TDCM: Review of the "L" Composers

 

Listening Through The Dictionary of Composers and Their Music 

List, Stats, Curiosities of the "L" Composers

1. Édouard Lalo
2. Constant Lambert
3. Orlando de Lassus
4. William Lawes
5. Jean-Marie Leclair
6. Kenneth Leighton
7. Ruggero Leoncavallo
8. Anatoly Lyadov
9. György Ligeti
10. Franz Liszt
11. Henry Charles Litolff
12. George Lloyd
13. Matthew Locke
14. Charles Martin Loeffler
15. Jean-Baptiste Lully
16. Witold Lutosławski
17. Elisabeth Lutyens

Nationalities

English 7
French 3
Hungarian 2
American 1
Russian 1
Italian 1
Belgian 1
Polish 1

Earliest

Composer - Orlande de Lassus (1532-1594)
Composition - Leclair's Violin Concertos (c1737)*

*Earliest dated composition

Latest
Composer - György Ligeti (1923-2006)
Composition - Ligeti's Etudes for Piano (1985-2001)

Total Compositions Sampled - 81

Top 5 Ranked "L" Composers

Ranked on a purely subjective personal enjoyment scale

Franz Liszt (10/10)

Hungarian, 1811-1886

Dante-Sinfonia

Édouard Lalo (10/10)

French, 1823-1892

Cello Concerto in D minor

Charles Martin Loeffler (9/10)

American, 1861-1935

A Pagan Poem

Anatoly Lyadov (9/10)

Russian, 1855-1914

Three Late Pieces for Orchestra

Henry Charles Litolff (8/10)

English, 1818-1891

Concerto Symphonique No. 4