listening to Classical Composers
Medieval
✓ Adam de la Halle (1240-1287)
✓ Ciconia, Johannes (1370-1412)
✓ Grimace (fl. c. mid-late 1300s)
✓ Guido d’Arezzo (991/992-after 1033)
✓ Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
✓ Leonin (fl. 1150s)
✓ Notker Balbulus (c. 840-912)
✓ Ockeghem, Johannes (1410-1425)
✓ Perotin (fl. c. 1200)
Renaissance
✓ Gesualdo, Carlo (1566-1613)
✓ Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (1525-1594)
Baroque
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
✓ Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713)
✓ Jacquet de la Guerre, Elisabeth (1665-1729)
✓ Monteverdi, Claudio (1567-1643)
Classical
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787)
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Romantic
✓ Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869)
✓ Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
✓ Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896)
✓ Chopin, Frederic (1810-1849)
✓ Faure, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
✓ Mendelssohn, Fanny (1805-1847)
✓ Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
✓ Mussorgsky, Modest (1839-1881)
✓ Paganini, Niccolo (1782-1840)
✓ Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908)
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Spohr, Louis (1784-1859)
Tchaikovsky, Pytor Ilych (1840-1893)
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)
✓ Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
Late 19th Century/20th Century Pre-WWII
Bartok, Bela (1884-1945)
✓ Berg, Alban (1885-1935)
✓ Boulanger, Lili (1893-1918)
✓ Busoni, Ferruccio (1866-1924)
✓ Cardew, Cornelius (1936-1981)
✓ Cowell, Henry (1897-1965)
✓ Dallapiccola, Luigi (1904-1975)
✓ Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
✓ Holst, Gustav (1874-1934)
Ives, Charles (1874-1954)
Janacek, Leos (1854-1928)
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911)
Milhaud, Darius (1892-1974)
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
Prokofiev, Sergei (1891-1953)
Rachmaninov, Sergei (1873-1943)
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Satie, Erik (1866-1925)
Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951)
Scriabin, Alexander (1871-1915)
Seeger, Ruth Crawford (1901-1953)
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975)
Sousa, John Philip (1854-1932)
Still, William Grant (1895-1978)
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)
Varese, Edgard (1883-1965)
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)
Webern, Anton (1883-1945)
Weill, Kurt (1900-1950)
20th Century Post-WWII
✓ Arel, Bulent (1919-1990)
✓ Argento, Dominick (1927-2019)
✓ Babbitt, Milton (1916-2011)
✓ Badings, Henk (1907-1987)
✓ Berio, Luciano (1925-2003)
✓ Boulez, Pierre (1925-2016)
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)
✓ Brown, Earle (1926-2002)
Cage, John (1912-1992)
Carter, Elliott (1908-2012)
✓ Chou Wen-chung (1923-2019)
✓ Copland, Aaron (1900-1990)
✓ Davidovsky, Mario (1934-2019)
Davies, Peter Maxwell (1934-2016)
✓ Donatoni, Franco (1927-2000)
✓ Druckman, Jacob (1928-1996)
✓ Dutilleux, Henri (1916-2013)
✓ Eaton, John (1935-2015)
✓ El-Dabh, Halim (1921-2017)
✓ Erickson, Robert (1917-1997)
Feldman, Morton (1928-1987)
✓ Foss, Lukas (1922-2009)
✓ Gorecki, Henryk (1933-2010)
✓ Grisey, Gerard (1946-1998)
Harrison, Lou (1917-2003)
Harvey, Jonathan (1939-2012)
Henze, Hans Werner (1926-2012)
Hovhaness, Alan (1911-2000)
✓ Huber, Klaus (1924-2017)
Hyla, Lee (1952-2014)
Imbrie, Andrew (1921-2007)
Johnston, Ben (1926-2019)
Kagel, Mauricio (1931-2008)
Ligeti, Gyorgy (1923-2006)
Luening, Otto (1900-1996)
Lutoslawski, Witold (1913-1994)
Maderna, Bruno (1920-1973)
Mamlok, Ursula (1923-2016)
Maslanka, David (1943-2017)
Mayuzumi, Toshiro (1929-1997)
Messiaen, Olivier (1908-1992)
Nancarrow, Conlon (1912-1997)
Nono, Luigi (1924-1990)
Oram, Daphne (1925-2003)
Partch, Harry (1901-1974)
Penderecki, Krzysztof (1933-2020)
Pousseur, Henri (1929-2009)
Radulescu, Horatio (1942-2008)
Romitelli, Fausto (1963-2004)
Scelsi, Giacinto (1905-1988)
Schaeffer, Pierre (1942-1990)
Schnittke, Alfred (1934-1998)
Shapey, Ralph (1921-2002)
Stockhausen, Karlheinz (1928-2007)
Takemitsu, Toru (1930-1996)
Tenney, James (1934-2006)
Westergaard, Peter (1931-2019)
Wuorinen, Charles (1938-2020)
Xenakis, Iannis (1922-2001)
Zimmermann, Bernd Alois (1918-1970)
Recent Composers
✓ Abrahamsen, Hans (b. 1952)
✓ Adams, John (b. 1947)
✓ Adams, John Luther (b. 1953)
✓ Adès, Thomas (b. 1971)
✓ Adler, Samuel (b. 1928)
✓ Andre, Mark (b. 1964)
✓ Andres, Timo (b. 1985)
✓ Andriessen, Louis (b.1939)
✓ Applebaum, Mark (b. 1967)
✓ Baker, Claude (b. 1948)
✓ Balter, Marcos (b. 1974)
✓ Beamish, Sally (b. 1956)
✓ Bedrossian, Franck (b. 1971)
✓ Benjamin, George (b. 1960)
✓ Biggs, Hayes (b. 1957)
✓ Billone, Pierluigi (b. 1960)
✓ Birtwistle, Harrison (b. 1934)
✓ Bjarnason, Daniel (b. 1979)
✓ Blackwood, Easley (b. 1933)
✓ Botti, Susan (b. 1962)
✓ Cendo, Raphael (b. 1975)
✓ Cerrone, Christopher (b. 1984)
✓ Chasalow, Eric (b. 1955)
✓ Chin, Unsuk (b. 1961)
✓ Corigliano, John (b.1938)
✓ Crumb, David (b. 1962)
✓ Crumb, George (b. 1929)
✓ Czernowin, Chaya (b. 1957)
✓ Del Tredici, David (b. 1937)
✓ Diaz de Leon, Mario (b. 1979)
✓ Dillon, James (b. 1950)
✓ Dodge, Charles (b. 1942)
✓ Dove, Jonathan (b. 1959)
✓ Driver, Toby (b. 1978)
✓ Dun, Tan (b. 1957)
✓ Dusapin, Pascal (b. 1955)
✓ Dzubay, David (b. 1964)
✓ Eckardt, Jason (b. 1971)
✓ Fagerlund, Sebastian (b. 1972)
✓ Felsenfeld, Daniel (b. 1975)
✓ Ferneyhough, Brian (b. 1943)
✓ Fineberg, Joshua (b. 1969)
✓ Finnissy. Michael (b. 1946)
✓ First, C. P. (b. 1960)
✓ Frances-Hoad, Cheryl (b. 1980)
✓ Fueting, Reiko (b. 1970)
✓ Fujikura, Dai (b. 1977)
✓ Furrer, Beat (b. 1954)
Glass, Philip (b. 1937)
✓ Gordon, Michael (b. 1956)
✓ Gubaidulina, Sofia (b. 1931)
✓ Haas, Georg Friederich (b. 1953)
✓ Iannotta, Clara (b. 1983)
✓ Jolas, Betsy (b. 1926)
✓ Kernis, Aaron Jay (b. 1960)
✓ Kokoras, Panayiotis (b. 1974)
✓ Kouyoumdjian, Mary (b. 1983)
✓ Kurtag, Gyorgy (b. 1926)
✓ Lachenmann, Helmut (b. 1935)
✓ Lang, David (b. 1957)
✓ Lansky, Paul (b. 1944)
✓ Lara, Felipe (b. 1979)
✓ Lash, Hannah (b. 1981)
✓ Leroux, Philippe (b. 1959)
✓ Lewis, George (b. 1952)
✓ Lindberg, Magnus (b. 1958)
✓ Lucier, Alvin (b. 1931)
✓ Mackey, John (b. 1973)
✓ Macklay, Sky (b. 1988)
✓ Mahnkopf, Claus-Steffen (b. 1962)
✓ Marks, Matt (1980-2018)
✓ Marshall, Ingram (b. 1942)
✓ Merryman, Marjorie (b. 1951)
✓ Muhly, Nico (b. 1981)
✓ Murail, Tristan (b. 1947)
✓ Negron, Angelica (b. 1981)
✓ Neuwirth, Olga (b. 1968)
✓ Norman, Andrew (b. 1979)
✓ Pann, Carter (b. 1972)
Part, Arvo (b. 1935)
✓ Prins, Stefan (b. 1979)
✓ Rakowski, David (b. 1958)
✓ Ran, Shulamit (b. 1949)
Reich, Steve (b.1936)
Reynolds, Roger (b. 1934)
Rihm, Wolfgang (b. 1952)
Riley, Terry (b. 1935)
Saariaho, Kaija (b. 1952)
✓ Saunders, Rebecca (b. 1967)
✓ Schwantner, Joseph (b. 1943)
✓ Sciarrino, Salvatore (b. 1947)
Segerstam, Leif (b. 1944)
✓ Shaw, Caroline (b. 1982)
✓ Takahashi, Yuji (b. 1938)
✓ Tao, Conrad (b. 1994)
✓ Theofanidis, Christopher (b. 1967)
Thomas, Augusta Read (b. 1964)
✓ Thorvaldsdottir, Anna (b. 1977)
Tower, Joan (b. 1938)
Tuur, Erkki-Sven (b. 1959)
✓ Ung, Chinary (b. 1942)
✓ Waller, Michael Vincent (b. 1985)
✓ Wollschleger, Scott (b. 1980)
✓ Wubbels, Eric (b. 1980)
Zwilich, Ellen Taaffe (b. 1939)