In Reply to: Besides the French composers, who else does pipe organ music well? posted by vacuous on May 17, 2007 at 15:00:25:
And 17 others from Western Europe. Outside of Western Europe: 2 American and 1 Lebanese.I never would have guessed the English were so prolific at composition for pipe organ.
Below is the rough breakdown of pipe-organ composers by nationality, just in case it interests anybody else besides me.
English - Arne, Bliss, Byrd, Clarke, Cook, Darke, Driffield, Elgar, Faulkes, Gibbons, Howells, Leighton, Locke, Parry, Purcell, Vaughn-Williams, Wesley, Whitlock, Willan
French - Berlioz, Bolemann, Campra, Corrette, Dupre, Franck, Gigout, Guillou, Guilmant, Hakim, Messiaen, Saint-Saens, Vierne, Widor
German - Bach, Brahms, Froberger, Handel, Karg-Elert, Mendelssohn, Pachelbel, Reger, Rhineberger
Belgian - Franck, Jongen, Peeters
American - Barber, Pinkham
Austrian - Bruckner, Haydn
Italian - Bossi, Frescobaldi
Norwegian - Greig, Takle
Danish - Buxtehude
Dutch - Sweelinck
Hungarian - Liszt
Irish - Stanford
Lebanese - Hakim
Slovak - Schmidt
Spanish - Soler
Swedish - Olsson
Welsh - Mathias
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Follow Ups
- Of the 60 composers mentioned below: 19 English, 14 French, 9 German... - vacuous 20:17:40 05/18/07 (3)
- Another Hungarian - tlyyra 04:32:48 05/21/07 (0)
- 17 French Composers. - Harmonia 16:03:26 05/20/07 (1)
- Some more french baroque organ composers - JDL-N 00:59:01 05/21/07 (0)