99 Composers : from Antonio via Tony to Antonín

personal top list of those composers who'd filled my heart and brain with most fantastic music



1
ANTONIO VIVALDI

born 1678 in Venice
died 1741 in Vienna


2
PAUL McCARTNEY

born 1942 in Liverpool


3
TONY BANKS
[of Genesis]

born 1950 in East Sussex


4
GORDON LIGHTFOOT

born 1938 in Orilla, Ontario (Canada)


5
SERGEI PROKOFIEV

born 1891 in Sontsovka (eastern Ukraine)
(lived a while in USA)
died 1953 in Moscow


6
BURT BACHARACH

born 1928 in Kansas City


7
JON ANDERSON
[of Yes]

born 1944 in Accrington (Lancashire)


8
BENNY ANDERSSON
[inclusive Björn Ulvaeus]

born 1946 in Stockholm
[born 1945 in Gothenburg]


9
CAT STEVENS

born 1948 in London
[by swedish + greek parent]
"died" 1978


10
JEAN SIBELIUS

born 1865 in Tavastehus (Finland)
died 1957 in Träskända


11
ALICE TEGNÉR

born 1864 in Karlshamn (Sweden)
died 1943 in Djursholm


12
MIKE OLDFIELD

born 1953 in Berkshire


13
PETER HAMMILL
[of Van Der Graaf Generator]

born 1948 in Ealing


14
ROGER HODGSON
[inclusive Rick Davies = Supertramp]

born 1950 in Portsmouth (Hampshire)


15
MAURICE RAVEL

born 1875 in Pyrénées-Atlantiques
died 1937 in Paris


16
EVERT TAUBE

born 1890 on Styrsö
died 1976 in Stockholm


17
ELTON JOHN
[REGINALD KENNETH DWIGHT]

born 1947 in Pinner, Middlesex


18
TONY MACAULAY

born 1944 in Fulham (London)


19
NICK LOWE

born 1949 in Surrey


20
NEIL DIAMOND

born 1941 in Brooklyn


21
PETER LeMARC

born 1958 in Trollhättan


22
ANTON BRUCKNER

born 1824 in Ansfelden (Linz)
died 1896 in Vienna


23
DAVID BOWIE

born 1947 in Brixton


24
KATE BUSH

born 1958 in Kent


25
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

born 1948 in Lyon


26
OLIVIER MESSIAEN

born 1908 in Avignon (France)
died 1992 in Clichy


27
ROBERT SCHUMANN

born 1810 in Zwickau (Germany)
died 1856 in Endenich


28
SCOTT JOPLIN

born 1867 in Texas
died 1917 in New York


29
BILLY JOEL

born 1949 in Bronx


30
BRIAN HOLLAND
[with his brother Eddie and Dozier]

born 1941 in Detroit


31
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM
[of Fleetwood Mac]

born 1949 in California


32
EDVARD GRIEG

born 1843 in Bergen (Norway)
died 1907 in Bergen


33
DARIO BALDAN BEMBO

born 1948 in Milano


34
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER

born 1948 in South Kensington


35
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE

born 1941 in Saskatchewan
[i indian tribe Cree,
adopted to Massachusetts]


36
MICHEL LEGRAND

born 1932 in Paris


37
GUSTAV MAHLER

born 1860 in Böhmen
died 1911 in Vienna


38
JEFF LYNNE

born 1947 in Birmingham


39
JOHN LENNON

born 1940 in Liverpool
died 1980 in New York


40
DONOVAN

born 1946 in Glasgow


41
TED GÄRDESTAD

born 1956 in Sollentuna (near Stockholm)
died 1997 in Sollentuna


42
PAUL ANKA

born 1941 in Ottawa


43
ENNIO MORRICONE

born 1928 in Rome


44
LEONARD COHEN

born 1934 in Montréal


45
FRANCOISE HARDY

born 1944 in Paris


46
CORNELIS VREESWIJK

born 1937 in IJmuiden (Netherlands)
died 1987 in Stockholm


47
ELVIS COSTELLO
[DECLAN PATRICK MacMANUS]

born 1954 in Paddington


48
HENRY MANCINI

born 1924 in Ohio
died 1994 in Beverly Hills


49
FATS WALLER

born 1904 in New York
died 1943 in Kansas City


50
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

born 1685 in Eisenach
died 1750 in Leipzig


51
KEN HENSLEY
[of Uriah Heep]

born 1945 in Hertfordshire


52
ERIC WOOLFSON
[of Alan Parsons' Project]

born 1945 in Glasgow
died 2009 in London


53
PAUL SIMON
[with Art Garfunkel]

born 1941 in New Jersey


54
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY

born 1840 in Votkinsk
died 1893 in S:t Petersburg


55
CAROL KING

born 1942 in Brooklyn


56
NEIL SEDAKA

born 1939 in Brooklyn


57
CHALES AZNAVOUR

born 1924 in Paris


58
ROY ORBISON

born 1936 in Texas
died 1988 in Tennessee


59
ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM

born 1927 in Rio de Janeiro
died 1994 in New York


60
NEIL TENNANT
[half of Pet Shop Boys]

born 1954 in Tyne and Wear


61
HENRY PURCELL

born 1659 in Westminister
died 1695 in Westminister


62
SONNY BONO

born 1935 in Detroit
died 1998 in California


63
RANDY NEWMAN

born 1943 in Los Angeles (soon New Orleans)


64
ROB HUBBARD
[to Computer Games]

born 1955 in Kingston upon Hull


65
RON MAEL
[half of Sparks]

born 1945 in California


66
PETE TOWNSHEND

born 1945 in Chiswick


67
STEVE WINWOOD
[with JIM CAPALDI]

born 1948 in Birmingham
[born 1944 in Evesham]


68
THOMAS Di LEVA

born 1963 in Gävle


69
STINA NORDENSTAM

born 1969 in Stockholm


70
CLAUDE DEBUSSY

born 1862 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye
died 1918 in Paris


71
GARY BROOKER
[of Procol Harum]

born 1945 in London


72
GREG LAKE

born 1947 in Dorset


73
IGOR STRAVINSKIJ

born 1882 near S:t Petersburg
died 1971 in New York


74
FREDRIK HAGSTEDT

born 1975 in Gothenburg


75
LOUIS PRIMA

[of sicilian heritage]
born 1911 in New Orleans
died 1978 (coma 1975) in New Orleans


76
BJÖRN ISFÄLT
[swedish film scores]

born 1942 in Linköping
died 1997 in Old Enskede


77
GERT LENGSTRAND

born 1942 in Kungälv(?)


78
MIKE STOLLER
[with Jerry Leiber]

born 1933 on Long Island


79
MICK RONSON

born 1946 in Yorkshire
died 1993 in London


80
BRIAN ENO

born 1948 in Suffolk


81
BJÖRK (GUDMUNDSDOTTIR)

born 1965 in Reykjavik (Iceland)


82
REGINA SPEKTOR

born 1980 in Moscow


83
SERGEI RACHMANINOV

born 1873 in Semjonovo
died 1943 in Los Angeles


84
MARIAN GOLD
[of Alphaville]

born 1954 in Herford (Germany)


85
OLA HÅKANSSON

born 1945 in Stockholm


86
GÖRAN LAGERBERG
[of Tages]

born 1947 in Gothenburg


87
JERRY GOLDSMITH

born 1929 in Los Angeles
died 2004 in Beverly Hills 


88
MICHAEL NESMITH
[of Monkees]

born 1942 in Texas


89
JONI MITCHELL

born 1943 in Fort Macleod (Canada)


90
DAN HYLANDER

born 1954 in Malmö


91
NIKLAS STRÖMSTEDT

born 1958 in Lund


92
JAMES MacMILLAN

born 1959 in North Ayrshire


93
GEORGES DELERUE
[french film scores]

born 1925 in Roubaix
died 1992 in Los Angeles


94
EDGAR FROESE
[of Tangerine Dream]

born 1944 in Ostpreussen
died 2015 in Vienna


95
GYÖRGY LIGETI

born 1923 in Transylvania
died 2006 in Vienna


96
RICHARD STRAUSS

born 1864 in München
died 1949 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen


97
CHARLIE RICH

born 1932 in Arkansas
died 1995 in Louisiana


98
GEORGE HARRISON

born 1943 in Liverpool
died 2001 in Beverly Hills


99
ANTONÍN DVORÁK

born 1841 in Mühlhausen
died 1904 in Praha









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