Usuário(a):Feliciomendes/p18
Aspeto
Name | Yeares | Nationality | Notable works | Remarks | |
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Vincent d'Indy | 1851–1931 | French | Symphony on a French Mountain Air; Ishtar | ||
Charles Villiers Stanford | 1852–1924 | Irish | 7 symphonies | Romanticism | |
Ciprian Porumbescu | 1853–1883 | Romanian | Balada for violin, "Serenada" | ||
Moritz Moszkowski | 1854–1925 | German-Polish-Jewish | Many groups of short piano pieces | ||
Leoš Janáček | 1854–1928 | Czech | Sinfonietta; Taras Bulba; operas; 2 string quartets | folk-influenced | |
Christian Sinding | 1856–1941 | Norwegian | The Rustle of Spring | Romanticism | |
Edward Elgar | 1857–1934 | British | Symphony No. 1 and No. 2; Violin Concerto; Cello Concerto; The Dream of Gerontius (oratorio); Enigma Variations; Pomp and Circumstance Marches | Romanticism | |
Cécile Chaminade | 1857–1944 | French | Concertino for FLUTE | ||
Giacomo Puccini | 1858–1924 | Italian | La bohème (opera); Tosca (opera); Madama Butterfly (opera) | Romanticism | |
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov | 1859–1935 | Russian | Caucasian Sketches | ||
Isaac Albéniz | 1860–1909 | Spanish | Suite española | Romanticism | |
Gustav Mahler | 1860–1911 | Austrian | Symphony No. 1, No. 5, No. 6, and No. 9; Das Lied von der Erde; Kindertotenlieder | Romanticism | |
Ignacy Jan Paderewski | 1860–1941 | Polish | Piano works (He was also a noted concert pianist) | Also Prime Minister of Poland (1919) | |
Gustave Charpentier | 1860–1956 | French | Louise (opera) | ||
Claude Debussy | 1862–1918 | French | Clair de lune; Syrinx; La Mer; Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun; Préludes | Impressionism | |
Frederick Delius | 1862–1934 | British | The Walk to the Paradise Garden from A Village Romeo and Juliet (opera); On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring | Impressionism | |
Pietro Mascagni | 1863–1945 | Italian | Cavalleria rusticana (opera) | Romanticism | |
Eugen d'Albert | 1864–1932 | Russian | Tiefland (opera) | Romanticism | |
Richard Strauss | 1864–1949 | German | Alpine Symphony; Also sprach Zarathustra; Till Eulenspiegel; Der Rosenkavalier (opera); Oboe Concerto, Salome (opera); Ein Heldenleben | Romanticism | |
Guy Ropartz | 1864–1955 | French | Impressionism | ||
Alexander Gretchaninov | 1864–1956 | Russian | 5 symphonies; Passion Week | Romanticism, later Neo-classicism | |
Albéric Magnard | 1865–1914 | French | Guercoeur (opera), 4 Symphonies, String Quartet | Called the "French Bruckner" | |
Eduardo di Capua | 1865–1917 | Italian | |||
Carl Nielsen | 1865–1931 | Danish | Symphony No. 2, No. 4, and No. 5; Masquerade (opera); Clarinet Concerto Flute Concerto | father of Danish classical music | |
Paul Dukas | 1865–1935 | French | The Sorcerer's Apprentice; La Péri (ballet) | ||
Alexander Glazunov | 1865–1936 | Russian | Symphony No. 4 and No. 5; The Seasons; Violin Concerto; Saxophone Concerto | Romanticism | |
Jean Sibelius | 1865–1957 | Finnish | Symphony No. 1, No. 2, No. 5, and No. 7; Violin Concerto; The Swan of Tuonela; Finlandia | father of Finnish classical music | |
Ferruccio Busoni | 1866–1924 | Italian | Fantasia Contrappuntistica; Turandot Suite; Piano Concerto | ||
Erik Satie | 1866–1925 | French | Gymnopédies; Gnossiennes; Vexations; other piano music | Minimalism, avant-garde | |
Enrique Granados | 1867–1916 | Spanish | |||
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger | 1867–1942 | Swedish | 5 symphonies; Frösöblomster | Romantic nationalism | |
Amy Beach | 1867–1944 | American | |||
Umberto Giordano | 1867–1948 | Italian | Andrea Chénier (opera) | Verismo | |
Charles Koechlin | 1867–1950 | French | |||
Oskar Merikanto | 1868–1924 | Finnish | |||
José Vianna da Motta | 1868–1948 | Portuguese | |||
Albert Roussel | 1869–1937 | French | Symphony No. 3 and No. 4; Bacchus et Ariane (ballet) | Neo-classicism | |
Hans Pfitzner | 1869–1949 | German | Palestrina (opera) | ||
Louis Vierne | 1870–1937 | French | Organist at Notre Dame Cathederal. | ||
Leopold Godowsky | 1870–1938 | Polish | |||
Charles Tournemire | 1870–1939 | French | 8 symphonies, organ music | ||
Franz Lehár | 1870–1948 | Hungarian | operettas | ||
Vítězslav Novák | 1870–1949 | Czech | |||
Florent Schmitt | 1870–1958 | French | |||
Alfred Hill | 1870–1960 | Australian | |||
Wilhelm Stenhammar | 1871–1927 | Swedish | Symphony #2; 6 String Quartets; piano music | Romanticism | |
Alexander von Zemlinsky | 1871–1942 | Austrian | Lyric Symphony and other orchestral works; operas | Romanticism; mentor of Arnold Schoenberg; also conductor | |
Alexander Scriabin | 1872–1915 | Russian | The Poem of Ecstasy; Prometheus: The Poem of Fire; 10 piano sonatas | Mysticism | |
Ralph Vaughan Williams | 1872–1958 | British | A Sea Symphony; A London Symphony; Sinfonia Antartica; Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis; Fantasia on Greensleeves | folk-influenced | |
Hugo Alfvén | 1872–1960 | Swedish | Symphony No. 4: From the Outermost Skerries; Midsummer Vigil | Romanticism | |
Max Reger | 1873–1916 | German | organ music | Romanticism | |
Sergei Rachmaninoff | 1873–1943 | Russian | Piano Concerto No. 2 and No. 3; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; Symphony No. 2; Prelude in C-sharp minor | Romanticism; also a formidable pianist | |
Nikolai Tcherepnin | 1873–1945 | Russian | father of Alexander Tcherepnin | ||
Joseph Jongen | 1873–1953 | Belgian | Symphonie Concertante for organ and orchestra | ||
Jean Roger-Ducasse | 1873–1954 | French | |||
Gustav Holst | 1874–1934 | British | The Planets; Beni Mora; Egdon Heath | ||
Josef Suk | 1874–1935 | Czech | Asrael Symphony; A Winter's Tale | ||
Franz Schmidt | 1874–1939 | Austrian | The Book with Seven Seals (oratorio); 4 Symphonies | ||
Arnold Schoenberg | 1874–1951 | Austrian | Gurre-Lieder; Verklärte Nacht; Variations for Orchestra; Pierrot Lunaire; Five Pieces for Orchestra | Romanticism, later Expressionism and Serialism; founder of the Second Viennese School | |
Charles Ives | 1874–1954 | American | The Unanswered Question; Central Park in the Dark; Variations on America; Three Places in New England; Concord Sonata | Avant-garde, folk-influenced | |
Erkki Melartin | 1875–1937 | Finnish | |||
Maurice Ravel | 1875–1937 | French | Daphnis et Chloé; Valses nobles et sentimentales; Rapsodie espagnole; Tzigane; Piano Concerto; Bolero; piano music | Impressionism, Neo-classicism | |
Reinhold Glière | 1875–1956 | Russian | Symphony No. 3: Ilya Muromets | Romanticism | |
Albert Ketèlbey | 1875–1959 | British | In a Persian Market | ||
Julián Carrillo | 1875–1965 | Mexican | 13th sound | Microtonal music | |
Mieczysław Karłowicz | 1876–1909 | Polish | Stanislaw i Anna Oswiecimovie, op. 12; Lithuanian Rhapsody, op.11; Symphony in E Minor, op. 7; Serenade for Strings, op. 2, in C Major; Violin Concerto, op. 8, in A Major | Romanticism | |
Manuel de Falla | 1876–1946 | Spanish | The Three-Cornered Hat; Nights in the Gardens of Spain | Impressionism, Neo-classicism | |
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari | 1876–1948 | Italian | Several comic operas | ||
Carl Ruggles | 1876–1971 | American | Sun-Treader | Also successful painter | |
Havergal Brian | 1876–1972 | British | more than 30 symphonies, including the Gothic Symphony | ||
Sigfrid Karg-Elert | 1877–1933 | German | organ and harmonium works | ||
Ernő Dohnányi | 1877–1960 | Hungarian | Variations on a Nursery Tune | Romanticism | |
Franz Schreker | 1878–1934 | Austrian | Several operas | ||
Joseph Holbrooke | 1878–1958 | British | |||
Jean Cras | 1879–1932 | French | |||
Ottorino Respighi | 1879–1936 | Italian | The Fountains of Rome; The Pines of Rome | Impressionism, Neo-Baroque | |
Frank Bridge | 1879–1941 | British | Enter Spring; The Sea | Impressionism, later Expressionism; mentor of Benjamin Britten | |
Hamilton Harty | 1879–1941 | Irish | An Irish Symphony; With the Wild Geese | ||
Joseph Canteloube | 1879–1957 | French | Chants d'Auvergne | ||
John Ireland | 1879–1962 | British | Piano Concerto in E flat | ||
Cyril Scott | 1879–1970 | British | 4 Symphonies; much piano music | Also writer of prose and poetry | |
Nikolay Medtner | 1880–1951 | Russian | 3 piano concertos | Romanticism | |
Ernest Bloch | 1880–1959 | Swiss | Schelomo; Suite hébraïque | ||
Ildebrando Pizzetti | 1880–1968 | Italian | Assassinio nella cattedrale and other operas; orchestral and chamber music | ||
Jan van Gilse | 1881–1944 | Dutch | Thijl, 5 symphonies | ||
Mykola Roslavets | 1881–1944 | Russian | |||
Béla Bartók | 1881–1945 | Hungarian | Concerto for Orchestra; The Miraculous Mandarin; Piano Concerto No. 3; Viola Concerto; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion | Neo-classicism, folk-influenced | |
Nikolay Myaskovsky | 1881–1950 | Russian | 27 symphonies | Romanticism; father of the Russian symphony | |
George Enescu | 1881–1955 | Romanian | Romanian Rhapsody No. 1, Sonata no. 3 for Violin and Piano ("In the Romanian Popular Style"), Oedip ,Cantabile et Presto pour flauto et piano,Opera OEDIP, | folk-influenced; father of Romanian classical music | |
Karol Szymanowski | 1882–1937 | Polish | Symphony No. 3 and No. 4; Violin Concerto No. 1 and No. 2 | Impressionism, later folk-influenced | |
Manuel Maria Ponce | 1882–1948 | Mexican | Concierto del sur for guitar and orchestra, guitar and piano pieces, songs (especially "Estrellita"), and folk-song arrangements | ||
Joaquin Turina | 1882–1949 | Spanish | |||
Percy Grainger | 1882–1961 | Australian | Country Gardens, Irish Tune from County Derry, Lincolnshire Posy | folksong-influenced, mostly piano solo & wind band | |
Zoltán Kodály | 1882–1967 | Hungarian | Háry János; Dances of Galanta | folk-influenced | |
Geoffrey O'Hara | 1882–1967 | Canadian | |||
Igor Stravinsky | 1882–1971 | Russian | The Rite of Spring; The Firebird; Petrushka; Pulcinella; The Soldier's Tale; Symphony of Psalms; Symphonies of Wind Instruments | Neo-classicism, Neo-Baroque, later Serialism | |
Gian Francesco Malipiero | 1882–1973 | Italian | 11 symphonies | ||
Anton Webern | 1883–1945 | Austrian | Symphony; Passacaglia; Six Pieces for Orchestra | Serialism; pupil of Arnold Schoenberg | |
Alfredo Casella | 1883–1947 | Italian | |||
Arnold Bax | 1883–1953 | British | Symphony No. 2, No. 3, and No. 6; Tintagel | Romanticism, Impressionism | |
Manolis Kalomiris | 1883–1962 | Greek | |||
George Dyson | 1883–1964 | British | Symphony in G major; sacred choral works | ||
Edgard Varèse | 1883–1965 | French | Amériques; Ionisation; Arcana; Density 21.5 | Musique concrète, Electronic music | |
Charles Griffes | 1884–1920 | American | White Peacock, The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan | impressionism | |
Ture Rangström | 1884–1947 | Swedish | 4 symphonies; 3 operas | ||
Louis Gruenberg | 1884–1964 | Russian | Violin Concerto; 5 symphonies; The Emperor Jones (opera) | ||
George Butterworth | 1885–1916 | British | |||
Alban Berg | 1885–1935 | Austrian | Violin Concerto; Wozzeck; Lyric Suite | Serialism, Romanticism; pupil of Arnold Schoenberg | |
Wallingford Riegger | 1885–1961 | American | Symphony #3 | ||
Egon Wellesz | 1885–1974 | Austrian | 9 symphonies | ||
Joseph Achron | 1886–1943 | Russian | "Hebrew Melody" | ||
Othmar Schoeck | 1886–1957 | Swiss | Penthesilea and other operas and vocal music | ||
Jesús Guridi | 1886–1961 | Spanish | Sinfonia pirenaica | ||
Marcel Dupré | 1886–1971 | French | organ music | ||
Paul Paray | 1886–1979 | French | Mass for the 500th Anniversary of the Death of Joan of Arc | Also noted conductor | |
Leevi Madetoja | 1887–1947 | Finnish | |||
Heitor Villa-Lobos | 1887–1959 | Brazilian | Bachianas brasileiras; guitar music | Neo-classicism, folk-influenced | |
Ernst Toch | 1887–1964 | German | 7 symphonies | ||
Kurt Atterberg | 1887–1974 | Swedish | Symphony No. 6: Dollarsymphony | ||
Nadia Boulanger | 1887–1979 | French | mentor of many composers | ||
Matthijs Vermeulen | 1888–1967 | Dutch | 7 symphonies | ||
Grigoras Dinicu | 1889–1949 | Romanian | mostly for violin and piano, Hora staccato | ||
Vladimir Shcherbachov | 1889–1952 | Russian | |||
Luís de Freitas Branco | 1890–1955 | Portuguese | 4 symphonies | ||
Bohuslav Martinů | 1890–1959 | Czech | Symphonies Nos. 3 and 6; Gilgamesh (oratorio); chamber music | neoclassicism, folk-influenced | |
Jacques Ibert | 1890–1962 | French | Escales; Bacchanale; Flute Concerto | neoclassicism | |
Gösta Nystroem | 1890–1966 | Swedish | |||
Frank Martin | 1890–1974 | Swiss | Ballade for flute and piano | ||
Sergei Prokofiev | 1891–1953 | Russian | Romeo and Juliet (ballet); The Love for Three Oranges (opera); Classical Symphony; Symphony No. 5 and No. 6; Violin Concerto No. 1 and No. 2; Piano Concerto No. 2 and No. 3; Alexander Nevsky; Lieutenant Kijé; 9 piano sonatas; Peter and the Wolf | neoclassicism | |
Mihail Jora | 1891–1971 | Romanian | |||
Arthur Bliss | 1891–1975 | British | A Colour Symphony | ||
Marcel Grandjany | 1891–1975 | French | Pieces for harp; [Headed Harp Dept at Fontainbleau & Juilliard) | Noted harpist and teacher | |
Arthur Honegger | 1892–1955 | Swiss | Symphony No. 3: Liturgique; Pacific 231; Les Misérables (film music) | neoclassicism | |
László Lajtha | 1892–1963 | Hungarian | 9 symphonies | ||
Ferde Grofé | 1892–1972 | American | Grand Canyon Suite | ||
Darius Milhaud | 1892–1974 | French | La Création du Monde; Le Bœuf sur le toit | jazz-influenced, neoclassical | |
Hendrik Andriessen | 1892–1981 | Dutch | father of Louis Andriessen | ||
Herbert Howells | 1892–1983 | British | Hymnus paradisi | ||
Germaine Tailleferre | 1892–1983 | French | |||
Hilding Rosenberg | 1892–1985 | Swedish | 8 symphonies; Violin Concerto | ||
Kaikhosru Sorabji | 1892–1988 | British | Opus Clavicembalisticum | neoclassical, new age | |
Rued Langgaard | 1893–1952 | Danish | 16 symphonies | ||
Arthur Benjamin | 1893–1960 | Australian | Jamaican Rhumba, operas, film scores, chamber works | ||
Douglas Moore | 1893–1969 | American | The Ballad of Baby Doe (opera), The Devil and Daniel Webster (folk opera) | Pulitzer Prize winner | |
Alois Hába | 1893–1973 | Czech | Matka (opera) | microtonal | |
Jean Absil | 1893–1974 | Belgian | |||
Federico Mompou | 1893–1987 | Spanish | piano music | ||
Leo Ornstein | 1893–2002 | American | Wild Mens Dance, Suicide in an Airplane, 5 piano sonatas, Piano Quintet, 3 String Quartets | Avant-garde | |
Erwin Schulhoff | 1894–1942 | Czech | 6 symphonies | ||
Willem Pijper | 1894–1947 | Dutch | 3 symphonies; Six Adagios; Piano Concerto | atonal | |
Ernest John Moeran | 1894–1950 | British | Symphony in G minor | folk-influenced | |
Sabin Dragoi | 1894–1968 | Romanian | Piano Concerto | ||
Walter Piston | 1894–1976 | American | The Incredible Flutist (ballet); Symphony No. 2 and No. 6 | Neo-classicism | |
Robert Russell Bennett | 1894–1981 | American | Broadway arrangements; pieces for band | ||
Paul Hindemith | 1895–1963 | German | Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Weber; Mathis der Maler (opera); Ludus Tonalis; chamber music; Flute Sonata | Neo-Baroque, neoclassicism | |
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco | 1895–1968 | Italian | guitar music | ||
Borys Lyatoshynsky | 1895–1968 | Ukrainian | 5 symphonies | ||
Leo Sowerby | 1895–1968 | American | Choral music; Organ works; 5 symphonies; Chamber works | Pulitzer Prize winner; organist & choirmaster | |
Johann Nepomuk David | 1895–1977 | Austrian | 8 symphonies | neoclassical | |
Carl Orff | 1895–1982 | German | Carmina Burana | ||
Gordon Jacob | 1895–1984 | British | |||
Roberto Gerhard | 1896–1970 | Spanish | 4 symphonies | ||
Howard Hanson | 1896–1981 | American | 7 symphonies | Romanticism | |
Roger Sessions | 1896–1985 | American | 9 symphonies | serialism | |
Virgil Thomson | 1896–1989 | American | Four Saints in Three Acts, The Mother of Us All; Louisiana Story; also noted critic | folk-influenced, eclectic | |
Oscar Lorenzo Fernández | 1897–1948 | Brazilian | "Batuque" from Malazarte (opera), two symphonies | nationalism | |
Erich Wolfgang Korngold | 1897–1957 | Austrian | Violin Concerto; film music | ||
Henry Cowell | 1897–1965 | American | eclectic, experimental | ||
Gaspar Cassado | 1897–1966 | Spanish | Toccata, Requiebros | ||
Quincy Porter | 1897–1966 | American | |||
Alexandre Tansman | 1897–1986 | Polish | |||
George Gershwin | 1898–1937 | American | Rhapsody in Blue; Piano Concerto; An American in Paris; Porgy and Bess (opera) | jazz-influenced | |
Lev Knipper | 1898–1974 | Russian | |||
Roy Harris | 1898–1979 | American | Symphony No. 3 | ||
Alexander Abramsky | 1898–1985 | Russian | 1941 piano concerto | folk music-influenced | |
Vittorio Rieti | 1898–1994 | Italian | |||
Silvestre Revueltas | 1899–1940 | Mexican | Sensemayá | ||
Francis Poulenc | 1899–1963 | French | Babar the Elephant;Flute Sonata Stabat Mater; chamber music | neoclassicism | |
George Frederick McKay | 1899–1970 | American | |||
Alexander Tcherepnin | 1899–1977 | Russian | son of Nikolai Tcherepnin | ||
Carlos Chávez | 1899–1978 | Mexican | 6 symphonies | folk-music influenced | |
Georges Auric | 1899–1983 | French | |||
Randall Thompson | 1899–1984 | American | Alleluia; The Testament of Freedom; other choral works; 3 Symphonies; 2 String Quartets | ||
Kurt Weill | 1900–1950 | German | Symphony No. 2; musicals | neoclassical | |
George Antheil | 1900–1959 | American | Ballet mécanique; Symphony No. 4 | Avant-garde, later neoclassical | |
Uuno Klami | 1900–1961 | Finnish | Sea Pictures; Kalevala Suite | ||
Colin McPhee | 1900–1964 | Canadian | Tabuh-Tabuhan: Toccata for Orchestra | folk-influenced | |
Alexander Mosolov | 1900–1973 | Russian | Iron Foundry | Avant-garde | |
Aaron Copland | 1900–1990 | American | Appalachian Spring (ballet); Billy the Kid (ballet); Rodeo (ballet); Fanfare for the Common Man; Clarinet Concerto | neoclassical, Folk music influence, jazz influence, early twelve-tone, later serialism | |
Ernst Krenek | 1900–1991 | Austrian | Jonny spielt auf, Karl V, Lamentatio Jeremiae prophetae | neoclassical, twelve-tone, later serial, neoromantic, eclectic | |
Alan Bush | 1900–1995 | British | |||
Gerald Finzi | 1901–1956 | British | Cello Concerto; songs | neoromantic | |
Henri Tomasi | 1901–1971 | French | |||
Harry Partch | 1901–1974 | American | Daphne of the Dunes, Revelation in the Courthouse Park | microtonal, just intonation, self-built instruments | |
Edmund Rubbra | 1901–1986 | British | 11 symphonies; Violin Concerto | ||
Henri Sauguet | 1901–1989 | French | 4 symphonies | ||
Joaquín Rodrigo | 1901–1999 | Spanish | Concierto de Aranjuez; guitar music | neoclassical, folk music influence | |
Vissarion Shebalin | 1902–1963 | Russian | |||
Stefan Wolpe | 1902–1972 | German | serial | ||
John Vincent | 1902–1977 | American | Consort for Piano and Strings | neoclassical | |
William Walton | 1902–1983 | British | Symphony No. 1; Violin Concerto; Viola Concerto; Variations on a Theme by Hindemith; Belshazzar's Feast (oratorio) | avant-garde (early), neoromantic, neoclassical | |
Maurice Duruflé | 1902–1986 | French | Requiem; organ music | ||
Mario Pilati | 1903–1938 | Italian | Piedigrotta (opera) | ||
Vittorio Giannini | 1903–1966 | Italian | operas, symphonic & band works | neoclassical | |
Vernon Duke | 1903–1969 | Russian | jazz-influenced | ||
Boris Blacher | 1903–1975 | German | |||
Luis H. Salgado | 1903–1977 | Ecuadorian | Sanjuanito futurista; Eunice (opera); Cumandá (opera); 9 symphonies | folk-influenced/modernist | |
Aram Khachaturian | 1903–1978 | Armenian | Gayane (ballet, contains the famous Sabre Dance); Spartacus (ballet); concertos | ||
Priaulx Rainier | 1903–1986 | South African / British | Ploërmel, Quanta, String Trio | ||
Ervin Nyíregyházi | 1903–1987 | Hungarian | Also pianist; hand-double in Hollywood films of piano playing | Romanticism | |
Lennox Berkeley | 1903–1989 | British | 4 symphonies | neoclassical, later serial | |
Nikolaos Skalkottas | 1904–1949 | Greek | twelve-tone, folk music influence | ||
Gavriil Popov | 1904–1972 | Russian | Chamber Symphony; Symphony No. 1 | ||
Luigi Dallapiccola | 1904–1975 | Italian | Il prigioniero and other operas | 12-Tone | |
Dmitri Kabalevsky | 1904–1987 | Russian | The Comedians | ||
Goffredo Petrassi | 1904–2003 | Italian | |||
Walter Leigh | 1905–1942 | British | Concertino for Harpsichord and Strings; Agincourt; Jolly Roger; Music for Strings | neoclassical | |
Constant Lambert | 1905–1951 | British | The Rio Grande | popular music influence, jazz influence | |
Karl Amadeus Hartmann | 1905–1963 | German | 8 symphonies | ||
Alan Rawsthorne | 1905–1971 | British | 3 symphonies; concertos; Symphonic Studies | neoclassical | |
André Jolivet | 1905–1974 | French | |||
Eduard Tubin | 1905–1982 | Estonian | 11 symphonies | ||
William Alwyn | 1905–1985 | British | 5 symphonies; Lyra Angelica; Elizabethan Dances | neoromantic | |
Giacinto Scelsi | 1905–1988 | Italian | Quattro pezzi chiascuno su una nota sola | unclassifiable | |
Michael Tippett | 1905–1998 | British | The Midsummer Marriage; 4 symphonies; A Child of Our Time (oratorio) | ||
Benjamin Frankel | 1906–1973 | British | |||
Dmitri Shostakovich | 1906–1975 | Russian | Symphony No. 5, No. 7, No. 9, and No. 10; Violin Concerto No. 1; Cello Concerto No. 1; Festive Overture; String Quartet No. 8; Piano Quintet; Romance from The Gadfly Suite | neoclassical, neoromantic | |
Grace Williams | 1906–1977 | Welsh | |||
Klaus Egge | 1906–1979 | Norwegian | |||
Armando José Fernandes | 1906-1983 | Portuguese | |||
Jānis Ivanovs | 1906–1983 | Latvian | 21 symphonies | neoromantic | |
Elisabeth Lutyens | 1906–1983 | British | |||
Alexander Moyzes | 1906–1984 | Slovakian | 12 symphonies | ||
Paul Creston | 1906–1985 | American | 6 symphonies | neoclassical | |
Fernando Lopes-Graça | 1906-1994 | Portuguese | |||
Louise Talma | 1906–1996 | American | |||
Hisato Ohzawa | 1907–1953 | Japanese | |||
Martin Scherber | 1907–1974 | German | |||
Henk Badings | 1907–1987 | Dutch | |||
Ahmet Adnan Saygun | 1907–1991 | Turkish | 5 symphonies | ||
Camargo Guarnieri | 1907–1993 | Brazilian | |||
Elizabeth Maconchy | 1907–1994 | British | |||
Miklós Rózsa | 1907–1995 | Hungarian | concertos; Ben-Hur (film music); Spellbound (film music) | folk-influenced | |
Elliott Carter | 1908– | American | Variations for Orchestra; A Symphony of Three Orchestras; 5 string quartets | neoclassical (early), modernist | |
Leroy Anderson | 1908–1975 | American | Sleigh Ride; Blue Tango; Jazz Pizzicato; Irish Suite; Suites of Carols | ||
Geirr Tveitt | 1908–1981 | Norwegian | 6 piano concertos | folk-influenced | |
Lars-Erik Larsson | 1908–1986 | Swedish | 3 symphonies | ||
Olivier Messiaen | 1908–1992 | French | Turangalila Symphony; Quartet for the End of Time; Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus; Saint François d'Assise (opera) | mysticism, post-impressionist | |
Herman David Koppel | 1908–1998 | Danish | 13 symphonies | neoclassical | |
Paul Constantinescu | 1909–1963 | Romanian | Violin Concerto,Piano Concerto,Choir,Movie Music,Chamber Music,Opera | ||
Elie Siegmeister | 1909–1991 | American | 9 Operas; 8 Symphonies; Western Suite (premiered by Toscanini); song cycles | Americana-influenced; also author | |
Vagn Holmboe | 1909–1996 | Danish | 13 symphonies | Neo-classicism | |
Ljubica Marić | 1909–2003 | Serb | Sounds of Space,Ostinato Super Thema Octoicha,Threshold of Dream | post-modern | |
H. Owen Reed | 1910– | American | La Fiesta Mexicana | folk-influenced | |
Samuel Barber | 1910–1981 | American | Adagio for Strings; Violin Concerto; Symphony in One Movement; Vanessa (opera) | Romanticism; 2 Pulitzer Prizes | |
William Schuman | 1910–1992 | American | Symphonies; ballets; band pieces; chamber works; New England Triptych | Pulitzer Prize (1st awarded for music); President of Juilliard; 1st President of Lincoln Center; Guest on What's My Line (TV Quiz Show) | |
Pierre Schaeffer | 1910–1995 | French | Musique concrète | ||
Rolf Liebermann | 1910–1999 | Swiss | Leonore 40/45 (opera); Concerto for Jazzband and Symphony Orchestra | Also noted opera administrator | |
Jehan Alain | 1911–1940 | French | Organ music | ||
Nino Rota | 1911–1979 | Italian | Vocal, orchestral and chamber music, The Godfather (film score), Romeo & Juliet (film score), 8 1/2 (film score) | ||
Allan Pettersson | 1911–1980 | Swedish | 17 symphonies | Neo-romanticism | |
Alan Hovhaness | 1911–2000 | American | 67 numbered symphonies including Mysterious Mountain; And God Created Great Whales (taped whale sounds and orchestra); Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints | Mysticism | |
Robert McBride | 1911–2007 | American | Mexican Rhapsody, Farewell to Yesterday (film score), The Man with My Face (film score) | Jazz and Popular music influences | |
Gian Carlo Menotti | 1911–2007 | Italian | operas including The Medium, The Consul and Amahl and the Night Visitors; concerti | Librettist; 2 Pulitzer Prizes | |
José Pablo Moncayo | 1912–1958 | Mexican | Huapango | ||
Igor Markevitch | 1912–1983 | Ukrainian | Also noted conductor | ||
Peggy Glanville-Hicks | 1912–1990 | Australian | Etruscan Concerto; The Transposed Heads (opera); Nausicaa (opera) | ||
John Cage | 1912–1992 | American | 4'33"; Sonatas and Interludes | Aleatoric music, Extended technique, Prepared Piano | |
Daniel Jones | 1912–1993 | Welsh | |||
Jean Françaix | 1912–1997 | French | |||
Conlon Nancarrow | 1912–1997 | American-Mexican | Studies for player-piano | ||
Carlos Guastavino | 1912–2000 | Argentine | |||
Xavier Montsalvatge | 1912–2002 | Spanish | |||
Constantin Silvestri | 1913–1969 | Romanian | |||
Benjamin Britten | 1913–1976 | British | Sinfonia da Requiem; Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra; War Requiem; Cello Symphony; Peter Grimes (opera) | Neo-classicism | |
Peggy Stuart Coolidge | 1913–1981 | American | Spirituals in Sunshine and Shadow, New England Autumn | folk- and blues-influenced | |
Maurice Ohana | 1913–1992 | French | |||
Witold Lutosławski | 1913–1994 | Polish | Concerto for Orchestra; Musique funebre; Jeux vénitiens; Preludes and a Fugue; Symphony No. 2 and Symphony No. 3 | Neo-classicism, folk-influenced, later Aleatoric music | |
Morton Gould | 1913–1996 | American | Concert music; Film & TV scores | Also noted conductor; Pulitzer Prize winner | |
George Lloyd | 1913–1998 | British | 12 symphonies; 7 Concerti; 4 works for Brass Band | ||
Henry Brant | 1913–2008 | Canadian-American | Orbits, Verticals Ascending, Angels and Devils | spatial music; Pulitzer Prize Winner | |
Irving Fine | 1914–1963 | American | serial | ||
Andrzej Panufnik | 1914–1991 | Polish | 10 symphonies | ||
Harold Truscott | 1914–1992 | British | |||
Wilfrid Mellers | 1914–2008 | British | |||
Earl Wild | 1915– | American | "Sonata 2000"; Doo-Dah Variations; numerous piano transcriptions | also a concert pianist | |
Vincent Persichetti | 1915–1987 | American | Symphonies & band works; 25 Parables for solo instruments; vocal & chamber works | neoclassicism; noted teacher | |
Douglas Lilburn | 1915–2001 | New Zealand | 3 symphonies; Aotearoa | ||
John Serry, Sr. | 1915–2003 | American | American Rhapsody; Concerto For Free Bass Accordion; Processional For Organ | Classical music, Jazz, Popular music, Liturgical music | |
Robert Strassburg | 1915–2003 | American | Lost, Chelm; Leaves of Grass | Opera, Classical music Liturgical music, Film scores | |
David Diamond | 1915–2005 | American | 11 symphonies; 10 String Quartets and other Chamber works | neoclassicism | |
Milton Babbitt | 1916– | American | Composition for Four Instruments; six string quartets; Philomel | serialism, electronic music | |
Henri Dutilleux | 1916– | French | 2 symphonies; Tout un Monde Lointain; The Shadows of Time; Timbres, espace, mouvement | Neo-impressionism | |
Alberto Ginastera | 1916–1983 | Argentine | Panambi (ballet); Malambo; 2 piano concertos; 3 piano sonatas | ||
Einar Englund | 1916–1999 | Finnish | Symphony No. 2 | ||
John Gardner | 1917– | British | 3 symphonies; Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day | ||
Dinu Lipatti | 1917–1950 | Romanian | Piano Works | ||
Isang Yun | 1917–1995 | Korean-German | 5 symphonies; much chamber music | Korean-influenced | |
Lou Harrison | 1917–2003 | American | Concerto for Violin and Percussion Orchestra; Piano Concerto; 4 symphonies; much gamelan music | Asian-influences; varied tunings | |
Richard Arnell | 1917–2009 | British | 6 symphonies | ||
Bernd Alois Zimmermann | 1918–1970 | German | Die Soldaten; Musique pour les soupers du Roi Ubi; Tratto; Tempus loquendi | serialism, musical quotation, collage, electronic music, jazz-influenced, eclectic | |
Gara Garayev | 1918–1982 | Azerbaijani | |||
Leonard Bernstein | 1918–1990 | American | West Side Story (musical); Chichester Psalms; Candide; Serenade; Mass; 3 symphonies | jazz and popular music influence; Significant Conductor in US and Europe | |
Gottfried von Einem | 1918–1996 | Austrian | operas | eclectic | |
Liviu Comes | 1918–2004 | Romanian | choral | ||
George Rochberg | 1918–2005 | American | 6 symphonies; 7 string quartets | serialism, later neo-romanticism | |
Jacob Avshalomov | 1919– | American | Orchestra works; Choral works | son of Aaron Avshalomov; also noted conductor | |
Mieczyslaw Weinberg | 1919–1996 | Polish | 22 symphonies; 17 string quartets | ||
Galina Ustvolskaya | 1919–2006 | Russian | |||
Leon Kirchner | 1919–2009 | American | Piano music; String Quartets | Pulitzer Prize Winner | |
Harold Shapero | 1920– | American | Symphony for Classical Orchestra | Recordings conducted by Leonard Bernstein and Andre Previn | |
Bruno Maderna | 1920–1973 | Italian | Satyricon (opera) | avant-garde, electronic music | |
Peter Racine Fricker | 1920–1990 | British | |||
Geoffrey Bush | 1920–1998 | British | |||
Earl Kim | 1920–1998 | Korean-American | |||
Chaya Arbel | 1921– | Israeli | |||
Karel Husa | 1921– | Czech-American | Music for Prague 1968; Music for Band, Orchestra, Chamber Ensembles | Pulitzer Prize | |
Astor Piazzolla | 1921–1992 | Argentine | tangos | ||
Joonas Kokkonen | 1921–1996 | Finnish | |||
Robert Simpson | 1921–1997 | British | 11 symphonies; 15 string quartets | also author; producer with BBC | |
Božidar Kantušer | 1921–1999 | American/Slovenian | |||
Ralph Shapey | 1921–2002 | American | |||
Malcolm Arnold | 1921–2006 | British | Symphony No. 5 and No. 7; English Dances; film music | ||
Andrew Imbrie | 1921–2007 | American | serialism, neoclassicism | ||
Kazimierz Serocki | 1922–1981 | Polish | |||
Iain Hamilton | 1922–2000 | Scottish | Chamber & Orchestral works; operas & vocal works | ||
Iannis Xenakis | 1922–2001 | Greek | Metastasis | avant-garde, Stochastic | |
Raffaello de Banfield | 1922–2008 | British | |||
Chou Wen-chung | 1923– | Chinese/American | Landscapes | student of Edgar Varese | |
Ned Rorem | 1923– | American | Our Town (opera); Air Music; 3 numbered symphonies; over 400 songs | Pulitzer Prize winner | |
Simeon ten Holt | 1923– | Dutch | Canto Ostinato | minimalism | |
Peter Mennin | 1923–1983 | American | 9 symphonies | ||
Karel Goeyvaerts | 1923–1993 | Belgian | Aquarius (opera) | neoclassicism, serialism, minimalism, postminimalism, mysticism, electronic music | |
György Ligeti | 1923–2006 | Hungarian | Atmosphères, Musica ricercata, Lux Aeterna | avant-garde, micropolyphony | |
Benjamin Lees | 1924– | American | Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra | ||
Joly Braga Santos | 1924–1988 | Portuguese | 6 symphonies | ||
Luigi Nono | 1924–1990 | Italian | Avant-garde | ||
Pierre Boulez | 1925– | French | Le marteau sans maître; ...explosante-fixe... | Avant-garde, serialism, aleatory; Also noted conductor | |
Aldo Clementi | 1925– | Italian | |||
Andrei Yakovlevich Eshpai | 1925– | Russian | |||
Gunther Schuller | 1925– | American | jazz influence; Third Stream; also horn player and author; President of Eastman School of Music; Pulitzer Prize winner | ||
Mikis Theodorakis | 1925– | Greek | Film scores including Zorba the Greek; Song cycles, symphonic works | Arrested and exiled 1967-74 | |
Julián Orbón | 1925–1991 | Spanish/Cuban | Three Symphonic Versions | ||
Boris Tchaikovsky | 1925–1996 | Russian | 4 symphonies | ||
Luciano Berio | 1925–2003 | Italian | Sequenza; Sinfonia | Avant-garde | |
Teo Macero | 1925–2008 | American | One and Three Quarters | microtonal, jazz influenced | |
Carlisle Floyd | 1926– | American | Susannah (opera) | ||
Hans Werner Henze | 1926– | German | Ondine (ballet); 10 symphonies; 3 violin concertos | ||
Lee Hoiby | 1926– | American | Vocal music, operas, songs | Also pianist | |
György Kurtág | 1926– | Hungarian | |||
Morton Feldman | 1926–1987 | American | |||
Earle Brown | 1926–2002 | American | Open Form; Graphic Notation | ||
John Joubert | 1927– | British | |||
Franco Donatoni | 1927–2000 | Italian | |||
Donald Erb | 1927–2008 | American | Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra; Concerto for Violin and Orchestra | jazz-influenced, aleatory, electronic music, eclectic | |
Ennio Morricone | 1928– | Italian | |||
Thea Musgrave | 1928– | Scottish | |||
Einojuhani Rautavaara | 1928– | Finnish | Cantus Arcticus; Symphony No. 7: Angel of Light; Piano Concerto No. 3: The Gift of Dreams | Mysticism | |
Tadeusz Baird | 1928–1981 | Polish | |||
Nicolas Flagello | 1928–1994 | American | neo-classicism | ||
Jacob Druckman | 1928–1996 | American | Windows and other orchestral works; String Quartet #3 | Pulitzer Prize winner | |
Robert Helps | 1928–2001 | American | Also notable pianist | ||
David Farquhar | 1928–2007 | New-Zealander | A Unicorn for Christmas, Ring Round the Moon | neo-classicism | |
Karlheinz Stockhausen | 1928–2007 | German | Gruppen; Kontakte; Hymnen; Stimmung; Mantra; Tierkreis; Licht | Avant-garde, electronic music, serialism, aleatory, world music, intuitive music, formula composition | |
Antonio Braga | 1929– | Italian | |||
George Crumb | 1929– | American | Ancient Voices of Children, Black Angels | Extended technique, Numerology | |
Frédéric Devreese | 1929– | Belgian | |||
Jerry Goldsmith | 1929– | American | Film and Concert composer | ||
André Previn | 1929– | German/American | A Streetcar Named Desire (opera) | also a conductor & pianist | |
Josef Anton Riedl | 1929– | German | |||
Bogusław Schaeffer | 1929– | Polish | |||
Peter Sculthorpe | 1929– | Australian | Requiem; Kakadu; Earth Cry; Piano Concerto; 17 string quartets | world music | |
Kenneth Leighton | 1929–1988 | British | |||
Theo Bruins | 1929–1993 | Dutch | |||
Edison Denisov | 1929–1996 | Russian | |||
Alun Hoddinott | 1929–2008 | Welsh | |||
Henri Pousseur | 1929–2009 | Belgian | Scambi; Votre Faust; Trois visages à Liège; Couleurs croisées | serialism, aleatory, eclectic, electronic music, world music, popular music influence | |
Cristóbal Halffter | 1930– | Spanish | Líneas y puntos; Don Quixote | avant-garde, eclectic, electronic music | |
Theo Loevendie | 1930– | Dutch | |||
Stephen Sondheim | 1930– | American | Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street; A Little Night Music and other operas/operettas | ||
William P. Perry | 1930– | American | musicals; more than 300 silent film scores; Trumpet Concerto | Also TV Producer and pianist | |
Tōru Takemitsu | 1930–1996 | Japanese | A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden; Toward the Sea | Neo-impressionism | |
Sofia Gubaidulina | 1931– | Russian | Offertorium | ||
Derek Holman | 1931– | Canadian | |||
André Laporte | 1931– | Belgian | Das Schloss | eclectic | |
Arne Nordheim | 1931– | Norwegian | Epitaffio; The Tempest (ballet); Magma | many works include electronics | |
Ib Nørholm | 1931– | Danish | |||
Makoto Shinohara | 1931– | Japanese | Fragmente | electronic music, influence of traditional Japanese music | |
Malcolm Williamson | 1931–2003 | Australian | Mass of Christ the King; The Dawn is at Hand; 7 numbered symphonies; cassations | Master of the Queen's Music (1975–2003) | |
Mauricio Kagel | 1931–2008 | Argentine | Staatstheater | ||
Alexander Goehr | 1932– | British (German born) | Behold the Sun Romanza for cello and orchestra | twelve-tone, later modal, eclectic | |
Wojciech Kilar | 1932– | Polish | Krzesany; Dracula (film music) | holy minimalism | |
Richard Meale | 1932– | Australian | Voss | avant-garde | |
Per Nørgård | 1932– | Danish | 7 symphonies; Voyage into the Golden Screen | ||
Rodion Shchedrin | 1932– | Russian | 2 Symphonies and other orchestral works; The Carmen Ballet and other ballets; 6 piano concertos; solo piano works | ||
Gilles Tremblay | 1932– | Canadian | Sonorisation du Pavillion du Québec; Fleuves | electronic music, serialism | |
John Williams | 1932– | American | Jaws (film music); Star Wars (film music) | ||
Niccolò Castiglioni | 1932–1996 | Italian | |||
M. William Karlins | 1932–2005 | American | Works for Saxophone; works for Double Bass | ||
Leonardo Balada | 1933– | Spanish-American | 6 symphonies; 6 operas; various concertos | Avant-garde, later folk-influenced | |
Henryk Górecki | 1933– | Polish | Symphony of Sorrowful Songs | holy minimalism | |
Krzysztof Penderecki | 1933– | Polish | Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima; St. Luke Passion; A Polish Requiem; Symphony No. 2: Christmas | avant-garde, extended technique, later neo-romanticism | |
Yves Prin | 1933– | French | Neo-impressionism | ||
Bo Linde | 1933–1970 | Swedish | neo-romanticism | ||
Harrison Birtwistle | 1934– | British | The Mask of Orpheus | ||
Peter Maxwell Davies | 1934– | British | Eight Songs for a Mad King; 8 symphonies | Master of the Queen's Music (2004–) | |
Christian Wolff | 1934– | American | |||
William Mathias | 1934–1992 | Welsh | 3 symphonies, Concerto for Harp | ||
Alfred Schnittke | 1934–1998 | Russian | 10 symphonies, cello sonata, piano quintet, | polystylism, music for films | |
Giya Kancheli | 1935– | Georgian | 7 symphonies | holy minimalism | |
Helmut Lachenmann | 1935– | German | Schwankungen am Rand; Gran Torso; Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern (opera) | extended technique | |
François-Bernard Mâche | 1935– | French | |||
Nicholas Maw | 1935– | British | Odyssey; The World in the Evening | ||
Arvo Pärt | 1935– | Estonian | Tabula Rasa; Fratres; Summa; Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten | holy minimalism | |
Terry Riley | 1935– | American | In C | minimalism | |
Aulis Sallinen | 1935– | Finnish | 8 symphonies; The King Goes Forth to France (opera) | ||
La Monte Young | 1935– | American | The Well-Tuned Piano | minimalism, microtonal music, improvisation, Asian-music influence | |
Peter Schat | 1935–2003 | Dutch | |||
Gilbert Amy | 1936– | French | serialism, film music, electronic music; also a noted conductor | ||
Richard Rodney Bennett | 1936– | British | Also pianist | ||
Frans Geysen | 1936– | Belgian | Periferisch-Diagonaal-Concentrisch; Twee orgels | twelve-tone technique, minimalism, atonal | |
Steve Reich | 1936– | American | Piano Phase; Music for 18 Musicians | minimalism; Pulitzer Prize Winner | |
Aribert Reimann | 1936– | German | Vocal Music & Operas | ||
Robert Suderburg | 1936– | American | Concerto, Within the Mirror of Time, for piano and orchestra; Chamber Music VII ("Ceremonies") | ||
Cornelius Cardew | 1936–1981 | British | Treatise; The Great Learning | serialism, improvisation, aleatory | |
Osvaldas Balakauskas | 1937– | Lithuanian | 5 symphonies; concertos | ||
Azio Corghi | 1937– | Italian | Divara – Wasser und Blut (opera) | ||
Jean-Louis Petit | 1937– | French | |||
David Del Tredici | 1937– | American | Child Alice; Final Alice | Pulitzer Prize Winner | |
Philip Glass | 1937– | American | Violin Concerto; operas; 8 symphonies | minimalism | |
Walter Hekster | 1937– | Dutch | |||
Nikolai Kapustin | 1937– | Russian | |||
Bo Nilsson | 1937– | Swedish | |||
Valentin Silvestrov | 1937– | Ukrainian | Symphony No. 5 | ||
Yehuda Yannay | 1937– | American-Israeli | "At the End of the Parade" ; "Radiant Inner Light";Piano Concerto | extended techniques; multimedia; postmodern | |
Mesias Maiguashca | 1938- | Ecuadorian | F-Melodies; Ayayayayay | electronic music; spectralism | |
Bart Berman | 1938– | Dutch-Israeli | |||
William Bolcom | 1938– | American | Songs of Experience; Songs of Innocence | Pulitzer Prize Winner | |
Gloria Coates | 1938– | American | Music on Open Strings; 15 symphonies | ||
John Corigliano | 1938– | American | Symphony No. 2; A Dylan Thomas Trilogy; The Red Violin (film music) | polystylism | |
Alvin Curran | 1938– | American | For Cornelius; Songs and Views From the Magnetic Garden; Inner Cities | ||
John Harbison | 1938– | American | The Great Gatsby (opera) | Pulitzer Prize Winner | |
Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee | 1938– | American | |||
Frederic Rzewski | 1938– | American | The People United Will Never Be Defeated! | ||
Joan Tower | 1938– | American | Petroushskates; Concerto for Orchestra; Sequoia; Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman | Pianist with Da Capo Chamber Players | |
Jan Vriend | 1938– | Dutch | |||
Charles Wuorinen | 1938– | American | Time's Encomium; 8 symphonies; chamber music | twelve-tone technique, serialism; Pulitzer Prize Winner | |
Gregory Short | 1938–1998 | American | |||
Louis Andriessen | 1939– | Dutch | minimalism | ||
Wendy Carlos (Originally Walter Carlos) | 1939– | American | Switched-On Bach (Moog Synthesizer) | Electronic music (original and transcriptions) | |
Jonathan Harvey | 1939– | British | Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco; Advaya; Bhakti; Wheel of Emptiness | spectralism | |
Heinz Holliger | 1939– | Swiss | Schneewittchen (opera) | Also notable oboist | |
John McCabe | 1939– | British | Chagall Windows; symphonies; ballets; string quartets | Also notable pianist (Haydn, British composers) | |
Tomas Svoboda | 1939– | Czech | |||
Boris Tishchenko | 1939– | Russian | 7 symphonies | ||
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich | 1939– | American | 5 symphonies; Concertos; Chamber Music | Pulitzer Prize winner (1st woman to win) | |
Octavian Nemescu | 1940– | Romanian | orchestral, chamber, choral, electroacoustic, multimedia, metamusic, imaginary, and ritual works | ||
Frank Zappa | 1940–1993 | American | The Yellow Shark | also an electric guitarist | |
Jorge Peixinho | 1940–1995 | Portuguese | electronic music | ||
Konrad Boehmer | 1941– | Dutch (born in Germany) | Aspekt, Apocalipsis cum figuris, Doktor Faustus (opera) | serialism, jazz and rock music influence, electronic music | |
Paul Alan Levi | 1941– | American | |||
Emmanuel Nunes | 1941– | Portuguese | Machina Mundi; Quodlibet | electronic music | |
Stephen Albert | 1941–1992 | American | Symphony No. 1: Riverrun | Pulitzer Prize winner | |
Jon Lord | 1942– | British | Concerto for Group and Orchestra; Durham Concerto | member of Deep Purple | |
Paul McCartney | 1942– | British | Ecce Cor Meum | member of Beatles | |
John McGuire | 1942– | American | Pulse Music III; A Capella | electronic music, fusion of serialism and minimalism, postminimalism | |
Tomás Marco | 1942– | Spanish | Concierto del agua, for guitar and orchestra; 5 symphonies; String Quartet No. 3 ("Anatomía fractal de los ángeles"); Ojos verdes de luna | avant-garde, neoclassical, folk-music influence, eclectic | |
Jonathan Kramer | 1942–2004 | American | postmodernism | ||
Horaţiu Rădulescu | 1942–2008 | Romanian/French | six string quartets | spectralism | |
Gavin Bryars | 1943– | British | |||
Margriet Ehlen | 1943– | Dutch | |||
Brian Ferneyhough | 1943– | British | Etudes Transcendantales | New Complexity | |
Rolf Gehlhaar | 1943– | American | Sub rosa; Five German Dances | electronic music, sound installations | |
Robin Holloway | 1943– | British | |||
Bill McGlaughlin | 1943– | American | Remembering Icarus; Walt Whitman's Dream | ||
Krzysztof Meyer | 1943– | Polish | 12 string quartets | ||
Joseph Schwantner | 1943– | American | Aftertones of Infinity; A Sudden Rainbow | Pulitzer Prize Winner | |
Roger Smalley | 1943– | Australian (born British) | Pulses; 2 piano concertos | serialism, eclectic | |
Bill Hopkins | 1943–1981 | British | En Attendant; Sensation | ||
Ivan Tcherepnin | 1943–1998 | Russian | son of Alexander Tcherepnin | ||
Dennis Eberhard | 1943–2005 | American | |||
Peter Eötvös | 1944– | Hungarian | Love and Other Demons (opera) | eclectic, extended technique, electronic music, folk-music influence | |
York Höller | 1944– | German | Schwarze Halbinseln; Der Meister und Margarita (opera) | electronic music, serialism, Gestalt composition | |
Karl Jenkins | 1944– | Welsh | The Armed Man; Adiemus | ||
Pehr Henrik Nordgren | 1944– | Finnish | |||
Michael Nyman | 1944– | British | The Piano (film music) | Minimalism | |
Leif Segerstam | 1944– | Finnish | more than 150 symphonies | also a conductor | |
John Tavener | 1944– | British | Holy minimalism | ||
Luca Lombardi | 1945– | Italian | |||
Keith Jarrett | 1945– | American | also a jazz pianist | ||
John Rutter | 1945– | British | choral music | ||
Barry Schrader | 1945– | American | electro-acoustic | ||
Michael Finnissy | 1946– | British | New Complexity | ||
Ulrich Leyendecker | 1946– | German | 5 symphonies | ||
Robert Xavier Rodriguez | 1946– | American | |||
Pēteris Vasks | 1946– | Latvian | |||
Gérard Grisey | 1946–1998 | French | Transitoires; Modulations | spectral music | |
John Coolidge Adams | 1947– | American | Harmonielehre; Nixon in China (opera); Shaker Loops, Short Ride in a Fast Machine; Violin Concerto | Post-minimalism | |
John Hilliard | 1947– | American | |||
Tristan Murail | 1947– | French | Gondwana | spectral music | |
Karl Aage Rasmussen | 1947– | Danish | |||
Emil Tabakov | 1947– | Bulgarian | |||
Paul Patterson | 1947– | British | |||
Michael Berkeley | 1948– | British | son of Lennox Berkeley | ||
Andrew Lloyd Webber | 1948– | British | Cats (musical); Phantom of the Opera (musical) | ||
Claude Vivier | 1948–1983 | Canadian | Kopernikus: Rituel de la Mort (opera) | spectral music, Asian-music influence | |
Kalevi Aho | 1949– | Finnish | 14 symphonies | ||
Daniel Catan | 1949– | Mexican | Florencia en el Amazonas (opera); Rappaccini's Daughter (opera) | Neo-impressionism | |
Dan Locklair | 1949– | American | |||
Christopher Rouse | 1949– | American | Requiem; Karolju; Phantasmata; Gorgon; Oboe Concerto; 2 symphonies | Pulitzer Prize winner | |
Poul Ruders | 1949– | Danish | |||
Steven Stucky | 1949– | American | Son et Lumière; Concerto for Orchestra No. 2; Rhapsodies; August 4, 1964 | Pulitzer Prize winner | |
Kevin Volans | 1949– | South African | Hunting Gathering | ||
Arturo Márquez | 1950– | Mexican | Danzón no. 2 | ||
William Sweeney | 1950– | Scottish | folk-influenced | ||
António Pinho Vargas | 1951- | Portuguese | OS DIAS LEVANTADOS (1998) opera 8 singers | ||
Lorenzo Ferrero | 1951– | Italian | |||
Michael Rosenzweig | 1951– | South African | Symphony in One Movement; String Quartet No. 2 | ||
Doina Rotaru | 1951– | Romanian | Concerto for clarinet and orchestra (1984), "Florilegium", concerto for flute and flutes orchestra (1996), "Wings of Light" for 24 flutists (2000) | Modern | |
George Tsontakis | 1951– | American | |||
Oliver Knussen | 1952– | British | Symphony No. 2; Where the Wild Things Are (opera) | ||
Philippe Manoury | 1952– | French | 60th Parallel (opera) | ||
Dominic Muldowney | 1952– | British | |||
Alla Pavlova | 1952– | Russian | |||
Wolfgang Rihm | 1952– | German | 12 string quartets; Die Eroberung von Mexico (opera) | New Simplicity, expressionism | |
Kaija Saariaho | 1952– | Finnish | Orion | ||
Peter-Jan Wagemans | 1952– | Dutch | |||
John Luther Adams | 1953– | American | Various pieces inspired by Alaskan landscapes | not to be confused with John Coolidge Adams | |
Violeta Dinescu | 1953– | Romanian | Der 35. Mai (children's opera) | also a professor | |
Peter Scott Lewis | 1953– | American | |||
Wim Mertens | 1953– | Belgian | The belly of an architect (incl. Struggle for pleasure), Maximizing the audience | Minimalism | |
Roberto Sierra | 1953– | Puerto Rican | Missa Latina | ||
James Wood | 1953– | British | Stoicheia, Ho shang Yao | Microtonality, percussion, voice | |
Takashi Yoshimatsu | 1953– | Japanese | Symphony No. 2 | ||
John Zorn | 1953– | American | avant-garde | ||
Michael Daugherty | 1954– | American | UFO | ||
Paul Dirmeikis | 1954– | American | Message laisse á Pondichéry le 18 novembre 1973 | eclectic | |
Elliot Goldenthal | 1954– | American | |||
Arturo Rodas | 1954– | Franco-Ecuadorian | Arcaica for orchestra; 24.5 Preludes for piano; El Árbol de los Pájaros (The birds tree): instrumental, electroacoustics, multimedia | avant-garde, polystylism | |
Pawel Szymanski | 1954– | Polish | |||
Kyle Gann | 1955– | American | Just intonation | ||
Toshio Hosokawa | 1955– | Japanese | Circulating Ocean | Neo-impressionism | |
Michael Obst | 1955– | German | Solaris (opera) | electronic music | |
Bright Sheng | 1955– | Chinese | The Silver River (opera) | folk-influenced | |
Dror Elimelech | 1956– | Israeli | |||
Michael Gordon | 1956– | American | |||
Philip Grange | 1956– | British | |||
Jouni Kaipainen | 1956– | Finnish | |||
Graham Koehne | 1956– | Australian | Inflight Entertainment (oboe concerto); Tivoli Dances | ||
Tan Dun | 1957– | Chinese | Water Passion after St. Matthew; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (film music) | Extended technique, folk-influenced | |
David Lang | 1957– | American | The Little Match Girl Passion | ||
Paul Moravec | 1957– | American | Spiritdance; Chamber Symphony; Tempest Fantasy; The Time Gallery | Pulitzer Prize winner | |
Oscar van Dillen | 1958– | Dutch | |||
Magnus Lindberg | 1958– | Finnish | Kraft; Clarinet Concerto | ||
Esa-Pekka Salonen | 1958– | Finnish | LA Variations; Insomnia; | also a conductor | |
Thomas Simaku | 1958– | Albanian composer | |||
Davide Zannoni | 1958– | Italian | |||
James MacMillan | 1959– | British | The Sacrifice (opera); Veni veni Emmanuel (percussion concerto); The Confession of Isobel Gowdie; St. John Passion; 3 symphonies | ||
Shigeru Kan-no | 1959– | Japanese | Play Station Cycles; Simulation Cycles; 2 Violin Concertos; 3 Piano Concertos; 6 Chamber Symphonies; 6 Concerto Grossi; 7 Operas | also a conductor | |
Erkki-Sven Tüür | 1959– | Estonian | 6 symphonies; Violin Concerto; Piano Concerto; Searching for Roots | ||
George Benjamin | 1960– | British | Sudden Time; Antara | ||
Osvaldo Golijov | 1960– | Argentine | Mysticism | ||
Nigel Clarke | 1960– | British | |||
Alexander Shchetynsky | 1960– | Ukrainian | |||
Mark-Anthony Turnage | 1960– | British | Greek (opera); From All Sides (ballet); Mambo, Blue and Tarantella (violin concerto); From the Wreckage (trumpet concerto); Fractured Lines (percussion concerto); Five Views of a Mouth (flute concerto); A Fast Stomp | ||
Unsuk Chin | 1961– | South Korean | Alice in Wonderland (opera); Violin Concerto; snagS&Snarls | ||
Jake Heggie | 1961– | American | Dead Man Walking (opera); art songs | ||
Hanna Kulenty | 1961– | Polish | Ad Unum, Breathe, The Mother of Black Winged-Dreams (opera), Trumpet Concerto, String Quartet No.4 | ||
Erica Muhl | 1961– | American | Consolation | ||
Michael Torke | 1961– | American | Javelin; Rapture (percussion concerto); Ecstatic Orange | ||
Roman Turovsky | 1961– | Ukranian/American | Tombeau for Omelyan Kovch | historicist-Baroque | |
Isabel Soveral | 1961— | Portuguese | |||
Eurico Carrapatoso | 1962- | Portuguese | |||
Graham Waterhouse | 1962– | British | Quintet for Piccolo and String Quartet, Chieftain's Salute, Gestural Variations | also a cellist | |
Jennifer Higdon | 1962– | American | |||
Alexander Kaloian | 1962– | Armenian | |||
Andersen Viana | 1962– | Brazilian | |||
Edson Zampronha | 1963– | Brazilian | Lamenti, Recycling Collaging Sampling, Concert for Piano N.1, Modelagem X-a | ||
Luca Belcastro | 1964– | Italian | |||
Boris Böhmann | 1964– | German | also a conductor | ||
Richard Rijnvos | 1964– | Dutch | Block Beuys | ||
Georgia Spiropoulos | 1965– | Greek | Klama, for mixed choir & live electronics | Avant-garde | |
Mats Wendt | 1965– | Swedish | Eddan – The Invincible Sword of the Elf-Smith | ||
Roberto Carnevale | 1966– | Italian | Linae (1992–1995) | ||
Juan J. Colomer | 1966– | Spanish | La complicidad del espectro | ||
John Psathas | 1966– | New Zealand | music for the Olympic – Athens 2004 for full orchestra and choir | ||
Andreas Kunstein | 1967– | Dutch | |||
Salvatore Di Vittorio | 1967– | Italian | |||
Olga Neuwirth | 1968– | Austrian | Lost Highway | avant-garde | |
Roxanna Panufnik | 1968– | British | daughter of Andrzej Panufnik | ||
Pierre Kolp | 1969– | Belgian | avant-garde | ||
Daniel Felsenfeld | 1970– | American | Insomnia Redux | ||
Fazil Say | 1970– | Turkish | |||
Michel van der Aa | 1970– | Dutch | After Life (opera) | ||
Thomas Adès | 1971– | British | Powder Her Face (opera); Asyla; The Tempest (opera); Traced Overhead | ||
Michael Hersch | 1971– | American | Symphony No. 1; Fracta; Arraché | ||
Pawel Mykietyn | 1971– | Polish | |||
Hiba Kawas | 1972– | Lebanese | |||
André Ristic | 1972– | Canadian | |||
Lera Auerbach | 1973– | Russian | |||
J. Ryan Garber | 1973– | American | Parabolisms; Resonances | ||
Svitlana Azarova | 1976– | Ukrainian Dutch | Beyond Context (chamber orchestra) | ||
Jimmy Lopez | 1978– | Peruvian | Fiesta! (orchestra) | ||
Mehdi Hosseini | 1979– | Iranian | Symphony of Monody; Baluch | ||
William Barton | 1981– | Australian | Kalkadungu (jointly composed with Matthew Hudson) | ||
Edward Manukyan | 1981– | Armenian | Concerto for Piano and Orchestra | ||
Nico Muhly | 1981– | American | Mothertongue | ||
Richard Zarou | 1981– | American | "In From the Rain" | ||
Gilad Hochman | 1982– | Israeli | "Slightly Disturbed", monodrama for clarinet, violin and cello | ||
Alexander MacDonald | 1987– | Canadian | Quatre Esquisses Canadiennes pour clarinette et piano |