Innovative Composer Game (Selection Thread)

[Sammy]

Selected (49):
Bach (CPE)
Bach (JS)
Bartok
Beethoven
Bellini
Berlioz
Biber
Brahms
Boulanger (L.)
Boulez
Caccini
Cage
Chopin
Corelli
Debussy
Dufay
Dunstable
Gesualdo
Gluck
Hauer
Haydn (J.)
Hildegard von Bingen
Ives
Janáček
Koechlin
Langgaard
Léonin
Ligeti
Liszt
Machaut
Martinu
Monteverdi
Mozart
Nancarrow
Partch
Scelsi
Schnittke
Schoenberg
Sibelius
Solage
Stockhausen
Stravinsky
Sweelinck
Varèse
Verdi
Vivaldi
Wagner
Webern
Wyschnegradsky

[Jo498]

Schumann

He admittedly also has a conservative strain, especially in symphonies. But independently of Chopin he raised the "small salon piece" to the level of serious music and both his piano solo and his song cycles are seminal in this area because as cycles short pieces could gain weight and complexity. He is also one of the most sophisticated composers as far as allusion, quotations, both musical and literary ones, go, another aspect that remained important in the later 19th and 20th century.

[amw]

Last minute additions:

Francesco Landini
Luc Ferrari

[Marc]

Hildegard von Bingen

If possible, I'd like to make a 2nd pick for the day... Scriabin.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Percy Grainger, an innovative orchestrator as well as an extraordinary inventor of new musical instruments, electronic and acoustic, with a focus on microtonal and non-metrical 'free music.' Also one of the first composers to propose the study of music from a wider variety of cultures outside of the western tradition.

Luigi Russolo, Italian futurist composer, inventor and manifesto writer, categorised sounds and built machine to replicate them years before musique concrète really took off.

[Mahlerian]

Berg (combined learned techniques and detailed pre-compositional plans with opera in a novel way to serve the drama, influential on several subsequent opera composers)
Carter (treated large-scale rhythm in new ways, combining this with an impulse towards music of highly variegated characters)

[Sammy]

Selected (57):
Bach (CPE)
Bach (JS)
Bartok
Beethoven
Bellini
Berg
Berlioz
Biber
Brahms
Boulanger (L.)
Boulez
Caccini
Cage
Carter
Chopin
Corelli
Debussy
Dufay
Dunstable
Ferrari
Gesualdo
Gluck
Grainger
Hauer
Haydn (J.)
Hildegard von Bingen
Ives
Janáček
Koechlin
Landini
Langgaard
Léonin
Ligeti
Liszt
Machaut
Martinu
Monteverdi
Mozart
Nancarrow
Partch
Russolo
Scelsi
Schnittke
Schoenberg
Schumann
Scriabin
Sibelius
Solage
Stockhausen
Stravinsky
Sweelinck
Varèse
Verdi
Vivaldi
Wagner
Webern
Wyschnegradsky

[Sammy]

O.K.  it's about time to close down the submission desk and embark on the real game except for one item.  "57" is not an administrative-friendly number, so I'm adding one more composer to the list - Tishchenko.

Selected (58):

Bach (CPE)
Bach (JS)
Bartok
Beethoven
Bellini
Berg
Berlioz
Biber
Brahms
Boulanger (L.)
Boulez
Caccini
Cage
Carter
Chopin
Corelli
Debussy
Dufay
Dunstable
Ferrari
Gesualdo
Gluck
Grainger
Hauer
Haydn (J.)
Hildegard von Bingen
Ives
Janáček
Koechlin
Landini
Langgaard
Léonin
Ligeti
Liszt
Machaut
Martinu
Monteverdi
Mozart
Nancarrow
Partch
Russolo
Scelsi
Schnittke
Schoenberg
Schumann
Scriabin
Sibelius
Solage
Stockhausen
Stravinsky
Sweelinck
Tishchenko
Varèse
Verdi
Vivaldi
Wagner
Webern
Wyschnegradsky

Round One of our innovative game will begin shortly.