Listening Through The Dictionary of Composers and Their Music
List, Stats, Curiosities of the "C" Composers
- John Cage
- Thomas Campion
- Marie-Joseph Cateloube de Malaret
- Giacomo Carissimi
- John Alden Carpenter
- Elliott Carter
- Alfredo Casella
- Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
- Alfredo Catalani
- Francesco Cavalli
- Emmanuel Chabrier
- Cécile Chaminade
- Gustave Charpentier
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier
- Ernest Chausson
- Carlos Chávez
- Luigi Cherubini
- Frédéric Chopin
- Francesca Cilea
- Domenico Cimarosa
- Muzio Clementi
- Eric Coates
- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
- Arnold Cooke
- Aaron Copland
- Arcangelo Corelli
- François Couperin
- Louis Couperin
- Henry Cowell
- Edward Cowie
- Gordon Crosse
- George Crumb
- 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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