Some Music Writers According to Forms of Composition
Troubadours and Trouvères
Troubadours
(12th Century)
Guillaume d’Aquitaine
Bernart de Ventardorn
Bertran de Born
Richard the Lion-Hearted (1169–99)
Peire Vidal
Le Moine de Montaudon (The Monk of)
Guiraut de Borneil (Maestre dels trobadors)
Gaucelm Faidit (Jongleur)
(12th and 13th Centuries)
Peire Cardinal
(13th Century)
Pierre Mauclerc (Duke of Bretagne)
Uc de Saint-Circ
Thibaut de Champagne (King of Navarre)
Jean Bretel
Adam de la Hale
Guillaume de Machaut
Trouvères
(12th Century)
Blondel de Nesle
Chrétien de Troyes
Chatelain de Coucy
Gace Brulé
(13th Century)
Colin Muset
Minnesingers
(12th Century)
Kürenberger
von Aist
Spervogel
(13th Century)
Wolfram von Eschenbach
Walther von der Vogelweide
Prince Witzlav
Tannhäuser
Nitthart
Biterolf
Meistersingers
Heinrich von Meissen (“Frauenlob”)
Til Eulenspiegel
Hans Sachs (1494–1576)
Motets and Madrigals
Franco-Belgian Period
Guillaume Dufay (1400–1474)
Jakob Hobrecht (1430–1506)
Jan de Okeghem (1430–1495)
Josquin Deprès (1450–1521)
Heinrich Isaak (1450–15 ?)
Jean Mouton (14 ?–1522)
Heinric Finck (14 ?–15 ?) (German)
Jakob Clemens non Papa (1475–1567)
Claude Goudimel (1505–1572)
Flemish Period
Jakob Arcadelt (1514–1565)
Adrian Willaert (1480–1562)
Nicolas Gombert (14 ?–15 ?)
Cyprian de Rore (1516–1565)
Philippe de Monte (1521–1602)
Orlandus Lassus (1530–1594)
Italian Period
Constanza Festa (14 ?–1545)
Giovanni Animuccia (15 ?–1571)
Andrea Gabrieli (1510–1586)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1515–1594)
Orazio Vecchi (1550?–1605)
Matteo Asola (15 ?–1609)
Luca Marenzio (1550?–1599)
Giovanni Gabrieli (1557–1613)
Felice Anerio (1560–1630)
Andriano Banchieri (1567–1634)
French Period
Claudin de Sermizy (15 ?–1566)
Claudin le Jeune (1530–1564)
Guillaume Costeley (1531–15 ?)
German Period
Hans Leo Hassler (1564–1612)
English Period
John Taverner ( ? –1530)
William Byrd (1538–1623)
Thomas Morley (1557–1604)
Thomas Weelkes ( ? –1623)
George Kirbye ( ? – ?)
John Dowland (1562–1628)
John Wilbye (1574–1638)
Michael Este ( ? – ?)
Orlando Gibbons (1583–1625)
Fugues
Italian
Andrea Gabrieli (1510–1586)
Giovanni Gabrieli (1557–1613)
Adriano Banchieri (1567–1637)
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1644)
English
Thomas Tallis (15 ?–1585)
William Byrd (1538–1623)
Dutch
Jan Pieters Sweelinck (1562–1621)
Danish
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637–1707)
German
Samuel Scheidt (1587–1654)
Johann Jacob Froberger (1605–1667)
Georg Muffat (16 ?–1704)
Johann Pachelbel (1653–1706)
Johann Krieger (1652–1735)
Johann Joseph Fux (1650–1741)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
George Frederic Handel (1685–1759)
Friedrich Marpurg (1718–1795)
Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736–1809)
French
François Couperin (1631–1698)
Jean Louis Marchand (1669–1732)
Louis Nicolas Clérembault (1676–1749)
Modern Fugues
German
August Klengel (1783–1852)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809–1847)
Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Salomon Jadassohn (1831–1902)
Max Reger (1873–1916)
French
César Franck (Belg.) (1822–1890)
André Gédalge (1857–1926)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
American
Daniel Gregory Mason (1873)
Mrs. H. H. A. Beach (1867)
Charles Haubiel (1892)
Swedish
Emil Sjögren (1853–1918)
Czecho-Slovakian
Felix Petyrek (20th Century)
Suites
(Sonata da Camera, Sonata da Chiesa, Sonatas, Ordres, Suites, Exercises, Partitas)
Italian
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1644)
Michel Angelo Rossi (159 ?–16 ?)
Giovanni Legrenzi (1625–1690)
Bernardo Pasquini (1637–1710)
Giovanni Bononcini (1640–1678)
Giovanni Battista Vitali (1644–1692)
Giuseppe Torelli (1645–1708)
Domenico Zipoli (16 ?–17 ?)
Evarista Felice d’all’Abaco (16 ?–17 ?)
Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1760)
French
Jacques Champion de Chambonnières (1610–1671)
François Couperin (1668–1733)
Jean Philippe Rameau (1683–1764)
Jean François Dandrieu (1684–1740)
Jean Marie Leclair (1687–1764)
German
Johann Schein (1586–1630)
Samuel Scheidt (1587–1754)
Johann Kuhnau (1660–1722)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
George Frederic Handel (1685–1759)
Modern Suites
German
Joseph Joachim Raff (Swiss) (1822–1882)
Karl Reinecke (1824–1910)
Ignaz Brüll (1846–1907)
Ferdinand Hummel (1855)
French
Charles Marie Widor (1845)
Benjamin Godard (1849–1895)
Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
Russian
Serge Rachmaninov (1873)
Hungarian
Emanuel Moor (1862)
English
Eugen D’Albert (1864)
York Bowen (1884)
Scandinavian
Edvard Grieg (Norwegian) (1843–1907)
Christian Sinding (Norwegian) (1856)
Johan Halvorsen (Norwegian) (1864)
American
Edward MacDowell (1861–1908)
Arthur Whiting (1861)
Sonatas
(Before Beethoven)
German
Johann Kuhnau (1660–1722)
Johann Mattheson (1681–1764)
Georg Philip Telemann (1681–1767)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
George Frederic Handel (1685–1759)
Karl Philip Emanuel Bach (1714–1788)
Leopold Mozart (1719–1788)
Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1826)
Italian
Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713)
Francesco Maria Veracini (1685–1750)
Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1750)
Giuseppe Tartini (1692–1770)
Pietro Locatelli (1693–1764)
Baldassare Galuppi (1706–1784)
Pietro Nardini (1722–1793)
Gaetano Pugnani (1731–1798)
Pietro Domenico Paradies (1710–1792)
(Contemporaries of Beethoven)
German
Johann Dussek (Bohemian) (1761–1812)
Johann Cramer (1771–1858)
Johann Woelfl (1772–1812)
Johann Hummel (1778–1837)
Ferdinand Ries (1784–1838)
Karl Maria von Weber (1786–1824)
Friedrich W. M. Kalkbrenner (1788–1849)
Ignaz Moscheles (Bohemian) (1794–1870)
Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Italian
Muzio Clementi (1752–1832)
Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842)
English
John Field (1782–1837)
After Beethoven
German and Austrian
Heinrich Marschner (1795–1861)
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809–1847)
Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Joseph Raff (Swiss) (1822–1882)
Karl Reinecke (1824–1910)
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Ludwig Thuille (1861–1907)
Richard Strauss (1864)
Georg Schumann (1866)
Alexander Zemlinsky (1872)
Max Reger (1873–1916)
Heinz Tiessen (1887)
Hermann Scherchen (1891)
Egon Kornauth (Austrian) (1891)
Philipp Jarnach (1892)
Paul Pisk (1893)
Paul Hindemith (1895)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (Austrian) (1897)
Ernst Krenek (Austrian) (1900)
Czecho-Slovakian
Rudolph Karel (1881)
Emil Axman (20th Century)
Hungarian
Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
Emanuel Moor (1862)
Ernst von Dohnanyi (1877)
Bela Bartok (1881)
Zoltan Kodaly (1882)
French
César Franck (Belgian) (1822–1890)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1919)
Felix Alexandre Guilmant (1837–1911)
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)
Charles Marie Widor (1845)
Benjamin Godard (1849–1895)
Paul Vincent d’Indy (1851)
Claude Achille Debussy (1862–1918)
Guy Ropartz (1864)
Paul Dukas (1865)
Charles Koechlin (1867)
Guillaume Lekeu (Belgian) (1870–1894)
Florent Schmitt (1870)
Maurice Ravel (1875)
Rhené-Baton (1879)
Gabriel Grovlez (1879)
Arthur Honegger (1892)
Darius Milhaud (1892)
Germaine Taillefer (1892)
Raymond Petit (20th Century)
Dutch
Dirk Schaefer (1874)
James Zwart (1892)
Willem Pijper (1894)
Russian
Anton Rubinstein (1829–1894)
Georg Lvovitch Catoire (1861)
Joseph Wihtol (1863)
Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915)
Paul Juon (1872)
Serge Rachmaninov (1873)
Alexander Glazounov (1873)
Fedor Akimenko (1876)
Nicholas Medtner (1879)
Nicholai Miaskovsky (1881)
Samuel Feinberg (1890)
Alexander Tcherepnin (1902)
Polish
Frédéric Chopin (1809–1849)
Ignace Jan Paderewski (1860)
Miecyslaw Karlowicz (1876–1909)
Karol Szymanowsky (1883)
Scandinavian
Johan P. E. Hartmann (Danish) (1805–1900)
Edvard Hagerup Grieg (Norwegian) (1843–1907)
Emil Sjögren (Swedish) (1853–1918)
Bror Beckman (Swedish) (1866)
Wilhelm Stenhammar (Swedish) (1871)
Italian
Enrico Bossi (1861–1925)
Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924)
Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880)
Spanish
Isaac Albeniz (1860–1909)
English
C. Hubert H. Parry (1848–1918)
Marie Wurm (1860) (Living in Germany)
John B. McEwen (1868)
Wm. Y. Hurlstone (1876–1906)
Cyril Scott (1879)
Arnold Bax (1882)
York Bowen (1884)
James Friskin (1886)
American
John Knowles Paine (1839–1906)
Arthur Foote (1853)
Edward MacDowell (1861–1908)
Ernest Kroeger (1862)
Henry Holden Huss (1862)
Mrs. H. H. A. Beach (1867)
Frederick Converse (1871)
John Alden Carpenter (1876)
Louis Campbell-Tipton (1877–1921)
Alexander MacFayden (1879)
Ernest Bloch (Swiss) (1880)
Arthur Shepherd (1880)
John Powell (1882)
Charles Griffes (1884–1920)
Emerson Whithorne (1884)
Louis Gruenberg (1884)
Marion Bauer (1887)
Chalmers Clifton (1889)
Harold Morris (1889)
Elliot Griffis (1892)
Albert Stoessel (1894)
Leo Ornstein (Russian) (1895)
George Antheil (20th Century)
Fanny Charles Dillon (20th Century)
Classic Concertos
German (Before Mozart)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
George Frederic Handel (1685–1759)
Johann Gottlieb Graun (1701–1759)
Franz Benda (Bohemian) (1709–1786)
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710–1784)
Karl Phillip Emanuel Bach (1714–1788)
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
French
Jean Marie Leclair (1697–1764)
Jean Philippe Rameau (1683–1764)
Italian
Antonio Vivaldi (1675–1743)
Francesco Maria Veracini (1685–1750)
Giuseppe Tartini (1692–1770)
Concertos
German and Austrian
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Joseph Woelfl (1772–1812)
Johann Hummel (1778–1837)
Ferdinand Ries (1784–1838)
Karl Maria von Weber (1786–1826)
Ignaz Moscheles (Bohemian) (1794–1870)
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809–1847)
Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Georg E. Goltermann (1824–1898)
Karl Reinecke (1824–1910)
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Max Bruch (1838–1917)
Josef Rheinberger (1839–1901)
Heinrich Hofmann (1842–1902)
Ignaz Brüll (1846–1907)
Richard Strauss (1864)
Hans Pfitzner (1869)
Max Reger (1873–1916)
Alban Berg (1885)
Ernst Toch (1887)
Paul Hindemith (1895)
Ernst Krenek (1900)
Heinrich Kaminsky (20th Century)
Czecho-Slovakian
Antonin Dvorak (1841–1904)
Erwin Schulhoff (1894)
Vaclav Talich (20th Century)
Hungarian
Franz Liszt (1811–1888)
Joseph Joachim (1831–1907)
Jeno Hubay (1858)
Julius Major (1859)
Emanuel Moor (1862)
Ottokar Novacek (1866–1900)
Ernst von Dohnanyi (1877)
Béla Bártok (1881)
French
Jacques Rode (1774–1830)
Henri Vieuxtemps (1820–1881)
César Franck (Belg.) (1822–1890)
Edouard Lalo (1823–1892)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
Charles Marie Widor (1845)
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)
Benjamin Godard (1849–1895)
Ernest Chausson (1855–1899)
Gabriel Pierné (1863)
Darius Milhaud (1892)
Germaine Tailleferre (1892)
Jean Wiener (20th Century)
Belgian
Théophile Ysaye (1865–1918)
Joseph Jongen (1873)
Dutch
Julius Roentgen (1855)
Dirk Schaefer (1874)
James Zwart (1892)
Swiss
Hans Huber (1852–1921)
Russian
Anton Rubinstein (1830–1894)
Peter Iljitch Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908)
Serge Liapounov (1859)
Anton Arensky (1861–1906)
Georg Lvovitch Catoire (1861–1926)
Alexander Glazounov (1873)
Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915)
Serge Rachmaninov (1873)
Josef Hofmann (1876)
Fedor Akimenko (1876)
Nicolai Miaskovsky (1881)
Igor Stravinsky (1882)
Serge Prokofiev (1891)
Alexander Tcherepnin (1902)
Polish
Frédéric Chopin (1809–1849)
Joseph Wieniawski (1837–1912)
Philipp Scharwenka (1847–1917)
Franz Xaver Scharwenka (1850–1924)
Ignace Jan Paderewski (1860)
Emil Mlynarski (1870)
Sigismund Stojowski (1870) (Living in America)
Karol Szymanowski (1883)
Finnish
Jan Sibelius (1865)
Selim Palmgren (1878)
Scandinavian
Eduard Lassen (Danish) (1830–1904)
August Winding (Danish) (1835–1899)
Emil Hartmann (Danish) (1836–1898)
Johan Svendsen (Norwegian) (1840–1911)
Edvard Grieg (Norwegian) (1843–1907)
Christian Sinding (Norwegian) (1856)
Johan Halvorsen (Norwegian) (1864)
Tor Aulin (Swedish) (1866–1914)
Wilhelm Stenhammar (Swedish) (1871)
Hugo Alfven (Swedish) (1872)
Halfdan Cleve (Norwegian) (1879)
Kurt Atterberg (Swedish) (1887)
Italian
Giuseppe Martucci (1856–1909)
Alberto Franchetti (1860)
Enrico Bossi (1861–1925)
Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924)
Leone Sinigaglia (1868)
Ottorino Respighi (1879)
G. Francesco Malipiero (1882)
Alfredo Casella (1883)
Spanish
Isaac Albéniz (1860–1909)
Manuel de Falla (1876)
Joan de Manen (1883)
English
John Field (1782–1837)
William Sterndale Bennett (1816–1875)
Frederick Hymen Cowen (1852)
Tobias Matthay (1858)
Frederick Delius (1863)
Eugen d’Albert (Scotch) (1864)
Arthur Hinton (1869)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912)
Wm. Y. Hurlstone (1876–1906)
Cyril Scott (1879)
York Bowen (1884)
Arthur Bliss (1891)
Dorothy Howell (20th Century)
American
Leopold Damrosch (German) (1832–1885)
Frederick Grant Gleason (1848–1903)
Max Vogrich (Transylvanian) (1852–1916)
Helen Hopekirk (Scotch) (1856)
Harry Rowe Shelley (1858)
Victor Herbert (1859–1924)
Edward MacDowell (1861–1908)
Edmund Severn (1862)
Henry Holden Huss (1862)
Mrs. H. H. A. Beach (1867)
Ernest Hutcheson (Australian) (1871)
Felix Borowsky (1872)
Arne Oldberg (1874)
Ernest Schelling (1876)
John Alden Carpenter (1876)
Blair Fairchild (1877)
John Powell (1882)
Louis Gruenberg (1884)
Cecil Burleigh (1885)
George F. Boyle (Australian) (1886)
Albert Spalding (1888)
A. Walter Kramer (1890)
Mana Zucca (1893)
Leo Ornstein (Russian) (1895)
Leo Sowerby (1895)
Aaron Copland (1898)
Symphonies
German and Austrian
Franz Xaver Richter (1709–1789)
Karl Philip Emanuel Bach (1714–1788)
Johann Stamitz (1717–1757)
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
Michael Haydn (1737–1806)
Johann Christian Bach (1738–1782)
K. D. von Dittersdorf (1739–1799)
Karl Stamitz (1746–1801)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Ludwig von Beethoven (1770–1827)
Ludwig Spohr (1784–1859)
Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826)
Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Franz Lachner (1803–1890)
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809–1847)
Otto Nicolai (1810–1849)
Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Robert Volkmann (1815–1883)
Joseph Joachim Raff (Swiss) (1822–1882)
Anton Bruckner (1824–1896)
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Max Bruch (1838–1920)
Herman Goetz (1840–1876)
August Klughardt (1847–1902)
Felix Weingartner (1863)
Richard Strauss (1864)
Georg Schumann (1866)
Siegmund von Hausegger (1872)
Alexander von Zemlinsky (1872)
Karl Bleyle (1880)
Heinz Tiessen (1887)
Ernst Toch (1887)
Eduard Erdmann (20th Century)
Dance Symphony
Egon Wellesz (1885)
Ernst Krenek (1900)
Czecho-Slovakian
Frederic Smetana (1824–1884)
J. J. Abert (1832–1915)
Antonin Dvorak (1841–1904)
Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
Josef Suk (1874)
Otakar Ostrcil (1879)
Emil Axman (20th Century)
Erwin Schulhoff (1894)
Hungarian
Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
Karl Goldmark (1830–1915)
Julius Major (1859)
Emanuel Moor (1862)
Ernst von Dohnanyi (1877)
French
François Joseph Gossec (Belgian) (1734–1829)
Henri Méhul (1763–1817)
Hector Berlioz (1803–1869)
Napoleon Henri Reber (1807–1880)
Charles François Gounod (1818–1893)
César Franck (Belgian) (1822–1890)
Edouard Lalo (1823–1892)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
Charles Widor (1845)
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)
Agusta Holmes (English) (1847–1903)
Vincent d’Indy (1851)
Ernest Chausson (1855–1899)
André Gédalge (1857–1926)
Guy Ropartz (1864)
Paul Dukas (1865)
Alberic Magnard (1865–1914)
Albert Roussel (1869)
Henri Rabaud (1873)
Darius Milhaud (1892)
Belgian
Théophile Ysaye (1865–1918)
Dutch
Richard Hol (1825–1904)
Bernard Zweers (1854)
Julius Roentgen (1855)
Cornelius Dopper (1870)
Bernard Dieren (1884)
Willem Pijper (1894)
Swiss
Hans Huber (1852–1921)
Roumanian
Georges Enesco (1881)
Russian
Joseph Wihtol (1863)
Alexander Gretchaninov (1864)
Alexander Glazounov (1865)
Vassili Kilinnikov (1866–1900)
Paul Juon (1872)
Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915)
Serge Vassilenko (1872)
Serge Rachmaninov (1873)
Reinhold Glière (1875)
Nicholas Miaskovsky (1881)
Lazare Saminsky (1883)