TDCM: Review of "B" Composers

 

Listening Through The Dictionary of Composers and Their Music 

List, Stats, Curiosities of the "B" Composers

1. Milton Babbitt
2. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
3. Johann Christian Bach
4. Johann Sebastian Bach
5. Mily Balkirev
6. Michael Balfe
7. Don Banks
8. Granville Bantock
9. Samuel Barber
10. Bela Bartok
11. Arnold Bax
12. Amy Beach
13. David Bedford
14. Ludwig van Beethoven
15. Vincenzo Bellini
16. Arthur Benjamin
17. Richard Bennett
18. Alban Berg
19. Luciano Berio
20. Lennox Berkeley
21. Michael Berkeley
22. Hector Berlioz
23. Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, Lord Berners
24. Leonard Bernstein
25. Franz Berwald
26. Harrison Birtwistle
27. Georges Bizet
28. Boris Blacher
29. David Blake
30. Arthur Bliss
31. Marc Blitzstein
32. Ernest Bloch
33. John Blow
34. Luigi Boccherini
35. Léon Boëllmann
36. François-Adrian Boieldieu
37. Arrigo Boito
38. Alexander Borodin
39. Pierre Boulez
40. William Boyce
41. Johannes Brahms
42. Havergal Brian
43. Frank Bridge
44. Benjamin Britten
45. Earle Brown
46. Max Bruch
47. Anton Bruckner
48. John Bull
49. Alan Bush
50. Geoffrey Bush
51. Ferruccio Busoni
52. George Butterworth
53. Diderik Buxtehude
54. William Byrd 

Nationalities

English 19
German 7
American 6
French 5
Italian 5
Austrian 2
Australian 2
Russian 2
Irish 2
Swedish 1
Swiss 1
Danish 1

Earliest
Composer - William Byrd (1543-1623)
Composition - The Battell (prior to 1623)

Latest
Composer - Michael Berkeley (b.1948)
Composition - Birtwistle's Notes from the End of a Garden (2017)

Total Compositions Sampled - 375

Top 10 ranked "B" Composers

Ranked on a purely subjected personal enjoyment scale, top-10 due to larger pool of excellence

Johannes Brahms (10/10)

German, 1833-1897

Symphony No. 4 in E Minor (1884-85)

Ludwig van Beethoven (10/10)

German, 1770-1827

Symphony No. 5 (1808)

Johann Sebastian Bach (10/10)

German, 1685-1750

Toccata BMW 910-916 

Anton Bruckner (10/10)

Austrian, 1824-1896

Symphony No. 1 in C Minor (1865)

Hector Berlioz (10/10)

French, 1803-1869

Symphonie Fantastique (1830)

Alexander Borodin (10/10)

Russian, 1833-1887

Symphony No. 1 in E-flat Minor (1862-67)

Béla Bartók (10/10)

Hungarian, 1881-1945

Concerto for Orchestra (1843)

Benjamin Britten (10/10)

English, 1913-1976

Simple Symphony (1934)

Max Bruch (10/10)

German, 1824-1896

Symphony No. 3 in E Major (1887)

Samuel Barber (10/10)

American, 1910-1981

Adagio for Strings

Honorable Mention: Mily Balakirev (10/10)