Usuário(a):Feliciomendes/p25
Aspeto
Name | Year of birth | Year of death | Nationality | Notable works | Remarks |
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Felix Draeseke | 1835 | 1913 | German | Tod und Sieg des Herrn | |
Elfrida Andrée | 1841 | 1929 | Swedish | Organ symphonies | |
Charles-Marie Widor | 1844 | 1937 | French | Symphonie pour orgue No. 5 and 7 more | |
Gabriel Fauré | 1845 | 1924 | French | Prométhée; Pénélope; Masques et bergamasques | |
Ella Adayevskaya | 1846 | 1926 | Russian | ||
Frances Allitsen | 1848 | 1912 | English | ||
Henri Duparc | 1848 | 1933 | French | ||
Vincent d'Indy | 1851 | 1931 | French | Symphony on a French Mountain Air; Ishtar | |
Charles Villiers Stanford | 1852 | 1924 | Irish | 7 symphonies | Romanticism |
Leoš Janáček | 1854 | 1928 | Czech | Sinfonietta; Taras Bulba; operas; 2 string quartets | folk-influenced |
Moritz Moszkowski | 1854 | 1925 | German-Polish | Many groups of short piano pieces | |
Anatoly Lyadov | 1855 | 1914 | Russian | Programmatic tone poems, Variations and miniatures | |
Christian Sinding | 1856 | 1941 | Norwegian | Rustle of Spring | Romanticism |
Cécile Chaminade | 1857 | 1944 | French | Concertino for Flute | |
Rosalind Ellicott | 1857 | 1924 | English | ||
Edward Elgar | 1857 | 1934 | English | Symphony No. 1 and No. 2; Violin Concerto; Cello Concerto; The Dream of Gerontius; Enigma Variations; Pomp and Circumstance Marches | Romanticism |
Mélanie Bonis | 1858 | 1937 | French | ||
Giacomo Puccini | 1858 | 1924 | Italian | La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly | Romanticism |
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov | 1859 | 1935 | Russian | Caucasian Sketches | |
Ethel Smyth | 1858 | 1944 | English | The Wreckers | |
Hedwige Chrétien | 1859 | 1944 | French | ||
Isaac Albéniz | 1860 | 1909 | Spanish | Suite española | Romanticism |
Valborg Aulin | 1860 | 1928 | Swedish | ||
Gustave Charpentier | 1860 | 1956 | French | Louise (opera) | |
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 | Also Prime Minister of Poland (1919) |
Claude Debussy | 1862 | 1918 | French | Clair de lune; Syrinx; La mer; Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune; Préludes | Impressionism |
Frederick Delius | 1862 | 1934 | English | The Walk to the Paradise Garden from A Village Romeo and Juliet (opera); On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring | Impressionism |
Alberto Williams | 1862 | 1952 | Argentine | 136 works (9 symphonies) | Folk music influences |
Pietro Mascagni | 1863 | 1945 | Italian | Cavalleria rusticana (opera) | Romanticism |
Eugen d'Albert | 1864 | 1932 | Russian | Tiefland (opera) | Romanticism |
Hugh Blair | 1864 | 1932 | English | Magnificat; Nunc Dimittis for double choir | |
Alexander Gretchaninov | 1864 | 1956 | Russian | 5 symphonies; Passion Week | Romanticism, later Neo-classicism |
Guy Ropartz | 1864 | 1955 | French | Impressionism | |
Richard Strauss | 1864 | 1949 | German | An Alpine Symphony; Also sprach Zarathustra; Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks; Der Rosenkavalier (opera); Oboe Concerto, Salome (opera); Ein Heldenleben | Romanticism |
Eduardo di Capua | 1865 | 1917 | Italian | ||
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 (ballet); Violin Concerto; Saxophone Concerto | Romanticism |
Albéric Magnard | 1865 | 1914 | French | Guercoeur (opera), 4 Symphonies, String Quartet | Called the "French Bruckner" |
Carl Nielsen | 1865 | 1931 | Danish | Symphony No. 4, and No. 5; Maskarade (opera); Clarinet Concerto | father of Danish classical music |
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 |
Francesco Cilea | 1866 | 1950 | Italian | L'arlesiana (opera); Adriana Lecouvreur (opera) | |
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 |
Amy Beach | 1867 | 1944 | American | ||
Umberto Giordano | 1867 | 1948 | Italian | Andrea Chénier (opera) | Verismo |
Enrique Granados | 1867 | 1916 | Spanish | ||
Charles Koechlin | 1867 | 1950 | French | ||
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger | 1867 | 1942 | Swedish | 5 symphonies; Frösöblomster | Romantic nationalism |
Hermann Bischoff | 1868 | 1936 | German | 2 symphonies | |
Oskar Merikanto | 1868 | 1924 | Finnish | ||
Hans Pfitzner | 1869 | 1949 | German | Palestrina (opera) | |
Albert Roussel | 1869 | 1937 | French | Symphony No. 3 and No. 4; Bacchus et Ariane (ballet) | Neo-classicism |
Henry Eichheim | 1870 | 1942 | American | ||
Leopold Godowsky | 1870 | 1938 | Polish | ||
Alfred Hill | 1870 | 1960 | Australian | ||
Franz Lehár | 1870 | 1948 | Hungarian | operettas | |
Vítězslav Novák | 1870 | 1949 | Czech | ||
Florent Schmitt | 1870 | 1958 | French | ||
Charles Tournemire | 1870 | 1939 | French | 8 symphonies, organ music | |
Louis Vierne | 1870 | 1937 | French | ||
Wilhelm Stenhammar | 1871 | 1927 | Swedish | Symphony No. 2; 6 String Quartets; piano music | Romanticism |
Alexander von Zemlinsky | 1871 | 1942 | Austrian | Lyric Symphony and other orchestral works; operas | Romanticism |
Hugo Alfvén | 1872 | 1960 | Swedish | Symphony No. 4: From the Outermost Skerries; Midsummer Vigil | Romanticism |
Stanislav Binički | 1872 | 1942 | Serbian | Marš na Drinu | |
Julius Fučík | 1872 | 1916 | Czech | Entrance of the Gladiators | |
Alexander Scriabin | 1872 | 1915 | Russian | The Poem of Ecstasy; Prometheus: The Poem of Fire; 10 piano sonatas | Mysticism |
Ralph Vaughan Williams | 1872 | 1958 | English | A Sea Symphony; A London Symphony; Sinfonia antartica; Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Fantasia on Greensleeves | folk-influenced |
Joseph Jongen | 1873 | 1953 | Belgian | Symphonie Concertante for organ and orchestra | |
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 |
Jean Roger-Ducasse | 1873 | 1954 | French | ||
Nikolai Tcherepnin | 1873 | 1945 | Russian | father of Alexander Tcherepnin | |
Max Reger | 1873 | 1916 | German | organ music, Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart, Hebbel Requiem | Romanticism |
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 |
Gustav Holst | 1874 | 1934 | English | The Planets; Beni Mora; Egdon Heath | |
Franz Schmidt | 1874 | 1939 | Austrian | The Book with Seven Seals; 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 |
Josef Suk | 1874 | 1935 | Czech | Asrael Symphony; A Winter's Tale | |
Franco Alfano | 1875 | 1954 | Italian | ||
Julián Carrillo | 1875 | 1965 | Mexican | 13th sound | Microtonal music |
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor | 1875 | 1912 | English | The Song of Hiawatha (cantata) | |
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis | 1875 | 1911 | Lithuanian | ||
Reinhold Glière | 1875 | 1956 | Russian | Symphony No. 3: Ilya Muromets | Romanticism |
Albert Ketèlbey | 1875 | 1959 | English | In a Persian Market | |
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 |
Hakon Børresen | 1876 | 1954 | Danish | romanticism | |
Havergal Brian | 1876 | 1972 | English | more than 30 symphonies, including the Gothic Symphony | |
John Alden Carpenter | 1876 | 1951 | American | ||
Mieczysław Karłowicz | 1876 | 1909 | Polish | Stanislaw i Anna Oświęcimovie, 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 |
Carl Ruggles | 1876 | 1971 | American | Sun-Treader | |
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari | 1876 | 1948 | Italian | Several comic operas | |
Sergei Bortkiewicz | 1877 | 1952 | Russian (Ukrainian-born) | ||
Ernő Dohnányi | 1877 | 1960 | Hungarian | Variations on a Nursery Tune | Romanticism |
Sigfrid Karg-Elert | 1877 | 1933 | German | organ and harmonium works | |
Rutland Boughton | 1878 | 1960 | English | ||
André Caplet | 1878 | 1925 | French | ||
Mabel Wheeler Daniels | 1878 | 1971 | American | ||
Joseph Holbrooke | 1878 | 1958 | English | ||
Franz Schreker | 1878 | 1934 | Austrian | Several operas | |
Frank Bridge | 1879 | 1941 | English | Enter Spring; The Sea | Impressionism, later Expressionism; mentor of Benjamin Britten |
Joseph Canteloube | 1879 | 1957 | French | Chants d'Auvergne | |
Jean Cras | 1879 | 1932 | French | ||
Maurice Delage | 1879 | 1961 | French | ||
Hamilton Harty | 1879 | 1941 | Irish | An Irish Symphony; With the Wild Geese | |
John Ireland | 1879 | 1962 | English | Piano Concerto in E flat | |
Ottorino Respighi | 1879 | 1936 | Italian | The Fountains of Rome; The Pines of Rome | Impressionism, Neo-Baroque |
Cyril Scott | 1879 | 1970 | English | 4 Symphonies; much piano music | |
Ernest Bloch | 1880 | 1959 | American (Swiss-born) | Schelomo; Suite hébraïque | |
Edgar Thomas Cook | 1880 | 1953 | |||
Nikolai Medtner | 1880 | 1951 | Russian | 3 piano concertos | Romanticism |
Ildebrando Pizzetti | 1880 | 1968 | Italian | Assassinio nella cattedrale and other operas; orchestral and chamber music | |
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 |
Nancy Dalberg | 1881 | 1949 | Danish | String Quartet No. 2 | |
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 |
Jan van Gilse | 1881 | 1944 | Dutch | Thijl, 5 symphonies | |
Nikolai Myaskovsky | 1881 | 1950 | Russian | 27 symphonies | Romanticism; father of the Russian symphony |
Nikolai Roslavets | 1881 | 1944 | Russian | ||
Marion Bauer | 1882 | 1955 | American | ||
Percy Grainger | 1882 | 1961 | Australian | Country Gardens, Irish Tune from County Derry, Lincolnshire Posy | folk-influenced |
Zoltán Kodály | 1882 | 1967 | Hungarian | Háry János; Dances of Galanta | folk-influenced |
Gian Francesco Malipiero | 1882 | 1973 | Italian | 11 symphonies | |
Geoffrey O'Hara | 1882 | 1967 | Canadian | ||
Manuel Ponce | 1882 | 1948 | Mexican | Concierto del sur for guitar and orchestra, guitar and piano pieces, songs (especially "Estrellita"), and folk-song arrangements | |
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 |
Karol Szymanowski | 1882 | 1937 | Polish | Symphony No. 3 and No. 4; Violin Concerto No. 1 and No. 2 | Impressionism, later folk-influenced |
Joaquín Turina | 1882 | 1949 | Spanish | ||
Arnold Bax | 1883 | 1953 | English | Symphony No. 2, No. 3, and No. 6; Tintagel | Romanticism, Impressionism |
Alfredo Casella | 1883 | 1947 | Italian | ||
George Dyson | 1883 | 1964 | English | Symphony in G major; sacred choral works | |
Manolis Kalomiris | 1883 | 1962 | Greek | ||
Robert Graham Manson | 1883 | 1950 | British | ||
Jules Van Nuffel | 1883 | 1953 | Belgian | In convertendo Dominus; Tedeum | |
Edgard Varèse | 1883 | 1965 | French | Amériques; Ionisation; Arcana; Density 21.5 | Musique concrète, Electronic music |
Anton Webern | 1883 | 1945 | Austrian | Symphony; Passacaglia; Six Pieces for Orchestra | Serialism; pupil of Arnold Schoenberg |
Juhan Aavik | 1884 | 1982 | Estonian | ||
Dina Appeldoorn | 1884 | 1938 | Dutch | ||
May Brahe | 1884 | 1956 | Australian | Bless This House and other songs | |
Max Brod | 1884 | 1968 | Czech-Jewish | ||
Charles Griffes | 1884 | 1920 | American | White Peacock, The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan | impressionism |
Louis Gruenberg | 1884 | 1964 | Russian | Violin Concerto; 5 symphonies; The Emperor Jones (opera) | |
Ture Rangström | 1884 | 1947 | Swedish | 4 symphonies; 3 operas | |
Alban Berg | 1885 | 1935 | Austrian | Violin Concerto; Wozzeck; Lyric Suite | Serialism, Romanticism; pupil of Arnold Schoenberg |
George Butterworth | 1885 | 1916 | English | ||
Dora Pejačević | 1885 | 1923 | Croatian | Symphony in F Sharp Minor, Phantasie Concertante | |
Wallingford Riegger | 1885 | 1961 | American | Symphony No. 3 | |
Egon Wellesz | 1885 | 1974 | Austrian | 9 symphonies | |
Joseph Achron | 1886 | 1943 | Russian | Hebrew Melody | |
Edward Ballantine | 1886 | 1971 | American | Variations on "Mary Had a Little Lamb" for piano | |
John J. Becker | 1886 | 1961 | American | ||
Rebecca Helferich Clarke | 1886 | 1979 | English | ||
Eric Coates | 1886 | 1957 | English | light music | |
Marcel Dupré | 1886 | 1971 | French | organ music | |
Jesús Guridi | 1886 | 1961 | Spanish | Sinfonia pirenaica | |
Paul Paray | 1886 | 1979 | French | Mass for the 500th Anniversary of the Death of Joan of Arc | |
Othmar Schoeck | 1886 | 1957 | Swiss | Penthesilea and other operas and vocal music | |
Kurt Atterberg | 1887 | 1974 | Swedish | Symphony No. 6 "Dollar Symphony" | |
Nadia Boulanger | 1887 | 1979 | French | ||
Mildred Couper | 1887 | 1974 | American | quarter tone | |
Heino Eller | 1887 | 1970 | Estonian | ||
Leevi Madetoja | 1887 | 1947 | Finnish | ||
Ernst Toch | 1887 | 1964 | German | 7 symphonies | |
Heitor Villa-Lobos | 1887 | 1959 | Brazilian | Bachianas brasileiras; guitar music | Neo-classicism, folk-influenced |
Johanna Beyer | 1888 | 1944 | German-American | ||
Cecil Coles | 1888 | 1918 | Scottish | ||
Matthijs Vermeulen | 1888 | 1967 | Dutch | 7 symphonies | |
Grigoraş 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 | |
Jacques Ibert | 1890 | 1962 | French | Escales; Bacchanale; Flute Concerto | neoclassicism |
Frank Martin | 1890 | 1974 | Swiss | Ballade for flute and piano | |
Bohuslav Martinů | 1890 | 1959 | Czech | Symphonies Nos. 3 and 6; Gilgamesh (oratorio); chamber music | neoclassicism, folk-influenced |
Gösta Nystroem | 1890 | 1966 | Swedish | ||
Arthur Bliss | 1891 | 1975 | English | A Colour Symphony | |
Claude Champagne | 1891 | 1965 | Canadian | ||
Marcel Grandjany | 1891 | 1975 | French | Pieces for harp; Headed Harp Dept at Fontainebleau & Juilliard) | Noted harpist and teacher |
Mihail Jora | 1891 | 1971 | Romanian | ||
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; Peter and the Wolf; 9 piano sonatas | neoclassicism |
Hendrik Andriessen | 1892 | 1981 | Dutch | father of Louis Andriessen | |
Ferde Grofé | 1892 | 1972 | American | Grand Canyon Suite | |
Arthur Honegger | 1892 | 1955 | Swiss | Symphony No. 3 "Liturgique"; Pacific 231; Les Misérables (film music) | neoclassicism |
Herbert Howells | 1892 | 1983 | English | Hymnus paradisi | |
László Lajtha | 1892 | 1963 | Hungarian | 9 symphonies | |
Darius Milhaud | 1892 | 1974 | French | La Création du Monde; Le Bœuf sur le toit | jazz-influenced, neoclassical |
Hilding Rosenberg | 1892 | 1985 | Swedish | 8 symphonies; Violin Concerto | |
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji | 1892 | 1988 | English | Opus Clavicembalisticum | neoclassical, new age |
Germaine Tailleferre | 1892 | 1983 | French | ||
Jean Absil | 1893 | 1974 | Belgian | ||
Arthur Benjamin | 1893 | 1960 | Australian | Jamaican Rhumba, operas, film scores, chamber works | |
Lili Boulanger | 1893 | 1918 | French | ||
Alois Hába | 1893 | 1973 | Czech | Matka (opera) | microtonal |
Rued Langgaard | 1893 | 1952 | Danish | 16 symphonies | |
Federico Mompou | 1893 | 1987 | Spanish | piano music | |
Douglas Moore | 1893 | 1969 | American | The Ballad of Baby Doe (opera), The Devil and Daniel Webster (folk opera) | |
Leo Ornstein | 1893 | 2002 | American | Wild Mens Dance, Suicide in an Airplane, 5 piano sonatas, Piano Quintet, 3 String Quartets | Avant-garde, later Neoromanticism |
Krešimir Baranović | 1894 | 1975 | Yugoslav | ||
Robert Russell Bennett | 1894 | 1981 | American | Broadway arrangements; pieces for band | |
Sabin Drăgoi | 1894 | 1968 | Romanian | Piano Concerto | |
Ernest John Moeran | 1894 | 1950 | English | Symphony in G minor | folk-influenced |
Willem Pijper | 1894 | 1947 | Dutch | 3 symphonies; Six Adagios; Piano Concerto | atonal |
Walter Piston | 1894 | 1976 | American | The Incredible Flutist (ballet); Symphony No. 2 and No. 6 | Neo-classicism |
Erwin Schulhoff | 1894 | 1942 | Czech | 6 symphonies | |
Mark Wessel | 1894 | 1973 | American | The King of Babylon; Concertino for Flute or Violin and Orchestra | |
Henriëtte Bosmans | 1895 | 1952 | Dutch | ||
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco | 1895 | 1968 | Italian | guitar music | |
Juan José Castro | 1895 | 1968 | Argentine | ||
Georges Dandelot | 1895 | 1975 | French | ||
Johann Nepomuk David | 1895 | 1977 | Austrian | 8 symphonies | neoclassical |
Paul Hindemith | 1895 | 1963 | German | Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Weber; Mathis der Maler (opera); Ludus Tonalis | Neo-Baroque, neoclassicism |
Gordon Jacob | 1895 | 1984 | English | ||
Borys Lyatoshynsky | 1895 | 1968 | Ukrainian | 5 symphonies | |
Carl Orff | 1895 | 1982 | German | Carmina Burana | |
Leo Sowerby | 1895 | 1968 | American | Choral music; Organ works; 5 symphonies; Chamber works | |
Shirley Graham Du Bois | 1896 | 1977 | American | ||
Robert Gerhard | 1896 | 1970 | Spanish | 4 symphonies | |
Howard Hanson | 1896 | 1981 | American | 7 symphonies | Romanticism |
Roger Sessions | 1896 | 1985 | American | 9 symphonies, Violin Concerto, Montezuma (opera) | neoclassicism, twelve-tone technique |
Tadeusz Szeligowski | 1896 | 1963 | Polish | ||
Virgil Thomson | 1896 | 1989 | American | Four Saints in Three Acts, The Mother of Us All; Louisiana Story; also noted critic | folk-influenced, eclectic |
Paul Ben-Haim | 1897 | 1984 | Israeli | ||
Gaspar Cassadó | 1897 | 1966 | Spanish | Toccata, Requiebros | |
Henry Cowell | 1897 | 1965 | American | The Tides of Manaunaun, Dynamic Motion | eclectic, experimental |
Oscar Lorenzo Fernández | 1897 | 1948 | Brazilian | "Batuque" from Malazarte (opera), two symphonies | nationalism |
Erich Wolfgang Korngold | 1897 | 1957 | Austrian | Violin Concerto; film music | |
Quincy Porter | 1897 | 1966 | American | ||
Alexandre Tansman | 1897 | 1986 | Polish | ||
Hanns Eisler | 1898 | 1962 | German/Austrian | Auferstanden aus Ruinen (Eastern Germany national anthem) | |
George Gershwin | 1898 | 1937 | American | Rhapsody in Blue; Piano Concerto; An American in Paris; Porgy and Bess (opera) | jazz-influenced |
Roy Harris | 1898 | 1979 | American | Symphony No. 3 | |
Lev Knipper | 1898 | 1974 | Russian | ||
Alexander Abramsky | 1898 | 1985 | Russian | 1941 piano concerto | folk-influenced |
Vittorio Rieti | 1898 | 1994 | Italian | ||
Georges Auric | 1899 | 1983 | French | ||
Carlos Chávez | 1899 | 1978 | Mexican | 6 symphonies | folk-influenced |
Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté | 1899 | 1974 | Russian-born Canadian | ||
George Frederick McKay | 1899 | 1970 | American | ||
Francis Poulenc | 1899 | 1963 | French | Babar the Elephant; Flute Sonata Stabat Mater | neoclassicism |
Silvestre Revueltas | 1899 | 1940 | Mexican | Sensemayá | |
Alexander Tcherepnin | 1899 | 1977 | Russian | ||
Randall Thompson | 1899 | 1984 | American | Alleluia; The Testament of Freedom; other choral works; 3 Symphonies; 2 String Quartets | |
George Antheil | 1900 | 1959 | American | Ballet mécanique; Symphony No. 4 | Avant-garde, later neoclassical |
Willy Burkhard | 1900 | 1955 | Swiss | ||
Alan Bush | 1900 | 1995 | English | ||
Aaron Copland | 1900 | 1990 | American | Appalachian Spring (ballet); Billy the Kid (ballet); Rodeo (ballet); Fanfare for the Common Man; Clarinet Concerto | neoclassical, folk-influenced, jazz-influenced, early twelve-tone, later serialism |
Isadore Freed | 1900 | 1960 | Belarusian-born American | ||
Uuno Klami | 1900 | 1961 | Finnish | Sea Pictures; Kalevala Suite | |
Ernst Krenek | 1900 | 1991 | Austrian | Jonny spielt auf, Karl V | neoclassical, twelve-tone, later serial, neoromantic, eclectic |
Colin McPhee | 1900 | 1964 | Canadian | Tabuh-Tabuhan: Toccata for Orchestra | folk-influenced |
Alexander Mosolov | 1900 | 1973 | Russian | Iron Foundry | Avant-garde |
Kurt Weill | 1900 | 1950 | German | Symphony No. 2; musicals | neoclassical |
Blaž Arnič | 1901 | 1970 | Slovenian | neoromanticism | |
Ruth Crawford Seeger | 1901 | 1953 | American | String Quartet | modernism |
Werner Egk | 1901 | 1983 | German | ||
Gerald Finzi | 1901 | 1956 | English | Cello Concerto; songs | neoromantic |
Lillian Fuchs | 1901 | 1995 | American | ||
Harry Partch | 1901 | 1974 | American | Daphne of the Dunes, Revelation in the Courthouse Park | microtonal, just intonation, self-built instruments |
Joaquín Rodrigo | 1901 | 1999 | Spanish | Concierto de Aranjuez; guitar music | neoclassical, folk music influence |
Edmund Rubbra | 1901 | 1986 | English | 11 symphonies; Violin Concerto | |
Henri Sauguet | 1901 | 1989 | French | 4 symphonies | |
Henri Tomasi | 1901 | 1971 | French | ||
Theodore Chanler | 1902 | 1961 | American | ||
Maurice Duruflé | 1902 | 1986 | French | Requiem; organ music | |
Vissarion Shebalin | 1902 | 1963 | Russian | ||
John Vincent | 1902 | 1977 | American | Consort for Piano and Strings | neoclassical |
William Walton | 1902 | 1983 | English | Symphony No. 1; Violin Concerto; Viola Concerto; Variations on a Theme by Hindemith; Belshazzar's Feast (oratorio) | avant-garde (early), neoromantic, neoclassical |
Stefan Wolpe | 1902 | 1972 | German | serial | |
Claude Arrieu | 1903 | 1990 | French | ||
Lennox Berkeley | 1903 | 1989 | English | 4 symphonies | neoclassical, later serial |
Boris Blacher | 1903 | 1975 | German | ||
Jens Bjerre Jacobsen | 1903 | 1986 | Danish | ||
Luis H. Salgado | 1903 | 1977 | Ecuadorian | Sanjuanito futurista; Eunice (opera); Cumandá (opera); 9 symphonies | folk-influenced, modernist |
Avril Coleridge-Taylor | 1903 | 1998 | English | ||
Vernon Duke | 1903 | 1969 | Russian | jazz-influenced | |
Vittorio Giannini | 1903 | 1966 | Italian | operas, symphonic & band works | neoclassical |
Aram Khachaturian | 1903 | 1978 | Armenian | Gayane (ballet, includes Sabre Dance); Spartacus (ballet); concertos | |
Ervin Nyíregyházi | 1903 | 1987 | Hungarian | Romanticism | |
Mario Pilati | 1903 | 1938 | Italian | Piedigrotta (opera) | |
Priaulx Rainier | 1903 | 1986 | South African / English | Ploërmel, Quanta, String Trio | |
Richard Addinsell | 1904 | 1977 | British | Warsaw Concerto | |
John Antill | 1904 | 1986 | Australian | Corroboree (ballet suite) | |
Walter Bricht | 1904 | 1970 | Austrian | Romanticism | |
Luigi Dallapiccola | 1904 | 1975 | Italian | Il prigioniero and other operas | 12-Tone |
Dmitry Kabalevsky | 1904 | 1987 | Russian | The Comedians | |
Goffredo Petrassi | 1904 | 2003 | Italian | ||
Gavriil Popov | 1904 | 1972 | Russian | Chamber Symphony; Symphony No. 1 | |
Nikolaos Skalkottas | 1904 | 1949 | Greek | twelve-tone, folk music influence | |
Heikki Aaltoila | 1905 | 1975 | Finnish | ||
William Alwyn | 1905 | 1985 | English | 5 symphonies; Lyra Angelica; Elizabethan Dances | neoromantic |
Marc Blitzstein | 1905 | 1964 | American | The Cradle Will Rock (musical) | |
Eugène Bozza | 1905 | 1991 | French | ||
Mario Braggiotti | 1905 | 1996 | American (Italian-born) | ||
Ferenc Farkas | 1905 | 2000 | Hungarian | ||
Karl Amadeus Hartmann | 1905 | 1963 | German | 8 symphonies | |
André Jolivet | 1905 | 1974 | French | ||
Constant Lambert | 1905 | 1951 | English | The Rio Grande | popular music influence, jazz influence |
Walter Leigh | 1905 | 1942 | English | Concertino for Harpsichord and Strings; Agincourt; Jolly Roger; Music for Strings | neoclassical |
Alan Rawsthorne | 1905 | 1971 | English | 3 symphonies; concertos; Symphonic Studies | neoclassical |
Giacinto Scelsi | 1905 | 1988 | Italian | Quattro pezzi chiascuno su una nota sola | |
Michael Tippett | 1905 | 1998 | English | The Midsummer Marriage; 4 symphonies; A Child of Our Time (oratorio) | |
Eduard Tubin | 1905 | 1982 | Estonian | 11 symphonies | |
Xian Xinghai | 1905 | 1945 | Chinese | Yellow River Cantata | |
Ahn Eak-tai | 1906 | 1965 | Korean | Aegukga | |
Daniel Ayala Pérez | 1906 | 1975 | Mexican | Tribu (symphonic poem) | |
Franz Biebl | 1906 | 2001 | German | Ave Maria | |
Alejandro García Caturla | 1906 | 1940 | Cuban | ||
Arnold Cooke | 1906 | 2005 | British | ||
Paul Creston | 1906 | 1985 | Italian-American | 6 symphonies | neoclassical |
Claire Delbos | 1906 | 1959 | French | ||
Antal Doráti | 1906 | 1988 | American | ||
Klaus Egge | 1906 | 1979 | Norwegian | ||
Ulvi Cemal Erkin | 1906 | 1972 | Turkish | ||
Eric Fenby | 1906 | 1997 | English | ||
Benjamin Frankel | 1906 | 1973 | English | ||
Jānis Ivanovs | 1906 | 1983 | Latvian | 21 symphonies | neoromantic |
Elisabeth Lutyens | 1906 | 1983 | English | ||
Alexander Moyzes | 1906 | 1984 | Slovakian | 12 symphonies | |
Dmitri Shostakovich | 1906 | 1975 | Russian | 15 symphonies including 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; The Gadfly Suite | neoclassical, neoromantic |
Louise Talma | 1906 | 1996 | American | ||
Grace Williams | 1906 | 1977 | Welsh | ||
David Van Vactor | 1906 | 1994 | American | 7 symphonies | |
Henk Badings | 1907 | 1987 | Dutch | ||
Wolfgang Fortner | 1907 | 1987 | German | ||
Camargo Guarnieri | 1907 | 1993 | Brazilian | ||
Elizabeth Maconchy | 1907 | 1994 | English | ||
Hisato Ohzawa | 1907 | 1953 | Japanese | ||
Miklós Rózsa | 1907 | 1995 | Hungarian | concertos; Ben-Hur (film music); Spellbound (film music) | folk-influenced |
Ahmed Adnan Saygun | 1907 | 1991 | Turkish | 5 symphonies | |
Martin Scherber | 1907 | 1974 | |||
Necil Kazım Akses | 1908 | 1999 | Turkish | ||
Leroy Anderson | 1908 | 1975 | American | Sleigh Ride; Blue Tango; Jazz Pizzicato; Irish Suite; Suites of Carols | |
Elliott Carter | 1908 | American | Variations for Orchestra; A Symphony of Three Orchestras; 5 string quartets | neoclassical (early), modernist | |
Jean Coulthard | 1908 | 2000 | Canadian | ||
Gustav Ernesaks | 1908 | 1993 | Estonian | ||
Herman David Koppel | 1908 | 1998 | Danish | 13 symphonies | neoclassical |
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 |
Geirr Tveitt | 1908 | 1981 | Norwegian | 6 piano concertos | folk-influenced |
Grażyna Bacewicz | 1909 | 1969 | Polish | ||
Gunnar Berg | 1909 | 1989 | Danish (Swiss-born) | Suite for cello | serialism |
Jean Berger | 1909 | 2002 | American (German-born) | ||
Paul Constantinescu | 1909 | 1963 | Romanian | ||
Vagn Holmboe | 1909 | 1996 | Danish | 13 symphonies | neoclassicism |
Ljubica Marić | 1909 | 2003 | Serb | Sounds of Space; Ostinato Super Thema Octoicha; Threshold of Dream | post-modernism |
Elie Siegmeister | 1909 | 1991 | American | 9 operas; 8 symphonies; Western Suite (premiered by Toscanini); song cycles | |
Samuel Barber | 1910 | 1981 | American | Adagio for Strings; Violin Concerto; Symphony in One Movement; Vanessa (opera) | Romanticism |
Ronald Binge | 1910 | 1979 | British | light music | |
Patricia Blomfield Holt | 1910 | 2003 | Canadian | ||
Paul Bowles | 1910 | 1999 | American | ||
Francis Judd Cooke | 1910 | 1995 | American | ||
Rolf Liebermann | 1910 | 1999 | Swiss | Leonore 40/45 (opera); Concerto for Jazzband and Symphony Orchestra | |
Herbert Owen Reed | 1910 | American | La Fiesta Mexicana | folk-influenced | |
Pierre Schaeffer | 1910 | 1995 | French | Musique concrète | |
William Schuman | 1910 | 1992 | American | Symphonies; ballets; band pieces; chamber works; New England Triptych | |
Jehan Alain | 1911 | 1940 | French | Organ music | |
Gábor Darvas | 1911 | 1985 | Hungarian | electronic music | |
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 |
Allan Pettersson | 1911 | 1980 | Swedish | 17 symphonies | Neo-romanticism |
Nino Rota | 1911 | 1979 | Italian | Vocal, orchestral and chamber music, The Godfather (film score), Romeo & Juliet (film score), 8½ (film score) | |
John Cage | 1912 | 1992 | American | 4'33"; Sonatas and Interludes | Aleatoric music, extended technique, prepared Piano |
Arthur Berger | 1912 | 2003 | American | ||
Alfred Desenclos | 1912 | 1971 | French | ||
Arkady Filippenko | 1912 | 1983 | Ukrainian | ||
Jean Françaix | 1912 | 1997 | French | ||
Don Gillis | 1912 | 1978 | American | Symphony No. 5½ | |
Peggy Glanville-Hicks | 1912 | 1990 | Australian | Etruscan Concerto; The Transposed Heads (opera); Nausicaa (opera) | |
Carlos Guastavino | 1912 | 2000 | Argentine | ||
Daniel Jones | 1912 | 1993 | Welsh | ||
Igor Markevitch | 1912 | 1983 | Ukrainian | ||
José Pablo Moncayo | 1912 | 1958 | Mexican | Huapango | |
Xavier Montsalvatge | 1912 | 2002 | Spanish | ||
Conlon Nancarrow | 1912 | 1997 | American-Mexican | Studies for player-piano | |
Violet Archer | 1913 | 2000 | Canadian | ||
Margaret Bonds | 1913 | 1972 | American | ||
Henry Brant | 1913 | 2008 | Canadian-American | Orbits, Verticals Ascending, Angels and Devils | spatial music |
Benjamin Britten | 1913 | 1976 | English | War Requiem; Sinfonia da Requiem; Peter Grimes (opera); Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra; Cello Symphony | Neo-classicism |
Peggy Stuart Coolidge | 1913 | 1981 | American | Spirituals in Sunshine and Shadow, New England Autumn | folk- and blues-influenced |
Vivian Fine | 1913 | 2000 | American | ||
Alvin Etler | 1913 | 1973 | American | ||
Ernest van der Eyken | 1913 | 2010 | Belgian | Elegie voor Bieke | |
Morton Gould | 1913 | 1996 | American | Concert music; Film & TV scores | |
George Lloyd | 1913 | 1998 | English | 12 symphonies; 7 Concerti; 4 works for Brass Band | |
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 |
Maurice Ohana | 1913 | 1992 | French | ||
Constantin Silvestri | 1913 | 1969 | Romanian | ||
Cecil Effinger | 1914 | 1990 | American | Little Symphony No. 1; Four Pastorales for oboe and chorus | neoclassicism |
Irving Fine | 1914 | 1963 | American | serial | |
Wilfrid Mellers | 1914 | 2008 | English | ||
Andrzej Panufnik | 1914 | 1991 | Polish | 10 symphonies | |
Harold Truscott | 1914 | 1992 | |||
David Diamond | 1915 | 2005 | American | 11 symphonies; 10 String Quartets and other Chamber works | neoclassicism |
Vítězslava Kaprálová | 1915 | 1940 | Czech | Military Sinfonietta | |
Douglas Lilburn | 1915 | 2001 | New Zealander | 3 symphonies; Aotearoa | |
Vincent Persichetti | 1915 | 1987 | American | Symphonies & band works; 25 Parables for solo instruments; vocal & chamber works | neoclassicism; noted teacher |
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; Chełm; Leaves of Grass | Opera, Classical music Liturgical music, Film scores |
Earl Wild | 1915 | 2010 | American | Sonata 2000; Doo-Dah Variations; numerous piano transcriptions | also a concert pianist |
Denis ApIvor | 1916 | 2004 | British | ||
Milton Babbitt | 1916 | American | Composition for Four Instruments; six string quartets; Philomel | serialism, electronic music | |
Henri Dutilleux | 1916 | French | 2 symphonies; Timbres, espace, mouvement; Tout un Monde Lointain; The Shadows of Time | Neo-impressionism | |
Einar Englund | 1916 | 1999 | Finnish | Symphony No. 2 | |
Alberto Ginastera | 1916 | 1983 | Argentine | Panambi (ballet); Malambo; 2 piano concertos; 3 piano sonatas | |
Richard Arnell | 1917 | 2009 | English | 6 symphonies | |
Brian Boydell | 1917 | 2000 | Irish | ||
Rudolf Brucci | 1917 | 2002 | Italian-Croatian | ||
Anthony Burgess | 1917 | 1993 | English | ||
Ivor Darreg | 1917 | 1994 | American | microtone, xenharmonic | |
Robert Erickson | 1917 | 1997 | American | twelve tone, extended technique | |
John Gardner | 1917 | English | 3 symphonies; Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day | ||
Dinu Lipatti | 1917 | 1950 | Romanian | Piano Works | |
Isang Yun | 1917 | 1995 | Korean-German | 5 symphonies; 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 |
Jürg Baur | 1918 | 2010 | German | Concerto romano for oboe and orchestra; Der Roman mit dem Kontrabass (opera) | serialism, quotation, neoclassicism |
Leonard Bernstein | 1918 | 1990 | American | West Side Story (musical); Chichester Psalms; Candide; Serenade; Mass; 3 symphonies | jazz-influenced and pop-influence |
Liviu Comes | 1918 | 2004 | Romanian | choral | |
Gottfried von Einem | 1918 | 1996 | Austrian | operas Dantons Tod, Der Besuch der alten Dame, cantata An die Nachgeborenen | eclectic |
Gara Garayev | 1918 | 1982 | Azerbaijani | ||
Marcelo Koc | 1918 | 2006 | Argentine | Música para 5 instrumentos; Concerto for Viola and Orchestra | |
George Rochberg | 1918 | 2005 | American | 6 symphonies; 7 string quartets | serialism, later neo-romanticism |
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 |
Bülent Arel | 1919 | 1990 | Turkish | electronic music | |
Jacob Avshalomov | 1919 | American | orchestra works; choral works | son of Aaron Avshalomov | |
Sven-Erik Bäck | 1919 | 1994 | Swedish | ||
Niels Viggo Bentzon | 1919 | 2000 | Danish | ||
John W. Duarte | 1919 | 2004 | British | ||
Leon Kirchner | 1919 | 2009 | American | Piano music; String Quartets | |
Galina Ustvolskaya | 1919 | 2006 | Russian | ||
Mieczysław Weinberg | 1919 | 1996 | Polish | 22 symphonies; 17 string quartets | |
Bebe Barron | 1920 | 1989 | American | electronic music | |
Geoffrey Bush | 1920 | 1998 | English | ||
Rolande Falcinelli | 1920 | 1996 | French | ||
Peter Racine Fricker | 1920 | 1990 | English | ||
Earl Kim | 1920 | 1998 | Korean-American | ||
Bruno Maderna | 1920 | 1973 | Italian | Satyricon (opera) | avant-garde, electronic music |
Harold Shapero | 1920 | American | Symphony for Classical Orchestra | ||
Malcolm Arnold | 1921 | 2006 | English | Symphony No. 5 and No. 7; English Dances; film music | |
Chaya Arbel | 1921 | Israeli | |||
Arno Babajanian | 1921 | Armenian | |||
William Bergsma | 1921 | 1994 | American | ||
Dennis Berry | 1921 | 1994 | English | ||
Marcel Bitsch | 1921 | French | |||
Jeanne Demessieux | 1921 | 1968 | French | ||
Karel Husa | 1921 | Czech-American | Music for Prague 1968; Music for Band, Orchestra, Chamber Ensembles | ||
Andrew Imbrie | 1921 | 2007 | American | neoclassicism | |
Božidar Kantušer | 1921 | 1999 | American/Slovenian | ||
Joonas Kokkonen | 1921 | 1996 | Finnish | ||
Astor Piazzolla | 1921 | 1992 | Argentine | tangos | |
Ralph Shapey | 1921 | 2002 | American | ||
Robert Simpson | 1921 | 1997 | English | 11 symphonies; 15 string quartets | also author; producer with BBC |
Rosalina Abejo | 1922 | 1991 | |||
Doreen Carwithen | 1922 | 2003 | British | ||
Raffaello de Banfield | 1922 | 2008 | English | ||
Lukas Foss | 1922 | 2009 | German-born American | Griffelkin | |
Iain Hamilton | 1922 | 2000 | Scottish | Chamber & Orchestral works; operas & vocal works | |
David N. Johnson | 1922 | 1987 | American | ||
Kazimierz Serocki | 1922 | 1981 | Polish | ||
Iannis Xenakis | 1922 | 2001 | Greek | Metastasis | avant-garde, Stochastic |
Doris Akers | 1923 | 1995 | African-American | ||
Leslie Bassett | 1923 | American | |||
Chou Wen-chung | 1923 | Chinese/American | Landscapes | ||
Madeleine Dring | 1923 | 1977 | English | ||
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 |
Peter Mennin | 1923 | 1983 | American | 9 symphonies | |
Ned Rorem | 1923 | American | Our Town (opera); Air Music; 3 numbered symphonies; over 400 songs | ||
Simeon ten Holt | 1923 | Dutch | Canto Ostinato | minimalism | |
Jiří Hudec | 1923 | 1996 | Czech | ||
Stephen Dodgson | 1924 | British | |||
Heimo Erbse | 1924 | 2005 | German | ||
Arthur Frackenpohl | 1924 | American | |||
Benjamin Lees | 1924 | 2010 | American | Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra | |
Luigi Nono | 1924 | 1990 | Italian | Avant-garde | |
Joly Braga Santos | 1924 | 1988 | Portuguese | 6 symphonies | |
Jurriaan Andriessen | 1925 | 1996 | Dutch | ||
Louis Barron | 1925 | 2008 | American | electronic music | |
Robert Beadell | 1925 | 1994 | American | ||
Cathy Berberian | 1925 | 1983 | American | Stripsody (vocal) | avant-garde |
Luciano Berio | 1925 | 2003 | Italian | Sequenza; Sinfonia | Avant-garde |
Pierre Boulez | 1925 | French | Le marteau sans maître; ...explosante-fixe... | Avant-garde, serialism, aleatory | |
Aldo Clementi | 1925 | Italian | |||
Tristram Cary | 1925 | 2008 | English-Australian | ||
Andrei Eshpai | 1925 | Russian | |||
Jindřich Feld | 1925 | 2007 | Czech | ||
Teo Macero | 1925 | 2008 | American | One and Three Quarters | microtonal, jazz-influenced |
Julián Orbón | 1925 | 1991 | Spanish/Cuban | Three Symphonic Versions | |
Gunther Schuller | 1925 | American | jazz-influence; Third Stream | ||
Boris Tchaikovsky | 1925 | 1996 | Russian | 4 symphonies | |
Mikis Theodorakis | 1925 | Greek | Film scores including Zorba the Greek; Song cycles, symphonic works | ||
Earle Brown | 1926 | 2002 | American | Open Form; Graphic Notation | |
Edwin Carr | 1926 | 2003 | New Zealander | ||
Jani Christou | 1926 | 1970 | Greek | atonalism, meta-serialism, improvisation | |
Barney Childs | 1926 | 2000 | American | extended technique, improvisation, indeterminacy | |
Morton Feldman | 1926 | 1987 | American | ||
Carlisle Floyd | 1926 | American | Susannah ; Wuthering Heights; Of Mice and Men | ||
Hans Werner Henze | 1926 | German | Ondine (ballet); 10 symphonies; 3 violin concertos | ||
Lee Hoiby | 1926 | American | Vocal music, operas, songs | ||
György Kurtág | 1926 | Hungarian | Játékok, works for voice and instruments | ||
John Beckwith | 1927 | Canadian | |||
Asger Lund Christiansen | 1927 | 1998 | Danish | neoclassicism | |
Dolores Claman | 1927 | Canadian | |||
Emma Lou Diemer | 1927 | American | |||
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 |
John Joubert | 1927 | English | |||
Wilhelm Killmayer | 1927 | German | choral works, Lieder, piano concerto | works in de-WP | |
Ruth Anderson | 1928 | American | |||
Samuel Adler | 1928 | American (German-born) | |||
Tadeusz Baird | 1928 | 1981 | Polish | ||
Jean Barraqué | 1928 | 1973 | French | serialism | |
George Dreyfus | 1928 | French | film music | ||
Jacob Druckman | 1928 | 1996 | American | Windows and other orchestral works; String Quartet #3 | |
David Farquhar | 1928 | 2007 | New Zealander | A Unicorn for Christmas, Ring Round the Moon | neo-classicism |
Nicolas Flagello | 1928 | 1994 | American | neo-classicism | |
Robert Helps | 1928 | 2001 | American | ||
Frigyes Hidas | 1928 | 2007 | Hungarian | ||
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 | |
Karlheinz Stockhausen | 1928 | 2007 | German | Kontra-Punkte; Gesang der Jünglinge; Klavierstücke; Gruppen; Kontakte; Hymnen; Stimmung; Mantra; Tierkreis; Inori, Licht, Klang | avant-garde, electronic music, serialism, aleatory, world music, intuitive music, formula composition, opera |
Erling Bjerno | 1929 | Danish | |||
Augustyn Bloch | 1929 | 2006 | Polish | ||
Antonio Braga | 1929 | Italian | |||
Theo Bruins | 1929 | 1993 | Dutch | ||
George Crumb | 1929 | American | Ancient Voices of Children, Black Angels | Extended technique, Numerology | |
Edison Denisov | 1929 | 1996 | Russian | ||
Frédéric Devreese | 1929 | Belgian | |||
Petr Eben | 1929 | Czech | |||
Hormoz Farhat | 1929 | Iranian | |||
Luc Ferrari | 1929 | 2005 | French | ||
Jerry Goldsmith | 1929 | American | Film and Concert composer | ||
Alun Hoddinott | 1929 | 2008 | Welsh | ||
Charles Knox | 1929 | American | neo-classical, musical palindromes | ||
Kenneth Leighton | 1929 | 1988 | English | ||
Henri Pousseur | 1929 | 2009 | Belgian | Scambi; Votre Faust; Trois visages à Liège; Couleurs croisées | serialism, aleatory, eclectic, electronic music, world music, popular music influence |
André Previn | 1929 | German/American | A Streetcar Named Desire (opera) | ||
Josef Anton Riedl | 1929 | German | |||
Bogusław Schaeffer | 1929 | Polish | |||
Peter Sculthorpe | 1929 | Australian | Requiem; Kakadu; Earth Cry; Piano Concerto; 17 string quartets | world music | |
Muhal Richard Abrams | 1930 | American | |||
Robert Ashley | 1930 | American | electronic music, extended techniques | ||
Larry Austin | 1930 | American | electronic music | ||
Petar Bergamo | 1930 | Croatian | romanticism, atonality | ||
Jacques Calonne | 1930 | Belgian | |||
Robert Cogan | 1930 | American | |||
Cristóbal Halffter | 1930 | Spanish | Líneas y puntos; Don Quixote | avant-garde, eclectic, electronic music | |
Theo Loevendie | 1930 | Dutch | |||
William P. Perry | 1930 | American | |||
Dieter Schnebel | 1930 | German | Mahler-Moment; Maulwerke; Baumzucht | ||
Stephen Sondheim | 1930 | American | Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street; A Little Night Music and other operas/operettas | ||
Tōru Takemitsu | 1930 | 1996 | Japanese | A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden; Toward the Sea | Neo-impressionism |
Sylvano Bussotti | 1931 | Italian | |||
F. R. C. Clarke | 1931 | 2009 | Italian | ||
Lucia Dlugoszewski | 1931 | 2000 | Polish-American | ||
Sofia Gubaidulina | 1931 | Russian | Offertorium | ||
Frederick A. Fox | 1931 | American | Contemporary | ||
Derek Holman | 1931 | ||||
Mauricio Kagel | 1931 | 2008 | Argentine / German | Staatstheater; Kantrimiusik; Ludwig van | |
André Laporte | 1931 | Belgian | Das Schloss | eclectic | |
Arne Nordheim | 1931 | 2010 | 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) |
Niccolò Castiglioni | 1932 | 1996 | Italian | ||
John Barnes Chance | 1932 | 1972 | American | Variations on a Korean Folk Song (concert band) | |
Henning Christiansen | 1932 | 2008 | Danish | fluxus | |
Tod Dockstader | 1932 | 2008 | American | electronic music | |
James Douglas | 1932 | Scottish | |||
Alexander Goehr | 1932 | English (German born) | Behold the Sun Romanza for cello and orchestra | twelve-tone, later modal, eclectic | |
M. William Karlins | 1932 | 2005 | American | Works for Saxophone; works for Double Bass | |
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 Pavillon du Québec; Fleuves | electronic music, serialism | |
John Williams | 1932 | American | Jaws (film music); Star Wars (film music) | ||
Leonardo Balada | 1933 | Spanish-American | 6 symphonies; 6 operas; various concertos | Avant-garde, later folk-influenced | |
Easley Blackwood, Jr. | 1933 | American | polyrhythm, microtone | ||
Justin Connolly | 1933 | British | modernism | ||
Ramiro Cortés | 1933 | 1984 | American | serialism, atonality | |
Pozzi Escot | 1933 | American | |||
Henryk Górecki | 1933 | Polish | Symphony of Sorrowful Songs | holy minimalism | |
Bo Linde | 1933 | 1970 | Swedish | neo-romanticism | |
Krzysztof Penderecki | 1933 | Polish | Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima; St. Luke Passion; Polish Requiem; Symphony No. 2: Christmas | avant-garde, extended technique, later neo-romanticism | |
Yves Prin | 1933 | French | Neo-impressionism | ||
Harrison Birtwistle | 1934 | English | The Mask of Orpheus | ||
Benjamin Boretz | 1934 | American | |||
Mario Davidovsky | 1934 | Argentine-American | |||
Peter Maxwell Davies | 1934 | English | Eight Songs for a Mad King; 8 symphonies | Master of the Queen's Music (2004–) | |
William Mathias | 1934 | 1992 | Welsh | 3 symphonies, Concerto for Harp | |
Siegfried Matthus | 1934 | German | Judith (opera), Te Deum | ||
Alfred Schnittke | 1934 | 1998 | Russian | 10 symphonies, cello sonata, piano quintet, | polystylism, music for films |
Ramon Sender | 1934 | Spanish | electronic music | ||
Christian Wolff | 1934 | American | |||
Derek Bell | 1935 | 2002 | Irish | ||
John Eaton | 1935 | American | microtonal music | ||
Nigel Butterley | 1935 | Australian | |||
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 | English | 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) | ||
Peter Schat | 1935 | 2003 | Dutch | ||
La Monte Young | 1935 | American | The Well-Tuned Piano | minimalism, microtonal music, improvisation, Asian-music influence | |
Gilbert Amy | 1936 | French | serialism, film music, electronic music | ||
Richard Rodney Bennett | 1936 | English | |||
Harold Budd | 1936 | American | avant-garde, ambient music | ||
Cornelius Cardew | 1936 | 1981 | English | Treatise; The Great Learning | serialism, improvisation, aleatory |
Carl Davis | 1936 | American | film music, title music | ||
Malcolm Forsyth | 1936 | South African-born Canadian | |||
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 | |
Aribert Reimann | 1936 | German | Lear; Nahe Ferne; Wolkenloses Christfest | ||
Elliott Schwartz | 1936 | American | Equinox for orchestra, 1994 | ||
Robert Suderburg | 1936 | American | Concerto, Within the Mirror of Time, for piano and orchestra; Chamber Music VII ("Ceremonies") | ||
Edward Applebaum | 1937 | American | |||
Keiko Abe | 1937 | Japanese | |||
Jan Bach | 1937 | American | |||
Junsang Bahk | 1937 | South Korean | |||
Osvaldas Balakauskas | 1937 | Lithuanian | 5 symphonies; concertos | ||
David Bedford | 1937 | British | |||
David Behrman | 1937 | American | |||
Azio Corghi | 1937 | Italian | Divara–Wasser und Blut (opera) | ||
Jean-Louis Petit | 1937 | French | |||
David Del Tredici | 1937 | American | Child Alice; Final Alice | ||
Philip Glass | 1937 | American | Violin Concerto; operas; 8 symphonies | minimalism | |
Walter Hekster | 1937 | ||||
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 | |
Maryanne Amacher | 1938 | American | |||
Bart Berman | 1938 | Dutch-Israeli | |||
William Bolcom | 1938 | American | Songs of Experience; Songs of Innocence | ||
David Borden | 1938 | American | |||
Paul Chihara | 1938 | American | Shogun: The Musical | ||
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 | ||
Jean-Claude Éloy | 1938 | French | |||
John Harbison | 1938 | American | The Great Gatsby (opera) | ||
Mesías Maiguashca | 1938 | Ecuadorian | F-Melodies; Ayayayayay | electronic music; spectralism | |
Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee | 1938 | American | |||
Frederic Rzewski | 1938 | American | The People United Will Never Be Defeated! | ||
Gregory Short | 1938 | 1998 | |||
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 | |
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 | English | Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco; Advaya; Bhakti; Wheel of Emptiness | spectralism | |
Heinz Holliger | 1939 | Swiss | Schneewittchen (opera) | Also notable oboist | |
John McCabe | 1939 | English | Chagall Windows; symphonies; ballets; string quartets | Also notable pianist (Haydn, English composers) | |
Tomas Svoboda | 1939 | Czech | Overture of the Season; Marimba Concerto; "Children's Treasure Box" piano series | ||
Boris Tishchenko | 1939 | Russian | 7 symphonies | ||
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich | 1939 | American | 5 symphonies; Concertos; Chamber Music | ||
Juraj Beneš | 1940 | 2004 | Slovak | ||
Henry Flynt | 1940 | American | |||
Jorge Peixinho | 1940 | 1995 | Portuguese | electronic music | |
Frank Zappa | 1940 | 1993 | American | The Perfect Stranger; The Yellow Shark | also an electric guitarist |
Stephen Albert | 1941 | 1992 | American | Symphony No. 1: Riverrun | |
Anđelka Bego-Šimunić | 1941 | Bosnian | neoclassicism | ||
Konrad Boehmer | 1941 | Dutch (born in Germany) | Aspekt, Apocalipsis cum figuris, Doktor Faustus (opera) | serialism, jazz and rock music influence, electronic music | |
Johannes Fritsch | 1941 | 2010 | German | ||
Paul Alan Levi | 1941 | American | |||
Emmanuel Nunes | 1941 | Portuguese | Machina Mundi; Quodlibet | electronic music | |
Birgitte Alsted | 1942 | Danish | |||
John Cale | 1942 | Welsh | |||
Bill Conti | 1942 | American | film music | ||
Volker David Kirchner | 1942 | German | Gilgamesh (opera); Missa Moguntina; Symphony No. 2 "Mythen" | ||
Jonathan Kramer | 1942 | 2004 | American | postmodernism | |
Jon Lord | 1942 | English | Concerto for Group and Orchestra; Durham Concerto | member of Deep Purple | |
Paul McCartney | 1942 | English | 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-influenced, eclectic | |
Horaţiu Rădulescu | 1942 | 2008 | Romanian/French | six string quartets | spectralism |
Daniel Börtz | 1943 | Swedish | |||
Joanna Bruzdowicz | 1943 | Polish | |||
Gavin Bryars | 1943 | English | |||
Eleanor Cory | 1943 | American | |||
William Duckworth | 1943 | American | |||
Hugues Dufourt | 1943 | French | |||
Dennis Eberhard | 1943 | 2005 | American | ||
Ross Edwards | 1943 | Australian | |||
Margriet Ehlen | 1943 | Dutch | |||
Julio Estrada | 1943 | Mexican | |||
Brian Ferneyhough | 1943 | English | Etudes Transcendantales | New Complexity | |
Rolf Gehlhaar | 1943 | American | Sub rosa; Five German Dances | electronic music, sound installations | |
Heinz Karl Gruber | 1943 | Austrian | Frankenstein!!, Charivari, Aerial | ||
Robin Holloway | 1943 | English | |||
Bill Hopkins | 1943 | 1981 | English | En Attendant; Sensation | |
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 | ||
Roger Smalley | 1943 | Australian (born English) | Pulses; 2 piano concertos | serialism, eclectic | |
Ivan Tcherepnin | 1943 | 1998 | French-American | son of Alexander Tcherepnin | |
Gilbert Biberian | 1944 | British | |||
Barry Conyngham | 1944 | Australian | |||
Péter 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; Requiem | ||
Pehr Henrik Nordgren | 1944 | Finnish | |||
Michael Nyman | 1944 | English | The Piano (film music) | Minimalism | |
Leif Segerstam | 1944 | Finnish | more than 150 symphonies | ||
John Tavener | 1944 | English | Holy minimalism | ||
Charles Amirkhanian | 1945 | American | |||
Clarence Barlow | 1945 | British-Portuguese | |||
Anthony Braxton | 1945 | American | |||
Ole Buck | 1945 | Danish | |||
Boudewijn Buckinx | 1945 | Belgian | |||
Luca Lombardi | 1945 | Italian | |||
Keith Jarrett | 1945 | American | also a jazz pianist | ||
John Rutter | 1945 | English | choral music | ||
Barry Schrader | 1945 | American | electro-acoustic | ||
Barbara Benary | 1946 | German | 5 symphonies | ||
Anne Boyd | 1946 | Australian | |||
Suzanne Ciani | 1946 | Italian American | electronic music | ||
Pierre Even | 1946 | Luxembourgian | |||
Michael Finnissy | 1946 | American | |||
Gérard Grisey | 1946 | 1998 | French | Transitoires; Modulations | spectral music |
Ulrich Leyendecker | 1946 | German | 5 symphonies | ||
Robert Xavier Rodriguez | 1946 | ||||
Pēteris Vasks | 1946 | Latvian | |||
Diderik Wagenaar | 1946 | Dutch | |||
Richard St. Clair | 1946 | American | The Lamentations of Shinran; Album of Ragtime Pieces for Piano; Love-Canzonettes for Chorus; Piano Sonatas | Neo-romantic | |
John Adams | 1947 | American | Nixon in China (opera); Harmonielehre; Shaker Loops, Short Ride in a Fast Machine; Violin Concerto | Post-minimalism | |
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh | 1947 | Azerbaijani | |||
Laurie Anderson | 1947 | American | |||
John S. Hilliard | 1947 | American | |||
Tristan Murail | 1947 | French | Gondwana | spectral music | |
Karl Aage Rasmussen | 1947 | Danish | |||
Emil Tabakov | 1947 | Bulgarian | |||
Paul Patterson | 1947 | English | |||
Michael Berkeley | 1948 | English | son of Lennox Berkeley | ||
Stephen Brown | 1948 | Canadian | |||
Glenn Branca | 1948 | American | avant-garde | ||
Diana Burrell | 1948 | English | |||
Brian Eno | 1948 | English | ambient music, minimalism | ||
Julia Tsenova | 1948 | 2010 | Bulgarian | Sinfonia con piano concertante; Endless Circle for string quintet; Musica Solitudinis; Four songs, to poems by Emily Dickinson | |
Claude Vivier | 1948 | 1983 | Canadian | Kopernikus: Rituel de la Mort (opera) | spectral music, Asian-music influence |
Andrew Lloyd Webber | 1948 | English | Cats (musical); The Phantom of the Opera (musical) | ||
Kalevi Aho | 1949 | Finnish | 14 symphonies | ||
Daniel Catán | 1949 | Mexican | Florencia en el Amazonas (opera); Rappaccini's Daughter (opera) | Neo-impressionism | |
John Casken | 1949 | English | |||
Dan Locklair | 1949 | American | |||
Christopher Rouse | 1949 | American | Requiem; Karolju; Phantasmata; Gorgon; Oboe Concerto; 2 symphonies | ||
Poul Ruders | 1949 | Danish | |||
Steven Stucky | 1949 | American | Son et Lumière; Concerto for Orchestra No. 2; Rhapsodies; August 4, 1964 | ||
Kevin Volans | 1949 | South African | Hunting Gathering | ||
Beth Anderson | 1950 | American | |||
Elena Firsova | 1950 | Russian | The Nightingale and the Rose | ||
Arturo Márquez | 1950 | Mexican | Danzón no. 2 | ||
William Sweeney | 1950 | Scottish | folk-influenced | ||
Lorenzo Ferrero | 1951 | Italian | 12 operas; 3 ballets; 2 piano concertos; triple concerto; chamber music; film score | ||
Francisco Guerrero Marín | 1951 | 1997 | Spanish | ||
Michael Rosenzweig | 1951 | South African | Symphony in One Movement; String Quartet No. 2 | ||
Doina Rotaru | 1951 | Romanian | Concerto for clarinet and orchestra; Florilegium, concerto for flute and flutes orchestra; Wings of Light for 24 flutists | ||
George Tsontakis | 1951 | American | |||
Judith Bingham | 1952 | British | |||
Rhys Chatham | 1952 | American | avant-garde, minimalism | ||
Tina Davidson | 1952 | American | |||
Richard Einhorn | 1952 | American | Voices of Light (oratorio); The Origin (opera/oratorio) | ||
Oliver Knussen | 1952 | British | Symphony No. 2; Where the Wild Things Are (opera) | ||
Philippe Manoury | 1952 | French | 60th Parallel (opera) | ||
Dominic Muldowney | 1952 | English | |||
Alla Pavlova | 1952 | Russian | |||
Wolfgang Rihm | 1952 | German | 12 string quartets; Die Eroberung von Mexico (opera) | New Simplicity, expressionism | |
Kaija Saariaho | 1952 | Finnish | L’amour de loin; Adriana Mater; La Passion de Simone | ||
Peter-Jan Wagemans | 1952 | Dutch | |||
John Luther Adams | 1953 | American | Various pieces inspired by Alaskan landscapes | ||
Cornelis de Bondt | 1953 | Dutch | |||
Wendy Mae Chambers | 1953 | American | |||
Chen Yi | 1953 | Chinese | |||
Andrew Culver | 1953 | ||||
Jody Diamond | 1953 | American | |||
Violeta Dinescu | 1953 | Romanian | Der 35. Mai (children's opera) | ||
Arnold Dreyblatt | 1953 | American | |||
David First | 1953 | American | |||
Peter Scott Lewis | 1953 | ||||
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 | English | Stoicheia, Ho shang Yao | Microtonality, percussion, voice | |
Takashi Yoshimatsu | 1953 | Japanese | Symphony No. 2 | ||
John Zorn | 1953 | American | avant-garde | ||
Richard Blackford | 1954 | English | |||
Sylvie Bodorová | 1954 | Czech | |||
Elisabetta Brusa | 1954 | Italian | |||
Robert Carl | 1954 | American | |||
Nicolas Collins | 1954 | American | electronic music | ||
Michael Daugherty | 1954 | American | UFO | ||
Paul Dirmeikis | 1954 | American | Message laisse á Pondichéry le 18 novembre 1973 | eclectic | |
Joël-François Durand | 1954 | French | |||
Elliot Goldenthal | 1954 | American | |||
Arturo Rodas | 1954 | Franco-Ecuadorian | Arcaica, a concerto for percussion & orchestra; 24.5 Preludes for piano; El Árbol de los Pájaros (The birds tree): opera "for the voice of the instruments" | avant-garde, polystylism | |
Paweł Szymański | 1954 | Polish | |||
Pascal Dusapin | 1955 | French | Perelà, uomo di fumo (opera) | ||
Roland Dyens | 1955 | Tunisian-French | |||
Ludovico Einaudi | 1955 | Italian | minimalism | ||
Kyle Gann | 1955 | American | Just intonation | ||
Toshio Hosokawa | 1955 | Japanese | Vision of Lear (opera), Circulating Ocean, Voiceless Voice in Hiroshima | Neo-impressionism | |
Michael Obst | 1955 | German | Solaris (opera) | electronic music | |
Bright Sheng | 1955 | Chinese | The Silver River (opera) | folk-influenced | |
Eduardo Alonso-Crespo | 1956 | Argentine | |||
Javier Álvarez | 1956 | Mexican | |||
Sally Beamish | 1956 | British | |||
Richard Danielpour | 1956 | American | Margaret Garner (opera) | ||
Daniel Dorff | 1956 | American | |||
Anne Dudley | 1956 | English | film music | ||
Dror Elimelech | 1956 | ||||
Michael Gordon | 1956 | American | |||
Philip Grange | 1956 | English | |||
Jouni Kaipainen | 1956 | Finnish | |||
Graeme Koehne | 1956 | Australian | Inflight Entertainment (oboe concerto); Tivoli Dances | ||
Gheorghi Arnaoudov | 1957 | Bulgarian | minimalism | ||
Charles Roland Berry | 1957 | American | |||
Linda Bouchard | 1957 | Canadian | |||
Mary Ellen Childs | 1957 | American | |||
Chaya Czernowin | 1957 | Israeli | |||
Andrew Ford | 1957 | English-born Australian | |||
Ellen Fullman | 1957 | American | |||
David Lang | 1957 | American | The Little Match Girl Passion | ||
Paul Moravec | 1957 | American | Spiritdance; Chamber Symphony; Tempest Fantasy; The Time Gallery | ||
Tan Dun | 1957 | Chinese | Water Passion after St. Matthew; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (film music) | Extended technique, folk-influenced | |
Eve Beglarian | 1958 | American | |||
Karl Gottfried Brunotte | 1958 | German | |||
Oscar van Dillen | 1958 | ||||
Magnus Lindberg | 1958 | Finnish | Kraft; Clarinet Concerto | ||
Esa-Pekka Salonen | 1958 | Finnish | LA Variations; Insomnia | ||
Julia Wolfe | 1958 | American | |||
Thomas Simaku | 1958 | ||||
Davide Zannoni | 1958 | ||||
Richard Barrett | 1959 | British | |||
Sebastian Currier | 1959 | American | |||
Paul Doornbusch | 1959 | Australian | computer music, electroacoustic music | ||
James MacMillan | 1959 | Scottish | 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 | ||
Erkki-Sven Tüür | 1959 | Estonian | 6 symphonies; Violin Concerto; Piano Concerto; Searching for Roots | ||
Maria de Alvear | 1960 | Spanish-German | |||
George Benjamin | 1960 | English | Sudden Time; Antara | ||
Nigel Clarke | 1960 | English | |||
Nathan Currier | 1960 | American | Gaian Variations | ||
Osvaldo Golijov | 1960 | Argentine | Mysticism | ||
Alexander Shchetynsky | 1960 | Ukrainian | |||
Piet Swerts | 1960 | Belgian | Symphony "Morgenrot"; Zodiac violinconcerto | ||
Mark-Anthony Turnage | 1960 | English | 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 | ||
Ana-Maria Avram | 1961 | Romanian | spectral music | ||
Unsuk Chin | 1961 | South Korean | Alice in Wonderland (opera); Violin Concerto; snagS&Snarls | ||
Marc-André Dalbavie | 1961 | French | |||
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 | "Vanada"; Javelin; Rapture (percussion concerto); Ecstatic Orange | ||
Roman Turovsky-Savchuk | 1961 | Ukrainian/American | Tombeau for Omelyan Kovch | historicist–Baroque | |
Michael Abels | 1962 | American | Global Warming | ||
Jennifer Higdon | 1962 | American | |||
Alexander Kaloian | 1962 | Armenian | |||
Graham Waterhouse | 1962 | English | Piccolo Quintet, Gestural Variations, Hale Bopp | also a cellist | |
Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah | 1962 | Egypt | |||
Michel Bosc | 1963 | French | |||
Graham Fitkin | 1963 | British | |||
Edson Zampronha | 1963 | Brazilian | Lamenti, Recycling Collaging Sampling, Concert for Piano N.1, Modelagem X-a | ||
Luca Belcastro | 1964 | Italian | |||
Boris Böhmann | 1964 | German | |||
Richard Rijnvos | 1964 | Dutch | Block Beuys | ||
Gordon McPherson | 1965 | Scottish | |||
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 | |||
Joe Cutler | 1968 | British | Sal's Sax | ||
Olga Neuwirth | 1968 | Austrian | Lost Highway | avant-garde | |
Roxanna Panufnik | 1968 | English | daughter of Andrzej Panufnik | ||
Nicola Campogrande | 1969 | Italian | |||
Johanna Doderer | 1969 | Austrian | operas | ||
Ciarán Farrell | 1969 | Irish | |||
Pierre Kolp | 1969 | Belgian | avant-garde | ||
David Bruce | 1970 | British-American | |||
Sara Carvalho | 1970 | Portuguese | |||
Graziella Concas | 1970 | Italian | |||
Donnacha Dennehy | 1970 | Irish | |||
Daniel Felsenfeld | 1970 | United States | Insomnia Redux | ||
Fazıl Say | 1970 | Turkish | |||
Michel van der Aa | 1970 | Dutch | After Life (opera) | ||
Thomas Adès | 1971 | English | Powder Her Face (opera); Asyla; The Tempest (opera); Traced Overhead | ||
Carlo Forlivesi | 1971 | Italian | Requiem | ||
Michael Hersch | 1971 | United States | Symphony No. 1; Fracta; Arraché | ||
Paweł Mykietyn | 1971 | Polish | |||
Natasha Barrett | 1972 | British | electroacoustic | ||
Hiba Kawas | 1972 | Lebanese | |||
André Ristic | 1972 | Canadian | |||
Lera Auerbach | 1973 | Russian | |||
Fred Jonny Berg | 1973 | Norwegian | |||
J. Ryan Garber | 1973 | United States | Parabolisms; Resonances | ||
Jörg Widmann | 1973 | Germany | The Face in the Mirror (opera); string quartets | ||
Derek Charke | 1974 | Canadian | Falling from Cloudless Skies; Tundra Songs | ||
Julian Cochran | 1974 | English-born Australian | |||
Avner Dorman | 1975 | Israeli | |||
Svitlana Azarova | 1976 | Ukrainian Dutch | Beyond Context (chamber orchestra) | ||
Wu Fei | 1977 | Chinese | She Huo (chamber ensemble) | ||
Jimmy Lopez | 1978 | Peruvian | Fiesta! (orchestra) | ||
Mehdi Hosseini | 1979 | Iranian | Symphony of Monody; Baluch | ||