List of 20th-century classical composers

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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. It includes only composers of significant fame and importance. 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. The 20th century is defined by the calendar rather than by any unifying characteristics of musical style or attitude, and is therefore not an era of the same order as the classical or romantic. However, the century can be divided into modern and postmodern eras that overlap and can be defined more by differences in attitude than style.

NameYear of birthYear of deathNationalityNotable 20th-century worksRemarks
Charles Dancla 18171907FrenchSolo de concours no. 7, Op. 224 Romanticism
Luigi Arditi 18221903Italian
Theodor Kirchner 18231903German
Carl Reinecke 18241910GermanTrio for piano, clarinet and horn in B, Op. 274; String Quartet No. 5, Op. 287Romanticism
Richard Hol 18251904DutchOrgan musicRomanticism
Ludwig Minkus 18261917Austrian
Morten Eskesen 18261913Danish
François-Auguste Gevaert 18281908BelgianRomanticism
Clémence de Grandval 18281907French
James Cutler Dunn Parker 18281916AmericanRomanticism
Jacques Blumenthal 18291908GermanRomanticism
Karl Goldmark 18301915HungarianEin Wintermärchen; Aus Jugendtagen
Karl Klindworth 18301916German
Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff 18301913German
Jan Gerard Palm 18311906Dutch Antillean
Benjamin Dwight Allen 18311914German
Salomon Jadassohn 18311902GermanRomanticism
Joseph Joachim 18311907Hungarian
Mathilde Hannah von Rothschild 18321924German
Charles-Wilfrid de Bériot 18331914French
Caspar Joseph Brambach 18331902German
Josef Richard Rozkošný 18331913Czech
George Becker 18341928German-Swiss
Francesco Berger 18341933English
Kārlis Baumanis 18351905Latvian
Giuseppe Branzoli 18351909Italian
César Cui 18351918Russian
Felix Draeseke 18351913German
Camille Saint-Saëns 18351921French
Eduard Strauss 18351916Austrian
Friedrich Baumfelder 18361916German
Bertha Tammelin 18361915Swedish
Susan McFarland Parkhurst 18361918American
Mily Balakirev 18371910Russian Islamey
Théodore Dubois 18371924French
Carlotta Ferrari 18371907Italian
Alfred R. Gaul 18371913EnglishThe Prince of Peace (cantata)
Otto Winter-Hjelm 18371931Norwegian
Paul Lacombe 18371927French
Smith Newell Penfield 18371920American
Émile Waldteufel 18371915French
Max Bruch 18381920German Concerto for Clarinet, Viola, and Orchestra in E minor, Op. 88Romanticism
Joseph Callaerts 18381901Belgian
Melesio Morales 18381908Mexican
Friedrich Gernsheim 18391916German
Eduard Nápravník 18391916CzechFrancesca da Rimini (opera), Op. 71; Deux pièces russes, for orchestra, Op. 74
Laura Netzel 18391927Swedish
John Knowles Paine 18391906American
Josef Rheinberger 18391901GermanOrgan Sonata No. 20 in F Major (“Zur Friedensfeier”), Op. 196; Mass in A Minor, Op. 197 historicist
Johan Svendsen 18401911Norwegian
François Borne 18401920French
Ingeborg Bronsart von Schellendorf 18401913Swedish-German
Theodora Cormontan 18401922Norwegian American
Oskar Rieding 18401918German
Elfrida Andrée 18411929SwedishSwedish Masses Nos. 1 and 2
Antonín Dvořák 18411904Czech Armida (opera), "Zpěv z Lešetínského kováře" (song)Romanticism, folk-influenced
Henri Gobbi 18411920Hungarian
Friedrich Hegar 18411927Swiss
Louise Héritte-Viardot 18411918French
Joseph Friedrich Hummel 18411919Austrian
Felip Pedrell 18411922Spanish
Giovanni Sgambati 18411914Italian
Giuseppe Silvestri 18411921Italian
Arrigo Boito 18421918Italian Nerone (opera)
Alphonse Duvernoy 18421907French
Josef Labor 18421924Czech
Jules Massenet 18421912French Piano Concerto; Le jongleur de Notre-Dame ; Thérèse ; Don Quichotte ; Cigale
Felipe Pedrell 18421922Spanish
18431936Slovak
Émile Bernard 18431902FrenchNocturne, for piano and orchestra, Op. 51; String Quartet, Op. 52
18431910Czech
18431919French
Edvard Grieg 18431907NorwegianLyrische Stücke, Op. 71; Slåtter, Op. 73; Four Psalms, Op. 74
Asger Hamerik 18431923DanishVariations on "Jeg gik mig ud en sommerdag"
Franz Xaver Neruda 18431915Danish
Karl Michael Ziehrer 18431922Austrian
David Popper 18431913Czech
Oliveria Prescott 18431919English
18431925Romanian
18441925French
Hermann Graedener 18441929German
18441918German
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 18441908Russian
Pablo de Sarasate 18441908Spanish
Charles-Marie Widor 18441937French
Anton Jörgen Andersen 18451926Norwegian
August Bungert 18451915German
Ion Ivanovici 18451902Romanian
18451924French Prométhée ; Pénélope ; Masques et bergamasques
Alphonse Hasselmans 18451912Belgian-born French
Ernst Perabo 18451920German-born American
Ella Adayevskaya 18461926Russian
Leopold Auer 18461930Hungarian
Ignaz Brüll 18461907Austrian
Luigi Denza 18461922Italian
Zygmunt Noskowski 18461909Polish
Riccardo Drigo 18461930Italian
18461925SwedishValborgsmässa (opera)Romanticism
18461925French
Albert Lavignac 18461916French
Franz Ries 18461932German
Paolo Tosti 18461916Italian
Joachim Andersen 18471909Danish
18471907Norwegian
Ignacio Cervantes 18471905Cuban
Francis Chassaigne 18471922Belgian-born French
Constantin Dimitrescu 18471928Romanian
Robert Fuchs 18471927AustrianSymphony No. 3 in E major, Op. 79; Clarinet Quintet in E major, Op. 102
Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka 18471917German-Polish
Chiquinha Gonzaga 18471935Brazilian
18471935ScottishThe Cricket on the Hearth Romanticism
18471927Icelandic
Rudolf Tillmetz 18471915German
Agnes Zimmermann 18471925German
Frances Allitsen 18481912English
18481933French
Richard Eilenberg 18481927German
18481912Czech
Otto Malling 18481915Danish
William J. McCoy 18481926American
Hubert Parry 18481918English Jerusalem
Ludvig Schytte 18481909Danish
Fritz Seitz 18481918German
Johann Baptist Singenberger 18481924Swiss-American historicist
Catalina Berroa 18491911Cuban
Roberta Geddes-Harvey 18491930Canadian
18491907Italian
Nanna Liebmann 18491935Danish
Stephanie Wurmbrand-Stuppach 18491919Hungarian
Richard Barth 18501923German
Ludvig Birkedal-Barfod 18501937Danish
18501923Spanish
Richard Heuberger 18501914Austrian
Iver Holter 18501941Norwegian
Alfredo Keil 18501907Portuguese
18501926Danish
Alexandre Luigini 18501906French
C. A. Bracco 18501903Italian
Franz Xaver Scharwenka 18501924German
Antonio Scontrino 18501922Italian
Emilio Serrano y Ruiz 18501939Spanish
Hans Sitt 18501922Czech
Heinrich Reimann 18501906German
Alexander Taneyev 18501918Russian
Victor Bendix 18511926DanishSymphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 30
Jan Blockx 18511912Belgian
Mary Grant Carmichael 18511935English
18511924Czech
Gabrielle Ferrari 18511921French-Italian
Ludvig Hegner 18511923Danish
18511931FrenchString Quartet No. 3; Symphony No. 2 in B; Jour d'été à la montagne
W. H. Jude 18511922English
18511926French
Josef Bayer 18521913AustrianDas Damenduell Romanticism
Frederick Corder 18521932English Romanticism
Frederic Hymen Cowen 18521935BritishMiniature Variations for orchestra Romanticism
18521924Austrian Romanticism
Francisco Tárrega 18521909Spanish
18521921Swiss Romanticism
Helena Munktell 18521919Swedish Romanticism
Henrique Oswald 18521931Brazilian
Raoul Pugno 18521914French
18521920French Romanticism
Charles Villiers Stanford 18521924IrishSix Irish Rhapsodies Romanticism
18531917Venezuelan Romanticism
Arthur Foote 18531937American Romanticism
18531923German Romanticism
Iwan Knorr 18531916German Romanticism
Hans von Koessler 18531926German Romanticism
Charles Malherbe 18531911French Romanticism
18531919Prussian Romanticism
18531918Swedish Romanticism
Arturo Buzzi-Peccia 18541943Italiansongs and piano works[ vague ]
George Whitefield Chadwick 18541931American
18541931German
18541923Spanish
Pekka Hannikainen 18541924Finnish
Engelbert Humperdinck 18541921German
18541928Czech Sinfonietta; Taras Bulba ; Káťa Kabanová ; The Cunning Little Vixen ; The Makropoulos Affair ; Glagolitic Mass , 2 string quartetsfolk-influenced
Alexander Kopylov 18541911Russian
18541918German
Moritz Moszkowski 18541925German-Polish
18541937American
Antonio Smareglia 18541929Austro-Hungarian
John Philip Sousa 18541932American
Bernard Zweers 18541924Dutch
18551918Hungarian
18551939Danish
18551931Bohemian-Austrian
Nicolaj Hansen 18551932Danish
18551937Czech
Jean Pietrapertosa 18551940Italian-French
Anatoly Lyadov 18551914Russian
Arnold Mendelssohn 18551933GermanDeutsche Messe, Op. 89; Geistliche Chormusik, Op. 90
18551932German
Richard Sahla 18551931German
Maude Valérie White 18551937French-born English
Guglielmo Zuelli 18591941Italian
Cecilia Arizti 18561930Cuban
Eva Dell'Acqua 18561930Belgian
18561934Czech
Robert Fischhof 18561918Austrian
18561926French
Helen Hopekirk 18561945Scottish-American
Natalia Janotha 18561932Polish
Felix Mottl 18561911Austrian
Gilda Ruta 18561932Italian
Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter 18561938American
18561933Russian
Christian Sinding 18561941Norwegian Romanticism
18561948American
Sergei Taneyev 18561915RussianString Quartet No. 6 in B major; Piano Quartet in E major; Piano Quintet in G minor
Timothee Adamowski 18571943Polish-born American
18571945Romanian
Alfred Bruneau 18571934French
18571944FrenchConcertino for Flute
Frederic Cliffe 18571931EnglishOde to the North-East Wind Romanticism
Rudolf Dellinger 18571910German
18571927Hungarian-German
Edward Elgar 18571934English Symphony No. 1; No. 2; Violin Concerto; Cello Concerto; The Dream of Gerontius ; Pomp and Circumstance Marches Romanticism
Ethel R. Harraden 18571917English
Gustav Helsted 18571924Danish
Wilhelm Kienzl 18571941Austrian
Ruggero Leoncavallo 18571919Italian Zingari (opera) verismo
18571922Czech
18571924English
Henry Schoenfeld 18571936American
Achille Simonetti 18571928Italian and English
18571931Belgian
Mary Knight Wood 18571944American
Siegfried Alkan 18581941German
18581924Austrian-HungarianDer Glücksnarr
Thomas Bidgood 18581925English
18581937French
18581935English
Catharinus Elling 18581942NorwegianViolin Concerto in D minorRomanticism
Richard Franck 18581938German
18581936French
Ludvig Holm 18581928Danish
18581937Hungarian
18581948French
18581945French
Frank Lynes 18581913American
Giacomo Puccini 18581924Italian La fanciulla del West ; Turandot Romanticism; post-romanticism; verismo
Catharina van Rennes 18581940Dutch
Risto Savin 18581948Slovenian
Ethel Smyth 18581944English
Stella Stocker 18581925American
18581931Belgian
Gerard von Brucken Fock 18591935DutchDe wederkomst van Christus
18591944French
Laura Sedgwick Collins 18591927American
18591946Colombian
August Enna 18591939Danish
Josef Bohuslav Foerster 18591951Czech
Narcisa Freixas 18591926Spanish
Arthur Friedheim 18591932Russian
Susie Frances Harrison 18591935Canadian
Basil Harwood 18591949English
Victor Herbert 18591924Irish-AmericanThe Magic Knight (opera); The Red Mill (musical comedy); A Suite of Serenades
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov 18591935Russian
Sergei Lyapunov 18591924Russian
Ida Georgina Moberg 18591947FinnishSymphony
Vincenza Garelli della Morea 18591924Italian
18591945Canadian
Hope Temple 18591938Irish
Ellen Riley Wright 18591904English
18601909Spanish Iberia Romanticism
Valborg Aulin 18601928Swedish
Gustave Charpentier 18601956French Julien
Victor Ewald 18601935Russian
Bohumil Fidler 18601944Czech
Pietro Floridia 18601932Italian
Alberto Franchetti 18601942Italian
Axel Gade 18601921Danish
Raoul Gunsbourg 18601955Romanian
18601928American
Edward MacDowell 18601908American
Hugo Wolf 18601903Austrian
Gustav Mahler 18601911Austrian No. 5, No. 6, No. 9, No. 10 in F; Das Lied von der Erde ; Kindertotenlieder Romanticism; modernism
Ignacy Jan Paderewski 18601941PolishSymphony in B minor, Op. 24
Edouard Potjes 18601931DutchAt Dawn Eastermorning for orchestra
18601945Austriantwo symphonies
18601940Scottish
Felix Woyrsch 18601944German
Anton Arensky 18611906RussianPiano Trio no. 2 in F minor, Op. 73
Spyridon Samaras 18611917Greek
Wilhelm Berger 18611911GermanSymphony No. 2 in B minor, Op. 80; Variations and Fugue on an Original Theme, Op. 97; Serenade for Twelve Winds, Op. 102Romanticism
Marco Enrico Bossi 18611925Italian
18611949French
Georgy Catoire 18611926Russian
Florence Everilda Goodeve 18611915English
Charles Martin Loeffler 18611935French-born American
Rudolf Raimann 18611913HungarianUnser Stammhalter (opera)Romanticism
Marie Emmanuel Augustin Savard 18611942French
18611933Czech-born Russian
Ludwig Thuille 18611907Austrian
Conrad Ansorge 18621930German
Florence Aylward 18621950English
Meliton Balanchivadze 18621937Georgian
Dora Bright 18621951EnglishBallets The Dryad (1907), A Dancer's Adventure (1915)
Georgi Conus 18621933Russian
Walter Damrosch 18621950German-born AmericanSonata for violin and piano
Arthur De Greef 18621940BelgianConcerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in C minor, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in B flat minor, Sonata in C minor for 2 Pianos
Claude Debussy 18621918French Clair de lune ; Syrinx ; La mer ; Pelléas et Mélisande ; Préludes impressionism
Frederick Delius 18621934English A Village Romeo and Juliet ; On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring impressionism
Alphons Diepenbrock 18621921Dutch
18621937Armenian
Maurice Emmanuel 18621938French
Edward German 18621936English Merrie England ; A Princess of Kensington ; Tom Jones
Henry Holden Huss 18621953American
Carrie Jacobs-Bond 18621946American"I Love You Truly"
Mona McBurney 18621932British
18621928German
Ferdinand Pfohl 18621949German
Emil von Sauer 18621942German
Alberto Williams 18621952Argentine Poema del Iguazú , nine symphoniesfolk-influenced, modernism, impressionism, nationalism, post-Wagnerian
Daniel Doura 1957ArgentineSinfonía argentina
Hugo Becker 18631941GermanCello Concerto
Felix Blumenfeld 18631931Russian
Charles Bordes 18631909French
Maria Chefaliady-Taban 18631932Romanian
18631939Spanish
Abbie Gerrish-Jones 18631929American
Helen Francis Hood 18631949American
Hugo Kaun 18631932GermanSymphony No. 3 in E minor, Op. 96
Izabella Kuliffay 18631945HungarianMagyar suite
Pietro Mascagni 18631945Italian Amica verismo
18631931Hungarian
18631943Dutch
Horatio Parker 18631919American
18631937French Cydalise et le Chèvre-pied ; Ramuntcho
Alfred Reisenauer 18631907German
Vladimir Sokalsky 18631919Russian
Arthur Somervell 18631937English
18631948Latvian
18641932German, Swiss; Scottish-born Tiefland Romanticism
18641932EnglishMagnificat; Nunc Dimittis for double choir
18641925NorwegianPiano Concerto in C, Op. 22, Violin Concerto in G major Op. 25, Piano Quintet in F Op. 31,
Ricardo Castro 18641907Mexican
Harry Falkenau 18641907American
Eleanor Everest Freer 18641942American
Louis Glass 18641936Danish
Alexander Gretchaninov 18641956Russian
Peter Griesbacher 18641933German historicist
Johan Halvorsen 18641935NorwegianNorwegian rhapsodies, three symphonies Romanticism, French influence
Sakunosuke Koyama 18641927Japanese
Alessandro Longo 18641945Italian
Alberto Nepomuceno 18641920Brazilian
Guy Ropartz 18641955French Le Pays impressionism
Richard Strauss 18641949German An Alpine Symphony ; Der Rosenkavalier ; Oboe Concerto; Salome ; Metamorphosen Romanticism
Giovanni Tebaldini 18641952Italian historicist
August de Boeck 18651937Belgian impressionism
Herbert Brewer 18651928English
18651917Italian
Paul Dukas 18651935French La Péri (ballet)
Herbert J. Ellis 18651903English
Paul Gilson 18651942Belgian impressionism
Alexander Glazunov 18651936Russian Symphony No. 4 and No. 5; The Seasons (ballet); Violin Concerto; Saxophone Concerto Romanticism
Alfred Hollins 18651942English
Borghild Holmsen 18651938Norwegian
Gustav Jenner 18651920German
18651951German
Emil Kauppi 18651930Finnish
18651914French Guercoeur
Enric Morera i Viura 18651942Spanish
Carl Nielsen 18651931Danish Symphony No. 4; No. 5; Maskarade ; Clarinet Concerto
Giacomo Orefice 18651922Italian
Jean Sibelius 18651957FinnishSymphonies No. 2, No. 4, No. 5, No. 7; Violin Concerto; String Quartet in D minor, Voces intimae; Pelléas et Mélisande ; Pohjola's Daughter ; Luonnotar ; The Oceanides ; Tapiola ; The Tempest
Amanda Christina Elizabeth Aldridge 18661956British
Tor Aulin 18661914Swedish
John Clare Billing 18661955English
Ferruccio Busoni 18661924Italian Fantasia contrappuntistica ; Turandot Suite ; Piano Concerto
Francesco Cilea 18661950Italian L'arlesiana ; Adriana Lecouvreur
Gustave Doret 18661943Swiss
Vasily Kalinnikov 18661901Russian
Clara Anna Korn 18661941AmericanPiano Concerto
Laura Lemon 18661924Canadian
Vladimir Rebikov 18661920RussianYolka (opera), Basni v litzakh (9 dramatic fables for children)
Caro Roma 18661937American
Erik Satie 18661925French Gymnopédies ; Relâche ; Socrate minimalism, avant-garde, furniture music
Johann Strauss III 18661939Austrian
Samuel Maykapar 18671938Russian
Amy Beach 18671944American
Margherita Galeotti 18671912ItalianPiano Trio in D minor
Umberto Giordano 18671948Italian Siberia ; Madame Sans-Gêne ; La cena delle beffe verismo
Enrique Granados 18671916Spanish Goyescas (piano suite); Goyescas
Fini Henriques 18671940Danish
Amy Elsie Horrocks 18671920English
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger 18671942SwedishFrösöblomster Romantic nationalism
Charles Koechlin 18671950FrenchLes Bandar-log; Les Heures persanes eclectic, atonality, twelve-tone technique, serialism, polytonality, quartal and quintal harmony
18671937German
Margaret Ruthven Lang 18671972American
Jules Mouquet 18671946French
18671936Czech
18671916Lithuanian
Martinus Sieveking 18671950Dutch
Gustav Strube 18671953German
Georges Martin Witkowski 18671943French
Granville Bantock 18681946BritishOmar Khayyám, Hebridean Symphony Romanticism, often with an exotic flavour
Hermann Bischoff 18681936German
18681944Czech
18681937AustrianSuite in F major, Op. 36
18681943Spanish
Scott Joplin 18681917American Treemonisha ragtime
18681948Scottish
Signe Lund 18681950NorwegianValse de Concert Op. 40
Hamish MacCunn 18681916Scottish
John Blackwood McEwen 18681948Scottish
Oskar Merikanto 18681924Finnish
Vittorio Monti 18681922Italian Csárdás
Jan Brandts Buys 18681933Dutch-Austrian
Lodewijk Mortelmans 18681952Belgian
18681948Portuguese
Annie Patterson 18681934Irish
Max von Schillings 18681933German
Tokichi Setoguchi 18681941Japanese
Leone Sinigaglia 18681944Italian
Haldane Stewart 18681942English
18691925French
Vassily Brandt 18691923Russian
Julius Conus 18691942Russian
Walford Davies 18691941British
Christian Geisler 18691951Danish
18691960Australian
18691958Finnish
Vasily Kalafati 18691942Russian
18691956American Billboard March
Demetrios Lialios 18691940Greekchamber music[ vague ]
Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński 18691928Polish
Hans Pfitzner 18691949German Palestrina post-romanticism
Maria Antonietta Picconi 18691926Italian
Albert Roussel 18691937FrenchSymphony No. 3 and No. 4; Bacchus et Ariane (ballet) neoclassicism
Patty Stair 18691926American
18701931Czech
Cornelis Dopper 18701939Dutch
Henry Eichheim 18701942American
Leopold Godowsky 18701938Polish Studies on Chopin's Études ; Passacaglia ; Triakontameron
Viktor Kalinnikov 18701927Russian
Nobu Kōda 18701946JapaneseViolin Sonata in E-flat major; Violin Sonata in D minor
Arseny Koreshchenko 18701921Russian
Zygmunt Stojowski 18701946Polish
18701948Hungarian Der Graf von Luxemburg , Der Zarewitsch operettas
18701949Czech
Arthur Pryor 18701942American
Joseph Ryelandt 18701965Belgian
Rosario Scalero 18701954Italian
Florent Schmitt 18701958FrenchLa Tragédie de Salomé
Mon Schjelderup 18701934NorwegianSonata in B minor, Op. 12
18701954Austrian Ein Walzertraum ; The Chocolate Soldier
Charles Tournemire 18701939FrenchL'Orgue Mystique
Louis Vierne 18701937French
18701949Indian-born English
Giacomo Balla 18711958Italian
Henry Kimball Hadley 18711937American
Adolphe Biarent 18711916Belgian
Frederick Converse 18711940AmericanThe Mystic Trumpeter
18711942French
Leon Jessel 18711942German The Parade of the Tin Soldiers
Ruben Liljefors 18711936Swedish
Zakaria Paliashvili 18711933GeorgianOperas Abesalom da Eteri , Daisi, Latavra
Oreste Ravanello 18711938Italian
Daniel Alomía Robles 18711942Peruvian
Alexander Spendiaryan 18711936Armenian
Wilhelm Stenhammar 18711927SwedishSymphony No. 2 Romanticism
18711942Austrian Lyric Symphony ; String Quartet No. 2; Der Zwerg post-Romanticism, New Objectivity, neoclassicism
18721960SwedishSymphony No. 4: From the Outermost Skerries; Midsummer Vigil Romanticism
18721932Norwegiantwo symphonies, Piano Concerto
18721952EnglishSymphony in E minor
18721942SerbianMarš na Drinu
18721973French
18721916Czech Entrance of the Gladiators
Rubin Goldmark 18721936American
Siegmund von Hausegger 18721948Austrian
Ezra Jenkinson 18721947English
Paul Juon 18721940Russian
Joan Lamote de Grignon 18721949Spanish
Lorenzo Perosi 18721956ItalianIl Giudizio Universale (oratorio) historicist
William H. Potstock 18721941American
Albert Seitz 18721937French
Bernhard Sekles 18721934German
Alexander Scriabin 18721915Russian The Poem of Ecstasy ; Prometheus: The Poem of Fire ; piano sonatas nos. 4–10 mysticism
Sergei Vasilenko 18721956Russian
Ralph Vaughan Williams 18721958English A Sea Symphony ; A London Symphony ; Sinfonia antartica ; Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis ; Fantasia on Greensleeves; The Lark Ascending impressionism, folk-influenced
Salvator Léonardi 18721938Italian
18721950Czech
Modest Altschuler 18731963Russian
Dimitri Arakishvili 18731953Georgian
William Henry Bell 18731946English
Blagoje Bersa 18731934Croatian
18731960French
Lucien Capet 18731928FrenchPoème for violin and orchestra
Anna Cramer 18731968Dutch
Leo Fall 18731925Austrian Madame Pompadour (operetta)Romanticism
Joseph Jongen 18731953BelgianSymphonie Concertante for organ and orchestra
Emma Lomax 18731963English
Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Faria 18731938Brazilian
18731957Cuban
Mary Carr Moore 18731957American
Henri Rabaud 18731949French
Walter Rabl 18731940AustrianRomanticism
Pascual Marquina Narro 18731948Spanish
Sergei Rachmaninoff 18731943Russian Piano Concerto No. 2 and No. 3; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; Symphony No. 2; Prelude in C-sharp minor Romanticism, post-romanticism
Max Reger 18731916Germanorgan music, Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart , Hebbel Requiem historicism, modernism
Jean Roger-Ducasse 18731954French
Arnold Safroni-Middleton 18731950British
Nikolai Tcherepnin 18731945Russian
David Vaughan Thomas 18731934Welsh
Pol Albrecht 18741975Luxembourgian
Eugénie-Victorine-Jeanne Alombert 18741964FrenchMenuet champêtre
Ernest Austin 18741947EnglishSymphony atonality, Romanticism, folk-influenced, impressionism
Edward Bairstow 18741946English
Ethel Barns 18741948English
Giulio Bas 18741929ItalianOrgan Sonata in F,XVI Preludi-Corali for organ
George Botsford 18741949Americanragtime
Katharine Emily Eggar 18741961English
Edmund Eysler 18741949Austrian
Reynaldo Hahn 18741947Venezuelan/French Ciboulette (Opera)
Carl Cohn Haste 18741939Danish
Gustav Holst 18741934English The Planets ; Beni Mora ; Egdon Heath
Charles Ives 18741954American The Unanswered Question ; Central Park in the Dark ; Variations on America; Three Places in New England ; Concord Sonata avant-garde, folk-influenced
Serge Koussevitzky 18741951Russian
Henri Marteau 18741934French
Oskar Nedbal 18741930Czech
18741929Czech
Arnold Schoenberg 18741951Austrian Gurre-Lieder ; Verklärte Nacht ; Variations for Orchestra; Pierrot Lunaire ; Five Pieces for Orchestra ; Violin Concerto Romanticism, later expressionism and serialism; founder of the Second Viennese School
18741935CzechAsrael Symphony; A Winter's Tale
Franz Schmidt 18741939Austrian The Book with Seven Seals
Franco Alfano 18751954Italian
18751965Mexican Preludio a Colón ; Misa de la Restauración dedicada a Juan XXIII microtonal music
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 18751912English The Song of Hiawatha (cantata)
18751911Lithuanian
Ernesto De Curtis 18751937Italian
18751956Russian Horn Concerto; The Red Poppy Romanticism
18751961Russian
Dobri Hristov 18751941Bulgarian
Albert Ketelbey 18751959English
18751960Hungarian
Fritz Kreisler 18751962AustrianCaprice Viennois; Liebesfreud ; Liebesleid ; Schön Rosmarin
Marcel Labey 18751968French
Edgar Manas 18751964Turkish
Erkki Melartin 18751937Finnish
18751955Czech
Maurice Ravel 18751937French Daphnis et Chloé ; Valses nobles et sentimentales ; Rapsodie espagnole ; Tzigane ; Piano Concerto; Bolero ; piano music impressionism, neoclassicism
18751956French
Cyril Rootham 18751938English
Lucia Contini Anselmi 18761913Italian
18761954Danish The Royal Guest romanticism
Havergal Brian 18761972English Gothic Symphony
Edgar Bara 18761962French
John Alden Carpenter 18761951American
Pablo Casals 18761973Spanish
18761957Danish
Manuel de Falla 18761946Spanish The Three-Cornered Hat ; Nights in the Gardens of Spain impressionism, neoclassicism
Josef Hofmann 18761957Polish-American
18761909Polish Lithuanian Rhapsody , Stanislaw i Anna Oświęcimovie, Smutna opowieść ; Symphony in E Minor; Violin Concerto Romanticism
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti 18761944Italian
Fermo Dante Marchetti 18761940Italian
Ludolf Nielsen 18761939Danish
Armande de Polignac 18761962French
Teresa del Riego 18761968English
Carl Ruggles 18761971AmericanSun-Treader
Mikhail Savoyarov 18761941RussianThe Drunken Moon, Trumpeters, Because of the Ladies chansonnier, light music, jazz-influenced
Ernest Schelling 18761939American
Grikor Suni 18761939Armenian
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari 18761948ItalianComic operas
Antonio Russolo 18771942Italian
Russell Alexander 18771915American
Louis Aubert 18771968French
Sergei Bortkiewicz 18771952Russian (Ukrainian-born) Romanticism
Pavel Chesnokov 18771944Russian
18771960Hungarian Variations on a Nursery Tune Romanticism
Albert Dupuis 18771967Belgian
Alexander Goedicke 18771957Russian
18771950Russian
18771930French
Hans Jelmoli 18771936Swiss
Sigfrid Karg-Elert 18771933German66 Choral-Improvisationen for organ, Op. 65
Hnat Khotkevych 18771938Ukrainian
Elisabeth Kuyper 18771953DutchViolin Concerto in B minor, Violin Sonata in A major, Piano Trio in D major
Mykola Leontovych 18771921Ukrainian Shchedryk , Church music, Arrangements of folk songs A capella choral music
Roger Quilter 18771953EnglishSongs
18771957Serbian
Vladimir Tsybin 18771949Russian
Jeanne Beijerman-Walraven 18781969Dutch
Rutland Boughton 18781960English
Fritz Brun 18781959Swiss
Eugenia Calosso 18781914Italian
Conrado del Campo 18781953Spanish
18781925French
Adam Carse 18781958EnglishTwo symphonies
Mabel Wheeler Daniels 18781971American
18781955Croatian
Gabriel Dupont 18781914French
Carl Ehrenberg 18781962GermanAnneliese (opera)post-romanticism
Harry Farjeon 18781948British
Ossip Gabrilowitsch 18781936Russian-born American
Joseph Holbrooke 18781958English
Artur Kapp 18781952Estonian
Albert Mallinson 18781946British
Selim Palmgren 18781951Finnish
Caradog Roberts 18781935Welsh
Avery Robinson 18781965American
Franz Schreker 18781934AustrianDer ferne Klang (opera), Kammersymphonie modernism, eclectic (Romanticism, naturalism, symbolism, impressionism, Expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit)
Frank Bridge 18791941EnglishEnter Spring; The Sea impressionism, later expressionism; mentor of Benjamin Britten
Viggo Brodersen 18791965Danish
Joseph Canteloube 18791957French Chants d'Auvergne
Paul Corder 18791942English
Jean Cras 18791932French
Maurice Delage 18791961FrenchQuatre poèmes hindous; Sept haï-kaïs impressionism, oriental-influenced
Stefano Donaudy 18791925Italian
Percy Fletcher 18791932English
Philippe Gaubert 18791941French
Gabriel Grovlez 18791944French
Joseph Haas 18791960GermanRomanticism
Hamilton Harty 18791941IrishAn Irish Symphony; With the Wild Geese
Josip Hatze 18791959Croatian
Edgar Henrichsen 18791955Danish
18791962English Piano Concerto in E flat
Frank La Forge 18791953American
Nikolaos Lavdas 18791940Greekcomposer for mandolin orchestra
Pablo Luna 18791942SpanishEl niño judío
Stanyslav Lyudkevych 18791979Ukrainian
Carmela Mackenna 18791962Chilean
Jules Mazellier 18791959French
18791949Cuban
Alma Mahler 18791964Austrian
Otto Olsson 18791964SwedishTe Deum
18791935Czech
Ottorino Respighi 18791936Italian The Fountains of Rome ; The Pines of Rome impressionism
Rudolf Sieczyński 18791952Austrian
Hugo Riesenfeld 18791939Austrian-American
18791966Danish
Cyril Scott 18791970English
Johanna Senfter 18791961German
Marcel Tournier 18791951French
Richard Trunk 18791968German
Otakar Zich 18791934Czech
Rentarō Taki 18791903Japanese
Leo Ascher 18801942Austrian
Ernest Bloch 18801959American (Swiss-born) Schelomo ; Suite hébraïque
18801953English
18801974American
John Foulds 18801939English A World Requiem Post-romanticism, Indian influence
Rudolf Karel 18801945Czech
18801940Czech
Nikolai Medtner 18801951Russian38 Skazki for piano, Piano Concerto No. 3 Romanticism
Ildebrando Pizzetti 18801968Italian Assassinio nella cattedrale
Ferdinand Rebay 18801953Austrian
18801960Croatian
18801944German
Robert Stolz 18801975Austrian
18801971Colombian
Clarence Cameron White 18801960Americanneoromantic
Healey Willan 18801968English
Francesco Balilla Pratella 18801955Italian
Domenico Alaleona 18811928Italian
18811945Hungarian 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
Theodor Blumer 18811964German
Gena Branscombe 18811977Canadian
Nancy Dalberg 18811949DanishString Quartet No. 2
Fannie Charles Dillon 18811947American
Sem Dresden 18811957Dutch
George Enescu 18811955Romanian Romanian Rhapsody No. 1, Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano ("In the Romanian Popular Style"), Octet for Strings, String Quartet No. 2, Œdip (opera), Cantabile et Presto for flute and pianofolk-influenced; father of Romanian classical music
Henry Fillmore 18811956Americanmarches
Jan van Gilse 18811944DutchThijl
Peder Gram 18811956Danish
Richard Hageman 18811966Dutch-born American
Sigurd Islandsmoen 18811964Norwegian
18811947DanishRomance for Trombone and Piano
Edvin Kallstenius 18811967Swedish
Paul Le Flem 18811984French
18811968American
Nikolai Myaskovsky 18811950Russian Symphony No. 6, No. 10 and No. 13; Cello Concerto in C minor Romanticism
Kenneth J. Alford 18811945British Colonel Bogey "British March King"
18811971Dutch
Nikolai Roslavets 18811944Russian
Ignatz Waghalter 18811949Polish-GermanConcerto for Violin in A Major; Mandragola ; Jugend Romanticism
Arthur Willner 18811959Czech
Hermann Zilcher 18811948German
18821970Hungarian
Marion Bauer 18821955American
Alberto Bimboni 18821960Italian-born American
Walter Braunfels 18821954GermanOrgan Concertoneotonality
Percy Grainger 18821961Australian Mock Morris , Colonial Song , Lincolnshire Posy folk-influenced
Mary Howe 18821964American
18821937Irish
18821953HungarianOperettas
18821967Hungarian Háry János ; Székelyfonó ; Psalmus Hungaricus folk-influenced
Nicholas Laucella 18821952Italian-AmericanMokanna – opera; Fantastic Overture; Nocturne for Orchestra; Consolva & The White House – Impressions of Norfolk – Symphonic poems; Divertimento for Flute, Oboe & English Horn; String Quartetclassical
Maurice Le Boucher 18821964French
Ernestina Lecuona y Casado 18821951CubanBolero
Mary Lucas 18821952English
Gian Francesco Malipiero 18821973Italian
Joseph Marx 18821964Austrianvocal music
Geoffrey O'Hara 18821967Canadian
18821948Mexican Concierto del Sur for guitar and orchestra, guitar and piano pieces, songs (especially "Estrellita"), and folk-song arrangements
18821963American
Mart Saar 18821963Estonian
Artur Schnabel 18821951Austrian
Lazare Saminsky 18821959Russian
Igor Stravinsky 18821971Russian The Rite of Spring ; The Firebird ; Petrushka ; Pulcinella ; The Soldier's Tale ; Symphony of Psalms ; Symphonies of Wind Instruments ; Canticum Sacrum ; Threni neoclassicism, neotonality, later serialism, polystylism
Karol Szymanowski 18821937PolishSymphony No. 3 and No. 4; Violin Concerto No. 1 and No. 2 impressionism, later folk-influenced
18821949Spanish
18821969Czech
Haydn Wood 18821959English
Maurice Abrahams 18831931American
Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov 18831946Russian
Emilius Bangert 18831962Danish
18831915French
Arnold Bax 18831953English Symphony No. 2, No. 3, and No. 6; Tintagel Romanticism, impressionism
Alfredo Casella 18831947Italian
Alexandre Eugène Cellier 18831968French
18831967French
18831964EnglishSymphony in G major
Mikhail Gnessin 18831957Russian
Josef Matthias Hauer 18831959Austrian
Manuel Infante 18831958Spanish
Manolis Kalomiris 18831962Greek
Paul von Klenau 18831946Danish
Petar Konjović 18831970Serbian
Alexander Krein 18831951Russian
Luigi Russolo 18831947Italian futurism, noise music
Jan Kunc 18831976Czech
Toivo Kuula 18831918Finnish
Fran Lhotka 18831962Czech-born Croatian
Robert Graham Manson 18831950British
Romanos Melikian 18831935Armenian
Jules Van Nuffel 18831953Belgian In convertendo Dominus ; Te Deum
18831953Polish
Theophrastos Sakellaridis 18831950Greek
Maximilian Steinberg 18831946Russian
Fritz Stiedry 18831968Austrian
18831920Estonian
Enrico Toselli 18831926ItalianSerenata 'Rimpianto' Op. 6 No. 1
18831965French Amériques ; Ionisation ; Arcana; Density 21.5 Musique concrète, Electronic music
Anton Webern 18831945AustrianSymphony; Six Pieces for Orchestra twelve-tone technique, serialism, polystylism; pupil of Arnold Schoenberg
18831951Czech
Riccardo Zandonai 18831944Italian
Juhan Aavik 18841982Estonian
Dina Appeldoorn 18841938Dutch
Boris Asafyev 18841949Russian
Ralph Benatzky 18841957Czech
York Bowen 18841961English
May Brahe 18841956Australian Bless This House and other songs
Max Brod 18841968Czech
Charles Griffes 18841920American
Louis Gruenberg 18841964Russian The Emperor Jones (opera)
Juozas Gruodis 18841948Lithuanian
18841964French
Jonny Heykens 18841945Dutch
18841941Lithuanian
Raoul Koczalski 18841948PolishPiano Concerto, Op. 83
Boris Levenson 18841947Russian-born American
18841947Swedishfour symphonies
Jaime Teixidor 18841957Spanish
Wintter Watts 18841962American
18841940Chinese
Alexander Albrecht 18851958Slovak
18851959Chilean
18851944Paraguayan
Alban Berg 18851935Austrian Violin Concerto; Wozzeck ; Lyric Suite serialism, Romanticism, expressionism, polystylism; pupil of Arnold Schoenberg
George Butterworth 18851916English
Henri Collet 18851951French
Dimitrie Cuclin 18851978Romanianseveral exceptionally long symphonies
Benjamin Dale 18851943English
Ernest Farrar 18851918English
Julius Harrison 18851963English
18851958Serbian
Werner Josten 18851963German
Heino Kaski 18851957Finnish
Eduard Künneke 18851953GermanDer Vetter aus Dingsda
Artur Lemba 18851963Estonian
Adriano Lualdi 18851971Italian
Hildor Lundvik 18851951Swedish
18851923CroatianSymphony in F-sharp Minor, Phantasie Concertante
Wallingford Riegger 18851961AmericanSymphony No. 3
Siegfried Salomon 18851962Danish
Carlos Salzedo 18851961French
18851938Americanragtime
Juhan Simm 18851959Estonian
Edith Swepstone 18851930English
18851974Dutch-American
Leó Weiner 18851960Hungarian
Egon Wellesz 18851974AustrianNine symphonies
18851981American
Joseph Achron 18861943RussianHebrew Melody
Arseny Avraamov 18861944Russianavant-garde
Edward Ballantine 18861971AmericanVariations on "Mary Had a Little Lamb" for piano
John J. Becker 18861961American
18861979English
Eric Coates 18861957English
Ellen Coleman 18861973English
Edward Joseph Collins 18861951American
18861971FrenchOrgan music
18861954GermanSymphony No. 1 in B minor, Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Symphony No. 3 in C♯ minor, Piano Quintet, Religöser Hymnus, Te Deum for Choir and Orchestraneoclassicism, folk-influenced, twelve-tone technique
Henri Gagnebin 18861977Belgian-born Swiss
Carlo Giorgio Garofalo 18861962Italian
18861961SpanishSinfonia pirenaica
Elizabeth Gyring 18861970American
Algot Haquinius 18861966Swedish
Jef van Hoof 18861959Belgian
Ethel Leginska 18861970British
Paul Paray 18861979FrenchMass for the 500th Anniversary of the Death of Joan of Arc
Emilio Pujol 18861980Spanish
Othmar Schoeck 18861957Swiss Penthesilea
Ole Windingstad 18861959Norwegian-American
Kōsaku Yamada 18861965JapaneseOverture in D major
Pietro Yon 18861943Italian Gesù bambino
Willem Andriessen 18871964DutchPiano Concerto in D major
Kurt Atterberg 18871974SwedishSymphony No. 6 "Dollar Symphony"
Nadia Boulanger 18871979French
Nicolae Bretan 18871968Romanian
Lawrance Collingwood 18871982English
Mildred Couper 18871974Americanquarter tone
Heino Eller 18871970Estonian
Emilia Gubitosi 18871972Italian
Henry Ley 18871962English
18871955Swedish
Leevi Madetoja 18871947Finnish Symphony No. 1 (1916), Symphony No. 2 (1918), Symphony No. 3 (1926), the opera The Ostrobothnians (1923), the ballet-pantomime Okon Fuoko (1927), and Elegia (1909).Student of Jean Sibelius, 1908–10.
Zorko Prelovec 18871939Slovenian
Florence Price 18871953American
Ernest Pingoud 18871942Finnish
18871950Czech
Emil Reesen 18871964DanishOperas
18871943Lithuanian
Rudi Stephan 18871915German Romanticism
Heinz Tiessen 18871971German
Ernst Toch 18871964German7 symphonies
Max Trapp 18871971German
Heitor Villa-Lobos 18871959Brazilian Chôros ; Bachianas brasileiras ; Magdalena: a Musical Adventure ; Rudepoêma ; neoclassicism, folk-influenced
Anatoly Nikolayevich Alexandrov 18881982Russian
May Aufderheide 18881972American
Carmen Barradas 18881963Uruguayan
Vasyl Barvinsky 18881963Ukrainian
Johanna Beyer 18881944German-American
Emil Bohnke 18881928German
Ina Boyle 18881967Irish
Philip Greeley Clapp 18881954American12 symphonies
Cecil Coles 18881918Scottish
Claude Delvincourt 18881954French
Ilse Fromm-Michaels 18881986German
Anna Maria Klechniowska 18881973Polish
Ion Nonna Otescu 18881940Romanian
18881938Czech
Maria Rodrigo 18881967Spanish
Poul Schierbeck 18881949Danish
Alexei Stanchinsky 18881914Russian
18881964Spanish
Matthijs Vermeulen 18881967DutchSeven symphonies
Gabriel von Wayditch 18881969Hungarian-American
Emiliana de Zubeldia 18881987Spanish
Alton Adams 18891987American
Aksel Agerby 18891942Danish
Harald Agersnap 18891982Danish
Felix Arndt 18891918American
Grigoraș Dinicu 18891949Romanian
Armstrong Gibbs 18891960English
Ethel Glenn Hier 18891971American
18891947Czech
Cyrillus Kreek 18891962Estonian
18891944Czech
Rudolf Mauersberger 18891971German
18891969Czech
Karl Rautio 18891963Finnish
Levko Revutsky 18891977UkrainianPiano Concerto in F major
Francisco Santiago 18891947Filipino
Vladimir Shcherbachov 18891952Russian
18901980Danish
Ernest Bullock 18901979English
Victor Dolidze 18901933Soviet Georgian
Samuil Feinberg 18901962Russian and Soviet
18901955Portuguese
18901987Austrian
Carlos Gardel 18901935French
Ivor Gurney 18901937English
Pauline Hall 18901969Norwegian
Jacques Ibert 18901962French Concertino da camera; Escales neoclassicism impressionism
Philip James 18901975American
18901963Hungarian
Kathleen Lockhart Manning 18901951American
18901974SwissBallade for flute and piano; Petite symphonie concertante ; Requiem
18901959CzechDouble Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano, and Timpani, Symphony No. 3, No. 4, and No. 6; operas Julietta and The Greek Passion; Gilgamesh (oratorio) neoclassicism, folk-influenced
Yves Nat 18901956French
18901966Swedish
Eda Rapoport 18901968American
Morishige Takei 18901947Japanese
18901973Czech
Roy Agnew 18911944Australian
Schahan Berberian 18911956Armenian
Arthur Bliss 18911975English A Colour Symphony
Benjamin Burrows 18911966English
Claude Champagne 18911965Canadian
18911966French
Marcel Grandjany 18911975FrenchPieces for harp; Headed Harp Dept at Fontainebleau & Juilliard Noted harpist and teacher
Thomas Griselle 18911955American
18911972Czechoslovak
Mihail Jora 18911971Romanian
Alexander Kasyanov 18911982Soviet Russian
Frida Kern 18911988Austrian
Karl King 18911971American"Barnum and Bailey's Favorite"Marches
18911973Czech
18911982Spanish classical guitar
Edmund Nick 18911974German
Sergei Prokofiev 18911953Russian Romeo and Juliet ; The Love for Three Oranges ; 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 neoclassicism, Romanticism
Alexis Roland-Manuel 18911966French
Philip Sainton 18911967British-French
W. K. Stanton 18911978English
Catherine Murphy Urner 18911942American
Paul Abraham 18921960Hungarianoperettas
Isidor Achron 18921948Polish
Hendrik Andriessen 18921981Dutchfather of Louis Andriessen
Samuel L. M. Barlow 18921982American
Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman 18921971Dutch
Hans Bottermund 18921949German
Augusto Brandt 18921942Venezuelan
Katherine Kennicott Davis 18921980American
Giorgio Federico Ghedini 18921965Italian
18921972American Grand Canyon Suite ; Mississippi Suite
Ilmari Hannikainen 18921955FinnishRomanticism
Sandor Harmati 18921936Hungarian-American
Mirrie Hill 18921986Australian
Arthur Honegger 18921955Swiss Symphony No. 3 "Liturgique"; Pacific 231 neoclassicism; also a composer of film music: Les Misérables
Herbert Howells 18921983EnglishHymnus paradisi
Frank Hutchens 18921965Australian
William G. James 18921977Australian
Knud Jeppesen 18921974Danish
Louise Lincoln Kerr 18921977American
18921962Czech
18921959Finnishneoclassical
Fritz Heinrich Klein 18921977Austrian
Jaroslav Kvapil 18921958Czech
18921963Hungarian
Arthur Lourié 18921966Russian
Darius Milhaud 18921974French La Création du Monde ; Le Bœuf sur le toit jazz-influenced, neoclassical, polytonal
John Jacob Niles 18921980American
Nikolai Obukhov 18921954Russian
Felix Petyrek 18921951Austrian
Hilding Rosenberg 18921985SwedishViolin Concerto
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji 18921988English Opus clavicembalisticum ; 100 Transcendental Studies ; Sequentia cyclica super "Dies irae" ex Missa pro defunctis ; Piano Symphony No. 2; "Gulistān" – Nocturne for Piano neoclassical, neoromantic, postimpressionistic
Germaine Tailleferre 18921983French
Nicanor Abelardo 18931934FilipinoPiano Concerto in B-flat minor
Jean Absil 18931974Belgian
Arthur Benjamin 18931960Australian Jamaican Rhumba
18931958Romanian
Lili Boulanger 18931918French
Marta Canales 18931986Chilean
Osvald Chlubna 18931971Czech
Zinovy Feldman 18931942Russian
Aleksandr Gauk 18931963Russian/Soviet
18931962English
Dorothy Gow 18931982English
Hambarsoom Grigorian 18931975Armenian
18931973CzechMatka microtonal
Helen Eugenia Hagan 18931964American
Rued Langgaard 18931952Danish16 symphonies, The Music of the Spheres, Antikrist
Franz Mittler 18931970Austrian
Federico Mompou 18931987Spanishpiano music
Douglas Moore 18931969American The Ballad of Baby Doe , The Devil and Daniel Webster (Folk opera)
Ivor Novello 18931951Welsh
Leo Ornstein 18932002American (Russian-born)Wild Men's Dance, Suicide in an Airplane, 8 piano sonatas, Piano Quintet, 3 String Quartets avant-garde, later neoromanticism
Charles Wilfred Orr 18931976EnglishSongs
Sergei Protopopov 18931954Russian3 piano sonatasAvant-garde
Bernard Rogers 18931968American
John Laurence Seymour 18931986American
Marcel Tyberg 18931944Austrian
Stanisław Wiechowicz 18931963Polish
Pylyp Kozytskiy 18931960UkrainianIn memory of the Bolsheviks (1951) avant-garde
Hugo Chaim Adler 18941955Belgian
Aaron Avshalomov 18941965Russian
18941975Yugoslav
Robert Russell Bennett 18941981AmericanBroadway arrangements; pieces for band
18941972Czech
Paul Dessau 18941979German
18941968RomanianPiano Concerto
Kalitha Dorothy Fox 18941934English
Wilhelm Grosz 18941939Austrian
18941941Croatian
Edmund Jenkins 18941926American
Jane Joseph 18941929English
18941936Romanianavant-garde
Ernest John Moeran 18941950English Symphony in G minor folk-influenced
Antonio Molina 18941980Filipino
Willem Pijper 18941947DutchSix Adagios; Piano Concerto atonality
Walter Piston 18941976American The Incredible Flutist (ballet); Symphony No. 2, No. 3, No. 6, and No. 7 Neoclassicism
18941959Polish
Erwin Schulhoff 18941942Czech
Nicolas Slonimsky 18941995Russian-born American
Albert Stoessel 18941943American
Bernard Wagenaar 18941971Dutch/American
Peter Warlock 18941930Anglo-Welsh Capriol Suite , The Curlew
Vally Weigl 18941982Austrian-American
18941973AmericanThe King of Babylon; Concertino for Flute or Violin and Orchestra
August Baeyens 18951966Belgian
18951952Dutch
Jorge Bravo de Rueda 18951940Peruvian
Bjarne Brustad 18951978Norwegian
18951968Italian Naomi and Ruth ; guitar music
18951968Argentine
Ernest Charles 18951984American
Georges Dandelot 18951975French
Johann Nepomuk David 18951977Austrian neoclassical
Nico Dostal 18951981Austrian
Lindley Evans 18951982South African-born Australian
Jakov Gotovac 18951982Croatian
Ivo Tijardović 18951976Croatian
Paul Hindemith 18951963German Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber ; Mathis der Maler ; Ludus Tonalis neoclassicism, Expressionism
Gordon Jacob 18951984English
Eva Jessye 18951992American
Rudolf Kattnigg 18951955Austrian
Ernesto Lecuona 18951963Cuban
Ernst Levy 18951981Swiss
Borys Lyatoshynsky 18951968Ukrainian
Carl Orff 18951982German Carmina Burana polystylism
Slavko Osterc 18951941SlovenianSymphony
Kathleen Richards 18951984English
Dane Rudhyar 18951985French
Boris Sobinov 18951956Russian
Leo Sowerby 18951968American
William Grant Still 18951978American5 symphonies, including Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American" ; Troubled Island (opera), A Bayou Legend (opera)folk-influenced; known as "the Dean" of African-American composers
18951962Spanish
Maria Bach 18961978AustrianPiano Quartet
Erling Brene 18961980Danish
18961962Czech
Shirley Graham Du Bois 18961977American
Amice Calverley 18961959English-born CanadianString Quartet in F minor; Variations on a Harmonic Theme
Eduard Erdmann 18961958German
Jacobo Ficher 18961978Argentine10 symphonies; 3 piano concertos; chamber music; El Oso (opera, after Chekhov) eclectic
Roberto Gerhard 18961970Spanish
Howard Hanson 18961981American7 symphonies Romanticism
18961944Polish
Viktor Kosenko 18961938UkrainianPiano concerto
Dimitri Mitropoulos 18961960Greek
18961982Spanish
Jean Rivier 18961987French
Leroy Robertson 18961971American
Roger Sessions 18961985American9 symphonies, Violin Concerto, Montezuma neoclassicism, twelve-tone technique
Petko Staynov 18961977Bulgarian
18961979Polish
George Thalben-Ball 18961986British
Virgil Thomson 18961989American Four Saints in Three Acts , The Mother of Us All ; Louisiana Story ; also noted criticfolk-influenced, eclectic
Wladimir Vogel 18961984Swiss
18961967Czech Schwanda the Bagpiper
Sergei Aslamazyan 18971978Armenian
18971958Czech
Paul Ben-Haim 18971984Israeli
18971951Danish
18971966SpanishToccata, Requiebros
Henry Cowell 18971965American The Tides of Manaunaun , Dynamic Motion eclectic, experimental
18971948Brazilian"Batuque" from Malazarte nationalism
18971918Portuguese
Luis Gianneo 18971968Argentine
Sim Gokkes 18971943DutchModernist
Yefim Golyshev 18971970UkrainianString Trio
Hermann Heiss 18971966German
Harrison Kerr 18971978American
Erich Wolfgang Korngold 18971957Austrian Violin Concerto also composed film music: Die Tote Stadt
18971984Hungarian
18971970MexicanGranada
Theo Mackeben 18971953German
Enrico Mainardi 18971976Italian
18971985German
Benna Moe 18971983Danish
Hermann Neuling 18971967German
Fernando Obradors 18971945SpanishCanciones clásicas españolas
Quincy Porter 18971966American2 symphonies, 9 string quartets, Piano Quintet, Concerto concertante for two pianos and orchestra
18971956Czech
18971974Denmark
18971992NorwegianPeer Gynt, 9 symphonies
18971988Spanish
Margaret Sutherland 18971984AustralianViolin Concerto Haunted Hills
Kay Swift 18971993American
Alexandre Tansman 18971986French (Polish-born)
Terig Tucci 18971973Argentine
Alexander Abramsky 18981985Russianfolk-influenced
18981994English
Ernst Bacon 18981990American
Edward Boatner 18981981American
Carlton Cooley 18981981American
Norman Demuth 18981968English
Hanns Eisler 18981962German/Austrian Auferstanden aus Ruinen (Eastern Germany national anthem)
George Gershwin 18981937American Rhapsody in Blue ; Piano Concerto; An American in Paris ; Porgy and Bess jazz-influenced; also a composer of popular songs
Barbara Giuranna 18981998Italian
Ebbe Hamerik 18981951Danish
Roy Harris 18981979American Symphony No. 3 neotonality
18981954Hungarian
Alberto Hemsi 18981976Turkish
Dorothy Howell 18981982EnglishLamia
Maurice Journeau 18981999French
Lev Knipper 18981974Russian
Jeanne Leleu 18981979French
Marcel Mihalovici 18981985French (Romanian-born) Krapp, ou, La dernière bande neoclassicism, serialism, etc.; folk-influenced
18981956German
Vittorio Rieti 18981994Italian
Rito Selvaggi 18981972Italian
18981958Chilean
Viktor Ullmann 18981944Austrian
Ephraim Amu 18991995Ghanaian
Georges Auric 18991983French
William Baines 18991922English
Mansi Barberis 18991986Romanian
Radie Britain 18991994American
18991978Mexican Sinfonía de Antígona , Sinfonía india , Symphony No. 6, Toccata for percussion instruments, The Visitors (opera) modernist, primitivist, folk-influenced, neoclassicism, serialist
Frederic Curzon 18991973English
Arthur Duff 18991956Irish
18991974Russian-born Canadian
Yusef Greiss 18991961Egyptian
Patrick Hadley 18991973British
Pavel Haas 18991944Czech
18991995Mexican
18991997Danish
18991938Belgian
18991944Czech
Ricard Lamote de Grignon 18991962Spanish
18991968IcelandicOratorios based on Edda idiosyncratic orchestration and percussion used to evoke Icelandic natural phenomena
Marcelle de Manziarly 18991989French
Harl McDonald 18991955American
George Frederick McKay 18991970American
Duke Ellington 18991974American
Francis Poulenc 18991963French Babar the Elephant ; Flute Sonata; Stabat Mater neoclassicism
Silvestre Revueltas 18991940Mexican Janitzio ; Homenaje a Federico García Lorca ; Sensemayá nationalist, political music, primitivist, popular-music influence. modernism
Herbert Sumsion 18991995English
Alexander Tcherepnin 18991977Russian
Randall Thompson 18991984American Alleluia ; The Testament of Freedom
Pancho Vladigerov 18991978Bulgarian4 piano concertosfolk-influenced
Franz Salmhofer 19001975AustrianLieder: Heiteres HerbariumLate romantic / progressive
Evald Aav 19001939Estonian
Kai Normann Andersen 19001967Danish
George Antheil 19001959American Ballet mécanique ; Symphony No. 4 avant-garde, modernism, later neoclassical
Henry Barraud 19001997FrenchConcertino for piano, flute, clarinet, horn, bassoon and chamber orchestra
Nicolai Berezowsky 19001953Russian-AmericanChristmas Festival Overture (Ukrainian Noel), Duo for Clarinet and Viola
Willy Burkhard 19001955Swiss
Alan Bush 19001995English
Lola Castegnaro 19001979Costa Rican
Niels Clemmensen 19001950Danish
Aaron Copland 19001990American Appalachian Spring (ballet); Billy the Kid (ballet); Rodeo (ballet); Fanfare for the Common Man ; Clarinet Concerto Lincoln Portrait neoclassical, folk-influenced, jazz-influenced, early twelve-tone, later serialism
Isaak Dunayevsky 19001955Russian
Pierre-Octave Ferroud 19001936French
Isadore Freed 19001960Belarusian-born American
Grigori Gamburg 19001967Russian
Hector Gratton 19001970Canadian
Gotfrid Hasanov 19001965Russian
Hans Haug 19001967Swiss
19001976British
Maurice Jaubert 19001940French
Yasuji Kiyose 19001981Japanese
Uuno Klami 19001961FinnishSea Pictures; Kalevala Suite
Paul Kletzki 19001973Polish
Ernst Krenek 19001991Austrian Jonny spielt auf , Karl V neoclassical, twelve-tone, later serial, neoromantic, eclectic
Otto Luening 19001996American
Colin McPhee 19001964CanadianTabuh-Tabuhan: Toccata for Orchestrafolk-influenced
Alexander Mosolov 19001973Russian Iron Foundry avant-garde
Henri Pensis 19001958Luxembourger
Fred Raymond 19001954Austrianoperettas; also composed film music
Hermann Reutter 19001985German
19001939CubanRítmicas Nos. 5 and 6
Hans Schimmerling 19001967Czech
Bernd Scholz 19001969German
19001943Dutch
19001984Serbian
Zdenka Ticharich 19001979Hungarian
Elinor Remick Warren 19001991American
Kurt Weill 19001950German/American2 symphonies; String Quartets; "Die Dreigroschenoper"; Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny ; "Mahagonny-Songspiel"; several Broadway musicals neoclassical
19001983Welsh
Walther Aeschbacher 19011969Swiss
Karel Albert 19011987BelgianMarieken van Niemeghen (incidental music); four symphoniesconstructionist, neoclassical, twelve-tone technique
19011970Slovenianneoromanticism
Conrad Beck 19011989Swiss
Ruth Crawford Seeger 19011953American String Quartet modernism
Gerald Finzi 19011956EnglishCello Concerto; songs neoromantic
Lillian Fuchs 19011995American
Eivind Groven 19011977Norwegian
Povl Hamburger 19011972Danish
Victor Hely-Hutchinson 19011947British
Emil Hlobil 19011987Czechoslovakian
Dorothy James 19011982American
Olav Kielland 19011985Norwegian
Boris Koutzen 19011966Russian-American
Rudolf Matz 19011988Croatian
19011984Australian
Dimitar Nenov 19011953BulgarianToccata
Harry Partch 19011974AmericanDaphne of the Dunes, Revelation in the Courthouse Park microtonal, just intonation, self-built instruments
Juan Carlos Paz 19011972Argentinetwelve-tone technique and serialism
Marcel Poot 19011988Belgian
Bernard Reichel 19011992Swiss
19011999Spanish Concierto de Aranjuez ; guitar music neoclassical, folk music influence
Heinz Eric Roemheld 19011985American
Kjell Roikjer 19011999Danish
Edmund Rubbra 19011986English
Henri Sauguet 19011989French
Henri Tomasi 19011971French
Emmy Wegener 19011973Dutch
Werner Egk 19011983German
19021960Spanish
Theodore Chanler 19021961American
19021986French Requiem ; organ music
Vladimir Fere 19021971Russian
19021993Spanish
19021977LatvianPiano Concerto
19021936Spanish
19021982Finnish
Lino Liviabella 19021964Italian
Jiro Nakano 19022000Japanese
Vissarion Shebalin 19021963Russian The Taming of the Shrew (opera)
Andriy Shtoharenko 19021992Ukrainian
Veselin Stoyanov 19021969BulgarianThree concertos for piano and orchestra; Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Concertino for violinfolk-influenced
19022005Austrian
Rose Thisse-Derouette 19021989Belgian
Antonio María Valencia 19021952Colombian
19021977AmericanConsort for Piano and Strings neoclassical
William Walton 19021983English Symphony No. 1; Violin Concerto; Viola Concerto; Variations on a Theme by Hindemith; Belshazzar's Feast (oratorio) avant-garde (early), neoromantic, neoclassical; also a composer of film music
Meredith Willson 19021984American
Stefan Wolpe 19021972GermanBattle Piece for piano serial, modernism
Claude Arrieu 19031990French
Lennox Berkeley 19031989English Horn Trio neoclassical, later serial
Boris Blacher 19031975German
Abram Chasins 19031987AmericanTwo piano concertos; Parade for orchestra
Tudor Ciortea 19031983Romanian
Rhoda Coghill 19032000Irish
Avril Coleridge-Taylor 19031998English
Hugo Distler 19081942German
Vernon Duke 19031969Russianboth post-tonal style as Dukelsky and in the style of Tin Pan Alley as Duke
19031995French
Vittorio Giannini 19031966Italian Blennerhassett neoclassical
Walter Goehr 19031960German
Berthold Goldschmidt 19031996German
19031984Swedish
19031999Chinese
Vladimir Horowitz 19031989American
Jens Bjerre Jacobsen 19031986Danish
Aram Khachaturian 19031978Armenian Gayane (ballet, includes Sabre Dance ); Spartacus (ballet); concertos; Masquerade Suite
Mykola Kolessa 19032006Ukrainian
Marc Lavry 19031967IsraeliSymphonic Poem Emek, Opera Dan Hashomer
Leighton Lucas 19031982English
Robin Milford 19031959English
19031977Japanese
19031987HungarianRomanticism
Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen 19031984Norwegian
Flor Peeters 19031986Belgian
Mario Pilati 19031938ItalianPiedigrotta (opera)
Thomas Pitfield 19031999British
Priaulx Rainier 19031986South African / EnglishPloërmel, Quanta, String Trio
19031960German
19031977EcuadorianSanjuanito futurista; Eunice; Cumandáfolk-influenced, modernist
19031987Swedish
Vladimir Vlasov 19031986Russian
19031969German Prometheus (opera)
Percy Whitlock 19031946English
Richard Addinsell 19041977British Warsaw Concerto
Joseph Ahrens 19041997German
Herbert Kennedy Andrews 19041965English
John Antill 19041986Australian Corroboree (ballet suite)
Jean Berveiller 19041976French
Walter Bricht 19041970Austrian
Antonino Buenaventura 19041996Filipino
Erik Chisholm 19041965ScottishPiano Concerto No. 2 ("Hindustani")"Scotland's forgotten composer", nicknamed "MacBartok"
Karl Clausen 19041972Danish
Luigi Dallapiccola 19041975Italian Il prigioniero (opera); Il canto sospeso serialism, electronic music
Balys Dvarionas 19041974Lithuanian
Kunihiko Hashimoto 19041949Japanese
19041938ChineseIn Memoriam
Dmitry Kabalevsky 19041987RussianThe Comedians
Tadeusz Kassern 19041957Polish
19041968Czech20 Variations on the Composer s Own Theme in the Style of a Folk Songneoclassical
Goffredo Petrassi 19042003Italian
19041972RussianChamber Symphony; Symphony No. 1
19041985Turkish
Manuel Rosenthal 19042003French
Theodor Schaefer 19041969Czech
Hermann Schroeder 19041984German
Nikos Skalkottas 19041949Greek36 Greek Dances for orchestra; Violin Concerto twelve-tone, folk music influence, modernism
Franz Syberg 19041955Danish
Jack Westrup 19041975English
Konrad Wölki 19041983German
Aleksey Zhivotov 19041964Russian
Heikki Aaltoila 19051992Finnish
William Alwyn 19051985EnglishLyra Angelica; Elizabethan Dances neoromantic
Boris Arapov 19051992RussianViolin Concerto neoromantic, atonality
Albert Arlen 19051993Turkish Australian
Paul Arma 19051987Hungarian-French
19051970Lithuanian atonality
Marc Blitzstein 19051964American The Cradle Will Rock (musical) political music
19051991French
Mario Braggiotti 19051996American (Italian-born)
Yevgeny Brusilovsky 19051981Kazakhstani
Francis Chagrin 19051972Romanian
Ulric Cole 19051992American
Christian Darnton 19051981British
Ferenc Farkas 19052000Hungarian
Karl Amadeus Hartmann 19051963German Concerto funebre ; Gesangsszene ; Symphony No. 1; Symphony No. 4
19051983Iranian
19051974French Flute Concerto No. 1
Erich Itor Kahn 19051956German
Taneli Kuusisto 19051988Finnish
Constant Lambert 19051951EnglishThe Rio Grandepopular music influence, jazz influence
19051968Dutch
Walter Leigh 19051942EnglishConcertino for Harpsichord and Strings; Agincourt; Jolly Roger; Music for Strings neoclassical
Ernst Hermann Meyer 19051988German
19051987Dutch
Alan Rawsthorne 19051971English3 symphonies; Symphonic Studies neoclassical
Luis Sandi 19051996Mexican
Giacinto Scelsi 19051988ItalianQuattro pezzi chiascuno su una nota sola
Verdina Shlonsky 19051990IsraeliPiano Concerto; String Quartet; numerous piano music, including Pages from the Diary; Five Sketches; Youth Suite; Reflection; Still Life Polystylism
Fela Sowande 19051987Nigerian
Daniel Sternefeld 19051986Belgian
Michael Tippett 19051998English The Midsummer Marriage ; 4 symphonies; A Child of Our Time (oratorio)
Eduard Tubin 19051982Estonian11 symphonies
19051945Chinese Yellow River Cantata
19051991Chinese
Winfried Zillig 19051963German
Murray Adaskin 19062002Canadian
19061965Korean Aegukga
Hasan Ferit Alnar 19061978Turkish
19061975MexicanTribu (symphonic poem)
Andria Balanchivadze 19061992Georgian
Franz Biebl 19062001German Ave Maria
19061991English
19061969French
Bernhard Christensen 19062004Danish
Alessandro Cicognini 19061995Italian
Milo Cipra 19061985Croatian
Arnold Cooke 19062005British
Paul Creston 19061985American neoclassical
19061962Latvian
Claire Delbos 19061959French
19061988American
Klaus Egge 19061979Norwegian
Will Eisenmann 19061992German-Swiss
Ulvi Cemal Erkin 19061972Turkish
Eric Fenby 19061997English
19061983Portugueseneoclassical
Benjamin Frankel 19061973English
Giovanni Fusco 19061968Italian
19061940Cuban
19061986HungarianPsalm 46, organ sonatas, motetssacred music
Miriam Gideon 19061996American modernism
19061988Brazilian
Philip Herschkowitz 19061989Romanian atonality, twelve-tone technique pupil of Alban Berg & Anton Webern
19061997Swiss
Joaquim Homs 19062003Spanish
19061991Japanese
19061983Latvian neoromantic
Maxime Jacob 19061977French
19061942Czech
Eugen Kapp 19061996Estonian
Jacques Leguerney 19061997French
Oscar Levant 19061972American
Zara Levina 19061976Ukrainian
Normand Lockwood 19062002American
19061994Portuguese
Elisabeth Lutyens 19061983English
Abdylas Maldybaev 19061978Kyrgyzstani
Peter Mieg 19061990Swiss neoclassical
Alexander Moyzes 19061984Slovakneoromantic
Willson Osborne 19061979Americanneoclassical
Carmelo Pace 19061993Maltese
Boris Papandopulo 19061991Croatian
Ludovit Rajter 19062000Slovak
Dmitri Shostakovich 19061975Russian15 symphonies, including No. 5, No. 7, No. 9, No. 10, and No. 11; Violin Concerto No. 1; Cello Concerto No. 1; Festive Overture ; 15 string quartets, including String Quartet No. 8; Piano Quintet; The Gadfly Suite modernism, neoclassical, neoromantic, polystylism
Berta Alves de Sousa 19061997Portuguese
Leopold Spinner 19061980Ukrainian
Louise Talma 19061996American
19061944Taiwanese
Johannes Paul Thilman 19061973German
David Van Vactor 19061994American
Grace Williams 19061977Welsh
Lora Aborn 19072005AmericanToccata for Pianofolk-influenced
Kurken Alemshah 19071947Armenian
Henk Badings 19071987Dutch
19071995German
Yvonne Desportes 19071993French
Roy Douglas 19072015British
19071979Filipino-SpanishConcertos, symphonic poems
Wolfgang Fortner 19071987German Bluthochzeit (opera)
Koharik Gazarossian 19071967Armenian
Camargo Guarnieri 19071993BrazilianDansa brasileira, Pedro Malazarte (opera), Suite IV Centenário nationalism, neoclassicism, twelve-tone technique
19072000German
Heinz Friedrich Hartig 19071969German
19071987German
Imogen Holst 19071984British
19072005Lithuanian-born American
19071984Czech
Jean Langlais 19071991French
Elizabeth Maconchy 19071994EnglishQuintet for oboe and strings; 13 string quartets
Yoritsune Matsudaira 19072001Japanese
Otto Mortensen 19071986Danish
Zygmunt Mycielski 19071987Polish
Roman Palester 19071989Polish
19071977Hungarian-Israeli
19071995Spanish
Burrill Phillips 19071988AmericanSelections from McGuffey's Reader
Hisato Ohzawa 19071953Japanese
Willem van Otterloo 19071978Dutch
Harilaos Perpessas 19071995GreekChristus Symphony
19071995Hungarianfolk-influenced
Tolibjon Sadikov 19071957Uzbekistani
Ahmed Adnan Saygun 19071991Turkish
Martin Scherber 19071974German
Howard Swanson 19071978AmericanShort Symphony; The Negro Speaks of Rivers neoclassical
19071983Czech
Georges Tzipine 19071987French
Alec Wilder 19071980American
Necil Kazım Akses 19081999Turkish
Leroy Anderson 19081975American Sleigh Ride ; Blue Tango ; Jazz Pizzicato; Irish Suite; Suites of Carols
Menachem Avidom 19081995Israeli
19081981Czech
Joseph Beer 19081987German
Roberta Bitgood 19082007American
Elliott Carter 19082012AmericanVariations for Orchestra; A Symphony of Three Orchestras; 5 string quartets neoclassical (early), modernist
Jean Coulthard 19082000Canadian
Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur 19082002French
Gustav Ernesaks 19081993Estonian
Howard Ferguson 19081999British
Gunnar de Frumerie 19081987Swedish
Helen Glatz 19081996English
Irwin Heilner 19081991American
Kurt Hessenberg 19081994German
19081979Czech
Herman David Koppel 19081998Danish neoclassical
Lars-Erik Larsson 19081986Swedish
Joan Mary Last 19082002English
Nina Makarova 19081976Russian
Lucien Martin 19081950Canadian
Olivier Messiaen 19081992French Turangalila Symphony ; Quartet for the End of Time ; Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus ; Saint François d'Assise mysticism, postimpressionist
Vano Muradeli 19081970Soviet Georgian
Trude Rittmann 19082005German
Alice Samter 19082004German
Julian Scriabin 19081919Russian
Halsey Stevens 19081989American
19081993Slovakfolk-influenced
19081971Lithuanian
Sidney Torch 19081990British
Geirr Tveitt 19081981Norwegianfolk-influenced
19081988Scottish
Lorenc Antoni 19091991Kosovo Albanian
Isabel Aretz 19092005Argentine-Venezuelan
19091969Polish String Quartet No. 3
19091989Danish (Swiss-born)Suite for cello serialism
Jean Berger 19092002American (German-born)
Paul Constantinescu 19091963Romanian
19091978Czech
Jaroslav Doubrava 19091960Czech
Maria Dziewulska 19092006Polish
Harald Genzmer 19092007Germanneoclassicism
Isador Goodman 19091982South African-Australian
Richard de Guide 19091962Belgian3 symphonies, choral works, songs for voice and piano, a concerto for the piano and chamber works
Vagn Holmboe 19091996Danish13 symphonies neoclassicism
Koichi Kishi 19091937Japanese
Angelo Francesco Lavagnino 19091987Italian
19091997Spanish
19092003SerbSounds of Space; Ostinato Super Thema Octoicha; Threshold of Dreampost-modernism
Charles Naginski 19091940American
Paul Nordoff 19091977American
Robin Orr 19092006Scottish
Kurt Schwaen 19092007Germanneoclassicism
Elie Siegmeister 19091991American9 operas[ vague ]; 8 symphonies[ vague ]; Western Suite
Todor Skalovski 19092004Macedonian
19092000Latvian
Ignace Strasfogel 19091994Polish
Dana Suesse 19091987American
Asaf Zeynally 19091932Azerbaijani
Erkki Aaltonen 19101990Finnish
Samuel Barber 19101981American Adagio for Strings ; Violin Concerto; Symphony in One Movement ; Vanessa Romanticism
Willy Berking 19101979German
Herman Berlinski 19102001German-born American
19101956Mexican
Ronald Binge 19101979Britishlight music
Patricia Blomfield Holt 19102003Canadian
Paul Bowles 19101999American
Henri Challan 19101977French
Salvador Contreras 19101982MexicanString Quartet No. 2; Tres movimientos para guitarra; Dos piezas dodecafónicas neoclassical, serial
Francis Judd Cooke 19101995American
19101974Syrian-Egyptian
Blas Galindo 19101993Mexican Sones de Mariachi
Remo Giazotto 19101998Italian Adagio attributed to Albinoni
Evgeny Golubev 19101988Russian
Bernhard Heiden 19102000German-American
Gerard Hengeveld 19102001Dutch
Mohamed Jamoussi 19101982Tunisian
19101983Chinese
19102010German-born Canadianelectronic music
19101997Canadian
Abu Bakr Khairat 19101963Egyptian
Erland von Koch 19102009Swedish
Pierre Lantier 19101998French
Rolf Liebermann 19101999SwissLeonore 40/45 (opera); Concerto for Jazzband and Symphony Orchestra
Jean Martinon 19101976French
Paule Maurice 19101967French
Alfred Mendelssohn 19101966Romanian
19102014AmericanLa Fiesta Mexicanafolk-influenced
19102002English
Karel Reiner 19101979Czech
Pierre Schaeffer 19101995French Musique concrète
Friedrich Schröder 19101972Germanlight music
William Schuman 19101992American New England Triptych; Symphony No. 6
19102006Swiss
Leon Stein 19102002American
Robert Still 19101971English
Soulima Stravinsky 19101994Swiss-American
Heinrich Sutermeister 19101995Swiss
Josef Tal 19102008Israeli7 operas; 6 symphonies; 13 concerti
Stanley Vann 19102010English
Jehan Alain 19111940FrenchLitanies (organ)
19111954Chilean
19111981Cuban3 symphonies atonality
Stanley Bate 19111959English
Jeanne Behrend 19111988American
Paul Burkhard 19111977Swiss
19111989Slovakfolk-influenced
19111985Hungarian electronic music
19111995ChineseLong March Symphony
Mark Fax 19111974American
19112003Argentine
Jean-Jacques Grunenwald 19111982French
Bernard Herrmann 19111975American Wuthering Heights
Alan Hovhaness 19112000Armenian-American67 numbered symphonies including Mysterious Mountain; And God Created Great Whales (taped whale sounds and orchestra); Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints
Kikuko Kanai 19111986Japanese
Jan Koetsier 19112006Dutch
Vilho Luolajan-Mikkola 19112005Finnish
19111985Irish
19112007American
Gian Carlo Menotti 19112007Italian The Medium ; The Consul ; Amahl and the Night Visitors
19111996Norwegian
Allan Pettersson 19111980Swedish Barefoot Songs ; Symphony No. 9
19112000German
Franz Reizenstein 19111968German-born British
Nino Rota 19111979Italian
Ananda Samarakoon 19111962Sri Lankan
19111977Hungarian
19112000Polish
19111948Chinese
Vladimir Ussachevsky 19111990American
19111992GermanDie Stadt hinter dem Strom (opera), Requiem
Eberhard Werdin 19111991German
19121995Slovenian
Mukhtar Ashrafi 19121975Uzbekistani
Wayne Barlow 19121996AmericanThe Winter's Passed, for oboe and string orchestra; Hampton Beach Overture; Sinfonia da camera
Arthur Berger 19122003American
John Cage 19121992American 4'33" ; Sonatas and Interludes Aleatoric music, extended technique, prepared piano
Ingolf Dahl 19121970German-born American
Alfred Desenclos 19121971French
Rudolf George Escher 19121980Dutch
Arkady Filippenko 19121983Ukrainian
19121997French Clarinet Concerto; Two-Piano Concerto neoclassicism
19121978American Symphony No. 5½
Peggy Glanville-Hicks 19121990Australian
Carlos Guastavino 19122000Argentine
Johana Harris 19121995Canadian
19121971Cuban
19122007Scottish-born Australian
19121993Welsh
Sirvart Kalpakyan Karamanuk 19122008Armenian
Felipe Padilla de León 19121992Filipino
19121987Chinese
Igor Markevitch 19121983Ukrainian
Tauno Marttinen 19122008Finnish
19121958MexicanHuapango
Xavier Montsalvatge 19122002Spanish
Conlon Nancarrow 19121997American-MexicanStudies for player-piano
19121935Chinesefolk-influenced
Barbara Pentland 19122000Canadian
Sergiu Celibidache 19121996RomanianDer TaschengartenNeoclassicism
19122007Hungarian
Vadim Salmanov 19121978RussianSymphony No. 2
Jadwiga Szajna-Lewandowska 19121994Polish
19122011Czech
19122002German
Milton Adolphus 19131988American
Violet Archer 19132000Canadian
Anatoly Bogatyrev 19132003BelarusianIn the Forests of Polesie, Nadezhda Durova Nationalism
Margaret Bonds 19131972American
Henry Brant 19132008Canadian-AmericanOrbits, Verticals Ascending, Angels and Devils spatial music
Benjamin Britten 19131976English War Requiem ; Sinfonia da Requiem ; Peter Grimes ; The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra ; Cello Symphony Neoclassicism, neotonality
Merton Brown 19132000American
Storm Bull 19132007American
Matilde Capuis 19132017Italian
Ronald Center 19131973Scottish
Peggy Stuart Coolidge 19131981AmericanSpirituals in Sunshine and Shadow, New England Autumnfolk- and blues-influenced
19131977Hungarian
Norman Dello Joio 19132008American
19131997Czech
Alvin Etler 19131973American
Ernest van der Eyken 19132010BelgianElegie voor Bieke
Vivian Fine 19132000American
Morton Gould 19131996American
19131976Australian
Hans Henkemans 19131995Dutch
Dulcie Holland 19132000Australian
Miriam Hyde 19132005Australian
19132004Danish
Kent Kennan 19132003American
Tikhon Khrennikov 19132007Russian
19131972FrenchChamber Concerto for 12 instruments
19131998English
19131994Polish Concerto for Orchestra; Jeux vénitiens; Musique funebre; Symphony No. 2; Symphony No. 3 Neoclassicism, folk-influenced, later Aleatoric music
Aleksandr Machavariani 19131995Georgian
Jerome Moross 19131983American
Maurice Ohana 19131992French
Willy Ostijn 19131993Belgian neoclassicism
Gardner Read 19132005American
Lucio San Pedro 19132002Filipino
Svend S. Schultz 19131998Danish
Constantin Silvestri 19131969Romanian
Raimond Valgre 19131949Estonian
Valery Zhelobinsky 19131946Russian
Carl-Olof Anderberg 19141972SwedishConcerto for viola and orchestra
Cacilda Borges Barbosa 19142010Brazilian
Dimitris Dragatakis 19142001Greek
Cecil Effinger 19141990AmericanLittle Symphony No. 1; Four Pastorales for oboe and chorus neoclassicism
Irving Fine 19141963AmericanPartita for wind quintet; Symphony serial
Roger Goeb 19141997American
Cor de Groot 19141993Dutch
Alexei Haieff 19141994AmericanPiano Concerto; Symphony No. 2 neoclassical, jazz-influenced
19142002Swiss neoclassical
Fumio Hayasaka 19141955Japanese
Akira Ifukube 19142006Japanese
19141991Slovakfolk-influenced
19141996Czech
Gail Kubik 19141984American
Ludwig Lenel 19142002American
William Lloyd Webber 19141982English
Riccardo Malipiero 19142003Italian atonality, twelve-tone technique
Ismail Marzuki 19141958Indonesian
Wilfrid Mellers 19142008English
19141991Czech
Andrzej Panufnik 19141991Polish10 symphonies
Teresa Rampazzi 19142001Italian
Stjepan Sulek 19141986Croatian
Harold Truscott 19141992English
19142002Belgian
Haim Alexander 19152012Israeli
David Ashkenazi 19151997Russian
Esther Ballou 19151973American
Alexander Brott 19152005Canadian
19152005AmericanRounds for string orchestra neoclassicism
Grigory Frid 19152012Russian The Diary of Anne Frank
19152008Slovenian
Sembiin Gonchigsumlaa 19151991Mongolian
Ebbe Grims-land 19152015Swedish
19151987Hungarian
Pamela Harrison 19151990English
Najla Jabor 19152001Brazilian
19151940CzechMilitary Sinfonietta, Op. 11; Partita for Piano and Strings, Op. 20
Eunice Katunda 19151991Brazilian
Homer Keller 19151996American
Dorian Le Gallienne 19151963Australian
Dai-Keong Lee 19152005Chinese-American
Vic Legley 19151994Belgian
Douglas Lilburn 19152001New Zealander
Knut Nystedt 19152014Norwegian
Robert Moffat Palmer 19152010American
George Perle 19152009American
Vincent Persichetti 19151987American neoclassicism
Dimitar Sagaev 19152003Bulgarian
19152012Danish
19152003American American Rhapsody ; Concerto for Free Bass Accordion symphonic jazz influenced
Robert Strassburg 19152003American
Carlos Surinach 19151997Spanish
Georgy Sviridov 19151998RussianPiano Sonataneoromantic
Earl Wild 19152010American
Joseph R. Wood 19152000American
19162012Swedish
Gaston Allaire 19162011Canadian
Denis ApIvor 19162004British
Milton Babbitt 19162011American Composition for Four Instruments ; String Quartet No. 2; All Set ; Philomel serialism, electronic music
Philip Bezanson 19161975American
Karl-Birger Blomdahl 19161968Swedish Aniara (opera)Swedish modernism
Valentino Bucchi 19161976Italian
Mutal Burhonov 19162002Uzbekistani
Henri Dutilleux 19162013French Timbres, espace, mouvement ; Tout un Monde Lointain; The Shadows of Timeneo-impressionism
Helmut Eder 19162005Austrian
Merrill Leroy Ellis 19161981American
Einar Englund 19161999Finnish
Alberto Ginastera 19161983Argentine Bomarzo ; Cinco canciones populares argentinas ; Danzas Argentinas
Douglas Guest 19161996English
Luis Herrera de la Fuente 19162014Mexican
Malcolm MacDonald 19161992British
19162005Swedish
Warren Martin 19161982American
Veli Mukhatov 19162005Turkmenistani
Nydia Pereyra-Lizaso 19161998Uruguayan
Nikolay Peyko 19161995Russian
19161964Czech
Zikmund Schul 19161944German
Mordecai Seter 19161994Russian-born Israeli
Bernard Stevens 19161983British
Irwin Swack 19162006American
Erna Tauro 19161993Finnish-Swedish
Guido Turchi 19162010Italian
Arnold van Wyk 19161983South African
Els Aarne 19171995Estonian
Richard Arnell 19172009English
Brian Boydell 19172000Irish
Rudolf Brucci 19172002Italian-Croatian
Anthony Burgess 19171993English
Edward T. Cone 19172004American
Roque Cordero 19172008Panamanian
Ivor Darreg 19171994American microtone, xenharmonic
Robert Erickson 19171997American twelve tone, extended technique
Robert Farnon 19172005Canadian light music
19172011English Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
Pietro Grossi 19172002Italiancomputer music
Egil Harder 19171997Danish
Lou Harrison 19172003AmericanConcerto for Violin and Percussion Orchestra; Piano Concerto
19171969Albanian
Hilda Jerea 19171980Romanian
19171989Czech
Rena Kyriakou 19171994Greek
Antonio Lauro 19171986Venezuelanguitar music
Clarisse Leite 19172003Brazilian
Emanuel Leplin 19171972AmericanSymphonies 1, 2 & 3; Violin Concerto; Comedy, Galaxy, Cosmos
Dinu Lipatti 19171950Romanian
19172004Filipino
Jean-Étienne Marie 19171989French
Oskar Morawetz 19172007Canadian
Geraldine Mucha 19172012Scottish
James Penberthy 19171999Australian
19172001Bolivian
Reginald Smith Brindle 19172003BritishEl Polifemo de Oro for guitar
19171996Swedish
Eta Tyrmand 19172008Belarusian
19172013AmericanConcerto for piano and orchestra
Richard Yardumian 19171985Armenian-American
Isang Yun 19171995Korean-German
Olivier Alain 19181994French
Louis Applebaum 19182000Canadian
19182010GermanConcerto romano for oboe and orchestra; Der Roman mit dem Kontrabass (opera) serialism, quotation, neoclassicism
Leonard Bernstein 19181990American West Side Story; Chichester Psalms ; Candide ; Serenade ; Mass jazz-influenced and pop-influence; also a composer of popular songs, under pseudonym "Lenny Amber"
Lorne Betts 19181985Canadian
Lina Pires de Campos 19182003Brazilian
19181998Armenian
Liviu Comes 19182004Romanianchoral
Philip Cranmer 19182006English
Robert Docker 19181992English
Gottfried von Einem 19181996Austrian Dantons Tod , Der Besuch der alten Dame , cantata An die Nachgeborenen eclectic
Raymond Gallois-Montbrun 19181994French
Gara Garayev 19181982Azerbaijani
Harold Gramatges 19182008Cuban
Lucrecia Roces Kasilag 19182008Filipino
Marcelo Koc 19182006ArgentineMúsica para 5 instrumentos; Concerto for Viola and Orchestra
Lila Lalauni 19181996Greek
19182007American
Anthony A. Mitchell 19182009American
Arie Van de Moortel 19181976Belgian
A. J. Potter 19181970Irish
Godfrey Ridout 19181984Canadian
George Rochberg 19182005American serialism, later Neoromanticism
Denise Tolkowsky 19181991English
19182017Icelandic
Bernd Alois Zimmermann 19181970German Die Soldaten ; Musique pour les soupers du Roi Ubi; Tratto; Tempus loquendi serialism, musical quotation, collage, electronic music, jazz-influenced, eclectic, polystylism
19192012Hungarian-Canadian
19191990Turkishelectronic music
Jacob Avshalomov 19192013American
19191994Swedish
Bernard Barrell 19192005English
Niels Viggo Bentzon 19192000Danish
Karel Berman 19191995Czech
Roslyn Brogue 19191981American
19191963Czech
John W. Duarte 19192004British
Eleonora Eksanishvili 19192003Georgian
Ludmila Frajt 19191999Serbian
Udo Kasemets 19192014Estonian-born Canadian
Leif Kayser 19192001Danish
Talivaldis Kenins 19192008Latvian-Canadian
Leon Kirchner 19192009American
Gideon Klein 19191945Czech
19192000Chinese
19191996Czech-American
Juan Orrego-Salas 19192019Chilean
19192007Czech
19192008Chinese
19191988Hungarian
Helen Tobias-Duesberg 19192010Estonian-American
Akihiro Tsukatani 19191995Japanese
Galina Ustvolskaya 19192006Russian
Harold Van Heuvelen 19192017American
Roman Vlad 19192013Italianeclectic
19191996Polish The Passenger and other operas, Violin Concerto
John Worley 19191999American
Alexander Arutiunian 19202012ArmenianTrumpet Concerto in A-flat majoravant-garde
Walter Arlen 19202023Austrian-Americansongs
Bebe Barron 19201989American electronic music
19201990Argentine
Dave Brubeck 19202012American
Geoffrey Bush 19201998English
Henri Crolla 19201960Italian
Rolande Falcinelli 19201996French
Dorothea Anne Franchi 19202003New Zealander
Peter Racine Fricker 19201990English
Jacob Gilboa 19202007Israeli
Karen Khachaturian 19202011Soviet and Russian
Earl Kim 19201998American
John La Montaine 19202013American
Kurt Leimer 19201974German
John Lessard 19202003American
Aleksandr Lokshin 19201987Russian
Bruno Maderna 19201973Italian Satyricon avant-garde, electronic music
Robert Moevs 19202007American
Jean Perrin 19201989Swiss
Marco Rizo 19201998Cuban
István Sárközy 19202002HungarianJúlia énekek, Sinfonia concertante
Armin Schibler 19201986Swiss
Harold Shapero 19202013AmericanSymphony for Classical Orchestra
Heikki Suolahti 19201936FinnishSinfonia piccolaRomanticism
19202012Canadian
John Vallier 19201991English
19201985Czech
Douglas Allanbrook 19212003American
Chaya Arbel 19212007Israeli
Malcolm Arnold 19212006English Symphony No. 5 and No. 7; English Dances
Arno Babajanian 19211983Armenian
Seymour Barab 19212014American
Jack Beeson 19212010American Lizzie Borden
William Bergsma 19211994American Violin Concerto, March with Trumpets
Dennis Berry 19211994English
Marcel Bitsch 19212011French
Laci Boldemann 19211969Swedish
Jarmil Burghauser 19211997Czech
Adrienne Clostre 19212006French
Jeanne Demessieux 19211968French
Andrzej Dobrowolski 19211990Polish
Johannes Driessler 19211998German
Halim El-Dabh 19212017Egyptian-born Americanelectronic music
Hans Ulrich Engelmann 19212011German
Oscar Feltsman 19212013Russian
19211984German
Ruth Gipps 19211999British
19211993Turkish
Antony Hopkins 19212014British
Karel Husa 19212016Czech-American Music for Prague 1968 ; Music for Band, Orchestra, Chamber Ensembles
Andrew Imbrie 19212007American neoclassicism
19211980Japanese
Kan Ishii 19212009Japanese
19211999American/Slovenian
Joonas Kokkonen 19211996Finnish
Mustafa Krantja 19212002Albanian
Robert Kurka 19211957American
Ingvar Lidholm 19212017Swedish
Edward Salim Michael 19212006French
Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia 19212019Ghanaian
Will Ogdon 19212013American
19211992Argentinetangos
19212010ArgentineMisa Criolla (1964)
19211999Slovenian
Alfred Reed 19212005American
Ralph Shapey 19212002American
19211997English
19211999American
19211997Czech
Jan Tausinger 19211980Czech
1921Turkish
Peter Wishart 19211984English
Rosalina Abejo 19221991Filipino
Fikret Amirov 19221984Azerbaijani
Peter Tranchell 19221993English
Raffaello de Banfield 19222008English
Sadao Bekku 19222012Japanese
Antonio Bibalo 19222008Italian-Norwegianopera
John Boda 19222002American
19222015French
Doreen Carwithen 19222003British
Alessandro Casagrande 19221964Italian
19222007Chinese
19221991Vietnamese
Tom Eastwood 19221999English
Lukas Foss 19222009German-born AmericanBaroque Variations, Griffelkin
Wim Franken 19222012Dutch
German Galynin 19221966RussianSonata Triad for piano, First Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Second Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Spanish Fantasy for piano
Odette Gartenlaub 19222014French
19222014South African
19222000Scottishchamber & orchestral works; operas & vocal works[ vague ]
Michael Howard 19222002English
19222013Czechsonata da camera for flute, oboe, cello and harpsichord
David N. Johnson 19221987American
Kelsey Jones 19222004Canadian
Leo Kraft 19222014American
19222006Czech
19222021Estonian
Tale Ognenovski 19222012Macedonian
19222000French
Allen Sapp 19221999American
Kazimierz Serocki 19221981Polish
Attia Sharara19222014Egyptian
Francis Thorne 19222017American
Leif Thybo 19222001Danish
Camillo Togni 19221993ItalianHelian di Trakl, Rondeaux per dieci, Blaubart (opera)
19222018American
Felix Werder 19222012German-born Australianelectronic music
Raymond Wilding-White 19222001English
19222005Irish
Iannis Xenakis 19222001Greek Metastaseis avant-garde, stochastic music
19222017Chinese
Doris Akers 19231995American
Warren Barker 19232006American
Leslie Bassett 19232016American
Jocelyne Binet 19231968Canadian
Jan Boerman 19232020Dutch
19232010Spanish
James Clifford Brown 19232004English
Arthur Butterworth 19232014Englishinfluenced by Sibelius
Jean Catoire 19232005French
19232019Chinese/AmericanLandscapes
Radim Drejsl 19231953Czech
Madeleine Dring 19231977English
Asankhan Dzhumakhmatov 19232008Kyrgyzstani
Karel Goeyvaerts 19231993Belgian Sonata for Two Pianos, Nr. 2 for thirteen instruments , Nr. 5 met zuivere tonen , Aquarius (opera) neoclassicism, serialism, minimalism, postminimalism, mysticism, electronic music
Simeon ten Holt 19232012Dutch Canto Ostinato minimalism
19231996Czech
Jean Eichelberger Ivey 19232010American
Rune Lindblad 19231991Swedish
19232006Hungarian Atmosphères , Musica ricercata , Lux Aeterna avant-garde, micropolyphony, polystylism
Ursula Mamlok 19232016German-born, American
Peter Mennin 19231983American
Vasilije Mokranjac 19231984Serbian
Rexho Mulliqi 19231982Albanian
Daniel Pinkham 19232006American
Mel Powell 19231998American
Stefan Remenkov 19231988Bulgarian
Elena Romero 19231996Spanish
Ned Rorem 19232022American Our Town , 3 symphonies
Triphon Silyanovski 19232005Bulgarian
Donald Swann 19231994English
Lester Trimble 19231986American
Ludmila Ulehla 19232009American
Gerhard Wimberger 19232016Austrian
Friedrich Zehm 19232007German
Claude Abravanel 19242012Swiss
Leni Alexander 19242005German-Chilean
19242012Danish
Altamiro Carrilho 19242012Brazilian
Pierre Cochereau 19241984French
Jeanne Colin-De Clerck 1924Belgian
Ikuma Dan 19242001JapaneseSymphony No. 4 (1965), Sonata for flute and piano (1986) atonality
Stephen Dodgson 19242013British
Heimo Erbse 19242005German
Arthur Frackenpohl 19242019American
Lejaren Hiller 19241994American HPSCHD (collaboration with John Cage) computer music, stochastic music
Stanley Hollingsworth 19242003American
Egil Hovland 19242013Norwegianchurch music
Klaus Huber 19242017Swiss
Maurice Jarre 19242009French
Lockrem Johnson 19241977American
Milko Kelemen 19242018Croatian
Ezra Laderman 19242015American
Yehoshua Lakner 19242003Israeli
Benjamin Lees 19242010AmericanConcerto for String Quartet and Orchestra
Riichiro Manabe 19242015Japanese
Franco Mannino 19242005Italian
Angela Morley 19242009English
19242009Polish
Serge Nigg 19242008French
19241990Italian Il canto sospeso , Intolleranza 1960 , Prometeo avant-garde
Gladys Nordenstrom 19242016American
19241981RussianModernist
Julia Perry 19241979American
Joly Braga Santos 19241988Portuguese
19242006German
19241989Czech
Robert Starer 19242001Austrian-born American
Otar Taktakishvili 19241989Georgian
Ernest Tomlinson 19242015English
Georgi Tutev 19241994Bulgarian
Yasushi Akutagawa 19251989JapaneseRapsodia per orchestra (1971) atonality
Jurriaan Andriessen 19251996Dutch
Louis Barron 19252008American electronic music
Veniamin Basner 19251996Russian
Robert Beadell 19251994AmericanThe Number of Fools (opera)jazz-influenced
Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt 19252010Chilean
Cathy Berberian 19251983Armenian-AmericanStripsody avant-garde
Luciano Berio 19252003Italian Sequenza ; Sinfonia avant-garde, polystylism
Edith Borroff 19252019American
19251997French
Pierre Boulez 19252016French Le marteau sans maître ; …explosante-fixe… ; Répons avant-garde, serialism, aleatory, polystylism
Tristram Cary 19252008English-Australian
Charles Chaynes 19252016French
Aldo Clementi 19252011Italian
Andrei Eshpai 19252015Russian
Cromwell Everson 19251991South African
19252007Czech
Eloy Fominaya 19252002American
19251998Argentine
Aurelio de la Vega 19252022Cuban
Ron Goodwin 19252003BritishNew Zealand Suitebest known as a composer of film scores
Clytus Gottwald 19252023German
Manos Hatzidakis 19251994Greek
Svatopluk Havelka 19252009Czech
Bertold Hummel 19252002German
Ginette Keller 19252010French
Giselher Klebe 19252009German
Gerard Kockelmans 19251965Dutch
19252014PolishConcerto per quattro, for piano, harpsichord, guitar, harp, and orchestra
Frank Lewin 19252008American
Teo Macero 19252008AmericanOne and Three Quarters microtonal, jazz-influenced
Kiril Makedonski 19251984Macedonianfive symphonies, two ballets, two symphonic poems, choral music and songs
Ivo Malec 19252019FrenchCantate pour elle; Dodecameron; Lumina
Kirke Mechem 1925Americanfour operas ( Tartuffe ), two symphonies, choral music
19252018Croatian
19252022Vietnamese
19251991Spanish/CubanThree Symphonic Versions
Michel Philippot 19251996French
19251997German-born Australian
Gunther Schuller 19252015Americanjazz-influence; Third Stream
Vladimir Shainsky 19252017Russian
Hale Smith 19252009American
Claudio Spies 19252020Chilean-American
Ernie Stires 19252008American
Boris Tchaikovsky 19251996Russian
Mikis Theodorakis 19252021GreekSymphony No. 1-4,7, Sinfonietta Concerto for piano No.1,2, Creatan Concertino; Kata Saddukaion Pathi (Sadducean-Passion)also composer of popular songs and film scores including Zorba the Greek ; Serpico
Sulkhan Tsintsadze 19251991Georgian
19251973Russian
Paul W. Whear 19252021AmericanCatharsis Suite for orchestra; Lancaster Overture for orchestra; Catskill Legend for band
Sergei Agababov 19261959Russian
19262017Icelandic
Garbis Aprikian 1926Armenian
19261985Argentine
John Bevan Baker 19261994BritishSuite for Piano; The Seer (opera)
Edward Bland 19262013American
Brian Bonsor 19262011Scottish
Modesta Bor 19261998Venezuelan
Brian Brockless 19261995English
Earle Brown 19262002AmericanDecember 1952; Available Forms I & II open form; graphic notation
Louis Calabro 19261991American
19262003New Zealander
19262014French
Friedrich Cerha 19262023AustrianSpiegel
Janine Charbonnier 19262022French
Barney Childs 19262000Americanextended technique, improvisation, indeterminacy
Eregzengiin Choidog 19261988Mongolian
Jani Christou 19261970GreekMysterion, Praxis for 12 atonality, meta-serialism,[ clarification needed ] improvisation
Francis Dhomont 19262023French
19261994Mexican
19261980ItalianIncontri di fasce sonore electronic music
Morton Feldman 19261987AmericanRothko Chapel, String Quartet No. 2
Carlisle Floyd 19262021American Susannah ; Wuthering Heights ; Of Mice and Men
Kenneth Gaburo 19261993American The Flow of (u)
Johann Melchior Gletle 19261983SwissVespers in Vienna
19262011Czech
Eric Gross 19262011Austrian-Australian
Hans Werner Henze 19262012GermanOndine polystylism
Lee Hoiby 19262011American
1926Chinese
19262019AmericanSonata for Microtonal Piano; String Quartet No. 4 (Variations on "Amazing Grace") microtonal music
Betsy Jolas 1926French
1926Swisselectronic music
19261999Hungarian
Gottfried Michael Koenig 19262021German-DutchProject 1computer music, electronic music
Karl Kohn 1926American
19262014CzechConcerto Grossoneo-classicism, expressionist, neo-romantic
Meyer Kupferman 19262003American
1926Hungarian Játékok
Doming Lam 19262023Chinese
19261995British
1926Peruvian
Ton de Leeuw 19261996Dutch
George Martin 19262016English
Maria de Lourdes Martins 19262009Portuguese
19262022Slovenian
Hans Otte 19262007German
Carmen Petra-Basacopol 19262023Romanian
Claire Polin 19261995American
Marga Richter 19262020AmericanConcerto for Piano and Violas, Cellos and Basses
19262009American
19262020AmericanConcerto for Jazz Soloist and Orchestrajazz-influenced; serialism; avant-garde
Kurt-Heinz Stolze 19261970German
Natela Svanidze 19262017Georgian
19262019Romanian
David Tudor 19261996American
Anatol Vieru 19261998RomanianConcerto for violin, cello and orchestra; seven symphonies; eight string quartetsmodality
Robert Wykes 19262021American
Rolv Yttrehus 19262018American
Aleksandr Zatsepin 1926Russian
Marilyn J. Ziffrin 19262018American
19272009French
W. D. Amaradeva 19272016Sri Lankan
Paul Angerer 19272017Austrian
19272022Canadian
Pascal Bentoiu 19272016Romanian
Josef Berg 19271971Czech
Joseph Castaldo 19272000American
Asger Lund Christiansen 19271998Danishneoclassicism
Dolores Claman 19272021Canadian
John Diercks 19272020American
Emma Lou Diemer 1927American
Franco Donatoni 19272000Italian
19272004American
Donald Erb 19272008AmericanConcerto for Trombone and Orchestra; Concerto for Violin and Orchestra jazz-influenced, aleatory, electronic music, eclectic
Pierre Henry 19272017FrenchSymphonie pour un homme seul musique concrète
Elaine Hugh-Jones 19272020Welsh
Wilfred Josephs 19271997English
19272019English
Wilhelm Killmayer 19272017GermanSinfonia I–III, Song cycles
Osvaldo Lacerda 19272011Brazilian
Vlastimil Lejsek 19272010Czech
Bernhard Lewkovitch 19272024Danish
Janet Maguire 19272019Austrian
Richard Maxfield 19271969American
19272010RomanianIson II
Bernard Parmegiani 19272013Frenchelectronic or acousmatic music
Wayne Peterson 19272021American The Face of the Night, the Heart of the Dark electro-acoustic, and electronic music
Witold Szalonek 19272001Polish
William Ennis Thomson 19272019American
George Balch Wilson 19272021American
19272001Scottish
19271997Albanian
Margrit Zimmermann 19272020Swiss
1928American (German-born)
Luna Alcalay 19282012Austrian
19282019American
Tadeusz Baird 19281981Polish
19281973French Piano Sonata, Chant après chant serialism
19281972CzechPiano Trio in C Major, Concertino for trombone and piano
Frank Bencriscutto 19281997AmericanConcerto Grosso for saxophone quartet and bandconcert band music
Euel Box 19282017American
Vitaly Bujanovsky 19281993Russian
Jean-Michel Damase 19282013French
George Dreyfus 1928French
Jacob Druckman 19281996American Windows
1928Chinese
Judith Dvorkin 19281995American
19282007New ZealanderA Unicorn for Christmas, Ring Round the Moon neoclassicism
Nicolas Flagello 19281994American Neoclassicism
Valentin Gheorghiu 19282023Romanian
Otar Gordeli 19281994Georgia
Beverly Grigsby 19282022American
Guo Zurong 1928Chinese
Bengt Hambraeus 19282000Swedish
Robert Helps 19282001American
Frigyes Hidas 19282007Hungarian
19281990Czech
Karl Korte 19282022American
Bidzina Kvernadze 19282010Georgian
19282016Hungarian
Henk van Lijnschooten 19282006Dutch
19282007Czech
Ennio Morricone 19282020Italianalso a composer of film music: 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
Diether de la Motte 19282010Germanoperas, orchestra, chamber
Thea Musgrave 1928Scottish
19281973Chilean
Thomas Rajna 19282021Hungarian
Einojuhani Rautavaara 19282016Finnish Cantus Arcticus ; Symphony No. 7 "Angel of Light"; Piano Concerto No. 3 "The Gift of Dreams"
Ronald Stevenson 19282015British
Karlheinz Stockhausen 19282007German Kontra-Punkte ; Gesang der Jünglinge ; Klavierstücke ; Gruppen ; Kontakte ; Hymnen ; Stimmung ; Mantra ; Tierkreis ; Inori , first six operas of the Licht cycle avant-garde, electronic music, serialism, aleatory, intuitive music, formula composition, polystylism
Jay Sydeman 19282021American
Peter Tahourdin 19282009English-born Australian
Tommy Tycho 19282013Hungarian-Australian
Raymond Warren 1928British
Nikolla Zoraqi 19281991Albanian
Harry Bannink 19291999Dutch
Erling Bjerno 1929Danish
Augustyn Bloch 19292006Polish
Antonio Braga 19292009Italian
Reiner Bredemeyer 19291995German
Theo Bruins 19291993Dutch
Nini Bulterijs 19291989Belgian
Geghuni Hovannesi Chitchian 1929Armenian
Dinos Constantinides 19292021Greek-AmericanAntigone (opera), Cello Concerto "Shenzhen"
George Crumb 19292022American Ancient Voices of Children , Black Angels extended technique, numerology
Samar Das 19292001Bangladeshi
Edison Denisov 19291996Russian L'écume des jours (opera) , Requiem, 2 Symphonies, Violin Concerto, Flute Concerto avant-garde, serialism, extended technique, polystylism, electronic music
19292020Belgian
Petr Eben 19292007Czech
Hormoz Farhat 19292021Iranian
Luc Ferrari 19292005FrenchPresque rien No. 1: "Le Lever du jour au bord de la mer" electronic music
Carlton Gamer 19292023American
Jerry Goldsmith 19292004Americanalso composer of film scores, Music for Orchestra; Fireworks
Alun Hoddinott 19292008Welsh
Pedro Iturralde 19292020Spanish
Leonard Kastle 19292011American
Waldemar Kazanecki 19291991Polish
Charles Knox 19292019Americanneo-classical, musical palindromes
Ctirad Kohoutek 19292011Czech
Boris Kravchenko 19291979Russian
Kenneth Leighton 19291988English
19291999Polish
19291968Canadian
Teizo Matsumura 19292007Japanese atonality
Toshiro Mayuzumi 19291997Japanese
Robert Muczynski 19292010American
Ron Nelson 19292023American Rocky Point Holiday
Aleksandra Pakhmutova 1929Russian
Henri Pousseur 19292009Belgian Scambi ; Votre Faust ; Trois visages à Liège; Couleurs croisées serialism, aleatory, eclectic, polystylism, electronic music, world music, popular music influence,
19292019German/American A Streetcar Named Desire
Josef Anton Riedl 19292016German
19292019Polish
Peter Sculthorpe 19292014AustralianRequiem; Kakadu; Earth Cry; Rites of Passage
Hans Stadlmair 19292019AustrianTrumpet Concerto with strings; Saxofonia; Miró
Siegfried Strohbach 19292019German5 Galgenlieder; Ein Stern aus Jacob
James Helme Sutcliffe 19292000American
Avet Terterian 19291994Armenian
19291998American
James Yannatos 19292011American
Akio Yashiro 19291976Japanesepiano concerto atonality
Gerd Zacher 19292014German
Muhal Richard Abrams 19302017American
Yardena Alotin 19301994Israeli
David Amram 1930American
Robert Ashley 19302014AmericanIn Memoriam... Kit Carson (opera)electronic music, extended techniques
Larry Austin 19302018AmericanImprovisations for Orchestra and Jazz Soloists electronic music, computer music, jazz-influenced
Petar Bergamo 19302022CroatianRomanticism, atonality
Claude Bolling 19302020FrenchSuite for flute and jazz piano triojazz-influenced
Jacques Calonne 19302022Belgian
John Carmichael 1930Australian
Robert Cogan 19302021American
19301999American
Pierre-Max Dubois 19301995French
Jean Guillou 19302019French
Friedrich Gulda 19302000Austrian
Cristóbal Halffter 19302021SpanishLíneas y puntos; Don Quixote eclectic, electronic music
Christopher Headington 19301996British
19302008Japanese
Nikolai Karetnikov 19301994RussianSymphony No. 3, Concert Piece for piano
Antoinette Kirkwood 19302014English
19302009German
Gordon Langford 19302017EnglishFacets of Glass; Rhapsody for Trombonebrass band music
Theo Loevendie 1930Dutch
Lu Yen 19302008Chinese-born Taiwanese
Gudrun Lund 19302020Danish
Usko Meriläinen 19302004Finnish
William P. Perry 1930American
Betty Roe 1930English
Dieter Schnebel 19302018GermanMahler-Moment; Maulwerke; Baumzucht
Pieter van der Staak 19302007Dutch
Tōru Takemitsu 19301996JapaneseA Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden; Toward the Sea neo-impressionism
Eino Tamberg 19302010Estonian
Veljo Tormis 19302017Estonian
Nancy Van de Vate 19302023American
Joan Franks Williams 19302003American
Robert William Witt 19301967Americanneoclassical
Heinz Werner Zimmermann 19302022German
Louis W. Ballard 19312007American
Vytautas Barkauskas 19312020Lithuanian
Martin Boykan 19312021AmericanEchoes of Petrarch; Piano Trio No. 2; String Quartet No. 3 serialism
Sylvano Bussotti 19312021Italian
Charles Camilleri 19312009Maltese
Nancy Laird Chance 1931American
F. R. C. Clarke 19312009Canadian
Lucia Dlugoszewski 19312000American
Felicia Donceanu 19312022Romanian
Frederick A. Fox 19312011American
Robert Gauldin 1931American
Lucien Goethals 19312006Belgianserialism, electronic music
Sofia Gubaidulina 1931Russian Offertorium ; Music for Flute, Strings, and Percussion
Donald Harris 19312016American
Hikaru Hayashi 19312012JapaneseViola Concerto "Elegia"
Derek Holman 19312019English
Josef Maria Horváth 19312019Hungarian
Mauricio Kagel 19312008Argentine / GermanStaatstheater; Kantrimiusik; Ludwig van polystylism
Rudolf Kelterborn 19312021Swiss
Krzysztof Komeda 19311969Polish
Rudolf Komorous 1931Canadian
Yüksel Koptagel 1931Turkish
André Laporte 1931BelgianDas Schloss eclectic
David Lumsdaine 19312024Australian
Maria Dolores Malumbres 19312019Spanish
Myriam Marbe 19311997Romanian
Donald Martino 19312005American
Arne Nordheim 19312010NorwegianEpitaffio; The Tempest (ballet); Magmamany works include electronics
Ib Nørholm 19312019Danish
Ivo Petrić 19312018Slovenian
Leon Schidlowsky 19312022Chilean-Israeli
Makoto Shinohara 19312024JapaneseFragmente electronic music, influence of traditional Japanese music
Yuzo Toyama 19312023Japanese
Peter Westergaard 19312019American
Malcolm Williamson 19312003AustralianMass of Christ the King; The Dawn is at Hand; 7 numbered symphonies; cassations
Elaine Barkin 19322023American
François Bayle 1932French
Niccolò Castiglioni 19321996Italian
Henning Christiansen 19322008Danishfluxus
Rudi Martinus van Dijk 19322003Dutch
Tod Dockstader 19322008American electronic music
James Douglas 19322022Scottish
Alexander Goehr 1932English Arianna twelve-tone, later modal, eclectic
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen 19322016Danish
19322016Israeli
Baligh Hamdi 19321993Egyptian
Diana Pereira Hay 1932Danish
Hans G. Helms 19322012German
Marta Jiráčková 1932Czech
Wojciech Kilar 19322013PolishKrzesany holy minimalism; also composer of film music: Dracula (film music)
Marek Kopelent 19322023Czechchamber music, oratorios
19322021Lithuanian
Henri Lazarof 19322013Bulgarian
Martin Mailman 19322000American
Tera de Marez Oyens 19321996Dutch
Richard Meale 19322009AustralianVoss avant-garde
1932DanishVoyage into the Golden Screen
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson 19322004American
Malcolm Peyton 1932American
Gundaris Pone 19321994Latvian-American
Max Schubel 19322010American
Kilza Setti 1932Brazilian
Rodion Shchedrin 1932Russian Lolita ; 2 symphonies; The Carmen Ballet; 6 piano concertos polystylism
Sergei Slonimsky 19322020Russian polystylism
Claude T. Smith 19321987American
Gitta Steiner 19321990American
Muammer Sun 19322021Turkish
19322017CanadianSonorisation du Pavillon du Québec; Fleuves electronic music, serialism
John Williams 1932Americanalso composer of film scores, The Five Sacred Trees
Hugh Wood 19322021EnglishSymphony; Cello Concerto; Piano Concerto; Violin Concerto No. 1; Scenes from Comussymphonic serialism
Leonardo Balada 1933Spanish-American6 symphonies[ vague ]; 6 operas[ vague ] Avant-garde, later folk-influenced
19332023American polyrhythm, microtone
19332023Irish
Michael Brimer 19332023Australian
Colin Brumby 19332018Australian
Walter Buczynski 1933Canadian
Justin Connolly 19332020Britishmodernism
19331984American serialism, atonality
Pozzi Escot 1933American
19332021Spanish
19332010Polish Symphony of Sorrowful Songs holy minimalism
1933Australian
19332023Hungarian
Bo Linde 19331970Swedish Neoromanticism
Altaf Mahmud 19331971Bangladeshi
W. Francis McBeth 19332012American
Arne Mellnäs 19332002Swedish
Akira Miyoshi 19332013Japanese
Harrison Oxley 19332009British
Krzysztof Penderecki 19332020Polish Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima ; St. Luke Passion ; Polish Requiem ; Symphony No. 2: Christmas avant-garde, extended technique, later neoromanticism, polystylism
Yves Prin 1933Frenchneo-impressionism
Eric Salzman 19332017Americanavant-garde, atonal, electronic, new music theater
19332003English
George Tibbits 19332008Australian
1933Vietnamese-French
Roland Trogan 19332012American
Bertram Turetzky 1933American
19332011ChineseGada Meilin
Pierre Ancelin 19342001French
Alain Bancquart 19342022French
İlhan Baran 19342016Turkish
Harrison Birtwistle 19342022English The Mask of Orpheus (opera), Silbury Air
Rob du Bois 19342013DutchPastorale VII; Concerto for Two Violins and Orchestra serialism, improvisation, musical quotation
Benjamin Boretz 1934American
Jeremy Dale Roberts 19342017EnglishI heard a Voice; Cello Concerto – Deathwatch; Croquis; Capriccio
Mario Davidovsky 19342019American
Peter Maxwell Davies 19342016English Taverner , Eight Songs for a Mad King , Symphony No. 1, Symphony No. 3, Symphony No. 6, Strathclyde Concertos, Naxos Quartets
Peter Dickinson 19342023English
19342023British
Vinko Globokar 1934French
Geoffrey Grey 1934British
Alemdar Karamanov 19342007Ukrainian
1934Czech polystylism
Nicole Lachartre 19341991French
William Mathias 19341992WelshLet the people praise Thee, O God
Siegfried Matthus 19342021German Judith , Te Deum
Zhanneta Metallidi 19342019Russian
Gonzalo de Olavide 19342005Spanish
Paul Panhuysen 19342015Dutch
Raymond Premru 19341998American
Bernard Rands 1934English
Roger Reynolds 1934American
Alan Ridout 19341996British
Alfred Schnittke 19341998Russian10 symphonies, notably the First Symphony (1969–1972), the Third (1981), Fourth (1984), and Fifth (1988) Symphonies; Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra (1979 polystylism
Ramon Sender 1934Spanish electronic music
1934American
1934German
James Tenney 19342006American
Alicia Terzian 1934Armenian-Argentine
Fisher Tull 19341994American
Bernard Vitet 19342013French
Richard Wernick 1934American
1934AmericanSummer, for string quartet; Pebbles, for violin and piano indeterminacy
Arlene Zallman 19342006American
Tomislav Zografski 19342000MacedonianPassacalia; Skherzo; Sonata for Two Pianos; In praise of Ciryl and Methodius
Vasif Adigozalov 19352006Azerbaijani
Luis Advis 19352004Chilean
Theodore Antoniou 19352018Greek
Ayo Bankole 19351976Nigerian
19352012CzechConcerto for Orchestra
19352002Irish
Nigel Butterley 19352022Australian
1935ChineseButterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto (collaboration with He Zhanhao)
19352015American microtonal music
Biancamaria Furgeri 1935Italian
Helen Gifford 1935Australian
Kazuko Hara 19352014Japanese
Elgar Howarth 1935English
Teiji Ito 19351982Japanese
1935American
1935Russian
Giya Kancheli 19352019Georgian7 symphonies holy minimalism
Georg Katzer 19352019German Baukasten für Orchester  [ de ]; D-Dur Musikmaschine  [ de ]
Helmut Lachenmann 1935GermanSchwankungen am Rand; Gran Torso; Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern extended technique
1935French
19352003Swiss
Diego Masson 1935French
Nicholas Maw 19352009EnglishOdyssey; The World in the Evening
Khayyam Mirzazade 19352018Azerbaijani
Akin Euba 19352020Nigerian
Jacqueline Nova 19351975Colombian
1935Estonian Tabula Rasa ; Fratres ; Summa; Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten holy minimalism, polystylism
Terry Riley 1935American In C minimalism
Aulis Sallinen 1935FinnishThe King Goes Forth to France
Peter Schat 19352003Dutch
Kurt Schwertsik 1935Austrian
Noam Sheriff 19352018Israeli
Donald Sur 19351999American
Conrad Susa 19352013American
Gloria Wilson Swisher 1935American
19351982Polish
1935Czech
1935Chinese
19352023Germansymphonies, contertos, vocal music
La Monte Young 1935American The Well-Tuned Piano minimalism, microtonal music, improvisation, Asian-music influence
19352020Serbian
Gilbert Amy 1936French serialism, electronic music, also composer of film music
Izabella Arazova 1936ArmenianConcerto for Orchestra
Richard Rodney Bennett 19362012English
1936British
Herbert Blendinger 19362020German-Austrianviola concerto, cantata Mdia in vita, string quartetsalso a violist
Harold Budd 19362020American avant-garde, ambient music
Cornelius Cardew 19361981EnglishTreatise; The Great Learning serialism, improvisation, aleatory
Monic Cecconi-Botella 1936French
Michel Decoust 1936French
19362022MacedonianRhapsody for Skopje, Seven dance variations for piano and orchestra
19362019Hungarian-Austrianopera Seidenraupen, song cycle Milchzahnlieder, piano trios
Malcolm Forsyth 19362011Canadian
Erika Fox 1936British
19362012Swiss
Frans Geysen 1936Belgian
Malcolm Goldstein 1936American
Daniel Goode 1936American
Barbara Heller 1936German
Michael Hennagin 19361993American
Takekuni Hirayoshi 19361998Japanese
Mogens Winkel Holm 19361999Danish
Maki Ishii 19362003Japanese
Oleksandr Krasotov 19362007Ukrainian
19362016SlovakVier Präparierter TexteWandelkonzerte, historicism
Young-ja Lee 1931South Korean
1936French
Colin Mawby 19362019EnglishLaudate Pueri Dominum; Requiem of Hope; The Quest
Sheila Nelson 19362020English
Jocy de Oliveira 1936Brazilian
Anthony Payne 19362021English
Erika Radermacher 1936German
Steve Reich 1936American Piano Phase ; Music for 18 Musicians minimalism; Neoconservative postmodernism
Aribert Reimann 19362024German Lear ; Nahe Ferne; Wolkenloses Christfest
Vivian Adelberg Rudow 1936American
Elliott Schwartz 19362016AmericanEquinox for orchestra
Brunhilde Sonntag 19362002German
Robert Suderburg 19362013AmericanConcerto, Within the Mirror of Time, for piano and orchestra; Chamber Music VII ("Ceremonies")
19362024EnglishCello and Tuba Machine; 175 piano sonatas
Hans Zender 19362019German Stephen Climax (opera)
Keiko Abe 1937Japanese
Edward Applebaum 19372020American
Rafig Babayev 19371994Azerbaijani
Jan Bach 19372020American
Junsang Bahk 1937South Korean
Osvaldas Balakauskas 1937Lithuanian
Janet Beat 1937Scottish
David Bedford 19372011British
David Behrman 1937American
19371992Portuguese
Azio Corghi 19372022Italian Divara – Wasser und Blut
Zbigniew Bargielski 1937Polish
19372016Spanish
David Cornwall 19372006American
Gordon Crosse 19372021British
David Del Tredici 19372023AmericanChild Alice; Final Alice neoromanticism
Harutiun Dellalian 19371990Armenian
Eugen Doga 1937MoldovanMy Sweet and Tender Beast Waltz, Gramophone Waltz
Anatoly Dokumentov 1937Russian
John Ferritto 19372010American
Misha Geller 19372007RussianConcerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra
Philip Glass 1937AmericanViolin Concerto; operas; 8 symphonies minimalism
Lóránt Hajdú 1937Hungarian
Jon Hassell 19372021American
Walter Hekster 19372012Dutch
Katherine Hoover 19372018American
Shamshi Kaldayakov 19371992Kazakhstani
Nikolai Kapustin 19372020Russian
19371999Danish
Marta Lambertini 19372019Argentine
Philip Ledger 19372012British
19372020French
Robert Moran 1937American
Gösta Neuwirth 1937Austrian
Bo Nilsson 19372018Swedish
Irina Odagescu 1937Romanian
John Ogdon 19371989English
Jean-Louis Petit 1937French
19371998Slovenian
Irma Ravinale 19372013Italian
Rolf Riehm 1937GermanLes Chants de la Revolution sont des Chants de l’Amour
Edwin Roxburgh 1937English
Valentyn Silvestrov 1937UkrainianSymphony No. 5
Dmitry Smolsky 19372017Belarusian
Joop Stokkermans 19372012Dutch
Loris Tjeknavorian 1937Armenian-Iranian
1937Chinesefolk-influenced
Olly Wilson 19372018American
Guy Woolfenden 19372016English
Yehuda Yannay 19372024American-IsraeliAt the End of the Parade; Radiant Inner Light; Piano Concerto extended techniques, multimedia, postmodern
Maryanne Amacher 19382009American
Elizabeth R. Austin 1938American
Virko Baley 1938Ukrainian-American
Bart Berman 1938Dutch-Israeli
E. Clement Bethel 19381987Bahamian
Howard Blake 1938English
Jean-Claude Risset 19382016French
William Bolcom 1938American Songs of Experience ; Songs of Innocence
David Borden 1938American
1938Portuguese serialism, neotonality
Paul Chihara 1938American Shogun: The Musical
Gloria Coates 19382023AmericanMusic on Open Strings
John Corigliano 1938American Symphony No. 2; A Dylan Thomas Trilogy polystylism, also compose of film music: The Red Violin
Alvin Curran 1938AmericanFor Cornelius; Songs and Views of the Magnetic Garden ; Inner Cities
1938French Electroacoustic music
Givi Gachechiladze 1938Georgian
Calvin Hampton 19381984American
John Harbison 1938American The Great Gatsby Neoconservative postmodernism
Paavo Heininen 19382022Finnish
Hans-Joachim Hespos 19382022GermanSeiltanzavant-garde, extended techniques
19382010Canadian
Tyzen Hsiao 19382015Taiwanese
Ashenafi Kebede 19381998EthiopianThe Shepherd Flutist
Raja Hossain Khan 19381989Bangladeshi
Zygmunt Krauze 1938Polish
Piotr Lachert 19382018Polish
Douglas Leedy 19382015American
Reinbert de Leeuw 19382020Dutch
1938EcuadorianF-Melodies; Ayayayayay electronic music; spectralism
Barton McLean 1938AmericanRainforest Images (jointly composed with Priscilla McLean) postmodernist, ambient, drone, minimalist, musique concrète, computer music
Dexter Morrill  [ nl ]19382019AmericanCrosswalk, Getz Variations, Hudson River Dreams, Iron Horse Concerto, Fantasy Quintet, Ponzo, Roxbury Preludes, Three Lyric Pieces, Stelladagio, Walden Nocturnescomputer music, jazz-influenced, electronic music, improvisation
1938English
Piera Pistono 1938Italian
Simon Preston 19382022English
Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee 1938Armenian-American
Michel Rateau 19382020French
Frederic Rzewski 19382021American The People United Will Never Be Defeated!
Tona Scherchen 1938Swiss
1938Uruguayan
1938Japanese
Gregory Short 19381999American
Christopher Steel 19381991British
Atli Heimir Sveinsson 19382019Icelandic
Yuji Takahashi 1938Japanese
Cornelia Tăutu 19382019Romanian
Dimitri Terzakis 1938Greek
Joan Tower 1938American Petroushskates ; Concerto for Orchestra; Sequoia ; Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman
Jan Vriend 1938Dutch
Charles Wuorinen 19382020American Time's Encomium ; 8 symphonies; chamber music twelve-tone technique, serialism
19392018Venezuelan
1939Slovenian
Louis Andriessen 19392021Dutch minimalism
Jon Appleton 19392022American
Elinor Armer 1939American
1939American
Leo Brouwer 1939Cuban
Wendy Carlos 1939American Switched-On Bach (record album of transcriptions, produced with the use of a Moog synthesizer)Electronic music (original and transcriptions)
Gian Paolo Chiti 1939Italian
Maija Einfelde 1939Latvian
Oleg Felzer 19391998Azerbaijani
19392012English Mortuos Plango Vivos Voco ; Advaya; Bhakti; Wheel of Emptiness spectralism
Heinz Holliger 1939Swiss Schneewittchen
1939German
1939American An Hour for Piano minimalism
Mikheil Kobakhidze 19392019Georgian
Barbara Kolb 1939American
1939Czech
Jean-Pierre Leguay 1939French
Arkady Luxemburg 1939Moldovan-American
19392015Taiwanese
Tigran Mansurian 1939Armenian
Bruce Mather 1939Canadian
19392015EnglishChagall Windows; symphonies; ballets; string quartets
19392017Spanish
Florencio Pozadas 19391968Bolivianelectroacoustic music
19392014EnglishSymphony No.1 "The Seasons"; A Christmas Carol Symphony; Cello Concerto; Christus Requiem
19392022Czech-AmericanOverture of the Season; Marimba Concerto; "Children's Treasure Box" piano series
1939Hungarian
Richard Teitelbaum 19392020American
Boris Tishchenko 19392010Russian polystylism
1939Swedish
James Willey 1939American
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich 1939American neoromanticism
Dieter Acker 19402006German
19402004Slovak
Margaret Brouwer 1940American
Graciela Castillo 1940Argentineelectroacoustic
Julius Eastman 19401990American
Joseph Fennimore 1940American Berlitz: Introduction to French ; Eventideeclectic
Henry Flynt 1940American
Eleanor Hovda 19402009American
Alden Jenks 1940American
Terry Jennings 19401981Americanminimalist
David C. Johnson 19402021American
Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi 1940Japanese
Maria Teresa Luengo 1940Argentine
Dorothy Rudd Moore 19402022American
Gary Lee Nelson 1940American
19402015Vietnamese-French
Jorge Peixinho 19401995Portuguese electronic music
Peer Raben 19402007German
Dan-Alexandru Voiculescu 19402009Romanian
Alexander Yossifov 19402016Bulgarian
Frank Zappa 19401993American The Perfect Stranger ; The Yellow Shark
Stephen Albert 19411992AmericanSymphony No. 1: Riverrun
Judith Margaret Bailey 1941English
19412022Bosnian neoclassicism
Konrad Boehmer 19412014Dutch
Derek Bourgeois 19412017English
Geoffrey Burgon 19412010BritishMagnificat and Nunc Dimittis; Monty Python's Life of Brian (film score)
David Cope 1941American
James Di Pasquale 1941American
Francisco Feliciano 19412014Filipino
Johannes Fritsch 19412010German
19412002American
Angelo Gilardino 19412022Italian
Adolphus Hailstork 1941American
Sorrel Hays 19412020American
Moya Henderson 1941Australian Lindy
Valeri Kikta 1941Ukrainian
Philip Krumm 1941American
1941English
Paul Alan Levi 1941American
John Melby 1941American
Yvar Mikhashoff 19411993American
1941American
Richard Nanes 19412009American
Emmanuel Nunes 19412012PortugueseMachina Mundi; Quodlibet electronic music
Sook-Ja Oh 1941Korean
Magaly Ruiz 1941Cuban
Erkki Salmenhaara 19412002Finnishminimalism
Serge Tcherepnin 1941American
Richard Edward Wilson 1941American
Birgitte Alsted 1942Danish
1942Australian
John Cale 1942Welsh
John Barnes Chance 19421972AmericanElegie; Variations on a Korean Folk Song
Brian Cherney 1942Canadian
1942AmericanEarth's Magnetic Fieldelectronic music, computer music
1942Cambodian
Adel Kamel 19422003Egyptian
Volker David Kirchner 19422020GermanDie Trauung (opera); Missa Moguntina (Mainz Mass); Symphony No. 2 "Mythen"
Jonathan Kramer 19422004American postmodernism
1942SpanishConcierto 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
Ingram Marshall 19422022Americanelectronic music; instrumental music
1942English
Paul McCartney 1942English Liverpool Oratorio ; Standing Stone ; Ecce Cor Meum member of The Beatles and Wings
1942AmericanPulse Music III; A Capella electronic music, fusion of serialism and minimalism, postminimalism
Priscilla McLean 1942AmericanRainforest Images (jointly composed with Barton McLean) postmodernist, ambient, drone, minimalist, musique concrète, computer music
Haruna Miyake 1942Japanese
Meredith Monk 1942American
19422011Colombian
19422016Spanish
19422008Romanian/Frenchsix string quartets spectralism
Diogenes Rivas 1942Venezuelan
1942French
Wojciech Rybicki 19422019Polish
Shigeaki Saegusa 1942JapanesePiano Concertoavant-garde
Kyungsun Suh 1942Korean
Viktor Suslin 19422012Russian
19432010Brazilian
Solange Ancona 1943French
1943Swedish
Joanna Bruzdowicz 19432021Polish
Gavin Bryars 1943English Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet , Doctor Ox's Experiment
Laura Clayton 1943American
Eleanor Cory 1943American
Edward Cowie 1943English
19432012American
Hugues Dufourt 1943French
Dennis Eberhard 19432005American
1943Australian
Margriet Ehlen 1943Dutch
Julio Estrada 1943Mexican
Brian Ferneyhough 1943English Etudes Transcendantales New Complexity
Faraj Garayev 1943Azerbaijani
Rolf Gehlhaar 19432019AmericanSub rosa; Five German Dances electronic music, sound installations
Heinz Karl Gruber 1943AustrianFrankenstein!!, Charivari, Aerial
Robin Holloway 1943English
19431981EnglishEn Attendant; Sensation
Jerry Hunt 19431993American
1943Indian How to Name It?; Nothing but wind; Thiruvasagam -An Oratorio; The Music Messiah; India 24 hours;Indian Classical (Carnatic), Western classical, Fusion, Jazz, Indian folk
19432019Hungarian
1943Russian The Canterville Ghost modernism, polystylism
Morten Lauridsen 1943Americanvocal works
1943Cuban
Fred Lerdahl 1943American Neoconservative postmodernism
Bruce MacCombie 19432012American
Bill McGlaughlin 1943AmericanRemembering Icarus; Walt Whitman's Dream
Krzysztof Meyer 1943Polish12 string quartets
Costin Miereanu 1943French
1943Peruvian
Marta Ptaszynska 1943Polish
Joseph Schwantner 1943American Aftertones of Infinity ; A Sudden Rainbow
Alice Shields 1943AmericanThe Transformation of Ani, Criseyde, Komachi at Sekidera, White Heron Dance, Zhaojün – The Woman Who Saved the World, Dark Mountain in Springelectronic and acoustic opera, vocal music, chamber music
Roger Smalley 19432015Australian (born English)Pulses; 2 piano concertos serialism, eclectic
Pril Smiley 1943Americanelectronic music
Tim Souster 19431994British
Ivan Tcherepnin 19431998French-American
1943Greekelectronic music
Michael Vetter 19432013GermanMissa Universalis new-age, Zen-influenced
Alexander Vustin 19432020RussianWord
Udo Zimmermann 19432021German Weiße Rose , Der Schuhu und die fliegende Prinzessin opera
19441998American polystylistic
Alison Bauld 1944Australian
Gilbert Biberian 1944Armenian-British
Willem Breuker 19442010Dutch
Neely Bruce 1944Americanpostminimalist
Tatyana Chudova 19442021Russian
Barry Conyngham 1944Australian
Lyell Cresswell 1944New Zealander
1944Hungarian Love and Other Demons eclectic, extended technique, electronic music, folk-music influence
John Fodi 19442009Canadian
Christopher Gunning 1944British
19442007Canadian
1944GermanSchwarze Halbinseln; Der Meister und Margarita electronic music, serialism, Gestalt composition
Karl Jenkins 1944Welsh The Armed Man ; Adiemus ; Requiem
Thomas Koppel 19442006Danishavant-garde
Beatriz Lockhart 19442015Uruguayan
Arif Mirzayev 1944Azerbaijani
Pehr Henrik Nordgren 19442008Finnish
Michael Nyman 1944English The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat minimalism
Claire Renard 1944French
Goff Richards 19442011English
Rhian Samuel 1944Welsh
Leif Segerstam 1944Finnish
John Tavener 19442013English holy minimalism
1944Hungarian
Ahmed Achour 19452021TunisianConcerto for clarinet and orchestra
Graciela Agudelo 19452018Mexican
Charles Amirkhanian 1945American
Georges Aperghis 1945Greek
Clarence Barlow 19452023Indian-British
Anthony Braxton 1945American
Ole Buck 1945Danish
Boudewijn Buckinx 1945Belgian
Judith Clingan 1945Australian
Rauf Dhomi 1945Kosovan
Edward Gregson 1945English
Keith Jarrett 1945American
Ivan Karabyts 19452002Ukrainian
Shirish Korde 1945American
Fredric Kroll 1945American
Chan-Hae Lee 1945South Korean
Thomas Oboe Lee 1945Chinese-American
Jacques Lenot 1945French
Luca Lombardi 1945Italian
Younghi Pagh-Paan 1945South Korean
Thomas Pasatieri 1945American
Russell Peck 19452009American
Johnterryl Plumeri 19452016American
Basil Poledouris 19452006American
1945Czech
Doug Riley 19452007Canadian
John Rutter 1945Englishchoral music
Carol Sams 1945AmericanBeauty and the Beast (children's opera)
19452006Turkish
1945American
Maury Yeston 1945American Tom Sawyer: A Ballet in Three Acts , Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, An American CantataBroadway musicals Nine , Titanic , Grand Hotel Off Broadway Phantom
Judith Lang Zaimont 1945American
1945Chinese
Barbara Benary 19462019German
Gilius van Bergeijk 1946Dutch
Niels Bernhart 19462008Danish
Renate Birnstein 1946German
Anne Boyd 1946Australian
Martin Bresnick 1946American
Geneviève Calame 19461993Swiss
Suzanne Ciani 1946Americanelectronic music
Pierre Even (composer) 1946Luxembourgian
Michael Finnissy 1946English
1946Hungarian GermanMagnificat, Mozart Changes (organ)
Janice Giteck 1946American
19461998FrenchVortex temporum
Ann-Elise Hannikainen 19462012Finnish
1946British
Tristan Keuris 19461996Dutch
19462017Czech-American
Yasuo Kuwahara 19462003Japanese
Peter Lieberson 19462011American
Ulrich Leyendecker 19462018German
Vladimir Martynov 1946Russianminimalism
Colin Matthews 1946English
Dimitri Nicolau 19462008Italian
David Noon 1946American
Pierre Pincemaille 19562018French
Nicola Piovani 1946Italian
Kenneth Platts 19461989British
Robert Xavier Rodriguez 1946American
Tolib Shakhidi 1946Tajik
Giuseppe Sinopoli 19462001Italian
Denis Smalley 1946New Zealanderelectroacoustic music, acousmatic music
Richard St. Clair 1946AmericanThe Lamentations of Shinran; Album of Ragtime Pieces for Piano; Love-Canzonettes for Chorus; Piano Sonatas Neoromanticism
1946Latvian
Diderik Wagenaar 1946Dutch
Dana Wilson 1946American
Heinz Winbeck 19462019German
1947American Nixon in China ; Harmonielehre ; Shaker Loops , Short Ride in a Fast Machine ; Violin Concerto post-minimalism
David Ahern 19471988Australian
Liana Alexandra 19472011Romanian
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh 1947Azerbaijani"Mugam Sayagi  [ fi ]". Her works have been performed by Yo-Yo Ma and the Kronos Quartet.She is best known for her works that combine the musical tradition of the Azerbaijani mugam and 20th-century Western compositional techniques.
Laurie Anderson 1947American
Ruth Bakke 1947Norwegian
Jean-Yves Bosseur 1947French
Alan Bullard 1947English
Michel Chion 1947French
Anders Eliasson 19472013Swedishfour symphonies
1947American
Donald Grantham 1947American
Barry Guy 1947British
19472019AmericanBaron Cimetiere's Mambo
1947Taiwanese
Jo Kondo 1947Japanese
Grigoriy Korchmar 1947Russian
Nikolai Korndorf 19472001Russian and Canadian
Zarrina Mirshakar 1947Tajik
Tristan Murail 1947French Gondwana spectral music
1947English
Morris Pert 19472010Scottish
Karl Aage Rasmussen 1947Danish
19472017Czech
Salvatore Sciarrino 1947Italian
Howard Skempton 1947English
Emil Tabakov 1947Bulgarian
Roger Craig Vogel 1947American
Gwyneth Van Anden Walker 1947American
Zunduin Khangal 19481996Mongolian
Claude Baker 1948American
Josef Bardanashvili 1948Georgian
1948French
Michael Berkeley 1948English
Chester Biscardi 1948American
Glenn Branca 19482018American avant-garde
1948Canadian
Diana Burrell 1948English
Brian Elias 1948British
Brian Eno 1948English ambient music, minimalism
Richard Festinger 1948American
Jani Golob 1948Slovenian
1948Finnish
Bern Herbolsheimer 19482016AmericanAria da capo (opera)
Bo Holten 1948Danish
Jean-Michel Jarre 1948French
Kerstin Jeppsson 1948Swedish
1948German
Marjan Mozetich 1948Canadian
Peter Ruzicka 1948German
Allen Shawn 1948American
19482020Russian / British Tiriel (opera) , Thel (opera) serialism, collage, electroacoustic music, polystylism, musical cryptography
Jukka Tiensuu 1948Finnish
Julia Tsenova 19482010BulgarianSinfonia con piano concertante; Endless Circle for string quintet; Musica Solitudinis; Four songs, to poems by Emily Dickinson
Claude Vivier 19481983CanadianKopernikus: Rituel de la Mort spectral music, Asian-music influence
Fu Tong Wong 1948Chinese-AmericanSymphony: The Hero with Great Eagle
Eleanor Alberga 1949Jamaican
Kalevi Aho 1949Finnish
Carlos Azevedo 19492012Portuguese
Carol E. Barnett 1949American
Leonid Bobylev 1949RussianSymphony (1985), Concerto for viola and string orchestra (1970)
Jolyon Brettingham Smith 19492008English
John Casken 1949English
19492011Mexican Florencia en el Amazonas ; Rappaccini's Daughter neo-impressionism
1949Canadian
Daniel Steven Crafts 1949American
Rocco Di Pietro 1949Italian
Dean Drummond 19492013American
Tim Hodgkinson 1949English
Michel Herr 1949Belgian
1949French
Dan Locklair 1949American
Fernando Mencherini 19491997Italian
Theodore Papakonstantinou 19491970Cypriot
Stephen Paulus 19492014AmericanPilgrim's Hymn; The Road Home;
Geoffrey Poole 1949English
19492019American Karolju ; Phantasmata ; Trombone Concerto; Symphony No. 1; Symphony No. 2
Poul Ruders 1949Danish
Thomas Schmidt-Kowalski 19492013German
1949English
Steven Stucky 19492016AmericanSon et Lumière; Concerto for Orchestra No. 2; Rhapsodies; August 4, 1964
1949Serbian
Kevin Volans 1949South AfricanHunting Gathering
Philip Wilby 1949Englishbrass-band music
Ernani Aguiar 1950Brazilian
1950American
19501993American
Gene Bowen 1950American
Stephen Chatman 1950Canadian
David B. Doty 1950American
Elena Firsova 1950Russian / British The Nightingale and the Rose
Olivier Greif 19502000French
1950Norwegian
1950Scottish
Christopher Hobbs 1950English
19502018Czech
Emmanuel Gyimah Labi 1950Ghanaian
1950Chinese
Libby Larsen 1950AmericanMarimba Concerto
Elodie Lauten 19502014American
1950Mexican Danzón no. 2
Joseph Pehrson 19502020American
19501992English
Jay Reise 1950American
Joe Hisaishi 1950Japanesealso notable as a film composer
Lepo Sumera 19502000Estonianelectro-acoustic music
1950Scottishfolk-influenced
Carl Verbraeken 1950Belgian
1951Polish
Alan Belkin 1951Canadian
1951South AfricanFrench Suite
19512020Canadian
Howard J. Buss 1951AmericanModern Times
1951Chinese-French
1951American
Paul Dresher 1951American
Huib Emmer 1951Dutch
Richard Emsley 1951British
James Erber 1951British
Lorenzo Ferrero 1951Italian Salvatore Giuliano , La Conquista , Risorgimento! postmodern
David Froom 1951American
Nancy Galbraith 1951Americanpostmodern/postminimalist
19511997Spanish
Halina Harelava 1951Belarusian
Earl Howard 1951Americanavant-garde
Brian Israel 19511986American
1951Slovakian
1951Swiss-Austrian
1951Latvian Neoromanticism
Patrick Larley 1951British
Mona Lyn Reese 1951American
1951South AfricanSymphony in One Movement; String Quartet No. 2
Doina Rotaru 1951RomanianConcerto for clarinet and orchestra; Florilegium, concerto for flute and flutes orchestra; Wings of Light for 24 flutists
1951American
George Tsontakis 1951American
Hans Abrahamsen 1952Danish
Sérgio Assad 1952Brazilian
Simon Bainbridge 19522021British
1952Irish
1952GermanMichelangelo-Fragmente, vocal musicalso academic for music theory
Judith Bingham 1952British
Roger Bourland 1952American
David Carlson 1952American
1952American
Rhys Chatham 1952Americanavant-garde, minimalism
Maia Ciobanu 1952Romanian
Todd Tamanend Clark 1952American"Brain and Spinal Column", "The Grim Rider", "Into the Vision"electronic, psychedelic
Tina Davidson 1952American
Richard Einhorn 1952American Voices of Light (oratorio); The Origin (opera/oratorio)
Reinhard Febel 1952Germanopera Sekunden und Jahre des Caspar Hauser, Wolkenstein, Sinfonie
Heiner Goebbels 1952German
Stephen Hartke 1952American
Margriet Hoenderdos 19522010Dutch
Lee Hyla 19522014American
1952American
Oliver Knussen 19522018British Where the Wild Things Are
Lev Konov 1952Russian
1952Germanoperas Stallerhof, Tod und Teufel
Christian Lauba 1952Tunisian born FrenchThe Lose Forest for ensemble of 12 saxophones, Neuf études pour saxophone
19521995Bosnian
Philippe Manoury 1952French60th Parallel (opera), Pluton for piano and live electronics punctualism, computer-assisted composition
Kazuhiro Morita 1952Japanese
Dominic Muldowney 1952English
Alla Pavlova 1952Russian
1952Chinese
Godfried-Willem Raes 1952Belgian
Wolfgang Rihm 1952German12 string quartets; Die Eroberung von Mexico (opera) New Simplicity, expressionism, neoromanticism
Kaija Saariaho 19522023Finnish L’amour de loin ; Adriana Mater ; La Passion de Simone Laterna Magica ;
Tatyana Sergeyeva 1952Russian
Motoyuki Shitanda 1952Japanese
Ryuichi Sakamoto 1952Japanese
Peter-Jan Wagemans 1952Dutch
Moshe Zorman 1952Israeli
John Luther Adams 1953AmericanVarious pieces inspired by Alaskan landscapes
Martin Amlin 1953American
Avril Anderson 1953English
Patrick Ascione 19532014FrenchDivertissementElectroacoustic and Acousmatic music
Daniel Asia 1953American
Roger Bellon 1953French
Josefina Benedetti 1953American
Susan Morton Blaustein 1953American
Cornelis de Bondt 1953Dutch
Hans-Jürgen von Bose 1953GermanPiano music
Wendy Mae Chambers 1953American
1953Chinese
1953American
1953French
Jody Diamond 1953American
Violeta Dinescu 1953RomanianDer 35. Mai (children's opera)
Arnold Dreyblatt 1953American
Denis Dufour 1953FrenchCycle Plis de perversion, Bocalises, Messe à l'usage des vieillards, Hérisson Cathédraleinstrumental perceptive morphology, acousmatic music, mixed music, electronic music
Nicolas Economou 19531993Cypriot
1953Estonian
Eibhlis Farrell 1953Irish
David Felder 1953American
David First 1953American
Georg Friedrich Haas 1953AustrianDouble Concerto for accordion, viola and chamber ensemble, Concerto for violin and orchestraspectral music
1953Chinese
1953Romanian-German
Juhani Komulainen 1953Finnish
Peter Scott Lewis 1953American
Tod Machover 1953American
Jeff Manookian 19532021American
Wim Mertens 1953BelgianThe Belly of an Architect (incl. Struggle for Pleasure ), Maximizing the Audience  [ nl ] minimalism
Akira Nishimura 1953Japanese
Anthony Powers 1953British
Alexander Raskatov 1953Russian
Roberto Sierra 1953Puerto Rican Missa Latina
Vladimir Soltan 19531997Belarusian
Z. Randall Stroope 1953American"Inscription of Hope", "The Pasture", "Homeland"
1953EnglishStoicheia, Ho shang Yao microtonality, percussion, voice
Takashi Yoshimatsu 1953JapaneseSymphony No. 2
1953Chinese
1953Polish
John Zorn 1953American Avant-garde
Richard Blackford 1954English
1954Czech
Elisabetta Brusa 1954Italian
Robert Carl 1954American
1954Chinese
Nicolas Collins 1954Americanelectronic music
Michael Daugherty 1954AmericanUFO
Paul Dirmeikis 1954AmericanMessage laisse à Pondichéry le 18 novembre 1973 eclectic
1954FrenchPiano Concerto
19542002Spanish
Eric Ewazen 1954American
Susan Frykberg 1954New Zealanderelectroacoustic
Ge Gan-ru 1954Chinese
Elliot Goldenthal 1954American
Robert Greenberg 1954American
1954Romanian
Birgit Havenstein 1954German
Anders Hillborg 1954Swedish
1954Czechavant-garde
Brenda Hutchinson 1954American
Stephen Jaffe 1954American
Denise Kelly 1954Irish
1954American
John Musto 1954American
1954Romanian
Betty Olivero 1954Israeli
Cecilie Ore 1954Norwegian
Tobias Picker 1954American
Arturo Rodas 1954Franco-EcuadorianArcaica, a concerto for percussion & orchestra; 24.5 Preludes for piano; El arbol de los pájaros  [ es ] (The birds tree): opera "for the voice of the instruments" avant-garde, polystylism
1954Swedish Motorbike Concerto , Es ist ein Ros entsprungen , Rekviem
1954Polish
Carl Vine 1954Australian
1954British
1954Swiss
Bob Chilcott 1955BritishChoral music
David Conte 1955American
Pascal Dusapin 1955French Perelà, uomo di fumo
Roland Dyens 19552016Tunisian-French
Mark Edgley Smith 19552008English
Ludovico Einaudi 1955Italianminimalism
Juraj Filas 1955Slovak
1955American
Kyle Gann 1955American Just intonation
Naji Hakim 1955Lebanese-French
Toshio Hosokawa 1955Japanese Vision of Lear , Circulating Ocean, Voiceless Voice in Hiroshimaneo-impressionism
David A. Jaffe 1955American"Silicon Valley Breakdown"; "The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World" computer music, folk-music-influenced
Olli Kortekangas 1955Finnish
Bernardo Kuczer 1955Argentinian Civilización o Barbarie Electronic music
Carter Larsen 1955Americanconcertos, music for theater and film
Jukka Linkola 1955Finnish
1955Portuguese
1955GermanSolaris electronic music
1955Americanelectronic music
Bright Sheng 1955Chinese The Silver River Folk-influenced
1955Hungarian
Krassimir Taskov 1955Bulgarian
Ian Venables 1955EnglishSongs of Eternity and Sorrow, Remember This
1955Chinese
Eduardo Alonso-Crespo 1956Argentine
Miguel Álvarez-Fernández 1979SpanishAuto Sacramental Invisible; Voyelles electronic music; sound installation; radio art
19562023MexicanMetro Chabacano, Temazcal
Regina Harris Baiocchi 1956American
Sally Beamish 1956British
Chiara Benati 1956Italian
Tim Brady 1956Canadian
1956SpanishSeven Scenes from Hamlet, New Epigrams, Alter Klang, Seven Haikus for sextet, L'enigma di Lea  [ ca ] (opera)Expressionism, Avant-garde, neo-impressionism
Richard Danielpour 1956American Margaret Garner
Daniel Dorff 1956American
Anne Dudley 1956English
Dror Elimelech 1956Israeli
Michelle Ekizian 1956American
Miguel Frasconi 1956American
Kenneth Fuchs 1956AmericanFalling Man (for baritone voice and orchestra, text by Don DeLillo, adapted by J. D. McClatchy)American Symphonic School
1956Slovak
1956American
Philip Grange 1956English
1956ChineseOpera
Madeleine Isaksson 1956Swedish
Jouni Kaipainen 19562015Finnish
Makiko Kinoshita 1956Japanese
Graeme Koehne 1956AustralianInflight Entertainment (oboe concerto); Tivoli Dances
Leon Milo 19562014AmericanTimeTexture for piano and electronics electroacoustic music
Thomas Pernes 19562018Austrianavant-garde
1956American
Iris ter Schiphorst 1956German
Oliver Schroer 19562008Canadian
Stefano Scodanibbio 19562012Italian
Laurence Traiger 1956American
1957Uruguayan-AmericanConcierto en Tango, Conga, Salon Buenos Aires, Violin Concerto, Wind Quintet No. 2
Masamichi Amano 1957Japanese
Gheorghi Arnaoudov 1957Bulgarianminimalism
Charles Roland Berry 1957American
Linda Bouchard 1957Canadian
Mary Ellen Childs 1957American
1957English
Chaya Czernowin 1957Israeli
Alexandre Danilevsky 1957Russian-born French
1957American Río de Sangre also composer of film music: The Matrix
1957English-born Australian
Ellen Fullman 1957American
1957Czech
1957ChineseSymphonic Overture No. 1
Regina Irman 1957Swiss
1957Croatian
Elena Kats-Chernin 1957Australian
Camille Kerger 1957Luxembourg
1957South Korean
1957AmericanThe Little Match Girl Passion
Jorge Liderman 19572008American
Paul Moravec 1957AmericanSpiritdance; Chamber Symphony; Tempest Fantasy; The Time Gallery
Zurab Nadareishvili 1957Georgian
1957TaiwaneseString Quartet no. 4
1957AustrianHimmelslicht; Missa minima; Trio intricato
Gerhard Schedl 19572000AustrianSlow, Cello Concerto
Petros Shoujounian 1957Armenian-Canadian
Cong Su 1957Chinese
1957ChineseWater Passion after St. Matthew Extended technique, Folk-influenced; also composer of film music: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Michael Glenn Williams 1957American
Falko Steinbach 1957German
1958English Highgrove Suite ; Quanta Qualia; The Land; The Wedding at Cana
Eve Beglarian 1958Armenian-American
Karl Gottfried Brunotte 1958German
Giulio Castagnoli 1958ItalianConcerto for Cello and Double Orchestra; Concerto for Piano and Orchestra; Missa Sancti Evasii
Oscar van Dillen 1958Dutch
Paul Elwood 1958American
Suzanne Giraud 1958French
Juliana Hall 1958American
19582022Ukrainian
Richard Kastle 1958AmericanNeoclassical
Mark Kilstofte 1958American
Christian Lindberg 1958SwedishArabenne, Mandrake in the Corner
Magnus Lindberg 1958FinnishKraft; Clarinet Concerto
Mladen Milicevic 1958Bosnian/American cl? – for prepared clarinet and electronics (1985) experimental music, sound installation, and film music
Jun Miyake 1958Japanese
Mo Wuping 19581993Chinese
Esa-Pekka Salonen 1958FinnishLA Variations; Insomnia
Thomas Simaku 1958Albanian
1958Danish
1958Polish
Nigel Westlake 1958Australian
Julia Wolfe 1958American
Sinta Wullur 1958Indonesian-Dutch
Akio Yasuraoka 1958Japanese
Jay Alan Yim 1958American
1958American
19581987Japanese
Davide Zannoni 1958Italian
Caroline Ansink 1959Dutch
1959WelshConstruction electroacoustic music, improvisation
Kendall Durelle Briggs 1959American
Sebastian Currier 1959American
Paul Doornbusch 1959Australian computer music, electroacoustic music
Alfio Fazio 1959Italian
1959Czech
Lucio Garau 1959Italian
James Harley 1959Canadian
Adina Izarra 1959Venezuelan
Vakhtang Kakhidze 1959Georgian
Shigeru Kan-no 1959JapanesePlay Station Cycles; Simulation Cycles
Ana Lara 1959Mexican
1959ScottishThe Sacrifice; Veni veni Emmanuel (percussion concerto); The Confession of Isobel Gowdie; St. John Passion; 3 symphonies
Steve Martland 19592013English
1959British
Victor Rasgado 19592023Mexican
1959Estonian6 symphonies; Violin Concerto; Piano Concerto; Searching for Roots
Nobuo Uematsu 1959Japanese Liberi Fatali
Robert Ian Winstin 19592010American
Maria de Alvear 1960Spanish-German
Miguel Álvarez-Fernández 1979SpanishAuto Sacramental Invisible; Voyelles electronic music; sound installation; radio art
1960Belgian
1960EnglishSudden Time; Antara
Nigel Clarke 1960EnglishSamurai; A Richer Dust (Symphony No 1.); The Miraculous Violin; Mysteries of the Horizon (Trumpet/Cornet Concerto); Earthrise; Gagarin
Sidney Corbett 1960American
Nathan Currier 1960American Gaian Variations
1960AustrianLexikon-Sonate
Detlev Glanert 1960Germanoperas Leyla und Medjnun, Caligula, Solaris
Osvaldo Golijov 1960Argentine
Annie Gosfield 1960American
Julian Grant 1960English
Georg Hajdu 1960German
Pertti Jalava 1960FinnishMusic for orchestra (including five symphonies), chamber ensembles, big band, jazz ensembles, wind band and choir
Aaron Jay Kernis 1960American Musica Instrumentalis , Colored Field
Priti Paintal 1960Indian
Alexander Shchetynsky 1960Ukrainian
William Susman 1960AmericanMarimba Montuño (solo); Camille (chamber ensmeble); Trailing Vortices (chamber orchestra); Fate of the Lhapa (film score) postminimalism; also composer of film music: Native New Yorker
Mark-Anthony Turnage 1960EnglishGreek; From All Sides; 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 19612017Romanianspectral music
John Burge 1961Canadian
Unsuk Chin 1961South KoreanAlice in Wonderland; Violin Concerto; Fantasie mécanique; Cantatrix Sopranica  [ de ]
1961French
Nailia Galiamova 1961Uzbekistani
Lucio Gregoretti 1961Italian
Jorge Grundman 1961Spanish
Daron Hagen 1961American
Jake Heggie 1961American Dead Man Walking
Hanna Kulenty 1961PolishAd Unum, Breathe, The Mother of Black Winged-Dreams, Trumpet Concerto, String Quartet No. 4
Lowell Liebermann 1961American
1961Slovak / GermanNamah; Double Bayan Concerto; Farewell Fanfares; Lasea; Nell'autunno del suo abbraccio insonne postminimalism, electronic music
Alo Mattiisen 19611996Estonian
Erica Muhl 1961AmericanConsolation
Remilson Nery 1961BrazilianWorks for classical guitar, piano, strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion, chamber music, including mixed choir and children’s choir
Michiru Ōshima 1961Japanese
Michael Torke 1961American"Vanada"; Javelin; Rapture (percussion concerto); Ecstatic Orange
Roman Turovsky-Savchuk 1961Ukrainian/American Tombeau for Omelyan Kovch historicistneo-Baroque
1961Slovak
1962EgyptDie Wunderzahl, String Quartet No. 2 "Monamnamat" electroacoustic, postmodernism
Michael Abels 1962AmericanGlobal Warming
Sylvia Constantinidis 1962Venezuelan-American
Arne Eigenfeldt 1962Canadian
Carl Faia 1962American
Stefano Gervasoni 1962Italian
Jack Gibbons 1962English Ave Verum Corpus , Choral works, Serenade for string orchestra, Song cycles, Piano works
Jennifer Higdon 1962American
Craig Hella Johnson 1962AmericanNumerous choral compositions and arrangements
Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf 1962German
P. Q. Phan 1962Vietnamese
Surendran Reddy 19622010South African
Rudi Spring 1962GermanHeimkunft, chamber symphonies, song cycles
Kaoru Wada 1962Japanese
Graham Waterhouse 1962English Piccolo Quintet , Three Pieces for Solo Cello , Gestural Variations
Sandeep Bhagwati 1963Indianopera Ramanujan
1963French
1963British
Graham Fitkin 1963British
Michael Zev Gordon 1963British
Svante Henryson 1963Swedish
Sophie Lacaze 1963French
Shinkichi Mitsumune 1963Japanese
Hikari Ōe 1963Japanese
1963British
Fausto Romitelli 19632004Italian
Calliope Tsoupaki 1963Greek
19631994CzechBrass Quintet
Edson Zampronha 1963BrazilianLamenti, Recycling Collaging Sampling, Concert for Piano N.1, Modelagem X-a
Luca Belcastro 1964Italian
Marco Betta 1964Italian
Scott Boerma 1964American
1964German
Gregers Brinch 1964Danish
Jörgen Dafgård 1964SwedishFor the Sleeping – Dream Sonata
Judy Dunaway 1964Americanavant-garde
Julia Gomelskaya 19642016Ukrainian
Fiona Joy Hawkins 1964Australian
Jun Nagao 1964Japanese
Javier Parrado 1964Bolivian
19642011Romanian
Richard Rijnvos 1964DutchBlock Beuys
Anton Batagov 1965Russianpost-minimalist
Irina Bogushevskaya 1965Russian
Zana Clarke 1965Australian
1965Swedish
Moritz Eggert 1965German
Thierry Escaich 1965French
Yoshiki Hayashi 1965Japanese
Yuri Khanon 1965Russian The Shagreen Bone , The Symphony of Dogs, The Middle Symphony, Agonia Dei, What Zarathustra Said Indeed polystylism, neoclassicism
Gordon McPherson 1965Scottish
Peter Nardone 1965Scottish
Bernd Redmann 1965Germanopera Die Gehetzten, orchestra Fiasko, chamber Migrant
Georgia Spiropoulos 1965GreekKlama, for mixed choir & live electronics avant-garde
Paul Steenhuisen 1965Canadian
Mats Wendt 1965Eddan – The Invincible Sword of the Elf-Smith
Roberto Carnevale 1966ItalianLinae (1992–1995)
Nicholas Frances Chase 1966American
Juan J. Colomer 1966SpanishLa complicidad del espectro
Dorothy Hindman 1966AmericandrowningXnumbers, Magic City for orchestra
1966Germanoperas Gastspiel, Komödie ohne Titel, Das Märchen der 672. Nacht
John Psathas 1966New Zealand
1966Argentine
1966American
Julian Anderson 1967British
Mark Applebaum 1967American
Derek Bermel 1967American
Sansan Chien 19672011Chinese
Salvatore Di Vittorio 1967Italian
Amos Elkana 1967Israeli
Jens Josef 1967GermanMusik für Flöte(n), Viola und Kontrabass, chamber music
Andreas Kunstein 1967Dutch
Olli Mustonen 1967Finnish
Alberto Posadas 1967Spanish
Eric Qin 19671993Americanexperimental music
Christopher Theofanidis 1967American
1967Chinese
Jun Yamaguchi 1967Japanese
1967Japanese
Laura Andel 1968Argentine
Joe Cutler 1968British
Jens Joneleit 1968Germanoperas Der Brand, Piero &‐ Ende der Nacht, Metanoia. Über das Denken hinaus
Johannes Kretz 1968Austrian
Francisco Lara 1968Spanish
Olga Neuwirth 1968Austrian avant-garde
Roxanna Panufnik 1968EnglishWestminster Mass
Alwynne Pritchard 1968British
Victoria Borisova-Ollas 1969Russian-SwedishWings of the Wind
Nicola Campogrande 1969Italian
Andrea Cera 1969ItalianElectroacoustic
Johanna Doderer 1969AustrianOpera
1969Irish
Pierre Kolp 1969Belgian avant-garde
Yannis Kyriakides 1969Cypriot
Jocelyn Morlock 1969Canadian
Patrick Nunn 1969British
Roy Zu-Arets 1969American-Israeli
Michel van der Aa 1970DutchAfter Life
1970Colombian
1970British-American
Fred Momotenko 1970Russian-Dutch
Graziella Concas 1970Italian
Donnacha Dennehy 1970Irish
Daniel Felsenfeld 1970AmericanInsomnia Redux
Arlene Sierra 1970American
Fazıl Say 1970Turkish1001 Nights in the Harem, Istanbul Symphony Piano symphony Turkish music (style)
Eric Whitacre 1970American Cloudburst , Lux Aurumque , Water Night choral music
1971English Powder Her Face ; Asyla ; Traced Overhead
Yoshino Aoki 1971Japanese
1971English
Carlo Forlivesi 1971ItalianRequiem
Michael Hersch 1971AmericanSymphony No. 1; Fracta; Arraché
Klaus Lang 1971Austrian
Paweł Mykietyn 1971Polish
Takatomi Nobunaga 1971JapaneseString Quartet
Guto Puw 1971Welsh
Tomomi Adachi 1972Japanese
Natasha Barrett 1972British electroacoustic
Hiba Kawas 1972Lebanese
Bappa Mazumder 1972Bangladeshi
Kevin Puts 1972American
André Ristic 1972Canadian
Lera Auerbach 1973Russian
J. Ryan Garber 1973AmericanParabolisms; Resonances
Nihad Hrustanbegovic 1973Bosnian-DutchStork suite; Sevdah Medieval Rhapsody minimalism; also a composer of film music, and an improviser
Mindia Khitarishvili 1973Georgian
Andrew March 1973English Marine — à travers les arbres
Jörg Widmann 1973German Fantasie for Solo Clarinet ; First String Quartet
Kristoffer Zegers 1973Dutch
1974Chinese
Marek Brezovský 19741994Slovak
Derek Charke 1974CanadianPast Winters Solstice, for piano trio
Julian Cochran 1974English-born Australian
Sophie Viney 1974EnglishMusic of the Spheres
Tim Benjamin 1975Anglo-French
Avner Dorman 1975Israeli
Bongani Ndodana-Breen 1975South African
Olesya Rostovskaya 1975RussianConcert for oboe
Đuro Živković 1975Serbian-Swedish
1976Iranian
Pritom Ahmed 1976Bangladeshi
Svitlana Azarova 1976Ukrainian DutchDiagram for 5 cellos
Tomi Räisänen 1976FinnishA Walk Through the Fields of Symmetry
Frederik Magle 1977DanishConcerto for organ and orchestra
Wu Fei 1977Chinese
Daniel Hensel 1978German
Jimmy López 1978PeruvianArco de luz
Tarik O'Regan 1978British-American
Mehdi Hosseini 1979Iranian
Christophe Bertrand 19812010French

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