Composer Preferences by Surname - A (Selection Thread)

Started by Sammy, April 26, 2018, 02:04:34 PM

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Quote from: Ken B on April 28, 2018, 07:15:41 PM
The most prolific and eclectic of all: Anonymous.

Sorry, only specific composers whose surname begins with "A" are allowed.

Sammy

I will be closing the submittal desk in a few hours.  If you have additional entries, now is the time to post them.

vandermolen

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

vandermolen

Quote from: Baron Scarpia on April 26, 2018, 02:12:42 PM
Thomas Augustine Arne (for completeness sake, I have a CD of his trio sonatas).

We can't possibly forget him - he wrote 'Rule Brittania'!  8)
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

vandermolen

Richard Addinsell (1904-71) composed the 'Warsaw Concerto'.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Sammy

We have 57 entries, and I'm adding another 3 to make for a managerial-friendly 60 composers.

Final List (60):

Carl Friedrich Abel
Hans Abrahamsen
Joseph Achron
Adolphe Adam
Ondrej Adamek
John Adams
John Luther Adams
Murray Adaskin
Richard Addinsell
Thomas Adès
Samuel Adler
Theodor W. Adorno
Alexander Agricola
Dionisio Aguado
Kalevi Aho
Jehan Alain
Isaac Albeniz
Stephen Albert
Tomaso Albinoni
William Albright
Alfred Alessandrescu
Liana Alexandra
Franco Alfano
Kenneth Alford
Hugo Alfven
Charles Alkan
Gregorio Allegri
Eyvind Alnaes
William Alwyn
Fikrit Amirov
Pascal Amoyel
Gilbert Amy
Mark Andre
Mihail Andricu
Hendrik Andriessen
Louis Andriessen
Istvan Anhalt
George Antheil
John Antill
Georges Aperghis
Benedictus Appenzeller
Jacques Arcadelt
Anton Arensky
Dominick Argento
Harold Arlen
Thomas Augustine Arne
Richard Arnell
Malcolm Arnold
Juan Arriaga
Carlo Arrigoni
Thomas Ashewell
Robert Ashley
Daniel Asia
Kurt Atterberg
Daniel Auber
Lera Auerbach
Tor Aulin
Georges Auric
Ana-Maria Avram
Aaron Avshalomov

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