To follow up our previous post on the statistics we’d been mining from the composer data donated to use by Phillip Harper herewith is a list of the public domain composers (i.e. composers whose works are now in the public domain as they died more than 70 years ago):
DEATH DATE, NAME
1460-9-20 , Gilles BINCHOIS
1502 , William CORNYSH
1547-1-28 , HENRY
1556-6-10 , Martin SOHR / SORE (ps: Martin AGRICOLA)
1566 , Robert CARVER
1585 , Thomas TALLIS
1611 , Tomas Luis de VICTORIA
1643-11-29, Claudio MONTEVERDI
1644 , Robert RAMSEY
1660 , Johannes PRAETORIUS
1674 , Giacomo CARISSIMI
1687-3-22 , Jean Baptiste (de) LULLY / Giovanni Battista LULLI
1695-11-21, Henry PURCELL
1707-5-9 , Dietrich BUXTEHUDE
1733-5 , Barton BOOTH
1748-11-25, Isaac WATTS
1750 , Tomaso ALBINONI
1750-7-28 , Johann Sebastian BACH
1755 , Gallus ZEILER
1759-4-14 , Georg Friederich HANDEL
1760-5-9 , Nicolaus Ludwig von ZINZENDORF
1764-9-12 , Jean-Philippe RAMEAU
1765 , Johan Joachim AGRELL
1767-6-25 , Georg Philipp TELEMANN
1770 , Charles AVISON
1773 , Charles JENNENS
1779 , Hinrich Philip JOHNSEN
1779-11-13, Johann/Jean ADAM
1787 , Karl/Carl/Charles Friedrich/Frederick ABEL
1787-11-15, Christoph Willibald GLUCK
1788-12-14, Carl Philipp Emanuel BACH
c1790 , Francesco ZAPPA
1791-12-5 , Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART
1800-5-22 , Samuel PEGGE
1809-5-31 , Franz Joseph HAYDN
1813-9-24 , Andre Ernest Modeste GRE''TRY
1822-6-25 , Ernst Theodor Amadeus(ne Wilhelm) HOFFMANN
1826-6-5 , Carl (Maria Friedrich Ernest) von WEBER
1827-3-26 , Ludwig (Johann) van BEETHOVEN
1828-11-19, Franz Peter SCHUBERT
1832-2-15 , H Otto Konrad ZINK
1832-3-13 , Friedrich KUHLAU
1835-9-23 , Vincenzo BELLINI
1836 , Christian Ignatius LATROBE
1836 , Karl Heinrich ZOLLNER / ZOELLNER
1837 , Samuel WESLEY
1838-8-17 , Emmanuel CONEGLIANO (ps: Lorenzo da PONTE)
1840 , Pieter TADEMA
1846 , John Henry BROMWICH
1847-11-4 , (Jakob Ludwig) Felix MENDELSSOHN (BARTHOLDY)
1847-7-4 , Frederick LINGARD
1848-4-8 , (Jean-)Louis ADAM
1848-4-8 , Domenico Gaetano Maria DONIZETTI
1848-8-14 , Sarah Fuller (nee)Flower ADAMS (&ps: [Sarah FLOWER]; [S Y])
1849-10-17, Frederic/Pryderyk Francois/Franciszek CHOPIN
c1852 , Richard BAINES
1853-10-29, Pierre Joseph Guillaume ZIMMERMANN / ZIMMERMAN
1856 , Adolphe ADAM
1856-7-29 , Robert (Alexander) SCHUMANN
1857-11-7 , Heinrich Christoph ZEUNER (ps: Charles ZEUNER)
1858-4 , Hicks
1858-9-15 , Thomas ADAMS
1860-4-30 , John ADCOCK
1864-5-2 , Yaakov Liebmann BEER (ps: Giacomo MEYERBEER)
1868 , William Batchelder BRADBURY
1868-11-13, Gioacchino Antonio ROSSINI
1869-12-18, Louis Moreau GOTTSCHALK
1869-3-8 , (Louis) Hector BERLIOZ
1870 , Alfred NICHOLSON
1870-4-8 , Charles-Auguste de BERIOT
1875-6-3 , Alexandre-Cesar-Leopold BIZET (ps: Georges BIZET)
1880-10-4 , Jacques(=Jacob Eberst) OFFENBACH
1881-3-28 , Modest (Petrovich) MUSSORGSKY
1881-6-6 , Henry VIEUXTEMPS
1882-7 , John ZUNDEL
1883-2-13 , (Wilhelm) Richard WAGNER
1886-7-31 , Franz LISZT
1887 , Henry DENNIS
1887 , George Alexander MACFARREN
1887-2-27 , Alexander BORODIN
1888 , Charles (Henri) Valentin ALKAN
1889-4-6 , Frederick Arthur Gore OUSELEY
1890-11-8 , Cesar FRANCK
1890-12-21, Niels Wilhelm GADE
1890-6-30 , Samuel Parkman TUCKERMAN
1891-1-8 , Frederik PACIUS
1891-8-5 , Henri LITOLFF
1892 , Josephine POLLARD
1892-10-24, Robert FRANZ
1892-3-21 , Arthur Goring THOMAS
1892-8-15 , Baron
1893-10-18, Charles (Francois) GOUNOD
1893-10-25, Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY
1893-11-20, George Alexander OSBORNE
1893-6-15 , John ELLERTON
1893-7-16 , Antonio GHISLANZONI
1893-7-30 , Mario UCHARD
1893-8-22 , Ernst August Karl Johannes Leopold Alexander Eduard
1893-8-31 , William George CUSINS
1896-5-20 , Clara SCHUMANN
1897 , Max MARETZEK
1900 , Henry TWELLS
1900-11-22, Arthur Seymour SULLIVAN
1900-12-7 , Henry RUSSELL
1901 , William ALLEN
1901-1-27 , Giuseppe VERDI
1901-1-29 , Hugh Reginald HAWEIS
1901-3-8 , Peter BENOIT
1903 , Luigi ARDITI
1904-5-1 , Antonin Leopold DVORA''K
1905-11-11, David BRAHAM
1906 , Anton Stepanovich ARENSKII
1908 , Robert Steele AMBROSE
1908-1-14 , Holger (Henrik Herholdt) DRACHMANN
1908-12-24, Francois Auguste GEVAERT
1908-6-21 , Nikolai Andreyevich RIMSKY-KORSAKOFF
1911-5-18 , Gustav MAHLER
1911-5-29 , William Schwenck GILBERT
1912-5-26 , Jan BLOCHX
1912-8-13 , Jules Emile Frederic MASSENET
1915-4-27 , Alexander (Nikolaievich) SCRIABIN
1915-5-6 , Theodore Chickering WILLIAMS
1916-11-13, Frederick Septimus KELLY
1916-12-26, Edward Henry THORNE
1916-8-5 , George (Sainton Kaye) BUTTERWORTH
1917 , Alfred Henry VINE
1917-1-29 , Henry SAINT-GEORGE
1917-12-30, R W LIDDLE
1917-4-1 , Scott JOPLIN
1917-7-29 , Herbert Cayley WEBSTER
1918 , Cecil COLES
1918 , Quinito VALVERDE
1918-1-30 , Daniel DE LANGE
1918-10 , (Alexandre) Charles LECOCQ
1918-10-7 , Hubert Hastings PARRY
1918-12-31, Rossiter Worthington RAYMOND
1918-3-25 , Claude (Achille) DEBUSSY
1918-9-19 , Liza LEHMANN
1919-10-16, Charles Harford LLOYD
1919-12-18, Horatio (William) PARKER
1919-6-2 , Ernest A C FORD
1919-8-9 , Ruggiero LEONCAVALLO
1920-1-16 , (Henry Louis) Reginald DE KOVEN
1920-2-1 , William Alexander Houston COLLISSON
1920-2-9 , John Varley ROBERTS
1920-4-7 , Caroline Alice ROBERTS
1920-6-28 , Edmonstoune DUNCAN
1921 , Natalie CURTIS
1921 , Bernard DE LISLE
1921-12-16, (Charles) Camille SAINT-SAE"NS
1921-12-27, Julian CLIFFORD
1921-2-2 , Luigi MANCINELLI
1921-3-2 , John Edward VERNHAM
1921-5-27 , Haydn KEETON
1921-9-27 , Engelbert HUMPERDINCK
1922-11-6 , William BAINES
1922-2-26 , Luigi DENZA
1923-10-22, Oliver (Arthur) KING
1923-3-20 , Henry Edward KREHBIEL
1924-11-29, Giacomo (Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria) PUCCINI
1924-2-15 , Lionel MONCKTON
1924-2-17 , Oskar MERIKANTO
1924-3-29 , Charles Villiers STANFORD
1924-4-5 , Rosalind ELLICOTT
1924-6-11 , Theodore DUBOIS
1924-6-23 , Cecil James SHARP
1925 , Louis FALK
1925-11-14, Agnes Marie ZIMMERMANN
1925-4-1 , Francis William DAVENPORT
1926-3-31 , Robert Finnie McEWEN
1927 , Jules JORDAN
1927-1-16 , Harvey LOHR
1927-10-28, Joseph Eaton FANING
1927-5-28 , Charles MACPHERSON
1927-7-30 , Roland ROGERS
1928-10-8 , Egbert Foster HORNER
1928-12-2 , Henry Davan WETTON
1928-2-18 , Thomas Henry COLLINSON
1928-2-2 , Frederick ILIFFE
1928-3-1 , (Alfred) Herbert BREWER
1928-3-27 , Leslie STUART
1928-4-6 , Friedrich Wilhelm RHODE
1928-8-12 , Leos JANACEK
1928-9-12 , Howard TALBOT
1929 , Ouide MUSIN
1929-10-30, Alfred Henry MILES
1929-11-26, Comm
1929-12-3 , (Julia) Zitella COCKE
1929-2 , Milton WELLING
1929-2-24 , Andre (Charles Prosper) MESSAGER
1929-3-29 , Joseph Cox BRIDGE
1929-4-2 , Louis (Francis) VUILLEMIN
1929-7-31 , Charles Albert Edwin HARRISS
1929-9-7 , Fred/Frederic/Frederick Edward WEATHERLY
1930 , Henry BURTON
1930 , Charles Kassell HARRIS
1930 , Jean HURE
1930-1-29 , Emilie Paulina Venceslava KITTLOVA / KITTL / KITTEL
1930-11-14, Lt-Col
1930-11-4 , William Gurney ROTHERY
1930-2-2 , Willie Lewis LUTTMAN
1930-7-15 , Leopold AUER
1930-8-20 , George John BENNETT
1931-10-3 , Carl NIELSEN
1931-11-1 , William SHAKESPEARE
1931-11-16, Alfred E AARONS
1931-4-9 , Frederick Joseph William CROWE
1931-5-12 , Eugene YSAYE
1931-7-23 , William WOLSTENHOLME
1931-8 , Cesar THOMSON
1931-8-22 , Joseph TABRAR
1931-9-8 , Jimmy(=James Mackey) GLOVER
1932-11-14, Charles Hylton STEWART
1932-11-23, Percy PITT
1932-12-1 , Amadeo VIVES
1932-12-9 , (John) Arthur MEALE
1932-3-3 , Eugen d'ALBERT
1932-3-6 , John Philip SOUSA
1932-7-10 , Col
1932-7-28 , Walter William HEDGCOCK
1932-8 , Jean NOUGUES
1932-8-21 , Frederick CORDER
1932-9-26 , Pierre DEGEYTER
1933 , Louis/Luigi ABBIATE
1933-10-19, James Nathaniel David Russell DAY
1933-2-20 , William PRENDERGAST
1933-4-25 , Francesco BERGER
1933-5-17 , Alfred KALISCH
1934 , Frederick (Albert Theodore) DELIUS
1934 , Dario NICCODEMI
1934-1-2 , Robert Coningsby CLARKE
1934-10-16, Charles Lovell Fletcher BOUGHEY
1934-2-23 , Edward (William) ELGAR
1934-3-3 , Norman O'NEILL
1934-5-25 , Gustav (Theodore von) HOLST
1934-6-10 , Frederick DELINS
1934-6-15 , (Louis Charles Bonaventure) Alfred BRUNEAU
1934-7-10 , Ada Florence ROWBOTHAM
1934-9-10 , George HENSCHEL
1934-9-24 , Edwin Henry LEMARE
1935-1-12 , William Edward WHITEHOUSE
1935-10-6 , Frederick Hymen COWEN
1935-12-10, William Ernest SANDERSON
1935-12-24, Alban (Maria Johannes) BERG
1935-3-17 , Mary CARMICHAEL
1935-4-13 , Alfred Jethro SILVER
1935-4-28 , Alexander Campbell MACKENZIE
1935-5-16 , Bernard JOHNSON
1935-7-19 , Philip Napier MILES
1935-8-31 , Frederick St John LACY
1935-9-2 , Isidore DE LARA
1935-9-27 , Alan GRAY
1936 , Harald BJELKE-PETERSEN
1936-1-7 , Helen RHODES
1936-11-11, Edward GERMAN
1936-3-21 , Alexander Konstantinovich GLAZUNOV / GLAZOUNOW
1936-5-18 , Alexander Morvaren MACLEAN
1936-7-6 , Orlando Augustine MANSFIELD
1937 , Maurice ARNOLD
1937 , Sam FRANKO
1937-1-15 , Harold SAMUEL
1937-3-12 , Jeno de HUBAY
1937-3-12 , Charles-Marie WIDOR
1937-3-29 , Karol (Maciej) SZYMANOWSKI
1937-4-10 , Algernon Bennet Langton ASHTON
1937-4-9 , Arthur (William) FOOTE
1937-4-9 , (William) Henry HADOW
1937-5-2 , Arthur SOMERVELL
