List of symphony composers
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Among composers who have composed symphonies
are (listed in chronological order by year of birth, alphabetical within year):
Symphony
A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, scored almost always for orchestra. A symphony usually contains at least one movement or episode composed according to the sonata principle...
are (listed in chronological order by year of birth, alphabetical within year):
From the earliest symphonies to 1800
- Antonio VivaldiAntonio VivaldiAntonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed because of his red hair, was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe...
(1678–1741). Italian composer of 21 string sinfonie. - Andrea ZaniAndrea ZaniAndrea Teodoro Zani was an Italian violinist and composer.-Life:Zani was born at Casalmaggiore in the Province of Cremona. He received his first instruction in playing the violin from his father, an amateur violinist...
(1696–1757). Italian composer of the earliest securely dated symphonies (part of his op. 2, published in 1729). - Giovanni Battista SammartiniGiovanni Battista SammartiniGiovanni Battista Sammartini was an Italian composer, organist, choirmaster and teacher. He counted Gluck among his students, and was highly regarded by younger composers including Johann Christian Bach...
(c. 1701–1775). Italian composer of at least 67 symphonies. - Antonio BrioschiAntonio BrioschiAntonio Brioschi was an Italian symphony composer who wrote at least twenty six symphonies.Brioschi was a pioneer in symphonic music in the early Classical period which traditionally starts around 1730...
(fl. c. 1725–1750). Italian composer of at least twenty-six symphonies. - Johann Gottlieb JanitschJohann Gottlieb JanitschJohann Gottlieb Janitsch was a German Baroque composer.Janitsch was born in Schweidnitz, Silesia. He graduated from the University of Frankfurt an der Oder. He held various positions at the court of the Kingdom of Prussia, eventually becoming the personal musician of Frederick the Great. Janitsch...
(1708–ca.1763). Silesian composer of at least seven symphonies. - František Xaver Richter (1709–1789). Czech composer of at least 69 symphonies.
- Wilhelm Friedemann BachWilhelm Friedemann BachWilhelm Friedemann Bach , the second child and eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach, was a German composer and performer...
(1710–1784). Eldest son of Johann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
, and a German composer of eight symphonies. - William Boyce (1710–1779). English composer whose opus 2 is a set of eight "symphonies", although they started life as overtures to other works.
- Ignaz HolzbauerIgnaz HolzbauerIgnaz Jakob Holzbauer was a composer of symphonies, concertos, operas, and chamber music, and a member of the Mannheim school. His aesthetic style is in line with that of the Sturm und Drang "movement" of German art and literature.Holzbauer was born in Vienna...
(1711–1783). Austro-German composer of 69 symphonies. - Carl Philipp Emanuel BachCarl Philipp Emanuel Bachright|250pxCarl Philipp Emanuel Bach was a German Classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and second son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach...
(1714–1788). Son of Johann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
, and a German composer of around 20 symphonies. - Georg Christoph WagenseilGeorg Christoph WagenseilGeorg Christoph Wagenseil was an Austrian composer.He was born in Vienna, and became a favorite pupil of the Vienna court'sKapellmeister, Johann Joseph Fux. Wagenseil himself composed for the...
(1715–1777) - Georg Matthias MonnGeorg Matthias MonnGeorg Matthias Monn was an Austrian composer, organist and music teacher whose works were fashioned in the transition from the Baroque to Classical period in music....
(1717–1750). His Symphony in D of 1740 is the first to include a minuet as a third movement. - Johann StamitzJohann StamitzJan Václav Antonín Stamic was a Czech composer and violinist. Johann was the father of Carl Stamitz and Anton Stamitz, also composers...
(1717–1757). Czech composer of 58 symphonies, and the first composer to regularly include a minuet as the third movement. - Wenzel Raimund BirckWenzel Raimund BirckWenzel Raimund Johann Birck was one of the early proponents of Symphonic music in Vienna, along with Georg Christoph Wagenseil and Georg Matthias Monn, and an early tutor for Mozart. Birck also, along with Georg Christoph Wagenseil tutored a young Joseph Haydn.-References:* Biba, Otto. 2001...
(1718–1763), Austrian composer of pre-Classical "sinfonie", as well as a few symphonies of the evolved form. - Leopold MozartLeopold MozartJohann Georg Leopold Mozart was a German composer, conductor, teacher, and violinist. Mozart is best known today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and for his violin textbook Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule.-Childhood and student years:He was born in Augsburg, son of...
(1719–1787). Austrian composer who wrote symphonies in which he included French horns. - Adolph Carl Kunzen (1720–1781). German composer of 16 symphonies.
- Carl Friedrich Abel (1723–1787). German composer later active in London, wrote 23 symphonies.
- František Xaver PokornýFrantišek Xaver PokornýFrantišek Xaver Pokorný was a Czech Classical era composer and violinist.While young, he left his hometown for Regensburg where he studied violin playing with Joseph Riepel. In 1750 he went to Wallerstein where he played violin in the Oettingen-Wallerstein court orchestra...
(1729–1794). Bohemian composer of about 140 symphonies, 104 of which were deliberately misattributed to other composers in 1796 by Theodor von Schacht. - Christian CannabichChristian CannabichJohann Christian Innocenz Bonaventura Cannabich , was a German violinist, composer, and Kapellmeister of the Classical era...
(1731–1798). German composer of the Mannheim schoolMannheim schoolMannheim school refers to both the orchestral techniques pioneered by the court orchestra of Mannheim in the latter half of the 18th century as well as the group of composers who wrote such music for the orchestra of Mannheim and others.-History:...
, who wrote about 70 symphonies. - František Xaver DušekFrantišek Xaver DušekFrantišek Xaver Dušek , was a Czech composer and one of the most important harpsichordists and pianists of his time....
(1731–1799). Czech composer of 37 symphonies. - Carl Joseph Toeschi (1731–1788). German composer of more than 66 symphonies.
- Joseph HaydnJoseph HaydnFranz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms...
(1732–1809). Austrian composer, one of the best known Classical composers of symphonies, he wrote 106 examples, combining wit and structural clarity (see the list of symphonies by Joseph Haydn and the Category of Haydn Symphonies). - Anton FilsAnton FilsAnton Fils was a German classical composer....
(1733–1760). German composer who wrote at least 40 symphonies for the Mannheim orchestra. - Franz Ignaz BeckFranz Ignaz BeckFranz Ignaz Beck was a German violinist, composer, conductor and music teacher who spent the greater part of his life in France, where he became director of the Bordeaux Grand Théâtre. Possibly the most talented pupil of Johann Stamitz, Beck is an important representative of the second generation...
(1734–1809). German composer of about 25 symphonies (biography describes his symphonies especially as ahead of their time). - François-Joseph Gossec (1734–1829). French composer of over 60 symphonies.
- Karl von OrdoñezKarl von OrdoñezKarl von Ordoñez was one of a number of composers working in Vienna during the second half of the Eighteenth century. Ordonez was not a full-time professional musician...
(1734–1786), Austrian composer of some 73 symphonies. - Johann Christian BachJohann Christian BachJohann Christian Bach was a composer of the Classical era, the eleventh and youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach. He is sometimes referred to as 'the London Bach' or 'the English Bach', due to his time spent living in the British capital...
(1735–1782). German composer, son of Johann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
, wrote at least 28 symphonies. - Ernst Wilhelm WolfErnst Wilhelm WolfErnst Wilhelm Wolf was a German composer.-Life:Wolf was born in Grossen Behringen in Thuringia, today part of the Hörselberg-Hainich municipality. His elder brother Ernst Friedrich was a composer and organist who studied under Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel...
(1735–1792). German composer of at least 12 symphonies. - Josef MyslivečekJosef MyslivecekJosef Mysliveček was a Czech composer who contributed to the formation of late eighteenth-century classicism in music...
(1737-1781). Czech composer of over 45 symphonies. - Michael HaydnMichael HaydnJohann Michael Haydn was an Austrian composer of the classical period, the younger brother of Joseph Haydn.-Life:...
(1737–1806). Austrian composer, the younger brother of Joseph Haydn, who wrote forty symphonies. - Leopold Hoffmann (1738–1793).
- Johann Baptist VanhalJohann Baptist VanhalJohann Baptist Vanhal also spelled Wanhal, Waṅhall or Wanhall was an important classical music composer born in Nechanice, Bohemia to a Czech family.- Biography :...
(1739–1813). Bohemian composer of 51 published symphonies. - Carl Ditters von DittersdorfCarl Ditters von Dittersdorf----August Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf was an Austrian composer, violinist and silvologist.-1739-1764:...
(1739–1799). Austrian composer of at least 120 symphonies. - Andrea LuchesiAndrea LuchesiAndrea Luca Luchesi was an Italian composer.- Biography :Andrea Luchesi was born at Motta di Livenza, near Treviso the eleventh child of Pietro Luchese and Caterina Gottardi. The rather wealthy family descended from groups of noble families who had moved from Lucca to Venice in the 14th century...
(1741–1801). Italian composer of at least eight surviving symphonies. - Wenzel PichlWenzel PichlWenzel Pichl was a classical Czech composer of the 18th Century. He was also a violinist, music director and writer....
(1741-1805). An Austrian composer. - Luigi BoccheriniLuigi BoccheriniLuigi Rodolfo Boccherini was an Italian classical era composer and cellist whose music retained a courtly and galante style while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers. Boccherini is most widely known for one particular minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No...
(1743–1805). Italian composer of about 30 symphonies. - Carl StamitzCarl StamitzKarl Philipp Stamitz , who later changed his given name to Carl, was a German composer of partial Czech ancestry , and a violin, viola and viola d'amore virtuoso...
(1745–1801). Son of Johann StamitzJohann StamitzJan Václav Antonín Stamic was a Czech composer and violinist. Johann was the father of Carl Stamitz and Anton Stamitz, also composers...
, composer of over 50 symphonies. - Leopold KozeluchLeopold KozeluchLeopold Kozeluch was a Czech composer and teacher of classical music. He was born in the town of Velvary, in Bohemia .-Life:...
(1747–1818). Czech composer of about 30 symphonies. - Antonio RosettiAntonio RosettiAntonio Rosetti was a classical era composer and double bass player, and was a contemporary of Haydn and Mozart....
(c.1750–1792). BohemianBohemianA Bohemian is a resident of the former Kingdom of Bohemia, either in a narrow sense as the region of Bohemia proper or in a wider meaning as the whole country, now known as the Czech Republic. The word "Bohemian" was used to denote the Czech people as well as the Czech language before the word...
composer, wrote many symphonies. - Muzio ClementiMuzio ClementiMuzio Clementi was a celebrated composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer. Born in Italy, he spent most of his life in England. He is best known for his piano sonatas, and his collection of piano studies, Gradus ad Parnassum...
(1752–1832). Italian composer of symphonies. - Franz Anton HoffmeisterFranz Anton HoffmeisterFranz Anton Hoffmeister was a German composer and music publisher.Born in Rottenburg am Neckar, he went to Vienna at the age of fourteen to study law...
(1754–1812). German composer of over 50 symphonies. - Joseph Martin KrausJoseph Martin KrausJoseph Martin Kraus , was a composer in the classical era who was born in Miltenberg am Main, Germany. He moved to Sweden at age 21, and died at the age of 36 in Stockholm...
(1756–1792). German-Swedish composer of over 20 symphonies, not all of which survive. - Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
(1756–1791). Austrian composer, one of the best known Classical symphonists. Wrote 41 symphonies. - Pavel Vranický (1756–1808). Bohemian composer of about fifty symphonies.
- Ignaz PleyelIgnaz PleyelIgnace Joseph Pleyel , ; was an Austrian-born French composer and piano builder of the Classical period.-Early years:...
(1757–1831). Austrian composer, publisher, and piano maker, wrote 41 symphonies. - António Leal MoreiraAntónio Leal MoreiraAntónio Leal Moreira was a Portuguese composer and organist. He composed a large number of operas, most of which were premiered in Lisbon; much of the rest of his output is sacred, though he composed a handful of symphonies as well.-Reference:* at Answers.com...
(1758–1819). Portuguese composer of three orchestral symphonies plus one for six organs. - Luigi CherubiniLuigi CherubiniLuigi Cherubini was an Italian composer who spent most of his working life in France. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music. Beethoven regarded Cherubini as the greatest of his contemporaries....
(1760–1842). Italian composer of one symphony. - Friedrich Ludwig Aemilius Kunzen (1761–1817). German-born Danish composer of one symphony.
- Franz DanziFranz DanziFranz Ignaz Danzi was a German cellist, composer and conductor, the son of the noted Italian cellist Innocenz Danzi. Born in Schwetzingen, Franz Danzi worked in Mannheim, Munich, Stuttgart and Karlsruhe, where he died....
(1763–1826). German composer of at least six symphonies, plus several sinfonie concertante. - Étienne MéhulÉtienne MéhulEtienne Nicolas Méhul was a French composer, "the most important opera composer in France during the Revolution." He was also the first composer to be called a "Romantic".-Life:...
(1763–1817). French composer of at least four symphonies. - Ludwig van BeethovenLudwig van BeethovenLudwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
(1770–1827). German-Austrian composer, often considered the greatest of all symphonists, who wrote 9 numbered symphonies plus sketches for a tenth—see Category of Beethoven symphonies. - Johann Wilhelm WilmsJohann Wilhelm WilmsJohann Wilhelm Wilms was a Dutch-German composer, best known for writing Wien Neêrlands Bloed, which served as the Dutch national anthem from 1815 to 1932....
(1772–1847). German-born Dutch composer of seven symphonies. - Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse (1774–1842). German-born Danish composer of seven symphonies.
- João Domingos BomtempoJoão Domingos BomtempoJoão Domingos Bomtempo was a Portuguese classical pianist, composer and pedagogue.-Biography:Bomtempo was the son of an Italian musician in the Portuguese court orchestra, and studied at the Music Seminary of the Patriarchal See in Lisbon...
(1775–1842). Portuguese composer of two symphonies. - George Onslow (1784–1853). French composer of four symphonies in a style combining echoes of Beethoven and Schubert.
- Ferdinand RiesFerdinand RiesFerdinand Ries was a German composer.- Life :Born into a musical family of Bonn, Ries was a friend and pupil of Beethoven who published in 1838 a collection of reminiscences of his teacher, co-written with Franz Wegeler...
(1784-1838). German composer of 8 symphonies, one of which unpublished. - Louis SpohrLouis SpohrLouis Spohr was a German composer, violinist and conductor. Born Ludewig Spohr, he is usually known by the French form of his name. Described by Dorothy Mayer as "The Forgotten Master", Spohr was once as famous as Beethoven. As a violinist, his virtuoso playing was admired by Queen Victoria...
(1784–1859). German composer of 10 symphonies. - Carl Maria von WeberCarl Maria von WeberCarl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school....
(1786–1826). German composer of two symphonies. - Friedrich Ernst Fesca (1789-1826). German composer of three symphonies.
- Franz Xaver Wolfgang MozartFranz Xaver Wolfgang MozartFranz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart , also known as F. X. Mozart, W. A. Mozart Son, or Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jr., was the youngest child of six born to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his wife Constanze. He was the younger of his parents' two surviving children...
(1791–1844). Austrian composer of one symphony. - Jan Václav Hugo Voříšek (1791-1825). Czech composer of one symphony.
- Cipriani PotterCipriani PotterPhilip Cipriani Hambly Potter was a British composer, pianist and educator.-Life and career:Born in London, the son of a piano teacher named Richard Huddleston Potter, Cipriani was named after his godmother...
(1792–1871). English composer of nine symphonies. - Ignaz MoschelesIgnaz MoschelesIgnaz Moscheles was a Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso, whose career after his early years was based initially in London, and later at Leipzig, where he succeeded his friend and sometime pupil Felix Mendelssohn as head of the Conservatoire.-Sources:Much of what we know about Moscheles's life...
(1794-1870). Czech composer of one symphony. - Franz BerwaldFranz BerwaldFranz Adolf Berwald was a Swedish Romantic composer who was generally ignored during his lifetime. He made his living as an orthopedic surgeon and later as the manager of a saw mill and glass factory....
(1796–1868). Swedish composer of five symphonies (the first lost save for a fragment of the first movement). - Antonio Raffelín (1796–1882). Cuban composer of several symphonies.
- Gaetano DonizettiGaetano DonizettiDomenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment...
(1797–1848). Italian composer of at least 15 symphonies. - Franz SchubertFranz SchubertFranz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
(1797–1828). Austrian composer of nine surviving symphonies, with the Symphony No. 8Symphony No. 8 (Schubert)Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B minor , commonly known as the "Unfinished Symphony" , D.759, was started in 1822 but left with only two movements known to be complete, even though Schubert would live for another six years. A scherzo, nearly completed in piano score but with only two pages...
(the Unfinished) and Symphony No. 9Symphony No. 9 (Schubert)The Symphony No. 9 in C major, D. 944, known as the Great , is the final symphony completed by Franz Schubert. Nicknamed The Great C major originally to distinguish it from his Symphony No...
(the Great) the largest in scale and best known.
1800–1900
- Jan Křtitel Václav Kalivoda or Johann Baptist Wenzel Kalliwoda (1801-1866). Czech composer of seven symphonies.
- Adolf Fredrik LindbladAdolf Fredrik LindbladAdolf Fredrik Lindblad was a Swedish composer, mainly remembered for his songs.Lindblad composed one opera, Frondörerna , two symphonies, in C and D major, and chamber music including two string quintets, three violin sonatas and seven string quartets...
(1801–1878). Swedish composer of two symphonies. - Hector BerliozHector BerliozHector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...
(1803–1869). French composer of four program symphonies, best remembered for his first, the Symphonie fantastiqueSymphonie FantastiqueSymphonie Fantastique: Épisode de la vie d'un Artiste...en cinq parties , Op. 14, is a program symphony written by the French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830. It is one of the most important and representative pieces of the early Romantic period, and is still very popular with concert audiences...
, perhaps the first true programmatic symphony. - Franz LachnerFranz LachnerFranz Paul Lachner was a German composer and conductor.Lachner was born in Rain am Lech to a musical family . He studied music with Simon Sechter and Maximilian, the Abbé Stadler. He conducted at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna. In 1834, he became Kapellmeister at Mannheim...
(1803–1890). German composer of eight symphonies between 1828 and 1851. His 5th symphony won him the prize offered by the Vienna Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in 1835. - Louise FarrencLouise FarrencLouise Farrenc was a French composer, virtuosa pianist and teacher. Born Jeanne-Louise Dumont in Paris, she was the daughter of Jacques-Edme Dumont, a successful sculptor, and sister to Auguste Dumont.-Biography:...
(1804–1875). French composer of three symphonies. - Johan Peter Emilius HartmannJohan Peter Emilius HartmannJohan Peter Emilius Hartmann was a Danish composer.-Biography:Hartmann came from a musical family of German descent. Although he received his music lessons initially from his father, he taught himself as much as possible...
(1805–1900). Danish composer of two symphonies. - Juan Crisóstomo ArriagaJuan Crisóstomo ArriagaJuan Crisóstomo Jacobo Antonio de Arriaga y Balzola was a Spanish composer. He was nicknamed the "Spanish Mozart" after he died, because, like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he was also a child prodigy and an accomplished composer who died young...
(1806–1826). Basque composer of one symphony. - Ignacy Feliks DobrzyńskiIgnacy Feliks DobrzynskiIgnacy Feliks Dobrzyński was a Polish pianist and composer.-Life:Dobrzyński was born in Romanów, in Volhynia, now Dserschynsk, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine....
(1807–1867). Polish composer of two symphonies. - Felix MendelssohnFelix MendelssohnJakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...
(1809–1847). Composer of 12 complete string symphonies (the 13th was left unfinished) and five numbered symphonies, with sketches for a 6th (1847). - Robert SchumannRobert SchumannRobert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....
(1810–1856). German composer of four symphonies, the last of which experimented with cyclic form. - Franz LisztFranz LisztFranz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...
(1811–1886). Hungarian composer of two programmatic symphonies, the Faust SymphonyFaust SymphonyA Faust Symphony in three character pictures , S.108, or simply the "Faust Symphony", was written by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt and was inspired by Johann von Goethe's drama, Faust...
and the Dante SymphonyDante SymphonyA Symphony to Dante's Divine Comedy, S.109, or simply the "Dante Symphony", is a program symphony composed by Franz Liszt. Written in the high romantic style, it is based on Dante Alighieri's journey through Hell and Purgatory, as depicted in The Divine Comedy...
. - Richard WagnerRichard WagnerWilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...
(1813–1883). German composer of one symphony. - Robert VolkmannRobert VolkmannFriedrich Robert Volkmann was a German composer.-Life:He was born in Lommatzsch, Saxony, Germany. His father was a music director for a church, so he trained his son in music to prepare him as a successor...
(1815–1883). German composer of two symphonies. - Sir William Sterndale BennettWilliam Sterndale BennettSir William Sterndale Bennett was an English composer. He ranks as the most distinguished English composer of the Romantic school-Biography:...
(1816–1875). English composer of five symphonies. - Johannes VerhulstJohannes VerhulstJohannes Joseph Hermann Verhulst was a Dutch composer and conductor. As a composer mainly of songs and as administrator of Dutch musical life, his influence during his lifetime was considerable.-Life:As a boy, Verhulst sang in a catholic choir; here he distinguished himself by his gift for music...
(1816-1891). Dutch composer of one symphony. - Eduard FranckEduard FranckEduard Franck was born in Breslau, the capital of the Prussian province of Silesia. He was the fourth child of a wealthy and cultivated banker who exposed his children to the best and brightest that Germany had to offer. Frequenters to the Franck home included such luminaries as Heine, Humboldt,...
(1817–1893). German composer of four symphonies, the first two are lost. - Niels Gade (1817–1890). Danish composer of eight symphonies.
- Charles GounodCharles GounodCharles-François Gounod was a French composer, known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Roméo et Juliette.-Biography:...
(1818–1893). French composer of two symphonies and a third for nine wind instruments (Petite symphonie). - César FranckCésar FranckCésar-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck was a composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher who worked in Paris during his adult life....
(1822–1890). wrote one symphony best known for its use of cyclic form. - Joachim RaffJoachim RaffJoseph Joachim Raff was a German-Swiss composer, teacher and pianist.-Biography:Raff was born in Lachen in Switzerland. His father, a teacher, had fled there from Württemberg in 1810 to escape forced recruitment into the military of that southwestern German state that had to fight for Napoleon in...
(1822–1882). Swiss-born German composer of 11 symphonies. - Anton BrucknerAnton BrucknerAnton Bruckner was an Austrian composer known for his symphonies, masses, and motets. The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, complex polyphony, and considerable length...
(1824–1896). Austrian composer of 11 large-scale symphonies, including Nos. 00 and 0. - Richard HolRichard HolRichard Hol was a Dutch composer and conductor, based for most of his career at Utrecht. His conservative music showed the influence of Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann and the Leipzig school, though as a conductor he offered Dutch audiences the modern music of Hector Berlioz and Richard...
(1825–1904). Dutch composer of four symphonies. - Woldemar BargielWoldemar BargielWoldemar Bargiel was a German composer of classical music.-Life:Bargiel was born in Berlin, and was the half brother of Clara Schumann. Bargiel’s father Adolph was a well-known piano and voice teacher while his mother Mariane had been unhappily married to Clara’s father, Friedrich Wieck. Clara was...
(1828–1897). German composer of one symphony. - Anton RubinsteinAnton RubinsteinAnton Grigorevich Rubinstein was a Russian-Jewish pianist, composer and conductor. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the great keyboard virtuosos...
(1829–1894). Russian composer of six symphonies, with the second, the Ocean, and the sixth being the best known (though neither as well known now as they were in Rubinstein's day). - Karl GoldmarkKarl GoldmarkKarl Goldmark, also known originally as Károly Goldmark and later sometimes as Carl Goldmark; May 18, 1830, Keszthely – January 2, 1915, Vienna) was a Hungarian composer.- Life and career :...
(1830–1915). Hungarian composer of two symponies. - Alexander BorodinAlexander BorodinAlexander Porfiryevich Borodin was a Russian Romantic composer and chemist of Georgian–Russian parentage. He was a member of the group of composers called The Five , who were dedicated to producing a specifically Russian kind of art music...
(1833–1887). Russian composer of three symphonies, the last unfinished. - Johannes BrahmsJohannes BrahmsJohannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...
(1833–1897). German composer of four symphonies, considered by Eduard HanslickEduard HanslickEduard Hanslick was a Bohemian-Austrian music critic.-Biography:Hanslick was born in Prague, the son of Joseph Adolph Hanslick, a bibliographer and music teacher from a German-speaking family, and one of his piano pupils, the daughter of a Jewish merchant from Vienna...
to be the artistic heir of Beethoven. - Felix DraesekeFelix DraesekeFelix August Bernhard Draeseke was a composer of the "New German School" admiring Liszt and Richard Wagner. He wrote compositions in most forms including eight operas and stage works, four symphonies, and much vocal and chamber music.-Life:Felix Draeseke was born in the Franconian ducal town of...
(1835–1913). German composer of the New German School wrote four symphonies. - Camille Saint-SaënsCamille Saint-SaënsCharles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...
(1835–1921). French composer of five symphonies (three of which are numbered while the other two are not), of which the best known is the third, his Symphony No. 3 with organSymphony No. 3 (Saint-Saëns)The Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78, was completed by Camille Saint-Saëns in 1886 at what was probably the artistic zenith of his career. It is also popularly known as the "Organ Symphony", even though it is not a true symphony for organ, but simply an orchestral symphony where two sections out...
. - Mily BalakirevMily BalakirevMily Alexeyevich Balakirev ,Russia was still using old style dates in the 19th century, and information sources used in the article sometimes report dates as old style rather than new style. Dates in the article are taken verbatim from the source and therefore are in the same style as the source...
(1837–1910). Russian composer of two symphonies. - Alexandre GuilmantAlexandre GuilmantFélix-Alexandre Guilmant was a French organist and composer.- Short biography :Guilmant was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer...
(1837–1911). French composer of two symphonies for organ and orchestra, which are versions of his first and eight organ sonatas, respectively. - Max BruchMax BruchMax Christian Friedrich Bruch , also known as Max Karl August Bruch, was a German Romantic composer and conductor who wrote over 200 works, including three violin concertos, the first of which has become a staple of the violin repertoire.-Life:Bruch was born in Cologne, Rhine Province, where he...
(1838–1920). German composer of three symphonies. - Georges BizetGeorges BizetGeorges Bizet formally Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer, mainly of operas. In a career cut short by his early death, he achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, became one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertory.During a...
(1838–1875). French composer remembered by his Opera CarmenCarmenCarmen is a French opéra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, first published in 1845, itself possibly influenced by the narrative poem The Gypsies by Alexander Pushkin...
, wrote his Symphony in CSymphony in C (Bizet)The Symphony in C is an early work by the French composer Georges Bizet. According to Grove's Dictionary, the symphony "reveals an extraordinarily accomplished talent for an 17-year-old student, in melodic invention, thematic handling and orchestration." Bizet started work on the symphony on 29...
at the age of 17; a second symphony, RomaRoma Symphony (Bizet)The Symphony in C "Roma" is the second of Georges Bizet's symphonies. Unlike his first symphony, also in C major, which was written quickly at the age of 17, Roma was written over an eleven-year span, between the ages of 22 and 33 . Bizet was never fully satisfied with it, subjecting it to a...
, is sometimes classified as a suite, though referred to as a symphony by the composer. - Alexis de Castillon (1838–1873). French composer of two symphonies.
- Friedrich GernsheimFriedrich GernsheimFriedrich Gernsheim was a German composer, conductor and pianist.Gernsheim was born in Worms. He was given his first musical training at home under his mother's care, then starting from the age of seven under Worms' musical director, Louis Liebe, a former pupil of Louis Spohr...
(1839–1916). German composer of four symphonies. - John Knowles PaineJohn Knowles PaineJohn Knowles Paine , was the first American-born composer to achieve fame for large-scale orchestral music.-Life:He studied organ, orchestration, and composition in Germany and toured in Europe for three years...
(1839–1906). American composer of two symphonies. - Alice Mary SmithAlice Mary SmithAlice Mary Smith, married name Alice Mary Meadows White was an English composer.Smith was born in London, the third child of a relatively well-to-do family. She showed aptitude for music from her early years and took lessons privately from William Sterndale Bennett and George Macfarren, publishing...
(1839–1884). English composer of three symphonies. - Samuel de Lange jr. (1840-1911). Dutch composer of five symphonies.
- Johan SvendsenJohan SvendsenJohan Severin Svendsen was a Norwegian composer, conductor and violinist. Born in Christiania , Norway, he lived most his life in Copenhagen, Denmark....
(1840–1911). Norwegian violinist, conductor, and composer of two symphonies. - Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyPyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...
(1840–1893). Russian composer of six numbered symphonies and the Manfred SymphonyManfred SymphonyThe Manfred Symphony in B minor, Op. 58, is a programmatic symphony composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky between May and September 1885. It is based on the poem "Manfred" written by Lord Byron in 1817...
. - Elfrida AndréeElfrida AndréeElfrida Andrée , was a Swedish organist, composer, and conductor.Andrée was born in Visby. She was the pupil of Ludvig Norman and Niels Wilhelm Gade. Her sister was the singer Fredrika Stenhammar. An activist in the Swedish women's movement, she was one of the first female organists to be...
(1841–1929). Swedish composer of two orchestral and two organ symphonies. - Antonín DvořákAntonín DvorákAntonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...
(1841–1904). Czech composer of nine symphonies, of which the most famous is the ninthSymphony No. 9 (Dvorák)The Symphony No. 9 in E Minor "From the New World", Op. 95, B. 178 , popularly known as the New World Symphony, was composed by Antonín Dvořák in 1893 during his visit to the United States from 1892 to 1895. It is by far his most popular symphony, and one of the most popular in the modern repertoire...
(From the New World). He successfully combined Bohemian folk elements with large-scale structure. - Daniël de Lange (1841-1918). Dutch composer of two symphonies, the second is lost.
- Edvard GriegEdvard GriegEdvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt , and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces.-Biography:Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in...
(1843–1907). Norwegian composer of one symphony. - Asger HamerikAsger HamerikAsger Hamerik , was a Danish composer of classical music.Born in Frederiksberg , he studied music with J.P.E. Hartmann and Niels Gade. He wrote his first pieces in his teens, including an unperformed symphony...
(1843–1923). Danish conductor and composer of eight symphonies. - Nikolai Rimsky-KorsakovNikolai Rimsky-KorsakovNikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five.The Five, also known as The Mighty Handful or The Mighty Coterie, refers to a circle of composers who met in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in the years 1856–1870: Mily Balakirev , César...
(1844–1908). Russian composer of three symphonies and sketches for two others. - Zygmunt NoskowskiZygmunt NoskowskiZygmunt Noskowski , Polish composer, conductor and teacher.-Biography:Zygmunt Noskowski was born in Warsaw and was originally trained at the Warsaw Conservatory studying violin and composition. A scholarship enabled him to travel to Berlin where between 1864 and 1867, he studied with Friedrich...
(1846-1909). Polish composer of three symphonies. - Hubert ParryHubert ParrySir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet was an English composer, teacher and historian of music.Parry's first major works appeared in 1880. As a composer he is best known for the choral song "Jerusalem", the coronation anthem "I was glad" and the hymn tune "Repton", which sets the words...
(1848–1918). British composer of five symphonies (1882–1912) - Zdeněk FibichZdenek FibichZdeněk Fibich was a Czech composer of classical music. Among his compositions are chamber works , symphonic poems, three symphonies, at least seven operas , melodramas including the substantial trilogy Hippodamia,...
(1850–1900). Czech composer of three complete symphonies, plus four fragmentary or lost symphonies. - Alexander TaneyevAlexander TaneyevAlexander Sergeyevich Taneyev was a Russian composer of the late Romantic era, specifically of the nationalist school. Among his best works were three string quartets, believed to have been composed between 1898–1900....
(1850–1918). Russian composer of three symphonies. - Vincent d'IndyVincent d'IndyVincent d'Indy was a French composer and teacher.-Life:Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy was born in Paris into an aristocratic family of royalist and Catholic persuasion. He had piano lessons from an early age from his paternal grandmother, who passed him on to Antoine François Marmontel and...
(1851–1931). French composer of three symphonies. - Charles Villiers StanfordCharles Villiers StanfordSir Charles Villiers Stanford was an Irish composer who was particularly notable for his choral music. He was professor at the Royal College of Music and University of Cambridge.- Life :...
(1852–1924). British composer of seven symphonies (1876–1911). - George Whitefield ChadwickGeorge Whitefield ChadwickGeorge Whitefield Chadwick was an American composer. Along with Horatio Parker, Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, and Edward MacDowell, he was a representative composer of what can be called the New England School of American composers of the late 19th century—the generation before Charles Ives...
(1854–1931). American composer of three symphonies. - Bernard ZweersBernard ZweersBernard Zweers was a Dutch composer and music teacher.-Life:Bernard Zweers was born in 1854 as the son of an Amsterdam book- and music shopkeeper...
(1854-1924). Dutch composer of three symphonies. - Ernest ChaussonErnest ChaussonAmédée-Ernest Chausson was a French romantic composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish.-Life:Ernest Chausson was born in Paris into a prosperous bourgeois family...
(1855–1899). French composer of one symphony and sketches for a second. - Julius RöntgenJulius RöntgenJulius Engelbert Röntgen was a German-Dutch composer of classical music.-Life:Julius Röntgen was born in Leipzig, Germany, to a family of musicians. His father, Engelbert Röntgen, was first violinist in the Gewandhaus orchestra in Leipzig; his mother, Pauline Klengel, was a pianist, the aunt of...
(1855–1932). Dutch composer of twenty one symphonies. - Giuseppe MartucciGiuseppe MartucciGiuseppe Martucci was an Italian composer, conductor, pianist and teacher. As a composer and teacher he was influential in reviving Italian interest in non-operatic music. As a conductor he helped to introduce Richard Wagner's operas to Italy and also gave important early concerts of English music...
(1856-1909). Italian composer of two symphonies. - Christian SindingChristian SindingChristian August Sinding was a Norwegian composer.-Personal life:He was born in Kongsberg as a son of mine superindendent Matthias Wilhelm Sinding and Cecilie Marie Mejdell . He was a brother of the painter Otto Sinding and the sculptor Stephan Sinding...
(1856–1941). Norwegian composer of four symphonies. - Sergei TaneyevSergei TaneyevSergei Ivanovich Taneyev , was a Russian composer, pianist, teacher of composition, music theorist and author.-Life:...
(1856–1915). Russian composer of four symphonies. - George Templeton Strong (1856–1948). American composer of three symphonies.
- Frederic CliffeFrederic CliffeFrederic Cliffe was an English composer.-Life:As a youth, Cliffe showed a promising musical aptitude and was enrolled as a scholar of the National Training School for Music, the parent of the Royal College of Music, under its first Principal Arthur Sullivan.From 1884 to 1931 he held the post of...
(1857-1931). English composer of two symphonies. - Sir Edward ElgarEdward ElgarSir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM, GCVO was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos...
(1857–1934). English composer completed two symphonies, with sketches for a third made into a performing version by Anthony PayneAnthony PayneAnthony Payne is an English composer, most famous for the work published as Edward Elgar: The Sketches for Symphony No. 3 Elaborated by Anthony Payne...
. - Richard FranckRichard FranckRichard Franck was a German pianist, composer and teacher. He was born in Cologne and was the son of the German composer, pianist and teacher Eduard Franck...
(1858-1938). German composer of one symphony. - Hans RottHans RottHans Rott was an Austrian composer. His music is little-known today, though he received high praise in his time from the likes of Gustav Mahler and Anton Bruckner.-Life:...
(1858–1884). Austrian composer of a symphony (1879/1880), which features many stylistic similarities to the later symphonies of his friend and fellow student Gustav Mahler. A Symphony No.2 was planned. - Gustav MahlerGustav MahlerGustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...
(1860–1911). Austrian composer completed nine large-scale symphonies, plus an incomplete 10th—see Category of Mahler symphonies. His third symphonySymphony No. 3 (Mahler)The Symphony No. 3 by Gustav Mahler was written between 1893 and 1896. It is his longest piece and is the longest symphony in the standard repertoire, with a typical performance lasting around ninety to one hundred minutes.- Structure :...
is his longest symphony at 95 minutes, and his eighthSymphony No. 8 (Mahler)The Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major by Gustav Mahler is one of the largest-scale choral works in the classical concert repertoire. Because it requires huge instrumental and vocal forces it is frequently called the "Symphony of a Thousand", although the work is often performed with fewer than a...
, the Symphony of a Thousand, premiered with over one thousand performers. - Ignacy Jan PaderewskiIgnacy Jan PaderewskiIgnacy Jan Paderewski GBE was a Polish pianist, composer, diplomat, politician, and the second Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland.-Biography:...
(1860–1941). Polish composer of one symphony. - Emil von ReznicekEmil von ReznicekEmil Nikolaus Freiherr von Reznicek was an Austrian late Romantic composer of Czech ancestry.-Life:...
(1860-1945). Austrian composer of five symphonies. - Maurice EmmanuelMaurice EmmanuelMaurice Emmanuel was a French composer of classical music.Brought up in Dijon, Marie François Maurice Emmanuel became a chorister at Beaune cathedral after his family moved to the city in 1869. Subsequently he went to Paris, and he entered the Paris Conservatoire, where his composition teacher...
(1862–1938). French composer of two symphonies. - Edward GermanEdward GermanSir Edward German was an English musician and composer of Welsh descent, best remembered for his extensive output of incidental music for the stage and as a successor to Arthur Sullivan in the field of English comic opera.As a youth, German played the violin and led the town orchestra, also...
(1862–1936). English composer of two symphonies. - Alberto WilliamsAlberto WilliamsAlberto Williams was an Argentine symphonic composer and conductor.-Life and work:Alberto Williams was born to in Buenos Aires, in 1862. A maternal grandfather, Amancio Jacinto Alcorta, had been a respected government and banking policy-maker, as well as a well-known composer of sacred music...
(1862–1952). Argentine composer of nine symphonies. - Horatio ParkerHoratio ParkerHoratio William Parker was an American composer, organist and teacher. He was a central figure in musical life in New Haven, Connecticut in the late 19th century, and is best remembered as the teacher of Charles Ives....
(1863–1919). American composer of one symphony. - Felix WeingartnerFelix WeingartnerPaul Felix von Weingartner, Edler von Münzberg was an Austrian conductor, composer and pianist.-Biography:...
(1863–1942). Composer of seven symphonies and a sinfonietta. - Alexander GretchaninovAlexander GretchaninovAlexander Tikhonovich Gretchaninov was a Russian Romantic composer.-His life:Gretchaninov started his musical studies rather late because his father, a businessman, had expected the boy to take over the family firm...
(1864–1956). Russian composer of five symphonies. - Alexandre LevyAlexandre LevyAlexandre Levy was a Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor.Born in São Paulo, he pioneered a fusion of classical composition with Brazil's popular folk music and rhythms. Levy died prematurely at 27 and his hometown grants a prestigious award in his name.-1882:* Fosca, fantasia brilhante, op....
(1864-1892). Brazilian composer of one symphony in e minor. - Guy Ropartz (1864–1955). French composer of five symphonies, no. 3 (1905) with chorus.
- Richard StraussRichard StraussRichard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till...
(1864–1949). German composer of programmatic symphonies. - Paul DukasPaul DukasPaul Abraham Dukas was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher. A studious man, of retiring personality, he was intensely self-critical, and he abandoned and destroyed many of his compositions...
(1865–1931). French composer of one symphony in C. - Alexander GlazunovAlexander GlazunovAlexander Konstantinovich Glazunov was a Russian composer of the late Russian Romantic period, music teacher and conductor...
(1865–1936). Russian composer of nine symphonies. - Albéric MagnardAlbéric MagnardLucien Denis Gabriel Albéric Magnard was a French composer, sometimes referred to as the "French Bruckner", though there are significant differences between the two composers...
(1865–1914). French composer of four symphonies. - Carl NielsenCarl NielsenCarl August Nielsen , , widely recognised as Denmark's greatest composer, was also a conductor and a violinist. Brought up by poor but musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he demonstrated his musical abilities at an early age...
(1865–1931). Danish composer of six symphonies. - Jean SibeliusJean SibeliusJean Sibelius was a Finnish composer of the later Romantic period whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity. His mastery of the orchestra has been described as "prodigious."...
(1865–1957). Finnish composer of the Kullervo SymphonyKullervo (Sibelius)Kullervo, Op. 7 is an early symphonic poem for soloists, chorus and orchestra, written by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.The work, based on the character of Kullervo from the epic poem Kalevala, premiered to great critical acclaim on 28 April 1892. The soloists at the premiere were Emmy Achté...
, and of seven numbered symphonies (an eighth symphonySymphony No. 8 (Sibelius)Jean Sibelius's Symphony No. 8 was the last major work the composer worked on, and never completed. Today, virtually none of the score exists. The manuscript was probably burned by Sibelius in 1945...
was destroyed by the composer in 1929). - Vasily KalinnikovVasily KalinnikovVasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov was a Russian composer of two symphonies, several additional orchestral works and numerous songs, all of them imbued with characteristics of folksong...
(1866–1901). Russian composer of two symphonies. - Charles KoechlinCharles KoechlinCharles Louis Eugène Koechlin was a French composer, teacher and writer on music. He was a political radical all his life and a passionate enthusiast for such diverse things as medieval music, The Jungle Book of Rudyard Kipling, Johann Sebastian Bach, film stars , travelling, stereoscopic...
(1867–1950). French composer of five symphonies. - Wilhelm Peterson-BergerWilhelm Peterson-BergerOlof Wilhelm Peterson-Berger was a Swedish composer and music critic...
(1867-1942). Swedish composer of five symphonies. - Granville BantockGranville BantockSir Granville Bantock was a British composer of classical music.-Biography:Granville Ransome Bantock was born in London. His father was a Scottish doctor. He was intended by his parents for the Indian Civil Service but was drawn into the musical world. His first teacher was Dr Gordon Saunders at...
(1868–1946). British composer of four symphonies: Hebridean Symphony, Pagan Symphony, The Cyprian Goddess: Symphony No. 3 and Celtic Symphony. - Albert RousselAlbert RousselAlbert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period...
(1869–1937). French composer of four symphonies. - Cornelis DopperCornelis DopperCornelis 'Kees' Dopper was a Dutch composer, conductor and teacher.-Reputation:Dopper's reputation as a composer has suffered from the accusation of being 'too German' for much of his career, and still haunts him to this day...
(1870–1939). Dutch composer of seven symphonies. - Alfred HillAlfred HillAlfred Francis Hill CMG OBE was an Australian/New Zealand composer, conductor and teacher.-Biography:Alfred Hill was born in Melbourne in 1869. His year of birth is shown in many sources as 1870, but this has now been disproven. He spent most of his early life in New Zealand...
(1870–1960). Australian composer of twelve symphonies. - Florent SchmittFlorent SchmittFlorent Schmitt was a French composer.-Early life:A Lorrainer, born in Meurthe-et-Moselle, Schmitt originally took music lessons in Nancy with the local composer Gustave Sandré. Subsequently he entered the Paris Conservatoire. There he studied with Gabriel Fauré, Jules Massenet, Théodore Dubois,...
(1870–1958). French composer of two symphonies (the first a "symphonie concertante") and one for strings (Janiana). - Charles TournemireCharles TournemireCharles Tournemire was a French composer and organist, notable partly for his improvisations, which were often rooted in the music of Gregorian chant...
(1870–1939). French composer of eight orchestral symphonies, as well as a Simphonie-choral and Symphonie sacrée for organ. - Louis VierneLouis VierneLouis Victor Jules Vierne was a French organist and composer.-Life:Louis Vierne was born in Poitiers, Vienne, nearly blind due to congenital cataracts, but at an early age was discovered to have an unusual gift for music. Louis Victor Jules Vierne (8 October 1870 – 2 June 1937) was a French...
(1870–1937). French composer of one orchestral symphony and six symphonies for organ. - Wilhelm StenhammarWilhelm StenhammarCarl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammar was a Swedish composer, conductor and pianist.-Biography:Stenhammar was born in Stockholm, where he received his first musical education. He then went to Berlin to further his studies in music. He became a glowing admirer of German music, particularly that of Richard...
(1871–1927). Swedish composer of two symphonies, one disowned by him, and sketches for a third. - Alexander von ZemlinskyAlexander von ZemlinskyAlexander Zemlinsky or Alexander von Zemlinsky was an Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher.-Early life:...
(1871–1942). Austrian composer of three symphonies, a Lyrische Symphonie for soprano, baritone and orchestra, a symphony in all but name called Die Seejungfrau (1902), and a Sinfonietta (1934). - Hugo AlfvénHugo Alfvénwas a Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter.- Violinist :Alfvén was born in Stockholm and studied at the Music Conservatory there from 1887 to 1891 with the violin as his main instrument, receiving lessons from Lars Zetterquist. He also took private composition lessons from Johan...
(1872–1960). Swedish violinist, conductor, and composer of five symphonies. - Alexander ScriabinAlexander ScriabinAlexander Nikolayevich Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist who initially developed a lyrical and idiosyncratic tonal language inspired by the music of Frédéric Chopin. Quite independent of the innovations of Arnold Schoenberg, Scriabin developed an increasingly atonal musical system,...
(1872–1915). Russian composer of three symphonies; his two tone poems, composed after the three symphonies, are also sometimes classified as symphonies nos. 4 and 5. - Ralph Vaughan WilliamsRalph Vaughan WilliamsRalph Vaughan Williams OM was an English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was also a collector of English folk music and song: this activity both influenced his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, beginning in 1904, in which he included many...
(1872–1958). English composer of nine symphonies. - Sergei RachmaninoffSergei RachmaninoffSergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music...
(1873–1943). Russian composer of three symphonies in a late-Romantic style. - Gustav HolstGustav HolstGustav Theodore Holst was an English composer. He is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets....
(1874–1934). British composer of an unpublished Symphony "The Cotswolds" (1899–1900), a First Choral Symphony (1923–24), and a Scherzo (1933–34) for a projected but unfinished symphony . - Josef SukJosef Suk (composer)Josef Suk was a Czech composer and violinist.- Life :Suk was born in Křečovice. He studied at Prague Conservatory from 1885 to 1892, where he was a pupil of Antonín Dvořák and Antonín Bennewitz. In 1898, he married Dvořák's eldest daughter, Otilie Dvořáková , affectionately known as Otilka...
(1874–1935). Czech composer of two symphonies, including the Asrael Symphony). - Franz SchmidtFranz SchmidtFranz Schmidt was an Austrian composer, cellist and pianist of Hungarian descent and origin.- Life :Schmidt was born in Pozsony , in the Hungarian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire . His father was half Hungarian and his mother entirely Hungarian...
(1874–1939). Austrian composer of four symphonies. - Charles IvesCharles IvesCharles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer. He is one of the first American composers of international renown, though Ives' music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, Ives came to be regarded as an "American Original"...
(1874–1954). American composer of four symphonies, his "Holiday Symphony" referred to as his 5th, and his "Universe Symphony" later reconstructed. - Arnold SchoenbergArnold SchoenbergArnold Schoenberg was an Austrian composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School...
(1874–1951). Austrian composer of two chamber symphonies and several sketches for unpublished symphonies. Alban BergAlban BergAlban Maria Johannes Berg was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, and produced compositions that combined Mahlerian Romanticism with a personal adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique.-Early life:Berg was born in...
thought of Schoenberg's tone poem Pelleas und Melisande (1902) as a symphony. - Erkki MelartinErkki MelartinErkki Melartin was a Finnish composer and pupil of Martin Wegelius from 1892-99 in Helsinki, and Robert Fuchs from 1899-1901 in Vienna. He shares identical birth and death years with the composer Maurice Ravel....
(1875–1937). Finnish composer of six symphonies. - Julián CarrilloJulián CarrilloJulián Carrillo Trujillo was a Mexican composer, conductor, violinist and music theorist, famous for developing a theory of microtonal music which he dubbed "The Thirteenth Sound" .-Biography:...
(1875–1965). Mexican composer, wrote two symphonies plus three atonal symphonies written in the "Thirteen Sound" technique. - Reinhold GlièreReinhold GlièreReinhold Moritzevich Glière was a Russian and Soviet composer of German–Polish descent.- Biography :Glière was born in Kiev, Ukraine...
(1875–1956). Russian composer of three symphonies. - Richard WetzRichard WetzRichard Wetz was a German late Romantic composer best known for his three symphonies. In these works, he "seems to have aimed to be an immediate continuation of Bruckner, as a result of which he actually ended up on the margin of music history".-1875-1906: Youth:Richard Wetz was born to a merchant...
(1875–1935). German composer of three symphonies. - Havergal BrianHavergal BrianHavergal Brian , was a British classical composer.Brian acquired a legendary status at the time of his rediscovery in the 1950s and 1960s for the many symphonies he had managed to write. By the end of his life he had completed 32, an unusually large number for any composer since Haydn or Mozart...
(1876–1972). English composer of 32 symphonies, most of which he wrote in his seventies and eighties. His first symphony The Gothic is the largest one ever written. - John Alden CarpenterJohn Alden CarpenterJohn Alden Carpenter was an American composer.-Biography:Born in Park Ridge, Illinois, Carpenter was raised in a musical household. He was educated at Harvard University, where he studied under John Knowles Paine, and was president of the Glee Club and wrote music for the Hasty-Pudding Club...
(1876–1951). American composer of two symphonies. - Mieczysław Karłowicz (1876–1909). Polish composer of only one symphony, in e minor Op.7 "Rebirth" (1897).
- Ludolf NielsenLudolf NielsenLudolf Nielsen was a Danish composer, violinist, conductor, and a pianist. Today he is considered as one of the most important Danish composers of the early 1900s .-Life:...
(1876–1939). Danish composer of three symphonies. - Ermanno Wolf-FerrariErmanno Wolf-FerrariErmanno Wolf-Ferrari was an Italian composer and teacher. He is best known for his comic operas such as Il segreto di Susanna...
(1876–1948). Italian-German composer of the Sinfonia da Camera (1901); an early composer in the genre of the 20th century chamber symphony. - Sergei BortkiewiczSergei BortkiewiczSergei Bortkiewicz was a Ukrainian-born Russian Romantic composer and pianist.-Early life:Sergei Eduardovich Bortkiewicz was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine on 28 February 1877 in Polish noble family and spent most of his childhood on the family estate of Artëmovka, near Kharkiv...
(1877–1952). Austrian pianist and composer of two symphonies. - Artur KappArtur KappArtur Kapp was an Estonian composer.Born in Suure-Jaani, Estonia, then part of the Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire, he was the son of Joosep Kapp, who was also a classically trained musician...
(1878–1952). Estonian composer. Generally considered to be one of the founders of Estonian symphonic music. - Frank BridgeFrank BridgeFrank Bridge was an English composer and violist.-Life:Bridge was born in Brighton and studied at the Royal College of Music in London from 1899 to 1903 under Charles Villiers Stanford and others...
(1879–1941). English composer of an unfinished Symphony for Strings (1941). - Sir Hamilton HartyHamilton HartySir Hamilton Harty was an Irish and British composer, conductor, pianist and organist. In his capacity as a conductor, he was particularly noted as an interpreter of the music of Berlioz and he was much respected as a piano accompanist of exceptional prowess...
(1879–1941). Irish composer of one symphony. - Ottorino RespighiOttorino RespighiOttorino Respighi was an Italian composer, musicologist and conductor. He is best known for his orchestral "Roman trilogy": Fountains of Rome ; Pines of Rome ; and Roman Festivals...
(1879–1936). Italian composer of programmatic symphonies. - Franz SchrekerFranz SchrekerFranz Schreker was an Austrian composer, conductor, teacher and administrator. Primarily a composer of operas, his style is characterized by aesthetic plurality , timbral experimentation, strategies of extended tonality and...
(1879–1934). Austrian composer of the Chamber Symphony. - Ernest BlochErnest BlochErnest Bloch was a Swiss-born American composer.-Life:Bloch was born in Geneva and began playing the violin at age 9. He began composing soon afterwards. He studied music at the conservatory in Brussels, where his teachers included the celebrated Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe...
(1880–1959). American composer of Swiss origin, whose works include (in addition to an unpublished Symphonie orientale amongst his juvenilia) a Symphony in C-sharp minor, a Sinfonia Breve, a Symphony for Trombone and Orchestra, and a Symphony in E-flat. - Ildebrando PizzettiIldebrando PizzettiIldebrando Pizzetti was an Italian composer of classical music.- Biography :Pizzetti was born in Parma in 1880. He was part of the "Generation of 1880" along with Ottorino Respighi and Gian Francesco Malipiero. They were among the first Italian composers in some time whose primary contributions...
(1880–1968). Italian composer of one symphony. - George EnescuGeorge EnescuGeorge Enescu was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and teacher.-Biography:Enescu was born in the village of Liveni , Dorohoi County at the time, today Botoşani County. He showed musical talent from early in his childhood. A child prodigy, Enescu created his first musical...
(1881–1955). Romanian composer. Wrote three acknowledged and complete symphonies, four earlier ones and two later ones—the last two completed by Pascal BentoiuPascal BentoiuPascal Bentoiu is a Romanian Modernist composer.Bentoiu studied harmony, counterpoint and composition with Mihail Jora and piano with Theophil Demetriescu. He spent three years researching the rhythm and harmony of Romanian folk music at the Bucharest Folklore Institute and then began composing...
—as well as a Chamber Symphony. - Jan van GilseJan van GilseJan Pieter Hendrik van Gilse was a Dutch composer and conductor. Among his works are five symphonies and the Dutch-language opera Thijl.-Life:...
(1881-1944). Dutch composer of four symphonies, skecthes for a fifth. - Nikolai MyaskovskyNikolai MyaskovskyNikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky was a Russian and Soviet composer. He is sometimes referred to as the "father of the Soviet symphony".-Early years and first important works:...
(1881–1950). Russian composer (moved from Poland at a very young age) and composer of 27 symphonies. - Gian Francesco MalipieroGian Francesco MalipieroGian Francesco Malipiero was an Italian composer, musicologist, music teacher and editor.-Early years:Born in Venice into an aristocratic family, the grandson of the opera composer Francesco Malipiero, Gian Francesco Malipiero was prevented by family troubles from pursuing his musical education in...
(1882–1973). Italian composer of 11 symphonies. - Joseph MarxJoseph MarxJoseph Rupert Rudolf Marx was an Austrian composer, teacher and critic.-Life and career:Marx pursued studies in philosophy, art history, German studies, and music at Graz University, earning several degrees including a doctorate in 1909. He began composing seriously in 1908 and over the next four...
(1882–1964). Austrian composer of one symphony and a symphony for strings. - Igor StravinskyIgor StravinskyIgor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
(1882–1971). Russian composer of three purely orchestral symphonies plus the Symphony of PsalmsSymphony of PsalmsThe Symphony of Psalms by Igor Stravinsky was written in 1930 and was commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. This piece is a three-movement choral symphony and was composed during Stravinsky's neoclassical period. The symphony derives...
for chorus and orchestra; his Symphonies of Wind InstrumentsSymphonies of Wind InstrumentsThe Symphonies of Wind Instruments is a concert work written by Igor Stravinsky in 1920, for an ensemble of woodwind and brass instruments. The piece is in one movement, lasting about 9 minutes...
uses the word symphony in its old sense of "sounding together". - Karol SzymanowskiKarol SzymanowskiKarol Maciej Szymanowski was a Polish composer and pianist.-Life:Szymanowski was born into a wealthy land-owning Polish gentry family in Tymoszówka, then in the Russian Empire, now in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine. He studied music privately with his father before going to Gustav Neuhaus'...
(1882–1937). Polish composer of four symphonies, No. 3 (The Song of the Night) with vocal soloists and choir, and No. 4 (Symphonie concertante) with piano soloist. - Sir Arnold BaxArnold BaxSir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, KCVO was an English composer and poet. His musical style blended elements of romanticism and impressionism, often with influences from Irish literature and landscape. His orchestral scores are noted for their complexity and colourful instrumentation...
(1883–1953). English composer of seven numbered symphonies, preceded by a Symphony in F, Op. 8 (unorchestrated, 1907) and a symphony titled Spring Fire (1913). - Paul von KlenauPaul von KlenauPaul August von Klenau was a Danish-born composer who worked primarily in Germany and Austria.Klenau was born and died in Copenhagen...
(1883–1946). Danish composer of nine symphonies. - Anton WebernAnton WebernAnton Webern was an Austrian composer and conductor. He was a member of the Second Viennese School. As a student and significant follower of Arnold Schoenberg, he became one of the best-known exponents of the twelve-tone technique; in addition, his innovations regarding schematic organization of...
(1883–1945). Austrian Composer of one symphony (1928). - Arthur Meulemans (1884–1966). Belgian composer of 15 symphonies.
- Ture RangströmTure RangströmAnders Johan Ture Rangström belonged to a new generation of Swedish composers who in the first decade of the 20th century introduced modernism to their compositions. In addition to composing Rangström was also a musical critic and conductor.Rangström was born in Stockholm, where initially he...
(1884–1947). Swedish composer of four symphonies. - Enrique Soro (1884–1954). Chilean composer of one symphony.
- Pedro Umberto Allende (1885–1959). Chilean composer of one symphony (unfinished).
- Wallingford RieggerWallingford RieggerWallingford Constantine Riegger was a prolific American music composer, well known for orchestral and modern dance music, and film scores...
(1885–1961). American composer of four symphonies. - Egon WelleszEgon WelleszEgon Joseph Wellesz was an Austrian-born British composer, teacher and musicologist, notable particularly in the field of Byzantine music.- Life :...
(1885–1974). Austrian musicologist and composer of nine symphonies. - Marcel DupréMarcel DupréMarcel Dupré , was a French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue.-Biography:Marcel Dupré was born in Rouen . Born into a musical family, he was a child prodigy. His father Albert Dupré was organist in Rouen and a friend of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, who built an organ in the family house when...
(1886–1971). French composer of a Symphony in G minor, Op. 25, for organ and orchestra. - Wilhelm FurtwänglerWilhelm FurtwänglerWilhelm Furtwängler was a German conductor and composer. He is widely considered to have been one of the greatest symphonic and operatic conductors of the 20th century. By the 1930s he had built a reputation as one of the leading conductors in Europe, and he was the leading conductor who remained...
(1886–1954). German composer of three symphonies. - Carlo Giorgio GarofaloCarlo Giorgio GarofaloCarlo Giorgio Garofalo was an Italian composer, conductor and organist.Garofalo was born in Rome, Italy to Giovanni and Faustina Rinaldi Garofalo. He later attended the Vatican college where he studied organ and music composition...
(1886–1962). Italian composer of two symphonies. - Jef van HoofJef van HoofJef van Hoof was a Belgian composer and conductor.Born in Antwerp, Van Hoof was a pupil of Paul Gilson and was highly influenced by the works of Peter Benoit. He composed chamber music, symphonic works, art songs, works for solo piano and organ and sacred music...
(1886–1959). Belgian composer of six symphonies. - Kosaku YamadaKosaku Yamadawas a Japanese composer and conductor.In many Western reference books his name is given as Kósçak Yamada. During his music study in the Imperial German capital of Berlin from 1910-13 he hated the times when people laughed at him because his "normal" transliteration of his first name "Kosaku"...
(1886-1965). First Japanese symphonic composer. - Kurt AtterbergKurt AtterbergKurt Magnus Atterberg was a Swedish composer. He is best known for his symphonies, operas and ballets. Atterberg once said that: "The Russians, Brahms, Reger were my ideals." His music combines their influences with Swedish folk tunes.-Biography:Atterberg was born in Gothenburg as the son of the...
(1887–1974). Swedish composer of nine symphonies. - Leevi MadetojaLeevi MadetojaLeevi Antti Madetoja was a Finnish composer.-Life and career:Born in Oulu, he was the son of Antti Madetoja and Anna Hyttinen...
(1887–1947). Finnish composer of three symphonies. - Ernst TochErnst TochErnst Toch was a composer of classical music and film scores.- Biography :Toch, born in Leopoldstadt, Vienna, into the family of a humble Jewish leather dealer when the city was at its 19th-century cultural zenith, sought throughout his life to introduce new approaches to music...
(1887–1964). Austrian composer of seven symphonies. - Heitor Villa-LobosHeitor Villa-LobosHeitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin American composer to date. He wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works...
(1887–1959). Brazilian composer of 12 symphonies. - Matthijs VermeulenMatthijs VermeulenMatthijs Vermeulen , was a Dutch composer and music journalist.- Early life :...
(1888–1967). Dutch composer of seven symphonies. - Cecil Armstrong GibbsCecil Armstrong GibbsCecil Armstrong Gibbs was an English composer. A monument on the north chancel wall of the church of St John the Baptist, Danbury, Essex states that "He lived, worked and is buried in Danbury".He studied with Edward Dent at Trinity College, Cambridge, and with Charles Wood and Ralph Vaughan Williams...
(1889–1960). English composer of three symphonies. - Bohuslav MartinůBohuslav MartinuBohuslav Martinů was a prolific Czech composer of modern classical music. He was of Czech and Rumanian ancestry. Martinů wrote six symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. Martinů became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic...
(1890–1959). Czech composer of six symphonies. - Gösta NystroemGösta NystroemGösta Nystroem was a Swedish composer.Nystroem, originally Nyström, was born in Silvberg, Sweden, a parish in the province of Dalarna, but spent most of his childhood in Österhaninge near Stockholm, at the time a small village but nowadays a suburban district. His father was a headmaster and an...
(1890–1966). Swedish composer of six symphonies. - Arthur BlissArthur BlissSir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, CH, KCVO was an English composer and conductor.Bliss's musical training was cut short by the First World War, in which he served with distinction in the army...
(1891–1975). English composer of A Colour SymphonyA Colour SymphonyA Colour Symphony, Op. 24, F. 106, was written by Arthur Bliss in 1921–22. It was his first major work for orchestra and remains one of his best known...
(1922). - Sergei ProkofievSergei ProkofievSergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...
(1891–1953). Russian composer of seven symphonies, plus a Symphony-Concerto for Cello and Orchestra—see Category of Prokofiev symphonies. - Hendrik AndriessenHendrik AndriessenHendrik Franciscus Andriessen was a Dutch composer and organist. He is remembered most of all for his improvisation at the organ and for the renewal of Catholic liturgical music in the Netherlands. Andriessen composed in a musical idiom that revealed strong French influences...
(1892–1981). Dutch composer of 4 numbered symphonies and a Symphonia Concertante. - Oscar van Hemel (1892–1981). Dutch composer of five symphonies.
- Arthur HoneggerArthur HoneggerArthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam locomotive.-Biography:Born...
(1892–1955). Swiss-French composer of five symphonies. - László LajthaLászló LajthaLászló Lajtha was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist and conductor.-Career:Born to Ida Wiesel, a Transsylvanian-Hungarian with some Saxon-German ancestry as the name Wiesel indicates and Pál Lajtha, an owner of a leather factory...
(1892–1963). Hungarian composer of nine symphonies and two sinfoniettas. - Darius MilhaudDarius MilhaudDarius Milhaud was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and make use of polytonality...
(1892–1974). French composer of 12 numbered symphonies, 6 numbered chamber symphonies, an unnumbered Symphonie pour l’univers claudélien, and a Symphonie Concertante for four instruments and orchestra. - Hilding RosenbergHilding RosenbergHilding Rosenberg , was the first Swedish modernist composer, and one of the most influential figures in Swedish 20th century classical music....
(1892–1985). Swedish composer of eight symphonies. - Kaikhosru Shapurji SorabjiKaikhosru Shapurji SorabjiKaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji was an English composer, music critic, pianist, and writer.-Biography:...
(1892–1988). British composer of 12 symphonies: six for piano solo, three for organ, and three for piano, organ, chorus and large orchestra (the second unfinished save for the piano part). - Arthur BenjaminArthur BenjaminArthur Leslie Benjamin was an Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher. He is best known as the composer of Jamaican Rhumba, composed in 1938.-Biography:...
(1893–1960). Australian composer of one symphony (1944–45) - Godfried Devreese (1893–1972). Belgian composer of four symphonies.
- Eugene GoossensEugène Aynsley GoossensSir Eugene Aynsley Goossens was an English conductor and composer.-Biography:He was born in Camden Town, London, the son of the Belgian conductor and violinist Eugène Goossens and the grandson of the conductor Eugène Goossens...
(1893–1962). British conductor and composer of two symphonies and a sinfonietta. - Rued LanggaardRued LanggaardRued Langgaard was a late-Romantic Danish composer and organist. His then-unconventional music was at odds with that of his Danish contemporaries and was recognized only 16 years after his death.- Life :Born in Copenhagen, Rued Langgaard was the only son of composer and Royal Chamber...
(1893–1952). Danish composer of 15 symphonies. - Robert Russell BennettRobert Russell BennettRobert Russell Bennett was an American composer and arranger, best known for his orchestration of many well-known Broadway and Hollywood musicals by other composers such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers. In 1957 and 2008, Bennett received Tony Awards...
(1894–1981). American composer of seven symphonies. - Ernest John MoeranErnest John MoeranErnest John Moeran was an English composer who had strong associations with Ireland .-Early life:...
(1894–1950). British composer of one symphonySymphony in G minor (Moeran)The Symphony in G minor was the only completed symphony written by Ernest John Moeran. He wrote it in 1934-37. It is in four movements.In 1926, the conductor of the Hallé Orchestra, Sir Hamilton Harty, commissioned a symphony from Moeran. He had already been working on a symphony since 1924, and...
. - Willem PijperWillem PijperWillem Pijper ; Zeist, 8 September 1894 - Utrecht, 18 March 1947) was a Dutch composer, music critic and music teacher.-Life:Pijper was born at Zeist, near Utrecht, on 8 September 1894 of strict Calvinist working-class parents. His father, who sometimes played psalm accompaniments on the harmonium,...
(1894–1947). Dutch composer of three symphonies (1917, 1921, 1926). - Walter PistonWalter PistonWalter Hamor Piston Jr., , was an American composer of classical music, music theorist and professor of music at Harvard University whose students included Leroy Anderson, Leonard Bernstein, and Elliott Carter....
(1894–1976). American composer of eight symphonies - Erwin SchulhoffErwin SchulhoffErwin Schulhoff was a Czech composer and pianist.-Life:Born in Prague of Jewish-German origin, Schulhoff was one of the brightest figures in a generation of European musicians whose successful careers were prematurely terminated by the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany...
(1894–1942). Czech composer of eight symphonies (the last two in short score). - Mark Wessel (1894–1973). American composer of one symphony and a Symphony Concertante for piano and horn with orchestra.
- Paul HindemithPaul HindemithPaul Hindemith was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and conductor.- Biography :Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, Hindemith was taught the violin as a child...
(1895–1963). German composer of several works with descriptive titles designated symphonies, of which the best known is Mathis der Maler, as well as the Symphony in E-flat of 1939 and the Symphony in B-flat for Concert Band. - Leo SowerbyLeo SowerbyLeo Sowerby , American composer and church musician, was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1946, and was often called the “Dean of American church music” in the early to mid 20th century.-Biography:...
(1895–1968). American composer of five numbered orchestral symphonies, as well as a Symphony in G and Sinfonia brevis for organ. - William Grant StillWilliam Grant StillWilliam Grant Still was an African-American classical composer who wrote more than 150 compositions. He was the first African American to conduct a major American symphony orchestra, the first to have a symphony performed by a leading orchestra, the first to have an opera performed by a major...
(1895–1978). American composer of five symphonies. - Roberto GerhardRoberto GerhardRobert Gerhard i Ottenwaelder was a Catalan Spanish composer and musical scholar and writer, generally known outside Catalonia as Robert Gerhard.-Life:...
(1896–1970). Catalan composer, active in England, wrote five numbered symphonies (1952–69, the last unfinished), and a Symphony "Homenaje a Pedrell" (1940–41). - Howard HansonHoward HansonHoward Harold Hanson was an American composer, conductor, educator, music theorist, and champion of American classical music. As director for 40 years of the Eastman School of Music, he built a high-quality school and provided opportunities for commissioning and performing American music...
(1896–1981). American composer of seven symphonies (No. 1 Nordic, No. 2 Romantic—his most famous, No. 4 Requiem, No. 5 Sinfonia Sacra, and No. 7 Sea Symphony). - Roger SessionsRoger SessionsRoger Huntington Sessions was an American composer, critic, and teacher of music.-Life:Sessions was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a family that could trace its roots back to the American revolution. His mother, Ruth Huntington Sessions, was a direct descendent of Samuel Huntington, a signer of...
(1896–1985). American composer of nine symphonies, all but the first two of which are written using some form of the twelve-tone techniqueTwelve-tone techniqueTwelve-tone technique is a method of musical composition devised by Arnold Schoenberg...
. - Bolesław Szabelski (1896–1979). Polish composer of five symphonies.
- Virgil ThomsonVirgil ThomsonVirgil Thomson was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music...
(1896–1989). American composer of three symphonies. - Paul Ben-HaimPaul Ben-HaimPaul Ben-Haim was an Israeli composer. Born Paul Frankenburger in Munich, Germany, he studied composition with Friedrich Klose and he was assistant conductor to Bruno Walter and Hans Knappertsbusch from 1920 to 1924...
(1897–1984). Israeli composer of two symphonies. - Henry CowellHenry CowellHenry Cowell was an American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario. His contribution to the world of music was summed up by Virgil Thomson, writing in the early 1950s:...
(1897–1965). American composer of 20 symphonies (a 21st exists only as sketches), as well as a Sinfonietta for chamber orchestra (1928) and an incomplete Symphonic Sketch (1943). - Oscar Lorenzo FernándezOscar Lorenzo FernándezOscar Lorenzo Fernández was a Brazilian composer of Spanish descent.-Life:...
(1897–1948). Brazilian composer of two symphonies. - Erich Wolfgang KorngoldErich Wolfgang KorngoldErich Wolfgang Korngold was an Austro-Hungarian film and romantic music composer. While his compositional style was considered well out of vogue at the time he died, his music has more recently undergone a reevaluation and a gradual reawakening of interest...
(1897-1957). Czech composer of one symphony. - Francisco MignoneFrancisco MignoneFrancisco Paulo Mignone is one of the most significant figures in Brazilian classical music, and one of the most significant Brazilian composers after Heitor Villa-Lobos...
(1897–1986). Brazilian composer of 3 orchestral symphonies and a chamber work titled Four Symphonies, for oboe, clarinet, and bassoon. - Harald SæverudHarald SæverudHarald Sigurd Johan Sæverud was a Norwegian composer. He is most known for his music to Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt, Rondo Amoroso, and the Ballad of Revolt . Sæverud wrote nine symphonies, and a large number of pieces for solo piano...
(1897–1992). Norwegian composer of nine symphonies. - Hanns EislerHanns EislerHanns Eisler was an Austrian composer.-Family background:Eisler was born in Leipzig where his Jewish father, Rudolf Eisler, was a professor of philosophy...
(1898–1962). German Composer of a Little Symphony (1932), a Chamber Symphony (1940) and a German Symphony for choir and orchestra (1930–1958). - Roy HarrisRoy HarrisRoy Ellsworth Harris , was an American composer. He wrote much music on American subjects, becoming best known for his Symphony No...
(1898–1979). American composer of 15 symphonies, of which Symphony No. 3Symphony No. 3 (Harris)Roy Harris's Symphony No. 3 is a work written in 1939 and premiered by the conductor Serge Koussevitzky.Harris wrote this symphony on a commission from Hans Kindler but he gave it to Serge Koussevitzky instead...
is by far the most famous. - Viktor UllmannViktor UllmannViktor Ullmann was a Silesia-born Austrian, later Czech composer, conductor and pianist of Jewish origin.- Biography :...
(1898–1944). Czech Composer of two symphonies (1944, both are reconstructions from the short score of the Piano Sonatas No. 5 and Piano Sonatas No. 7 by Bernard Wulff). - Carlos ChávezCarlos ChávezCarlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez was a Mexican composer, conductor, music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder and director of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra. He was influenced by native Mexican cultures. Of his six Symphonies, his Symphony No...
(1899–1978). Mexican composer of six symphonies, as well as a "Dance Symphony" Caballos de vapor (AKA Horse Power), and a Sinfonía proletaria (proletarian symphony). - Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté (1899–1974). Canadian composer of two symphonies and a Symphony-Concerto for piano and orchestra.
- Pavel HaasPavel HaasPavel Haas was a Czech composer who was murdered during the Holocaust. He was an exponent of Leoš Janáček's school of composition, and also utilized elements of folk music and jazz. Although his output was not large, he is notable particularly for his song cycles and string quartets.-Pre-war:Haas...
(1899–1944). Czech Composer of an unfinished Symphony (1940/41, orchestration completed by Zdenek Zouhar). - Eduardo Hernández MoncadaEduardo Hernandez MoncadaEduardo Hernández Moncada was a Mexican composer, pianist, and conductor. He is one of the essential musicians representative of the Nationalist Movement of the Post Revolutonary years in Mexico....
(1899–1995). Mexican composer of two symphonies. - Harl McDonaldHarl McDonaldHarl McDonald was an American composer, conductor, pianist and teacher. McDonald studied at the University of California, the University of Redlands, and the Leipzig Conservatory...
(1899–1955). American pianist, conductor, and composer of four symphonies. - Domingo Santa Cruz (1899–1987). Chilean composer of four symphonies and a Sinfonia Concertante for flute and orchestra.
- Alexander TcherepninAlexander TcherepninAlexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin was a Russian-born composer and pianist. His father, Nikolai Tcherepnin and his son, Ivan Tcherepnin were also composers, as are two of his grandsons, Sergei and Stefan. His son Serge was involved in the roots of electronic music and instruments...
(1899–1977). Russian composer of four symphonies. - Randall ThompsonRandall ThompsonRandall Thompson was an American composer, particularly noted for his choral works.-Career:He attended Harvard University, became assistant professor of music and choir director at Wellesley College, and received a doctorate in music from the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music...
(1899–1984). American composer of three symphonies.
1900–1950
- Aaron CoplandAaron CoplandAaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...
(1900–1990). American composer of three numbered symphonies, a Symphony for organ and orchestra (later arranged without organ as Symphony No. 1), and a Dance Symphony for orchestra. The fourth movement of No. 3Symphony No. 3 (Copland)Symphony No. 3 was Aaron Copland's third and final symphony, its premiere performance taking place on October 18, 1946, by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Serge Koussevitsky.It was written at the end of World War II...
is based on his famous Fanfare for the Common ManFanfare for the Common ManFanfare for the Common Man is a 20th-century American classical music work by American composer Aaron Copland. The piece was written in 1942 for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under conductor Eugene Goossens. It was inspired in part by a famous speech made earlier in the same year where vice...
. - Pierre-Octave FerroudPierre-Octave FerroudPierre-Octave Ferroud was a French composer of classical music.He was born in Chasselay, Rhône, near Lyon. He went to Lyon, to Strasbourg where he studied with Guy Ropartz, and again to Lyon where he was for a time an associate and "disciple" of Florent Schmitt, and a pupil of Georges Martin...
(1900–1936). French composer of one symphony. - Ernst KrenekErnst KrenekErnst Krenek was an Austrian of Czech origin and, from 1945, American composer. He explored atonality and other modern styles and wrote a number of books, including Music Here and Now , a study of Johannes Ockeghem , and Horizons Circled: Reflections on my Music...
(1900–1991). Austrian composer of five symphonies. - Kurt WeillKurt WeillKurt Julian Weill was a German-Jewish composer, active from the 1920s, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht...
(1900–1950). German Composer of two symphonies. - Masao Ohki (1901–1971). Japanese composer of six symphonies.
- Edmund RubbraEdmund RubbraEdmund Rubbra was a British composer. He composed both instrumental and vocal works for soloists, chamber groups and full choruses and orchestras. He was greatly esteemed by fellow musicians and was at the peak of his fame in the mid-20th century. The most famous of his pieces are his eleven...
(1901–1986). English composer of 11 symphonies. - John VincentJohn Vincent (composer)John Vincent was an American composer, conductor, and music educator.He was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and studied at the New England Conservatory of Music under Frederick Converse and George Chadwick graduating with a diploma in 1927...
(1902–1977). American composer of two numbered symphonies and one earlier symphony (lost). - Sir William WaltonWilliam WaltonSir William Turner Walton OM was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera...
(1902–1983). English composer of two symphonies. - Meredith WillsonMeredith WillsonRobert Meredith Willson was an American composer, songwriter, conductor and playwright, best known for writing the book, music and lyrics for the hit Broadway musical The Music Man...
(1902–1984). American composer of two symphonies. - Stefan WolpeStefan WolpeStefan Wolpe was a German-born composer.-Life:Wolpe was born in Berlin. He attended the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory from the age of fourteen, and the Berlin Hochschule für Musik in 1920-1921. He studied composition under Franz Schreker and was also a pupil of Ferruccio Busoni...
(1902–1972). German-born composer of a Symphony (1955–56). - Sir Lennox BerkeleyLennox BerkeleySir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley was an English composer.- Biography :He was born in Oxford, England, and educated at the Dragon School, Gresham's School and Merton College, Oxford...
(1903–1989). English composer of four symphonies. - Vittorio GianniniVittorio GianniniVittorio Giannini was a neoromantic American composer of operas, songs, symphonies, and band works.-Life and work:...
(1903–1966). American composer of five symphonies. - Aram KhachaturianAram KhachaturianAram Ilyich Khachaturian was a prominent Soviet composer. Khachaturian's works were often influenced by classical Russian music and Armenian folk music...
(1903–1978). Armenian composer of three symphonies. - Luis Humberto SalgadoLuis H. SalgadoLuis Humberto Salgado Ecuadorian composer regarded as one of the most influential and prolific of his country.-Biography:...
(1903-1977). Ecuadorian composer of nine symphonies. - Saburõ Moroi (1903–1977). Japanese composer of five symphonies.
- John AntillJohn AntillJohn Henry Antill, CMG, OBE was an Australian composer best known for his ballet Corroboree.-Biography:Antill was born in Sydney in 1904, and was educated and trained in music at Trinity Grammar School, Sydney and St Andrew's Cathedral School. Upon leaving school in 1920 he became apprenticed to...
(1904–1986). Australian composer of Symphony on a City (1959). - Dmitri KabalevskyDmitri KabalevskyDmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky was a Russian composer.He helped to set up the Union of Soviet Composers in Moscow and remained one of its leading figures. He was a prolific composer of piano music and chamber music; many of his piano works have been performed by Vladimir Horowitz. He is probably...
(1904–1987). Russian composer of four symphonies. - Cemal Reşit ReyCemal Resit ReyCemal Reşit Rey was a Turkish composer, pianist, script writer and conductor.He was born on October 25, 1904 in Jerusalem, and died on October 7, 1985 in Istanbul....
(1904–1985). Turkish composer of two symphonies. - William AlwynWilliam AlwynWilliam Alwyn, CBE, born William Alwyn Smith was an English composer, conductor, and music teacher.-Life and music:...
(1905–1985). English composer of five symphonies. - Karl Amadeus HartmannKarl Amadeus HartmannKarl Amadeus Hartmann was a German composer. Some have lauded him as the greatest German symphonist of the 20th century, although he is now largely overlooked, particularly in English-speaking countries.-Life:...
(1905–1963). German composer of eight symphonies. - Léon Orthel (1905–1985). Dutch composer of six symphonies.
- Sir Michael TippettMichael TippettSir Michael Kemp Tippett OM CH CBE was an English composer.In his long career he produced a large body of work, including five operas, three large-scale choral works, four symphonies, five string quartets, four piano sonatas, concertos and concertante works, song cycles and incidental music...
(1905–1998). English composer of four symphonies. - Eduard TubinEduard Tubin-Life:Tubin was born in Torila, Governorate of Livonia, Estonia. Both his parents were music lovers, and his father played trumpet and trombone in the village band. His first taste of music came at school where he learned flute and balalaika. Later, his father swapped a cow for a piano, and the...
(1905–1982), Estonian composer of 10 symphonies. - Xian XinghaiXian XinghaiXian Xinghai was one of the earliest generation of Chinese composers influenced by western classical music and has influenced generations of Chinese musicians...
(1905–1945). Chinese composer of two symphonies. - Kees van BaarenKees van BaarenKees van Baaren was a Dutch composer and teacher.Van Baaren was born in Enschede. His early studies were in Berlin with Rudolph Breithaupt and Friedrich Koch at the Stern conservatory. After returning to the Netherlands in 1929, he studied with Willem Pijper...
(1906–1970). Dutch composer of one symphony (1957). - Paul CrestonPaul CrestonPaul Creston was an Italian American composer of classical music.Born in New York City to Sicilian immigrants, Creston was self‐taught as a composer. He was an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia music fraternity, initiated into the national honorary Alpha Alpha chapter...
(1906–1985), American composer of six symphonies. - Antal DorátiAntal DorátiAntal Doráti, KBE was a Hungarian-born conductor and composer who became a naturalized American citizen in 1947.-Biography:...
(1906–1988), American conductor and composer of Hungarian birth, who wrote two symphonies. - Benjamin FrankelBenjamin FrankelBenjamin Frankel was a British composer. Frankel's most famous pieces include a cycle of five string quartets and eight symphonies as well as a number of concertos for violin and viola; his single best-known piece is probably the First Sonata for Solo Violin, which, like his concertos, resulted...
(1906–1973). English composer of eight symphonies. - Janis IvanovsJanis IvanovsJānis Ivanovs was a Soviet Latvian classical music composer.In 1931, he graduated from the Latvian State Conservatory in Riga. In 1944, he joined the conservatory's faculty, becoming a full professor in 1955. He is regarded as being the most distinguished Latvian symphonist...
(1906–1983), Latvian composer of 21 symphonies. - Alexander MoyzesAlexander MoyzesAlexander Moyzes , was a Slovak 20th century neoromantic composer.-Biography:Moyzes was born into a musical family in 1906 at Kláštor pod Znievom in present Slovakia. His father was the composer and educator Mikuláš Moyzes...
(1906–1984). Slovak composer of 12 symphonies. - Dmitri ShostakovichDmitri ShostakovichDmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....
(1906–1975). Soviet composer of 15 symphonies—see Category of Shostakovich symphonies. - David Van VactorDavid Van VactorDavid Van Vactor was an American composer of contemporary classical music.He was born in Plymouth, Indiana, and received Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from Northwestern University...
(1906–1994). American composer of seven symphonies. - Henk BadingsHenk BadingsHenk Badings was a Dutch composer.Born in Bandung, Java, Dutch East Indies, as the son of Herman Louis Johan Badings, an officer in the Dutch East Indies army, Badings became an orphan at an early age...
(1907–1987). Dutch composer of 15 symphonies. - Camargo GuarnieriCamargo GuarnieriMozart Camargo Guarnieri was a Brazilian composer.-Name:He was registered at birth as Mozart Guarnieri, but when he began a musical career, he decided his first name was too pretentious and subject to puns. Thus he adopted his mother's maiden name Camargo as a middle name, and thenceforth signed...
(1907–1993). Brazilian composer of seven symphonies. - Hisato Ōsawa (1907–1953). Japanese composer of at least three symphonies.
- Willem van OtterlooWillem van OtterlooJan Willem van Otterloo was a Dutch conductor, cellist and composer.-Biography:Van Otterloo was born in Winterswijk, Gelderland, in the Netherlands, the son of William Frederik van Otterloo, a railway inspector, and his wife Anna Catharina Enderlé...
(1907–1978). Dutch conductor and composer of one symphony and a Symphonietta for winds. - Miklós RózsaMiklós RózsaMiklós Rózsa was a Hungarian-born composer trained in Germany , and active in France , England , and the United States , with extensive sojourns in Italy from 1953...
(1907-1995). Hungarian-American composer of one symphony. - Ahmet Adnan SaygunAhmet Adnan SaygunAhmed Adnan Saygun was a Turkish composer, musicologist and writer on music. Ahmed Adnan Saygun is acknowledged as one of the most important 20th century composers in Turkish music history....
(1907–1991). Turkish composer of five symphonies. - Martin ScherberMartin ScherberMartin Scherber was a German composer and the creator of metamorphosis symphonies.- Childhood and Youth :Martin Scherber was born as the third child of Marie and Bernhard Scherber in Nuremberg, where his father was First Bassist in the orchestra of the State Opera House. Martin was a quiet child,...
(1907-1974). German composer of three symphonies. - José Siquiera (1907–1985). Brazilian composer of four symphonies.
- Elliott CarterElliott CarterElliott Cook Carter, Jr. is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, and then returned to the United States. After a neoclassical phase, he went on to write atonal, rhythmically complex music...
(born 1908). American composer of three symphonies, including A Symphony of Three Orchestras (1976) and Symphonia: sum fluxae pretiam spei (1993–96). - Herman David KoppelHerman David KoppelHerman David Koppel was a composer and pianist of Jewish origin.Born in Copenhagen, he fled the Nazis with his family in 1943. He wrote 13 symphonies, numerous concertos, and 20 string quartets....
(1908–1998). Danish composer of five symphonies. - Olivier MessiaenOlivier MessiaenOlivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...
(1908–1992), composer of Turangalîla-SymphonieTurangalîla-SymphonieThe Turangalîla-Symphonie is a large-scale piece of orchestral music by Olivier Messiaen. It was written from 1946 to 1948, on a commission by Serge Koussevitzky for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The premiere was given by that orchestra on December 2, 1949, conducted by Leonard Bernstein in Boston...
(1946-48) in ten movements, with solo parts for piano and Ondes MartenotOndes MartenotThe ondes Martenot , also known as the ondium Martenot, Martenot and ondes musicales, is an early electronic musical instrument invented in 1928 by Maurice Martenot. The original design was similar in sound to the theremin...
. - Herbert Haufrecht (1909–1998). American composer of one symphony
- Vagn HolmboeVagn HolmboeVagn Gylding Holmboe was a Danish composer and teacher who wrote largely in a neo-classical style.-Life:At the age of 16, Holmboe began formal music training at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen on the recommendation of Carl Nielsen. He studied under Knud Jeppesen and Finn Høffding...
(1909–1996). Danish composer of 13 symphonies, four symphonies for strings and three chamber symphonies (these seven works not discarded, but not included by him among the other 13). - Robin OrrRobin OrrRobert Kelmsley Orr CBE was a Scottish composer.Born in Brechin, he studied at the Royal College of Music in London and at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Following studies with Alfredo Casella and Nadia Boulanger he returned to Cambridge in 1938 as Organist of St John's College. During his war...
(1909–2006). Scottish composer of three symphonies and a Sinfonietta Helvetica. - Samuel BarberSamuel BarberSamuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is his most popular composition and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music...
, (1910–1981). American composer of two symphonies. - William SchumanWilliam SchumanWilliam Howard Schuman was an American composer and music administrator.-Life:Born in Manhattan in New York City to Samuel and Rachel Schuman, Schuman was named after the twenty-seventh U.S. president, William Howard Taft, although his family preferred to call him Bill...
(1910–1992). American composer of 10 symphonies. - José ArdévolJosé ArdévolJosé Ardévol was a Cuban composer and conductor of Spanish derivation.As a child, Ardévol studied under his father, Fernando, who was a musician and conductor. He emigrated to Cuba in 1930, and from 1934 to 1952 was the director of the Orquestra de cámara de la Habana...
(1911–1981). Cuban composer of three symphonies. - Bernard HerrmannBernard HerrmannBernard Herrmann was an American composer noted for his work in motion pictures.An Academy Award-winner , Herrmann is particularly known for his collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo...
(1911–1975). American composer of one symphony (1940). - Alan HovhanessAlan HovhanessAlan Hovhaness was an Armenian-American composer.His music is accessible to the lay listener and often evokes a mood of mystery or contemplation...
(1911–2000). American composer of 67 symphonies. - Allan PetterssonAllan PetterssonGustav Allan Pettersson was a Swedish composer. Today he is considered one of the most important Swedish composers of the 20th century...
(1911–1980). Swedish composer of 17 symphonies. - Rudolf Escher (1912–1980). Dutch composer of two numbered symphonies, an unfinished Symphony in memoriam Maurice Ravel, and a Symphony for 10 instruments.
- Peggy Glanville-HicksPeggy Glanville-HicksPeggy Glanville-Hicks was an Australian composer.- Biography :Peggy Glanville-Hicks was born Melbourne in 1912. At age 15 she began studying composition with Fritz Hart in Melbourne...
(1912–1990). Australian composer of a Sinfonietta (1935) - Ma SicongMa SicongMa Sicong was a Chinese violinist and composer. He was referred to in China as "The King of violinists." His Nostalgia for violin, composed in 1937 as part of the Inner Mongolia Suite , was considered one of the most favorite pieces of 20th century China.During his youth, Ma went to Paris to...
(1912–1987). Chinese composer of two symphonies. - José Pablo MoncayoJosé Pablo MoncayoJosé Pablo Moncayo García was a Mexican pianist, percussionist, music teacher, composer and conductor. "As composer, José Pablo Moncayo represents one of the most important legacies of the Mexican nationalism in art music, after Silvestre Revueltas and Carlos Chávez." He produced some of the...
(1912–1958). Mexican composer of two symphonies (1944 and 1958, the latter unfinished), and a Sinfonietta (1945). - George Barati (1913–1996). Hungarian-born American composer of one symphony.
- Henry BrantHenry BrantHenry Dreyfuss Brant was a Canadian-born American composer. An expert orchestrator with a flair for experimentation, many of Brant's works featured spatialization techniques.- Biography :...
(1913-2008). American composer of five unnumbered symphonies. - Benjamin BrittenBenjamin BrittenEdward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to...
(1913–1976). British composer of several symphonies, including A Simple Symphony for strings (1933–34), Sinfonia da Requiem (1939–40), a Spring Symphony (1948–49), and the Cello Symphony (1963), as well as a Sinfonietta (1932). - Norman Dello JoioNorman Dello Joio- Life :He was born Nicodemo DeGioio in New York City to Italian immigrants. He began his musical career as organist and choir director at the Star of the Sea Church on City Island in New York at age 14. His father was an organist, pianist, and vocal coach and coached many opera stars from the...
(1913-2008). American composer of one symphony. - Morton GouldMorton GouldMorton Gould was an American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist.Born in Richmond Hill, New York, Gould was recognized early as a child prodigy with abilities in improvisation and composition. His first composition was published at age six...
(1913–1996). American composer of four numbered symphonies (the last for band), plus four Symphonettes. - Hans HenkemansHans HenkemansHans Henkemans was a Dutch pianist, teacher, composer of classical music and psychiatrist....
(1913–1995). Dutch composer of one symphony (1934, subsequently withdrawn). - George LloydGeorge Lloyd (composer)George Walter Selwyn Lloyd was a British composer.-Early life:Of Cornish ancestry, Lloyd grew up in a family with great enthusiasm for music. He was mainly home-schooled because of rheumatic fever. He later studied violin with Albert Sammons and composition with Harry Farjeon. He was a student at...
(1913-1998). English Composer of nine symphonies. - Witold Lutosławski (1913–1994). Polish composer of four symphonies.
- Gardner ReadGardner ReadGardner Read was an American composer and musical scholar....
(1913–2005). American composer of four symphonies. - Cecil EffingerCecil EffingerCecil Effinger was an American composer, oboist, and inventor.-Life:Effinger was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and resided in that state for most of his life...
(1914–1990). American composer of five numbered symphonies and two "Little Symphonies". - Irving FineIrving FineIrving Gifford Fine was an American composer. Fine's work assimilated neo-classical, romantic and, later, serial elements...
(1914–1962). American composer of one symphony. - Roger GoebRoger Goeb-Life:Roger Goeb was born in Cherokee, Iowa. Although he had studied piano, trumpet, French horn, viola, violin, and woodwind instruments from an early age , he turned to the profession of music comparatively late. He studied agriculture at the University of Wisconsin, earning a BS degree in 1936...
(1914–1997). American composer of six symphonies and two "sinfonias". - César Guerra-PeixeCésar Guerra-PeixeCésar Guerra-Peixe was a Brazilian violinist and composer.Guerra-Peixe was born in Petrópolis, son of Portuguese immigrants with gypsy origins. As a composer he wrote influenced by Hans-Joachim Koellreutter several works using straight twelve-tone technique, but switched in 1949 to adapt...
(1914–1993). Brazilian composer of two symphonies. - Gail KubikGail KubikGail Thompson Kubik was an American composer, motion picture scorist, violinist, and teacher. He studied at the Eastman School of Music, the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago with Leo Sowerby, and Harvard University with Walter Piston and Nadia Boulanger...
(1914–1984). American composer of two symphonies and a Sinfonia Concertante for piano, viola, trumpet, and orchestra. - Sir Andrzej PanufnikAndrzej PanufnikSir Andrzej Panufnik was a Polish composer, pianist, conductor and pedagogue. He became established as one of the leading Polish composers, and as a conductor he was instrumental in the re-establishment of the Warsaw Philharmonic orchestra after World War II...
(1914–1991). Polish composer of 10 symphonies. - Harold TruscottHarold TruscottHarold Truscott was a British composer, pianist, broadcaster and writer on music. Largely neglected as a composer in his lifetime, he made an important contribution to the British piano repertoire and was influential in spreading knowledge of a wide range of mainly unfashionable music.- Life :Born...
(1914–1992). British composer of a Symphony in E major (1949–50), as well as a now-lost Grasmere Symphony (1938). - David DiamondDavid Diamond (composer)David Leo Diamond was an American composer of classical music.-Life and career:He was born in Rochester, New York and studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School of Music under Bernard Rogers, also receiving lessons from Roger Sessions in New York City and Nadia Boulanger in...
(1915–2005). American composer of 11 symphonies. - Dorian Le GallienneDorian Le GallienneDorian Leon Marlois Le Gallienne was an Australian composer, teacher and music critic.-Biography:Dorian Le Gallienne was born in Melbourne in 1915. His father, an actor, was born in France, and his mother, a pianist who had studied with G. W. L. Marshall-Hall, was the daughter of the Assistant...
(1915–1963). Australian composer of a Symphony (1953) and a Sinfonietta (1956). - Robert Moffat PalmerRobert Moffat PalmerRobert Moffat ' Palmer was an American composer, pianist and educator...
(1915–2010). American composer of two symphonies. - Vincent PersichettiVincent PersichettiVincent Ludwig Persichetti was an American composer, teacher, and pianist. An important musical educator and writer, Persichetti was a native of Philadelphia...
(1915–1987). American composer of nine symphonies. - Henri DutilleuxHenri DutilleuxHenri Dutilleux is one of the most important French composers of the second half of the 20th century, producing work in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Albert Roussel, but in a style distinctly his own...
(born 1916), French composer of two symphonies. - Sven Einar EnglundSven Einar EnglundSven Einar Englund was a Finnish composer.-Life:Sven Einar Englund was born at Ljugarn in Gotland on June 17. 1916; he died 27th. June 1999...
(1916–1999), Finnish composer of seven symphonies. - Carlos SurinachCarlos SurinachCarlos Surinach was a Catalan Spanish-born composer and conductor.He was born in Barcelona, where he held conducting posts at the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona and the Gran Teatre del Liceu...
(1915–1997) American composer of Catalan origin, composer of three symphonies. - Rowan TaylorRowan TaylorRowan Taylor is an international footballer from Montserrat who has one cap for the national team. Taylor, who was born in North London, England, plays as a striker for Cockfosters.-External links:**...
(1916–2005). American composer of two hundred and sixty-five [record as of Nov 2011] - Lou HarrisonLou HarrisonLou Silver Harrison was an American composer. He was a student of Henry Cowell, Arnold Schoenberg, and K. P. H. Notoprojo Lou Silver Harrison (May 14, 1917 – February 2, 2003) was an American composer. He was a student of Henry Cowell, Arnold Schoenberg, and K. P. H. Notoprojo Lou Silver Harrison...
(1917–2003). American composer of four symphonies. - Anthony BurgessAnthony BurgessJohn Burgess Wilson – who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess – was an English author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. The dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange is Burgess's most famous novel, though he dismissed it as one of his lesser works...
(1917–1993). British novelist and composer of three symphonies, as well as a Petite symphonie pour Strasbourg (1988), and a Sinfonietta for Liana (1990). - Richard YardumianRichard YardumianRichard Yardumian was an Armenian-American classical music composer.-Life:Yardumian was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the youngest of ten children to Armenian immigrant parents, and began studying the piano at a very early age. His mother, Lucia, was a teacher and organist, and his father,...
(1917–1985). American composer of two symphonies. - Isang YunIsang YunIsang Yun was a Korean-German composer originally from Korea. According to his official publisher's Boosey & Hawkes biography of him, he was granted political asylum by West Germany, eventually becoming a naturalised German citizen, following his abduction and torture in 1967 by the South Korean...
(1917–1995). Korean composer of seven symphonies. - Leonard BernsteinLeonard BernsteinLeonard Bernstein August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim...
(1918–1990). American composer and conductor, composed three symphonies. - Harold GramatgesHarold GramatgesHarold Gramatges was a Cuban composer, pianist, and teacher.Gramatges was born in Santiago, Cuba...
(born 1918). Cuban composer of one symphony and a Sinfonietta. - Bernd Alois ZimmermannBernd Alois ZimmermannBernd Alois Zimmermann was a post-WWII West German composer. He is perhaps best known for his opera Die Soldaten which is regarded as one of the most important operas of the 20th century...
(1918–1970). German composer of a Sinfonia prosodica (1945), as well as a Symphony in one movement (1947–51/53). - Argeliers León (1918–1991). Cuban composer of two numbered symphonies, as well as an unnumbered Symphony for Strings.
- Lex van DeldenLex van Delden-Early life and education:Born Alexander Zwaap in Amsterdam as the only child of Wolf Zwaap, a school-teacher, and his wife Sara Olivier, Lex van Delden took piano-lessons from an early age - first from Martha Zwaga and later from the celebrated pianist, Cor de Groot...
(1919–1988). Dutch composer of eight symphonies. - Talivaldis KeninsTalivaldis KeninsTālivaldis Ķeniņš was a Canadian composer born in Latvia.Kenins's father was a lawyer, poet and government official, and his mother was a journalist. He first began playing piano at the age of five, and his first compositions followed at age eight...
(born 1919). Latvian-born Canadian composer of eight symphonies. - Juan Orrego-SalasJuan Orrego-SalasJuan Antonio Orrego Salas is a Chilean composer of contemporary classical music and musicologist.He was a student of Randall Thompson and Aaron Copland in the United States, and later he settled in that country in the early 1960s to work at Indiana University, where he co-founded the Latin...
(born 1919). Chilean composer of five numbered symphonies, plus a Symphony in One Movement "Semper reditus" (1997) - Cláudio SantoroCláudio SantoroCláudio Franco de Sá Santoro was an internationally renowned Brazilian composer and violinist.-Early life:...
(1919–1989). Brazilian composer of 14 symphonies. - Mieczyslaw WeinbergMieczyslaw WeinbergMieczysław Weinberg was a Soviet composer of Polish-Jewish origin....
(1919–1996). Polish composer who emigrated to the Soviet Union, composer of 20 symphonies for full orchestra and 4 chamber symphonies. - Galina UstvolskayaGalina UstvolskayaGalina Ivanovna Ustvolskaya, also Ustwolskaja or Oustvolskaia was a Russian composer of classical music.-Early years:From 1937 to 1947 she studied at the college attached to the Leningrad Conservatory . She subsequently became a postgraduate student and taught composition at the college...
(1919–2006). Russian composer of five symphonies. - Alexander ArutiunianAlexander ArutiunianAlexander Grigorevich Arutiunian , also known as Arutunian, Arutyunyan, Arutjunjan or Harutiunian Alexander Grigorevich Arutiunian (Arm. Ալեքսանդր Գրիգորի Հարությունյան), also known as Arutunian, Arutyunyan, Arutjunjan or Harutiunian Alexander Grigorevich Arutiunian (Arm. Ալեքսանդր Գրիգորի...
(born 1920). Armenian composer of two symphonies. - Karen KhachaturianKaren KhachaturianKaren Surenovich Khachaturian, was a Soviet and Russian composer of Armenian ethnicity and the nephew of composer Aram Khachaturian.Khachaturian was born in Moscow, the son of Suren Khachaturian, a theatrical director...
(born 1920). Armenian composer of four symphonies. - Ralph Edward Kechley (born ca. 1920). American composer of one symphony for band.
- Jean B. Middleton (born ca. 1920). American composer of one symphony.
- Malcolm ArnoldMalcolm ArnoldSir Malcolm Henry Arnold, CBE was an English composer and symphonist.Malcolm Arnold began his career playing trumpet professionally, but by age thirty his life was devoted to composition. He was ranked with Benjamin Britten as one of the most sought-after composers in Britain...
(1921–2006). British composer of nine symphonies. - Jack BeesonJack BeesonJack Beeson was an American composer. He was known particularly for his operas, the best known of which are Lizzie Borden, Hello Out There! and The Sweet Bye and Bye.-Biography:...
(1921–2010). American composer of one symphony. - Andrzej DobrowolskiAndrzej DobrowolskiAndrzej Dobrowolski was a Polish composer and teacher....
(1921–1990). Polish composer of one symphony. - Fritz GeißlerFritz GeißlerFritz Geißler was one of the most important composers of the German Democratic Republic....
(1921–1984). German composer, wrote 11 symphonies. - Karel HusaKarel HusaKarel Husa is a Czech-born classical composer and conductor, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize and 1993 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition...
(born 1921). American composer of Czech birth, composer of two symphonies. - Edvard Mik’aeli MirzoianEdvard MirzoyanEdvard Mirzoyan , is an Armenian composer.Mirzoyan was born in Gori, Georgia. Initially schooled in music in Yerevan and graduated from the Komitas State Conservatory, Mirzoyan went on to Moscow to further refine his art. In late 1956 he was elected president of the Armenian Composers’ Union, a...
(born 1921). Armenian composer of one symphony. - Alfred ReedAlfred ReedAlfred Reed was one of North America's most prolific and frequently performed composers, with more than two hundred published works for concert band, wind ensemble, orchestra, chorus, and chamber ensemble to his name...
(1921–2005). American composer and conductor of Austrian descent, composed five symphonies, all for wind band. - Robert SimpsonRobert Simpson (composer)Robert Simpson was an English composer and long-serving BBC producer and broadcaster.He is best known for his orchestral and chamber music , and for his writings on the music of Beethoven, Bruckner, Nielsen and Sibelius. He studied composition under Herbert Howells...
(1921–1997). British composer, wrote 11 symphonies. - Felix WerderFelix WerderFelix Werder is an Australian-based German composer of classical and electronic music; also a noted critic and educator. The son of a distinguished liturgical composer, he has composed all his life; he has an international reputation and is one of Australia's most performed composers...
(born 1922). Australian composer of German origin, wrote seven numbered symphonies (1943–92), a Sinfonia for viola, piano, and orchestra (1986), and a Wind Symphony (1990). - Jianer Zhu (born 1922). Chinese composer of 10 symphonies.
- Frank William EricksonFrank William EricksonFrank William Erickson was born in Spokane, Washington on September 1, 1923. He was the son of Frank O. and Myrtle Erickson. He began his instrumental career at the age of eight. At eight years old he began to play the piano. At age ten he became interested in the trumpet and started playing it...
(1923–1996). American composer of three symphonies. - Peter MenninPeter MenninPeter Mennin was an American composer and teacher. He directed the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, then for many years ran the Juilliard School, succeeding William Schuman in this role...
(1923–1983). American composer, wrote nine symphonies. - Ned RoremNed RoremNed Rorem is a Pulitzer prize-winning American composer and diarist. He is best known and most praised for his song settings.-Life:...
(born 1923). American composer of three numbered orchestral symphonies, a symphony for winds, and a symphony for strings. - Vasilije MokranjacVasilije MokranjacVasilije Mokranjac was a greatly influential and renowned Serbian composer.Though he was publicly recognized, Mokranjac often tried to stay out of the spotlight, being an introvert by nature and often more consumed with his work than fame. He was reluctant to follow any specific musical genre or...
(1923–1984). Serbian composer of four symphonies and a Sinfonietta for strings. - Warren BensonWarren BensonWarren Benson was an American composer. His compositions consist mostly of music for wind instruments and percussion...
(1924–2005). American composer of two symphonies. - Joly Braga SantosJoly Braga SantosJosé Manuel Joly Braga Santos, ComSE was a Portuguese composer and conductor, who was born and died in Lisbon. He wrote six symphonies.-Biography:...
(1924–1988). Portuguese composer of six symphonies. - Yasushi AkutagawaYasushi Akutagawawas a Japanese composer and conductor. He was born and raised in Tabata, Tokyo. His father was Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.Akutagawa was taught composition by Kunihiko Hashimoto and Akira Ifukube at the Tokyo Conservatory of Music...
(1925–1989). Japanese composer of one numbered symphony (1954), plus a Symphony "Twin Stars", for children (1957) and the Ellora Symphony (1958) - Jurriaan AndriessenJurriaan AndriessenJurriaan Hendrik Andriessen was a Dutch composer, whose father, Hendrik, brother Louis, and uncle Willem have also been notable composers...
(1925–1996). Dutch composer of eight numbered symphonies, plus a Symphonietta concertante, for four trumpets and orchestra (1947), and a Sinfonia "Il fiume" for winds (1984). - Robert BeadellRobert Beadell-Life:After military service as a bandsman with the United States Marines during the Second World War, Beadell enrolled in the music program at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where his clarinet teacher, Dominick DiCaprio, encouraged him to study composition...
(1925–1994). American composer of two symphonies. - Gustavo Becerra-SchmidtGustavo Becerra-SchmidtGustavo Becerra-Schmidt was a Chilean composer.Becerra-Schmidt lived in Germany since 1973 and taught at Oldenburg University since 1974. Becerra was the most prolific Chilean composer...
(born 1925). Chilean composer of three symphonies. - Luciano BerioLuciano BerioLuciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental work and also for his pioneering work in electronic music.-Biography:Berio was born at Oneglia Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian...
(1925–2003). Italian composer of the famous SinfoniaSinfonia (Berio)Sinfonia is a composition by the Italian composer Luciano Berio which was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic for its 125th anniversary...
(1968-69). - Bertold HummelBertold HummelBertold Hummel was a German composer of modern classical music.- Life :Bertold Hummel was born November 27, 1925 in Hüfingen . He studied at the Academy of Music in Freiburg from 1947 to 1954, taking composition with Harald Genzmer, and cello with Atis Teichmanis...
(1925–2002). German composer of three symphonies. - Włodzimierz Kotoński (born 1925). Polish composer of two symphonies.
- Anthony MilnerAnthony MilnerAnthony Milner was a British composer, teacher and conductor.Milner was born in Bristol, and educated at Douai School, Woolhampton, Berkshire. He won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music, where he studied piano with Herbert Fryer and theory with R. O. Morris...
(born 1925). British composer of three orchestral symphonies and a symphony for organ. - Gunther SchullerGunther SchullerGunther Schuller is an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, and jazz musician.- Biography and works :...
(born 1925). American composer of three symphonies, a Symphony for Organ, and a Chamber Symphony (1989). - Paul W. WhearPaul W. WhearPaul W. Whear is an American composer, music educator, double-bassist, and conductor.-Life:Whear studied at Marquette University—The Catholic Jesuit University in Milwaukee where he received the B.N.S.; after service as an officer in The U.S Navy, he attended DePauw University School of Music in...
(born 1925). American composer of four symphonies. - Julián OrbónJulián OrbónJulián Orbón was a Spanish composer. He lived in Cuba from 1940 to 1960, moving to Mexico...
(1925–1991). Cuban composer of one symphony. - Hans Werner HenzeHans Werner HenzeHans Werner Henze is a German composer of prodigious output best known for "his consistent cultivation of music for the theatre throughout his life"...
(born 1926). German Composer of 10 symphonies. - Ben Johnston (born 1926). American composer of a Symphony in A (1987) and a Chamber Symphony (1990).
- Jivan Gurgeni Ter-T'at'evosian (1926–1988). Armenian composer of five symphonies and a Sinfonietta.
- Anatol VieruAnatol VieruAnatol Vieru was a music theoretician, influential pedagogue, and a leading Romanian-Jewish composer of the 20th century. A pupil of Aram Khachaturian, he composed seven symphonies, eight string quartets, numerous concertos, and much chamber music. He also wrote three operas: Iona , Praznicul...
(1926–1998). Romanian composer of seven symphonies. - David Barlow (1927–1975). English composer of two symphonies.
- Keith Humble (1927–1995). Australian composer of a Symphony of Sorrows (1993).
- Wilfred JosephsWilfred Josephs-Life:Born in Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, Wilfred Josephs had his first musical studies in Newcastle with Arthur Milner, and showed early promise, but was persuaded by his parents to take up a 'sensible' career. He subsequently became a dentist, qualifying as a Bachelor of Dental Surgery of the...
(1927–1997). British composer of 12 symphonies. - Ernst Widmer (1927–1990). Brazilian composer of Swiss birth, composed three symphonies.
- Thomas WilsonThomas Wilson (composer)Thomas Wilson CBE was a Scottish composer of classical music.One of the greatest musicians Scotland has produced, Thomas Brendan Wilson was born in Trinidad, Colorado, USA to British parents, but moved to Scotland with his family when he was 17 months old. They settled in the Glasgow area where he...
(1927–2001). Scottish composer of American birth, composed five symphonies between 1955 and 1998 and a Chamber Symphony (1990). - Samuel AdlerSamuel Adler (composer)Samuel Hans Adler is an American composer and conductor.-Biography:Adler was born to a Jewish family in Mannheim, Germany, the son of Hugo Chaim Adler, a cantor and composer, and Selma Adler. The family fled to the United States in 1939, where Hugo became the cantor of Temple Emanuel in...
(born 1928). German-born American composer of six symphonies. - Tadeusz BairdTadeusz BairdTadeusz Baird was a Polish composer.He was born in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, to Scottish immigrant parents. He studied composition, piano and musicology in Warsaw with, among others, Kazimierz Sikorski. In 1956, with Serocki, he founded the Warsaw Autumn international contemporary music festival...
(1928–1981). Polish composer of three symphonies. - Richard DeLone (born 1928). American composer of one symphony.
- George DreyfusGeorge DreyfusGeorge Dreyfus AM is an Australian contemporary classical, film and television composer.-Life:The Dreyfus family moved in 1935 to Berlin to enable a better education for their two sons...
(born 1928). Australian composer of two symphonies (1967 and 1976), and a Symphonie Concertante for bassoon, violin, viola, cello, and string orchestra (1978). - Einojuhani RautavaaraEinojuhani RautavaaraEinojuhani Rautavaara is a Finnish composer of contemporary classical music, and is one of the most notable Finnish composers after Jean Sibelius.-Life:...
(born 1928), Finnish composer of eight symphonies. - Ole Schmidt (born 1928). Danish composer of a First Symphony, an Øresund Symphony (in collaboration with Gunnar JanssonGunnar JanssonGunnar Jansson was a Swedish football forward who played for Sweden in the 1934 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Gefle IF.-External links:*...
), a Sinfonietta for 15 instruments, and a Chamber Symphony. - Robert Washburn (born 1928). American composer of one symphony.
- Edison DenisovEdison DenisovEdison Vasilievich Denisov was a Russian composer of so called "Underground" — "Anti-Collectivist", "alternative" or "nonconformist" division in the Soviet music.-Biography:...
(1929–1996). Russian composer of two symphonies. - Toshiro MayuzumiToshiro MayuzumiToshiro Mayuzumi was a Japanese composer.-Biography:...
(1929-1997). Japanese composer of a "Nirvana Symphony" (1958) and a "Mandala Symphony" (1960). - Alun HoddinottAlun HoddinottAlun Hoddinott CBE , was a Welsh composer of classical music, one of the first to receive international recognition.-Life and works:...
(1929-2008). Welsh composer of ten symphonies. - Bogusław Schaeffer (born 1929). Polish composer of four symphonies.
- Yongkang Shi (born 1929). Chinese composer of at least one symphony.
- David AmramDavid AmramDavid Amram is an American composer, musician, conductor, and writer. As a classical composer and performer, his integration of jazz , ethnic and folk music has led him to work with the likes of Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Willie Nelson, Langston...
(born 1930). American composer of one symphony. - James Maurice Gore (born ca. 1930). American composer of one symphony.
- Werner Heider (born 1930). German conductor and composer of two symphonies.
- Hans Kox (born 1930). Dutch composer of three symphonies.
- Frank Ezra Levy (born 1930). French-born American cellist and composer of at least four symphonies.
- Malcolm WilliamsonMalcolm WilliamsonMalcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson AO , CBE was an Australian composer. He was the Master of the Queen's Music from 1975 until his death.-Biography:...
(1931–2003). Australian composer of seven numbered symphonies, as well as a Symphony for Organ (1960), a Sinfonia Concertante for three trumpets, piano and strings (1960–62), a Symphony for Voices (1962), and a Choral Symphony "The Dawn is at Hand" (1989). - John Barnes ChanceJohn Barnes ChanceJohn Barnes Chance was a composer, born in Beaumont, Texas. Chance studied composition with Clifton Williams at the University of Texas, Austin, and is best known for his concert band works, which include Variations on a Korean Folk Song, Incantation and Dance, and Blue Lake Overture...
(1932–1972). American composer of two symphonies. - James DouglasJames Douglas (composer)James Douglas is a Scottish classical composer.Douglas was born in Dumbarton. He was brought up in Edinburgh and moved to live in North West Scotland in 2006. Douglas has composed over 2000 works including music for a wide variety of instruments and a number of choral pieces...
(born 1932). Scottish Composer of 15 Symphonies. - Alexander GoehrAlexander GoehrAlexander Goehr is an English composer and academic.Goehr was born in Berlin in 1932, the son of the conductor and Schoenberg pupil Walter Goehr. In his early twenties he emerged as a central figure in the Manchester School of post-war British composers. In 1955–56 he joined Oliver Messiaen's...
(born 1932). British composer of German birth, wrote a Little Symphony (1963), Symphony in One Movement (1969/81), a Sinfonia for chamber orchestra (1979), and Symphony with Chaconne (1985–86). - John Kinsella (born 1932). Irish composer of nine symphonies.
- Richard MealeRichard MealeRichard Graham Meale, AM, MBE was an Australian composer of instrumental works and operas.-Biography:Meale was born in Sydney and studied piano with Winifred Burston at the NSW State Conservatorium of Music, as well as clarinet, harp, music history and theory, before studying at the University of...
(born 1932). Australian composer of one symphony (1994). - Claude Thomas Smith (1932–1987). American composer of one symphony.
- John WilliamsJohn WilliamsJohn Towner Williams is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning almost six decades, he has composed some of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures, including the Star Wars saga, Jaws, Superman, the Indiana Jones films, E.T...
(born 1932). American Composer of a symphony (1966). - Per NørgårdPer NørgårdPer Nørgård is a Danish composer.-Biography:Nørgård studied with Vagn Holmboe at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, and subsequently with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. To begin with, he was strongly influenced by the Nordic styles of Jean Sibelius, Carl Nielsen and Vagn Holmboe...
(born 1932). Danish composer of seven symphonies. - Iosif AndriasovIosif AndriasovIosif Arshakovich Andriasov also Ovsep Andreasian was a composer-symphonist, a moral philosopher, and a teacher.Andriasov was born in Moscow on April 7, 1933, to an Armenian family. He is a graduate of Moscow Conservatory, where he studied composition with Professor Evgeny Golubev...
(1933–2000) Armenian-Russian composer of two symphonies - Leonardo BaladaLeonardo BaladaLeonardo Balada , is a Catalan American composer, now teaching and composing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.-Life:...
(born 1933). American composer of Spanish birth, has written five symphonies. - Easley BlackwoodEasley Blackwood Jr.Easley Blackwood, , is a professor of music, a concert pianist, a composer of music, some using unusual tunings, and the author of books on music theory, including his research into the properties of microtonal tunings and traditional harmony.Blackwood was born in Indianapolis, Indiana...
(born 1933). American composer of five symphonies. - Seóirse BodleySeóirse BodleySeóirse Bodley is an Irish composer and former associate professor of music at University College Dublin . He has been Saoi of Aosdána since 2008.-Biography:...
(born 1933). Irish composer of five symphonies and a Chamber Symphony. - Ramiro CortésRamiro CortésRamiro Cortés was an American composer.Cortés studied with Henry Cowell, Richard Donovan, Ingolf Dahl, Vittorio Giannini, Roger Sessions, Halsey Stevens, and, in Rome on a Fulbright Fellowship, with Goffredo Petrassi...
(1933–1984). American composer of a Sinfonia Sacra (1954/59) - Pozzi EscotPozzi EscotPozzi Escot is an American composer and faculty member at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts....
(born 1933). American composer of six symphonies. - Henryk GóreckiHenryk GóreckiHenryk Mikołaj Górecki was a composer of contemporary classical music. He studied at the State Higher School of Music in Katowice between 1955 and 1960. In 1968, he joined the faculty and rose to provost before resigning in 1979. Górecki became a leading figure of the Polish avant-garde during...
(1933–2010). Polish composer of three symphonies. - Krzysztof PendereckiKrzysztof PendereckiKrzysztof Penderecki , born November 23, 1933 in Dębica) is a Polish composer and conductor. His 1960 avant-garde Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima for string orchestra brought him to international attention, and this success was followed by acclaim for his choral St. Luke Passion. Both these...
(born 1933). Polish composer of eight symphonies (as of 2005). - Alemdar Karamanov (1934–2007). Russian composer of 24 symphonies.
- Bozidar Kos (born 1934). Slovenian composer active in Australia, wrote a Sinfonietta for string orchestra (1983).
- Alfred SchnittkeAlfred SchnittkeAlfred Schnittke ; November 24, 1934 – August 3, 1998) was a Russian and Soviet composer. Schnittke's early music shows the strong influence of Dmitri Shostakovich. He developed a polystylistic technique in works such as the epic First Symphony and First Concerto Grosso...
(1934–1998). Russian composer of nine symphonies, the last unfinished. - Sir Peter Maxwell DaviesPeter Maxwell DaviesSir Peter Maxwell Davies, CBE is an English composer and conductor and is currently Master of the Queen's Music.-Biography:...
(born 1934), British Composer of a Sinfonia (1962), a Sinfonia Concertante (1982), a Sinfonietta (1983) and eight numbered symphonies (1976–2001). - Nigel ButterleyNigel ButterleyNigel Henry Cockburn Butterley AM is an Australian composer and pianist.-Life and career:Butterley learnt to play the piano at the age of five. He attended Sydney Grammar School, but as music wasn't taught at the school at that time, he also sought training from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music....
(born 1935). Australian composer of one symphony (1980). - Giya KancheliGiya KancheliGiya Kancheli , born 10 August 1935, in Tbilisi, is a Georgian composer resident in Belgium.Since 1991, Kancheli has lived in Western Europe: first in Berlin, and since 1995 in Antwerp, where he is composer-in-residence for the Royal Flemish Philharmonic....
(born 1935). Georgian composer of seven symphonies. - Arvo PärtArvo PärtArvo Pärt is an Estonian classical composer and one of the most prominent living composers of sacred music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs his self-made compositional technique, tintinnabuli. His music also finds its inspiration and influence from...
(born 1935). Estonian composer of four symphonies. - Aulis SallinenAulis SallinenAulis Sallinen is a Finnish contemporary classical music composer. He writes in a modern, though tonal and not experimental music style. He studied at the Sibelius Academy, where his teachers included Joonas Kokkonen...
(born 1935). Finnish composer of eight symphonies. - Richard Rodney BennettRichard Rodney BennettSir Richard Rodney Bennett, CBE is an English composer renowned for his film scores and his jazz performance as much as for his challenging concert works...
(born 1936). English composer of three symphonies and a sinfonietta. - Philip GlassPhilip GlassPhilip Glass is an American composer. He is considered to be one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public .His music is often described as minimalist, along with...
(born 1937). American composer of eight symphonies. - Valentin SilvestrovValentin SilvestrovValentyn Vasylyovych Sylvestrov is a Ukrainian pianist and composer of contemporary classical music.-Education:Sylvestrov began private music lessons at age 15...
(born 1937). Ukrainian composer of seven symphonies. - Wang XilinWang Xilin-Life:Wang was born in Kaifeng, Henan province and spent his childhood in Pingliang in the Gansu Province. When he was 12 he taught himself music theory, the huqin, accordion, brass instruments, as well as instrumentation and arranging. His first exposure to Western music was in 1955 when he began...
(born 1937). Chinese composer of at seven symphonies. - Elizabeth R. AustinElizabeth R. Austin-Life:Elizabeth Austin was born in Baltimore and studied at the Peabody Conservatory Preparatory school. She continued her studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, and graduated with a master's degree from the Hartt School, University of Hartford, and a doctorate from the University of...
(born 1938). American composer of two symphonies. - William BolcomWilliam BolcomWilliam Elden Bolcom is an American composer and pianist. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, two Grammy Awards, the Detroit Music Award and was named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America. Bolcom taught composition at the University of Michigan from 1973–2008...
(born 1938). American pianist and composer of six symphonies. - John CoriglianoJohn CoriglianoJohn Corigliano is an American composer of classical music and a teacher of music. He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College in the City University of New York.-Biography:...
(born 1938). American composer of three symphonies. - José SerebrierJosé SerebrierJosé Serebrier is a Uruguayan conductor and composer. He married American soprano Carole Farley in 1969.- Youth :Serebrier was born in Montevideo, and first conducted an orchestra at the age of eleven, while at school. The school orchestra toured the country, which meant he was able to notch up...
(born 1938). Uruguayan composer of three symphonies. - Charles WuorinenCharles WuorinenCharles Peter Wuorinen is a prolific Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City. His catalog of more than 250 compositions includes works for orchestra, opera, chamber music, as well as solo instrumental and vocal works...
(born 1938). American composer of seven numbered symphonies and a Microsymphony (1992). - Louis AndriessenLouis AndriessenLouis Andriessen is a Dutch composer and pianist based in Amsterdam. He teaches composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague...
(born 1939). Dutch composer of De negen symfonieën van Beethoven, for orchestra and ice-cream vendor's bell (1970), Symfonieën der Nederlanden, for two or more wind bands (1974), and Symphony for Open Strings for 12 solo strings (1978). - Lindembergue Cardoso (1939–1989). Brazilian composer of one symphony.
- Robert Jager (1939). American composer of two symphonies and a sinfonietta.
- John McCabeJohn McCabe (composer)John McCabe CBE is an English composer and pianist.- Biography :John McCabe was born in Huyton, Liverpool, Merseyside. A prolific composer from an early age, he had written thirteen symphonies by the time he was eleven...
(born 1939). English composer of five numbered symphonies, plus a Six-minute Symphony for strings. - Jean Schwarz (born 1939). French composer of a symphony for electronic sounds (1975).
- Tomas Svoboda (born 1939). Czech-American composer of six symphonies.
- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (born 1939). American composer of four symphonies.
- Richard NanesRichard NanesRichard Nanes was an American businessman and dilettante composer and pianist. He was president and co-owner of Nanes Finishing and Assembly Corporation in Newark NJ for over 30 years...
(born 1941). American composer of four symphonies. - Gillian WhiteheadGillian WhiteheadDame Gillian Karawe Whitehead, DNZM is a New Zealand composer.She studied at the University of Auckland from 1959–62, and Victoria University of Wellington in 1963, graduating BMus Hons in 1964. She then studied composition at the University of Sydney with Peter Sculthorpe from...
(born 1941). New Zealand-born Australian composer of one symphony. - Richard Edward WilsonRichard Edward WilsonRichard Edward Wilson is an American composer of orchestral, operatic, instrumental, and chamber music. Wilson was born in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was at a young age drawn to the concerts of George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra...
(born 1941). American composer of two symphonies. - Philip BračaninPhilip BračaninPhilip Bračanin is an Australian composer and musicologist. He graduated from the University of Western Australia in 1962 with bachelors degrees in mathematics and music. He pursued graduate studies at the same school in musicology and composition, earning an MA in 1968 and a PhD in 1970...
(born 1942). Australian composer of six symphonies. - Tomás MarcoTomás MarcoTomás Marco Aragón is a Spanish composer and writer on music.-Life and work:Marco studied violin and composition in Madrid while at the same time pursuing the study of law...
(born 1942). Spanish composer of six symphonies. - Ross EdwardsRoss Edwards (composer)Ross Edwards is an Australian composer of a wide variety of music including orchestral and chamber music, choral music, children's music, opera and film music. He is not to be confused with a British up and coming singer-songwriter of the same name.-Life:Ross Edwards was born in Sydney...
(born 1943). Australian composer of four symphonies. - David MaslankaDavid MaslankaDavid Maslanka is a U.S. composer who writes for a variety of genres, including works for choir, wind ensemble, chamber music and symphony orchestra....
(born 1943). American composer of eight symphonies. - Peter Nocella (born 1943). American composer of three symphonies.
- Roger SmalleyRoger SmalleyRoger Smalley AM is a British-Australian composer, pianist and conductor. Professor Smalley is currently a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia in Perth and Honorary Research Associate at the University of Sydney.-Biography:Smalley was born in Swinton, Lancashire,...
(born 1943). English composer of one symphony (1979–81). - William AlbrightWilliam Albright (musician)William Albright was an American composer, pianist and organist.Albright was born in Gary, Indiana, and began learning the piano at the age of five, and attended the Juilliard Preparatory Department , the Eastman School of Music and the University of Michigan , where he studied composition with...
(1944–1998). American composer of a Symphony for Organ and Percussion. - Leif SegerstamLeif SegerstamLeif Segerstam is a Finnish conductor and composer.He studied violin, piano and conducting at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and conducting at the Juilliard School in New York with Jean Morel....
(born 1944). Finnish composer of over 220 symphonies, which is the world record. - Alexei RybnikovAlexei RybnikovAlexey Lvovich Rybnikov is a modern Russian composer.He is the author of music for the first Soviet and Russian musicals "Star and Death of Joaquin Murrieta" and "Juno and Avos" , for numerous plays and operas, for more than 80 Russian movies. More than 10 millions discs with his music have...
(born 1945). Russian composer of six symphonies. - Judith Lang ZaimontJudith Lang ZaimontJudith Lang Zaimont is an American music educator, music writer and composer.-Life:Judith Ann Lang was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and grew up in Bellerose, Queens, New York. She began studying piano at age five, and performed on The Lawrence Welk Show at age eleven...
(born 1945). American composer of two numbered symphonies, plus a "dance symphony" titled Hidden Heritage and a Symphony for wind orchestra in three scenes (2003) - Tsippi FleischerTsippi Fleischer-Life:Tsippi Fleischer was born in Haifa, Israel, of Polish-born parents, and grew up in a mixed Jewish-Arab environment. She studied piano and theory at the Rubin Conservatory of Music and graduated from the Haifa Reali School, later pursuing degrees in music, Hebrew language, Middle Eastern...
(born 1946). Israeli composer of five symphonies. - Ulrich LeyendeckerUlrich LeyendeckerUlrich Leyendecker is a German composer of classical music. His output consists mainly of symphonies, concertos, chamber and instrumental music.-Life:...
(born 1946). German composer of four symphonies. - Heinz WinbeckHeinz WinbeckHeinz Winbeck is a German composer and an academic teacher. He is known for five large scale symphonies.-Professional career:...
(born 1946). German composer of five large scale symphonies, the first premiered in 1984, the fifth in 2010, the third including text of Georg TraklGeorg TraklGeorg Trakl was an Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most important Austrian Expressionists.- Life and work :Trakl was born and lived the first 18 years of his life in Salzburg, Austria...
for alto and speaker. - William T. Blows (born 1947). English composer of seven symphonies.
- Hristo Tsanoff (born 1947). Bulgarian composer of two symphonies.
- John Adams (born 1947). American composer of a Dr. Atomic symphony, drawn from his opera of the same name, and of a Chamber Symphony (1992).
- Jack Gallagher (born 1947). American composer of one symphony and one sinfonietta.
- Heinz Chur (born 1948). German composer of four symphonies (1978–1991).
- Glenn BrancaGlenn BrancaGlenn Branca is an American avant-garde composer and guitarist known for his use of volume, alternative guitar tunings, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series. In 2008 he was awarded an unrestricted grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.-Beginnings: 1960s and early 1970s:Branca...
(born 1948). American composer and guitarist, who has composed 12 symphonies, nine of them for ensembles of electric guitars and percussion. - Julia TsenovaJulia TsenovaJulia Tsenova , born in Sofia, Bulgaria, was an award-winning Bulgarian composer, pianist and musical pedagogue. She died of cancer at the age of 61.-Life and career:...
(1948–2010). Bulgarian composer of Sinfonia con piano concertante (1974). - Dan WelcherDan WelcherDan Welcher is an American composer, conductor, and music educator.- Biography :Welcher was born in Rochester, New York and earned degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the Manhattan School of Music, studying bassoon, piano, and composition...
(born 1948). American conductor and composer of three symphonies. - Kalevi AhoKalevi AhoKalevi Aho is a Finnish composer.- Career :Born in Forssa, he studied composition at the Sibelius Academy under Einojuhani Rautavaara, receiving a diploma in 1971. He continued his studies for a year in Berlin with Boris Blacher...
(born 1949). Finnish composer of fourteen symphonies. - James BarnesJames Barnes (composer)James Charles Barnes is an American composer.Barnes studied composition and music theory at the University of Kansas, earning a Bachelor of Music in 1974, and Master of Music in 1975. He studied conducting privately with Zuohuang Chen...
(born 1949). American composer of five symphonies. - Eduard HayrapetyanEduard HayrapetyanEduard Hayrapetyan is an Armenian composer of contemporary classical music. He was born in Yerevan, Armenia, on September 5, 1949. He first studied composition at the Melikian Music College under Grigor Akhinian and then under Grigor Yeghiazarian at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory...
(born 1949). Armenian composer of three symphonies. - Richard MillsRichard MillsRichard John Mills AM, DMus BA Qld, is an Australian conductor and composer. He currently works as Artistic Director of the West Australian Opera and Artistic Consultant with Orchestra Victoria...
(born 1949). Australian composer of a symphony (1998) and Symphony No. 1 (2000). - Christopher Rouse (born 1949). American composer of three symphonies.
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- John Buckley (born 1951). Irish composer of one symphony.
- Brian M. Israel (1951-1986). American composer of six symphonies.
- Craig H. RussellCraig Russell (American composer)Craig Russell is an American composer of classical music.Russell was educated at the University of New Mexico and then the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and began a career both as a classical guitarist and as a composer of classical music, in which he follows in the stylistic...
(born 1951). American composer of two symphonies. - Brenton BroadstockBrenton BroadstockBrenton Broadstock is an Australian composer.Brenton Broadstock - Australian Composer - was born in Melbourne, Australia. He studied History, Politics and Music at Monash University, and later composition and theory with Donald Freund at the University of Memphis in the USA and with Peter...
(born 1952). Australian composer of five symphonies. - Alla PavlovaAlla PavlovaAlla Pavlova is a Russian composer of Ukrainian origin, best known for her symphonic work. Pavlova currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.-Soviet life:...
(born 1952). Russian composer of five symphonies (as of 2006) - Daniel AsiaDaniel AsiaDaniel Asia is an American composer.Daniel Asia was born in Seattle, Washington, in the United States of America. He received a B.A. degree from Hampshire College and a M.M. from the Yale University School of Music...
(born 1953). American composer of four symphonies. - Oliver KnussenOliver KnussenOliver Knussen CBE is a British composer and conductor.-Biography:Oliver Knussen was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His father, Stuart Knussen, was principal double bass of the London Symphony Orchestra. Oliver Knussen studied composition with John Lambert, between 1963 and 1969 and also received...
(born 1953). English Composer of three symphonies. - Elisabetta BrusaElisabetta BrusaElisabetta Olga Laura Brusa is an Italian composer.Brusa was born in Milan, and as a child wrote 32 piano pieces. At the Milan Conservatory she formally studied composition with Bruno Bettinelli, and Azio Corghi, graduating in 1980...
(born 1954). Italian composer of Nittemero Symphony. - Daniel BukvichDaniel BukvichDaniel Bukvich is an American Composer and Percussionist. He has been a Professor of Percussion and Music theory at the Lionel Hampton School of Music at the University of Idaho since 1978. Dan is heavily involved in the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival and "DancersDrummersDreamers®", both major...
(born 1954). American composer of two symphonies. - Robert CarlRobert CarlRobert Carl is an American composer who currently resides in Hartford, Connecticut, where he is chair of the composition department at the Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford.-Music:...
(born 1954). American composer of three symphonies. - Carl VineCarl VineCarl Vine is an Australian composer of contemporary classical music.-Career:Vine was born in Perth, Western Australia. When he was ten years old, he took up the piano. An adolescent encounter with Karlheinz Stockhausen inspired a period as a teenage modernist, a direction which he abandoned in 1985...
(born 1954). Australian composer of six symphonies. - John Kenneth GrahamJohn Kenneth GrahamAmerican composer John Kenneth Graham , studied at Southeastern Louisiana University and Louisiana State University, writes orchestral tableaux of American legend and folklore. His primary emphasis is the symphony and sonata-allegro form, particularly development techniques and tonal expression...
(born 1955). American composer of four symphonies. - Ye XiaogangYe XiaogangYe Xiaogang is a Chinese composer of contemporary classical music. He is originally Cantonese but spent his early years in Shanghai. He studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing from 1978 to 1983 and at the Eastman School of Music beginning in 1987...
(born 1955). Chinese composer of the Great Wall Symphony. - Nigel KeayNigel KeayNigel Keay was born in Palmerston North, New Zealand in 1955. He has been a freelance musician since 1983 working as a composer, violist, and violin teacher...
(born 1955), New Zealand composer of the Symphony in Five Movements (1996). - Richard DanielpourRichard DanielpourRichard Danielpour is an American composer.-Biography:Danielpour is born of Persian/Jewish descent. He studied at Oberlin College and the New England Conservatory of Music, and later at the Juilliard School of Music, where he received a DMA in composition in 1986...
(born 1956). American composer of three symphonies. - Thomas SleeperThomas SleeperThomas M. Sleeper is a modern American composer and conductor. His music has been described as 'hauntingly mysterious' and 'richly lyrical'. He is currently the Director of Orchestral Activities and Conductor of the University of Miami Frost Symphony Orchestra and Opera Theater...
(born 1956). American composer of one symphony. - Mark AlburgerMark AlburgerMark Alburger is a San Francisco Bay Area composer and conductor. He is the founder and music director of the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, as well as the music director of the San Francisco Cabaret Opera...
(born 1957). American composer of nine symphonies. - Bechara El-KhouryBechara El Khoury (composer)Bechara El Khoury is a Christian Franco-Lebanese composer. Born in Beirut in 1957, he moved to Paris in 1979. Having written a hundred works between 1969 and 1978, he became extremely active as a pianist, conductor and Kappelmeister...
(born 1957). Lebanese-born French composer of a Symphony Les ruines de Beyrouth, op. 37. - Harri Vuori (born 1957). Finnish composer of one symphony.
- Julian Jing-Jun Yu (born 1957). Chinese/Australian composer of one symphony, the Sinfonia passacaglissima (1995).
- Tan DunTan DunTan Dun is a Chinese contemporary classical composer, most widely known for his scores for the movies Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero.-Early life in China:...
(born 1957). Chinese composer of the Symphony 1997. - Frank Ticheli (born 1958). American composer of two symphonies.
- Shigeru Kan-noShigeru Kan-nois a Japanese composer and conductor living in Germany.-Biography:Shigeru Kan-no was born in Fukushima, Japan. He now lives as a free-lance composer and conductor in Westerwald, Germany. His repertoire includes over 100 operas and 700 concert pieces. He is also a talented musician, able to play...
(born 1959). Japanese composer of six chamber symphonies. - Aaron Jay KernisAaron Jay KernisAaron Jay Kernis is an American composer and professor at the Yale School of Music.-Biography:Aaron Jay Kernis is Jewish, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and studied at the Manhattan School of Music, the San Francisco Conservatory, and Yale University .,Notable works include the...
(born 1960). American composer of two symphonies. - Gordon Kerry (born 1961). Australian composer of a Sinfonia, for viola, cello, and string orchestra (1993).
- Lowell LiebermannLowell LiebermannLowell Liebermann is an American composer, pianist and conductor.At the age of sixteen, Liebermann performed at Carnegie Hall, playing his Piano Sonata, op. 1...
(born 1961). American composer of two symphonies, the second with chorus to texts by Walt WhitmanWalt WhitmanWalter "Walt" Whitman was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse...
. - Michael TorkeMichael TorkeMichael Torke is an American composer who writes music influenced by jazz and minimalism. Sometimes described as a post-minimalist, his most postminimal piece is Four Proverbs, in which the syllable for each pitch is fixed and variations in the melody produce streams of nonsense words. Other works...
(born 1961). American composer of one symphony (1997). - Alexander KaloianAlexander KaloianAlexander Kaloian born 1962 in Los Angeles, California is an Armenian composer, residing dually in the United States and the Republic of Armenia...
(born 1962). Armenian composer of two symphonies. - Evgeni Kostitsyn (born 1963). Russian composer of five symphonies.
- Sean O'BoyleSean O'Boyle (composer)Sean O'Boyle is an Australian composer and conductor.His River Symphony was performed by the Queensland Orchestra and released on ABC Classics in 2007 on a CD that also included Concerto for Didgeridoo composed with and recorded by William Barton...
(born 1963). Australian composer of one symphony, the River Symphony. - David del PuertoDavid del Puerto-Biography:Born in 1964 in Madrid, musically trained in the guitar, disciple of Francisco Guerrero and Luis de Pablo in his native city, David del Puerto emerged very early as one of the most talented composers of his generation...
(born 1964). Spanish composer of two symphonies. - Robert SteadmanRobert SteadmanRobert Steadman is a British composerof classical music who mostly works in a post-minimalist style but also writes lighter music, including musicals, and compositions for educational purposes...
(born 1965). UK composer of two symphonies and a chamber symphony. - Jeffrey ChingJeffrey ChingJeffrey Ching is a British contemporary classical composer, born in the Philippines of Chinese parentage. His rich and complex musical language, irreducible to a single style, explores the correspondences and contradictions between the traditions of Europe and Asia, and between the music of past...
(born 1965). Chinese-Philippine composer of five symphonies. - Vache SharafyanVache SharafyanVache Sharafyan , is one of the most important living composers from Armenia. Author of a number of symphonic, chamber, vocal, choral compositions that were performed widely by many nowadays leading musicians such as Yo-Yo Ma, Yuri Bashmet, among others...
(born 1966). Armenian composer of two symphonies. - Marcus Tristan Heathcock (born 1967). UK composer of 10 symphonies including a Football symphony.
- Salvatore Di VittorioSalvatore Di VittorioSalvatore Di Vittorio is an Italian composer and conductor. He is Music Director and Conductor of the Chamber Orchestra of New York "Ottorino Respighi".-Biography:...
(born 1967). Italian composer of program symphonies/symphonic poems. - Jean Philippe Bec (born 1968). French composer of one symphony ("Gautama symphony") (2005–2006).
- Esteban BenzecryEsteban BenzecryEsteban Benzecry is an Argentine classical composer.-Early years:Argentinean composer born in Lisbon in 1970 , after growing up in Argentina he has lived in France since 1997, and obtained French nationality in 2011....
(born 1970). Argentine composer of three symphonies. - Thomas AdèsThomas AdèsThomas Adès is a British composer, pianist and conductor.-Biography:Adès studied piano with Paul Berkowitz and later composition with Robert Saxton at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London...
(born 1971). British composer of a chamber symphony (1991). - Jason Wright WingateJason Wright WingateJason Wright Wingate is an American composer, cellist and poet based in New York City. Notable works include the chamber work Landscapes of Consciousness, and the Symphony No...
(born 1971). American composer of at least two symphonies. - Edward ManukyanEdward ManukyanEdward Manukyan is an Armenian-born composer residing in Southern California, United States...
(born 1981). Armenian-American composer of one symphony (2007). - Mohammed FairouzMohammed FairouzMohammed Fairouz is an Arab American composer.Having fulfilling many commissions and created a substantial body of frequently performed works, he is considered one of the most sought after composers of the young generation. Fairouz began composing at an early age and studied at the New England...
(born 1985). American composer of three symphonies. - Jay GreenbergJay GreenbergJay "Bluejay" Greenberg is an American composer who entered the Juilliard School in 2002.-Life and work:...
(born 1991). American composer of at least five symphonies.