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.  

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

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