THE DICTIONARY OF COMPOSERS AND THEIR MUSIC

A LISTENER'S COMPANION

by

ERIC GILDER

CHRONOLOGY
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N-Z COMPOSER INDEX            A-M here

1. NICOLAI, Carl Otto
2. NIELSEN, Carl
3. NILSSON, Bo
4. NONO, Luigi
5. NOVAK, Vitezslav
6. OFFENBACH, Jacques
7. OLIVER, Stephen
8. ORFF, Carl
9. PACHELBEL, Johann
10. PADEREWSKI, Ignace Jan
11. PAGANINI, Niccolo
12. PAISIELLO, Giovanni
13. PALESTRINA, Giovanni Pierluigi da
14. PANUFNIK, Andrzej
15. PARKER, Horatio
16. PARRY, Charles Hubert Hastings (Sir)
17. PATTERSON, Paul
18. PENDERECKI, Krzysztof
19. PERGOLESI, Giovanni Battista
20. PETTERSSON, Gustaf Allan
21. PIERNÉ, Henri Constant Gabriel
22. PISTON, Walter
23. PIZZETTI, Ildebrando
24. PONCE, Manuel
25. PONCHIELLI, Amilcare
26. PORPORA, Niccolo Antonio
27. POULENC, Francis
28. PRAETORIUS, Michael
29. PREVIN, Andre
30. PROKOFIEV, Sergei
31. PUCCINI, Giacomo
32. PUJOL, Juan Pablo
33. PURCELL, Henry
34. QUILTER, Roger
35. RACHMANINOV, Sergei
36. RAFF, Joachim
37. RAINIER, Priaulx
38. RAMEAU, Jean-Philippe
39. RAVEL, Maurice
40. RAWSTHORNE, Alan
41. REGER Max
42. REICH, Steve Michael
43. RESPIGHI, Ottorino
44. RIEGGER, Wallingford
45. RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, Nicolai
46. ROBERTSON, Leroy
47. ROCHBERG, George
48. RODRIGO, Joaquin
49. ROGERS, Bernard
50. ROPARTZ, Joseph Guy
51. ROSSINI, Gioacchino Antonio
52. ROUSSEL, Albert
53. RUBBRA, Edmund
54. RUBINSTEIN, Anton
55. RUGGLES, Carl Sprague
56. SAINT-SAËNS, Camille
57. SALLINEN, Aulis
58. SAMMARTINI, Giuseppe
59. SARASATE, Pablo de
60. SATIE, Erik
61. SCARLATTI, Alessandro
62. SCARLATTI, Domenico
63. SCHEIDT, Samuel
64. SCHMIDT, Franz
65. SCHMITT, Florent
66. SCHNITTKE, Alfred
67. SCHOECK, Othmar
68. SCHOENBERG, Arnold
69. SCHREKER, Franz
70. SCHUBERT, Franz
71. SCHULLER, Gunther
72. SCHUMAN, William
73. SCHUMANN, Robert
74. SCHUTZ, Heinrich
75. SCOTT, Cyril Meir
76. SEIBER, Matyas
77. SESSIONS, Roger
78. SHAPERO, Harold
79. SHAPEY, Ralph
80. SHCHEDRIN, Rodion Konstantinovich
81. SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitri
82. SIBELIUS, Jean
83. SIEGMEISTER, Elie
84. SIMPSON, Robert
85. SINDING, Christian August
86. SKALKOTTAS, Nickolaos
87. SKRIABIN, Alexander
88. SMETANA, Bedrich
89. SMYTH, (Dame) Ethel
90. SOR, Fernando
91. SOWERBY, Leo
92. SPOHR, Ludwig (Louis)
93. SPONTINI, Gasparo
94. STAINER, (Sir) John
95. STAMITZ, Johann
96. STAMITZ, Karl
97. STANFORD, (Sir) Charles Villiers
98. STILL, Robert
99. STOCKHAUSEN, Karlheinz
100. STRAUSS, Johann (II)
101. STRAUSS, Richard
102. STRAVINSKY, Igor
103. SUK, Josef
104. SULLIVAN, (Sir) Arthur
105. SUPPÉ, Franz von
106. SWEELINCK, Jan
107. SZYMANOWSKI, Karol
108. TAKEMITSU, Toru
109. TALLIS, Thomas
110. TANSMAN, Alexandre
111. TARREGA, Francisco
112. TARTINI, Giuseppe
113. TAVENER, John
114. TAYLOR, Deems
115. TCHAIKOVSKY, Peter Ilych
116. TELEMANN, Georg Philipp
117. THEODORAKIS, Mikis
118. THOMAS, Ambroise
119. THOMPSON, Randall
120. THOMSON, Virgil
121. TIPPETT, (Sir) Michael
122. TOCH, Ernst
123. TOMKINS, Thomas
124. TORELLI, Giuseppe
125. TURINA, Joaquin
126. VARESE, Edgard
127. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, Ralph
128. VERDI, Giuseppe
129. VICTORIA (Vittoria), Tomas Luis de
130. VIEUXTEMPS, Henry
131. VILLA-LOBOS, Heitor
132. VIVALDI, Antonio Lucio
133. WAGNER, Richard
134. WALTON, (Sir) William
135. WARLOCK, Peter (Philip Heseltine)
136. WEBER, Carl Maria von
137. WEBERN, Anton von
138. WEELKES, Thomas
139. WEILL, Kurt
140. WEINBERGER, Jaromir
141. WELLESZ, Egon
142. WIDOR, Charles-Marie-Jean-Albert
143. WIENIAWSKI, Henryk
144. WILBYE, John
145. WILLIAMSON, Malcolm
146. WOLF, Hugo
147. WOLF-FERRARI, Ermanno
148. WOOD, Hugh
149. XENAKIS, Iannis
150. ZELENKA, Jan Dismas
151. ZEMLINSKY, Alexander von