TDCM: Review of the "I" Composers

 

Listening Through The Dictionary of Composers and Their Music 

List, Stats, Curiosities of the "I" Composers

1. Jacques Ibert
   
2. Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
3. John Ireland
4. Charles Ives

Nationalities

English 1
American 1
French 1
Russian 1

Earliest

Composer - Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859-1935)
Composition - Ippolitov-Ivanov's Caucasian Sketches No. 1 (1894)*

*earliest dated composition

Latest
Composer - Jacques Ibert (1890-1962)
Composition - Ibert's Tropismes pour des amoura imaginaires (1957)

Total Compositions Sampled - 25

Ranked "I" Composers

Ranked on a purely subjective personal enjoyment scale

John Ireland (10/10)

English, 1879-1962

Concertino Pastorale for string orchestra

Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (9/10)

Russian, 1859-1935

 

Caucasian Sketches No. 2 "Iveria"

Charles Ives (7/10)

American, 1874-1954

Symphony No. 2

Jacques Ibert (7/10)

French, 1890-1962

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