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⛪ SACRED WORKS

 

B
  • Berlioz Hector (1803 - 1869)
  • Beethoven Ludwig van (1770 - 1827)
  • Bizet Georges (1838 - 1875)
  • Brahms Johannes (1833 - 1897)
  • Bruckner Αnton (1824 - 1896)

C  
  • Chopin Frédéric François (1810-1849)

D
  • Debussy Claude-Achille (1862 – 1918)
  • Dvořák Antonín Leopold (1841 – 1904)  



F

  • Franck César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert (1822 – 1890) 



G
  • Gershwin George (1898 - 1937)
  • Grieg Edvard Hagerup (1843 - 1907) 

H
  • Handel George Frideric (1685 – 1759)
           - Messiah, HWV 56
           - Israel in Egypt, HWV 54
  • Haydn Franz Joseph (1732 – 1809)  



L
  • Liszt Franz or Ferenc  (1811 - 1886)



Μ

  • Mendelssohn Jacob Ludwig Felix Bartholdy (1809 - 1847)
  • Monteverdi Claudio Giovanni Antonio  (1567 - 1643)
  • Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus (1756 - 1791)


                                 

P

  • Paganini Niccolò (1782 – 1840)



R

  • Ravel Joseph-Maurice (1875 - 1937)
  • Rimsky-Korsakov Nikolai Andreyevich (1844 - 1908)
  • Rossini Gioacchino Antonio (1792 - 1868)



S                    
  • Saint-Saëns Charles-Camille (1835 – 1921)
  • Scarlatti Guiseppe Domenico (1685 - 1757)
  • Schubert Franz Peter, (1797 – 1828)
  • Schumann Robert (1810 - 1856)
  • Smetana Bedřich (1824 - 1884)
  • Strauss II Johann (1825 – 1899)



Τ
  • Telemann Georg Philipp (1681 - 1767)
  • Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich  (1840 - 1893)



V

  • Verdi Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco (1813 - 1901) 
  • Vivaldi Antonio (1678 - 1743) 



W

  • Wagner Wilhelm Richard, (1813 - 1883)
  • Weber Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von (1786 - 1826) 

 


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