TDCM: Review of the "P" Composers

 

Listening Through The Dictionary of Composers and Their Music 

List, Stats, Curiosities of the "P" Composers

1. Johann Pachelbel
   
2. Ignacy Paderewski
3. Niccolò Paganini
4. Giovanni Paisiello
5. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
6. Andrezj Panufnik
7. Horatio Parker
8. Hubert Parry
9. Paul Patterson
10. Krzysztof Penderecki
11. Giovanni Pergolesi
12. Allan Pettersson
13. Gabriel Pierné
14. Walter Piston
15. Ildebrando Pizzetti
16. Manuel Ponce
17. Amilcare Ponchielli
18. Nicola Porpora
19. Francis Poulenc
20. Michael Praetorius
21. André Previn
22. Sergei Prokofiev
23. Giacomo Puccini
24. Juan Pablo Pujol
25. Henry Purcell

Nationalities

English 3
Polish 3
American 3
German 2
French 2
Neapolitan 2
Paplini 2
Swedish 1
Genoan 1
Italian 1
Mexican 1
Lombard 1
Russian 1
Luccan 1
Spanish 1

Earliest

Composer - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c1525-1594)
Composition - Praetorius's Dances from Terpischore (1612)*

*Earliest dated composition

Latest
Composer - Paul Patterson (b. 1947)
Composition - Penderecki's Symphony No. 7 "Seven Gates of Jerusalem" (1996)

Total Compositions Sampled - 138

Top Ranked "P" Composers

Ranked on a purely subjective personal enjoyment scale

Sergei Prokofiev (10/10)

Russian, 1891-1953

Peter and the Wolf

Ildebrandon Pizzetti (10/10)

Italian, 1880-1968

Piano Concerto

Walter Piston (10/10)

American, 1894-1976

Symphony No. 1

Ignacy Jan Paderewski (10/10)

Polish, 1860-1941

Suite for Strings in G major

Gabriel Pierné (10/10)

French, 1863-1937

Piano Concerto

Niccolò Paganini (9/10)

Genoan, 1782-1840

Caprice 24

Allan Pettersson (9/10)

Swedish, 1911-1980

Symphony No. 8

Adrzej Panufnik (9/10)

Polish, 1914-1991

Symphony No. 2

Giacomo Puccini (8/10)

Luccan, 1858-1924

Nessun Dorma

Francis Poulenc (8/10)

French, 1899-1963

Piano Concerto