Monday, December 28, 2020

Annual Top Ten Albums from 1959 onwards...

2020
Loscil - Faults, Coasts, Lines
Sparks - A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip
GoGo Penguin - GoGo Penguin
Kansas - The Absence of Presence
Long Distance Calling - How Do We Want to Live?
Taylor Swift - Folklore
Max Richter - Voices
Yello - Point
Michael Rother - Dreaming
Brian Eno - Rams: Original Soundtrack Album


2019
Neal Morse Band - The Great Adventure
Rammstein - Untitled
Hollywood Vampires - Rise
Matthew Florianz - Mass Object
Loscil - Equivalents
Taylor Swift - Lover
Rheostatics - Here Come the Wolves
Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell
The Steve Howe Trio - New Frontier
The Bad Plus - Activate Infinity


2018
Long Distance Calling - Boundless
Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet - Landfall
Laura Pausini - Fatti sentire
Françoise Hardy - Personne d'autre
Spock's Beard - Noise Floor
The Bad Plus - Never Stop II
Uriah Heep - Living the Dream
Craig Armstrong - Sun on You
Soft Machine - Hidden Details
John Grant - Love Is Magic


2017
Brian Eno - Reflection
Grandaddy - Last Place
Roger Waters - Is This the Life We Really Want?
Alice Cooper - Paranormal
Lana Del Rey - Lust for Life
Sparks - Hippopotamus
Taylor Swift - Reputation
Everything Everything - A Fever Dream
Tom Rogerson with Brian Eno - Finding Shore
LCD Soundsystem - American Dream


2016
David Bowie - Blackstar
Udo Lindenberg - Stärker Als Die Zeit
Brian Eno - The Ship
Marillion - F.E.A.R.
Yello - Toy
The Bad Plus - It's Hard
Ulrich Schnauss - No Further Ahead Than Today
The Neal Morse Band - The Similitude of a Dream (2CD)
Anderson/Stolt - Invention of Knowledge
Kansas - The Prelude Implicit


2015
Neal Morse - The Grand Experiment
John Grant - Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
Spock's Beard - The Oblivion Particle
Sumner McKane - Stone's Throw
Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
Dar Williams - Emerald
Hollywood Vampires - Hollywood Vampires
John McLaughlin - Black Light
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
The Bad Plus/Joshua Redman - The Bad Plus Joshua Redman


2014
The Bad Plus - The Rite of Spring
Suzanne Vega - Tales from the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles
Uriah Heep - Outsider
Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
Asia - Gravita
Yes - Heaven & Earth
Bidiniband - The Motherland
The Bad Plus - Inevitable Western
Bryan Ferry - Avonmore
Craig Armstrong - It's Nearly Tomorrow


2013
David Bowie - The Next Day
Dream Theater - Dream Theater
Roy Harper - Man and Myth
65daysofStatic - Wild Light
Sumner McKane - Select Visual History
Pet Shop Boys - Electric
Everything Everything - Arc
Dutch Uncles - Out of Touch in the Wild
The Physics House Band - Horizons-Rapture
Greg Haines - Where We Were


2012
Bidiniband - In the Rock Hall
Paul Buchanan - Mid Air
Rush - Clockwork Angels
Fehlfarben - Xenophonie
Neal Morse - Momentum
The Bad Plus - Made Possible
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Alleljah! Don't Bend, Ascend!
Brian Eno - Lux
Muse - The 2nd Law
The Killers - Battle Born


2011
Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare
Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys!
Brian Eno - Drums Between the Bells (2CD)
Peter Gabriel - New Blood
Jakszyk Fripp & Collins - A Scarcity of Miracles
Levin Torn White - Levin Torn White
Neal Morse - Testimony Two (2CD)
Uriah Heep - Into the Wild
Yes - Fly from Here


2010
Asia - Omega
Brian Eno - Small Craft on a Milk Sea
Bryan Ferry - Olympia
Fehlfarben - Glucksmaschinen
James - The Night Before
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
Peter Gabriel - Scratch My back
65 Days of Static - We Were Exploding Anyway
Sumner McKane - Something Very New England About This View
The Bad Plus - Never Stop


2009
Bidiniband - The Land is Wild
David Sylvian - Manafon
Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe
Dream Theater - Black Clouds and Silver Linings
Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels
Jason Lytle - Yours Truly, The Commuter
Morrissey - Years of Refusal
Muse - The Resistance
Pet Shop Boys - Yes
Porcupine Tree - The Incident


2008
Asia - Phoenix
Udo Lindenberg - Stark wie zwei
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
Uriah Heep - Wake the Sleeper
The Violet Archers - Sunshine at Night
Alice Cooper - Along Came a Spider
Neal Morse - Lifeline
The Bad Plus - For All I Care
Girls Aloud - Out of Control
Dido - Safe Trip Home


2007
The Bad Plus - Prog
Bryan Ferry - Dylanesque
Lucy Kaplansky - Over the Hills
Rush - Snakes and Arrows
Happy Apple - Happy Apple Back on Top
Fehlfarben - Handbuch fur die Welt
Chris Lyons - The Ill Tempered Klavier
No Man - Together We're Stranger
Marillion - Somewhere Else
Girls Aloud - Tangled Up


2006
David Gilmour - On an Island
Grandaddy – Just Like the Fambly Cat
Mathilde Santing - Under Your Charms
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
Pet Shop Boys – Fundamental (2CD)
Sparks - Hello Young Lovers
Spock's Beard - Spock's Beard
The Bad Plus - Suspicious Activity
The Flower Kings - Paradox Hotel (2CD)
Wetton Downes – Icon II Rubicon


2005
Adrian Belew - Side Two
Alice Cooper - Dirty Diamonds
Brian Eno - Another Day on Earth
Coldplay - X&Y
Dar Williams - My Better Self
Paul McCartney - Chaos and Creation in the Back Yard
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Robert Fripp - Love Cannot Bear
Spock's Beard - Octane
Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel - The Quality of Mercy


2004
The Blue Nile - High
Jonatha Brooke - Back in the Circus
The Cure - The Cure
The Czars - Goodbye
Fripp & Eno - The Equatorial Stars
Lucy Kaplansky - The Red Thread
Madredeus - Um Amor Infinito
Rheostatics - 2067
Rush - Feedback
David Sylvian - Blemish


2003
David Bowie - Reality
The Church - After Everything Now This
Alice Cooper - The Eyes of Alice Cooper
The Czars - The Ugly People Versus the Beautiful People
Francis Dunnery - Man
King Crimson - The Power to Believe
Kraftwerk - Tour de France Soundtracks
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Spock's Beard - Feel Euphoria
Dar Williams - The Beauty of the Rain


2002
David Bowie - Heathen
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
Del Amitri - Can You Do Me Good
Die Fehlfarben - Knietief im Dispo
Bryan Ferry - Frantic
Peter Gabriel - Up
Alice Peacock - Alice Peacock
Rush - Vapor Trails
Sparks - Lil Beethoven
Spock's Beard - Snow


2001
Shawn Colvin - Whole New You
The Czars - Before...But Longer
Earthworks - The Sound of Surprise
Brian Eno/J. Peter Schwalm - Drawn from Life
Four Tet - Pause
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift yr Skiny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
James - Pleased to Meet You
Lucy Kaplansky - Every Single Day
Marillion - Anoraknophobia
Yes - Magnification


2000
Coldplay - Parachutes
Alice Cooper - Brutal Planet
The Cure - Bloodflowers
Dido - No Angel
Allan Holdsworth - Sixteen Men of Tain
King Crimson - The ContruKction of Light
William Orbit - Pieces in a Modern Style
Radiohead - Kid A
Spock's Beard - V
Dar Williams - The Green World


1999
Fiona Apple - When The Pawn...
David Bowie - Hours
Earthworks - A Part and Yet Apart
Jason Falkner - Can You Still Feel?
Lucy Kaplansky - Ten Year Night
Marillion - Marillion.Com
Moby - Play
Pet Shop Boys - Nightlife
Spock's Beard - Day for Night
Yes - The Ladder


1998
ProjeKct Two - Space Groove
Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis
Keimzeit - Im Elektromagnetischen Feld
Anger 77 - Allein im Flugzeug
Francis Dunnery - Let's Go Do What Happens
Jon Anderson - The More You Know
Mansun - Six
Marillion - Radiation
Udo Lindenberg - Zeitmaschine
Bryan Adams - On A Day Like Today


1997
David Bowie - Earthling
James - Whiplash
U2 - Pop
Steve Hogarth - Ice Cream Genius
Brian Eno - The Drop
Radiohead - OK Computer
Marillion - This Strange Engine
Texas - White On Blonde
Sparks - Plagiarism
Yes - Open Your Eyes


1996
Asia - Arena
Dar Williams - Mortal City
King Crimson - Thrakattak
Bryan Adams - 18 Til I Die
The Blue Nile - Peace at Last
Yes - Keys to Ascension
Steve Harley - Poetic Justice
Robert Fripp - That Which Passes
Pet Shop Boys - Bilingual
The Cure - Wild Mood Swings


1995
King Crimson - Thrak
Terje Rypdal - If Mountains Could Sing
Morrissey - Southpaw Grammar
Django Bates - Winter Truce
Marillion - Afraid of Sunlight
Brian Eno/Jah Wobble - Spinner
David Bowie - Outside
Robert Fripp - A Blessing of Tears
Passengers - Original Soundtracks 1
Francis Dunnery - Tall Blonde Helicopter


1994
Yes - Talk
Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
Alice Cooper - The Last Temptation
FFWD - FFWD
Rheostatics - Introducing Happiness
King Crimson - Vrooom
John Wetton - Battle Lines
Laurie Anderson - Bright Red
Sparks - Gratuitous Sax and Violins
Bryan Ferry – Mamouna


1993
David Bowie - Black Tie White Noise
New Order - Republic
Jellyfish - Spilt Milk
Brian Eno - Neroli
David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - The First Day
Bryan Ferry - Taxi
Pet Shop Boys - Very/Relentless
Rush - Counterparts
Horse - God's Home Movie
David Bowie - The Buddha of Suburbia


1992
The Cure - Wish
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Black Moon
Asia - Aqua
Hawkwind - Electric Tepee
Ride - Going Blank Again
Brian Eno - Nerve Net
Roger Waters - Amused to Death
The Church - Priest = Aura
Brian Eno - The Shutov Asssembly
Falco – Nachtflug


1991
Yes - Union
Rain Tree Crow - Rain Tree Crow
Sunday All Over the World - Kneeling at the Shrine
Alice Cooper - Hey Stoopid
Die Fehlfarben - Die Platte des Himmlische Friedens
Kraftwerk - The Mix
Rush - Roll the Bones
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Belinda Carlisle - Live Your Life Be Free
The Beyond – Crawl


1990
Jellyfish - Bellybutton
Suzanne Vega - Days Of Open Hand
The Church - Gold Afternoon Fix
Adrian Belew - Desire Caught by the Tail
Propaganda - 1234
Horse - The Same Sky
Adrian Belew - Young Lions
Brian Eno/John Cale -Wrong Way Up
Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour
Extreme - Pornograffitti


1989
Lou Reed - New York
The Cure -Disintegration
David Bowie - Tin Machine
It Bites - Eat Me In St Louis
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe - Same
The Blue Nile - Hats
Alice Cooper - Trash
Trevor Rabin - Can't Look Away
Laurie Anderson - Strange Angels
Rush - Presto


1988
Morrissey - Viva Hate
It Bites - Once Around the World
Teresa de Sio - Sindarella Suite
The Church - Starfish
David Sylvian & Holger Czukay - Plight and Premonition
Sparks - Interior Design
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Pet Shop Boys - Introspective
Falco - Wiener Blut
Yello – Flag


1987
Earthworks - Earthworks
Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing
Alice Cooper - Raise Your Fist And Yell
The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
Roger Waters - Radio KAOS
Pet Shop Boys - Actually
Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Yes - Big Generator
Rush - Hold Your Fire
David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive


1986
Alice Cooper - Constrictor
Emerson Lake & Powell - Emerson Lake & Powell
Falco - Emotional
Fra Lippo Lippi - Songs
Peter Gabriel - So
Icehouse - Measure for Measure
New Order - Brotherhood
Sparks - Music That You Can Dance To
David Sylvian - Gone to Earth
Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring


1985
Brian Eno - Thursday Afternoon
Rush - Power Windows
Asia - Astra
Allan Holdsworth - Metal Fatigue
The Church - Heyday
New Order - Low Life
Bryan Ferry - Boys and Girls
Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
The Cure - Head on the Door


1984
Laurie Anderson - Mr Heartbreak
Harold Budd & Brian Eno - The Pearl
The Church - Remote Luxury
Dio - The Last in Line
Don Henley - Building the Perfect Beast
King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair
Propoganda - A Secret Wish
Rush - Grace Under Pressure
David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees
Roger Waters - The Pros and Cons of Hitch-Hiking


1983
Asia - Alpha
The Blue Nile - A Walk Across the Rooftops
David Bowie - Let's Dance
Dio - Holy Diver
BrianEno/Daniel Lanois/Roger Eno - Apollo
New Order - Power Corruption and Lies
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
Soft Cell - The Art of Falling Apart
The Tubes -Outside Inside
Yes - 90125


1982
Laurie Anderson - Big Science
Asia - Asia
John Cale - Music for a New Society
The Cure - Pornography
Brian Eno - On Land
Peter Gabriel - IV
King Crimson - Beat
Roxy Music - Avalon
Rush - Signals
Mathilde Santing - Mathilde Santing


1981
Rush - Moving Pictures
Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Scars - Author! Author!
The Cure - Faith
Robert Fripp - Let the Power Fall
The Tubes - The Completion Backward Principle
Simple Minds - Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call
King Crimson - Discipline
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Architecture & Morality
Japan - Tin Drum


1980
Magazine - The Correct Use of Soap
Peter Gabriel - III
Joy Division - Closer
Yes - Drama
David Bowie - Scary Monsters and Super Creeps
Simple Minds - Empires and Dance
Gang Of Four - Entertainment
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Die Fehlfarben - Monarchie und Alltag
Yello - Solid Pleasure


1979
The Tubes - Remote Control
UK - Danger Money
Magazine - Secondhand Daylight
David Bowie - Lodger
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Robert Fripp - Exposure
Sparks - Number One in Heaven
Pink Floyd - The Wall
The Clash - London Calling
Japan - Quiet Life


1978
UK - UK
Brian Eno - Music for Airports
Genesis - And Then There Were Three
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel II
Magazine - Real Life
Rezillos - Can't Stand the Rezillos
Ultravox! - Systems Of Romance
Rush - Hemispheres
Brian Eno - Music for Films


1977
David Bowie - Low
Pink Floyd - Animals
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (1)
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
Yes - Going for the One
Rush - A Farewell to Kings
David Bowie - "Heroes"
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols
Brian Eno - Before and After Science
Michael Rother - Sterntaler


1976
David Bowie - Station To Station
Kiss - Destroyer
Rush - 2112
The Tubes - Young and Rich
Rainbow - Rising
Alice Cooper - Alice Cooper Goes to Hell
Bryan Ferry - Let's Stick Together
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Love's A Prima Donna
Genesis - Wind and Wuthering
Michael Rother - Flammende Herzen


1975
Mick Ronson - Play Don't Worry
Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Best Years of Our Lives
Roy Harper - HQ
The Tubes - The Tubes
Gentle Giant - Free Hand
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Brian Eno - Another Green World
Roxy Music - Siren
Fripp & Eno - Evening Star


1974
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Mick Ronson - Slaughter on 10th Avenue
King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black
David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
Cockney Rebel - The Psychomodo
King Crimson - Red
Roxy Music - Country Life
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain
Yes- Relayer


1973
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
Lou Reed - Berlin
Roxy Music - Stranded
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
Fripp & Eno - No Pussyfooting
Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets


1972
Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Roxy Music - Roxy Music
Alice Cooper - School's Out
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Trilogy
Yes - Close to the Edge
Genesis - Foxtrot
Lou Reed - Transformer
Uriah Heep - The Magician's Birthday
Gentle Giant - Octopus


1971
Yes - The Yes Album
Alice Cooper - Love It to Death
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame
Uriah Heep - Look at Yourself
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Genesis - Nursery Cryme
Yes - Fragile
Alice Cooper - Killer
David Bowie - Hunky Dory


1970
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
King Crimson – In the Wake of Poseidon
Grand Funk Railroad - Closer to Home
Genesis - Tresspass
David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World
The Velvet Underground - Loaded
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Emerson Lake & Palmer
Gentle Giant - Gentle Giant
King Crimson - Lizard


1969
Miles Davis - Filles de Kilimanjaro
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
Procol Harum - A Salty Dog
John McLaughlin - Extrapolation
Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Al Stewart - Love Chronicles
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
David Bowie - Space Oddity
Argent - Argent


1968
Leonard Cohen - The Songs of Leonard Cohen
Miles Davis - Nefertiti
Chick Corea - Now He Sings, Now He Sobs
Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends
Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets
Miles Davis - Miles in the Sky
Procol Harum - Shine on Brightly
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Andrew Hill - Dance with Death
The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album)


1967
The Doors - The Doors
Miles Davis - Miles Smiles
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
Miles Davis - Sorcerer
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Bobby Hutcherson - Oblique
Pink Floyd - The Piper at The Gates of Dawn
Procol Harum - Procol Harum
Al Stewart - Bedsitter Images


1966
Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence
Bobby Hutcherson - Happenings
Wayne Shorter - Adam’s Apple
George Benson - It's Uptown
Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde
John Coltrane - Ascension
Bobby Hutcherson - Stick Up!
The Beatles - Revolver
Nico - Chelsea Girl
Andrew Hill - Compulsion!!!!


1965
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
Miles Davis - E.S.P.
Andrew Hill - Pax
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Jackie McLean - Jacknife
Mike Taylor Quartet - Pendulum


1964
John Coltrane - Coltrane’s Sound
Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
Andrew Hill - Point of Departure
Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles
Grachan Moncur III - Some Other Stuff
Wayne Shorter - Ju Ju
Tony Williams - Lifetime
Jackie McLean - Action
Joe Henderson - Inner Urge


1963
Herbie Hancock - My Point of View
Jackie McLean - One Step Beyond
Miles Davis - Seven Steps to Heaven
Joe Henderson - Page One
Joe Henderson - Our Thing
Jackie McLean - Destination Out
Hank Mobley - No Room for Squares
Andrew Hill - Black Fire
Grachan Moncur III - Evolution
Andrew Hill - Smokestack


1962
Charles Mingus - Oh Yeah
Ornette Coleman - Ornette!
Sonny Rollins - The Bridge
Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring
Ornette Coleman - Ornette on Tenor
Kenny Dorham - Matador
Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Herbie Hancock - Takin' Off
Dexter Gordon - Go!
Freddie Hubbard - Hub-Tones

1961
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Further Out
Kenny Drew - Undercurrent
Dexter Gordon - Doin' Allright
Grant Green - Green Street
Freddie Hubbard - Hub Cap
Hank Mobley - Workout
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Roots and Herbs
Jackie McLean - A Fickle Sonance
Sonny Clark - Leapin' and Lopin'
Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz


1960
Jackie McLean - Jackie's Bag
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
Hank Mobley - Soul Station
Eric Dolphy - Outward Bound
Lee Morgan - Leeway
Freddie Hubbard - Open Sesame
Tina Brooks - True Blue
Horace Silver - Horace-Scope
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Like Someone in Love
Art Pepper - Smack Up


1959
Horace Silver - Finger Poppin'
Kenny Dorham - Blue Spring
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Jackie McLean - New Soil
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
Donald Byrd - Byrd in Hand
Jimmy Smith - Home Cookin'
Dave Brubeck - Time Out
Jacques Loussier Trio - Play Bach No 1


Saturday, January 16, 2016

Albums of the Year - the podcasts project...

I was working on adding broadcasts, each lasting roughly an hour, for each of the lists above, from 1959 to now...

I had completed 1959-1981 inclusive...

But then Mixcloud restricted the number of broadcasts I could have available at any one time to just 10...

C'est la vie...

Thursday, January 01, 1970

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