Using the NIU Music Library -- Spelling Composers' Names Handouts
Spelling Composers' Names
Our online catalog is very picky about how composers' names are spelled. “Bach, Johann Sebastian” works, but “Bach, J. S.” doesn't! Here's a list of the computer-friendly forms of the names of some major composers.
A thru G
- Albinoni, Tomaso
- Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel
- Bach, Johann Sebastian (not Bach, J.S.)
- Bartok, Bela
- Beethoven, Ludwig van
- Bellini, Vincenzo
- Berg, Alban
- Berlioz, Hector
- Bizet, Georges
- Bloch, Ernest
- Boccherini, Luigi
- Borodin, Aleksandr Porfirevich
- Brahms, Johannes
- Britten, Benjamin
- Bruch, Max
- Bruckner, Anton
- Busoni, Ferruccio
- Buxtehude, Dietrich
- Chabrier, Emmanuel
- Charpentier, Marc Antoine
- Chausson, Ernest
- Cherubini, Luigi
- Chopin, Frederic
- Copland, Aaron
- Corelli, Arcangelo
- Couperin, Francois
- Debussy, Claude
- Delibes, Leo
- Delius, Frederick
- Donizetti, Gaetano
- Dukas, Paul
- Dvorak, Antonin
- Falla, Manuel de
- Faure, Gabriel
- Franck, Cesar
- Gabrieli, Giovanni
- Gesualdo, Carlo
- Gibbons, Orlando
- Glazunov, Aleksandr Konstantinovich
- Gliere, Reinhold Moritsevich
- Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von
- Gounod, Charles
- Grieg, Edvard
- Grofe, Ferde
H thru R
- Handel, George Frideric
- Haydn, Joseph
- Hindemith, Paul
- Holst, Gustav
- Honegger, Arthur
- Ibert, Jacques
- Isaac, Heinrich
- Janacek, Leos
- Janequin, Clement
- Josquin des Prez
- Khachaturian, Aram Ilich
- Kodaly, Zoltan
- Lasso, Orlando di
- Liszt, Franz
- Lully, Jean Baptiste
- Lutoslawski, Witold
- Mahler, Gustav
- Martinu, Bohuslav
- Massenet, Jules
- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (not Mendelssohn, Felix)
- Messiaen, Olivier
- Milhaud, Darius
- Monteverdi, Claudio
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
- Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich
- Nicolai, Otto
- Nielsen, Carl
- Obrecht, Jacob
- Ockeghem, Johannes
- Offenbach, Jacques
- Pachelbel, Johann
- Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da
- Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista
- Poulenc, Francis
- Prokofiev, Sergey
- Puccini, Giacomo
- Purcell, Henry
- Rachmaninoff, Sergei
- Rameau, Jean Philippe
- Ravel, Maurice
- Reger, Max
- Respighi, Ottorino
- Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay
- Rodgers, Richard
- Rossini, Gioacchino
S thru Y
- Saint-Saens, Camille
- Sammartini, Giovanni Battista
- Satie, Erik
- Scarlatti, Alessandro
- Scarlatti, Domenico
- Schoenberg, Arnold
- Schubert, Franz
- Schuman, William
- Schumann, Robert
- Schutz, Heinrich
- Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich
- Shostakovich, Dmitrii Dmitrievich
- Sibelius, Jean
- Smetana, Bedrich
- Strauss, Johann
- Strauss, Richard
- Stravinsky, Igor
- Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon
- Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich
- Telemann, Georg Philipp
- Thomson, Virgil
- Vaughan Williams, Ralph
- Verdi, Giuseppe
- Villa-Lobos, Heitor
- Vivaldi, Antonio
- Wagner, Richard
- Webern, Anton
- Weber, Carl Maria von
- Weill, Kurt
- Widor, Charles Marie
- Wolf, Hugo
- Ysaye, Eugene
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