Walter Simmons - Composer Index

If you would like to read my reviews or essays about the music of any of the composers listed below, just press the Search button at the top of the page. When you get to the Search page, select the composer in whom you are interested.  

Samuel Adler

  Adolphus Hailstork   Vincent Persichetti
William Albright   Roy Harris   Allan Pettersson
Hendrik Andriessen   Lou Harrison   Tobias Picker
Dominick Argento   Walter Hartley   Daniel Pinkham
Daniel Asia   Jake Heggie   Walter Piston
Lera Auerbach   Bernard Heiden   Francis Poulenc
Louis Aubert   Robert Helps   John Powell
Robert Avalon   Bernard Hermann   Sergei Prokofiev
Burt Bacharach   Jennifer Higdon   Einojuhani Rautavaara
Henk Badings   Sydney Hodkinson   Gardner Read
Samuel Barber   Lee Hoiby   Paul Reale
Bela Bartok   Lee Holdridge   Steve Reich
Robert Baksa   Vagn Holmboe   Ottorino Respighi
Leslie Bassett   Katherine Hoover   Wallingford Riegger
Robert Beaser   Alan Hovhaness   George Rochberg
The Beatles   Richard Hundley   Bernard Rogers
Paul Ben-Haim   Michael Hurd   Ned Rorem
Robert Russell Bennett   Karel Husa   Arnold Rosner
Alban Berg   Janis Ivanovs   Miklos Rozsa
Arthur Berger   Charles Ives   Edmund Rubbra
William Bergsma   Leos Janacek   Carl Ruggles
Leonard Bernstein   Joseph W. Jenkins   Peter Ruzicka
Andrew Bishop   Simon Jurovsky   Jan Sandstrom
Arthur Bliss   Miloslav Kabelac   Jerzy Sapieyevski
Mark Blitzstein   Homer Keller   Arnold Schoenberg
Ernest Bloch   Aaron Jay Kernis   Ruth Schonthal
Lili Boulanger   Aram Khachaturian   Gary Schocker
Joly Braga Santos   Tikhon Khrennikov   Gunther Schuller
Frank Bridge       William Schuman
George Frederick Bristow   John Kinsella   Joseph Schwantner
Benjamin Britten   Zoltan Kodaly   Alexandre Scriabin
Eldin Burton   Erich Korngold   Jose Serebrier
Mark Camphouse   Robert Kurka   Kazimierz Serocki
Elliott Carter   Rued Langgaard   Alex Shapiro
Daniel Catan   Mary Jane Leach   Allen Shawn
Paul Chihara Benjamin Lees   Dmitri Shostakovich
Michael Colgrass   Mark L. Lehman   Elie Siegmeister
Aaron Copland   William F. Lee   Rick Sowash
John Corigliano   Kenneth Leighton   Leo Sowerby
Henry Cowell   Fred Lehrdahl   Richard Strauss
Paul Creston   Jonathan Leshnoff   Igor Stravinsky
David Gillingham   Lowell Liebermann   George T. Strong
Richard Danielpour   Scott Lindroth   Eugen Suchon
Michael Daugherty   Larry Lipkis   Georgi Sviridov
Claude Debussy   Dan Locklair   Irwin Swack
Miguel Del Aguila   Charles Martin Loeffler   Karol Szymanowski
Norman Dello Joio    Nikolai Lopatnikoff   Alexandre Tansman
David Diamond   Ronald LoPresti   Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
Vincent D'Indy   Otto Luening   Mikis Theodorakis
Deborah Drattell   James MacMillan   Edward Thomas
George Dyson   Frank Martin   Randall Thompson
Edward Elgar   Bohuslov Martinu   Frank Ticheli
Joseph Fennimore   Nicholas Maw   Ernst Toch
Gabriel Fauré   William Thomas McKinley   Michael Torke
Howard Ferguson   Joyce Mekeel   Lester Trimble
Irving Fine   Paul McCartney   Moisei Vainberg
Gerald Finzi   Peter Mennin   Nancy Van de Vate
Lubos Fiser Gian Carlo Menotti   Ralph Vaughan Williams
Graham Fitkin   Francesco Mignone   Gernot Wolfgang
Nicolas Flagello   Darius Milhaud   Sandor Veress
Carlisle Floyd   Pauk Moravec   Heitor Villa-Lobos
Lukas Foss   David Lang   George Walker
César Franck   Moss Lawrence   Frank Wallace
Benjamin Frankel   Ernest MacMillan   William Walton
John Gardner   Robert Muczynski   Anton Webern
George Gershwin   Vaclav Nelhybel   Grace Williams
Vittorio Giannini   Carl Nielsen   Hugo Wolf
Walter Gieseking   Roger Nixon   Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
David Gillingham   Vitezslav Novak   Judith Lang Zaimont
Philip Glass   Julián Orbón   Patrick Zimmerli
Roger Goeb   Andrzej Panufnik   Mark Zuckerman
Glenn Gould   Hubert Parry   Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Morton Gould   Arvo Pärt    
Percy Grainger   Harry Partch    
Charles T. Griffes   Thomas Pasatieri    
Louis Gruenberg   Anthon Payne    
Daron Hagen   Krzystof Penderecki    
Howard Hanson   George Perle    
John Harbison        
         
         
         
         
       
         
         
         
         

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