Tuesday, April 19, 2022

TDCM: Review of the "C" Composers

 

Listening Through The Dictionary of Composers and Their Music 


List, Stats, Curiosities of the "C" Composers

  1. John Cage
  2. Thomas Campion
  3. Marie-Joseph Cateloube de Malaret
  4. Giacomo Carissimi
  5. John Alden Carpenter
  6. Elliott Carter
  7. Alfredo Casella
  8. Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
  9. Alfredo Catalani
  10. Francesco Cavalli
  11. Emmanuel Chabrier
  12. Cécile Chaminade
  13. Gustave Charpentier
  14. Marc-Antoine Charpentier
  15. Ernest Chausson
  16. Carlos Chávez
  17. Luigi Cherubini
  18. Frédéric Chopin
  19. Francesca Cilea
  20. Domenico Cimarosa
  21. Muzio Clementi
  22. Eric Coates
  23. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  24. Arnold Cooke
  25. Aaron Copland
  26. Arcangelo Corelli
  27. François Couperin
  28. Louis Couperin
  29. Henry Cowell
  30. Edward Cowie
  31. Gordon Crosse
  32. George Crumb
  33. César Cui 

Nationalities

Italian 10
French 8
English 7
American 5
Russian 1
Mexican 1
Polish 1

Earliest
Composer - Thomas Campion (1562-1620)
Composition - Cavalli's Xerse (1655)*

*earliest dated composition

Latest
Composer - Edward Cowie (b.1943)
Composition - Cowie's Particle Partita (2012)

Total Compositions Sampled - 196

Top 10 ranked "C" Composers

Ranked on a purely subjective personal enjoyment scale

Frédéric Chopin (10/10)

Polish, 1866-1950














Études 10 & 25




Muzio Clementi (10/10)

Italian, 1752-1832













Symphony No. 1 in C major



César Cui (10/10)

Russian, 1835-1918













Orchestral Suite No. 2 in E major


Luigi Cherubini (10/10)

Italian, 1760-1842














Concert Overture in G



Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (9/10)

English, 1875-1912














Symphonic Variations on an African Air



Aaron Copland (9/10)

American, 1900-1990














Symphony No. 3



Alfredo Casella (8/10)

Italian, 1883-1947














Symphony No. 2 in C minor



Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (8/10)

Italian, 1895-1968













Guitar Concerto No. 1



Henry Cowell (8/10)

American, 1897-1965














Symphony No. 16 "Icelandic"


Carlos Chávez (7/10)

Mexican, 1899-1978














Valses



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