List of organ composers

The following is a list of organ composers. It includes some of the more important names composers who wrote or write for the pipe organ.

Austria and Germany

Renaissance

• Elias Ammerbach
• Hans Leo Hassler
• Jakob Hassler
• Paul Hofhaimer
• Arnolt Schlick
• Conrad Paumann

Baroque

• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Georg Böhm
• Nicolaus Bruhns
• Dieterich Buxtehude
• Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer
• Johann Jakob Froberger
• Johann Kaspar Kerll
• Johann Ludwig Krebs
• Johann Tobias Krebs
• Johann Krieger
• Vincent Lubeck
• Johann Mattheson
• Georg Muffat
• Gottlieb Muffat
• Johann Pachelbel
• Jacob Praetorius
• Michael Praetorius
• Johann Adam Reincken
• Heinrich Scheidemann
• Samuel Scheidt
• Heinrich Schütz
• Johann Speth
• Franz Tunder
• Johann Gottfried Walther
• Matthias Weckmann

Classicism

• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
• Justin Heinrich Knecht
• Christian Heinrich Rinck
• Simon Sechter
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Romantic

• Johannes Brahms
• Sigfrid Karg-Elert
• Felix Mendelssohn
• Julius Reubke
• Josef Rheinberger
• August Gottfried Ritter
• Max Wagenknecht

Modern

• Hugo Distler
• Anton Heiller
• Max Reger
• Franz Schmidt
• Gottfried von Einem
• Bertold Hummel
• Paul Hindemith

Belgium

Baroque

• Abraham van den Kerckhoven
• Lambert Chaumont

Romantic

• Jacques Lemmens
• Paul de Maleingreau

Modern

• Joseph Jongen
• Pierre Kolp
• Flor Peeters

Brazil

• Fabio Costa[1]

Canada

• Gerald Bales
• H. Hugh Bancroft
• Denis Bédard
• Raymond Daveluy
• Jacobus Kloppers
• Healey Willan

Croatia

• Anđelko Klobučar

Czech Republic (Bohemia)

Baroque

• Josef Seger
• Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský

Classical

• František Xaver Brixi

Romantic

• Josef Klička

Modern

• Alois Hába
• Petr Eben
• Miloslav Kabeláč
• Luboš Sluka

Denmark

• Niels Gade
• Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann
• Ib Nørholm
• Frederik Magle
• Per Nørgård

England

Renaissance

• William Byrd
• Orlando Gibbons
• Thomas Tallis

Baroque

• John Blow
• Jeremiah Clarke
• William Croft
• Henry Purcell

Classical

• William Boyce
• Benjamin Cooke
• John Stanley

Romantic

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

Modern

• Lennox Berkeley
• Frank Bridge
• Peter Maxwell Davies
• James Douglas
• George Dyson
• Michael Finnissy
• Graham Fitkin
• Hans Gál
• Patrick Gowers
• Basil Harwood
• Herbert Howells
• Francis Jackson
• Craig Sellar Lang (born in New Zealand)
• Kenneth Leighton
• William Mathias
• Alan Ridout
• Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
• Ralph Vaughan Williams
• Percy Whitlock
• Arthur Wills
• Malcolm Williamson

France

Renaissance

• Jean Titelouze

Baroque (French classical)

• Jacques Boyvin
• Louis-Nicolas Clérambault
• Gaspard Corrette
• François Couperin
• Louis Couperin
• Jean-François Dandrieu
• Louis-Claude Daquin
• Nicolas Gigault
• Nicolas de Grigny
• Gilles Jullien
• Nicolas Lebègue
• Louis Marchand
• Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers
• André Raison
• François Roberday

Late Classical

• Claude-Bénigne Balbastre
• Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet Charpentier
• Alexandre Pierre François Boëly
• Michel Corrette

Romantic

• Léon Boëllmann
• Joseph Bonnet
• Théodore Dubois
• César Franck (born in Belgium)
• Eugène Gigout
• Alexandre Guilmant
• Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély
• Henri Mulet
• Gabriel Pierné
• Camille Saint-Saëns
• Charles Tournemire
• Louis Vierne
• Charles-Marie Widor

Modern

• Jehan Alain
• Jeanne Demessieux
• Marcel Dupré
• Maurice Duruflé
• Rolande Falcinelli
• André Fleury
• Jean-Jacques Grunenwald
• Jean Guillou
• Naji Hakim (born in Lebanon)
• Jean Langlais
• Gaston Litaize
• Olivier Messiaen
• Daniel Roth

Hungary

Romantic

• Franz Liszt

Modern

• Dezső Antalffy-Zsiross
• Zsigmond Szathmary

Israel

• Josef Tal

Italy

Renaissance

• Vincenzo Bellavere
• Girolamo Cavazzoni
• Girolamo Diruta
• Andrea Gabrieli
• Giovanni Gabrieli
• Luzzasco Luzzaschi
• Giovanni de Macque
• Ascanio Mayone
• Claudio Merulo
• Rocco Rodio
• Antonio Valente
• Adrian Willaert (born in what is now Belgium)

Baroque

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

Romantic

• Marco Enrico Bossi
• Giovanni Morandi (composer)
• Oreste Ravanello
• Pietro Yon

Japan

• Shigeru Kan-no

Latvia

• Aivars Kalējs

Netherlands

Renaissance

• Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

Baroque

• Anthoni van Noordt

Modern

• Hendrik Andriessen

Portugal

Renaissance

• António Carreira
• Manuel Rodrigues Coelho

Baroque

• Carlos Seixas

Classicism

• João de Sousa Carvalho

Spain

Renaissance

• Antonio de Cabezón
• Tomás de Santa María

Baroque

• Pablo Bruna
• Juan Cabanilles

Sweden

Modern

• Fredrik Sixten

Switzerland

Renaissance

• Fridolin Sicher

Poland

Renaissance

• Nicolaus Cracoviensis
• Jan of Lublin

Baroque

• Adam of Wągrowiec

Classical

• Karol Kurpiński

Romantic

• Konstanty Gorski
• Stanisław Moniuszko
• Feliks Nowowiejski
• Władysław Żeleński

Modern

• Grażyna Bacewicz
• Karol Hławiczka
• Jan Adam Maklakiewicz
• Marian Sawa
• Bolesław Szabelski
• Aleksander Tansman

Russia

• Valery Kikta
• Mikael Tariverdiev
• Oleg Yanchenko

Ukraine

• Mykola Kolessa
• Alexander Shchetynsky

USA

Romantic

• Dudley Buck
• George Whitefield Chadwick
• Arthur Foote
• Horatio Parker
• John Knowles Paine
• Fela Sowande
• Frank Speller
• Whitney Eugene Thayer

Modern

• William Albright
• Samuel Barber
• Joseph W. Clokey
• Emma Lou Diemer
• David N. Johnson
• Paul Manz
• Ned Rorem
• Stephen Paulus
• Vincent Persichetti
• Daniel Pinkham
• John Serry, Sr.
• Leo Sowerby
• Richard Zarou

See also

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

Sources

• A Directory of Composers for Organ by Dr. John Henderson,Hon. Librarian to the Royal School of Church Music 2005 3rd edition ISBN 0-9528050-2-2
• Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Venetian Instrumental Music, from Gabrieli to Vivaldi. New York, Dover Publications, 1994. ISBN 0-486-28151-5