Lists of classical music composers by era |
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Medieval | (476 – 1400) |
Renaissance | (1400 – 1600) |
Baroque | (1600 – 1760) |
Classical era | (1730 – 1820) |
Romantic era | (1815 – 1910) |
20th century | (1900 – 2000) |
21st century | (since 2000) |
This is a list of composers of 20th-century classical music, sortable by name, year of birth, year of death, nationality, notable works, and remarks. The list is by no means complete. Only composers of significant fame and importance are included. The style of the composer's music is given where possible, bearing in mind that some defy simple classification. Names are listed first by year of birth, then in alphabetical order within each year.
Name | Year of birth | Year of death | Nationality | Notable works | Remarks |
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Karl Goldmark | 1830 | 1915 | Hungarian | Ein Wintermärchen (opera); Aus Jugendtagen, op. 53 | |
Felix Draeseke | 1835 | 1913 | German | ||
Elfrida Andrée | 1841 | 1929 | Swedish | Swedish Masses nos. 1 and 2 | |
Charles-Marie Widor | 1844 | 1937 | French | Symphony for organ No. 5 (1879) and 7 others (all composed in the 19th century) | |
Gabriel Fauré | 1845 | 1924 | French | Prométhée; Pénélope; Masques et bergamasques | |
Ella Adayevskaya | 1846 | 1926 | Russian | ||
Chiquinha Gonzaga | 1847 | 1935 | Brazilian | ||
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 | |
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 |
Edward German | 1862 | 1936 | English | Merrie England; A Princess of Kensington; Tom Jones | |
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 | ||
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 | |
Carl Nielsen | 1865 | 1931 | Danish | Symphony No. 4, and No. 5; Maskarade (opera); Clarinet Concerto | |
Paul Gilson | 1865 | 1942 | Belgian | ||
Jean Sibelius | 1865 | 1957 | Finnish | Symphony No. 1, No. 2, No. 5, and No. 7; Violin Concerto; The Swan of Tuonela; Finlandia | |
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 | Siberia; Madame Sans-Gêne; La cena delle beffe | Verismo |
Enrique Granados | 1867 | 1916 | Spanish | Goyescas (piano suite); Goyescas (opera) | |
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) | Neoclassicism |
Henry Eichheim | 1870 | 1942 | American | ||
Leopold Godowsky | 1870 | 1938 | Polish | Studies on Chopin's Études; Passacaglia; Triakontameron | |
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 | |
Rubin Goldmark | 1872 | 1936 | American | ||
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 |
Jean Roger-Ducasse | 1873 | 1954 | French | ||
Nikolai Tcherepnin | 1873 | 1945 | Russian | ||
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 | Horn Concerto; The Red Poppy | Romanticism |
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, Neoclassicism |
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, Neoclassicism |
Carl Ruggles | 1876 | 1971 | American | Sun-Treader | |
Mikhail Savoyarov | 1876 | 1941 | Russian | The Drunken Moon, Trumpeters, Because of the Ladies | chansonnier, light music, jazz-influenced |
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 | |
Mykola Leontovych | 1877 | 1921 | Ukrainian | Shchedryk, church music, arrangements of folk songs | A capella choral music |
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 | ||
Philippe Gaubert | 1879 | 1941 | 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 | English | ||
Nikolai Medtner | 1880 | 1951 | Russian | 14 piano sonatas; 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; six String Quartets; The Miraculous Mandarin; Piano Concerto No. 1; Piano Concerto No. 2; Piano Concerto No. 3; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion | Neoclassicism, 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 (opera), Cantabile et Presto for flute and piano | folk-influenced; father of Romanian classical music |
Ignatz Waghalter | 1881 | 1949 | Polish-German | Concerto for Violin in A Major; Mandragola; Jugend; and other operas | Romanticism |
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 | Neoclassicism, 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; 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 | ||
Louis Gruenberg | 1884 | 1964 | Russian | ||
Juozas Gruodis | 1884 | 1948 | Lithuanian | ||
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 | ||
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 | Chôros; Bachianas brasileiras; Magdalena: a Musical Adventure; Rudepoêma; | Neoclassicism, 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 | ||
Armstrong Gibbs | 1889 | 1960 | English | ||
Vladimir Shcherbachov | 1889 | 1952 | Russian | ||
Luís de Freitas Branco | 1890 | 1955 | Portuguese | 4 symphonies | |
Jacques Ibert | 1890 | 1962 | French | 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 | ||
Noël Gallon | 1891 | 1966 | French | ||
Marcel Grandjany | 1891 | 1975 | French | Pieces for harp; Headed Harp Dept at Fontainebleau & Juilliard) | Noted harpist and teacher |
Thomas Griselle | 1891 | 1955 | American | ||
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; Mississippi 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, Études transcendantes (100) | neoclassical, neoromantic, postimpressionistic, mystical |
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 | ||
Eugene Aynsley Goossens | 1893 | 1962 | English | ||
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 Men's Dance, Suicide in an Airplane, 8 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 | Neoclassicism |
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 |
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; Die Tote Stadt | |
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 | ||
Hector Gratton | 1900 | 1970 | Canadian | ||
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 | ||
Eivind Groven | 1901 | 1977 | Norwegian | ||
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, actual name Vladimir Dukelsky | 1903 | 1969 | Russian | both post-tonal style as Dukelsky and in the style of Tin Pan Alley as Duke | |
Vittorio Giannini | 1903 | 1966 | Italian | Blennerhassett | neoclassical |
Walter Goehr | 1903 | 1960 | German | ||
Berthold Goldschmidt | 1903 | 1996 | German | ||
Aram Khachaturian | 1903 | 1978 | Armenian | Gayane (ballet, includes Sabre Dance); Spartacus (ballet); concertos | |
Marc Lavry | 1903 | 1967 | Israel | Symphonic Poem Emek, Opera Dan Hashomer | |
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 | |
Nikos 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; 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 | |
Xiao Shuxian | 1905 | 1991 | Chinese | ||
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 | ||
Zoltán Gárdonyi | 1906 | 1986 | Hungarian | Psalm 46, organ sonatas, motets | sacred music |
Miriam Gideon | 1906 | 1996 | American | ||
Radamés Gnattali | 1906 | 1988 | Brazilian | ||
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 | |
Federico Elizalde | 1907 | 1979 | Filipino-Spanish | Concertos, symphonic poems | |
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 | folk-influenced | |
Ahmed Adnan Saygun | 1907 | 1991 | Turkish | 5 symphonies | |
Martin Scherber | 1907 | 1974 | German | ||
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, postimpressionist |
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 | |
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 | ||
Blas Galindo | 1910 | 1993 | Mexican | ||
Evgeny Golubev | 1910 | 1988 | Russian | ||
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 | New England Triptych | |
Jehan Alain | 1911 | 1940 | French | ||
Gábor Darvas | 1911 | 1985 | Hungarian | electronic music | |
Roberto García Morillo | 1911 | 2003 | Argentine | ||
Jean-Jacques Grunenwald | 1911 | 1982 | French | ||
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 | Neoromanticism |
Nino Rota | 1911 | 1979 | Italian | Vocal, orchestral and chamber music, The Godfather (film score), Romeo & Juliet (film score), 8½ (film score) | |
Endre Szervánszky | 1911 | 1977 | Hungarian | ||
Hans Vogt | 1911 | 1992 | German | Die Stadt hinter dem Strom (opera), Requiem, string quartets | |
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 | ||
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); The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra; Cello Symphony | Neoclassicism |
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 | ||
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 | Neoclassicism, folk-influenced, later Aleatoric music |
Maurice Ohana | 1913 | 1992 | French | ||
Willy Ostijn | 1913 | 1993 | Belgian | neoclassicism | |
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 | English | ||
David Diamond | 1915 | 2005 | American | 11 symphonies; 10 String Quartets and other Chamber works | neoclassicism |
Grigory Frid | 1915 | Russian | The Diary of Anne Frank (opera) | ||
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 | |
Denis ApIvor | 1916 | 2004 | British | ||
Milton Babbitt | 1916 | 2011 | 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 | Bomarzo; Cinco canciones populares argentinas; Danzas Argentinas | |
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; 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 |
Raymond Gallois-Montbrun | 1918 | 1994 | French | ||
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 Neoromanticism |
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 | ||
Sven-Erik Bäck | 1919 | 1994 | Swedish | ||
Niels Viggo Bentzon | 1919 | 2000 | Danish | ||
John W. Duarte | 1919 | 2004 | British | ||
Leon Kirchner | 1919 | 2009 | American | ||
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 | |
Chaya Arbel | 1921 | Israeli | |||
Arno Babajanian | 1921 | Armenian | |||
Jack Beeson | 1921 | 2010 | American | Lizzie Borden | |
William Bergsma | 1921 | 1994 | American | ||
Dennis Berry | 1921 | 1994 | English | ||
Marcel Bitsch | 1921 | French | |||
Jeanne Demessieux | 1921 | 1968 | French | ||
Ruth Gipps | 1921 | 1999 | British | ||
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 | ||
Ástor Piazzolla | 1921 | 1992 | Argentine | tangos | |
Ralph Shapey | 1921 | 2002 | American | ||
Robert Simpson | 1921 | 1997 | English | 11 symphonies; 15 string quartets | |
Rosalina Abejo | 1922 | 1991 | Philippine | ||
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 | American | ||
Leslie Bassett | 1923 | American | |||
Chou Wen-chung | 1923 | Chinese/American | Landscapes | ||
Madeleine Dring | 1923 | 1977 | English | ||
Karel Goeyvaerts | 1923 | 1993 | Belgian | Sonata for Two Pianos, Nr. 2 for thirteen instruments, Nr. 5 met zuivere tonen, 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…; Répons | Avant-garde, serialism, aleatory | |
Aldo Clementi | 1925 | 2011 | 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 |
Ivo Malec | 1925 | French | Cantate pour elle; Dodecameron; Lumina | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
Kenneth Gaburo | 1926 | 1993 | American | The Flow of (u) | |
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 | ||
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 | Sinfonia I–III, Hölderlin Lieder, piano concerto | ||
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 score | ||
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 | Neoclassicism |
Nicolas Flagello | 1928 | 1994 | American | Neoclassicism | |
Otar Gordeli | 1928 | 1994 | Georgia | ||
Robert Helps | 1928 | 2001 | American | ||
Frigyes Hidas | 1928 | 2007 | Hungarian | ||
Ennio Morricone | 1928 | Italian | Once Upon a Time in America; The Mission; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; A Fistful of Dollars; Once Upon a Time in the West | film score | |
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 | 2009 | 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 | ||
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 | |
Hans Stadlmair | 1929 | Austrian | Trumpet Concerto with strings; Saxofonia; Miró | ||
Siegfried Strohbach | 1929 | German | 5 Galgenlieder; cantata Ein Stern aus Jacob | ||
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 | ||
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; Music for Flute, Strings, and Percussion | ||
Frederick A. Fox | 1931 | American | Contemporary | ||
Derek Holman | 1931 | English | |||
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 | |
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 | Arianna | 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 | Lolita and 5 other operas; 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 | |
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 | 2010 | Polish | Symphony of Sorrowful Songs | holy minimalism |
Bo Linde | 1933 | 1970 | Swedish | Neoromanticism | |
Krzysztof Penderecki | 1933 | Polish | Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima; St. Luke Passion; Polish Requiem; Symphony No. 2: Christmas | avant-garde, extended technique, later Neoromanticism | |
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 | ||
Vinko Globokar | 1934 | Welsh | |||
William Mathias | 1934 | 1992 | Welsh | 3 symphonies | |
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 | |||
Herbert Blendinger | 1936 | German-Austrian | viola concerto, cantata Mdia in vita, string quartets | also a violist | |
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 | ||
Iván Erőd | 1936 | Hungarian-Austrian | opera Seidenraupen, song cycle Milchzahnlieder, piano trios | ||
Malcolm Forsyth | 1936 | South African-born Canadian | |||
Frans Geysen | 1936 | Belgian | Periferisch-Diagonaal-Concentrisch; Twee orgels | twelve-tone technique, minimalism, atonal | |
Colin Mawby | 1936 | English | Laudate Pueri Dominum; Requiem of Hope; children's opera The Quest | ||
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 | 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 | |
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 of 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! | ||
Tona Scherchen | 1938 | Swiss | |||
Gregory Short | 1938 | 1998 | American | ||
Joan Tower | 1938 | American | Petroushskates; Concerto for Orchestra; Sequoia; Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman | ||
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 | ||
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 | |
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 | ||
Michael Vetter | 1943 | German | Missa Universalis | New Age, Zen-influenced | |
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 | |||
Johnterryl Plumeri | 1945 | American | |||
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 | |||
Zsolt Gárdonyi | 1946 | Hungarian German | Magnificat, Mozart Changes (organ) | ||
Pēteris Vasks | 1946 | Latvian | |||
Diderik Wagenaar | 1946 | Dutch | |||
Heinz Winbeck | 1946 | German | 5 symphonies | ||
Richard St. Clair | 1946 | American | The Lamentations of Shinran; Album of Ragtime Pieces for Piano; Love-Canzonettes for Chorus; Piano Sonatas | Neoromanticism | |
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 | |||
Michel Chion | 1947 | French | |||
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 | |||
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 |
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 | ||
Aivars Kalējs | 1951 | Latvian | Sacred music; Neoromanticism | ||
Lorenzo Ferrero | 1951 | Italian | 12 operas; 3 ballets; 2 piano concertos; triple concerto | ||
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 | |||
Max Beckschäfer | 1952 | German | Michelangelo-Fragmente, vocal music | also academic for music theory | |
Rhys Chatham | 1952 | American | avant-garde, minimalism | ||
Tina Davidson | 1952 | American | |||
Richard Einhorn | 1952 | American | Voices of Light (oratorio); The Origin (opera/oratorio) | ||
Reinhard Febel | 1952 | German | opera Sekunden und Jahre des Caspar Hauser, Wolkenstein, Sinfonie | ||
Heiner Goebbels | 1952 | German | |||
Oliver Knussen | 1952 | British | Where the Wild Things Are (opera) | ||
Gerd Kühr | 1952 | German | operas Stallerhof, Tod und Teufel | ||
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 | American | |||
Jody Diamond | 1953 | American | |||
Violeta Dinescu | 1953 | Romanian | Der 35. Mai (children's opera) | ||
Arnold Dreyblatt | 1953 | American | |||
Denis Dufour | 1953 | French | Notre besoin de consolation est impossible à rassasier, Bocalises, Messe à l'usage des vieillards | ||
David First | 1953 | American | |||
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 | 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 | |||
Jan Sandström | 1954 | Swedish | Motorbike Concerto, Es ist ein Ros entsprungen, Rekviem | ||
Chan Wing-wah | 1954 | Chinese | |||
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 | ||
Diamanda Galás | 1955 | Greek-American | |||
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 | |
Ian Venables | 1955 | English | Songs of Eternity and Sorrow (vocal), Remember This (vocal) | Tonal | |
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 score | ||
Dror Elimelech | 1956 | Israeli | |||
Vladimír Godár | 1956 | Slovak | |||
Michael Gordon | 1956 | American | |||
Philip Grange | 1956 | English | |||
Jouni Kaipainen | 1956 | Finnish | |||
Graeme Koehne | 1956 | Australian | Inflight Entertainment (oboe concerto); Tivoli Dances | ||
Laurence Traiger | 1956 | American | |||
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 | ||
Gerhard Präsent | 1957 | Austrian | Himmelslicht; Missa minima; Trio intricato | ||
Gerhard Schedl | 1957 | 2000 | Austrian | Slow, Cello Concerto | |
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 | Dutch | |||
Suzanne Giraud | 1958 | French | |||
Magnus Lindberg | 1958 | Finnish | Kraft; Clarinet Concerto | ||
Esa-Pekka Salonen | 1958 | Finnish | LA Variations; Insomnia | ||
Julia Wolfe | 1958 | American | |||
Thomas Simaku | 1958 | Albanian | |||
Davide Zannoni | 1958 | Italian | |||
Nigel Westlake | 1958 | Australian | |||
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 | Samurai; The Miraculous Violin; Earthrise; Gagarin | ||
Nathan Currier | 1960 | American | Gaian Variations | ||
Detlev Glanert | 1960 | German | operas Leyla und Medjnun, Caligula, Solaris | ||
Osvaldo Golijov | 1960 | Argentine | |||
Annie Gosfield | 1960 | American | |||
Alexander Shchetynsky | 1960 | Ukrainian | |||
William Susman | 1960 | American | Native New Yorker (film score); Marimba Montuño (solo); Camille (chamber ensmeble); Trailing Vortices (chamber orchestra); Fate of the Lhapa (film score) | postminimalism | |
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; Fantasie mécanique; Cantatrix Sopranica | ||
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 | ||
Peter Machajdik | 1961 | Slovak / German | Namah; Double Bayan Concerto; Farewell Fanfares; Lasea; Nell'autunno del suo abbraccio insonne | postminimalism, electronic music | |
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–Neo-Baroque | |
Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah | 1962 | Egypt | Die Wunderzahl, String Quartet No. 2 "Monamnamat" | electroacoustic, postmodernism | |
Michael Abels | 1962 | American | Global Warming | ||
Stefano Gervasoni | 1962 | Italian | |||
Jennifer Higdon | 1962 | American | |||
Alexander Kaloian | 1962 | Armenian | |||
Rudi Spring | 1962 | German | Heimkunft, Chamber Symphonies, song cycles | ||
Graham Waterhouse | 1962 | English | Piccolo Quintet, Gestural Variations, Der Handschuh | ||
Sandeep Bhagwati | 1963 | Indian | opera Ramanujan | ||
Michel Bosc | 1963 | French | |||
Graham Fitkin | 1963 | British | |||
Edson Zampronha | 1963 | Brazilian | Lamenti, Recycling Collaging Sampling, Concert for Piano N.1, Modelagem X-a | ||
Neil March | 1963 | British | Diversions | ||
Luca Belcastro | 1964 | Italian | |||
Boris Böhmann | 1964 | German | |||
Julia Gomelskaya | 1964 | Ukrainian | Україна Forever symphony, wind orchestra The Riot, choir Winter Pastoral | ||
Richard Rijnvos | 1964 | Dutch | Block Beuys | ||
Yuri Khanon | 1965 | Russian | The Shagreen Bone, The Symphony of Dogs, The Middle Symphony, Agonia Dei, What Zarathustra Said Indeed | polystylism, neoclassicism, music for films | |
Gordon McPherson | 1965 | Scottish | |||
Bernd Redmann | 1965 | German | opera Die Gehetzten, orchestra Fiasko, chamber Migrant | ||
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 | ||
Jan Müller-Wieland | 1966 | German | operas Gastspiel, Komödie ohne Titel, Das Märchen der 672. Nacht | ||
John Psathas | 1966 | New Zealand | music for the Olympic–Athens 2004 for full orchestra and choir | ||
Jens Josef | 1967 | German | Musik für Flöte(n), Viola und Kontrabass, chamber music | ||
Andreas Kunstein | 1967 | Dutch | |||
Joe Cutler | 1968 | British | Sal's Sax | ||
Jens Joneleit | 1968 | German | operas Der Brand, Piero – Ende der Nacht, Metanoia. Über das Denken hinaus | ||
Olga Neuwirth | 1968 | Austrian | Lost Highway | avant-garde | |
Roxanna Panufnik | 1968 | English | |||
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 | American | 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 | American | 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 | American | 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) | ||
Tomi Räisänen | 1976 | Finnish | Piano Concerto; Stheno | ||
Wu Fei | 1977 | Chinese | She Huo (chamber ensemble) | ||
Daniel Hensel | 1978 | German | Chant of consecrated life (orchestra) | ||
Jimmy Lopez | 1978 | Peruvian | Fiesta! (orchestra) | ||
Mehdi Hosseini | 1979 | Iranian | Symphony of Monody; Baluch | ||
Gilad Hochman | 1982 | Israeli | Whom My Soul Loveth; Slightly Disturbed; A Voice in the Wilderness |