TDCM: Review of the "K" Composers

 

Listening Through The Dictionary of Composers and Their Music 

List, Stats, Curiosities of the "K" Composers

1. Dmitry Kabalevsky
   
2. Aram Khachaturian
3. Oliver Knussen
4. Zoltán Kodály
5. Charles Koechlin
6. Erich Wolfgang Korngold
7. Karl Korte
8. Ernst Křenek
9. György Kurtág

Nationalities

American 3
Russian 2
Hungarian 2
English 1
French 1

Earliest

Composer - Charles Koechlin (1867-1950)
Composition - Kodály's Summer Evening (1906)

Latest
Composer - György Kurtág ( b. 1926 )
Composition - Korte's Elements: Fire (2013)

Total Compositions Sampled - 54

Top 5 Ranked "K" Composers

Ranked on a purely subjective personal enjoyment scale

Erich Wolfgang Korngold (10/10)

American, 1897-1957

Kings Row

Aram Khachaturian (10/10)

Russian, 1903-1978

Symphony No. 3 "Symphony-Poem"

Zoltán Kodály (10/10)

Hungarian, 1882-1967

Dances of Galánta

Dmitry Kabalevsky (9/10)

Russian, 1904-1987

Violin Concerto in C major

Charles Koechlin (7/10)

French, 1867-1950

Violin Sonata