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The Southeast Kansas Symphony Orchestra
Stella Hastings - Artistic Director & Conductor

Composer Links


Here are a number of links to sources you may use to locate information on your favorite composer. This is not an exhaustive list, we've started with composers we have performed over the years. Right now, there may only be a name and dates, some names lead to an "official" page for the composer.

Almost all composers have these standardized links:

  • Google
  • The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
  • Wikipedia, and
  • WorldCat

These four basic sources provide you with a list of web sites, scores, encyclopedic information, and library resources respectively for each composer.

As always, consider your sources. Where possible, we've added links to Societies, Associations, Journals... anything available of a more reliable and scholarly nature. And we might find a site that's fun, cool, or a bit odd, too.

Here are a few other sources that may provide information on a composer of interest. Several sites provide music in the Public Domain:

You'll find links for each composer at the bottom of our Program Notes pages as well, so you can read about the piece we perform, then follow the links and find out even more. We hope you will investigate and learn as much as you can on the lives and works of these great masters.


~ B ~

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

P. D. Q. Bach (1807-1742) ?

Samuel Barber (1910-1981)

Béla Viktor János Bartók (1881-1945)

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Louis Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)

Hubert Bird (1939- )

Georges Alexandre César Léopold Bizet (1838-1875)

Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Edward Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

Jane Brockman (1949- )

Max Christian Friedrich Bruch (1838-1920)

Joseph Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)


~ C ~

Ernest Amédée Chausson (1855-1899)

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)

Domenico Nicola Cimarosa (1749-1801)

Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

John Paul Corigliano (1938- )

Paul Creston (ne Giuseppe Guttoveggio) (1906-1985)


~ D ~

Ferdinand David (1810-1873)

Claude-Achille Debussy (1862-1918)

Nancy Bloomer Deussen (1931- )

Ernö (Ernst von) Dohnányi (1877-1960)

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (1797-1848)

Paul Abraham Dukas (1865-1935)

Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)

Antonín Leopold Dvořák (1841-1904)


~ F ~

Manuel de Falla y Matheu (1876-1946)

Gabriel Urbain Fauré (1845-1924)

Gerald Raphael Finzi (1901-1956)

Carlisle Floyd (1926- )

John Herbert Foulds (1880-1939)

Franck, César-Auguste Jean-Guillaume-Hubert (1822-1890)


~ G ~

George Gershwin (1898-1937)

Vittorio Giannini (1903-1966)

Aleksandr Konstantinovich Glazunov (1865-1936)

Reinhold Moritzovich Glière (1875-1956)

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804-1857)

Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck (1714-1787)

Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843-1907)

Ferdinand (Ferde) Rudolph von Grofé (1892-1972)

Launy Grøndahl (1886-1960)


~ H ~

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Howard Hanson (1896-1981)

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809):

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)

Gustavus (Gustav) Theodore von Holst (1874-1934)

F M Hoover (-)

Herbert Norman Howells (1892-1983)

Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921)


~ I ~

Charles Edward Ives (1874-1954)


~ J ~

Scott Joplin (c.1868 - 1917)


~ K ~

Dmitri Borisovic Kabalevsky (1904-1987)

Robert Kapilow (1952- )

Khachaturian, Aram Il'ich (1903-1978)

Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967)

Sergei (Serge) Alexandrovich Koussevitzky (1874-1951)


~ L ~

Libby Larsen (1950- )

Franz (Ferencz) Joseph Liszt (1811-1886)

Daniel Luzko (1966-)


~ M ~

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

Frank Martin (1890-1974)

Jules Emile Frédéric Massenet (1842-1912)

John McCabe (1939- )

Fanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805-1847)

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847)

Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007)

Johann Georg Leopold Mozart (1719-1787)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881)


~ O ~


~ P ~

Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)

Nicolo Paganini (1782-1840)

Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (1899-1963)

Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (1858-1924)

Henry Purcell (c1659-1695)


~ Q ~


~ R ~

Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)

Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)

Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

Richard Charles Rodgers (1902-1979)

JoaquÎn Rodrigo Vidre (1902- 1999)

John C. Ross (1962- )

Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868)

Nino Rota (1911-1979)

Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein (1829-1894)


~ S ~

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)

Erik Alfred Leslie Satie (1866-1925)

Paul E. Schoenfield (1947- )

Phillip Schroeder (1956- )

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

William Howard Schuman (1910-1992)

Robert Alexander Schumann (1810-1856)

Dmitrii Dmitrievich Shostakovich (1906-1975)

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)

Robert Starer (1924-2001)

Johann Strauss Jr. (1825-1899)

Richard Georg Strauss (1864-1949)

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)