List of modernist composers

Lists of composers by philosophical stance: Modernist composers

Contents 1 Russia/Soviet Union 2 Ukraine 3 Second Viennese school 4 Germany 5 France 6 Italy 7 Greece 8 Israel 9 Hungary 10 United States 11 England 12 See also 13 References

Russia/Soviet Union

• Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953)
• Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915)
• Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)
• Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) (Ashby 2004a, 3; Ashby 2004b, 351)

Ukraine

• Alexander Shchetynsky (born 1960)

Second Viennese school

• Alban Berg (1885–1935) (Ashby 2004a, 8; Ashby 2004b, 351)
• Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) (Ashby 2004a, 8; Whitesell 2004, 104)
• Anton Webern (1883–1945)

Germany

• Paul Hindemith (1895–1963) (Ashby 2004a, 8)
• Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
• Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007) (Also described as a postmodern composer)
• Richard Strauss (1864–1949) (Whitesell 2004, 103)

France

• Pierre Boulez (born 1925) (Bauer 2001, 121) (Also described as a postmodern composer)
• Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
• André Jolivet (1905–1974)
• Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)
• Darius Milhaud (1892–1974)
• Erik Satie (1866–1925)
• Edgard Varèse (1883–1965)

Italy

• Luigi Dallapiccola (1904–1975)
• Luigi Nono (1924 –1990)
• Luigi Russolo (1883–1947)

Greece

• Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001)

Israel

• Josef Tal (1910–2008)

Hungary

• Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
• Zoltán Kodály (1882–1967)

United States

• George Antheil (1900–1959)
• Milton Babbitt (1916–2011) (Ashby 2004a, 8; Bauer 2004, 121)
• John J. Becker (1886–1961)
• John Cage (1912–1992) (Also described as a postmodern composer)
• Henry Cowell (1897–1965)
• Ruth Crawford-Seeger (1901–1953) (Ashby 2004a, 3)
• Lou Harrison (1917–2003)
• Bernard Herrmann (1911–1975) (Ashby 2004a, 8)
• Charles Ives (1874–1954) (Also described as a postmodern composer)
• Leon Kirchner (1919–2009)
• Donald Martino (1931–2005) (Ashby 2004a, 3)
• Conlon Nancarrow (1912–1997)
• Lou Reed (born 1942) (Ashby 2004a, 8)
• Wallingford Riegger (1885–1961)
• Dane Rudhyar (1895–1985)
• Carl Ruggles (1876–1971)
• Charles Seeger (1886–1979)
• Roger Sessions (1896–1985)
• Virgil Thomson (1896–1989)
• Edgard Varèse (1883–1965)
• Brian Wilson (born 1942) (Ashby 2004a, 8)

England

• Harrison Birtwistle (born 1934)
• Brian Ferneyhough (born 1943) (Ashby 2004a, 3) (Also described as a postmodern composer)
• William Walton (1902–1983)

See also

• Modernism
• Postmodernism

References

• Ashby, Arved Mark. 2004a. "Introduction". In The Pleasure of Modernist Music: Listening, Meaning, Intention, Ideology, edited by Arved Mark Ashby, 1–22. Rochester: University of Rochester Press. ISBN 1580461433.
• Ashby, Arved Mark. 2004b. "Modernism Goes to the Movies". In The Pleasure of Modernist Music: Listening, Meaning, Intention, Ideology, edited by Arved Mark Ashby, 345–86. Rochester: University of Rochester Press. ISBN 1580461433.
• Bauer, Amy. 2004 "'Tone-Color, Movement, Changing Harmonic Planes': Cognition, Constraints, and Conceptual Blends in Modernist Music". In The Pleasure of Modernist Music: Listening, Meaning, Intention, Ideology, edited by Arved Mark Ashby, 121–52. Rochester: University of Rochester Press. ISBN 1580461433.
• Whitesell, Lloyd. 2004. "Twentieth-Century Tonality, or, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do". In The Pleasure of Modernist Music: Listening, Meaning, Intention, Ideology, edited by Arved Mark Ashby, 103–120. Rochester: University of Rochester Press. ISBN 1580461433.