Monday, October 9, 2023

TDCM: Review of the "Z" Composers


Listening Through The Dictionary of Composers and Their Music 


List, Stats, Curiosities of the "Z" Composers

  1. Jan Dismas Zelenka
  2. Alexander von Zemlinsky

Nationalities

Czech 1
Austrian 1

Earliest

Composer - Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745)
Composition - Zelenka's Psalmi Verspertini (1925)

*Earliest dated composition

Latest
Composer - Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871-1942)
Composition - Zemlinsky's String Quartet No. 2 (1913)

Total Compositions Sampled - 7

Top Ranked "Z" Composers

Ranked on a purely subjective personal enjoyment scale

Alexander von Zemlinsky (10/10)

Austrian, 1871-1942








Symphony No. 2


Jan Dismas Zelenka (6/10)

Czech, 1679-1745














Missa Votiva in E minor




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