Post by Larry DeackHave you tried any of Mark's compositions?
No, but that doesn't mean he is an insignificant or
unknown composer. Indeed, it puts him in excellent
company! Here is a woefully incomplete list of the
many well-known and illustrious composers whose works
I have never performed in formal concert:
Adolphe (Charles) Adam, John Adams, Jehan (Ariste) Alain, Isaac
Albeniz, Hugo Alfven, (Charles-)Valentin Alkan, Gregorio
Allegri, William Alwyn, Anton Arensky, Daniel-François-Esprit
Auber, Milton Babbitt, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Mily Balakirev,
Agustin Barrios Mangore, Bela Bartok, Arnold Bax, Vincenzo
Bellini, Richard Rodney Bennett, Alban Berg, Erik Bergman,
Luciano Berio, Lennox Berkeley, Hector Berlioz, Franz Berwald,
Gilles (de) Binchois, Arthur Bliss, Marc Blitzstein, Ernest
Bloch, John Blow, Fran?ois-Adrien Boieldieu, Joseph Bodin de
Boismortier, Arrigo Boito, Alexander Borodin, Lili Boulanger,
Pierre Boulez, Frank Bridge, Leo Brouwer, Max Bruch, Anton
Bruckner, Nicolaus Bruhns, Ferruccio Busoni, George
Butterworth, Dieterich Buxtehude, Antonio de Cabezon, Giulio
Caccini, John Cage, (Marie-)Joseph Canteloube de Malaret,
Giacomo Carissimi, John Alden Carpenter, Elliott Carter,
Alfredo Casella, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, (Pietro [Pier])
Francesco Cavalli, Emmanuel Chabrier, Gustave Charpentier,
Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Ernest Chausson, Carlos Chavez (y
Ramirez), Domenico Cimarosa, Clemens non Papa [Jacob Clement],
Muzio Clementi, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, John Corigliano,
François Couperin, Louis Couperin, Henry Cowell, Ruth Crawford
(Seeger), Paul Creston, George Crumb, Cesar Cui, Carl Czerny,
Luigi Dallapiccola, Franz Danzi, Alexander Dargomizhsky, Mario
Davidovsky, Peter Maxwell Davies, (C.P.) Leo Delibes, Frederick
Delius, Norman Dello Joio, Mark Delpriora, David Diamond, Karl
Ditters von Dittersdorf, Ernst von Dohnanyi, Gaetano Donizetti,
Jacob Druckman, Paul Dukas, John Dunstable, Henri Duparc,
Marcel Dupre, Henri Dutilleux, George Enescu [Georges Enesco],
Manuel de Falla, Morton Feldman, Zdenek Fibich, John Field,
Irving Fine, Ross Lee Finney, Gerald Finzi, Friedrich von
Flotow, Lukas Foss, Jean Francaix, Cesar Franck, Robert Franz,
Girolamo Frescobaldi, Johann Joseph Fux, Andrea Gabrieli,
Giovanni Gabrieli, Niels Gade, Francesco Geminiani, Roberto
Gerhard, Angelo Gilardino, Alberto Ginastera, Umberto Giordano,
Philip Glass, Alexander Glazunov, Reinhold Gliere, Mikhail
Glinka, Christoph W.R. von Gluck, Carl Goldmark, Nicolas
Gombert, Henryk Gorecki, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Charles
Gounod, Enrique Granados, Andre-Ernest-Modeste Gretry, Charles
Tomlinson Griffes, Ferde Grofe, Francisco Guerrero, Alois Haba,
(Jacques-Francois-)Fromental Halevy, Howard Hanson, Lou
Harrison, Johan Peder Emilius [J. P. E.] Hartmann, Karl Amadeus
Hartmann, (Johann) Michael Haydn, Johann David Heinichen, Fanny
Mendelssohn Hensel, Hans Werner Henze, Hildegard of Bingen,
Paul Hindemith, Heinz Holliger, Vagn Holmboe, Gustav Holst,
Arthur Honegger, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Karel Husa, Vincent
d'Indy, John Ireland, Heinrich Isaac, Michael Jackson, Mick
Jagger, Leos Janacek, Elton John, Andre Jolivet, Nicolo Jommelli,
Dmitri Kabalevsky, Mauricio Kagel, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Aram
Khachaturian, Charles Koechlin, Joonas Kokkonen, Barbara Kolb,
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, William Kraft, Johann Ludwig Krebs,
Fritz Kreisler, Ernst Krenek, Michel-Richard de Lalande,
Edouard Lalo, (Leonard) Constant Lambert, Jean Langlais,
Lars-Erik Larsson, Pierre de La Rue, Antonio Lauro, Jean-Marie
Leclair, Franz Lehar, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Gyorgy Sandor
Ligeti, Pietro Antonio Locatelli, Matthew Locke, Charles Martin
Loeffler, (Johann) Carl Loewe, Witold Lutoslawski, Luzzasco
Luzzaschi, Anatol[y] Lyadov [Liadov], Edward MacDowell, Bruno
Maderna, Gustav Mahler, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Marin Marais,
Luca Marenzio, Frank Martin, Bohuslav Martinu, Pietro Mascagni,
(Johannes) Simon Mayr, Colin McPhee, Nikolay Medtner,
Etienne-Nicolas Mehul, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Gian Carlo
Menotti, (Giuseppe) Saverio Mercadante, Giacomo Meyerbeer,
Nikolai Miaskovsky, Darius Milhaud, E. J. Moeran, Federico
Mompou (y Dencausse), Federico Moreno Torroba, Moritz
Moszkowski, Georg Muffat, (Carl) Otto Nicolai, Carl Nielsen,
Luigi Nono, Vitezslav Novak, Jacob Obrecht, Johannes [Okeghem,
Jean] Ockeghem, Pauline Oliveros, Giovanni Pacini, Ignacy Jan
Paderewski, John Knowles Paine, Giovanni Paisiello, Harry
Partch, Bernardo Pasquini, Krzysztof Penderecki, Giovanni
Pergolesi, George Perle, Perotin [Perotinus Magnus] Vincent
Persichetti, Goffredo Petrassi, Hans Erich Pfitzner, Peter
Philips, Astor Piazzolla, (Vito) Niccolo Piccinni, Gabriel
Pierne, Walter Piston, Ildebrando Pizzetti, Manuel Ponce,
Amilcare Ponchielli, Mel Powell, Sergei Prokofiev, Giacomo
Puccini, Johann Joachim Quantz, Sergei Rachmaninov, (Joseph)
Joachim Raff, Maurice Ravel, Max Reger, Steve Reich, Anton
Reicha, Carl Reinecke, Ottorino Respighi, Wallingford Riegger,
Terry Riley, George Rochberg, Joaquin Rodrigo, Cipriano de
Rore, Ned Rorem, Albert Roussel, Anton Rubinstein, Carl
Ruggles, Antonio Salieri, Aulis Sallinen, Giovanni Battista
Sammartini, Pablo de Sarasate, Erik Satie, Giacinto Scelsi,
Heinrich Scheidemann, Johann Hermann Schein, Alfred Schnittke
[Shnitke], Arnold Schoenberg, Franz Schreker, Gunther Schuller,
William Schuman, Clara Wieck Schumann, Robert Schumann,
Heinrich Schutz, Alexander Scriabin, Roger Sessions, Rodion
Shchedrin, Dmitry Shostakovich, Christian Sinding, Bedrich
Smetana, (Padre) Antonio Soler (Ramos), Leo Sowerby, Louis
[Ludwig] Spohr, Gaspare Spontini, Johann [Jan] Stamitz, Karl
Stamitz, Charles Villiers Stanford, (Karl) Wilhelm (Eugen)
Stenhammar, William Grant Still, Karlheinz Stockhausen,
Alessandro Stradella, Josef Suk, Franz von Suppe, Johan
Svendsen, Jan Sweelinck, Karol Szymanowski, Toru Takemitsu,
Sergey Taneyev, Giuseppe Tartini, John Tavener, Alexander
Tcherepnin, (Charles Louis) Ambroise Thomas, Michael Tippett,
Giuseppe Torelli, Joan Tower, Eduard Tubin, Joaquin Turina,
Edgard Varese, Tomas Luis de Victoria, Louis Vierne, Henri
Vieuxtemps, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Giovanni Battista Viotti,
Philippe de Vitry, William Walton, Peter Warlock, Anton (von)
Webern, Matthias Weckmann, Thomas Weelkes, Silvius Leopold
Weiss, Giaches de Wert, Charles-Marie Widor, Adrian Willaert,
Hugo Wolf, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Stefan Wolpe, Charles
Wuorinen, Iannis Xenakis, Frank Zappa, Alexander (von)
Zemlinsky, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.
Mark can be proud of his place on that list.
Will