| | Showing 378 composers who were active within the time period from c. 1900 until today (though not necessarily writing 'modern' music...) |
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| | | AA, Michel van der (1970) | | ABLINGER, Peter (1959) | | ABRAHAMSEN, Hans (1952) | | ADAMS, John (1947) | | ADČS, Thomas (1971) | | AKITA, Masami (Merzbow) (1956) | | ALVEAR, Maria de (1960) | | AMBROSINI, Claudio (1948) | | AMY, Gilbert (1936) | | ANDERSON, Leroy (1908 - 1975) | | ANDRIESSEN, Hendrik (1892 - 1981) | | ANDRIESSEN, Louis (1939) | | ANROOY, Peter van (1879 - 1954) | | ANTHEIL, George (1900 - 1959) | | APOSTEL, Hans Erich (1901 - 1972) | | ASSIS, Paulo de (1969) | | AYRES, Richard (1965) | | BAAREN, Kees van (1906 - 1970) | | BABBITT, Milton (1916 - 2011) | | BARBER, Samuel (1910 - 1981) | | BARRAQUÉ, Jean (1928 - 1973) | | BARRIOS, Augustin (1885 - 1944) | | BARTOK, Béla (1881 - 1945) | | BAX, Arnold (1883 - 1953) | | BEDFORD, Luke (1978) | | BENJAMIN, George (1960) | | BERG, Alban (1885 - 1935) | | BERIO, Luciano (1925 - 2003) | | BERNSTEIN, Leonard (1918 - 1990) | | BETTINELLI, Bruno (1913 - 2004) | | BIRTWISTLE, Harrison (1934) | | BLISS, Arthur (1891 - 1975) | | BORISOVA-OLLAS, Victoria (1969) | | BOSMANS, Henriette (1895 - 1952) | | BOULEZ, Pierre (1925 - 2016) | | BRANT, Henry (1913 - 2008) | | BREUKER, Willem (1944 - 2010) | | BRIDGE, Frank (1879 - 1941) | | BRITTEN, Benjamin (1913 - 1976) | | BROWN, Earle (1926 - 2002) | | BRUYNČL, Ton (1934 - 1998) | | BUCCHI, Valentino (1916 - 1976) | | BUSONI, Ferruccio (1866 - 1924) | | BUSSOTTI, Sylvano (1931) | | CAGE, John (1912 - 1992) | | CARL, Gene (1953) | | CARTER, Elliott (1908 - 2012) | | CASELLA, Alfredo (1883 - 1947) | | CASTAGNOLI, Giulio (1958) | | CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO, Mario (1895 - 1968) | | CASTÉRČDE, Jacques (1926 - 2014) | | CASTIGLIONI, Niccolň (1932 - 1996) | | CASTORF, Frank (1951) | | CERHA, Friedrich (1926) | | CESA, Mario (1940) | | CHAILLY, Luciano (1920 - 2002) | | CHARPENTIER, Gustave (1860 - 1956) | | CILEA, Francesco (1866 - 1950) | | CLAREN, Sebastian (1965) | | CLEMENTI, Aldo (1925 - 2011) | | COPLAND, Aaron (1900 - 1990) | | CORBETT, Sydney (1960) | | COWELL, Henry (1897 - 1965) | | CRAWFORD SEEGER, Ruth (1901 - 1953) | | CRESSWELL, Lyell (1944) | | CRESTA, Gianvincenzo (1968) | | CROCKETT, Donald (1951) | | CRUMB, George (1929) | | DALLAPICCOLA, Luigi (1904 - 1975) | | DAVIES, Peter Maxwell (1934 - 2016) | | DEBUSSY, Claude (1862 - 1918) | | DECHEVOW, Vladimir (1889 - 1955) | | DESSAU, Paul (1894 - 1979) | | DIAMOND, David (1915 - 2005) | | DOHMEN, Andreas (1962) | | DOMSELAER, Jakob van (1890 - 1960) | | DONATONI, Franco (1927 - 2000) | | DRUCKMAN, Jacob (1928 - 1996) | | DUKAS, Paul (1865 - 1935) | | DUSAPIN, Pascal (1955) | | DUTILLEUX, Henri (1916 - 2013) | | EMMERIK, Ivo van (1961) | | ENESCU, Georges (1881 - 1955) | | ENGLUND, Einar (1916 - 1999) | | EÖTVÖS, Peter (1944) | | ESCHER, Rudolf (1912 - 1980) | | EVANGELISTI, Franco (1926 - 1980) | | FABBRICIANI, Roberto (1949) | | FALLA, Manuel de (1876 - 1946) | | FEDELE, Ivan (1953) | | FELDER, David (1953) | | FELDMAN, Morton (1926 - 1987) | | FERNEYHOUGH, Brian (1943) | | FERRERO, Lorenzo (1951) | | FISCHER, Peter (1929 - 2014) | | FORD, Ron (1958) | | FOSS, Lukas (1922 - 2009) | | FOULDS, John (1880 - 1939) | | FRANÇAIX, Jean (1912 - 1997) | | FRANCESCONI, Luca (1956) | | FUJIKURA, Daď (1977) | | FURRER, Beat (1954) | | GAL, Bernhard (1971) | | GARLAND, Peter (1952) | | GASLINI, Giorgio (1929 - 2014) | | GERHARD, Roberto (1896 - 1970) | | GERSHWIN, George (1898 - 1937) | | GERVASONI, Stefano (1962) | | GHIELMI, Vittorio (1968) | | GINASTERA, Alberto (1916 - 1983) | | GIORDANO, Umberto (1867 - 1948) | | GLASS, Philip (1937) | | GLIČRE, Reinhold (1875 - 1956) | | GOEBBELS, Heiner (1952) | | GOEYVAERTS, Karel (1923 - 1993) | | GONDAI, Astuhiko (1965) | | GORECKI, Henryk (1933 - 2010) | | GORLI, Sandro (1948) | | GREGO, Alessandro (1969) | | GRIFFES, Charles (1884 - 1920) | | GRISEY, Gérard (1946 - 1998) | | GROFÉ, Ferde (1892 - 1972) | | GRÜNAUER, Ingomar (1938) | | GUASTAVINO, Carlos (1912 - 2000) | | GUBAIDULINA, Sofia (1931) | | GUERRERO Marín , Francisco (1951 - 1997) | | GÜNTER, Bernhard (1957) | | GÜNTHER, Jens-Uwe (1937) | | HAAS, Georg Friedrich (1953) | | HAMEL, Micha (1970) | | HARPER, Edward (1941 - 2009) | | HARTMANN, Karl Amadeus (1905 - 1963) | | HARVEY, Jonathan (1939 - 2012) | | HAUBENSTOCK-RAMATI, Roman (1919 - 1994) | | HAUER, Josef Matthias (1883 - 1959) | | HAUSSWOLFF, Carl Michael von (1956) | | HEFTI, David Philip (1975) | | HELLER, Barbara (1936) | | HENRY, Pierre (1927 - 2017) | | HENZE, Hans Werner (1926 - 2012) | | HEPPENER, Robert (1925 - 2009) | | HERMANN, Matthias (1960) | | HILLER, Lejaren (1924 - 1994) | | HINDEMITH, Paul (1895 - 1963) | | HIRS, Rozalie (1965) | | HOLLIGER, Heinz (1939) | | HOLST, Gustav (1874 - 1934) | | HOLT, Simeon ten (1923 - 2012) | | HOMS, Joaquim (1906 - 2003) | | HONEGGER, Arthur (1892 - 1955) | | HOSOKAWA, Toshio (1955) | | HUBER, Nicolaus A. (1939) | | IBERT, Jacques (1890 - 1962) | | IRELAND, John (1879 - 1962) | | IVES, Charles (1874 - 1954) | | JANACEK, Leos (1854 - 1928) | | JANSSEN, Guus (1951) | | JETHS, Willem (1959) | | JUON, Paul (1872 - 1940) | | KAGEL, Mauricio (1931 - 2008) | | KANCHELI, Giya (1935 - 2019) | | KEE, Piet (1927 - 2018) | | KEURIS, Tristan (1946 - 1996) | | KHATCHATURIAN, Aram (1903 - 1978) | | KILLIUS, Rainer (1969) | | KIRCHNER, Leon (1919 - 2009) | | KIRCHNER, Volker David (1942 - 2020) | | KLEIN, Juliane (1966) | | KNAIFEL, Alexander (1943) | | KODALY, Zoltán (1882 - 1967) | | KOECHLIN, Charles (1867 - 1950) | | KÓKAI, Rezsö (1906 - 1962) | | KOPPEL, Anders (1947) | | KORNGOLD, Erich Wolfgang (1897 - 1957) | | KREISLER, Fritz (1875 - 1962) | | KRENEK, Ernst (1900 - 1991) | | KREPPEIN, Ulrich Alexander (1979) | | KUNST, Jos (1936 - 1996) | | KURTAG, György (1926) | | LACHENMANN, Helmut (1935) | | LARCHER, Thomas (1963) | | LARY 7 (1956) | | LAURO, Antonio (1917 - 1986) | | LEEUW, Reinbert de (1938 - 2020) | | LEEUW, Ton de (1926 - 1996) | | LENTZ, Daniel (1942) | | LESCHETITZKY, Theodor Hermann (1896 - 1948) | | LIGETI, György (1923 - 2006) | | LINDBERG, Magnus (1958) |
| | | LLOYD, George (1913 - 1998) | | LOEB, David (1939) | | LÓPEZ BUCHARDO, Carlos (1881 - 1948) | | LOTHAR, Mark (1902 - 1985) | | LUCIER, Alvin (1931) | | LUTOSLAWSKI, Witold (1913 - 1994) | | MADERNA, Bruno (1920 - 1973) | | MALIPIERO, Gian Francesco (1882 - 1973) | | MAMLOK, Ursula (1923 - 2016) | | MANNEKE, Daan (1939) | | MANTOVANI, Bruno (1974) | | MANZONI, Giacomo (1932) | | MAREZ OYENS, Tera de (1932 - 1996) | | MARSHALL, Ingram (1942) | | MARTA, Istvan (1952) | | MARTHALER, Christoph (1951) | | MARTINU, Bohuslav (1890 - 1959) | | MARTIN, Frank (1890 - 1974) | | MAYUZUMI, Toshiro (1929 - 1997) | | McCABE, John (1939 - 2015) | | MEDTNER, Nikolai (1880 - 1951) | | MEKEEL, Joyce (1931 - 1997) | | MELCHIORRE, Alessandro (1951) | | MESSIAEN, Olivier (1908 - 1992) | | MILHAUD, Darius (1892 - 1974) | | MITTERER, Wolfgang (1958) | | MIYAGI, Michio (1894 - 1956) | | MOMPOU, Federico (1893 - 1987) | | MONTI, Vittorio (1868 - 1922) | | MONSALVATGE, Xavier (1912 - 2002) | | MUNDRY, Isabel (1963) | | MURAIL, Tristan (1947) | | MUSGRAVE, Thea (1928) | | NANCARROW, Conlon (1912 - 1997) | | NEMTSOV, Sarah (1980) | | NEUWIRTH, Gösta (1937) | | NEUWIRTH, Olga (1968) | | NIED, Johannes (1959) | | NIKODIJEVIC, Marko (1980) | | NOMURA, Makoto (1968) | | NONO, Luigi (1924 - 1990) | | NŘRGĹRD, Per (1932) | | NOVAK, Vítezslav (1870 - 1949) | | NOVA, Riccardo (1960) | | NUMAN, Toek (1971) | | NUNES, Emmanuel (1941 - 2012) | | NYMAN, Michael (1944) | | ODEH-TAMIMI, Samir (1970) | | ONGARO, Michele dall' (1957) | | ORFF, Carl (1895 - 1982) | | OTTE, Hans (1926 - 2007) | | PADDING, Martijn (1956) | | PALMGREN, Selim (1878 - 1951) | | PANUFNIK, Andrzej (1914 - 1991) | | PÄRT, Arvo (1935) | | PASTERNAK, Boris (1890 - 1960) | | PAUSET, Brice (1965) | | PENDERECKI, Krzysztof (1933 - 2020) | | PENNISI, Francesco (1934 - 2000) | | PEREZZANI, Paolo (1955) | | PERLE, George (1915 - 2009) | | PETRASSI, Goffredo (1904 - 2003) | | PIAZZOLLA, Astor (1921 - 1992) | | PIJPER, Willem (1894 - 1947) | | PINTSCHER, Matthias (1971) | | POLOVINKIN, Leonid (1884 - 1949) | | POMŔRICO, Emilio (1953) | | POULENC, Francis (1899 - 1963) | | POUSSEUR, Henri (1929 - 2009) | | PSATHAS, John (1966) | | RABEN, Peer (1940 - 2007) | | RACHMANINOV, Sergej (1873 - 1943) | | RADULESCU, Horatiu (1942 - 2008) | | RAMIREZ, Ariel (1921 - 2010) | | RASEGHI, Andreas (1964) | | RAUTAVAARA, Einojuhani (1928 - 2016) | | RAVEL, Maurice (1875 - 1937) | | REBIKOV, Vladimir (1866 - 1920) | | REICH, Steve (1936) | | RESPIGHI, Ottorino (1879 - 1936) | | RICHARD, André (1944) | | RICHTER de VROE, Nicolaus (1955) | | RIEDL, Josef Anton (1929 - 2016) | | RIHM, Wolfgang (1952) | | RIJNVOS, Richard (1964) | | RILEY, Terry (1935) | | RISSET, Jean-Claude (1938 - 2016) | | ROCHBERG, George (1918 - 2005) | | RODRIGO, Joaquin (1901 - 1999) | | ROMITELLI, Fausto (1963 - 2004) | | RONCHETTI, Lucia (1963) | | ROREM, Ned (1923) | | ROSLAVETS, Nikolai (1881 - 1944) | | ROTA, Nino (1911 - 1979) | | ROUSSEL, Albert (1869 - 1937) | | RUDERS, Poul (1949) | | RUYNEMAN, Daniël (1886 - 1963) | | RZEWSKI, Frederic (1938) | | SAARIAHO, Kaija (1952) | | SALLINEN, Aulis (1935) | | SANI, Nicola (1961) | | SANNICANDRO, Valerio (1971) | | SATIE, Erik (1866 - 1925) | | SAUNDERS, Rebecca (1967) | | SAVIO, Isais (1900 - 1977) | | SCELSI, Giacinto (1905 - 1988) | | SCHAT, Peter (1935 - 2003) | | SCHENKER, Friedrich (1942 - 2013) | | SCHNEIDER, Norbert (1950) | | SCHNITTKE, Alfred (1934 - 1998) | | SCHOELLER, Philippe (1957) | | SCHOENBERG, Arnold (1874 - 1951) | | SCHÖLLHORN, Johannes (1962) | | SCHREKER, Franz (1878 - 1934) | | SCHULHOFF, Erwin (1894 - 1942) | | SCHWEHR, Cornelius (1953) | | SCHWEITZER, Benjamin (1973) | | SCHWEINITZ, Wolfgang von (1953) | | SCIARRINO, Salvatore (1947) | | SCODANIBBIO, Stefano (1956 - 2012) | | SCOGNA, Flavio Emilio (1956) | | SCRIABIN, Alexander (1872 - 1915) | | SEEGER, Charles (1886 - 1979) | | SESSIONS, Roger (1896 - 1985) | | SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitri (1906 - 1975) | | SISASK, Urmas (1960) | | SKALKOTTAS, Nikos (1904 - 1949) | | SKEMPTON, Howard (1947) | | STIEBLER, Ernstalbrecht (1934) | | STOCKHAUSEN, Karlheinz (1928 - 2007) | | STRAVINSKY, Igor (1882 - 1971) | | STROPPA, Marco (1959) | | STUCKENSCHMIDT, Hans Heinz (1901 - 1988) | | SUK, Josef (1874 - 1935) | | SUMERA, Lepo (1950 - 2000) | | SUTERMEISTER, Heinrich (1910 - 1995) | | SZYMANOWSKI, Karol (1882 - 1937) | | TAKAHASHI, Yuji (1938) | | TAKEMITSU, Toru (1930 - 1996) | | TANAKA, Karen (1961) | | TAVENER, John (1944 - 2013) | | THOMSON, Virgil (1896 - 1989) | | TIPPETT, Michael (1905 - 1998) | | TOGNI, Camillo (1922 - 1993) | | TRAVERSA, Martino (1960) | | TREDICI, David del (1937) | | TROJAHN, Manfred (1949) | | TULEV, Toivo (1958) | | TURINA, Joaquin (1882 - 1949) | | TÜÜR, Erkki-Sven (1959) | | ULLMANN, Jakob (1958) | | URBANNER, Erich (1936) | | USTVOLSKAYA, Galina (1919 - 2006) | | VACCHI, Fabio (1949) | | VARČSE, Edgard (1883 - 1965) | | VASSENA, Nadir (1970) | | VERBEY, Theo (1959 - 2019) | | VERMEULEN, Matthijs (1888 - 1967) | | VIANNE, Alfredo (1898 - 1975) | | VIERNE, Louis (1870 - 1937) | | VILLA-LOBOS, Heitor (1887 - 1959) | | VIVIER, Claude (1948 - 1983) | | VLIJMEN, Jan van (1935 - 2004) | | VOGEL, Wladimir (1896 - 1984) | | VOLANS, Kevin (1949) | | VOLKONSKY, André (1933 - 2008) | | VRIES, Klaas de (1944) | | WALTER, Caspar Johannes (1964) | | WALTON, William (1902 - 1983) | | WEBERN, Anton (1883 - 1945) | | WEILL, Kurt (1900 - 1950) | | WEINBERG, Mieczyslaw (1919 - 1996) | | WENJING, Guo (1956) | | WIDMANN, Jörg (1973) | | WIDMER, Ernst (1927 - 1990) | | WINKLER, Gerhard (1959) | | WOLFF, Christian (1934) | | WOLPE, Stefan (1902 - 1972) | | WUORINEN, Charles (1938 - 2020) | | XENAKIS, Iannis (1922 - 2001) | | YIM, Jay Alan (1958) | | YOUNG, La Monte (1935) | | YUI, Miki (1971) | | YUN, Isang (1917 - 1995) | | ZAPF, Helmut (1956) | | ZEMLINSKY, Alexander von (1871 - 1942) | | ZENDER, Hans (1936 - 2019) | | ZIMMERMANN, Bernd Alois (1918 - 1970) | | ZIMMERMANN, Walter (1949) |
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