Hammond It's Academic
Composer and Works Study List
Thanks to Dave the Destructor for compiling most of this list
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| Hamburg Symphonies | German | Bach, CPE (most famous son of JS Bach) |
| St. Matthew Passion (choral) Brandenburg Concertos (6) Goldberg Variations (keyboard) Well-Tempered Clavier (keyboard) |
German | Bach, J.S. |
| Vanessa (opera) | U.S. | Barber |
| The Miraculous Mandarin (ballet) Bluebeard’s Castle (opera) |
Hungarian | Bartok |
| 32 piano sonatas, including Pathetique and Moonlight Nine symphonies, including #3 Eroica (originally intended as tribute to Napoleon until he declared himself Emperor) #5 (bmm bmm bmm bmmmmmmmmm..........bmm bmm bmm bmmmmmmmm) #6 Pastoral (Fantasia) #9 Choral (Ode to Joy)
Fidelio (only opera)
Emperor Concerto |
German | Beethoven |
| Norma (opera) La Sonnambula (opera) |
Italian | Bellini |
| Lulu (opera) Wozzeck (opera) |
Austrian | Berg |
| Symphonie Fantastique Les Troyens (The Trojans) (opera cycle) Damnation of Faust (opera) |
French | Berlioz |
| West Side Story | U.S. | Bernstein |
| Carmen (opera) Pearl Fishers (opera) |
French | Bizet |
| Prince Igor (opera), containing the "Polovtsian Dances" | Russian | Borodin |
| 4 symphonies German Requiem |
German | Brahms |
| War Requiem Billy Budd (opera) Peter Grimes (opera) |
British | Britten |
| Minute Waltz Only piano music |
French | Chopin |
| Appalchian Spring (ballet) Billy the Kid (ballet) Rodeo (ballet) Fanfare for the Common Man |
U.S. | Copland |
| Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun La Mer (the Sea) Pelleas et Melisande (opera) |
French | Debussy |
| Coppelia (ballet) Sylvia (ballet) Lakme(opera) |
French | Delibes |
| Daughter of the Regiment (opera) Elixer of Love (opera) Lucia di Lammermoor (opera) Don Pasquale (opera) |
Italian | Donizetti |
| Sorcerer’s Apprentice (used in Disney’s "Fantasia") | French | Dukas |
| New World Symphony Rusalka (opera) |
Czech | Dvorak (pronounced with a soft "j" like Dvorzhak) |
| Movie themes: Batman Edward Scissorhands Pee Wee Dick Tracy and of course the Simpsons |
U.S. | Elfman |
| Pomp and Circumstance Enigma Variations |
British | Elgar |
| Three-Cornered Hat (ballet) La Vida Breve (opera) |
Spanish | Falla |
| Rhapsody in Blue Porgy and Bess (opera) American in Paris |
U.S. | Gershwin |
| Einstein on the Beach (opera-1) Satyagraha (oper-2) Akhenaten (opera-3) (trilogy) Beauty and the Beast (opera) worked with Ravi Shankar Movie scores:
works with david bowie and brian eno:
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U.S. | Glass |
| Ruslan and Ludmilla (first Russian opera, also an
overture) A Life for the Tsar (opera) |
Russian | Glinka |
| Faust (opera) Romeo and Juliet (opera) |
French | Gounod |
| Peer Gynt (incidental music to Ibsen’s play) | Norwegian | Grieg |
| Water Music Messiah Music for the Royal Fireworks |
German/British | Handel |
| 104 symphonies, including: Surprise (#94) Clock (#101) London (#104) |
Austrian | Haydn |
| The Planets | British | Holst |
| Hansel and Gretl (opera) | German | Humperdink |
| Unanswered Question Central Park in the Dark |
U.S. | Ives |
| Hungarian rhapsodies (20) | Hungarian | Liszt |
| Nine symphonies, including: Symphony of a Thousand (#8) Titan (#1) Resurrection (#2) |
Austrian | Mahler |
| Italian Symphony Scottish Symphony A Midsummer Night’s Dream |
German | Mendelssohn |
| Amahl and the Night Visitors | ? | Menotti |
| Coronation of Poppea (opera) | Italian | Monteverdi |
| The Magic Flute (opera) (die zauberflöte) Don Giovanni (opera) 41 symphonies, including Jupiter (#41) Cosi Fan Tutte (opera) The Marriage of Figaro (opera) |
Austrian | Mozart |
| Night On Bald Mountain (Fantasia) Boris Godunov (opera) Pictures at an Exhibition (originally piano only; ravel orchestrated it) |
Russian | Mussorgsky |
| Orpheus in the Underworld (has the Can-Can in it)
Tales of Hoffman (opera) |
French | Offenbach |
| Canon in D (obnoxious song) | German | Pachelbel |
| Peter and the Wolf Romeo and Juliet (ballet) Classical Symphony (#1) |
Russian | Prokofiev |
| La Boheme (opera) Madame Butterfly (opera) Tosca (opera) Turandot (opera) Manon Lescaut (opera) |
Italian | Puccini |
| Bolero La Valse |
French | Ravel |
| Flight of the Bumblebee Scheherazade Tsar Sultan Russian Easter Overture |
Russian | Rimsky-Korsakov |
| William Tell Overture Barber of Seville |
Italian | Rossini |
| Danse Macabre Samson and Delilah (opera) |
French | Saint-Saens |
| Originator of "Twelve-tone" or serial music | Austrian | Shoenberg |
| 9 symphonies, including Unfinished (#8) Trout Quintet Lieder (songs) |
Austrian | Schubert |
| Accidently destroyed his own finger trying to strengthen
it…went mad and committed suicide husband of clara |
German | Schumann, r. |
| 15 symphonies, including Leningrad (#7) | Russian | Shostakovich |
| Finlandia | Finnish | Sibelius |
| Ma Vlast The Bartered Bride (opera) |
Czech | Smetna |
| the waltz king | Austrian | Strauss, Johann Jr. |
| Don Juan Also Sprach Zarathustra (used in the movie 2001, title based on nietzsche) Salome (opera) Elektra (opera) |
German | Strauss, Richard |
| The Rite of Spring (ballet) The Firebird (ballet) Oedipus Rex (ballet) Petrouchka (ballet) |
Russian | Stravinsky |
| Nutcracker (ballet) Swan Lake (ballet) Sleeping Beauty (ballet) Queen of Spades (opera) Eugene Onegin (opera) 6 symphonies, including Pathetique (#6) Shakespearen influences: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet Overtures |
Russian | Tchaikovsky |
| Aida (opera) La Traviata (opera) Macbeth (opera) Don Carlos (opera) Othello (opera) Rigoletto (opera) Il Trovatore (opera) Falstaff (opera) |
Italian | Verdi |
| The Four Seasons | Italian | Vivaldi |
| The Ring of the Nibelungs (opera cycle, includes Die
Walküre, Das Rheingold, Siegfried, and Gotterdämmerung) Tristan and Isolde (opera) The Flying Dutchman (opera) Tannhauser (opera) Lohengrin (opera) |
German | Wagner |
| Movie Themes (usually with Spielberg): Star Wars Indiana Jones trilogy Jaws Close Encounters Schindler's List E.T. Jurassic Park |
American | Williams, John |
Conductors
Current conductors or past conductors most associated with the following symphonies:
| David Zinman | Baltimore Symphony (just left) |
| John Williams | Boston Pops (just left) |
| Sir Georg Solti | Chicago Symphony (dead) |
| Michael Tilson Thomas | San Francisco Symphony |
| Erich Kunzel | Cincinatti Pops |
| Leonard Bernstein | New York Philharmonic (dead) |
| James Levine | Metropolitan Opera |
| Eugene Ormandy | Philadelphia Orchestra (dead) |
| George Szell | Cleveland Orchestra (dead probably) |
| Seiji Ozawa | Boston Symphony Orchestra |
| Leonard Slatkin | National Symphony Orchestra |
