Favourite Composers...

1500-1600

1505 Thomas Tallis
1510 Diego Ortiz
1516 Cipriano De Rore
1543 William Byrd
1563 John Dowland
1567 Claudio Monteverdi
1582 Gregorio Allegri
1582 Sigismondo D’India
1585 Heinrich Schutz
1587 Biagio Marini



Born 1600-1699



1653 Arcangelo Corelli
1656 Marin Marais
1659 Henry Purcell
1671 Tomaso Albinoni
1678 Antonio Vivaldi
1681 Georg Philipp Telemann
1683 Jean-Philippe Rameau
1683 Johann Heinichen
1685 Georg Friedrich Handel
1685 Johann Sebastian Bach



Born 1700-1799

1709 Franz Xavier Richter
1711 William Boyce
1714 Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach
1732 Joseph Haydn
1735 Johann Christian Bach
1739 Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
1756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1770 Ludwig van Beethoven
1782 John Field
1797 Franz Schubert



Born 1800-1899



1809 Felix Mendelssohn
1810 Robert Schumann
1811 Franz Liszt
1854 Leos Janacek
1862 Claude Debussy
1866 Erik Satie
1871 Alexander Zemlinsky
1872 Alexander Scriabin
1881 Bela Bartok
1895 Paul Hindemith


Born 1900-1999



1905 Giacinto Scelsi
1905 Michael Tippett
1912 John Cage
1926 Morton Feldman
1928 Karl-Heinz Stockhausen
1931 Sofia Gubaidulina
1935 Arvo Part
1935 Helmut Lachenmann
1952 Wolfgang Rihm
1966 Max Richter

24 Honourable Mentions

1685 Domenico Scarlatti

1864 Richard Strauss

1874 Arnold Schoenberg

1883 Edgar Varese

1883 Anton Webern

1906 Dimitri Shostakovich

1908 Elliott Carter

1908 Olivier Messiaen

1910 Samuel Barber

1916 Alberto Ginastera

1922 Iannis Xenakis

1923 Gyorgy Ligeti

1925 Luciano Berio

1930 Toru Takemitsu

1933 Henryk Gorecki

1934 Peter Maxwell Davies

1934 Alfred Schnittke

1936 Steve Reich

1937Philip Glass

1938 Frederic Rzewski

1944 Michael Nyman

1947 John Adams

1948 Peter Ruzicka

1959 Craig Armstrong