Listening Through The Dictionary of Composers and Their Music
List, Stats, Curiosities of the "M" Composers
- John McCabe
- Edward MacDowell
- Guillaume de Machaut
- Elizabeth Maconchy
- Gustav Mahler
- Gian Francesco Malipiero
- Luca Marenzio
- Frank Martin
- Bohuslav Martinů
- Pietro Masagni
- Jules Massenet
- William Mathias
- Nicholas Maw
- Richard Meale
- Nikolai Medtner
- Wilfrid Mellers
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Peter Mennin
- Gian Carlo Menotti
- André Messager
- Olivier Messiaen
- Giacomo Meyerbeer
- Nikolai Myaskovsky
- Darius Milhaud
- Ernest John Moeran
- Claudio Monteverdi
- Douglas Stuart Moore
- Thomas Morley
- Moritz Moszkowski
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Dominic Muldowney
- Thea Musgrave
- Modest Mussorgsky
Nationalities
English 6
French 5
Italian 5
American 3
Russian 3
German 3
Austrian 2
Irish 1
Australian 1
Swiss 1
Czech 1
Welsh 1
Scottish 1
Earliest
Composer - Guillaume de Machaut (c1300-1377)
Composition - Montiverdi's Selva Morale e Spirituale (c1641)*
*Earliest dated composition
Latest
Composer - Dominic Muldowney (b. 1952)
Composition - Muldowney's The Fall of Jerusalem (2016)
Total Compositions Sampled - 174
Top 10 Ranked "M" Composers
Ranked on a purely subjective personal enjoyment scale
Gustav Mahler (10/10)
Austrian, 1860-1911
Symphony No. 5
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (10/10)
Austrian, 1756-1791
Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Felix Mendehlssohn (10/10)
German, 1809-1847
Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor
Jules Massenet (10/10)
French, 1842-1912
Orchestral Suite No. 3 "Scènes Dramatiques"
Modest Mussorgsky (10/10)
Russian, 1839-1881
Night on Bald Mountain
Bohuslav Martinů (9/10)
Czech, 1890-1959
Symphony No. 6 "Fantaisies symphoniques"
Ernest John Moeran (9/10)
English, 1894-1950
Two Rhapsodies for Orchestra
Moritz Moszkowski (9/10)
German, 1854-1925
Piano Concerto No. 2
Giacomo Meyerbeer (9/10)
German, 1791-1864
Struensée Overture
Gian Francesco Malipiero (9/10)
Italian, 1882-1973
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Sinfonia del silenzio e della morte
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