List of organ composers

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The following is a list of organ composers. It details those composers who wrote or write for the pipe organ.

[edit] Germany and Austria

[edit] Renaissance

• Elias Ammerbach
• Conrad Paumann
• Arnolt Schlick

[edit] Baroque

• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Georg Böhm
• Nicolaus Bruhns
• Dieterich Buxtehude
• Antonio Caldara
• Christian Erbach
• Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer
• Johann Jakob Froberger
• Johann Kaspar Kerll
• Johann Ludwig Krebs
• Johann Tobias Krebs
• Georg Muffat
• Johann Pachelbel
• Michael Praetorius
• Johann Adam Reincken
• Ambros Rieder
• Franz Anton Römer
• Heinrich Scheidemann
• Samuel Scheidt
• Sebastian Anton Scherer
• Johann Baptist Schiedermayr
• Heinrich Schütz
• Franz Tunder
• Matthias Weckmann

[edit] Classicism

• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
• Justin Heinrich Knecht
• Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck
• Simon Sechter
• Johann Georg Vogler

[edit] Romantic

• Johannes Brahms
• Anton Bruckner
• Sigfrid Karg-Elert
• Felix Mendelssohn
• Max Reger
• Josef Rheinberger
• August Gottfried Ritter
• Max Wagenknecht

[edit] Modern

• Karen de Pastel
• Anton Heiller
• Josef Lechthaler
• Franz Schmidt
• Gottfried von Einem
• Bertold Hummel

[edit] France

[edit] Baroque (French classical)

• François d'Agincourt
• 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
• Jean Titelouze

[edit] Classicism, Age Of Revolution and Pre-romanticism

• Claude-Bénigne Balbastre
• Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet Charpentier
• Alexandre Pierre François Boëly
• Antoine Calvière
• Michel Corrette
• Guillaume Lasceux
• Nicolas Sejan

[edit] Romantic

• Léon Boëllmann
• Marcel Dupré
• César Franck
• Eugène Gigout
• Alexandre Guilmant
• Joseph Jongen
• Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wely
• Henri Mulet
• Camille Saint-Saëns
• Louis Vierne
• Charles-Marie Widor

[edit] Modern

• Jehan Alain
• Jean-Pierre Leguay
• Gaston Litaize
• Olivier Messiaen
• Jean Langlais
• Maurice Duruflé

[edit] Italy

[edit] Renaissance

• Vincenzo Bellavere
• Girolamo Diruta
• Andrea Gabrieli
• Giovanni Gabrieli
• Luzzasco Luzzaschi
• Claudio Merulo
• Adrian Willaert

[edit] Baroque

• Girolamo Frescobaldi
• Tarquinio Merula
• Bernardo Pasquini
• Giovanni Salvatore
• Alessandro Scarlatti
• Domenico Scarlatti
• Domenico Zipoli

[edit] Romantic

• Marco Enrico Bossi
• Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata
• Padre Davide da Bergamo (Felice Moretti)
• Giovanni Morandi
• Vincenzo Antonio Petrali

[edit] Netherlands

[edit] Renaissance

• Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

[edit] Baroque

• Abraham van den Kerkhoven

[edit] Portugal

[edit] Renaissance and Mannerism

• Pedro de Araújo
• António Correia Braga
• António Carreira
• Manuel Rodrigues Coelho
• Fr. Diogo da Conceição
• Fr. Agostinho da Cruz
• D. Heliodoro de Paiva

[edit] Baroque

• Fr. José da Madre de Deus
• Carlos Seixas

[edit] Classicism

• João de Sousa Carvalho

[edit] Contemporary

• Joel Canhão
• Manuel Faria

[edit] Spain

[edit] Renaissance

• Antonio de Cabezón
• Tomás de Santa María

[edit] Baroque

• Juan Cabanilles

[edit] Sweden

[edit] Modern

• Fredrik Sixten

[edit] England

[edit] Renaissance

• William Byrd
• Thomas Tallis

[edit] Baroque

• Henry Purcell

[edit] Classical

• William Boyce
• Benjamin Cooke
• John Stanley

[edit] Romantic

• Edward Elgar
• Hubert Parry
• Charles Villiers Stanford
• Samuel Sebastian Wesley

[edit] Modern

• Lennox Berkeley
• Frank Bridge
• Peter Maxwell Davies
• James Douglas
• George Dyson
• Graham Fitkin
• Hans Gál
• Basil Harwood
• Herbert Howells
• Kenneth Leighton
• William Mathias
• Ralph Vaughan Williams
• Percy Whitlock
• Malcolm Williamson

[edit] Poland

[edit] Renaissance

• Nicolaus Cracoviensis
• Petrus de Drusina (Piotr Drusinsky)
• Johannes Fischer Morungensis
• Marcin Leopolita
• Jan of Lublin
• Jakub Sowa
• Adam of Wągrowiec

[edit] Baroque

• Jadwiga Dygulska
• Teresa Ozanna Fabiańska
• Piotr Żelechowski

[edit] Classicism

• Karol Kurpiński
• Franciszek Lessel
• Wacław Ludwik Raszek

[edit] Romantic

• August Freyer
• Konstanty Gorski (Górski)
• Aleksander Karczyński
• Stanisław Moniuszko
• Feliks Nowowiejski
• Gustaw Roguski
• Wincenty Rychling (Bartoszewski)
• Mieczysław Surzyński
• Stefan Surzyński
• Franciszek Walczyński
• Eugeniusz Walkiewicz
• Władysław Żeleński

[edit] Modern

• Grażyna Bacewicz
• Augustyn Bloch
• Stanisław Moryto
• Marian Sawa
• Bolesław Szabelski

[edit] Hungary

[edit] Romantic

• Franz Liszt
• Dezső Antalffy-Zsiross

[edit] Modern

• István Koloss

[edit] USA

[edit] Romantic

• Dudley Buck
• John Knowles Paine

[edit] Modern

• William Albright
• Leonardo Ciampa
• Joseph W. Clokey
• Emma Lou Diemer
• David N. Johnson
• Paul Manz
• Daniel Pinkham
• John Serry, Sr.

[edit] Armenia

• Alexander Kaloian

[edit] Canada

• Gerald Bales
• H. Hugh Bancroft
• Denis Bédard
• Healey Willan

[edit] Croatia

• Franjo Dugan
• Anđelko Klobučar

[edit] Bulgaria

• Hristo Tsanoff

[edit] Estonia

• Arvo Pärt

[edit] Ukraine

• Mykola Kolessa

[edit] Russia

• Valery Kikta
• Khristofor Kushnaryov
• Mikael Tariverdiev

[edit] See also

• Organ repertoire
• Organ (music)
• Pipe organ
• List of Anglican church composers

[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