Any "K" great composer?

[stormx]

Hi !! 

The other day, being absolutely bored in the bus, i started to think about famous classical composers whose name start with a given letter...
I am not an erudite at all, but when i arrived to "K", i couldnt remember a single one !!

So, am i forgetting an obvious big name, or is K a letter not very favorable for developping composer skills? 

PD: of course, "Q" or "X" are in the same situation, but the point is that "K" is much more than common than them.

[pnorcks]

Khachaturian

[Ziggy]

Kabelevsky

[paris]

Kuhlau
Kodaly

[JamesS]

Kurtag
Knussen
Koussevitzky

[JamesS]

Kriesler

[Regulus Medtner]

Korngold.

Being mostly famous nowadays for his film-music scores (eg.Sea-Hawk, Robin Hood), he was an extraordinary composer and a child-prodigy who wrote such music (from the age of 11 onwards) that made Mahler, Puccini and Richard Strauss to take notice and proclaim him a genius. His violin concerto, cello concerto and the left hand piano concerto are masterpieces, as well as his "Much Ado about Nothing" Suite and his operas "Violanta",  "Die Tote Stadt" and "Das Wunder der Heliane". He also wrote 3 piano sonatas, chamber and orchestral music and several songs. I particularly like the Suite for piano left hand, 2 violins and cello, a follow-up commission from Wittgenstein after the left hand piano concerto.

[xvimbi]

Kriesler

Kreisler!
kr-EI-EI-EI-EI-EI-Ei-sler
EI EI EI EI EI EI EI

 

[tenn]

Xenakis

Can't think of a Q without cheating

[tenn]

Hold on.
Isn't there someone called Quilter?

[JamesS]

Kreisler!
kr-EI-EI-EI-EI-EI-Ei-sler
EI EI EI EI EI EI EI

Hehehe, I know, I know, I realised as soon as I had posted, I just did it to annoy you really...! jk.

[bernhard]

(Theodor) Kirchner. Nowadays a completely obscure and neglected composer, mostly remembered (if at all) for a few of his children’s pieces. Yet he has some superb music. A protegé of Schumann and Mendelssohn, his music has similarities to both. He might have been Clara Schumann’s lover (after Schumann’s death), and he was good friends with Brahms (the two of them were apparently party animals). He also was on good terms with Wagner who much praised his piano playing.


Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[xvimbi]

Hehehe, I know, I know, I realised as soon as I had posted, I just did it to annoy you really...! jk.

If that's true, then 
If you are joking, then 

[thierry13]

Kreutzer

[lagin]

david Karp

[thalbergmad]

Kalkbrenner, (offered to teach Chopin)

[stormx]

Okay, many names given !!! You guys are really erudites !!!

I have to admit that i did not listen to any of them yet...

But, is any of them really very famous?

I mean, do you beleive any of those "K" composers would figure in a list of "best 50 composers of all time" or something like that?

[Regulus Medtner]

Okay, many names given !!! You guys are really erudites !!!

I have to admit that i did not listen to any of them yet...

But, is any of them really very famous?

I mean, do you beleive any of those "K" composers would figure in a list of "best 50 composers of all time" or something like that?

I suggest you take that idea of yours about a top-50 composer list out away in the sea and leave it there!
Of all the names mentioned above, Korngold, Kreisler, Kodaly and Khachaturian are pretty famous names and really worthwhile composers (Korngold in my opinion could even be tagged a great composer). Kabalevsky's music is really nice, too.

[abell88]

Top 50 composers -- 26 letters of the alphabet -- Bach, Beethoven, Brahms...already I foresee problems!

[stormx]

Top 50 composers -- 26 letters of the alphabet -- Bach, Beethoven, Brahms...already I foresee problems!

In what composers concern, "B" is the TOP LETTER without any doubt 
"S", with Schubert and Schumann, is a pretty strong one too   

[Bacfokievrahms]

In what composers concern, "B" is the TOP LETTER without any doubt 
"S", with Schubert and Schumann, is a pretty strong one too   

Actually I feel as if S surpasses B with:

Schumann
Schubert
Scriabin
Shostakovich
Scarlatti
Satie
Salieri
and Sorabji

Actually the last two were jokes but S is still pretty impressive.