TDCM: Review of the "D" Composers

 

Listening Through The Dictionary of Composers and Their Music 

List, Stats, Curiosities of the "D" Composers

1. Eugen d'Albert
2. Luigi Dallapiccola
3. Alexander Dargomitzhsky
4. Harold Darke
5. Henry Walford Davies
6. Peter Maxwell Davies
7. Claude Debussy
8. Léo Delibes
9. Frederick Delius
10. David Diamond
11. Peter Dickinson
12. Vincent d'Indy
13. Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
14. Stephen Dodgson
15. Ernst von Dohnányi
16. Gaetano Donizetti
17. John Dowland
18. Guillaume Du Fay
19. Paul Dukas
20. Marie Eugène Henri Fouques Duparc
21. Marcel Jean-Jules Dupré
22. Maurice Duruflé
23. Antonin Dvořák

Nationalities

French 8
English 6
Italian 2
American 1
Russian 1
Austrian 1
Irish 1
Hungarian 1
Czech 1
Scottish 1

Earliest
Composer - Guillaume Du Fay (c1397-1474)
Composition - Dowland's Lachrimae (1604)*

*earliest dated composition

Latest
Composer - Peter Dickinson (b.1943)
Composition - Dickinson's Bach in Blue (2004)

Total Compositions Sampled - 141

Top 10 ranked "D" Composers

Ranked on a purely subjective personal enjoyment scale

Antonin Dvořák (10/10)

Czech, 1841-1904

Symphony No. 9 in E minor "From the New World"

Claude Debussy (10/10)

French, 1862-1918

Clair de Lune

Vincent d'Indy (10/10)

French, 1851-1931

Symphony No. 2 in B-flat major

Ernst von Dohnányi (10/10)

Hungarian, 1877-1960

Symphony No. 1 in D minor

Eugene d'Albert (9/10)

Scottish, 1864-1932

Symphony in F major

Paul Dukas (9/10)

French, 1895-1935

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

David Diamond (9/10)

American, 1915-2005

Rounds

Frederick Delius (8/10)

English, 1862-1934

Florida Suite

Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (8/10)

Austrian, 1739-1799

Symphony No. 4 in F major

Alexander Dargomitzhsky (8/10)

Russian, 1813-1869

Three Pieces for Orchestra