Composers of 2017

Not a bumper year for composers, with two outstanding exceptions

500 – Heinrich Isaac (1450-1517?)

450 – Monteverdi, Thomas Campion (both born 1567)

350 – Froberger, Pepusch

300 – Matthias Georg Monn (1717–1750), Johann Stamitz (1717–1757)

250 – Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767), Bernhard Romberg (1767–1841)

200 – Niels Wilhelm Gade (1817–1890), Étienne-Nicolas Méhul (1763–1817)

150 – Amy Beach (1867–1944), Umberto Giordano (1867–1948), Enrique Granados (1867–1916), Charles Koechlin (1867–1950), Giovanni Pacini (1796–1867), Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (1867–1942), Simon Sechter (1788–1867)

100 – Scott Joplin (1868-1917), Richard Arnell (1917-2009), Teresa Carreño (1853–1917), Lou Harrison (1917–2003), Ulysses Kay (1917–1995), Rudolf Maros (1917–1982), Philipp Scharwenka (1847–1917), Robert Ward (1917–1994), Isang Yun (1917–1995)

50 – Zoltán Kodály (1882–1967), Marc Lavry (1903–1967), Matthijs Vermeulen (1888–1967), Franz Waxman (1906–1967), Jaromír Weinberger (1896–1967).