List of organ composers
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The following is a list of organ composers. It includes some of the more important names composers who wrote or write for the pipe organ.
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[edit] Armenia
[edit] Modern
[edit] Austria and Germany
[edit] Renaissance
[edit] Baroque
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Georg Böhm
- Nicolaus Bruhns
- Dieterich Buxtehude
- Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer
- Johann Jakob Froberger
- Johann Kaspar Kerll
- Johann Ludwig Krebs
- Johann Tobias Krebs
- Johann Krieger
- Vincent Lubeck
- Johann Mattheson
- Georg Muffat
- Gottlieb Muffat
- Johann Pachelbel
- Jacob Praetorius
- Michael Praetorius
- Johann Adam Reincken
- Heinrich Scheidemann
- Samuel Scheidt
- Heinrich Schütz
- Johann Speth
- Franz Tunder
- Johann Gottfried Walther
- Matthias Weckmann
[edit] Classicism
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- Justin Heinrich Knecht
- Christian Heinrich Rinck
- Simon Sechter
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
[edit] Romantic
- Johannes Brahms
- Sigfrid Karg-Elert
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Julius Reubke
- Josef Rheinberger
- August Gottfried Ritter
- Max Wagenknecht
[edit] Modern
- Hugo Distler
- Anton Heiller
- Max Reger
- Franz Schmidt
- Gottfried von Einem
- Bertold Hummel
- Paul Hindemith
[edit] Belgium
[edit] Baroque
[edit] Romantic
[edit] Modern
[edit] Brazil
[edit] Canada
[edit] Croatia
[edit] Czech Republic (Bohemia)
[edit] Baroque
[edit] Classical
[edit] Romantic
[edit] Modern
[edit] Denmark
[edit] England
[edit] Renaissance
[edit] Baroque
[edit] Classical
[edit] Romantic
[edit] Modern
- Lennox Berkeley
- Frank Bridge
- Peter Maxwell Davies
- James Douglas
- George Dyson
- Michael Finnissy
- Graham Fitkin
- Hans Gál
- Patrick Gowers
- Basil Harwood
- Herbert Howells
- Francis Jackson
- Craig Sellar Lang (born in New Zealand)
- Kenneth Leighton
- William Mathias
- Alan Ridout
- Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
- Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Percy Whitlock
- Arthur Wills
- Malcolm Williamson
[edit] France
[edit] Renaissance
[edit] Baroque (French classical)
- Jacques Boyvin
- Louis-Nicolas Clérambault
- Gaspard Corrette
- François Couperin
- Louis Couperin
- Jean-François Dandrieu
- Louis-Claude Daquin
- Nicolas Gigault
- Nicolas de Grigny
- Gilles Jullien
- Nicolas Lebègue
- Louis Marchand
- Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers
- André Raison
- François Roberday
[edit] Late Classical
- Claude-Bénigne Balbastre
- Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet Charpentier
- Alexandre Pierre François Boëly
- Michel Corrette
[edit] Romantic
- Léon Boëllmann
- Joseph Bonnet
- Théodore Dubois
- César Franck (born in Belgium)
- Eugène Gigout
- Alexandre Guilmant
- Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély
- Henri Mulet
- Gabriel Pierné
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Charles Tournemire
- Louis Vierne
- Charles-Marie Widor
[edit] Modern
- Jehan Alain
- Jeanne Demessieux
- Marcel Dupré
- Maurice Duruflé
- Rolande Falcinelli
- André Fleury
- Jean-Jacques Grunenwald
- Jean Guillou
- Naji Hakim (born in Lebanon)
- Jean Langlais
- Gaston Litaize
- Olivier Messiaen
- Daniel Roth
[edit] Hungary
[edit] Romantic
[edit] Modern
[edit] Israel
[edit] Italy
[edit] Renaissance
- Vincenzo Bellavere
- Girolamo Cavazzoni
- Girolamo Diruta
- Andrea Gabrieli
- Giovanni Gabrieli
- Luzzasco Luzzaschi
- Giovanni de Macque
- Ascanio Mayone
- Claudio Merulo
- Rocco Rodio
- Antonio Valente
- Adrian Willaert (born in what is now Belgium)
[edit] Baroque
- Girolamo Frescobaldi
- Tarquinio Merula
- Bernardo Pasquini
- Giovanni Salvatore
- Alessandro Scarlatti
- Domenico Scarlatti
- Bernardo Storace
- Giovanni Maria Trabaci
- Domenico Zipoli
[edit] Romantic
[edit] Japan
[edit] Latvia
[edit] Netherlands
[edit] Renaissance
[edit] Baroque
[edit] Modern
[edit] Portugal
[edit] Renaissance
[edit] Baroque
[edit] Classicism
[edit] Spain
[edit] Renaissance
[edit] Baroque
[edit] Sweden
[edit] Modern
[edit] Switzerland
[edit] Renaissance
[edit] Poland
[edit] Renaissance
[edit] Baroque
[edit] Classical
[edit] Romantic
[edit] Modern
- Grażyna Bacewicz
- Karol Hławiczka
- Jan Adam Maklakiewicz
- Marian Sawa
- Bolesław Szabelski
- Aleksander Tansman
[edit] Russia
[edit] Ukraine
[edit] USA
[edit] Romantic
- Dudley Buck
- George Whitefield Chadwick
- Arthur Foote
- Horatio Parker
- John Knowles Paine
- Fela Sowande
- Frank Speller
- Whitney Eugene Thayer
[edit] Modern
- William Albright
- Samuel Barber
- Joseph W. Clokey
- Emma Lou Diemer
- Robert Hebble
- David N. Johnson
- Paul Manz
- Ned Rorem
- Stephen Paulus
- Vincent Persichetti
- Daniel Pinkham
- John Serry, Sr.
- Leo Sowerby
- Richard Zarou
[edit] See also
[edit] Sources
- A Directory of Composers for Organ by Dr. John Henderson,Hon. Librarian to the Royal School of Church Music 2005 3rd edition ISBN 0-9528050-2-2
- Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Venetian Instrumental Music, from Gabrieli to Vivaldi. New York, Dover Publications, 1994. ISBN 0-486-28151-5
