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Chronological list of Irish classical composers

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The following is a chronological list of classical music composers living and working in Ireland, or originating from Ireland.

Contents

Renaissance

  • Cormac Mac Dermott (died 1618)
  • Nicholas Dáll Pierce (c.1561–1653)

    • Baroque

  • Thomas Roseingrave (c.1690–1766)

    • Galant period

  • Kane O'Hara (c.1711–1782)
  • Tommaso Giordani (c.1733–1806)
  • Richard Woodward (c.1743–1777)

    • Classical

  • Charles Thomas Carter (c.1735–1804)
  • Charles Clagget (1740–c.1795)
  • Philip Cogan (1750–1833)
  • John Andrew Stevenson (1761–1833)
  • Michael Kelly (1762–1826)
  • Peter K. Moran (1767–1831)
  • Thomas Carter (1769–1800)
  • Thomas Augustine Geary (1775–1801)

    • Romantic

  • Thomas Simpson Cooke (1782–1848)
  • John Field (1782–1837)
  • William Henry Kearns (1794–1846)
  • William Michael Rooke (1794–1847)
  • Samuel Lover (1799–1868)
  • George Alexander Osborne (1806–1893)
  • Michael William Balfe (1808–1870)
  • W. Vincent Wallace (1812–1865)
  • John William Glover (1815–1899)
  • Joseph Robinson (1815–1989)
  • Wellington Guernsey (1817–1885)
  • Robert Prescott Stewart (1825–1894)
  • Joseph O'Kelly (1828–1885)
  • Patrick Gilmore (1829–1892)

    • Late Romantic

  • Arthur O'Leary (1834–1919)
  • George William Torrance (1835–1907)
  • James Lynam Molloy (1837–1909)
  • Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924)
  • Michele Esposito (1855–1929)
  • Arthur Hervey (1855–1922)
  • Paul McSwiney (1856–1890)
  • Victor Herbert (1859–1924)
  • Hope Temple (1859–1938)
  • Thomas O'Brien Butler (1861–1915)
  • Alicia Adelaide Needham (1863–1945)
  • Charles Wood (1866–1926)
  • Hamilton Harty (1879–1941)

    • Early twentieth century

  • Robert O'Dwyer (1862–1949)
  • Swan Hennessy (1866–1929)
  • Carl Hardebeck (1869–1945)
  • Mary Dickenson-Auner (1880–1965)
  • Herbert Hughes (1882–1937)
  • Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer (1882–1957)
  • John F. Larchet (1884–1967)
  • Ina Boyle (1889–1967)
  • Ernest John Moeran (1894–1950)
  • Arthur Duff (1899–1956)
  • Rhoda Coghill (1903–2000)
  • Joan Trimble (1915–2000)

    • Mid- to late twentieth century

  • Howard Ferguson (1908–1999)
  • Michael Bowles (1909–1998)
  • Aloys Fleischmann (1910–1992)
  • Frederick May (1911–1985)
  • Walter Beckett (1914–1996)
  • Brian Boydell (1917–2000)
  • T.C. Kelly (1917–1985)
  • Havelock Nelson (1917–1996)
  • A. J. Potter (1918–1980)
  • Gerard Victory (1921–1995)
  • James Wilson (1922–2005)
  • Hormoz Farhat (born 1929)
  • Seán Ó Riada (1931–1971)
  • John Kinsella (born 1932)
  • Seóirse Bodley (born 1933)

    • Contemporary

  • Frank Corcoran (born 1944)
  • Jerome de Bromhead (born 1945)
  • Jane O'Leary (born 1946)
  • Philip Martin (born 1947)
  • Shaun Davey (born 1948)
  • Roger Doyle (born 1949)
  • Kevin Volans (born 1949)
  • Bill Whelan (born 1950)
  • John Buckley (born 1951)
  • Philip Hammond (born 1951)
  • Gerald Barry (born 1952)
  • Raymond Deane (born 1953)
  • Eibhlís Farrell (born 1953)
  • John Wolf Brennan (born 1954)
  • Rhona Clarke (born 1958)
  • Ronan Guilfoyle (born 1958)
  • Fergus Johnston (born 1959)
  • Michael Alcorn (born 1962)
  • Vincent Kennedy (born 1962)
  • Michael McGlynn (born 1964)
  • John McLachlan (born 1964)
  • Ian Wilson (born 1964)
  • Benjamin Dwyer (born 1965)
  • Gráinne Mulvey (born 1966)
  • Deirdre Gribbin (born 1967)
  • Donnacha Dennehy (born 1970)
  • Jennifer Walshe (born 1974)
  • Ed Bennett (born 1975)
  • David Flynn (born 1977)
  • Eoin O'Keeffe (born 1979)
  • Seán Clancy (born 1984)
  • Seán Doherty (born 1987)

    • References

    Chronological list of Irish classical composers Wikipedia
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