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Composer of the Week’ (Formerly “This Week’S Composer”) Since 2Nd August 1943 Alphabetical list of all composers featured on ‘Composer of the Week’ (formerly “This Week’s Composer”) since 2nd August 1943 Adam, Adolphe Bizet Corelli Adams, John Bliss Couperin, Francois Adinsell Boccherini Couperin, Louis Albeniz Bohm Coward Albinoni Borde Cowell Alfven Borodin Crosse, Gordon Alkan Boulanger, Lili Crusell Alwyn Boulez Cui Alwyn Boyce, William Dallapiccola Arensky Brahms Davies, Peter Maxwell Arne, Thomas Brian, Havergal Davis, Miles Arnold Bridge de la Rue Arriaga Britten De Lalande Auber Bruch Debussy Avison Bruckner Delibes Bach, C.P.E Bruhns Delius Bach, J.C Bull, John Dieren, Bernard van Bach, J.C.F. Bull, Ole D'Indy Bach, J.S. Busoni Dohnanyi Bach, W.F. Buxtehude Donizetti Balakirev Byrd Dowland Bantock Cabezon Dufay Barber Campra Dukas Bartok Carissimi, Giacomo Dunstable Bax Carpenter, John Alden Duparc Beach, Amy Carter Dupre Beamish, Sally Carver, Robert Durufle Beethoven Casella Dussek Bellini Cavalli Dutilleux Chabrier Dvorak Bennett, Richard Rodney Chadwick Eisler Bentzon Chaminade Elgar Berg Charpentier Ellington (Duke) Berio Chausson Enesco, Georges Berkeley, Lennox Chavez Evans Berkeley, Michael Cherubini Falla Berlin, Irving Chopin Faure Berlioz Cimarosa Ferguson Berners (Lord) Clementi Fibich Bernstein, Leonard Clerambault Field Berwald Coates Finzi Biber Coleridge-Taylor Francaix Binchois Copland Franck,César Birtwistle 1 Frankel, Benjamin HOLST, Imogen Marcello Frescobaldi Honegger, Arthur Martin, Frank Gabrieli, Andrea Horovitz, Joseph Martinu Gabrieli, Giovanni Hovhaness Mascagni Gade Howells Massenet Geminiani Hummel Mathias Gerhard, Roberto Humperdinck Matthews, Colin German Ibert Maw, Nicholas Gershwin Ireland Mayerl, Billy Gesualdo Ives McCabe, John Gibbons Jacob, Gordon Medtner Ginastera Janacek Mendelssohn Glass Jommelli Mendelssohn, Fanny (See Glazunov Joplin Hensel) Gliere Josquin Des Pres Mendelssohn, Felix Glinka Kern, Jerome Menotti Gluck Khachaturian Messager Goehr Knussen Messiaen Goldmark Kodaly Meyerbeer Goldschmidt Koechlin Milhaud Golijov Korngold Mingus Gounod Lalo Moeran Grainger Lambert, Constant Monteclair Granados Langaard Monteverdi Grechaninov Larsson Morales Greig Lassus Morley Guilmant Lawes, Henry Moszkowski Hahn Lawes, William Mozart Handel Lehar Muffat Hanson Lekeu Musgrave, Thea Harris, Roy Leoncavallo Mussorgsky Hartmann, Karl Amadeus Ligeti Myaskovsky Harvey, Johnathan Liszt Nielsen Hasse Lloyd, George Novak Haydn, Joseph Loewe, Frederick Nyman Haydn, Michael Lortzing Obrecht Hensel, Fanny Lully Ockeghem Henze Lutoslawski Offenbach Herold Lutyens Orff Herrmann, Bernard MacDowell Pachelbel Hindemith Machaut Paganini Hoddinott MacMillan, James Paisiello Holloway Maconchy, Elizabeth Palestrina Holmboe, Vagn Mahler Panufnik Holmes Malipiero Parry Holst, Gustav Marais Part 2 Part, Arvo Schoeck Tubin, Eduard Patterson, Paul Schoenberg, Arnold Tye Pergolesi Schubert Varese Pfitzner Schuman, William Vaughan Williams Piazzolla Schumann, Clara Verdi Piston, Walter Schumann, Robert Victoria Pizzetti Schutz Vierne Porter, Cole Scott Villa-Lobos Poulenc Scriabin Vivaldi Power, Lionel Sculthorpe Wagner Praetorius Sessions Walton Prokofiev Shostakovich Warlock Puccini Sibelius Waxman Purcell Simpson, Robert Weber Quantz Skalkottas Webern Rachmaninov Smetana, Bedrich Weelkes Rameau Smyth, Ethel Weill Rautavaara Soler Weir, Judith Ravel Sondheim Wesley, Samuel Sebastian Rawsthorne, Alan Sousa Wheeler Reger Spohr Whitefield, George Reich, Steve Spontini Widor Reicha Stamitz Wilbye Respighi Stanford Williams, Grace Revueltas Stanley Williams, John Rimsky Korsakov Steiner Williamson, Malcolm Rodgers , Richard Stenhammar Wolf Rodrigo Strauss (I), Johann Wood, Hugh Rorem, Ned Strauss (II), Johann Woolrich Rosenberg, Hilding Strauss, Richard Zelenka Roslavets Stravinsky Zemlinsky Rossini Suk Roussel, Albert Sullivan Rozsa Svendsen Rubbra Swedish Romantics Ruggles Szymanowski Rutter Tallis Saint-Saens Taneyev Salieri Tavener Satie Taverner Saxton, Robert Tchaikovsky Scarlatti, Alessandro Telemann Scarlatti, Domenico Thomas, Ambrose Schmelzer Thomson, Virgil Schmidt, Franz Tippett Schnittke Tomkins 3 List of Composer Groups (4 or more names) featured since 2nd August 1943. 20th Century American Song 20th Century Japanese Composers 20th Century Scots American Composers of Today: Deems Taylor, Waltor Piston, Dubensky, John Alden Carpenter, Barber, Varese, Beryl Rubenstein, Copland, Roy Harris, Ernest Schilling, American Pupils of Nadia Boulanger American Symphonists Ancient Spanish Music Arne, Boyce & Their English Contemporaries Bach's contemporaries BEBOP BELAIEV CIRCLE BIG BAND Bohemians Bohemians in Paris Bohemians in Vienna British Film Music British Light Music British Music 1900-1960 BURGUDIANS (OCKEGHEM & CO) Clementi and his Circle COMPOSERS IN VENICE Composers of Drottningholm Composers of the Great War (Elgar, Moeran, Farrar, Bridge, Butterworth, Bax, Gurney, Howells, Browne, Baines, Berners, Gill, Vaughan Williams) Composers of the Soviet Union: Katchaturian, Kabalevsky, Shostakovich, Rakov, Myaskovsky, Prokovief CONCERT SPIRITUEL Dvorak's pupils English Madrigalists (Morley, Holborne, Wilbye, Coprario, Gibbons, Ward, Byrd) English Madrigalists (Morley, Tomkins, Bennet, Ward, Ford, Henry VIII, Byrd, Weelkes, Vautor, Wilbye, Browne, Ravenscroft, Gibbons, East, Farnaby, Farmer, Greaves, Grainger, Campion) ENGLISH MYSTICS (TALLIS - TAVENER) ENGLISH PASTORALISTS Eton Choirbook Falla and his contemporaries Finnish Composers Forgotten Giants of 18th Century Opera (Hasse, Jomelli, Galuppi, Sacchini, Piccinni, Pergolesi, Salieri, Paisiello, Cimarosa) Franck and his circle GERMAN ORGAN SCHOOL Haydn's Contemporaries (Reutter, Porporra, Werner, CPE Bach, Wagenseil, Gassmann, Mozart, Gluck, Pleyel, Dussek, Wranitsky, Haydn, Hummel, FX Mozart, Beethoven) Italian Madrigalists (Marenzio, Gesualdo, d'India, Monteverdi, Pari) 4 Italian Violin School Les Six LIGHT MUSIC MACDOWELL COLONY MANNHEIM SCHOOL MINIMALISTS MONTEVERDI to ROSSINI MOZART & CONTEMPORARIES Mozart and the English Mozarts Mozart's Prague Disciples (Triebensee, Kozeluh, Masek, Tomasek, Praupner, Dusek, Weber, Kuchar, Vitasek, Vanhal, Jirovec, Semiramis, Vent) Mozart's Rivals in Vienna Music at VERSAILLES NAPOLEON'S MUSIC OPERA COMIQUE Paris 1750 Paris before and after Revolution PARISIAN ORGANISTS Parisian Organists of the 20th Century Polish Romantics PURCELL'S CONTEMPORARIES RAVEL AND HIS WORLD RUSSIAN OPERA Scottish Romantics (Thomson, Donaldson, Campell, Mackenzie, Wallace, Maccunn) SPANISH BAROQUE SPANISH POLYPHONY The Bach Family The Benda Family The Bologna School The Burgundians THE CHAPEL ROYAL The Court of Burgundy The Court of Catherine the Great The Court of Dresden (Heinichen, Schmidt, Buffardin, Weiss, Zelenka, Pisendel, Vivaldi, Hasse, Lotti, JS Bach, WF Bach, Quantz, Graun, Abel, Neruda) THE COURT OF ELIZABETH The Court of Ferrara (Dufay, Dunstable, Power, Tromboncino, Obrecht, Brunel, Josquin, Willaert, Cipriano de Rore, Wert, Luzzaschi, Frescobaldi) The Court of Frederick the Great (Hasse, Graun, Frederick II King of Prussia, CPE Bach, Benda, JS Bach, Telemann, August Wilhelm, Anna Amalia, Graun, Mozart, Zelenka, Quantz) The Court of Gustav III of Sweden The Court of Henry VIII THE COURT OF JAMES I The Court of James VI THE COURT OF JOSEPH II The Court of Louis XIV The Court of Mannheim 5 The Court of Philip II of Spain The Court of the Emperor Maximilian I The Court of the Sun King the Early Bohemians The Early Tudors (Browne, Davy, Wylkynson, Fayrfax, Taverner, Tallis) The Elizabethans: Byrd, John Bull, John Munday, Thomas Ford, Thomas Tomkins, and Peter Phillips, Willbye, Giles Famaby, John Farmer, Francis Pilkington, Michael East, and Daniel Norcome, Orlando Gibbons, John Ward, Thomas Bateson, and Thomas Vautor, Thomas Morley, John Dowland and Thomas Weelkes. The Frankfurt Group The Golden Age of Hollywood The House of Lancaster The Late Venetians The London Piano School (Cramer, Dussek, Busby, Clementi, Field, Wesley, Pinto, Moschelles, Sterndale Bennett) The Mannheim School The Notre Dame School The Papal Court (Guido, Senleches, Dufay, Josquin des Pres, Arcadelt, Morales, Palestrina, Marenzio, Quagliati, Kapsberger, Puliaschi, Allegri, Landi) The Polish Romantics The Stamitz Family The Strauss Family The Strauss Family of Vienna The Tudors The Venetians The Wesleys VERISMO VERSAILLES Victoria to Falla Wales Since The War 6 .
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