TDCM: Review of the "G" Composers

 

Listening Through The Dictionary of Composers and Their Music 

List, Stats, Curiosities of the "G" Composers

1. Andrea Gabrieli
2. Giovanni Gabrieli
3. Niels Gade
4. Francesco Geminiani
5. Roberto Gerhard
6. Edward German
7. George Gershwin
8. Carlo Gesualdo de Venosa
9. Orlando Gibbson
10. Eric Gilder
11. Don Gillis
12. Alberto Ginastera
13. Umberto Giordano
14. Mauro Giuliani
15. Philip Glass
16. Alexander Glazunov
17. Reinhold Glière
18. Mikhail Glinka
19. Christoph Gluck
20. Benjamin Godard
21. Alexander Goehr
22. Karl Goldmark
23. François-Joseph Gossec
24. Louis Moreau Gottschalk
25. Morton Gould
26. Charles Gounod
27. Percy Grainger
28. Enrique Granados
29. Marcel Grandjany
30. André Grétry
31. Edvard Grieg
32. Charles Tomlinson Griffes
33. Ferde Grofé
34. Louis Gruenberg

Nationalities

American 8
Italian 6
French 5
Russian 3
English 3
German 2
Spanish 2
Hungarian 1
Australian 1
Danish 1
Norwegian 1
Argentine 1

Earliest
Composer - Andrea Gabrieli (c1532-1586)
Composition - Gossec's Missa Pro Defunctis (1760)*

*earliest dated composition

Latest
Composer - Philip Glass (b. 1937)
Composition - Glass's Heroes (1996)

Total Compositions Sampled - 177

Top 10 Ranked "G" Composers

Ranked on a purely subjective personal enjoyment scale

Edvard Grieg (10/10)

Norwegian, 1843-1907

Piano Concerto in A minor

Philip Glass (10/10)

American, b. 1937

Metamorphosis 

Niels Gade (10/10)

Danish, 1817-1890

Symphony No. 1 in C minor "On Sjoland's Fair Plains"

Reinhold Glière (10/10)

Russian, 1875-1956

The Bronze Horseman

Don Gillis (10/10)

American, 1912-1978

Symphony No. 3 "A Symphony for Free Men"

Alexander Glazunov (10/10)

Russian, 1865-1936

Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major

George Gershwin (10/10)

American, 1898-1937

Rhapsody in Blue

Karl Goldmark (10/10)

Hungarian, 1830-1915

Rustic Wedding Symphony

Ferde Grofé (9/10)

American, 1892-1972

Benjamin Godard (9/10)

French, 1849-1895

Symphony Gothique in A minor