1492 France Busoni, Ferruccio 1866-1924 Italy Büsser, Henri-Paul 1872-1973 France Bussotti, Sylvano b.1931 Italy Butterworth, George 1885-1916 England Buttstedt, Johann Heinrich 1666-1727 Germany Buxtehude, Dietrich 1637-1707 Denmark Byrd, William 1539/40-1623 England Cabezon, Antonio de 1510-1566 Spain Caccini, Giulio c.1545-1618 Italy Cadman, Charles Wakefield 1881-1946 USA Cage, John 1912-1992 USA Caix-d’Hervelois, Louis de c.1670-1759 France Caldara, Antonio c.1670-1736 Italy Camilleri, Charles 1931-2009 Malta Campagnoli, Bartolomeo 1751-1827 Italy Campra, André 1660-1744 France Canteloube, Joseph 1879-1957 France Caplet, André 1878-1925 France Cara, Marchetto c.1470-c.1525 Italy Cardew, Cornelius 1936-1981 England Carissimi, Giacomo 1605-1674 Italy

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Carpenter, John 1876-1951 USA Carreño, Teresa 1853-1917 Venezuela Carter, Elliott b.1908 USA Casadesus, Robert 1899-1972 France Casals, Pablo 1876-1973 Catalonia Cassadó, Gaspar 1897-1966 Spain Cassadó, Joaquin 1867-1926 Spain Cassinelli, Christian b.1979 Italy Castello, Dario early 17th century Italy Catalani, Alfredo 1854-1893 Italy Catán, Daniel b.1949 Mexico Caurroy, Eustache du 1549-1609 France Cavalieri, Emilio de c.1550-1602 Italy Cavalli, Pietro Francesco 1602-1676 Italy Cavallini, Ernesto 1807-1874 Italy Cervetto, James 1749-1837 England Chabrier, Emmanuel 1841-1894 France Chadwick, George W. 1854-1931 USA Chagrin, Francis 1905-1972 Rumania Chaminade, Cécile 1857-1944 France Charpentier, Gustave 1860-1956 France Charpentier, Marc-Antoine c.1645-1704 France Chausson, Ernest 1855-1899 France Chédeville, Nicholas le Cadet 1705-1782 France Cherubini, Luigi 1760-1842 Italy Chiron, Yves de la Casiniere 1897-1971 France Chopin, Frederic 1810-1849 Poland Cilèa, Francesco 1866-1950 Italy Cimarosa, Domenico 1749-1801 Italy Cipriano de Rore 1516-1565 Flanders Clarke, Jeremiah c.1674-1707 England Claude Le Jeune C.1528-1600 France Claudin de Sermisy c.1490-1562 France Clementi, Muzio 1752-1832 Italy Clérambault, Louis-Nicolas 1676-1749 France Cole, Hugo 1917-1995 London Coleman, Henry 1888-1965 England Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel 1875-1912 England Colombi, Giuseppe 1635-1694 Italy Colonna, Giovanni Paolo c.1637-1695 Italy Cook, John 1918-1984 England Copland, Aaron 1900-1990 USA Corelli, Arcangelo 1653-1713 Italy Corigliano, John b.1938 USA Cornet, Pieter 1562-1626 Belgium Corrette, Michel 1709-1795 France Couperin, François 1668-1733 France Couperin, Louis c.1626-1661 France Cowell, Henry 1897-1965 USA

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Cramer, Johann Baptist 1771-1858 Germany Creston, Paul 1906-1985 USA Croce, Giovanni 1557-1609 Italy Croft, William 1678-1727 England Crüger, Johannes 1598-1662 Germany Crumb, George b.1929 USA Cui, Cesar 1835-1918 Russia Curtis, Mike b.1952 USA Czeczott, Witold 1846-1929 Russia Czerny, Carl 1791-1857 Austria D’Agincour, François 1684-1758 France D’Anglebert, Jean-Henri 1635-1691 France Dallapiccola, Luigi 1904-1975 Italy Dandrieu, Jean-François c.1682-1738 France Dandrieu, Pierre 1664-1733 France Daquin, Louis-Claude 1694-1772 France Dare, Elkanah Kelsay 1782-1826 USA Davidenko, Alexander 1899-1934 Russia Davidovsky, Mario b.1934 Argentina De Koven, Reginald 1859-1920 USA De Silva, Andreas c.1475-c.1550 Spain Debussy, Claude 1862-1918 France Del Tredici, David b.1937 USA Delibes, Léo 1836-1891 France Delius, Frederick 1862-1934 England Della-Maria, Dominique 1769-1800 France Deller, Florian Johann 1729-1773 Austria Dello. Joio, Norman 1913-2008 USA Delvincourt, Claude 1888-1954 France Demantius, Christoph 1567-1643 Germany Demmler, Johann Michael 1748-1785 Germany Demuth, Norman 1898-1968 England Denev, Lyubomir b.1951 Bulgaria Denev, Tzvetan b.1946 Bulgaria Denis, Jean-Baptiste c.1720-c.1765 France Denisov, Edison 1929-1996 Russia Dering, Richard c.1580-1630 England Des Préz, Josquin c.1450-1521 France Désaugiers, Marc-Antoine 1742-1793 France Dessau, Paul 1894-1979 Germany Devienne, François 1759-1803 France Diabelli, Anton 1781-1858 Austria Diamond, David 1915-2005 USA Dittersdorf, Carl Ditters von 1739-1799 Austria Dohnänyi, Ernö 1877-1960 Hungary Dolmetsch, Carl 1911-1997 France Donizetti, Gaetano 1797-1848 Italy Dourleu, Victor-Charles-Paul 1780-1864 France Dowland, John 1563-1626 England

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Dreyfus, George b.1927 Germany Dreyschock, Alexander 1818-1869 Bohemia Dufay, Guillaume c.1400-1474 France Dugan, Franjo 1874-1948 Croatia Dukas, Paul 1865-1935 France Duke, Vernon 1903-1969 Russia Du Mage, Pierre 1674-1751 France Dunstable, John c.1390-1453 England Duparc, Henri 1848-1933 France Dupre, Marcel 1886-1971 France Dupuis, Thomas Sanders 1733-1796 England Dupuits, Jean-Baptiste c.1715-c.1758 France Durante, Francesco 1684-1755 Italy Duruflé, Maurice 1902-1986 France Dussek, Jan Ladislav 1760-1812 Bohemia Dvorák, Antonín 1841-1904 Bohemia Dyson, George 1883-1964 England Eben, Petr 1929-2007 Czechoslovakia Eccles , John c.1668-1735 England Edlin, Paul Max b.1963 England Eler, André-Frédéric 1764-1821 France Elgar, Edward 1857-1934 England Ellmenreich, Albert 1816-1905 Germany Emmanuel, Maurice 1862-1938 France Encina, Juan del 1468-1529 Spain Enescu. George 1881-1955 Romania Escher, Rudolf George 1912-1980 Holland Escobar, Pedro de c.1465-c.1540 Portugal Exaudet, André-Joseph c.1710-1762 France Falla, Manuel de 1876-1946 Spain Farnaby, Giles c.1563-1640 England Farrar, Ernest Bristow 1885-1918 England Farrenc, Louise 1804-1875 France Faure, Gabriel 1845-1924 France Fedak, Alfred V. b.1953 USA Feldman, Morton 1926-1987 USA Ferneyhough, Brian b.1943 England Ferrante, Andrea b.1968 Italy Ferrari, Bernadetto c.1603-1681 Italy Festa, Sebastiano c.1495-1524 Italy Fibich, Zdenek 1850-1900 Bohemia Field, John 1782-1837 Ireland Finnissy, Michael b.1942 England Finzi, Gerald 1901-1956 England Fischer, Johann Casper Ferdinand c.1670-1746 Germany Flotow, Friedrich 1812-1883 Germany Foote, Arthur 1853-1937 USA Foster, Stephen 1825-1894 USA Franck, Cesar 1822-1890 Belgium

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Franck, Melchior c.1579-1639 Germany Frank, Andrew b.1946 USA Franz, Robert 1815-1892 Germany French, Jacob 1754-1817 USA Frescobaldi, Girolamo 1583-1643 Italy Froberger, Johann Jacob 1616-1667 Germany Fuchs, Robert 1847-1927 Austria Fucik, Julius 1872-1916 Czechoslovakia Fux, Johann Joseph 1660-1741 Austria Gabrieli, Andrea c.1510-1586 Italy Gabrielli, Giovanni 1557-1612 Italy Galeazzi, Francesco 1758-1819 Italy Galilei, Vincenzo c.1526-1591 Italy Galuppi, Baldassare 1706-1785 Italy Gamer, Carlton b.1929 USA Gasparini, Francesco 1668-1727 Italy Gaultier, Denis 1603-1672 France Gaultier, Ennemond 1575-1651 France Gautier de Coincy c.1177-1236 France Geminiani, Francesco 1687-1762 Italy Genzmer, Harald 1909-2007 Germany Gershwin, George 1898-1937 USA Gervais, Aaron b.1980 Canada Gesensway, Louis 1906-1976 Latvia Gesualdo, Carlo 1561-1613 Italy Gherardello da Firenze c.1320-c.1362 Italy Gibbons, Christopher 1615-1676 England Gibbons, Orlando 1583-1675 England Gigault, Nicholas c.1627-1707 France Ginastera, Alberto 1916-1983 Argentina Giordani, Tommaso c.1733-1806 Ireland Giordano, Umberto 1867-1948 Italy Giuliani, Mauro 1781-1829 Italy Glass, Philip b.1937 USA Glazunov, Alexander 1865-1936 Russia Gliere, Reyngol’d 1875-1956 Russia Glinka, Mikhail 1804-1857 Russia Gluck, Christop Willibald 1714-1787 Germany Goedicke, Alexander 1877-1957 Russia Goehr, Alexander b.1932 Germany Goldmark, Karl 1830-1915 Hungary Golijov, Osvaldo b.1960 Argentina Gomes, Carlos 1836-1896 Brazil Goodall, Howard b.1958 England Górecki, Henryk b.1933 Poland Goring, Arthur Thomas 1850-1892 England Goshev, Yordan b.1960 Bulgaria Gossec, François-Joseph 1734-1829 Netherlands Gottschalk, Louis Moreau 1829-1869 USA

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Gounod, Charles 1818-1893 France Gouvy, Louis Théodore 1819-1898 France (Alsace - now Germany) Grainger, Percy 1882-1961 Australia Granados, Enrique 1867-1916 Spain Grandi, Alessandro 1638-1697 Italy Grandi, Alessandro c.1575-1630 Italy Graun, Karl Heinrich 1704-1759 Germany Graupner, Johann Christoph 1683-1760 Germany Greene, Maurice 1696-1755 England Gregor, Christian 1723-1801 USA Gretchaninoff, Alexander 1864-1956 Russia Grieg, Edvard 1843-1907 Norway Griffes, Charles Tomlinson 1884-1920 USA Griffiths, Vernon 1894-1985 England Grigny, Nicolas de 1671-1703 France Grigoryan, Karen b.1984 Armenia Grovlez, Gabriel 1879-1944 France Guerre, Elisabeth Jacquet de la 1665-1729 France Guerrero, Francisco c.1528-1599 Spain Guglielmi, Pietro 1728-1804 Italy Guilmant, Alexandre 1837-1911 France Gumpelzhaimer, Adam 1559-1625 Germany Gunnarsson, Gudmundur Steinn b.1982 Iceland Gurlitt, Cornelius 1820-1901 Germany Gurlitt, Manfred 1890-1973 Germany Haas, Pavel 1899-1944 Moravia Halévy, Jacques Fromental 1799-1862 France Halle, Adam de la c.1240-c.1288 France Händel, Georg Frederic 1685-1759 Germany Handl, Jacob (Gallus) c.1550-1591 Slovenia Hanson, Howard 1896-1981 USA Hark, Friedrich 1914-1943 Germany Harris, Roy 1898-1979 USA Harris, William H. 1883-1973 England Hartmann, Karl Amadeus 1905-1963 Germany Harwood, Basil 1859-1949 England Hasse. Johann Adolf 1699-1783 Germany Hassler, Hans Leo 1562-1612 Germany Hässler, Johann Wilhelm 1747-1822 Germany Hastings, Thomas 1784-1872 USA Haydn, Franz Joseph 1732-1809 Austria Haydn, Michael 1737-1806 Austria Hayne, Ghizeghem van c.1445- before1495 Belgium Heiden, Bernhard 1910-2000 Germany Held, Wilbur b.1914 USA Heller, Stephen 1813-1888 Hungary Henry, Pierre b.1927 France Henze, Hans Werner b.1926 Germany Herbert, Victor 1859-1924 Ireland

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Herbst, Johannes 1735-1812 Moravia Higdon, Jennifer b.1962 USA Hildegard von Bingen 1098-1179 Germany Hill, Uri K. 1802-1875 USA Hiller, Ferdinand von 1811-1885 Germany Hiller, Johann Adam 1728-1804 Germany Himmel, Friedrich Heinrich 1765-1814 Germany Hindemith, Paul 1895-1963 Germany Hofhaymer, Paulus 1449-1537 Germany Holbrook, Joseph P. 1822-1888 USA Holden, Oliver 1765-1844 USA Holloway, Robin b.1943 England Holmboe, Vagn 1909-1996 Denmark Holst, Gustav 1874-1934 England Homilius, Gottfried August 1714-1785 Germany Honegger, Arthur 1892-1955 Switzerland Hook, James 1746-1827 England Hooper, Edmund c.1553-1621 England Hopkinson, Francis 1737-1791 USA Hotteterre, Jacques-Martin 1674-1763 France Hovhaness, Alan 1911-2000 USA Howells, Herbert 1892-1983 England Hüllmandel, Nicolas-Joseph 1756-1823 France Hummel, Johann Nepomuk 1778-1837 Austria Humperdinck, Engelbert 1854-1921 Germany Iannaccone, Anthony b.1943 USA Ibert, Jacques 1890-1962 France Ingalls, Jeremiah 1764-1838 USA Ippolitov-Ivanov, Mikhail 1859-1935 Russia Ireland, John 1879-1962 England Isaac, Heinrich 1450-1517 Flanders Ives, Charles 1874-1954 USA Jackson, Francis Alan b.1917 England Jackson, George K. 1745-1823 USA Jacopa da Bologna active c. 1350 Italy Jalbert, Pierre b.1967 USA Janácek, Leos 1854-1928 Czechoslovakia Janequin, Clément c.1485-1558 France Jenks, Stephen 1772-1856 USA Jirasek, Jan b.1955 Czech Republic Joachim, Joseph 1831-1907 Hungary Johnson, Robert Sherlaw b.1932 England Johnson, Robert c.1583-1633 England Jolivet, André 1905-1974 France Joplin, Scott 1867-1917 USA Joubert, John b.1927 South Africa Kabalevsky, Dmitri 1904-1987 Russia Kadosa, Pál 1903-1983 Hungary Kalabis, Viktor 1923-2006 Czech Republic

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Kalkbrenner, Friedrich 1785-1849 Germany Kapustin, Nikolai b.1937 Russia Karetnikov, Nikolay 1930-1994 Russia Karg-Elert, Sigfried 1877-1933 Germany Karkoschka, Erhard 1923-2009 Czechoslovakia Kaufmann, Georg Friedrich 1679-1735 Germany Kay, Ulysses 1917-1995 USA Keeton, Haydn 1847-1921 England Kellogg, Daniel b.1976 USA Ketèlbey, Albert William 1875-1959 England Khachaturian, Aram 1903-1978 Russia Kilar, Wojciech b.1932 Poland Kindermann, Johann Erasmus 1616-1655 Germany King, Larry Peyton 1932-1990 USA Kingsley, George 1811-1884 USA Kirchner, Leon 1919-2009 USA Kirchner, Theodore 1823-1903 Germany Kirnberger, Johann Philipp 1721-1783 Germany Kittel, Johann Christian 1732-1809 Germany Kittl, Jan Berrich 1806-1868 Czechoslovakia Klein, Gideon 1899-1945 Moravia Klotz, Hans 1900-1987 Germany Knapp, William 1698-1768 England Koch, Friedrich 1862-1927 Germany Kodály, Zoltan 1882-1967 Hungary Koechlin, Charles 1867-1950 France Köhler, Louis 1820-1886 Germany Korngold, Erich Wolfgang 1897-1957 Moravia Krása, Hans 1899-1944 Czechoslovakia Kraus, Joseph Martin 1756-1792 Germany Krause, Christian Gottfried 1719-1770 Germany Krebs, Johann Ludwig 1713-1780 Germany Krenek, Ernst 1900-1991 Austria Kreutzer, Conradin 1780-1849 Germany Krieger, Armando b.1940 Argentina Krieger, Johann 1652-1735 Germany Krommer, Franz 1759-1831 Czechoslovakia Kuhlau, Friedrich 1786-1832 Germany Kuhnau, Johann 1660-1722 Saxony Lachenmann, Helmut Friedrich b.1935 Germany Lacombe, Paul 1837-1927 France Lajtha, László 1892-1963 Hungary Lalande, Michel-Richard de 1657-1726 France Lalo, Édouard 1823-1892 France Lambert, Constance 1905-1951 England Landini, Francesco c.1325-1397 Italy Lang, C.S. 1891-1972 New Zealand Langlais, Jean 1907-1991 France Langstroth, Ivan 1887-1971 USA

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Lanier, Nicholas 1588-1666 England Lassus, (Lasso) Orlando de 1532-1594 Netherlands Latour , Jean Théodore 1776-1837 France Lawes, Henry 1596-1662 England Lawes, William 1602-1645 England Le Bègue, Nicolas 1630-1703 France Le Bouteiller, Jean 1530-1542 France Le Couppey, Felix 1811-1887 France Le Sueur, Jean-François 1760-1837 France Leborne, Aimé 1797-1866 Belgium Lebrun, Louis-Sébastien 1764-1829 France Lebrun, Ludwig August 1752-1790 Germany Lechner, Leonhard c.1553-1606 Germany Leclair, Jean-Marie 1697-1764 France Lecocq, Charles 1832-1918 France Leduc, Simon c.1748-1777 France Lees, Benjamin b.1924 China Leeuw, Ton de b.1926 Holland Lefebure, Charles Edouard 1843-1917 France Lefébure-Wely, Louis James Alfred 1817-1870 France Lefebvre, Louis Antoine c.1720-1763 France Legrenzi, Giovanni 1626-1690 Italy Lehár, Franz 1870-1948 Hungary Lehman, Evangeline 1897-1984 USA Leighton, Kenneth b.1929 England Le Jeune, Claude c.1527-c.1600 France Lekeu, Guillaume 1870-1894 Belgium Lemmens, Jacques 1823-1881 Belgium Lemoine, Antoine Henry 1786-1854 France Leo, Leonardo 1694-1744 Italy Leoncavallo, Ruggero 1857-1919 Italy Léoninus c.1150-c.1201 France Lesur, Daniel-Jean-Yves 1908-2002 France Lezcano, Jose b.1960 Cuba Liebermann, Rolf 1910-1999 Switzerland Lifchitz, Max b.1948 Mexico Ligeti, György Sándor 1923 -2006 Hungary Lindberg, Magnus b.1958 Finland Lindberg, Nils b.1933 Sweden Lindberg, Olle b.1967 Sweden Linley, Thomas 1733-1795 England Linley, Thomas (the younger) 1756-1778 England Liszt, Franz 1811-1886 Hungary Lloyd Webber, William 1914-1982 England Locke, Matthew c.1622-1677 England Loeillet, Jacques 1685-1748 Belgium Loeillet, Jean Baptiste 1688-c.1720 Belgium Loeillet, Jean-Baptiste 1680-1730 Belgium Loewe, Karl 1796-1869 Germany

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Lotti, Antonio 1667-1740 Germany Luening, Otto 1900-1996 USA Lully, Jean-Baptiste 1632-1687 Italy Luther, Martin 1483-1546 Germany Lutoslawski, Witold 1913-1994 Poland Lutyens, Elizabeth 1906-1983 England Lyadov, Anatolli 1855-1914 Russia Lyon, James 1735-1794 USA MacDowell, Edward 1861-1908 USA Machaut, Guillaume de c.1300-1377 France MacMillan, James b.1959 Scotland Maconchy, Elizabeth 1907-1994 England Mahler, Gustav 1860-1911 Bohemia Maillard, Jean c.1538-1570 France Malloy, Christopher b.1965 USA Mangoré, Agustin Barrios 1885-1944 Paraguay Marais, Marin 1656-1728 France Marcello, Alessandro 1684-1750 Italy Marcello, Benedetto 1686-1739 Italy Marchand, Louis 1669-1732 France Marenzio, Luca 1553-1599 Italy Marpurg, Friedrich Wilhelm 1718-1795 Germany Martin, Frank 1890-1974 Switzerland Martinez, Patricia b.1973 Argentina Martini, Giovanni Battista 1706-1784 Italy Martini, Johannes c.1440-c.1498 Flanders Martinu, Bohuslav 1890-1959 Czechoslovakia Martland, Steve b.1959 England Mascagni, Pietro 1863-1945 Italy Mason, Lowell 1792-1872 USA Massenet, Jules 1842-1912 France Mathias, William b.1934 Wales Maxwell Davies, Peter b.1934 England Mayo, Christopher b.1980 Canada Medtner, Nicholas 1880-1951 Germany Mendelssohn, Fanny 1805-1847 Germany Mendelssohn, Felix 1809-1847 Germany Mertens, Wim b.1953 Belgium Messiaen, Olivier 1908-1992 France Meyerbeer, Giacomo 1791-1864 Germany Miaskovsky, Nikolai 1881-1950 Russia Milford, Robin 1903-1959 England Milhaud, Darius 1892-1974 France Moeren, Ernest 1894-1950 England Mompou, Federico 1893-1987 Spain Moore, Douglas 1892-1969 USA Monteverdi, Claudio 1567-1643 Italy Morgan, Justin 1747-1798 USA Morley, Thomas 1557-1603 England

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Morrison, Charles Sumner 1860-1933 USA Moscheles, Ignaz 1794-1870 Bohemia Moszkowski, Moritz 1854-1925 Russia Mouret, Jean-Joseph 1682-1738 France Mouton, Jean 1459-1522 France Mozart, Leopold 1719-1787 Austria Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 1756-1791 Austria Muczynski, Robert b.1929 USA Mudarra, Alonso c.1510-1580 Spain Mudd, Thomas c.1559-c.1619 England Muffat, Georg 1653-1704 Germany; now France Muffat, Gottlieb 1690-1770 Austria Mulet, Henri 1878-1967 France Mundy, John c.1555-1630 England Mundy, William c.1529-1591 England Murrill, Herbert 1909-1952 England Murschhauser, Franz Xavier Anton 1663-1738 Germany Mushel, Georgi 1909-1989 Russia Mussorgsky, Modeste Petrovich 1839-1881 Russia Naudot, Jacques-Christophe c.1690-1762 France Nebra, Joaquin 1709-1782 Spain Neufville, Johann Jacob de 1684-1712 Germany Neukomm, Sigismond Ritter von 1778-1858 Austria Nicolai, Karl Otto 1810-1849 Germany Nielsen, Carl 1865-1931 Denmark Nono, Luigi 1924-1990 Italy Nordraak, Rikard 1842-1866 Norway Noverre, Jean-Georges 1727-1810 France Nuez, Pedro 1739-1809 Spain Nyman, Michael b.1944 England Obrecht, Jacob 1450-1505 Netherlands Ockeghem, Johannes c.1420-1497 France Odak, Krsto 1888-1965 Croatia Offenbach, Jacques 1819-1880 Germany Okeover, John c.1590-c.1663 England Oldham, Arthur 1926-2003 England Oley, Johann Christoph 1738-1789 Germany Olmstead, Timothy 1759-1848 USA Onslow, George 1784-1853 France Orff, Carl 1895-1982 Germany Orr, Robin 1909-2006 England Ortiz, William b. 1947 Puerto Rico Pachelbel, Johann 1653-1706 Germany Pachulski, Henryk 1859-1921 Poland Paderewski, Ignacy Jan 1860-1943 Poland Padilla, Juan Gutiérrez de c.1590-1664 Spain Paer, Ferdinando 1771-1839 Italy Paganini, Niccolò 1782-1840 Italy Paisiello, Giovanni 1740-1816 Italy

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Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da c.1525-1594 Italy Palmgren, Selim 1878-1951 Finland Paradies, Domenico 1707-1791 Italy Paradis, Maria Theresia von 1759-1824 Austria Paris, François b.1961 France

Parisotti, Alessandro 1853-1913 Italy Parker, Horatio 1863-1937 USA Parry, Hubert 1848-1918 England Pärt, Arvo b.1935 Estonia Pasquini, Bernardo 1637-1710 Italy Passereau, Pierre 1509-1547 France Pastrano, Pedro de c.1480-1559 Spain Patterson, Paul b.1947 England Payne, Anthony b.1936 England Peerson, Martin c.1572-1651 England Peeters, Flor 1903-1986 Belgium Penderecki, Krzysztof b.1933 Poland Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista 1710-1736 Italy Peri, Jacopo 1561-1633 Italy Persichetti, Vincent 1915-1987 USA Pescetti, Giovanni Battista c.1704-1766 Italy Peter, Johann Freidrich 1746-1813 Holland Philipp, Isidore 1863-1958 France Philippus de Caserta active c. 1370 Italy Philips, Peter c.1560-1628 England Pichi, Giovanni c.1571-1643 England Pierne, Gabriel 1863-1937 France Pichl, Václav 1741-1805 Czechoslovakia Pick-Mangiagalli, Riccardo 1882-1949 Czechoslovakia Pinto, Francisco 1815-1860 Portugal Pinto, George Frederick 1785-1806 England Piston, Walter 1894-1976 USA Pitoni, Giuseppe Ottavio 1657-1743 Italy Pleyel, Ignaz Josef 1757-1831 Austria Poldini, Eduard 1869-1957 Hungary Ponce, Manuel 1882-1948 Mexico Ponchielli, Amilcare 1834-1886 Italy Porter, Quincy 1897-1966 USA Poulenc, Francis 1899-1963 France Praetorius, Michael 1571-1621 Germany Prokofiev, Sergei 1891-1953 Russia Puccini, Giacomo 1858-1924 Italy Purcell, Daniel 1664-1717 England Purcell, Henry 1659-1695 England Quantz, Johann Joachim 1697-1773 Germany Quilter, Roger 1877-1953 England Rachmaninov, Sergei 1873-1943 Russia Raison, André c.1649-1719 France Rameau, Jean Philippe 1683-1764 France

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Ratcliffe, Desmond b.1917 England Rathgeber, Johann Valentin 1682-1750 Germany Rausch, Carlos b.1924 Argentina Ravel, Maurice 1875-1937 France Rawsthorne, Alan 1905-1971 England Read, Daniel 1757-1836 USA Reading, John c.1685-1764 England Rebel, Jean-Féry 1666-1747 France Rebel, François 1701-1775 France Rebikov, Vladimir Ivanovich 1866-1920 Russia Reger, Max 1873-1916 Germany Rego, Pedro Vaz 1673-1736 Portugal Regnart, Jacob c.1540-1599 Netherlands Reich, Steve b.1936 USA Reichardt, Johann Friedrich 1752-1814 Germany Reimann, Aribert b.1936 Germany Reinagle, Alexander 1756-1809 England Reinecke, Carl 1824-1910 Germany Reinhold, Otto 1899-1965 Germany Rembt, Johann Ernst 1749-1810 Germany Respighi, Ottorino 1879-1936 Italy Reubke, Julius 1834-1858 Germany Revueltas, Silvestre 1899-1940 Mexico Reyer, Ernest 1823-1909 France Rheinberger, Josef 1839-1901 Germany Rhodes, Leonard b.1952 England Richardson, Ferdinand c.1558-1618 England Richter, Franz Xaver 1709-1789 Moravia Riegger, Wallingford 1885-1961 USA Rigatti, Antonio 1615-1649 Italy Riley, Terry b.1935 USA Rimsky-Korsakov, Nicolai 1844-1908 Russia Rodrigo, Joaquin 1901-1999 Spain Rodriquez, Felipe 1759-1814 Spain Ropartz, Joseph-Guy 1864-1955 France Roques, Léon 1884-1923 France Rorem, Ned b.1923 USA Rossini, Gioacchino 1792-1868 Italy Rouse, Mikel b.1957 USA Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 1712-1778 Switzerland Roussel, Albert 1869-1937 France Rowley, Alec 1892-1958 England Rubbra, Edmund 1901-1986 England Rubinstein, Anton 1829-1894 Russia Rübsam, Wolfgang b.1946 Germany Russell, William 1777-1813 England Rutter, John b.1945 England Rzewski, Frederic b.1938 USA Sabbatini, Galeazzo 1597-1662 Italy

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Saint-Saens, Camille 1835-1921 France Salzedo, Carlos 1885-1961 France Sammartini, Giovanni Battista c.1700-1775 Italy Sammartini, Giuseppe 1695-c.1750 Italy Sarasate, Pablo de 1844-1908 Spain Satie, Erik 1866-1925 France Saxe, Ole b.1952 Sweden Scarlatti, Alessandro 1660-1725 Italy Scarlatti, Domenico 1685-1757 Italy Scharwenka, Xaver 1850-1924 Poland Scheidt, Samuel 1587-1654 Germany Schein,Johann Hermann 1586-1630 Germany Schmidt, Johann Christoph 1664-1728 Germany Schmitt, Florent 1870-1958 France Schmitt, Joseph 1734-1791 Germany Schneider, Johann Christian Friedrich 1786-1853 Germany Schnittke, Alfred 1934-1998 Germany Schocker, Gary b.1959 USA Scholz, Bernard 1835-1916 Germany Schönberg, Arnold 1874-1951 Austria Schubert, Franz 1797-1828 Austria Schulhoff, Edwin 1894-1942 Czech Republic Schuller, Gunther b.1925 USA Schumann, Robert 1810-1856 Germany Schütt, Eduard 1856-1933 Russia Schutz, Heinrich 1585-1672 Saxony Schwartz, Elliott b.1936 USA Schytte, Ludvig 1848-1909 Denmark Scott, Cyril 1879-1970 England Senfl, Ludwig 1486-1543 Switzerland Serocki, Kazimierz 1922-1981 Poland Shostakovitch, Dmitri 1906-1975 Russia Sibelius, Jean 1865-1957 Finland Siegmeister, Elie 1909-1991 USA Simpson, Robert 1921-1997 England Singelée, Jean-Baptiste 1812-1875 Belgium Skryabin, Alexander 1872-1915 Russia Slater, Gordon 1896-1979 England Smetana, Bedrich 1824-1884 Bohemia Smyth, Ethel 1858-1844 England Sokolov, Ivan b.1960 Russia Soler, Antonio 1729-1783 Spain Sousa, John Philip 1854-1932 USA Sowerby, Leo 1895-1968 USA Speer, Daniel 1636-1707 Germany Sperontes, Johann Sigismund Scholze 1705-1750 Germany Spohr, Louis 1784-1859 Germany Spontini, Gaspare 1774-1851 Italy Stainer, John 1840-1901 England

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Stamitz, Johann 1717-1757 Bohemia Stanford, Charles Villiers 1852-1924 England Stanley, John 1712-1786 England Statham, Heathcote 1889-1973 England Statkova, Silvia b.1964 Bulgaria Still, William Grant 1895-1978 USA Stockhausen, Karlheinz 1928-2007 Germany Stoessel, Albert 1894-1943 USA Stoltzer, Thomas c.1480-1526 Germany Stölzel, Gottfried Heinrich 1690-1749 Germany Stradella, Alessandro 1642-1682 Italy Straus, Oscar 1870-1954 Austria Strauss II, Johann 1825-1899 Austria Strauss, Richard 1864-1949 Germany Stravinsky, Igor 1882-1971 Russia Strengthfield, Thomas before 1650 England Strogers, Nicholas c.1530-c.1575 England Stucky, Steven b.1949 USA Subotnick, Morton b.1933 USA Suk, Josef 1874-1935 Czech Sullivan, Arthur 1842-1900 England Suppé, Franz von 1819-1895 Dalmatia Svendsen, Johan S. 1840-1911 Norway Swan, Timothy 1758-1842 USA Sweelinck, Jan Pieter 1562-1621 Holland Szymanowska, Maria 1789-1831 Poland Szymanowski, Karol 1882-1937 Poland Tailleferre, Germaine 1892-1983 France Takács, Jenö 1902-2005 Austria Takemitsu, Töru 1930-1996 Japan Tallis, Thomas 1505-1585 England Tansman, Alexandre 1897-1986 France Tartini, Giuseppe 1692-1770 Italy Tavener, John Kenneth b.1944 England Taverner, John c.1490-1545 England Tchaikovsky, Pyotr 1840-1893 Russia Tchérépnin, Alexander 1899-1977 Russia Telemann, Georg Philipp 1681-1767 Germany Thiman, Eric H. 1900-1975 England Thomas, Ambroise 1811-1896 France Thomson, Virgil 1896-1989 USA Tippett, Michael 1905-1998 England Tisdall, William c.1570-c.1604 England Tishchenko, Boris b.1939 Russia Titelouze, Jean 1563-1633 France Toch, Ernst 1887-1964 USA Tolhurst, Henry 1778-1814 England Torelli, Giuseppe 1658-1709 Italy Tormis, Veljo b.1930 Estonia

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Tower, Joan b.1938 USA Tremblay, Gilles b.1932 Canada Tsabary, Eldad b.1969 Israel Türk, Daniel Gottlob 1750-1813 Germany Turina , Joaquin 1882-1949 Spain Turini, Francesco c.1589-1656 Czechoslovakia Turnage, Mark-Anthony b.1960 England Tüür, Erkki Sven b.1959 Estonia Ullmann, Viktor 1898-1944 Silesia Ussachevsky, Vladimir 1911-1990 Russia Valchanov, Marin b.1949 Bulgaria Varèse, Edgard 1883-1965 France Vaughan Williams, Ralph 1872-1958 England Vecchi, Orazio 1550-1605 Italy Verdi, Giuseppe 1813-1901 Italy Viadana, Lodovico c.1560-1627 Italy Vičar, Jan b.1949 Czech Republic Victoria, Tomás Luis. de 1548-1611 Spain Vierne, Louis 1870-1937 France Vieuxtemps, Henri 1820-1881 Belgium Villa-Lobos, Heitor 1887-1959 Brazil Viotti, Giovanni Battista 1755-1824 Italy Vitry, Philippe de 1291-1361 France Vivaldi, Antonio 1678-1741 Italy Vodenicharov, Yassen b.1964 Bulgaria Vogel, Wladimir 1896-1984 Russia Volkmann, Robert 1815-1883 Germany Wagenseil, Georg Christoph 1715-1777 Austria Wagner, Richard 1813-1883 Germany Walacinski, Adam b.1928 Poland Walther, Johann Gottfried 1684-1748 Germany Walton, William 1902-1983 England Ward, Robert Eugene b.1917 USA Warlock, Peter (Philip Heseltine) 1894-1930 England Warwick, Thomas c.1565-1620 England Wassenaer, Unico Willem van 1692-1766 Holland Weber, Carl Maria von 1786-1826 Germany Webern, Anton von 1883-1945 Austria Weelkes, Thomas 1576-1623 England Weill, Kurt 1900-1950 Germany Weinberger, Jaromir 1896-1967 Czech Weir, Judith b.1954 England Wesley, Charles 1757-1834 England Wesley, Samuel Sebastian 1810-1876 England Wesley, Samuel 1766-1837 England Weyse, Christoph Ernst Friedrich 1774-1842 Germany Whettam, Graham 1927-2007 England Whyte, Ian 1901-1960 Scotland Whythorne, Thomas 1528-1596 England

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Widerkehr, Jacques 1759-1823 France (Alsace) ??Widmer, Ernst 1927-1990 Switzerland Widor, Charles-Marie 1844-1937 France Wieniawski, Henri 1835-1880 Poland Wilbye, John 1574-1638 England Willan, Healey 1880-1968 England Willis, Richard Storrs 1819-1900 USA Winter-Hjelm, Otto 1837-1931 Norway Witte, Christian Friedrich c.1660-1717 Germany Witthauser, Johann Georg 1751-1802 Germany Wolf, Hugo 1860-1903 Austria Xenakis, Iannis 1922-2001 Romania Ysaÿe, Eugène 1858-1931 Belgium Zachau, Friedrich Wilhelm 1663-1712 Germany Zappa, Frank 1940-1993 USA Zarlino, Gioseffo 1517-1590 Italy Zelenka, Jan Dismas 1679-1745 Bohemia Zemlinsky, Alexander 1871-1942 Austria Zipoli, Domenico 1688-1726 Argentina

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