Category:Composers

Composers (see Biography, Fiction, Music)

• Expertise : Choreographers -- Composers -- Conductors -- Film Composers -- Librettists -- Singers

• Genres : Ballets -- Film Music -- Musicals -- Operas -- Oratorios -- Songs -- Sound Recordings -- Video Recordings

Most Famous Composers

• Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179

• Thomas Tallis (1505-1585) GBR
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525–1594) ITA
• William Byrd (1543-1623) GBR
• Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613)
• Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) ITA

• Johann Pachelbel (1653–1706)
• Henry Purcell (1659-1695) GB
• Alessandro Scarlatti (1660–1725) ITA
• Tomaso Albinoni (1671–1751) ITA
• Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) ITA
• Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) FRA
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
• George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
• Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757) ITA

• Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736) ITA
• Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787)
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788)
• Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
• Luigi Boccherini (1743–1805) ITA
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) AUT
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
• Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868) ITA
• Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848) ITA
• Franz Schubert (1797–1828) AUT

• Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835) ITA
• Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) FRA
• Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
• Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)
• Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
• Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
• Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901) ITA
• Richard Wagner (1813–1883)
• Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)

• Anton Bruckner (1824–1896)
• Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884)
• Johann Strauss II (1825–1899)

• Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)
• Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
• Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) FRA
• Georges Bizet (1838-1875) FRA

• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) RUS
• Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)
• Jules Massenet (1842-1912) FRA
• Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908)
• Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) FRA

• Leos Janáček (1854-1928)
• Edward Elgar (1857–1934)
• Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) ITA

• Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
• Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
• Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945) ITA
• Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
• Jean Sibelius (1865–1957)
• Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) ITA
• Erik Satie (1866-1925) FRA
• Amy Beach (1867–1944)

• Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) GBR
• Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) RUS
• Charles Ives (1874-1954) USA
• Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951)
• Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) FRA

• Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
• Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) RUS
• Edgard Varèse (1883-1965) FRA
• Anton Webern (1883-1945)
• Alban Berg (1885-1935)

• Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953)
• George Gershwin (1898–1937) USA

• Aaron Copland (1900-1990) USA
• Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975) RUS
• Olivier Messiaen (1908-92) FRA
• Samuel Barber (1910-1981) USA
• Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007) ITA-USA
• John Cage (1912-92) USA
• Benjamin Britten (1913-76) GBR
• Witold Lutosławski (1913-94), Poland
• Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990) USA
• Luciano Berio (1925-2003) ITA
• Pierre Boulez (1925-2016) FRA
• Morton Feldman (1926-87) USA
• Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007)
• Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021)
• Harrison Birtwistle (1934-2022)
• Steve Reich (1936) USA
• Philip Glass (1937) USA
• Oliver Knussen (1952-2018)
• Kaija Saariaho (1952)
• John Williams (

Composers of works on Second Temple Judaism

1600s

• Giovanni Battista Caputi (M / Italy, 17th cent.), composer
  • L’ebrea famelica (The Famishing Jewess / 1640 Caputi / Vittori), oratorio (music & libretto)

1650s

• Giovanni Bicilli (M / Italy, d.1705), composer
  • Li Maccabei (The Maccabees / 1674 Bicilli / Mazzei), oratorio

• Johann Wolfgang Franck (M / Germany, 1644-1710), composer
  • Die Makkabäische Mutter mit ihren sieben Sohnen (1679 Franck / Elmenhorst), oratorio

• Felice Mercuriali (M / Italy, 17th cent.), composer
  • La madre de' Maccabei (The Mother of the Maccabean Martyrs / 1685 Mercuriali / Gigli), oratorio

• Giuseppe Fabbrini (M / Italy, 17th century), composer
  • La madre de' Maccabei (The Mother of the Maccabean Martyrs / 1688 Fabbrini / 1685 Gigli), oratorio

• Giovanni Lorenzo Cattani (M / Italy, 1642-1713), composer
  • Gerusalemme destrutta da Tito (1691 Cattani / Fineschi), oratorio

• Gregorio Cola (M / Italy, 17th cent.), composer
  • Judas Machabeus (1695 Cola), oratorio

• Ignazio Pulci (M / Italy, 17th cent.), composer
  • Juda Machabeus (1697 Pulci), oratorio

1700s

• Attilio Malachia Ariosti (M / Italy, 1666-1740), composer
  • La madre de' Maccabei (The Mother of the Maccabean Martyrs / 1704 Ariosti / 1685 Gigli), oratorio

• Floriano Maria Arresti (M / Italy, 1667-1717), composer
  • Mater Machabaeorum (1704 Arresti), oratorio

• Giuseppe Aldrovandini (M / Italy, 1671-1707), composer
  • La madre de' Maccabei (The Mother of the Maccabean Martyrs / 1705 Aldrovandini / 1685 Gigli), oratorio

• Carlo Agostino Badia (M / Italy, 1671-1738), composer
  • Il martirio de' Maccabei (1709 Badia / Stampiglia), oratorio

• Johann Joseph Fux (M / Austria, 1660-1741), composer
  • La donna forte nella madre dei sette Maccabei (1714 Fux / Pariati), oratorio

• Angelo Massarotti (M / Italy, 1690c-...), composer
  • La madre de’ Maccabei (1719 Massarotti), oratorio

• Giovanni Nicola Ranieri Redi (M / Italy, 18th cent.), composer
• Matatia in Modin (1727 Redi), oratorio

• Francesco Bartolomeo Conti (M / Italy, 18th cent.), composer
  • L'osservanza della divina legge martirio de' Maccabei (1732 Conti / Lucchini), oratorio

• Giuseppe Porsile (M / Italy, 1680-1750), composer
  • La madre de’ Maccabei (1737 Porsile / Manzoni), oratorio

• • La madre de' Maccabei (1745 Mazzoni / Belletti), oratorio

• • Judas Maccabeus (1747 Haendel / Morell), oratorio
  • Alexander Balus (1748 Haendel / Morell), oratorio

1750s

• • La Gerusalemme convertita (1751 Galuppi / Zeno), oratorio

• • Antiochus der wütente Tyrann, und Vorbild des künftigen Antichrist (Antiochus the Raging Tyrant and Figure of the Future Antichrist / 1762 Werner), oratorio

• • La madre de' Maccabei (The Mother of the Maccabean Martyrs / 1763 Petrucci), oratorio

• • La madre de' Maccabei (1764 Guglielmi / Barbieri), oratorio

• • La madre de' Maccabei (1765 Anfossi / Barbieri), oratorio

• • La madre de' Maccabei (1765 Garroni / Barbieri), oratorio

• • Matatia (Matthatias / 1765 Nenci / Coltellini), oratorio

• • La madre de' Maccabei (1767 Bergamini / Barbieri), oratorio

• • Machabaeorum mater (The Mother of the Maccabean Martyrs / 1770 Sacchini / Chiari), oratorio

• • La madre de' Maccabei (1775 Gatti / Barbieri), oratorio

• • Les macchabées (The Maccabees / 1780 Deshayes), oratorio

• • Salome, madre de' sette martiri Maccabei (1783 Silva / Martinelli), oratorio

• • Antioco (Antiochus / 1787 Gabellone), oratorio

1800

• • Thirza und ihre sieben Söhne (Thirza and Her Seven Sons / 1806 Rieger / Niemeyer), oratorio

• • Gerusalemme distrutta (1812 Dusik), oratorio

• • Giuda Maccabeo; ossia, La morte di Nicanore (1819 Crispi / Rasi), oratorio

• • Giuda Maccabeo; ossia, La morte di Nicanore (1821 Basili), oratorio

• • Erodiade (Herodias / 1838 Liberali / De Horatiis), oratorio

• • Die Makabäer (The Maccabees / 1838 Stahlknecht), oratorio

1850

• • Matatia (Matthatias / 1853 Liberali / Vicoli), oratorio

• • La distruzione di Gerusalemme (The Destruction of Jerusalem / 1858 Pacini / Fioretti), oratorio (music & libretto), Florence premiere (cast)

• • Giuda Maccabeo (1859 Mariotti / Meini), oratorio

• • Matatia vincitore (Matthatias Triumphant / 1865 Coppola), oratorio

1950s

• • My Glorious Brothers (1953 Vale / Fast), oratorio

• • Hanukkah of the Maccabees (1955 Binder), oratorio

• • Masada (1970 Greenberg), oratorio

• • Not by Might (1979 Sargon), oratorio

• • Masada (1987 Levy), oratorio

• Herman Berlinski (M / Germany, United States, 1910-2001), composer
  • The Trumpets of Freedom (1997 Berlinski), oratorio

2000s

• Dominic Muldowney (M / Britain, 1952), composer
  • The Fall of Jerusalem (2003 Muldowney / Fenton), oratorio