List of modernist composers

Lists of composers by philosophical stance: modernist composers

Austria

• Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) (Webster 2008, 285)
• Gustav Mahler (1860–1911) (Frisch 2005, 182–85, 203–13; Gagné 2012, 178)

Russia/Soviet Union

• Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953) (Gagné 2012, 178; Rifkin 2006, 133–41, 145–47)
• Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915) (Gagné 2012, 178)
• Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975) (Rifkin 2006, 134)
• Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) (Ashby 2004a, 3; Ashby 2004b, 351)

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

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) (Clapp 1916, passim)
• Georg Böhm (1661–1733) (Hanley 1954, 293)
• Paul Hindemith (1895–1963) (Ashby 2004a, 8; Gagné 2012, 178; Rifkin 2006, 134, 157)
• Hans Pfitzner (1869–1949) (Frisch 2005, 244–52)
• Max Reger (1873–1916) (Dahlhaus 1989, 335; Frisch 2005, 139, 149, 150–54, 168–72)
• Franz Schreker (1878–1934) (Dahlhaus 1989, 335)
• Richard Strauss (1864–1949) (Dahlhaus 1989, 335; Frisch 2005, 214–44; Whitesell 2004, 103)
• Johann Gottfried Walther (1684–1748) (Hanley 1954, 289)
• Alexander Zemlinsky (1871–1942) (Dahlhaus 1989, 335)

Finland

• Erik Bergman (1911–2006) (Howell 2011, passim)

France

• Pierre Boulez (born 1925) (Bauer 2001, 121) (Also described as a postmodern composer)
• Claude Debussy (1862–1918) (Gagné 2012, 178)
• Gabriel Fauré (Rifkin 2006, 134)
• André Jolivet (1905–1974) (Gagné 2012, 146)
• Arthur Honegger (Rifkin 2006, 134)
• Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992) (Gagné 2012, 178)
• Darius Milhaud (1892–1974) (Gagné 2012, 178)
• Francis Poulenc (Rifkin 2006, 133–34, 141–43)
• Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) (Gagné 2012, 178)
• Erik Satie (1866–1925) (Gagné 2012, 178)
• Edgard Varèse (1883–1965) (Gagné 2012, 178)

Italy

• Luciano Berio (1925–2003) (Wilmotte 1994, passim) (Also described as a postmodern composer)
• Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924) (Frisch 2005, 139)
• Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) (Tommasini 2007; Werder 1965; Whenham 1997, 36)

Hungary

• Béla Bartók (1881–1945) (Gagné 2012, 178)
• Franz Liszt (1811–1886) (Loya 2011, 1–5 et passim)

Poland

• Karol Szymanowski (1882–1937) (Ross 2007, 159)

Scotland

• Oliver Knussen (born 1952) (Gagné 2012, 151, 179)

United States

• Milton Babbitt (1916–2011) (Ashby 2004a, 8; Bauer 2004, 121)
• Samuel Barber (1910–1981) (Lien 2002, xii–xiii, 54–55; Rifkin 2006, 157; Wright 2010, 87–88)
• Irving Berlin (1888–1989)(Ross 2007, 136)
• John Cage (1912–1992) (Bernstein 2002, passim; Williams 2002, 241) (Also described as a postmodern composer)
• Aaron Copland (1900–1990) (Gagné 2012, 178; Lien 2002, 53–54)
• Henry Cowell (1897–1965) (Lien 2002, 51)
• Ruth Crawford-Seeger (1901–1953) (Ashby 2004a, 3)
• George Crumb (born 1929) (Petersen 2010, 311, 313)
• Vernon Duke (1903–1969) (Holden 2010, 296)
• Morton Feldman (1926–1987) (Ross 2007, 355) (Also described as a postmodern composer)
• George Gershwin (1898–1937) (Ross 2007, 136)
• Philip Glass (born 1937) (Schwarz 1990, 247) (Also described as a postmodern composer)
• Bernard Herrmann (1911–1975) (Ashby 2004a, 8)
• Charles Ives (1874-1954) (Botstein 2008)
• Jerome Kern (1885–1945)(Ross 2007, 136)
• Leon Kirchner (1919–2009)
• Donald Martino (1931–2005) (Ashby 2004a, 3)
• Leo Ornstein (1893-2002) (Broyles and Von Glahn 2007, xvi, 119)
• Harry Partch (1901–1974) (Lien 2002, 51–52)
• Cole Porter (1891–1964) (Ross 2007, 136)
• Ezra Pound (1885–1972) (Gagné 2012, 211)
• Lou Reed (born 1942) (Ashby 2004a, 8)
• Steve Reich (born 1936) (Schwarz 1990, 247, 271) (Also described as a postmodern composer)
• Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) (Ross 2007, 136)
• Dane Rudhyar (1895–1985) (Gagné 2012, 178)
• Charles Seeger (1886–1979) (Ross 2007, 271)
• Edgard Varèse (1883–1965) (Lien 2002, 52)
• Brian Wilson (born 1942) (Ashby 2004a, 8)

England

• Brian Ferneyhough (born 1943) (Ashby 2004a, 3) (Also described as a postmodern composer)
• William Walton (1902–1983) (Karolyi 1994, 43)

See also

• Modernism
• Postmodernism

References

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• 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 1-58046-143-3.
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