List of organ composers

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

This list includes some of the more important names of organ composers.

Germany and Austria

Renaissance

• Elias Ammerbach
• Jakob Hassler
• Conrad Paumann
• Arnolt Schlick

Baroque

• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Georg Böhm
• Nicolaus Bruhns
• Dieterich Buxtehude
• Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer
• Johann Jakob Froberger
• Hans Leo Hassler
• Johann Kaspar Kerll
• Johann Ludwig Krebs
• Johann Tobias Krebs
• Johann Krieger
• Vincent Lubeck
• Johann Mattheson
• Georg Muffat
• Gottlieb Muffat
• Johann Pachelbel
• 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
• Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck
• Simon Sechter
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Romantic

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

Modern

• Anton Heiller
• Franz Schmidt
• Gottfried von Einem
• Bertold Hummel

France

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
• Jean Titelouze

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-Wely
• 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
• Jean-Jacques Grunenwald
• Jean Guillou
• Naji Hakim (born in Lebanon)
• Jean Langlais
• Gaston Litaize
• Olivier Messiaen
• Daniel Roth (organist)

Belgium

Baroque

• Abraham van den Kerckhoven
• Lambert Chaumont

Romantic

• Jacques Lemmens
• Paul de Maleingreau

Modern

• Joseph Jongen
• Flor Peeters

Czech republic (Bohemia)

Baroque

• Frantisek Xaver Brixi
• Josef Seger
• Bohuslav Matej Cernohorsky

Romantic

• Josef Klicka
• Petr Eben
• Miloslav Kabelac
• Lubos Sluka

Italy

Renaissance

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

Baroque

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

Classicism

• Giuseppe Gherardeschi
• Gaetano Valeri

Romantic

• Giovanni Morandi (composer)
• Marco Enrico Bossi
• Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata
• Padre Davide da Bergamo (Felice Moretti)
• Vincenzo Antonio Petrali
• Luigi Bottazzo
• Oreste Ravanello
• Pietro Yon
• Filippo Capocci
• Ulisse Matthey

Netherlands

Renaissance

• Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

Baroque

• Anthoni van Noordt

Romantic

• Jan Zwart

Modern

• Feike Asma

Portugal

Renaissance

• Pedro de Araújo
• António Carreira
• Manuel Rodrigues Coelho
• Fr. Agostinho da Cruz

Baroque

• Carlos Seixas

Classicism

• João de Sousa Carvalho

Contemporary

• Joel Canhão
• Manuel Faria

Spain

Renaissance

• Antonio de Cabezón
• Tomás de Santa María

Baroque

• Pablo Bruna
• Juan Cabanilles

Sweden

Modern

• Fredrik Sixten

England

Renaissance

• William Byrd
• Thomas Tallis

Baroque

• 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
• Graham Fitkin
• Hans Gál
• Basil Harwood
• Herbert Howells
• Francis Jackson
• Craig Sellar Lang (born in New Zealand)
• Kenneth Leighton
• William Mathias
• Alan Ridout
• Ralph Vaughan Williams
• Percy Whitlock
• Arthur Wills
• Malcolm Williamson

Poland

Renaissance

• Nicolaus Cracoviensis
• Marcin Leopolita
• Jan of Lublin
• Jakub Sowa
• Adam of Wągrowiec

Romantic

• Konstanty Gorski
• Stanisław Moniuszko
• Feliks Nowowiejski
• Gustaw Roguski

Modern

• Marian Sawa
• Bolesław Szabelski

Hungary

Romantic

• Franz Liszt
• Dezső Antalffy-Zsiross

USA

Romantic

• Dudley Buck
• George Whitefield Chadwick
• Arthur Foote
• Horatio Parker
• John Knowles Paine
• 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

Canada

• Gerald Bales
• H. Hugh Bancroft
• Denis Bédard
• Barrie Cabena
• Raymond Daveluy
• Healey Willan

Croatia

• Franjo Dugan
• Anđelko Klobučar

Ukraine

• Mykola Kolessa
• Alexander Shchetynsky

Russia

• Valery Kikta
• Khristofor Kushnaryov
• Mikael Tariverdiev

Israel

• Josef Tal

Denmark

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

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