| 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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