List of 20th-century classical composers by birth date

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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.

Name Year of birth Year of death Nationality Notable works Remarks
Charles Dancla 1817 1907 French Solo de concours no. 7, Op. 224 Romanticism
Giuseppe Garibaldi 1819 1908 Italian
Cornelius Gurlitt 1820 1901 German
Maria Anna Stubenberg 1821 1912 German
Kornél Ábrányi 1822 1903 Hungarian Romanticism
Luigi Arditi 1822 1903 Italian
Theodor Kirchner 1823 1903 German
Wilhelm Kuhe 1823 1912 German
Carl Reinecke 1824 1910 German Trio for piano, clarinet and horn in B♭, Op. 274; String Quartet No. 5, Op. 287 Romanticism
Marie Siegling 1824 1919 American
Richard Hol 1825 1904 Dutch Organ music Romanticism
Kate Loder 1825 1904 English Romanticism
Ivar Hallström 1826 1901 Swedish Romanticism
Julius Otto Grimm 1827 1903 German Romanticism
John Baptiste Calkin 1827 1905 English Romanticism
François-Auguste Gevaert 1828 1907 French Romanticism
James Cutler Dunn Parker 1828 1916 American Romanticism
François-Auguste Gevaert 1828 1908 Belgian Romanticism
Jacques Blumenthal 1829 1908 German Romanticism
Albert Dietrich 1829 1908 German Romanticism
Otto Goldschmidt 1829 1907 German Romanticism
Karl Goldmark 1830 1915 Hungarian Ein Wintermärchen; Aus Jugendtagen
Karl Klindworth 1830 1916 German
Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff 1830 1913 German
Salomon Jadassohn 1831 1902 German Romanticism
Joseph Joachim 1831 1907 Hungarian
Benjamin Dwight Allen 1831 1914 German
Mathilde Hannah von Rothschild 1832 1924 German
Charles-Wilfrid de Bériot 1833 1914 French
Caspar Joseph Brambach 1833 1902 German
George Becker 1834 1928 German - Swiss
Peter Benoit 1834 1901 Flemish
Kārlis Baumanis 1835 1905 Latvian
César Cui 1835 1918 Russian
Camille Saint-Saëns 1835 1921 French
Felix Draeseke 1835 1913 German
Susan McFarland Parkhurst 1836 1918 American
Johanne Amalie Fenger 1836 1913 Danish
Pauline-Marie-Elisa Thys 1836 1909 French
Friedrich Baumfelder 1836 1916 German
Mily Balakirev 1837 1910 Russian Islamey
Smith Newell Penfield 1837 1920 American
Alfred R. Gaul 1837 1913 English
Paul Lacombe 1837 1927 French
Théodore Dubois 1837 1924 French
Carlotta Ferrari 1837 1907 Italian
Otto Winter Hjelm 1837 1931 Norwegian
Heinrich Urban 1837 1901 German
Emile Waldteufel 1837 1915 French
Joseph Callaerts 1838 1901 Belgian
Max Bruch 1838 1920 German Concerto for Clarinet, Viola, and Orchestra in E minor, Op. 88 Romanticism
Melesio Morales 1838 1908 Mexican
Sidney Lambert 1838 1905 American
Eduard Nápravník 1839 1916 Czech
John Knowles Paine 1839 1906 American
Josef Rheinberger 1839 1901 German Organ Sonata No. 20 in F Major (“Zur Friedensfeier”), Op. 196; Mass in A Minor, Op. 197 historicist
Oskar Rieding 1840 1918 German
Ernst Rudorff 1840 1916 German
François Borne 1840 1920 French
Theodora Cormontan 1840 1922 Norwegian American
Elfrida Andrée 1841 1929 Swedish Swedish Masses Nos. 1 and 2
Antonín Dvořák 1841 1904 Czech Armida (opera), "Zpěv z Lešetínského kováře" (song) Romanticism, folk-influenced
Felip Pedrell 1841 1922 Spanish Catalan
Giovanni Sgambati 1841 1914 Italian
Friedrich Hegar 1841 1927 Swiss
Louise Héritte-Viardot 1841 1918 French
Joseph Friedrich Hummel 1841 1919 Austrian
Henri Gobbi 1841 1920 Hungarian
Josef Labor 1842 1924 Czech
Alphonse Duvernoy 1842 1907 French
Arrigo Boito 1842 1918 Italian Nerone
Jules Massenet 1842 1912 French Piano Concerto; Le jongleur de Notre-Dame; Thérèse; Don Quichotte; Cigale
Franz Xaver Neruda 1843 1915 Danish
Ján Levoslav Bella 1843 1936 Slovak
Émile Bernard 1843 1902 French Nocturne, for piano and orchestra, Op. 51; String Quartet, Op. 52
Josefina Brdlíková 1843 1910 Czech
Asger Hamerik 1843 1923 Danish Variations on "Jeg gik mig ud en sommerdag"
Louis Diémer 1843 1919 French
Edvard Grieg 1843 1907 Norwegian Lyrische Stücke, Op. 71; Slåtter, Op. 73; Four Psalms, Op. 74
David Popper 1843 1913 Czech
Oliveria Prescott 1843 1919 English
Stephanie Wurmbrand-Stuppach 1843 1919 Hungarian
Eugène Gigout 1844 1925 French
Hermann Graedener 1844 1929 German
Richard Hofmann 1844 1918 German
Marguerite Olagnier 1844 1906 French
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 1844 1908 Russian
Pablo de Sarasate 1844 1908 Spanish
Charles-Marie Widor 1844 1937 French
Gabriel Fauré 1845 1924 French Prométhée; Pénélope; Masques et bergamasques
Alphonse Hasselmans 1845 1912 Belgian-born French
Ernst Perabo 1845 1920 German-born American
August Bungert 1845 1915 German
Anton Jörgen Andersen 1845 1926 Norwegian
Andreas Hallén 1846 1925 Swedish Valborgsmässa (opera) Romanticism
Albert Lavignac 1846 1916 French
Leopold Auer 1846 1930 Hungarian
Ella Adayevskaya 1846 1926 Russian
Luigi Denza 1846 1922 Italian
Riccardo Drigo 1846 1930 Italian
Nicolai Soloviev 1846 1916 Russian
Franz Ries 1846 1932 German
Marie Jaëll 1846 1925 French
Robert Fuchs 1847 1927 Austrian Symphony No. 3 in E major, Op. 79; Clarinet Quintet in E♭ major, Op. 102
Augusta Holmès 1847 1903 French
Ignacio Cervantes 1847 1905 Cuban
Joachim Andersen 1847 1909 Danish
Philipp Scharwenka 1847 1917 German
Agnes Zimmermann 1847 1925 German
Agathe Backer-Grøndahl 1847 1907 Norwegian
Francis Chassaigne 1847 1922 Belgian-born French
August Klughardt 1847 1902 German
Chiquinha Gonzaga 1847 1935 Brazilian
Alexander Mackenzie 1847 1935 Scottish The Cricket on the Hearth Romanticism
František Kmoch 1848 1912 Czech
Frances Allitsen 1848 1912 English
Henri Duparc 1848 1933 French
Ludvig Schytte 1848 1909 Danish
William J. McCoy 1848 1926 American
Richard Eilenberg 1848 1927 German
Max Erdmannsdörfer 1848 1905 German
Fritz Seitz 1848 1918 German
Hubert Parry 1848 1918 English Jerusalem
Johann Baptist Singenberger 1848 1924 Swiss-American historicist
Nanna Liebmann 1849 1935 Danish
Roberta Geddes-Harvey 1849 1930 Canadian
Arnold Krug 1849 1904 German
Ernesto Köhler 1849 1907 Italian
Catalina Berroa 1849 1911 Cuban
Hans Sitt 1850 1922 Czech
Iver Holter 1850 1941 Norwegian
Peter Lange-Müller 1850 1926 Danish
Tomás Bretón 1850 1923 Spanish
Richard Barth 1850 1923 German
Xaver Scharwenka 1850 1924 German
Alexandre Luigini 1850 1906 French
Emilio Serrano y Ruiz 1850 1939 Spanish
Richard Heuberger 1850 1914 Austrian
Alexander Taneyev 1850 1918 Russian
Heinrich Reimann 1850 1906 German
Antonio Scontrino 1850 1922 Italian
Alfredo Keil 1850 1907 Portuguese
Victor Bendix 1851 1926 Danish Symphony No.4 in D minor, Op. 30
Gabrielle Ferrari 1851 1921 French-Italian
Mary Grant Carmichael 1851 1935 English
W. H. Jude 1851 1922 English
Ludvig Hegner 1851 1923 Danish
André Wormser 1851 1926 French
Jan Blockx 1851 1912 Danish
Vincent d'Indy 1851 1931 French String Quartet No. 3; Symphony No. 2 in B♭; Jour d'été à la montagne
Frederic Hymen Cowen 1852 1935 British Miniature Variations for orchestra Romanticism
Émile Sauret 1852 1920 French Romanticism
Hans Huber 1852 1921 Swiss Romanticism
Alfred Grünfeld 1852 1924 Austrian Romanticism
Helena Munktell 1852 1919 Swedish Romanticism
Frederick Corder 1852 1932 English Romanticism
Josef Bayer 1852 1913 Austrian Das Damenduell Romanticism
Henrique Oswald 1852 1931 Brazilian
Charles Villiers Stanford 1852 1924 Irish Six Irish Rhapsodies Romanticism
Charles Malherbe 1853 1911 French Romanticism
Iwan Knorr 1853 1916 German Romanticism
Hugo Richard Jüngst 1853 1923 German Romanticism
Emil Sjögren 1853 1918 Swedish Romanticism
Jean Louis Nicodé 1853 1919 Prussian Romanticism
Teresa Carreño 1853 1917 Venezuelan Romanticism
Hans von Koessler 1853 1926 German Romanticism
Arthur Foote 1853 1937 American Romanticism
Leoš Janáček 1854 1928 Czech Sinfonietta; Taras Bulba; Káťa Kabanová; The Cunning Little Vixen; The Makropoulos Affair; Glagolitic Mass, 2 string quartets folk-influenced
Arturo Buzzi-Peccia 1854 1943 Italian songs and piano works[vague]
George Whitefield Chadwick 1854 1931 American
Julie Rivé-King 1854 1937 American
Pekka Hannikainen 1854 1924 Finnish
Bernard Zweers 1854 1924 Dutch
Engelbert Humperdinck 1854 1921 German
Heinrich Köselitz 1854 1918 German
John Philip Sousa 1854 1932 American
Alexander Kopylov 1854 1911 Russian
Antonio Smareglia 1854 1929 Austro-Hungarian
Oscar Fetrás 1854 1931 German
Gerónimo Giménez 1854 1923 Spanish
Moritz Moszkowski 1854 1925 German-Polish
Károly Aggházy 1855 1918 Hungarian
Arnold Mendelssohn 1855 1933 German Deutsche Messe, Op. 89; Geistliche Chormusik, Op. 90
Heinrich Grünfeld 1855 1931 Bohemian-Austrian
Richard Sahla 1855 1931 German
Julius Röntgen 1855 1932 German
Anatoly Lyadov 1855 1914 Russian
Helen Hopekirk 1856 1945 Scottish-American
Kateřina Emingerová 1856 1934 Czech
Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter 1856 1938 American
Cecilia Arizti 1856 1930 Cuban
Sergei Taneyev 1856 1915 Russian
Robert Fischhof 1856 1918 Austrian
Felix Mottl 1856 1911 Austrian
Eva Dell'Acqua 1856 1930 Belgian
André Gedalge 1856 1926 French
Eduard Schütt 1856 1933 Russian
Gilda Ruta 1856 1932 Italian
Natalia Janotha 1856 1932 Polish
Christian Sinding 1856 1941 Norwegian Romanticism
Cécile Chaminade 1857 1944 French Concertino for Flute
Frederic Cliffe 1857 1931 English Ode to the North-East Wind Romanticism
Berta Bock 1857 1945 Romanian
Rudolf Dellinger 1857 1910 German
Árpád Doppler 1857 1927 Hungarian-German
Wilhelm Kienzl 1857 1941 Austrian
Alfred Bruneau 1857 1934 French
Ethel R. Harraden 1857 1917 English
Henry Schoenfeld 1857 1936 American
Rosalind Ellicott 1857 1924 English
Edward Elgar 1857 1934 English Symphony No. 1; No. 2; Violin Concerto; Cello Concerto; The Dream of Gerontius; Pomp and Circumstance Marches Romanticism
Ruggero Leoncavallo 1857 1919 Italian Zingari (opera) verismo
Heinrich Berté 1858 1924 Austrian-Hungarian Der Glücksnarr
Catherine van Rennes 1858 1940 Dutch
Richard Franck 1858 1938 German
Lucien-Léon Guillaume Lambert 1858 1945 French
Frank Lynes 1858 1913 American
Georges Hüe 1858 1948 French
Siegfried Alkan 1858 1941 German
Stella Stocker 1858 1925 American
Mélanie Bonis 1858 1937 French
Guy d'Hardelot 1858 1936 French
Giacomo Puccini 1858 1924 Italian La fanciulla del West; Turandot Romanticism; verismo
Catharinus Elling 1858 1942 Norwegian Violin Concerto in D minor Romanticism
Ethel Smyth 1858 1944 English
Jenő Hubay 1858 1937 Hungarian
Eugène Ysaÿe 1858 1931 Belgian
Victor Herbert 1859 1924 Irish - American The Magic Knight (opera); The Red Mill (musical comedy); A Suite of Serenades
Narcisa Freixas 1859 1926 Catalan
Teresa Tanco Cordovez de Herrera 1859 1946 Colombian
Laura Sedgwick Collins 1859 1927 American
Ida Georgina Moberg 1859 1947 Finnish Symphony
Ellen Riley Wright 1859 1904 English
Hedwige Chrétien 1859 1944 French
Gerard von Brucken Fock 1859 1935 Dutch De wederkomst van Christus
Josef Bohuslav Foerster 1859 1951 Czech
Hope Temple 1859 1938 Irish
Susie Frances Harrison 1859 1935 Canadian
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov 1859 1935 Russian
Vincenza Garelli della Morea 1859 1924 Italian
Sergei Lyapunov 1859 1924 Russian
William Reed 1859 1945 Canadian
Isaac Albéniz 1860 1909 Spanish Iberia Romanticism
Emil von Řezníček 1860 1945 Austrian Two symphonies
Edward MacDowell 1860 1908 American
Alberto Franchetti 1860 1942 Italian
Edouard Potjes 1860 1931 Dutch
Valborg Aulin 1860 1928 Swedish
Gustave Charpentier 1860 1956 French Julien
Felix Woyrsch 1860 1944 German
William Wallace 1860 1940 Scottish
Pietro Floridia 1860 1932 Italian
Celeste de Longpré Heckscher 1860 1928 American
Gustav Mahler 1860 1911 Austrian Symphony No. 5, No. 6, and No. 9; Das Lied von der Erde; Kindertotenlieder Romanticism; modernism
Ignacy Jan Paderewski 1860 1941 Polish Symphony in B minor, Op. 24
Anton Arensky 1861 1906 Russian Piano Trio no. 2 in F minor, op. 73
Charles Martin Loeffler 1861 1935 French-born American
Václav Suk 1861 1933 Czech-born Russian
Marie Emmanuel Augustin Savard 1861 1942 French
Georgy Catoire 1861 1926 Russian
Florence Everilda Goodeve 1861 1915 English
Rudolf Raimann 1861 1913 Hungarian Unser Stammhalter (opera) Romanticism
Marco Enrico Bossi 1861 1925 Italian
Wilhelm Berger 1861 1911 German Symphony No. 2 in B minor, op. 80; Variations and Fugue on an Original Theme, op. 97; Serenade for Twelve Winds, op. 102 Romanticism
Claude Debussy 1862 1918 French Clair de lune; Syrinx; La mer; Pelléas et Mélisande; Préludes Impressionism
Frederick Delius 1862 1934 English A Village Romeo and Juliet; On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring Impressionism
Mona McBurney 1862 1932 British
Henry Holden Huss 1862 1953 American
Conrad Ansorge 1862 1930 German
Emil von Sauer 1862 1942 German
Georgi Conus 1862 1933 Russian
Edward German 1862 1936 English Merrie England; A Princess of Kensington; Tom Jones
Alberto Williams 1862 1952 Argentine Poema del Iguazú, nine symphonies Folk-influenced, modermism, impressionism, nationalism, post-Wagnerian
Arthur De Greef 1862 1940 Belgian Concerto 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
Walter Damrosch 1862 1950 German-born American Sonata for violin and piano
Dora Bright 1862 1951 English
Ferdinand Pfohl 1862 1949 German
August Nölck 1862 1928 German
Florence Aylward 1862 1950 English
Meliton Balanchivadze 1862 1937 Georgian
Maurice Emmanuel 1862 1938 French
Alphons Diepenbrock 1862 1921 Dutch
Hugo Becker 1863 1941 German Cello Concerto
Hugo Kaun 1863 1932 German Symphony No. 3 in E minor, op. 96
Arthur Somervell 1863 1937 English
Charles Bordes 1863 1909 French
Enrique Fernández Arbós 1863 1939 Spanish
Alfred Reisenauer 1863 1907 German
Abbie Gerrish-Jones 1863 1929 American
Cornélie van Oosterzee 1863 1943 Dutch
Vladimir Sokalsky 1863 1919 Russian
Emánuel Moór 1863 1931 Hungarian
Felix Blumenfeld 1863 1931 Russian
Izabella Kuliffay 1863 1945 Hungarian Magyar suite
Maria Chefaliady-Taban 1863 1932 Romanian
Horatio Parker 1863 1919 American
Helen Francis Hood 1863 1949 American
Pietro Mascagni 1863 1945 Italian Amica Verismo
Gabriel Pierné 1863 1937 French Cydalise et le Chèvre-pied; Ramuntcho
Eugen d'Albert 1864 1932 Russian Tiefland Romanticism
Hugh Blair 1864 1932 English Magnificat; Nunc Dimittis for double choir
Hjalmar Borgstrøm 1864 1925 Norwegian Piano Concerto in C, op.22, Violin Concerto in G major op.25, Piano Quintet in F op.31, Symphony in C, op.5, String Quartet in C, op.6
Harry Falkenau 1864 1907 American
Ricardo Castro 1864 1907 Mexican
Alberto Nepomuceno 1864 1920 Brazilian
Louis Glass 1864 1936 Danish
Alessandro Longo 1864 1945 Italian
Alexander Gretchaninov 1864 1956 Russian
Peter Griesbacher 1864 1933 German historicist
Johan Halvorsen 1864 1935 Norwegian Norwegian rhapsodies, three symphonies Romanticism, French influence
Guy Ropartz 1864 1955 French Le Pays Impressionism
Richard Strauss 1864 1949 German An Alpine Symphony; Der Rosenkavalier; Oboe Concerto; Salome; Metamorphosen Romanticism
Giovanni Tebaldini 1864 1952 Italian historicist
Enric Morera i Viura 1865 1942 Catalan
August de Boeck 1865 1937 Belgian
Eduardo di Capua 1865 1917 Italian
Paul Dukas 1865 1935 French La Péri (ballet)
Paul Gilson 1865 1942 Belgian
Alexander Glazunov 1865 1936 Russian Symphony No. 4 and No. 5; The Seasons (ballet); Violin Concerto; Saxophone Concerto Romanticism
Gustav Jenner 1865 1920 German
Alfred Hollins 1865 1942 English
Robert Kahn 1865 1951 German
Borghild Holmsen 1865 1938 Norweigian
Albéric Magnard 1865 1914 French Guercoeur
Carl Nielsen 1865 1931 Danish Symphony No. 4; No. 5; Maskarade; Clarinet Concerto
Jean Sibelius 1865 1957 Finnish Symphony No. 2, No. 5, and No. 7; Violin Concerto
Francesco Cilea 1866 1950 Italian L'arlesiana; Adriana Lecouvreur
Ferruccio Busoni 1866 1924 Italian Fantasia contrappuntistica; Turandot Suite; Piano Concerto
Vladimir Rebikov 1866 1920 Russian Children's piano music[vague]
Erik Satie 1866 1925 French Piano music[vague] Minimalism, avant-garde
Clara Anna Korn 1866 1941 American Piano Concerto
Vasily Kalinnikov 1866 1901 Russian
Laura Lemon 1866 1924 Canadian
Amanda Christina Elizabeth Aldridge 1866 1956 British
Tor Aulin 1866 1914 Swedish
Caro Roma 1866 1937 American
Gustave Doret 1866 1943 Swiss
Margherita Galeotti 1867 1912 Italian Piano Trio in D minor
Karel Navrátil 1867 1936 Czech
Amy Elsie Horrocks 1867 1920 English
Amy Beach 1867 1944 American
Umberto Giordano 1867 1948 Italian Siberia; Madame Sans-Gêne; La cena delle beffe Verismo
Enrique Granados 1867 1916 Spanish Goyescas (piano suite); Goyescas
Fini Henriques 1867 1940 Danish
Česlovas Sasnauskas 1867 1916 Lithuanian
Charles Koechlin 1867 1950 French
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger 1867 1942 Swedish Frösöblomster Romantic nationalism
Scott Joplin c. 1867/1868? 1917 American Treemonisha Ragtime
Granville Bantock 1868 1946 British Omar Khayyám, Hebridean Symphony Romanticism, often with an exotic flavour
Frederic Lamond 1868 1948 Scottish
José Vianna da Motta 1868 1948 Portuguese
Leone Sinigaglia 1868 1944 Italian
Hamish MacCunn 1868 1916 Scottish
Hermann Bischoff 1868 1936 German
Carl Frühling 1868 1937 Austrian Suite in F major, op. 36
Tokichi Setoguchi 1868 1941 Japanese
Annie Patterson 1868 1934 Irish
František Drdla 1868 1944 Czech
Alberto Jonás 1868 1943 Spanish
Signe Lund 1868 1950 Norwegian Valse de Concert Op.40
Oskar Merikanto 1868 1924 Finnish
Vittorio Monti 1868 1922 Italian Csárdás
John Blackwood McEwen 1868 1948 Scottish
Jan Brandts Buys 1868 1933 Dutch-Austrian
Lodewijk Mortelmans 1868 1952 Belgian
Maria Antonietta Picconi 1869 1926 Italian
Vasily Kalafati 1869 1942 Russian
Demetrios Lialios 1869 1940 Greek chamber music[vague]
Vassily Brandt 1869 1923 Russian
Joséphine Boulay 1869 1925 French
Julius Conus 1869 1942 Russian
Armas Järnefelt 1869 1958 Finnish
John N. Klohr 1869 1956 American Billboard March
Hans Pfitzner 1869 1949 German Palestrina
Albert Roussel 1869 1937 French Symphony No. 3 and No. 4; Bacchus et Ariane (ballet) Neoclassicism
Henry Eichheim 1870 1942 American
Leopold Godowsky 1870 1938 Polish Studies on Chopin's Études; Passacaglia; Triakontameron
Alfred Hill 1870 1960 Australian
Mon Schjelderup 1870 1934 Norwegian Sonata in B minor, Op. 12
Ludvík Čelanský 1870 1931 Czech
Franz Lehár 1870 1948 Hungarian Der Graf von Luxemburg, Der Zarewitsch operettas
Viktor Kalinnikov 1870 1927 Russian
Joseph Ryelandt 1870 1965 Belgian
Vítězslav Novák 1870 1949 Czech
Arthur Pryor 1870 1942 American
Florent Schmitt 1870 1958 French
Oscar Straus 1870 1954 Austrian Ein Walzertraum; The Chocolate Soldier
Charles Tournemire 1870 1939 French L'Orgue Mystique
Cornelis Dopper 1870 1939 Dutch
Louis Vierne 1870 1937 French
Hélène-Frédérique de Faye-Jozin 1871 1942 French
Alexander Spendiaryan 1871 1936 Armenian
Ruben Liljefors 1871 1936 Swedish
Daniel Alomía Robles 1871 1942 Peruvian
Adolphe Biarent 1871 1916 Belgian
Leon Jessel 1871 1942 German The Parade of the Tin Soldiers
Wilhelm Stenhammar 1871 1927 Swedish Symphony No. 2 Romanticism
Alexander von Zemlinsky 1871 1942 Austrian Lyric Symphony; String Quartet No. 2; Der Zwerg post-Romanticism, New Objectivity, neoclassicism
Hugo Alfvén 1872 1960 Swedish Symphony No. 4: From the Outermost Skerries; Midsummer Vigil Romanticism
William H. Potstock 1872 1941 American
Henri Büsser 1872 1973 French
Sergei Vasilenko 1872 1956 Russian
Paul Juon 1872 1940 Russian
Siegmund von Hausegger 1872 1948 Austrian
Stanislav Binički 1872 1942 Serbian Marš na Drinu
Julius Fučík 1872 1916 Czech Entrance of the Gladiators
Eyvind Alnæs 1872 1932 Norwegian Two symphonies, Piano Concerto
Joan Lamote de Grignon 1872 1949 Catalan Spanish
Ezra Jenkinson 1872 1947 English
Rubin Goldmark 1872 1936 American
Lorenzo Perosi 1872 1956 Italian Il Giudizio Universale (oratorio) historicist
Alexander Scriabin 1872 1915 Russian The Poem of Ecstasy; Prometheus: The Poem of Fire; piano sonatas Nos. 4–10 Mysticism
Ralph Vaughan Williams 1872 1958 English A Sea Symphony; A London Symphony; Sinfonia antartica; Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Fantasia on Greensleeves; The Lark Ascending Impressionism, folk-influenced
Joseph Jongen 1873 1953 Belgian Symphonie Concertante for organ and orchestra
Lucien Capet 1873 1928 French Poème for violin and orchestra
María de las Mercedes Adam de Aróstegui 1873 1957 Cuban
Walter Rabl 1873 1940 Austrian Romanticism
Leo Fall 1873 1925 Austrian Madame Pompadour (operetta) Romanticism
Dimitri Arakishvili 1873 1953 Georgian
Modest Altschuler 1873 1963 Russian
William Henry Bell 1873 1946 English
Henri Rabaud 1873 1949 French
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873 1943 Russian Piano Concerto No. 2 and No. 3; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; Symphony No. 2; Prelude in C-sharp minor Romanticism
Arnold Safroni-Middleton 1873 1950 British
Jean Roger-Ducasse 1873 1954 French
Emma Lomax 1873 1963 English
Nikolai Tcherepnin 1873 1945 Russian
Max Reger 1873 1916 German organ music, Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart, Hebbel Requiem Romanticism
Katharine Emily Eggar 1874 1961 English
Pol Albrecht 1874 1975 Luxembourgian
Charles Ives 1874 1954 American The Unanswered Question; Central Park in the Dark; Variations on America; Three Places in New England; Concord Sonata Avant-garde, folk-influenced
Gustav Holst 1874 1934 English The Planets; Beni Mora; Egdon Heath
Ernest Austin 1874 1947 English Symphony Atonaliity, Romanticism, folk-influenced, Impressionism
Giulio Bas 1874 1929 Italian organ works[vague]
Ethel Barns 1874 1948 English
Reynaldo Hahn 1874 1947 Venezuelan
Serge Koussevitzky 1874 1951 Russian
Franz Schmidt 1874 1939 Austrian The Book with Seven Seals
Arnold Schoenberg 1874 1951 Austrian 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
Josef Suk 1874 1935 Czech Asrael Symphony; A Winter's Tale
Henriette Renié 1875 1956 French
Franco Alfano 1875 1954 Italian
Julián Carrillo 1875 1965 Mexican 13th sound Microtonal music
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 1875 1912 English The Song of Hiawatha (cantata)
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis 1875 1911 Lithuanian
Reinhold Glière 1875 1956 Russian Horn Concerto; The Red Poppy Romanticism
Alexander Goldenweiser 1875 1961 Russian
Jenő Huszka 1875 1960 Hungarian
Dobri Hristov 1875 1941 Bulgarian
Ernesto de Curtis 1875 1937 Italian
Fritz Kreisler 1875 1962 Austrian Caprice Viennois; Liebesfreud; Liebesleid; Schön Rosmarin
Erkki Melartin 1875 1937 Finnish
Maurice Ravel 1875 1937 French Daphnis et Chloé; Valses nobles et sentimentales; Rapsodie espagnole; Tzigane; Piano Concerto; Bolero; piano music Impressionism, Neoclassicism
Hakon Børresen 1876 1954 Danish The Royal Guest romanticism
Havergal Brian 1876 1972 English Gothic Symphony
Teresa del Riego 1876 1968 English
Lucia Contini Anselmi 1876 1913 Italian
Ludolf Nielsen 1876 1939 Danish
John Alden Carpenter 1876 1951 American
Mieczysław Karłowicz 1876 1909 Polish Stanislaw i Anna Oświęcimovie Lithuanian Rhapsody; Symphony in E Minor; Violin Concerto Romanticism
Manuel de Falla 1876 1946 Spanish The Three-Cornered Hat; Nights in the Gardens of Spain Impressionism, Neoclassicism
Ernest Schelling 1876 1939 American
Carl Ruggles 1876 1971 American Sun-Treader
Mikhail Savoyarov 1876 1941 Russian The Drunken Moon, Trumpeters, Because of the Ladies chansonnier, light music, jazz-influenced
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari 1876 1948 Italian comic operas
Alexander Goedicke 1877 1957 Russian
Louis Aubert 1877 1968 French
Yevgeny Gunst 1877 1950 Russian
Russell Alexander 1877 1915 American
Sergei Bortkiewicz 1877 1952 Russian (Ukrainian-born)
Ernő Dohnányi 1877 1960 Hungarian Variations on a Nursery Tune Romanticism
Vladimir Tsybin 1877 1949 Russian
Sigfrid Karg-Elert 1877 1933 German organ and harmonium works[vague]
Mykola Leontovych 1877 1921 Ukrainian Shchedryk, church music, arrangements of folk songs A capella choral music
Elisabeth Kuyper 1877 1953 Dutch Violin Concerto in B minor, Violin Sonata in A major, Piano Trio in D major
Hnat Khotkevych 1877 1938 Ukrainian
Jean Huré 1877 1930 French
Roger Quilter 1877 1953 English songs
Rutland Boughton 1878 1960 English
Selim Palmgren 1878 1951 Finnish
Jeanne Beijerman-Walraven 1878 1969 Dutch
Harry Farjeon 1878 1948 British
Antun Dobronić 1878 1955 Croatian
Caradog Roberts 1878 1935 Welsh
Adam Carse 1878 1958 English Two symphonies
André Caplet 1878 1925 French
Mabel Wheeler Daniels 1878 1971 American
Ossip Gabrilowitsch 1878 1936 Russian-born American
Conrado del Campo 1878 1953 Spanish
Carl Ehrenberg 1878 1962 German Anneliese (opera) Post-romanticism
Gabriel Dupont 1878 1914 French
Fritz Brun 1878 1959 Swiss
Joseph Holbrooke 1878 1958 English
Franz Schreker 1878 1934 Austrian Der ferne Klang (opera), Kammersymphonie modernism, eclectic (Romanticism, naturalism, symbolism, impressionism, Expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit)
Frank Bridge 1879 1941 English Enter Spring; The Sea Impressionism, later Expressionism; mentor of Benjamin Britten
Joseph Canteloube 1879 1957 French Chants d'Auvergne
Joseph Haas 1879 1960 German Romanticism
Marcel Tournier 1879 1951 French
Jean Cras 1879 1932 French
Stanyslav Lyudkevych 1879 1979 Ukrainian
Gabriel Grovlez 1879 1944 French
Maurice Delage 1879 1961 French
Stefano Donaudy 1879 1925 Italian
Percy Fletcher 1879 1932 English
Philippe Gaubert 1879 1941 French
Hamilton Harty 1879 1941 Irish An Irish Symphony; With the Wild Geese
John Ireland 1879 1962 English Piano Concerto in E flat
Pablo Luna 1879 1942 Spanish El niño judío
Josip Hatze 1879 1959 Croatian
Hugo Riesenfeld 1879 1939 Austrian-American
Otakar Ostrčil 1879 1935 Czech
Joaquín Nin 1879 1949 Cuban
Otto Olsson 1879 1964 Swedish Te Deum
Ottorino Respighi 1879 1936 Italian The Fountains of Rome; The Pines of Rome Impressionism
Cyril Scott 1879 1970 English
Ernest Bloch 1880 1959 American (Swiss-born) Schelomo; Suite hébraïque
Edgar Thomas Cook 1880 1953 English
John Foulds 1880 1939 English A World Requiem Post-romanticism, Indian influence
Nikolai Medtner 1880 1951 Russian 38 Skazki for piano, Piano Concerto No. 3 Romanticism
Ildebrando Pizzetti 1880 1968 Italian Assassinio nella cattedrale
Healey Willan 1880 1968 English
Domenico Alaleona 1881 1928 Italian
Kenneth J. Alford 1881 1945 British Colonel Bogey "British March King"
Béla Bartók 1881 1945 Hungarian 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
Gena Branscombe 1881 1977 Canadian
Nancy Dalberg 1881 1949 Danish String Quartet No. 2
George Enescu 1881 1955 Romanian Romanian Rhapsody No. 1, Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano ("In the Romanian Popular Style"), Œdip (opera), Cantabile et Presto for flute and piano folk-influenced; father of Romanian classical music
Henry Fillmore 1881 1956 American marches
Paul Le Flem 1881 1984 French
Arthur Marshall 1881 1968 American
Ignatz Waghalter 1881 1949 Polish-German Concerto for Violin in A Major; Mandragola; Jugend Romanticism
Richard Hageman 1881 1966 Dutch-born American
Jan van Gilse 1881 1944 Dutch Thijl
Nikolai Myaskovsky 1881 1950 Russian Symphony No. 6, No. 10 and No. 13; Cello Concerto in C minor Romanticism
Nikolai Roslavets 1881 1944 Russian
Marion Bauer 1882 1955 American
Percy Grainger 1882 1961 Australian Country Gardens, Irish Tune from County Derry, Lincolnshire Posy folk-influenced
Mary Howe 1882 1964 American
Emmerich Kálmán 1882 1953 Hungarian operettas
Zoltán Kodály 1882 1967 Hungarian Háry János; Székelyfonó; Psalmus Hungaricus folk-influenced
Gian Francesco Malipiero 1882 1973 Italian
Joseph Marx 1882 1964 Austrian vocal music
Geoffrey O'Hara 1882 1967 Canadian
Manuel Ponce 1882 1948 Mexican Concierto del sur for guitar and orchestra, guitar and piano pieces, songs (especially "Estrellita"), and folk-song arrangements
Igor Stravinsky 1882 1971 Russian The Rite of Spring; The Firebird; Petrushka; Pulcinella; The Soldier's Tale; Symphony of Psalms; Symphonies of Wind Instruments Neoclassicism, Neo-Baroque, neotonality, later Serialism
Karol Szymanowski 1882 1937 Polish Symphony No. 3 and No. 4; Violin Concerto No. 1 and No. 2 Impressionism, later folk-influenced
Walter Braunfels 1882 1954 German Organ Concerto neotonality
Ernestina Lecuona Casado 1882 1951 Cuban Bolero
Joaquín Turina 1882 1949 Spanish
Arnold Bax 1883 1953 English Symphony No. 2, No. 3, and No. 6; Tintagel Romanticism, Impressionism
Alfredo Casella 1883 1947 Italian
George Dyson 1883 1964 English Symphony in G major
Josef Matthias Hauer 1883 1959 Austrian
Manolis Kalomiris 1883 1962 Greek
Paul von Klenau 1883 1946 Danish
Maximilian Steinberg 1883 1946 Russian
Augustin Barié 1883 1915 French
Toivo Kuula 1883 1918 Finnish
Robert Graham Manson 1883 1950 British
Jules Van Nuffel 1883 1953 Belgian In convertendo Dominus; Tedeum
Enrico Toselli 1883 1926 Italian Serenata 'Rimpianto' Op.6 No.1
Edgard Varèse 1883 1965 French Amériques; Ionisation; Arcana; Density 21.5 Musique concrète, Electronic music
Anton Webern 1883 1945 Austrian Symphony; Six Pieces for Orchestra Serialism; pupil of Arnold Schoenberg
York Bowen 1884 1961 English
Juhan Aavik 1884 1982 Estonian
Raoul Koczalski 1884 1948 Polish Piano Concerto, Op. 83
Dina Appeldoorn 1884 1938 Dutch
May Brahe 1884 1956 Australian Bless This House and other songs
Ralph Benatzky 1884 1957 Czech
Max Brod 1884 1968 Czech
Charles Griffes 1884 1920 American
Boris Asafyev 1884 1949 Russian
Louis Gruenberg 1884 1964 Russian
Juozas Gruodis 1884 1948 Lithuanian
Ture Rangström 1884 1947 Swedish Four symphonies
Alexander Albrecht 1885 1958 Slovak
Agustín Barrios 1885 1944 Paraguayan
Alban Berg 1885 1935 Austrian Violin Concerto; Wozzeck; Lyric Suite Serialism, Romanticism, Expressionism; pupil of Arnold Schoenberg
George Butterworth 1885 1916 English
Benjamin Dale 1885 1943 English
Adriano Lualdi 1885 1971 Italian
Heino Kaski 1885 1957 Finnish
Eduard Kunneke 1885 1953 German Der Vetter aus Dingsda
Artur Lemba 1885 1963 Estonian
Dora Pejačević 1885 1923 Croatian Symphony in F-sharp Minor, Phantasie Concertante
Wallingford Riegger 1885 1961 American Symphony No. 3
Pedro Humberto Allende 1885 1959 Chilean
Leo Weiner 1885 1960 Hungarian
Egon Wellesz 1885 1974 Austrian nine symphonies
Mana-Zucca 1885 1981 American
Joseph Achron 1886 1943 Russian Hebrew Melody
Edward Ballantine 1886 1971 American Variations on "Mary Had a Little Lamb" for piano
Kosaku Yamada 1886 1965 Japanese Overture in D major
John J. Becker 1886 1961 American
Rebecca Helferich Clarke 1886 1979 English
Wilhelm Furtwängler 1886 1954 German Symphony 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 Orchestra Neoclassicism, folk-influenced, twelve-tone technique
Elizabeth Gyring 1886 1970 American
Henri Gagnebin 1886 1977 Belgian-born Swiss
Marcel Dupré 1886 1971 French organ music
Jesús Guridi 1886 1961 Spanish Sinfonia pirenaica
Paul Paray 1886 1979 French Mass for the 500th Anniversary of the Death of Joan of Arc
Othmar Schoeck 1886 1957 Swiss Penthesilea
Pietro Yon 1886 1943 Italian Gesù bambino
Kurt Atterberg 1887 1974 Swedish Symphony No. 6 "Dollar Symphony"
Oskar Lindberg 1887 1955 Swedish
Ernest Pingoud 1887 1942 Finnish
Nadia Boulanger 1887 1979 French
Mildred Couper 1887 1974 American quarter tone
Stasys Šimkus 1887 1943 Lithuanian
Heino Eller 1887 1970 Estonian
Emilia Gubitosi 1887 1972 Italian
Leevi Madetoja 1887 1947 Finnish
Emil Reesen 1887 1964 Danish operas
Rudi Stephan 1887 1915 German Romanticism
Willem Andriessen 1887 1964 Dutch Piano Concerto in D♭ major
Ernst Toch 1887 1964 German 7 symphonies
Heitor Villa-Lobos 1887 1959 Brazilian Chôros; Bachianas brasileiras; Magdalena: a Musical Adventure; Rudepoêma; Neoclassicism, folk-influenced
Johanna Beyer 1888 1944 German-American
Philip Greeley Clapp 1888 1954 American 12 symphonies
Maria Rodrigo 1888 1967 Spanish
Alexei Stanchinsky 1888 1914 Russian
Irving Berlin 1888 1989 American
Carmen Barradas 1888 1963 Uruguayan
Cecil Coles 1888 1918 Scottish
Emiliana de Zubeldia 1888 1987 Spanish
Anna Maria Klechniowska 1888 1973 Polish
Ina Boyle 1888 1967 Irish
Poul Schierbeck 1888 1949 Danish
Matthijs Vermeulen 1888 1967 Dutch
Levko Revutsky 1889 1977 Ukrainian Piano Concerto in F major
Alton Adams 1889 1987 American
Grigoraş Dinicu 1889 1949 Romanian
Armstrong Gibbs 1889 1960 English
Ethel Glenn Hier 1889 1971 American
Vladimir Shcherbachov 1889 1952 Russian
Victor Dolidze 1890 1933 Soviet Georgian
Luís de Freitas Branco 1890 1955 Portuguese
Hans Gál 1890 1987 Austrian
Ivor Gurney 1890 1937 English
Jacques Ibert 1890 1962 French neoclassicism Impressionism
Frank Martin 1890 1974 Swiss Ballade for flute and piano
Bohuslav Martinů 1890 1959 Czech Symphony No. 3, No. 4, and No. 6; Gilgamesh (oratorio); chamber music neoclassicism, folk-influenced
Gösta Nystroem 1890 1966 Swedish
Arthur Bliss 1891 1975 English A Colour Symphony
Claude Champagne 1891 1965 Canadian
Karel Boleslav Jirák 1891 1972 Czechoslovak
Alexis Roland-Manuel 1891 1966 French
Roy Agnew 1891 1944 Australian
Mikhail Bulgakov 1891 1940 Russian
Frida Kern 1891 1988 Austrian
Noël Gallon 1891 1966 French
Marcel Grandjany 1891 1975 French Pieces for harp; Headed Harp Dept at Fontainebleau & Juilliard Noted harpist and teacher
Thomas Griselle 1891 1955 American
Mihail Jora 1891 1971 Romanian
Karl King 1891 1971 American Barnum and Bailey's Favorite marches
Federico Moreno Torroba 1891 1982 Spanish classical guitar
Sergei Prokofiev 1891 1953 Russian 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
Paul Abraham 1892 1960 Hungarian operettas
Hendrik Andriessen 1892 1981 Dutch father of Louis Andriessen
Ferde Grofé 1892 1972 American Grand Canyon Suite; Mississippi Suite
Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman 1892 1971 Dutch
Sandor Harmati 1892 1936 Hungarian-American
Mirrie Hill 1892 1986 Australian
Arthur Honegger 1892 1955 Swiss Symphony No. 3 "Liturgique"; Pacific 231; Les Misérables (film music) neoclassicism
Herbert Howells 1892 1983 English Hymnus paradisi
Yrjö Kilpinen 1892 1959 Finnish Neoclassical
Samuel L. M. Barlow 1892 1982 American
László Lajtha 1892 1963 Hungarian
Darius Milhaud 1892 1974 French La Création du Monde; Le Bœuf sur le toit jazz-influenced, neoclassical, polytonal
Hilding Rosenberg 1892 1985 Swedish Violin Concerto
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji 1892 1988 English Opus clavicembalisticum; Études transcendantes (100); Sequentia cyclica super "Dies irae" ex Missa pro defunctis; Piano Symphony No. 2; "Gulistān"—Nocturne for Piano neoclassical, neoromantic, postimpressionistic
Germaine Tailleferre 1892 1983 French
Ilmari Hannikainen 1892 1955 Finnish Romanticism
Jean Absil 1893 1974 Belgian
Arthur Benjamin 1893 1960 Australian Jamaican Rhumba
Lili Boulanger 1893 1918 French
Eugene Aynsley Goossens 1893 1962 English
Alois Hába 1893 1973 Czech Matka microtonal
Helen Eugenia Hagan 1893 1964 American
Rued Langgaard 1893 1952 Danish 16 symphonies, The Music of the Spheres, Antikrist
Federico Mompou 1893 1987 Spanish piano music
Douglas Moore 1893 1969 American The Ballad of Baby Doe, The Devil and Daniel Webster (folk opera)
Sergei Protopopov 1893 1954 Russian 3 piano sonatas avant-garde
Bernard Rogers 1893 1968 American
Ivor Novello 1893 1951 Welsh
Leo Ornstein 1893 2002 American (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 1893 1976 English songs
Hugo Chaim Adler 1894 1955 Belgian
Krešimir Baranović 1894 1975 Yugoslav
Robert Russell Bennett 1894 1981 American Broadway arrangements; pieces for band
Sabin Drăgoi 1894 1968 Romanian Piano Concerto
Peter Warlock 1894 1930 Anglo-Welsh
Nicolas Slonimsky 1894 1995 Russian-born American
Jane M. Joseph 1894 1929 English
Ernest John Moeran 1894 1950 English Symphony in G minor folk-influenced
Willem Pijper 1894 1947 Dutch Six Adagios; Piano Concerto atonal
Walter Piston 1894 1976 American The Incredible Flutist (ballet); Symphony No. 2, No. 3, No. 6, and No. 7 Neoclassicism
Erwin Schulhoff 1894 1942 Czech
Mark Wessel 1894 1973 American The King of Babylon; Concertino for Flute or Violin and Orchestra
August Baeyens 1895 1966 Belgian
Jakov Gotovac 1895 1982 Croatian
Henriëtte Bosmans 1895 1952 Dutch
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco 1895 1968 Italian guitar music
Juan José Castro 1895 1968 Argentine
Georges Dandelot 1895 1975 French
Johann Nepomuk David 1895 1977 Austrian neoclassical
Paul Hindemith 1895 1963 German Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber; Mathis der Maler; Ludus Tonalis Neo-Baroque, neoclassicism, Expressionism
Gordon Jacob 1895 1984 English
Eva Jessye 1895 1992 American
Borys Lyatoshynsky 1895 1968 Ukrainian
Carl Orff 1895 1982 German Carmina Burana
Kathleen Richards 1895 1984 English
Leo Sowerby 1895 1968 American
William Grant Still 1895 1978 American 5 symphonies, including Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American"; Troubled Island (opera), A Bayou Legend (opera) folk-influenced; known as "the Dean" of African-American composers
Lindley Evans 1895 1982 South African-born Australian
Boris Sobinov 1895 1956 Russian
Eduard Toldrà 1895 1962 Spanish
Shirley Graham Du Bois 1896 1977 American
Jacobo Ficher 1896 1978 Argentine 10 symphonies; 3 piano concertos; chamber music; El Oso (opera, after Chekhov) eclectic
Maria Bach 1896 1978 Austrian Klavierquartett
Jean Rivier 1896 1987 French
Roberto Gerhard 1896 1970 Spanish
Howard Hanson 1896 1981 American 7 symphonies Romanticism
Viktor Kosenko 1896 1938 Ukrainian piano concerto
Roger Sessions 1896 1985 American 9 symphonies, Violin Concerto, Montezuma neoclassicism, twelve-tone technique
Petko Staynov 1896 1977 Bulgarian
George Thalben-Ball 1896 1986 British
Virgil Thomson 1896 1989 American Four Saints in Three Acts, The Mother of Us All; Louisiana Story; also noted critic folk-influenced, eclectic
Jaromír Weinberger 1896 1967 Czech Schwanda the Bagpiper
António Fragoso 1897 1918 Portuguese
Jørgen Bentzon 1897 1951 Danish
Harrison Kerr 1897 1978 American
György Kósa 1897 1984 Hungarian
Yefim Golyshev 1897 1970 Ukrainian String Trio
Jaroslav Řídký 1897 1956 Czech
Paul Ben-Haim 1897 1984 Israeli
Gaspar Cassadó 1897 1966 Spanish Toccata, Requiebros
Henry Cowell 1897 1965 American The Tides of Manaunaun, Dynamic Motion eclectic, experimental
Oscar Lorenzo Fernández 1897 1948 Brazilian "Batuque" from Malazarte nationalism
Erich Wolfgang Korngold 1897 1957 Austrian Violin Concerto; film music; Die Tote Stadt
Agustín Lara 1897 1970 Mexican Granada
Fernando Obradors 1897 1945 Spanish Canciones clásicas españolas
Quincy Porter 1897 1966 American 2 symphonies, 9 string quartets, Piano Quintet, Concerto concertante for two pianos and orchestra
Harald Sæverud 1897 1992 Norwegian Peer Gynt, 9 symphonies
Sim Gokkes 1897 1943 Dutch Modernist
Pablo Sorozábal 1897 1988 Spanish
Alexandre Tansman 1897 1986 Polish
Hanns Eisler 1898 1962 German/Austrian Auferstanden aus Ruinen (Eastern Germany national anthem)
George Gershwin 1898 1937 American Rhapsody in Blue; Piano Concerto; An American in Paris; Porgy and Bess jazz-influenced
Roy Harris 1898 1979 American Symphony No. 3 neotonality
Viktor Ullmann 1898 1944 Austrian
Dorothy Howell 1898 1982 English
Lev Knipper 1898 1974 Russian
Alexander Abramsky 1898 1985 Russian folk-influenced
Jeanne Leleu 1898 1979 French
Maurice Journeau 1898 1999 French
Vittorio Rieti 1898 1994 Italian
Pancho Vladigerov 1899 1978 Bulgarian 4 piano concertos folk-influenced
William Baines 1899 1922 English
Patrick Hadley 1899 1973 British
Ephraim Amu 1899 1995 Ghanaian
Georges Auric 1899 1983 French
Carlos Chávez 1899 1978 Mexican Sinfonía de Antígona, Sinfonía india, Symphony No. 6, Toccata for percussion instruments, The Visitors (opera) modernist, primitivist, folk-influenced, neoclassicism, serialist
Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté 1899 1974 Russian-born Canadian
Jón Leifs 1899 1968 Icelandic Oratorios based on Edda idiosyncratic orchestration and percussion used to evoke Icelandic natural phenomena
George Frederick McKay 1899 1970 American
Francis Poulenc 1899 1963 French Babar the Elephant; Flute Sonata Stabat Mater neoclassicism
Silvestre Revueltas 1899 1940 Mexican Janitzio, Homenaje a Federico García Lorca, Sensemayá nationalist, political music, primitivist, popular-music influence. modernism
Ricard Lamote de Grignon 1899 1962 Catalan Spanish
Pavel Haas 1899 1944 Czech
Mansi Barberis 1899 1986 Romanian
Alexander Tcherepnin 1899 1977 Russian
Randall Thompson 1899 1984 American Alleluia; The Testament of Freedom
George Antheil 1900 1959 American Ballet mécanique; Symphony No. 4 Avant-garde, modernism, later neoclassical
Willy Burkhard 1900 1955 Swiss
Alan Bush 1900 1995 English
Aaron Copland 1900 1990 American Appalachian Spring (ballet); Billy the Kid (ballet); Rodeo (ballet); Fanfare for the Common Man; Clarinet Concerto neoclassical, folk-influenced, jazz-influenced, early twelve-tone, later serialism
Isadore Freed 1900 1960 Belarusian-born American
Leo Smit 1900 1943 Dutch
Gotfrid Hasanov 1900 1965 Russian
Amadeo Roldán 1900 1939 Cuban
Hector Gratton 1900 1970 Canadian
Isaak Dunayevsky 1900 1955 Russian
Henry Barraud 1900 1997 French Concertino for piano, flute, clarinet, horn, bassoon and chamber orchestra
Maurice Jaubert 1900 1940 French
Uuno Klami 1900 1961 Finnish Sea Pictures; Kalevala Suite
Ernst Krenek 1900 1991 Austrian Jonny spielt auf, Karl V neoclassical, twelve-tone, later serial, neoromantic, eclectic
Colin McPhee 1900 1964 Canadian Tabuh-Tabuhan: Toccata for Orchestra folk-influenced
Alexander Mosolov 1900 1973 Russian Iron Foundry Avant-garde
Zdenka Ticharich 1900 1979 Hungarian
Fred Raymond 1900 1954 Austrian operettas; film music
Hans Schimmerling 1900 1967 Czech
Evald Aav 1900 1939 Estonian
Kai Normann Andersen 1900 1967 Danish
Yasuji Kiyose 1900 1981 Japanese
Marko Tajčević 1900 1984 Serbian
Kurt Weill 1900 1950 German neoclassical
Karel Albert 1901 1987 Belgian Marieken van Niemeghen (incidental music); four symphonies constructionist, neoclassical, twelve-tone technique
Blaž Arnič 1901 1970 Slovenian neoromanticism
Ruth Crawford Seeger 1901 1953 American String Quartet modernism
Dimitar Nenov 1901 1953 Bulgarian Toccata
Gerald Finzi 1901 1956 English Cello Concerto; songs neoromantic
Victor Hely-Hutchinson 1901 1947 British
Lillian Fuchs 1901 1995 American
Eivind Groven 1901 1977 Norwegian
Conrad Beck 1901 1989 Swiss
Dorothy James 1901 1982 American
Harry Partch 1901 1974 American Daphne of the Dunes, Revelation in the Courthouse Park microtonal, just intonation, self-built instruments
Heinz Eric Roemheld 1901 1985 American
Marcel Poot 1901 1988 Belgian
Joaquín Rodrigo 1901 1999 Spanish Concierto de Aranjuez; guitar music neoclassical, folk music influence
Edmund Rubbra 1901 1986 English
Henri Sauguet 1901 1989 French
Henri Tomasi 1901 1971 French
Olav Kielland 1901 1985 Norwegian
Theodore Chanler 1902 1961 American
Maurice Duruflé 1902 1986 French Requiem; organ music
Veselin Stoyanov 1902 1969 Bulgarian Three concertos for piano and orchestra; Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Concertino for violin folk-influenced
Helvi Leiviskä 1902 1982 Finnish
Antonio José 1902 1936 Spanish
Lūcija Garūta 1902 1977 Latvian Piano Concerto
Vissarion Shebalin 1902 1963 Russian
John Vincent 1902 1977 American Consort for Piano and Strings neoclassical
William Walton 1902 1983 English Symphony No. 1; Violin Concerto; Viola Concerto; Variations on a Theme by Hindemith; Belshazzar's Feast (oratorio) avant-garde (early), neoromantic, neoclassical
Stefan Wolpe 1902 1972 German serial, modernism
Vladimir Vlasov 1903 1986 Russian
Claude Arrieu 1903 1990 French
Lennox Berkeley 1903 1989 English neoclassical, later serial
Vladimir Horowitz 1903 1989 American
Boris Blacher 1903 1975 German
Abram Chasins 1903 1987 American Two piano concertos; Parade for orchestra
Jens Bjerre Jacobsen 1903 1986 Danish
Luis H. Salgado 1903 1977 Ecuadorian Sanjuanito futurista; Eunice; Cumandá folk-influenced, modernist
Avril Coleridge-Taylor 1903 1998 English
Vernon Duke 1903 1969 Russian both post-tonal style as Dukelsky and in the style of Tin Pan Alley as Duke
Vittorio Giannini 1903 1966 Italian Blennerhassett neoclassical
Mykola Kolessa 1903 2006 Ukrainian
Walter Goehr 1903 1960 German
He Luting 1903 1999 Chinese
Berthold Goldschmidt 1903 1996 German
Aram Khachaturian 1903 1978 Armenian Gayane (ballet, includes Sabre Dance); Spartacus (ballet); concertos
Marc Lavry 1903 1967 Israeli Symphonic Poem Emek, Opera Dan Hashomer
Ervin Nyíregyházi 1903 1987 Hungarian Romanticism
Mario Pilati 1903 1938 Italian Piedigrotta (opera)
Priaulx Rainier 1903 1986 South African / English Ploërmel, Quanta, String Trio
Robin Milford 1903 1959 English
Percy Whitlock 1903 1946 English
Richard Addinsell 1904 1977 British Warsaw Concerto
John Antill 1904 1986 Australian Corroboree (ballet suite)
Walter Bricht 1904 1970 Austrian
Erik Chisholm 1904 1965 Scottish Piano Concerto No. 2 ("Hindustani") "Scotland's forgotten composer", nicknamed "MacBartok"
Luigi Dallapiccola 1904 1975 Italian Il prigioniero (opera); Il canto sospeso serialism, electronic music
Dmitry Kabalevsky 1904 1987 Russian The Comedians
Aleksey Zhivotov 1904 1964 Russian
Kunihiko Hashimoto 1904 1949 Japanese
Manuel Rosenthal 1904 2003 French
Iša Krejčí 1904 1968 Czech 20 Variations on the Composer s Own Theme in the Style of a Folk Song neoclassical
Joseph Ahrens 1904 1997 German
Goffredo Petrassi 1904 2003 Italian
Gavriil Popov 1904 1972 Russian Chamber Symphony; Symphony No. 1
Nikos Skalkottas 1904 1949 Greek twelve-tone, folk music influence, modernism
Ulric Cole 1905 1992 American
Heikki Aaltoila 1905 1975 Finnish
William Alwyn 1905 1985 English Lyra Angelica; Elizabethan Dances neoromantic
Boris Arapov 1905 1992 Russian Violin Concerto neoromantic, Atonality
Albert Arlen 1905 1993 Turkish Australian
Vytautas Bacevičius 1905 1970 Lithuanain Atonality
Marc Blitzstein 1905 1964 American The Cradle Will Rock (musical) political music
Eugène Bozza 1905 1991 French
Mario Braggiotti 1905 1996 American (Italian-born)
Francis Chagrin 1905 1972 Romanian
Ferenc Farkas 1905 2000 Hungarian
Karl Amadeus Hartmann 1905 1963 German
André Hossein 1905 1983 Iranian
André Jolivet 1905 1974 French
Constant Lambert 1905 1951 English The Rio Grande popular music influence, jazz influence
Walter Leigh 1905 1942 English Concertino for Harpsichord and Strings; Agincourt; Jolly Roger; Music for Strings neoclassical
Alan Rawsthorne 1905 1971 English 3 symphonies; Symphonic Studies neoclassical
Luis Sandi 1905 1996 Mexican
Giacinto Scelsi 1905 1988 Italian Quattro pezzi chiascuno su una nota sola
Michael Tippett 1905 1998 English The Midsummer Marriage; 4 symphonies; A Child of Our Time (oratorio)
Eduard Tubin 1905 1982 Estonian 11 symphonies
Xian Xinghai 1905 1945 Chinese Yellow River Cantata
Xiao Shuxian 1905 1991 Chinese
Winfried Zillig 1905 1963 German
Murray Adaskin 1906 2002 Canadian
Ahn Eak-tai 1906 1965 Korean Aegukga
Daniel Ayala Pérez 1906 1975 Mexican Tribu (symphonic poem)
Andria Balanchivadze 1906 1992 Georgian
Franz Biebl 1906 2001 German Ave Maria
Arnold Cooke 1906 2005 British
Paul Creston 1906 1985 Italian-American neoclassical
Claire Delbos 1906 1959 French
Antal Doráti 1906 1988 American
Klaus Egge 1906 1979 Norwegian
Ulvi Cemal Erkin 1906 1972 Turkish
Eric Fenby 1906 1997 English
Benjamin Frankel 1906 1973 English
Alejandro García Caturla 1906 1940 Cuban
Zoltán Gárdonyi 1906 1986 Hungarian Psalm 46, organ sonatas, motets sacred music
Miriam Gideon 1906 1996 American modernism
Radamés Gnattali 1906 1988 Brazilian
Willy Hess 1906 1997 Swiss
Joaquim Homs 1906 2003 Spanish
Tomojirō Ikenouchi 1906 1991 Japanese
Jānis Ivanovs 1906 1983 Latvian neoromantic
Jaroslav Ježek 1906 1942 Czech
Oscar Levant 1906 1972 American
Elisabeth Lutyens 1906 1983 English
Peter Mieg 1906 1990 Swiss neoclassical
Alexander Moyzes 1906 1984 Slovakian neoromantic
Abdylas Maldybaev 1906 1978 Kyrgyzstani
Willson Osborne 1906 1979 American Neoclassical
Boris Papandopulo 1906 1991 Croatian
Dmitri Shostakovich 1906 1975 Russian 15 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
Louise Talma 1906 1996 American
David Van Vactor 1906 1994 American
Grace Williams 1906 1977 Welsh
Federico Elizalde 1907 1979 Filipino-Spanish Concertos, symphonic poems
Tolibjon Sadikov 1907 1957 Uzbekistani
Lora Aborn 1907 2005 American Toccata for Piano folk-influenced
Jean Langlais 1907 1991 French
Henk Badings 1907 1987 Dutch
Yoritsune Matsudaira 1907 2001 Japanese
Ödön Pártos 1907 1977 Hungarian-Israeli
Wolfgang Fortner 1907 1987 German
Camargo Guarnieri 1907 1993 Brazilian
Gene Gutchë 1907 2000 German
Imogen Holst 1907 1984 British
Elizabeth Maconchy 1907 1994 English
Roy Douglas 1907 British
Hisato Ohzawa 1907 1953 Japanese
Miklós Rózsa 1907 1995 Hungarian folk-influenced
Ahmed Adnan Saygun 1907 1991 Turkish
Burrill Phillips 1907 1988 American
Roman Palester 1907 1989 Polish
Martin Scherber 1907 1974 German
Necil Kazım Akses 1908 1999 Turkish
Leroy Anderson 1908 1975 American Sleigh Ride; Blue Tango; Jazz Pizzicato; Irish Suite; Suites of Carols
Menachem Avidom 1908 1995 Israeli
Elliott Carter 1908 2012 American Variations for Orchestra; A Symphony of Three Orchestras; 5 string quartets neoclassical (early), modernist
Jean Coulthard 1908 2000 Canadian
Joseph Beer 1908 1987 German
Lucien Martin 1908 1950 Canadian
Gustav Ernesaks 1908 1993 Estonian
Gunnar de Frumerie 1908 1987 Swedish
Jan Zdeněk Bartoš 1908 1981 Czech
Roberta Bitgood 1908 2007 American
Irwin Heilner 1908 1991 American
Herman David Koppel 1908 1998 Danish neoclassical
Lars-Erik Larsson 1908 1986 Swedish
Joan Mary Last 1908 2002 English
Olivier Messiaen 1908 1992 French Turangalila Symphony; Quartet for the End of Time; Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus; Saint François d'Assise mysticism, postimpressionist
Helen Glatz 1908 1996 English
Vano Muradeli 1908 1970 Soviet Georgian
Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur 1908 2002 French
Julian Scriabin 1908 1919 Russian
Eugen Suchoň 1908 1993 Slovak folk-influenced
Geirr Tveitt 1908 1981 Norwegian folk-influenced
Isador Goodman 1909 1982 South African-Australian
Grażyna Bacewicz 1909 1969 Polish
Gunnar Berg 1909 1989 Danish (Swiss-born) Suite for cello serialism
Richard de Guide 1909 1962 Belgian 3 symphonies, choral works, songs for voice and piano, a concerto for the piano and chamber works
Jean Berger 1909 2002 American (German-born)
Asaf Zeynally 1909 1932 Azerbaijani
Myoma Nyein 1909 1955 Burmese
Isabel Aretz 1909 2005 Argentine-Venezuelan
Kurt Schwaen 1909 2007 German neoclassicism
Harald Genzmer 1909 2007 German neoclassicism
Paul Constantinescu 1909 1963 Romanian
Vagn Holmboe 1909 1996 Danish 13 symphonies neoclassicism
Ljubica Marić 1909 2003 Serb Sounds of Space; Ostinato Super Thema Octoicha; Threshold of Dream post-modernism
Elie Siegmeister 1909 1991 American 9 operas[vague]; 8 symphonies[vague]; Western Suite
Samuel Barber 1910 1981 American Adagio for Strings; Violin Concerto; Symphony in One Movement; Vanessa Romanticism
Ronald Binge 1910 1979 British light music
Patricia Blomfield Holt 1910 2003 Canadian
Mohamed Jamoussi 1910 1982 Tunisian
Paul Bowles 1910 1999 American
Salvador Contreras 1910 1982 Mexican String Quartet No. 2; Tres movimientos para guitarra; Dos piezas dodecafónicas neoclassical, serial
Miguel Bernal Jiménez 1910 1956 Mexican
Francis Judd Cooke 1910 1995 American
Farid al-Atrash 1910 1974 Syrian-Egyptian
William Reed 1910 2002 English
Willy Berking 1910 1979 German
Gerard Hengeveld 1910 2001 Dutch
Blas Galindo 1910 1993 Mexican
Remo Giazotto 1910 1998 Italian Adagio attributed to Albinoni
Jiang Wen-Ye 1910 1983 Taiwanese modernist
Jean Martinon 1910 1976 French
Paule Maurice 1910 1967 French
Evgeny Golubev 1910 1988 Russian
Bernhard Heiden 1910 2000 German-American
Josef Tal 1910 2008 Israeli
Erland von Koch 1910 2009 Swedish
Rolf Liebermann 1910 1999 Swiss Leonore 40/45 (opera); Concerto for Jazzband and Symphony Orchestra
Herbert Owen Reed 1910 American La Fiesta Mexicana folk-influenced
Pierre Schaeffer 1910 1995 French Musique concrète
William Schuman 1910 1992 American New England Triptych
Jehan Alain 1911 1940 French Litanies (organ)
Gábor Darvas 1911 1985 Hungarian electronic music
Roberto García Morillo 1911 2003 Argentine
Mark Fax 1911 1974 American
Jeanne Behrend 1911 1988 American
Kikuko Kanai 1911 1986 Japanese
Ján Cikker 1911 1989 Slovak folk-influenced
René Amengual 1911 1954 Chilean
Jean-Jacques Grunenwald 1911 1982 French
Bernard Herrmann 1911 1975 American Wuthering Heights
Alan Hovhaness 1911 2000 American 67 numbered symphonies including Mysterious Mountain; And God Created Great Whales (taped whale sounds and orchestra); Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints
Robert McBride 1911 2007 American
Gian Carlo Menotti 1911 2007 Italian The Medium; The Consul; Amahl and the Night Visitors
Allan Pettersson 1911 1980 Swedish Neoromanticism
Ananda Samarakoon 1911 1962 Sri Lankan
José Ardévol 1911 1981 Cuban 3 symphonies Atonality
Władysław Szpilman 1911 2000 Polish
Stanley Bate 1911 1959 English
Jan Koetsier 1911 2006 Dutch
Nino Rota 1911 1979 Italian
Endre Szervánszky 1911 1977 Hungarian
Hans Vogt 1911 1992 German Die Stadt hinter dem Strom (opera), Requiem
John Cage 1912 1992 American 4'33"; Sonatas and Interludes Aleatoric music, extended technique, prepared piano
Mukhtar Ashrafi 1912 1975 Uzbekistani
Robert Hughes 1912 2007 Scottish-born Australian
Arthur Berger 1912 2003 American
Tauno Marttinen 1912 2008 Finnish
Alfred Desenclos 1912 1971 French
Arkady Filippenko 1912 1983 Ukrainian
Bojan Adamič 1912 1995 Slovenian
Nie Er 1912 1935 Chinese folk-influenced
Jean Françaix 1912 1997 French
Don Gillis 1912 1978 American Symphony No. 5½
Peggy Glanville-Hicks 1912 1990 Australian
Barbara Pentland 1912 2000 Canadian
Carlos Guastavino 1912 2000 Argentine
Zoltán Pongrácz 1912 2007 Hungarian
Gisela Hernández 1912 1971 Cuban
Daniel Jones 1912 1993 Welsh
Wayne Barlow 1912 1996 American The Winter's Passed, for oboe and string orchestra; Hampton Beach Overture; Sinfonia da camera
Ingolf Dahl 1912 1970 German-born American
Jiří Traxler 1912 2011 Czech
Igor Markevitch 1912 1983 Ukrainian
José Pablo Moncayo 1912 1958 Mexican Huapango
Xavier Montsalvatge 1912 2002 Spanish
Conlon Nancarrow 1912 1997 American-Mexican Studies for player-piano
Aleksandr Machavariani 1913 1995 Georgian
Violet Archer 1913 2000 Canadian
Margaret Bonds 1913 1972 American
Henry Brant 1913 2008 Canadian-American Orbits, Verticals Ascending, Angels and Devils spatial music
Benjamin Britten 1913 1976 English War Requiem; Sinfonia da Requiem; Peter Grimes; The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra; Cello Symphony Neoclassicism, neotonality
Peggy Stuart Coolidge 1913 1981 American Spirituals in Sunshine and Shadow, New England Autumn folk- and blues-influenced
Hans Henkemans 1913 1995 Dutch
Alvin Etler 1913 1973 American
Ernest van der Eyken 1913 2010 Belgian Elegie voor Bieke
Raimond Valgre 1913 1949 Estonian
Vivian Fine 1913 2000 American
Morton Gould 1913 1996 American
Dulcie Holland 1913 2000 Australian
Tikhon Khrennikov 1913 2007 Russian
Miriam Hyde 1913 2005 Australian
Kent Kennan 1913 2003 American
George Lloyd 1913 1998 English
Witold Lutosławski 1913 1994 Polish Concerto for Orchestra; Musique funebre; Symphony No. 2; Symphony No. 3 Neoclassicism, folk-influenced, later Aleatoric music
Valery Zhelobinsky 1913 1946 Russian
Milton Adolphus 1913 1988 American
Maurice Ohana 1913 1992 French
Willy Ostijn 1913 1993 Belgian neoclassicism
Constantin Silvestri 1913 1969 Romanian
Cecil Effinger 1914 1990 American Little Symphony No. 1; Four Pastorales for oboe and chorus neoclassicism
Irving Fine 1914 1963 American serial
Alexei Haieff 1914 1994 American
Cacilda Borges Barbosa 1914 2010 Brazilian
Fumio Hayasaka 1914 1955 Japanese
Akira Ifukube 1914 2006 Japanese
Dezider Kardoš 1914 1991 Slovak
Wilfrid Mellers 1914 2008 English
Roger Goeb 1914 1997 American
Dimitris Dragatakis 1914 2001 Greek
Andrzej Panufnik 1914 1991 Polish 10 symphonies
Ludwig Lenel 1914 2002 American
Harold Truscott 1914 1992 English
Josée Vigneron-Ramackers 1914 2002 Belgian
Haim Alexander 1915 2012 Israeli
David Diamond 1915 2005 American neoclassicism
Grigory Frid 1915 2012 Russian The Diary of Anne Frank
George Perle 1915 2009 American
David Ashkenazi 1915 1997 Russian
Júlia Hajdú 1915 1987 Hungarian
Vítězslava Kaprálová 1915 1940 Czech Military Sinfonietta
Douglas Lilburn 1915 2001 New Zealander
Najla Jabor 1915 2001 Brazilian
Dimitar Sagaev 1915 2003 Bulgarian
Knut Nystedt 1915 Norwegian
Vincent Persichetti 1915 1987 American neoclassicism
John Serry, Sr. 1915 2003 American American Rhapsody; Concerto For Free Bass Accordion
Esther Ballou 1915 1973 American
Robert Strassburg 1915 2003 American
Georgy Sviridov 1915 1998 Russian Piano Sonata neoromantic
Earl Wild 1915 2010 American
Rostom Aramovic Alagian 1916 2009 Georgian
Gaston Allaire 1916 2011 Canadian
Nikolay Peyko 1916 1995 Russian
Veli Mukhatov 1916 2005 Turkmenistani
Luis Herrera de la Fuente 1916 Mexican
Denis ApIvor 1916 2004 British
Milton Babbitt 1916 2011 American Composition for Four Instruments; String Quartet No. 2; All Set; Philomel serialism, electronic music
Karl-Birger Blomdahl 1916 1968 Swedish Swedish modernism
Henri Dutilleux 1916 French Timbres, espace, mouvement; Tout un Monde Lointain; The Shadows of Time Neo-impressionism
Douglas Guest 1916 1996 English
Mutal Burhonov 1916 2002 Uzbekistani
Einar Englund 1916 1999 Finnish
Alberto Ginastera 1916 1983 Argentine Bomarzo; Cinco canciones populares argentinas; Danzas Argentinas
Richard Arnell 1917 2009 English
Robert Ward 1917 2013 American Concerto for piano and orchestra
Brian Boydell 1917 2000 Irish
Rudolf Brucci 1917 2002 Italian-Croatian
Clarisse Leite 1917 2003 Brazilian
Anthony Burgess 1917 1993 English
Ivor Darreg 1917 1994 American microtone, xenharmonic
Robert Erickson 1917 1997 American twelve tone, extended technique
Robert Farnon 1917 2005 Canadian light music
John Gardner 1917 2011 English Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
Prenkë Jakova 1917 1969 Albanian
Egil Harder 1917 1997 Danish
Roque Cordero 1917 2008 Panamanian
Lou Harrison 1917 2003 American Concerto for Violin and Percussion Orchestra; Piano Concerto;
José Maceda 1917 2004 Filipino
Hilda Jerea 1917 1980 Romanian
Antonio Lauro 1917 1986 Venezuelan guitar music
Dinu Lipatti 1917 1950 Romanian
Isang Yun 1917 1995 Korean-German
Jürg Baur 1918 2010 German Concerto romano for oboe and orchestra; Der Roman mit dem Kontrabass (opera) serialism, quotation, neoclassicism
Leonard Bernstein 1918 1990 American West Side Story; Chichester Psalms; Candide; Serenade; Mass jazz-influenced and pop-influence
Leonard B. Meyer 1918 2007 American
Liviu Comes 1918 2004 Romanian choral
Gottfried von Einem 1918 1996 Austrian Dantons Tod, Der Besuch der alten Dame, cantata An die Nachgeborenen eclectic
Raymond Gallois-Montbrun 1918 1994 French
Denise Tolkowsky 1918 1991 English
Jórunn Viðar 1918 Icelandic
Louis Applebaum 1918 2000 Canadian
Olivier Alain 1918 1994 French
Godfrey Ridout 1918 1984 Canadian
Gara Garayev 1918 1982 Azerbaijani
Marcelo Koc 1918 2006 Argentine Música para 5 instrumentos; Concerto for Viola and Orchestra
Harold Gramatges 1918 2008 Cuban
George Rochberg 1918 2005 American serialism, later Neoromanticism
Bernd Alois Zimmermann 1918 1970 German Die Soldaten; Musique pour les soupers du Roi Ubi; Tratto; Tempus loquendi serialism, musical quotation, collage, electronic music, jazz-influenced, eclectic
Gideon Klein 1919 1945 Czech
Bülent Arel 1919 1990 Turkish electronic music
István Anhalt 1919 2012 Hungarian-Canadian
Udo Kasemets 1919 Estonian-born Canadian
Juan Orrego-Salas 1919 Chilean
Eleonora Eksanishvili 1919 Georgian
Jacob Avshalomov 1919 2013 American
Sven-Erik Bäck 1919 1994 Swedish
Niels Viggo Bentzon 1919 2000 Danish
John W. Duarte 1919 2004 British
Talivaldis Kenins 1919 2008 Latvian-Canadian
Jiří Pauer 1919 2007 Czech
Bernard Barrell 1919 2005 English
Leon Kirchner 1919 2009 American
Galina Ustvolskaya 1919 2006 Russian
Mieczysław Weinberg 1919 1996 Polish
Alexander Arutiunian 1920 2012 Armenian Trumpet Concerto in A-flat major avant-garde
Bebe Barron 1920 1989 American electronic music
Dave Brubeck 1920 2012 American
Geoffrey Bush 1920 1998 English
Rolande Falcinelli 1920 1996 French
Peter Racine Fricker 1920 1990 English
Karen Khachaturian 1920 2011 Soviet and Russian
Jacob Gilboa 1920 2007 Israeli
John La Montaine 1920 American
Earl Kim 1920 1998 Korean-American
Robert Turner 1920 2012 Canadian
John Lessard 1920 2003 American
Bruno Maderna 1920 1973 Italian Satyricon avant-garde, electronic music
Harold Shapero 1920 American Symphony for Classical Orchestra
Heikki Suolahti 1920 1936 Finnish Sinfonia piccola Romanticism
Malcolm Arnold 1921 2006 English Symphony No. 5 and No. 7; English Dances
Chaya Arbel 1921 2007 Israeli
Arno Babajanian 1921 1983 Armenian
Jack Beeson 1921 2010 American Lizzie Borden
Oscar Feltsman 1921 2013 Russian
William Bergsma 1921 1994 American
Alfred Reed 1921 2005 American
Dennis Berry 1921 1994 English
Marcel Bitsch 1921 2011 French
Jeanne Demessieux 1921 1968 French
Halim El-Dabh 1921 Egyptian-born American electronic music
Ruth Gipps 1921 1999 British
Hans Ulrich Engelmann 1921 2011 German
Nazife Güran 1921 1993 Turkish
Antony Hopkins 1921 British
Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia 1921 Ghanaian
Ariel Ramírez 1921 2010 Argentine Misa Criolla (1964); composer, pianist and music director
Karel Husa 1921 Czech-American Music for Prague 1968; Music for Band, Orchestra, Chamber Ensembles
Andrew Imbrie 1921 2007 American neoclassicism
Božidar Kantušer 1921 1999 American/Slovenian
Kan Ishii 1921 2009 Japanese
Yoshirō Irino 1921 1980 Japanese
Fritz Geißler 1921 1984 German
Joonas Kokkonen 1921 1996 Finnish
Ástor Piazzolla 1921 1992 Argentine tangos
Ralph Shapey 1921 2002 American
Robert Simpson 1921 1997 English
Rosalina Abejo 1922 1991 Philippine
Stefans Grové 1922 South African
Zhu Jian'er 1922 Chinese
Ester Mägi 1922 Estonian
Gérard Calvi 1922 French
Leo Kraft 1922 American
Sadao Bekku 1922 2012 Japanese
Raymond Wilding-White 1922 2001 English
German Galynin 1922 1966 Russian Sonata Triad for piano, First Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Second Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Spanish Fantasy for piano
Kelsey Jones 1922 2004 Canadian
Tale Ognenovski 1922 2012 Macedonian
John Boda 1922 2002 American
Doreen Carwithen 1922 2003 British
Raffaello de Banfield 1922 2008 English
Lukas Foss 1922 2009 German-born American Griffelkin
Iain Hamilton 1922 2000 Scottish chamber & orchestral works; operas & vocal works[vague]
David N. Johnson 1922 1987 American
James Wilson 1922 2005 Irish
Kazimierz Serocki 1922 1981 Polish
Iannis Xenakis 1922 2001 Greek Metastaseis avant-garde, Stochastic
Antonio Bibalo 1922 2008 Italian-Norwegian opera
Doris Akers 1923 1995 American
Radim Drejsl 1923 1953 Czech
Ned Rorem 1923 American 3 symphonies
Warren Barker 1923 2006 American
Triphon Silyanovski 1923 2005 Bulgarian
Lester Trimble 1923 1986 American
İlhan Usmanbaş 1923 Turkish
Leslie Bassett 1923 American
Arthur Butterworth 1923 English influenced by Sibelius
Chou Wen-chung 1923 Chinese/American Landscapes
Ursula Mamlok 1923 German-born, American
Madeleine Dring 1923 1977 English
Karel Goeyvaerts 1923 1993 Belgian Sonata for Two Pianos, Nr. 2 for thirteen instruments, Nr. 5 met zuivere tonen, Aquarius (opera) neoclassicism, serialism, minimalism, postminimalism, mysticism, electronic music
Jean Eichelberger Ivey 1923 2010 American
György Ligeti 1923 2006 Hungarian Atmosphères, Musica ricercata, Lux Aeterna avant-garde, micropolyphony
Asankhan Dzhumakhmatov 1923 2008 Kyrgyzstani
Elena Romero 1923 1996 Spanish
Jocelyne Binet 1923 1968 Canadian
Henryk Czyż 1923 2003 Polish
Daniel Pinkham 1923 2006 American
Peter Mennin 1923 1983 American
Ned Rorem 1923 American Our Town
Simeon ten Holt 1923 2012 Dutch Canto Ostinato minimalism
Jiří Hudec 1923 1996 Czech
Joly Braga Santos 1924 1988 Portuguese
Ezra Laderman 1924 American
Altamiro Carrilho 1924 2012 Brazilian
Stephen Dodgson 1924 2013 British
Krystyna Moszumańska-Nazar 1924 2009 Polish
Heimo Erbse 1924 2005 German
Arthur Frackenpohl 1924 American
Serge Nigg 1924 2008 French
Leni Alexander 1924 2005 German-Chilean
Lejaren Hiller 1924 1994 American
Klaus Huber 1924 Swiss
Angela Morley 1924 2009 English
Milko Kelemen 1924 Croatian
Egil Hovland 1924 2013 Norwegian church music
Ikuma Dan 1924 2001 Japanese Symphony No. 4 (1965), Sonata for flute and piano (1986) Atonality
Axel Borup-Jørgensen 1924 2012 Danish
Riichiro Manabe 1924 Japanese
Otar Taktakishvili 1924 1989 Georgian
Mikhaïl Nossyrev 1924 1981 Russian Modernist
Maurice Jarre 1924 2009 French
Benjamin Lees 1924 2010 American Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra
Luigi Nono 1924 1990 Italian Il canto sospeso, Intolleranza 1960, Prometeo avant-garde
Joly Braga Santos 1924 1988 Portuguese
Sulkhan Tsintsadze 1925 1991 Georgian
Jurriaan Andriessen 1925 1996 Dutch
Giselher Klebe 1925 2009 German
Veniamin Basner 1925 1996 Russian
Clytus Gottwald 1925 German
Louis Barron 1925 2008 American electronic music
Claudio Spies 1925 Chilean-American
Eloy Fominaya 1925 2002 American
Robert Beadell 1925 1994 American
Cathy Berberian 1925 1983 American Stripsody avant-garde
Luciano Berio 1925 2003 Italian Sequenza; Sinfonia Avant-garde
Fernando González Casellas 1925 1998 Argentine
Gunther Schuller 1925 American
Pierre Boulez 1925 French Le marteau sans maître; …explosante-fixe…; Répons Avant-garde, serialism, aleatory
Włodzimierz Kotoński 1925 Polish Concerto per quattro, for piano, harpsichord, guitar, harp, and orchestra
Aldo Clementi 1925 2011 Italian
Tristram Cary 1925 2008 English-Australian
Kiril Makedonski 1925 1984 Macedonian five symphonies, two ballets, two symphonic poems, choral music and songs
Andrei Eshpai 1925 Russian
Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt 1925 2010 Chilean
Jindřich Feld 1925 2007 Czech
Ron Goodwin 1925 2003 British film scores
Gerard Kockelmans 1925 1965 Dutch
Bertold Hummel 1925 2002 German
Teo Macero 1925 2008 American One and Three Quarters microtonal, jazz-influenced
Ivo Malec 1925 French Cantate pour elle; Dodecameron; Lumina
Julián Orbón 1925 1991 Spanish/Cuban Three Symphonic Versions
Gunther Schuller 1925 American jazz-influence; Third Stream
Yasushi Akutagawa 1925 1989 Japanese Rapsodia per orchestra (1971) Atonality
Vladimir Vavilov 1925 1973 Russian
Paul W. Whear 1925 American Catharsis Suite for orchestra; Lancaster Overture for orchestra; Catskill Legend for band
Boris Tchaikovsky 1925 1996 Russian
Mikis Theodorakis 1925 Greek Film scores including Zorba the Greek
Earle Brown 1926 2002 American Open Form; Graphic Notation
Johann Melchior Gletle 1926 1983 Swiss Vespers in Vienna
Edwin Carr 1926 2003 New Zealander
Jani Christou 1926 1970 Greek atonalism, meta-serialism, improvisation
Barney Childs 1926 2000 American extended technique, improvisation, indeterminacy
Modesta Bor 1926 1998 Venezuelan
Rodolfo Arízaga 1926 1985 Argentine
John Bevan Baker 1926 1994 British Suite for Piano; The Seer (opera)
Brian Bonsor 1926 2011 Scottish
Oldřich František Korte 1926 Czech Concerto Grosso neo-classicism, expressionist, neo-romantic
Edward Bland 1926 2013 American
Francis Dhomont 1926 French
Friedrich Cerha 1926 Austrian
Rolv Yttrehus 1926 American
Natela Svanidze 1926 Georgian
Morton Feldman 1926 1987 American
Carlisle Floyd 1926 American Susannah; Wuthering Heights; Of Mice and Men
William Schmidt 1926 2009 American
Eric Gross 1926 2011 Austrian-Australian
Kenneth Gaburo 1926 1993 American The Flow of (u)
Hans Werner Henze 1926 2012 German Ondine
Herbert H. Ágústsson 1926 Icelandic
Lee Hoiby 1926 2011 American
Zhun Huang 1926 Chinese
Marga Richter 1926 American Concerto for Piano and Violas, Cellos and Basses
Marilyn J Ziffrin 1926 American
Ben Johnston 1926 American
Čestmír Gregor 1926 2011 Czech
Celso Garrido Lecca 1926 Peruvian
Aleksandr Zatsepin 1926 Russian
Louis Calabro 1926 1991 Italian-American
Gottfried Michael Koenig 1926 German-Dutch
Karl Kohn 1926 American
Janine Charbonnier 1926 French
Jacques Castérède 1926 French
Betsy Jolas 1926 French
György Kurtág 1926 Hungarian Játékok
John Beckwith 1927 Canadian
Asger Lund Christiansen 1927 1998 Danish neoclassicism
Dolores Claman 1927 Canadian
Pascal Bentoiu 1927 Romanian
Margrit Zimmermann 1927 Swiss
Ştefan Niculescu 1927 2010 Romanian Ison II
Bernard Parmegiani 1927 French electronic or acousmatic music
Osvaldo Lacerda 1927 2011 Brazilian
John Diercks 1927 American
Wayne Peterson 1927 American
Emma Lou Diemer 1927 American
W. D. Amaradeva 1927 Sri Lankan
Franco Donatoni 1927 2000 Italian
Donald Erb 1927 2008 American Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra; Concerto for Violin and Orchestra jazz-influenced, aleatory, electronic music, eclectic
Çesk Zadeja 1927 1997 Albanian
John W. Downey 1927 2004 American
Janet Maguire 1927 Austrian
Paul Angerer 1927 Austrian
Bernhard Lewkovitch 1927 Danish
Pierre Henry 1927 French
Elaine Hugh-Jones 1927 Welsh
John Joubert 1927 English
Wilhelm Killmayer 1927 German Sinfonia I–III, Hölderlin Lieder
Ruth Anderson 1928 American
Samuel Adler 1928 American (German-born)
Kamilló Lendvay 1928 Hungarian
Tadeusz Baird 1928 1981 Polish
Jean Barraqué 1928 1973 French serialism
Lubor Bárta 1928 1972 Czech Piano Trio in C Major, Concertino for trombone and piano
Jean-Michel Damase 1928 2013 French
Luna Alcalay 1928 2012 Austrian
Euel Box 1928 American
George Dreyfus 1928 French
Jacob Druckman 1928 1996 American Windows
David Farquhar 1928 2007 New Zealander A Unicorn for Christmas, Ring Round the Moon Neoclassicism
Nicolas Flagello 1928 1994 American Neoclassicism
Vitaly Bujanovsky 1928 1993 Russian
Bidzina Kvernadze 1928 2010 Georgian
Tommy Tycho 1928 2013 Hungarian-Australian
Jay Sydeman 1928 American
Otar Gordeli 1928 1994 Georgia
Ronald Stevenson 1928 British
Robert Helps 1928 2001 American
Frigyes Hidas 1928 2007 Hungarian
Ennio Morricone 1928 Italian 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
Karl Korte 1928 American
Thea Musgrave 1928 Scottish
Einojuhani Rautavaara 1928 Finnish Cantus Arcticus; Symphony No. 7 "Angel of Light"; Piano Concerto No. 3 "The Gift of Dreams"
Valentin Gheorghiu 1928 Romanian
Karlheinz Stockhausen 1928 2007 German 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
Teizo Matsumura 1929 2007 Japanese Atonality
Akio Yashiro 1929 1976 Japanese piano concerto Atonality
Carlton Gamer 1929 American
Gerd Zacher 1929 German
Erling Bjerno 1929 Danish
Augustyn Bloch 1929 2006 Polish
Antonio Braga 1929 2009 Italian
Theo Bruins 1929 1993 Dutch
George Crumb 1929 American Ancient Voices of Children, Black Angels Extended technique, Numerology
André Mathieu 1929 1968 Canadian
Edison Denisov 1929 1996 Russian
Frédéric Devreese 1929 Belgian
Petr Eben 1929 2007 Czech
Robert Muczynski 1929 2010 American
Hormoz Farhat 1929 Iranian
Luc Ferrari 1929 2005 French
Jerry Goldsmith 1929 2004 American Film scores, Music for Orchestra; Fireworks
Alun Hoddinott 1929 2008 Welsh
Charles Knox 1929 American neo-classical, musical palindromes
Kenneth Leighton 1929 1988 English
Pedro Iturralde 1929 Spanish
Toshiro Mayuzumi 1929 1997 Japanese
Aleksandra Pakhmutova 1929 Russian
Ron Nelson 1929 American Rocky Point Holiday
Henri Pousseur 1929 2009 Belgian Votre Faust; Trois visages à Liège; Couleurs croisées serialism, aleatory, eclectic, electronic music, world music, popular music influence
André Previn 1929 German/American A Streetcar Named Desire
Leonard Kastle 1929 2011 American
Josef Anton Riedl 1929 German
Bogusław Schaeffer 1929 Polish
Peter Sculthorpe 1929 Australian Requiem; Kakadu; Earth Cry
Hans Stadlmair 1929 Austrian Trumpet Concerto with strings; Saxofonia; Miró
Siegfried Strohbach 1929 German 5 Galgenlieder; Ein Stern aus Jacob
Harry Bannink 1929 1999 Dutch
Samar Das 1929 2001 Bangladeshi
Muhal Richard Abrams 1930 American
Robert Ashley 1930 American electronic music, extended techniques
Larry Austin 1930 American electronic music
Petar Bergamo 1930 Croatian romanticism, atonality
Günter Kochan 1930 2009 German
Jacques Calonne 1930 Belgian
Robert Cogan 1930 American
Cristóbal Halffter 1930 Spanish Líneas y puntos; Don Quixote eclectic, electronic music
Christopher Headington 1930 1996 British
Jean Guillou 1930 French
Ryōhei Hirose 1930 2008 Japanese
Nikolai Karetnikov 1930 1994 Russian Symphony No. 3, Concert Piece for piano
Gordon Langford 1930 English Facets of Glass; Rhapsody for Trombone brass band music
Theo Loevendie 1930 Dutch
Robert William Witt 1930 1967 American neoclassical
Yardena Alotin 1930 1994 Israeli
Yen Lu 1930 2008 Chinese-born Taiwanese
David Amram 1930 American
Claude Bolling 1930 French
Pierre Max Dubois 1930 1995 French
William P. Perry 1930 American
Dieter Schnebel 1930 German Mahler-Moment; Maulwerke; Baumzucht
Tōru Takemitsu 1930 1996 Japanese A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden; Toward the Sea Neo-impressionism
Joan Franks Williams 1930 2003 American
John Carmichael 1930 Australian
Eino Tamberg 1930 2010 Estonian
Betty Roe 1930 English
Veljo Tormis 1930 Estonian
Nancy Van de Vate 1930 American
Heinz Werner Zimmermann 1930 German
Nancy Laird Chance 1931 American
Lucien Goethals 1931 2006 Belgian
Sylvano Bussotti 1931 Italian
Charles Camilleri 1931 2009 Maltese
F. R. C. Clarke 1931 2009 Italian
Vytautas Barkauskas 1931 Lithuanian
Lucia Dlugoszewski 1931 2000 Polish-American
Frederick A. Fox 1931 2011 American
Sofia Gubaidulina 1931 Russian Offertorium; Music for Flute, Strings, and Percussion
Hikaru Hayashi 1931 2012 Japanese Viola Concerto "Elegia"
Peter Westergaard 1931 American
Robert Gauldin 1931 American
Donald Harris 1931 American
Derek Holman 1931 English
Mauricio Kagel 1931 2008 Argentine / German Staatstheater; Kantrimiusik; Ludwig van
Krzysztof Komeda 1931 1969 Polish
Yüksel Koptagel 1931 Turkish
Martin Boykan 1931 American Echoes of Petrarch; Piano Trio No. 2; String Quartet No. 3 serialism
Rudolf Komorous 1931 Canadian
Rudolf Kelterborn 1931 Swiss
André Laporte 1931 Belgian Das Schloss eclectic
Arne Nordheim 1931 2010 Norwegian Epitaffio; The Tempest (ballet); Magma many works include electronics
Louis W. Ballard 1931 2007 American
David Lumsdaine 1931 Australian
Ib Nørholm 1931 Danish
Ivo Petrić 1931 Slovenian
Makoto Shinohara 1931 Japanese Fragmente electronic music, influence of traditional Japanese music
Malcolm Williamson 1931 2003 Australian Mass of Christ the King; The Dawn is at Hand; 7 numbered symphonies; cassations
Niccolò Castiglioni 1932 1996 Italian
Henri Lazarof 1932 Bulgarian
Henning Christiansen 1932 2008 Danish fluxus
Tod Dockstader 1932 2008 American electronic music
James Douglas 1932 Scottish
André Hajdu 1932 Israeli
Alexander Goehr 1932 English Arianna twelve-tone, later modal, eclectic
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen 1932 Danish
François Bayle 1932 French
Baligh Hamdi 1932 1993 Egyptian
Max Schubel 1932 2010 American
Diana Pereira Hay 1932 Danish
Bronius Kutavičius 1932 Lithuanian
Kilza Setti 1932 Brazilian
Elaine Barkin 1932 American
Marta Jiráčková 1932 Czech
M. William Karlins 1932 2005 American Works for Saxophone; works for Double Bass[vague]
Wojciech Kilar 1932 Polish Krzesany; Dracula (film music) holy minimalism
Richard Meale 1932 2009 Australian Voss avant-garde
Per Nørgård 1932 Danish Voyage into the Golden Screen
Rudi Martinus van Dijk 1932 2003 Dutch
Soe Nyunt 1932 2009 Burmese
Rodion Shchedrin 1932 Russian Lolita; 2 Symphonies; The Carmen Ballet; 6 piano concertos
Gilles Tremblay 1932 Canadian Sonorisation du Pavillon du Québec; Fleuves electronic music, serialism
John Williams 1932 American film scores, The Five Sacred Trees
Hugh Wood 1932 English Symphony; Cello Concerto; Piano Concerto; Violin Concerto No.1; Scenes from Comus symphonic serialism
Leonardo Balada 1933 Spanish-American 6 symphonies[vague]; 6 operas[vague] Avant-garde, later folk-influenced
Easley Blackwood, Jr. 1933 American polyrhythm, microtone
Justin Connolly 1933 British modernism
Ramiro Cortés 1933 1984 American serialism, atonality
Michael Brimer 1933 Australian
Walter Buczynski 1933 Canadian
Altaf Mahmud 1933 1971 Bangladeshi
Colin Brumby 1933 Australian
Seóirse Bodley 1933 Irish
István Láng 1933 Hungarian
Akira Miyoshi 1933 Japanese
Ton-That Tiet 1933 Vietnamese-French
Roland Trogan 1933 American
Pozzi Escot 1933 American
Henryk Górecki 1933 2010 Polish Symphony of Sorrowful Songs holy minimalism
Don Kay 1933 Australian
Justin Connolly 1933 British
Bo Linde 1933 1970 Swedish Neoromanticism
Antón García Abril 1933 Spanish
Krzysztof Penderecki 1933 Polish Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima; St. Luke Passion; Polish Requiem; Symphony No. 2: Christmas avant-garde, extended technique, later Neoromanticism
Yves Prin 1933 French Neo-impressionism
Harrison Birtwistle 1934 English The Mask of Orpheus
Arlene Zallman 1934 2006 American
Anthony Gilbert 1934 British
Alan Ridout 1934 1996 British
Gonzalo de Olavide 1934 2005 Spanish
Bernard Rands 1934 English
Nicole Lachartre 1934 1991 French
Alain Bancquart 1934 French
Paul Panhuysen 1934 Dutch
Benjamin Boretz 1934 American
Mario Davidovsky 1934 Argentine-American
Peter Maxwell Davies 1934 English Taverner, Eight Songs for a Mad King, Symphony No. 1, Symphony No. 3, Symphony No. 6, Strathclyde Concertos, Naxos Quartets
Pierre Ancelin 1934 2001 French
Vinko Globokar 1934 French
William Mathias 1934 1992 Welsh Let the people praise Thee, O God
Siegfried Matthus 1934 German Judith, Te Deum
Harrison Birtwistle 1934 British
Bernard Vitet 1934 French
Roger Reynolds 1934 American
Alfred Schnittke 1934 1998 Russian
Ramon Sender 1934 Spanish electronic music
Christian Wolff 1934 American Summer, for string quartet; Pebbles, for violin and piano indeterminacy
Derek Bell 1935 2002 Irish
John Eaton 1935 American microtonal music
Nigel Butterley 1935 Australian
Teiji Ito 1935 1982 Japanese
André Tchaikowsky 1935 1982 Polish
Kurt Schwertsik 1935 Austrian
Kazuko Hara 1935 Japanese
Elgar Howarth 1935 English
Giya Kancheli 1935 Georgian 7 symphonies holy minimalism
Helmut Lachenmann 1935 German Schwankungen am Rand; Gran Torso; Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern extended technique
Conrad Susa 1935 American
Diego Masson 1935 French
Samuel Jones 1935 American
Luis Advis 1935 2004 Chilean
François-Bernard Mâche 1935 French
Nicholas Maw 1935 2009 English Odyssey; The World in the Evening
Arvo Pärt 1935 Estonian Tabula Rasa; Fratres; Summa; Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten holy minimalism
Terry Riley 1935 American In C minimalism
Aulis Sallinen 1935 Finnish The King Goes Forth to France
Jiří Bárta 1935 2012 Czech Concerto for Orchestra
Vasif Adigozalov 1935 2006 Azerbaijani
Sandor Kalloś 1935 Russian
Mirjana Živković 1935 Serbian
Theodore Antoniou 1935 Greek
Pierre Mariétan 1935 2003 Swiss
Peter Schat 1935 2003 Dutch
La Monte Young 1935 American The Well-Tuned Piano minimalism, microtonal music, improvisation, Asian-music influence
Gilbert Amy 1936 French serialism, film music, electronic music
Izabella Arazova 1936 Armenian Concerto for Orchestra
Richard Rodney Bennett 1936 2012 English
David Blake 1936 British
Herbert Blendinger 1936 German-Austrian viola concerto, cantata Mdia in vita, string quartets also a violist
Harold Budd 1936 American avant-garde, ambient music
Cornelius Cardew 1936 1981 English Treatise; The Great Learning serialism, improvisation, aleatory
Daniel Goode 1936 American
Michel Decoust 1936 French
Aleksandar Džambazov 1936 Macedonian Rhapsody for Skopje, Seven dance variations for piano and orchestra
Iván Erőd 1936 Hungarian-Austrian opera Seidenraupen, song cycle Milchzahnlieder, piano trios
Malcolm Forsyth 1936 2011 Canadian
Éric Gaudibert 1936 2012 Swiss
Malcolm Goldstein 1936 American
Frans Geysen 1936 Belgian
Barbara Heller 1936 German
Takekuni Hirayoshi 1936 1998 Japanese
Maki Ishii 1936 2003 Japanese
Ladislav Kupkovič 1936 Slovak Vier Präparierter Texte Wandelkonzerte, historicism
Colin Mawby 1936 English Laudate Pueri Dominum; Requiem of Hope; The Quest
Anthony Payne 1936 English
Steve Reich 1936 American Piano Phase; Music for 18 Musicians minimalism
Aribert Reimann 1936 German Lear; Nahe Ferne; Wolkenloses Christfest
Elliott Schwartz 1936 American Equinox for orchestra
Robert Suderburg 1936 American Concerto, Within the Mirror of Time, for piano and orchestra; Chamber Music VII ("Ceremonies")
John White 1936 English Cello and Tuba Machine; 175 piano sonatas
Hans Zender 1936 German
Gérard Masson 1936 French
Olly Wilson 1937 American
Philip Ledger 1937 2012 British
Edward Applebaum 1937 American
Misha Geller 1937 2007 Russian Concerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra
Premasiri Khemadasa 1937 2008 Sri Lankan
John Ferritto 1937 2010 American
Lorant Hajdu 1937 Hungarian
Paul Méfano 1937 French
Keiko Abe 1937 Japanese
Rafig Babayev 1937 1994 Azerbaijani
Jan Bach 1937 American
Junsang Bahk 1937 South Korean
Osvaldas Balakauskas 1937 Lithuanian
David Bedford 1937 2011 British
Robert Moran 1937 American
David Behrman 1937 American
Azio Corghi 1937 Italian Divara–Wasser und Blut
Guy Woolfenden 1937 English
Marta Lambertini 1937 Argentine
Loris Tjeknavorian 1937 Iranian-Armenian
Jon Hassell 1937 American
Jean-Louis Petit 1937 French
David Del Tredici 1937 American Child Alice; Final Alice
Philip Glass 1937 American Violin Concerto; operas; 8 symphonies minimalism
Shamshi Kaldayakov 1937 1992 Kazakhstani
Walter Hekster 1937 2012 Dutch
Katherine Hoover 1937 American
Janet Beat 1937 Scottish
Nikolai Kapustin 1937 Russian
Gordon Crosse 1937 British
Edwin Roxburgh 1937 English
David Cornwall 1937 2006 American
Bo Nilsson 1937 Swedish
Valentin Silvestrov 1937 Ukrainian Symphony No. 5
Wang Xilin 1937 Chinese folk-influenced
Yehuda Yannay 1937 American-Israeli At the End of the Parade; Radiant Inner Light; Piano Concerto extended techniques, multimedia, postmodern
Maryanne Amacher 1938 2009 American
Virko Baley 1938 Ukrainian-American
Michel Rateau 1938 French
Bart Berman 1938 Dutch-Israeli
Glen Carter-Varney 1938 Australian
Paavo Heininen 1938 Finnish
Zygmunt Krauze 1938 Polish
Elizabeth R. Austin 1938 American
E. Clement Bethel 1938 1987 Bahamian
Howard Blake 1938 English
William Bolcom 1938 American Songs of Experience; Songs of Innocence
Hans-Joachim Hespos 1938 German
David Borden 1938 American
Paul Chihara 1938 American Shogun: The Musical
Gloria Coates 1938 American Music on Open Strings
John Corigliano 1938 American Symphony No. 2; A Dylan Thomas Trilogy; The Red Violin (film music) polystylism
Alvin Curran 1938 American For Cornelius; Songs and Views of the Magnetic Garden; Inner Cities
Jean-Claude Éloy 1938 French
Givi Gachechiladze 1938 Georgian
Calvin Hampton 1938 1984 American
John Harbison 1938 American The Great Gatsby
Jacques Hétu 1938 2010 Canadian
Tyzen Hsiao 1938 Taiwanese
Ashenafi Kebede 1938 1998 Ethiopian The Shepherd Flutist
Raja Hossain Khan 1938 Bangladeshi
Barton McLean 1938 American Rainforest Images (jointly composed with Priscilla McLean) postmodernist, ambient, drone, minimalist, musique concrète, computer music
Mesías Maiguashca 1938 Ecuadorian F-Melodies; Ayayayayay electronic music; spectralism
Douglas Leedy 1938 American
Michael Parsons 1938 English
Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee 1938 American
Frederic Rzewski 1938 American The People United Will Never Be Defeated!
Tona Scherchen 1938 Swiss
José Serebrier 1938 Uruguayan
Gregory Short 1938 1999 American
Yuji Takahashi 1938 Japanese
Dimitri Terzakis 1938 Greek
Joan Tower 1938 American Petroushskates; Concerto for Orchestra; Sequoia; Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman
Jan Vriend 1938 Dutch
Charles Wuorinen 1938 American Time's Encomium; 8 symphonies; chamber music twelve-tone technique, serialism
Charles Boone 1939 American
Leo Brouwer 1939 Cuban
James Willey 1939 American
Mikheil Kobakhidze 1939 Georgian
Louis Andriessen 1939 Dutch minimalism
Bruce Mather 1939 Canadian
José Antonio Abreu 1939 Venezuelan
Zsigmond Szathmáry 1939 Hungarian
Wendy Carlos 1939 American Switched-On Bach (Moog Synthesizer) Electronic music (original and transcriptions)
Jonathan Harvey 1939 2012 English Mortuos Plango Vivos Voco; Advaya; Bhakti; Wheel of Emptiness spectralism
Heinz Holliger 1939 Swiss Schneewittchen
Barbara Kolb 1939 American
Elinor Armer 1939 American
Jon Appleton 1939 American
Gian Paolo Chiti 1939 Italian
Nicolaus A. Huber 1939 German
Tom Johnson 1939 American
John McCabe 1939 English Chagall Windows; symphonies; ballets; string quartets
Tigran Mansurian 1939 Armenian
Arkady Luxemburg 1939 Moldovan
Tomáš Svoboda 1939 Czech-American Overture of the Season; Marimba Concerto; "Children's Treasure Box" piano series
Boris Tishchenko 1939 2010 Russian
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich 1939 American
Juraj Beneš 1940 2004 Slovak
Gary Lee Nelson 1940 American
Alexander Yossifov 1940 Bulgarian
Eleanor Hovda 1940 2009 American
Henry Flynt 1940 American
Margaret Brouwer 1940 American
Dieter Acker 1940 2006 German
Alden Jenks 1940 American
Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi 1940 Japanese
Peer Raben 1940 2007 German
Dan-Alexandru Voiculescu 1940 2009 Romanian
David C. Johnson 1940 American
Jorge Peixinho 1940 1995 Portuguese electronic music
Frank Zappa 1940 1993 American The Perfect Stranger; The Yellow Shark
Adrienne Albert 1941 American
Geoffrey Burgon 1941 2010 British
Stephen Albert 1941 1992 American Symphony No. 1: Riverrun
Anđelka Bego-Šimunić 1941 Bosnian neoclassicism
John Mitchell 1941 American
Philip Krumm 1941 American
Angelo Gilardino 1941 Italian
John Melby 1941 American
Kay Gardner 1941 American
Valeri Kikta 1941 Ukrainian
Richard Edward Wilson 1941 American
Konrad Boehmer 1941 Dutch
David Cope 1941 American
Johannes Fritsch 1941 2010 German
James Di Pasquale 1941 American
Antony le Fleming 1941 English
Derek Bourgeois 1941 English
Sorrel Hays 1941 American
Moya Henderson 1941 Australian Lindy
Adolphus Hailstork 1941 American
Judith Margaret Bailey 1941 English
Paul Alan Levi 1941 American
Emmanuel Nunes 1941 2012 Portuguese Machina Mundi; Quodlibet electronic music
Priscilla McLean 1942 American Rainforest Images (jointly composed with Barton McLean) postmodernist, ambient, drone, minimalist, musique concrète, computer music
Shigeaki Saegusa 1942 Japanese Piano Concerto avant-garde
Daniel Roth 1942 French
Meredith Monk 1942 American
Charles Dodge 1942 American electronic music, computer music
Birgitte Alsted 1942 Danish
John Cale 1942 Welsh
Volker David Kirchner 1942 German Gilgamesh; Missa Moguntina; Symphony No. 2 "Mythen"
John Barnes Chance 1942 1972 American Elegie; Variations on a Korean Folk Song
Jonathan Kramer 1942 2004 American postmodernism
Paul McCartney 1942 English Ecce Cor Meum member of Beatles
John McGuire 1942 American Pulse Music III; A Capella electronic music, fusion of serialism and minimalism, postminimalism
Tomás Marco 1942 Spanish Concierto 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
Viktor Suslin 1942 2012 Russian
David Padrós 1942 Catalan
Brian Cherney 1942 Canadian
Horațiu Rădulescu 1942 2008 Romanian/French six string quartets spectralism
Adel Kamel 1942 2003 Egyptian
Maki Asakawa 1942 2010 Japanese
Zoltán Jeney 1943 Hungarian
Solange Ancona 1943 French
Daniel Börtz 1943 Swedish
Joanna Bruzdowicz 1943 Polish
Gavin Bryars 1943 English Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet, Doctor Ox's Experiment
Shiro Miya 1943 2012 Japanese
David Matthews 1943 English
Eleanor Cory 1943 American
William Duckworth 1943 American
Alice Shields 1943 American
Hugues Dufourt 1943 French
Bruce MacCombie 1943 2012 American
Dennis Eberhard 1943 2005 American
Ross Edwards 1943 Australian
Udo Zimmermann 1943 German opera
Costin Miereanu 1943 French
Margriet Ehlen 1943 Dutch
Morten Lauridsen 1943 American vocal works
Julio Estrada 1943 Mexican
Brian Ferneyhough 1943 English Etudes Transcendantales New Complexity
Rolf Gehlhaar 1943 American Sub rosa; Five German Dances electronic music, sound installations
Heinz Karl Gruber 1943 Austrian Frankenstein!!, Charivari, Aerial
Faraj Garayev 1943 Azerbaijani
Tania León 1943 Cuban
Robin Holloway 1943 English
Bill Hopkins 1943 1981 English En Attendant; Sensation
Alexander Vustin 1943 Russian
Marta Ptaszynska 1943 Polish
Jerry Hunt 1943 1993 American
Ilaiyaraaja 1943 Indian How to Name it; Nothing but wind; Thiruvasagam -An Oratorio; The Music Messaih; India 24 hours; Indian Classical (Carnatic), Western classical, Fusion, Jazz, Indian folk
Bill McGlaughlin 1943 American Remembering Icarus; Walt Whitman's Dream
Krzysztof Meyer 1943 Polish 12 string quartets
Joseph Schwantner 1943 American Aftertones of Infinity; A Sudden Rainbow
Roger Smalley 1943 Australian (born English) Pulses; 2 piano concertos serialism, eclectic
Ivan Tcherepnin 1943 1998 French-American
Michael Vetter 1943 German Missa Universalis New Age, Zen-influenced
William Albright 1944 1998 American polystylistic
Gilbert Biberian 1944 British
Thomas Koppel 1944 2006 Danish avant-garde
Alison Bauld 1944 Australian
Barry Conyngham 1944 Australian
Christopher Gunning 1944 British
Willem Breuker 1944 2010 Dutch
Péter Eötvös 1944 Hungarian Love and Other Demons eclectic, extended technique, electronic music, folk-music influence
York Höller 1944 German Schwarze Halbinseln; Der Meister und Margarita electronic music, serialism, Gestalt composition
Karl Jenkins 1944 Welsh The Armed Man; Adiemus; Requiem
Lyell Cresswell 1944 New Zealander
John Hawkins 1944 2007 Canadian
John Fodi 1944 2009 Canadian
Pehr Henrik Nordgren 1944 2008 Finnish
Michael Nyman 1944 English The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Minimalism
Neely Bruce 1944 American postminimalist
Leif Segerstam 1944 Finnish
John Tavener 1944 English Holy minimalism
Charles Amirkhanian 1945 American
Clarence Barlow 1945 British-Portuguese
Thomas Wells 1945 American
Jacques Lenot 1945 French
Thomas Oboe Lee 1945 Chinese- American
Anthony Braxton 1945 American
Ole Buck 1945 Danish
Judith Clingan 1945 Australian
Štěpán Rak 1945 Czech
Graciela Agudela 1945 Mexican
Boudewijn Buckinx 1945 Belgian
Edward Gregson 1945 English
Ivan Karabyts 1945 2002 Ukrainian
Rauf Dhomi 1945 Kosovan
Fredric Kroll 1945 American
Judith Lang Zaimont 1945 American
Ahmed Achour 1945 Tunisian Concerto pour clarinette et orchestre
Shirish Korde 1945 American
Keith Jarrett 1945 American
Georges Aperghis 1945 Greek
Thomas Pasatieri 1945 American
Luca Lombardi 1945 Italian
Johnterryl Plumeri 1945 American
Doug Riley 1945 2007 Canadian
John Rutter 1945 English choral music
Barry Schrader 1945 American electro-acoustic
Barbara Benary 1946 German
Gilius van Bergeijk 1946 Dutch
Robert Boury 1946 American
Anne Boyd 1946 Australian
Martin Bresnick 1946 American
Geneviève Calame 1946 1993 Swiss
Suzanne Ciani 1946 Italian American electronic music
Peter Lieberson 1946 2011 American
Ulrich Leyendecker 1946 German
Pierre Even 1946 Luxembourgian
Michael Finnissy 1946 American
Zsolt Gárdonyi 1946 Hungarian German Magnificat, Mozart Changes (organ)
Janice Giteck 1946 American
Gérard Grisey 1946 1998 French Vortex temporum
Ann-Elise Hannikainen 1946 Finnish
Nicola Piovani 1946 Italian
Robert Xavier Rodriguez 1946 American
Richard St. Clair 1946 American The Lamentations of Shinran; Album of Ragtime Pieces for Piano; Love-Canzonettes for Chorus; Piano Sonatas Neoromanticism
Pēteris Vasks 1946 Latvian
Diderik Wagenaar 1946 Dutch
Ho Wai-On 1946 British
Tolib Shakhidi 1946 Tajik
Ladislav Kubík 1946 Czech-American
Renate Birnstein 1946 German
Dana Wilson 1946 American
Heinz Winbeck 1946 German
John Adams 1947 American Nixon in China; Harmonielehre; Shaker Loops, Short Ride in a Fast Machine; Violin Concerto Post-minimalism
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh 1947 Azerbaijani
Laurie Anderson 1947 American
Zarrina Mirshakar 1947 Tajik
Ruth Bakke 1947 Norwegian
Michel Chion 1947 French
Nikolai Korndorf 1947 2001 Russian and Canadian
Gwyneth Van Anden Walker 1947 American
Jack Gallagher 1947 American
Donald Grantham 1947 American
John S. Hilliard 1947 American Baron Cimetiere's Mambo
Tristan Murail 1947 French Gondwana spectral music
Morris Pert 1947 2010 Scottish
Barry Guy 1947 British
Grigoriy Korchmar 1947 Russian
Paul Patterson 1947 English
Karl Aage Rasmussen 1947 Danish
Anders Eliasson 1947 Swedish four symphonies
Jo Kondo 1947 Japanese
Salvatore Sciarrino 1947 Italian
Howard Skempton 1947 English
Jean-Yves Bosseur 1947 French
Liana Alexandra 1947 2011 Romanian
Emil Tabakov 1947 Bulgarian
Claude Baker 1948 American
Josef Bardanashvili 1948 Georgian
Gisèle Barreau 1948 French
Michael Berkeley 1948 English
Chester Biscardi 1948 Italian-American
Glenn Branca 1948 American avant-garde
Stephen Brown 1948 Canadian
Diana Burrell 1948 English
Brian Elias 1948 British
Brian Eno 1948 English ambient music, minimalism
Richard Festinger 1948 American
Mikko Heiniö 1948 Finnish
Bo Holten 1948 Danish
Jean Michel Jarre 1948 French
Kerstin Jeppsson 1948 Swedish
Theo Jörgensmann 1948 German
Marjan Mozetich 1948 Canadian

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Allen Shawn 1948 American
Julia Tsenova 1948 2010 Bulgarian Sinfonia con piano concertante; Endless Circle for string quintet; Musica Solitudinis; Four songs, to poems by Emily Dickinson
Claude Vivier 1948 1983 Canadian Kopernikus: Rituel de la Mort spectral music, Asian-music influence
Eleanor Alberga 1949 Jamaican
Kalevi Aho 1949 Finnish
Leonid Bobylev 1949 Russian Symphony (1985), Concerto for viola and string orchestra (1970)
John Casken 1949 English
Tim Hodgkinson 1949 English
Geoffrey Poole 1949 American
Chan Ka Nin 1949 Canadian
Rocco Di Pietro 1949 Italian
Michel Herr 1949 Belgian
Dan Locklair 1949 American
Stephen Paulus 1949 American Pilgrim's Hymn; The Road Home;
Michaël Levinas 1949 French
Christopher Rouse 1949 American Requiem; Karolju; Phantasmata; Gorgon; Oboe Concerto; 2 symphonies
Daniel Catán 1949 2011 Mexican Florencia en el Amazonas; Rappaccini's Daughter Neo-impressionism
Carlos Azevedo 1949 2012 Portuguese
Volodymyr Ivasyuk 1949 1979 Ukrainian
Masahiro Kawasaki 1949 2006 Japanese
Jaroslav Filip 1949 2000 Slovak
Theodore Papakonstantinou 1949 1970 Cypriot
Dean Drummond 1949 2013 American
Carol E Barnett 1949 American
Daniel Steven Crafts 1949 American
Poul Ruders 1949 Danish
Dave Smith 1949 English
Steven Stucky 1949 American Son et Lumière; Concerto for Orchestra No. 2; Rhapsodies; August 4, 1964
Kevin Volans 1949 South African Hunting Gathering
Philip Wilby 1949 British brass-band music
Beth Anderson 1950 American
Elena Firsova 1950 Russian The Nightingale and the Rose
Emmanuel Gyimah Labi 1950 Ghanaian
Robert Black 1950 1993 American
David B. Doty 1950 American
Gene Bowen 1950 American
Elodie Lauten 1950 American
Stephen Chatman 1950 Canadian
Joseph Pehrson 1950 American
Ernani Aguiar 1950 Brazilian
Libby Larsen 1950 American Marimba Concerto
Lepo Sumera 1950 2000 Estonian electro-acoustic music
Jay Reise 1950 American
Åse Hedstrøm 1950 Norwegian
Christopher Hobbs 1950 English
Arturo Márquez 1950 Mexican Danzón no. 2
William Sweeney 1950 Scottish folk-influenced
Howard J. Buss 1951 American Modern Times
Craig Russell 1951 American
Michael Blake 1951 South African French Suite
Richard Emsley 1951 British
Earl Howard 1951 American avant-garde
John Burke 1951 Canadian
Patrick Larley 1951 British
Nancy Galbraith 1951 American postmodern/postminimalist
Anthony Davis 1951 American
Lorenzo Ferrero 1951 Italian
Francisco Guerrero Marín 1951 1997 Spanish
Mona Lyn Reese 1951 American
Halina Harelava 1951 Belarusian
Paul Dresher 1951 American
Viera Janárceková 1951 Slovakian
Patricia Jünger 1951 Swiss-Austrian
Aivars Kalējs 1951 Latvian Neoromanticism
Michael Rosenzweig 1951 South African Symphony in One Movement; String Quartet No. 2
Doina Rotaru 1951 Romanian Concerto for clarinet and orchestra; Florilegium, concerto for flute and flutes orchestra; Wings of Light for 24 flutists
James Erber 1951 British
Huib Emmer 1951 Dutch
Takanori Arisawa 1951 2005 Japanese
Rafał Augustyn 1951 Polish
George Tsontakis 1951 American
Hans Abrahamsen 1952 Danish
Judith Bingham 1952 British
Max Beckschäfer 1952 German Michelangelo-Fragmente, vocal music also academic for music theory
Rhys Chatham 1952 American avant-garde, minimalism
Uzi Hitman 1952 2004 Israeli
Christian Lauba 1952 Tunisian born French The Lose Forest for ensemble of 12 saxophones, Neuf études pour saxophone
Qu Xiao-Song 1952 Chinese
Tatyana Sergeyeva 1952 Russian
Mark Carlson 1952 American
Tina Davidson 1952 American
Richard Einhorn 1952 American Voices of Light (oratorio); The Origin (opera/oratorio)
Reinhard Febel 1952 German opera Sekunden und Jahre des Caspar Hauser, Wolkenstein, Sinfonie
Heiner Goebbels 1952 German
David Carlson 1952 American
Roger Bourland 1952 American
Motoyuki Shitanda 1952 Japanese
Stephen Hartke 1952 American
Margriet Hoenderdos 1952 2010 Dutch
Scott Johnson 1952 American
Oliver Knussen 1952 British Where the Wild Things Are
Gerd Kühr 1952 German operas Stallerhof, Tod und Teufel
Philippe Manoury 1952 French 60th Parallel (opera), Pluton for piano and live electronics punctualism, computer-assisted composition
Simon Bainbridge 1952 British
Moshe Zorman 1952 Israeli
Dominic Muldowney 1952 English
Vladimir Dikanski 1952 Swedish
Alla Pavlova 1952 Russian
Wolfgang Rihm 1952 German 12 string quartets; Die Eroberung von Mexico (opera) New Simplicity, expressionism
Kaija Saariaho 1952 Finnish L’amour de loin; Adriana Mater; La Passion de Simone
Lev Konov 1952 Russian
Peter-Jan Wagemans 1952 Dutch
John Luther Adams 1953 American Various pieces inspired by Alaskan landscapes
Hans-Jürgen von Bose 1953 German Piano music
Tod Machover 1953 American
Stéphane Delplace 1953 French
Cornelis de Bondt 1953 Dutch
Jackson Kaujeua 1953 2010 Namibian
Wendy Mae Chambers 1953 American
Talabkhoja Sattorov 1953 2007 Tajik
Chen Yi 1953 Chinese
David Felder 1953 American
Andrew Culver 1953 American
Georg Friedrich Haas 1953 Austrian Double Concerto for accordion, viola and chamber ensemble, Concerto for violin and orchestra spectral music
Anthony Powers 1953 British
Jody Diamond 1953 American
Violeta Dinescu 1953 Romanian Der 35. Mai (children's opera)
He Xuntian 1953 Chinese
Maung Thit Min 1953 2011 Burmese
Alexander Raskatov 1953 Russian
René Eespere 1953 Estonian
Avril Anderson 1953 English
Lidia Zielińska 1953 Polish
Josefina Benedetti 1953 Venezuelan-American
Susan Morton Blaustein 1953 American
Daniel Asia 1953 American
Arnold Dreyblatt 1953 American
Denis Dufour 1953 French Notre besoin de consolation est impossible à rassasier, Bocalises, Messe à l'usage des vieillards
Patrick Ascione 1953 French Divertissement electroacoustic and acousmatic music
Vladimir Soltan 1953 1997 Belarusian
Roger Bellon 1953 French
Zhou Long 1953 Chinese
Nicolas Economou 1953 1993 Cypriot
Juhani Komulainen 1953 Finnish
David First 1953 American
Adriana Hölszky 1953 Romanian-German
Eibhlis Farrell 1953 Irish
Akira Nishimura 1953 Japanese
Peter Scott Lewis 1953 American
Wim Mertens 1953 Belgian The Belly of an Architect (incl. Struggle for Pleasure), Maximizing the Audience Minimalism
Roberto Sierra 1953 Puerto Rican Missa Latina
James Wood 1953 English Stoicheia, Ho shang Yao Microtonality, percussion, voice
Takashi Yoshimatsu 1953 Japanese Symphony No. 2
John Zorn 1953 American avant-garde
Richard Blackford 1954 English
Sylvie Bodorová 1954 Czech
Elisabetta Brusa 1954 Italian
Tobias Picker 1954 American
Stephen Jaffe 1954 American
Robert Carl 1954 American
Şerban Nichifor 1954 Romanian
Eric Ewazen 1954 American
Chan Wing-wah 1954 Chinese
Nicolas Collins 1954 American electronic music
Michael Daugherty 1954 American UFO
Paul Dirmeikis 1954 American Message laisse á Pondichéry le 18 novembre 1973 eclectic
Joël-François Durand 1954 French
Carl Vine 1954 Australian
René Wohlhauser 1954 Swiss
Elliot Goldenthal 1954 American
Irina Hasnaş 1954 Romanian
Birgit Havenstein 1954 German
Susan Frykberg 1954 New Zealander electroacoustic
Vladimír Hirsch 1954 Czech avantgarde
Denise Kelly 1954 Irish
Anders Hillborg 1954 Swedish
Brenda Hutchinson 1954 American
Arturo Rodas 1954 Franco-Ecuadorian Arcaica, a concerto for percussion & orchestra; 24.5 Preludes for piano; El Árbol de los Pájaros (The birds tree): opera "for the voice of the instruments" avant-garde, polystylism
Jan Sandström 1954 Swedish Motorbike Concerto, Es ist ein Ros entsprungen, Rekviem
Paweł Szymański 1954 Polish
Bob Chilcott 1955 British choral music
Pascal Dusapin 1955 French Perelà, uomo di fumo
Mark Edgley Smith 1955 2008 British
Roland Dyens 1955 Tunisian-French
Ludovico Einaudi 1955 Italian minimalism
Diamanda Galás 1955 Greek-American
Kyle Gann 1955 American Just intonation
Toshio Hosokawa 1955 Japanese Vision of Lear, Circulating Ocean, Voiceless Voice in Hiroshima Neo-impressionism
David A. Jaffe 1955 American "Silicon Valley Breakdown"; "The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World" computer music, folk-music-influenced
Olli Kortekangas 1955 Finnish
Ye Xiaogang 1955 Chinese
David Conte 1955 American
Juraj Filas 1955 Slovak
Pedro Luís Neves 1955 Portuguese
Tibor Szemző 1955 Hungarian
Naji Hakim 1955 Lebanese-French
Naji Hakim 1955 Lebanese-French
Gérard Pape 1955 American electronic music
Jukka Linkola 1955 Finnish
Michael Obst 1955 German Solaris electronic music
Bright Sheng 1955 Chinese The Silver River folk-influenced
Ian Venables 1955 English Songs of Eternity and Sorrow, Remember This
Eduardo Alonso-Crespo 1956 Argentine
Javier Álvarez 1956 Mexican Metro Chabacano, Temazcal
Makiko Kinoshita 1956 Japanese
Regina Harris Baiocchi 1956 American
Sally Beamish 1956 British
Richard Danielpour 1956 American Margaret Garner
Daniel Dorff 1956 American
Chiara Benati 1956 Italian
Anne Dudley 1956 English
Dror Elimelech 1956 Israeli
Kenneth Fuchs 1956 American
Oliver Schroer 1956 2008 Canadian
Guo Wenjing 1956 Chinese opera
Vladimír Godár 1956 Slovak
Michael Gordon 1956 American
Paul Phillips 1956 American
Iris ter Schiphorst 1956 German
Miguel Frasconi 1956 American
Philip Grange 1956 English
Madeleine Isaksson 1956 Swedish
Tim Brady 1956 Canadian
Jouni Kaipainen 1956 Finnish
Graeme Koehne 1956 Australian Inflight Entertainment (oboe concerto); Tivoli Dances
Leon Milo 1956 American TimeTexture - for piano and electronics electroacoustic music
Laurence Traiger 1956 American
Gheorghi Arnaoudov 1957 Bulgarian minimalism
Charles Roland Berry 1957 American
Camille Kerger 1957 Luxembourg
Linda Bouchard 1957 Canadian
Mary Ellen Childs 1957 American
Chaya Czernowin 1957 Israeli
Andrew Ford 1957 English-born Australian
Ellen Fullman 1957 American
Miguel del Águila 1957 Uruguayan-born American Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto, Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra, Concerto for Clarinet and 15 Instruments, Conga for Orchestra, Wind Quintet No. 2
Masamichi Amano 1957 Japanese
Pan Shiji 1957 Taiwanese String Quartet no.4
Cong Su 1957 Chinese
Regina Irman 1957 Swiss
Elena Kats-Chernin 1957 Australian
David Lang 1957 American The Little Match Girl Passion
Paul Moravec 1957 American Spiritdance; Chamber Symphony; Tempest Fantasy; The Time Gallery
Gerhard Präsent 1957 Austrian Himmelslicht; Missa minima; Trio intricato
Michael Glenn Williams 1957 American
Alexandre Danilevsky 1957 Russian-born French
James Clarke 1957 English
Zurab Nadarejshvili 1957 Georgian
Jorge Liderman 1957 2008 American
Gerhard Schedl 1957 2000 Austrian Slow, Cello Concerto
Tan Dun 1957 Chinese Water Passion after St. Matthew; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (film music) Extended technique, folk-influenced
Eve Beglarian 1958 American
Karl Gottfried Brunotte 1958 German
Andrew York 1958 American
Jay Alan Yim 1958 American
Jun Miyake 1958 Japanese
Oscar van Dillen 1958 Dutch
Akio Yasuraoka 1958 Japanese
Paul Elwood 1958 American
Suzanne Giraud 1958 French
Richard Kastle 1958 American Neoclassical
Hanna Havrylets' 1958 Ukrainian
Magnus Lindberg 1958 Finnish Kraft; Clarinet Concerto
Esa-Pekka Salonen 1958 Finnish LA Variations; Insomnia
Giulio Castagnoli 1958 Italian Concerto for Cello and Double Orchestra; Concerto for Piano and Orchestra; Missa Sancti Evasii
Hiroaki Zakōji 1958 1987 Japanese
Julia Wolfe 1958 American
Mark Kilstofte 1958 Albanian
Rafał Stradomski 1958 Polish
Thomas Simaku 1958 Albanian
Davide Zannoni 1958 Italian
Nigel Westlake 1958 Australian
Richard Barrett 1959 British
Vakhtang Kakhidze 1959 Georgian
Sebastian Currier 1959 American
Paul Doornbusch 1959 Australian computer music, electroacoustic music
Victor Rasgado 1959 Mexican
Steve Martland 1959 2013 English
Caroline Ansink 1959 Dutch
John Palmer 1959 British
James Harley 1959 Canadian
James MacMillan 1959 Scottish
Lucio Garau 1959 Italian
Ana Lara 1959 Mexican
Adina Izarra 1959 Venezuelan
James MacMillan 1959 Scottish The Sacrifice; Veni veni Emmanuel (percussion concerto); The Confession of Isobel Gowdie; St. John Passion; 3 symphonies
Vladimír Franz 1959 Czech
Alfio Fazio 1959 Italian
Shigeru Kan-no 1959 Japanese Play Station Cycles; Simulation Cycles
Erkki-Sven Tüür 1959 Estonian 6 symphonies; Violin Concerto; Piano Concerto; Searching for Roots
Karlheinz Essl junior 1960 Austrian
Maria de Alvear 1960 Spanish-German
George Benjamin 1960 English Sudden Time; Antara
Nigel Clarke 1960 English Samurai; The Miraculous Violin; Earthrise; Gagarin
Nathan Currier 1960 American Gaian Variations
Detlev Glanert 1960 German operas Leyla und Medjnun, Caligula, Solaris
Aaron Jay Kernis 1960 American Musica Instrumentalis, Colored Field
Julian Grant 1960 English
Georg Hajdu 1960 German
Osvaldo Golijov 1960 Argentine
Dirk Brossé 1960 Belgian
Annie Gosfield 1960 American
Sidney Corbett 1960 American
Alexander Shchetynsky 1960 Ukrainian
William Susman 1960 American Native New Yorker (film score); Marimba Montuño (solo); Camille (chamber ensmeble); Trailing Vortices (chamber orchestra); Fate of the Lhapa (film score) postminimalism
Mark-Anthony Turnage 1960 English Greek; 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
Irakli Charkviani 1961 2006 Georgian
Lowell Liebermann 1961 American
Ana-Maria Avram 1961 Romanian spectral music
Unsuk Chin 1961 South Korean Alice in Wonderland; Violin Concerto; Fantasie mécanique; Cantatrix Sopranica
Marc-André Dalbavie 1961 French
Nailia Galiamova 1961 Uzbekistani
Lucio Gregoretti 1961 Italian
John Burge 1961 Canadian
Jorge Grundman 1961 Spanish
Daron Hagen 1961 American
Jake Heggie 1961 American Dead Man Walking
Hanna Kulenty 1961 Polish Ad Unum, Breathe, The Mother of Black Winged-Dreams, Trumpet Concerto, String Quartet No. 4
Peter Machajdík 1961 Slovak / German Namah; Double Bayan Concerto; Farewell Fanfares; Lasea; Nell'autunno del suo abbraccio insonne postminimalism, electronic music
Alo Mattiisen 1961 1996 Estonian
Erica Muhl 1961 American Consolation
Michael Torke 1961 American "Vanada"; Javelin; Rapture (percussion concerto); Ecstatic Orange
Roman Turovsky-Savchuk 1961 Ukrainian/American Tombeau for Omelyan Kovch historicist–Neo-Baroque
Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah 1962 Egypt Die Wunderzahl, String Quartet No. 2 "Monamnamat" electroacoustic, postmodernism
Michael Abels 1962 American Global Warming
Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf 1962 German
Surendran Reddy 1962 2010 South African
Carl Faia 1962 American
Kaoru Wada 1962 Japanese
Stefano Gervasoni 1962 Italian
Arne Eigenfeldt 1962 Canadian
Sylvia Constantinidis 1962 Venezuelan-American
Jennifer Higdon 1962 American
Rudi Spring 1962 German Heimkunft, Chamber Symphonies, song cycles
Graham Waterhouse 1962 English Piccolo Quintet, Three Pieces for Solo Cello, Gestural Variations
Sandeep Bhagwati 1963 Indian opera Ramanujan
Michael Zev Gordon 1963 British
Sophie Lacaze 1963 French
Svante Henryson 1963 Swedish
Shinkichi Mitsumune 1963 Japanese
Fausto Romitelli 1963 2004 Italian
Hana Vejvodová 1963 1994 Czech Brass Quintet
Michel Bosc 1963 French
Graham Fitkin 1963 British
Edson Zampronha 1963 Brazilian Lamenti, Recycling Collaging Sampling, Concert for Piano N.1, Modelagem X-a
Calliope Tsoupaki 1963 Greek
Philip Cashian 1963 British
John Pickard 1963 British
Judy Dunaway 1964 American avant-garde
Scott Boerma 1964 American
Javier Parrado 1964 Bolivian
Luca Belcastro 1964 Italian
Jun Nagao 1964 Japanese
Cristian Pațurcă 1964 2011 Romanian
Gregers Brinch 1964 Danish
Marco Betta 1964 Italian
Boris Böhmann 1964 German
Julia Gomelskaya 1964 Ukrainian
Fiona Joy Hawkins 1964 Australian
Richard Rijnvos 1964 Dutch Block Beuys
Irina Bogushevskaya 1965 Russian
Zana Clarke 1965 Australian
Moritz Eggert 1965 German
Yuki Kajiura 1965 Japanese
Yuri Khanon 1965 Russian The Shagreen Bone, The Symphony of Dogs, The Middle Symphony
Agonia Dei, What Zarathustra Said Indeed		 polystylism, neoclassicism
Thierry Escaich 1965 French
Gordon McPherson 1965 Scottish
Bernd Redmann 1965 German opera Die Gehetzten, orchestra Fiasko, chamber Migrant
Georgia Spiropoulos 1965 Greek Klama, for mixed choir & live electronics Avant-garde
Mats Wendt 1965 Swedish Eddan–The Invincible Sword of the Elf-Smith
Nicholas Frances Chase 1966 Arab-American
Juan María Solare 1966 Argentine
Roberto Carnevale 1966 Italian Linae (1992–1995)
Juan J. Colomer 1966 Spanish La complicidad del espectro
Jan Müller-Wieland 1966 German operas Gastspiel, Komödie ohne Titel, Das Märchen der 672. Nacht
John Psathas 1966 New Zealand music for the Olympic–Athens 2004 for full orchestra and choir
Jens Josef 1967 German Musik für Flöte(n), Viola und Kontrabass, chamber music
Alberto Posadas 1967 Spanish
Andreas Kunstein 1967 Dutch
Eric Qin 1967 1993 American experimental music
Salvatore Di Vittorio 1967 Italian
Mark Applebaum 1967 American
Julian Anderson 1967 British
Jun Yamaguchi 1967 Japanese
Amos Elkana 1967 Israeli
Derek Bermel 1967 American
Olli Mustonen 1967 Finnish
Francisco Lara 1968 Spanish
Joe Cutler 1968 British
Jens Joneleit 1968 German operas Der Brand, Piero &‐ Ende der Nacht, Metanoia. Über das Denken hinaus
Olga Neuwirth 1968 Austrian avant-garde
Laura Andel 1968 Argentine
Alwynne Pritchard 1968 British
Johannes Kretz 1968 Austrian
Roxanna Panufnik 1968 English
Nicola Campogrande 1969 Italian
Johanna Doderer 1969 Austrian opera
Andrea Cera 1969 Italian electroacoustic
Yannis Kyriakides 1969 Cypriot
Roy Zu-Arets 1969 American-Israeli
Jocelyn Morlock 1969 Canadian
Patrick Nunn 1969 British
Ciarán Farrell 1969 Irish
Pierre Kolp 1969 Belgian avant-garde
David Bruce 1970 British-American
Sara Carvalho 1970 Portuguese
Graziella Concas 1970 Italian
Rodolfo Acosta 1970 Colombian
Donnacha Dennehy 1970 Irish
Daniel Felsenfeld 1970 American Insomnia Redux
Fazıl Say 1970 Turkish
Michel van der Aa 1970 Dutch After Life
Eric Whitacre 1970 American Cloudburst, Lux Aurumque, Water Night choral music
Thomas Adès 1971 English Powder Her Face; Asyla; Traced Overhead
Carlo Forlivesi 1971 Italian Requiem
Michael Hersch 1971 American Symphony No. 1; Fracta; Arraché
Richard Causton 1971 English
Klaus Lang 1971 Austrian
Yoshino Aoki 1971 Japanese
Takatomi Nobunaga 1971 Japanese String Quartet
Guto Puw 1971 Welsh
Paweł Mykietyn 1971 Polish
Natasha Barrett 1972 British electroacoustic
Bappa Mazumder 1972 Bangladeshi
Tomomi Adachi 1972 Japanese
Hiba Kawas 1972 Lebanese
André Ristic 1972 Canadian
Kristoffer Zegers 1973 Dutch
Lera Auerbach 1973 Russian
Mindia Khitarishvili 1973 Georgian
Attila Szervác 1973 Hungarian
Fred Jonny Berg 1973 Norwegian
J. Ryan Garber 1973 American Parabolisms; Resonances
Nihad Hrustanbegovic 1973 Bosnian - Dutch Stork suite; Sevdah Medieval Rhapsody Minimalism, film music, improvisation
Jörg Widmann 1973 Germany The Face in the Mirror (opera); string quartets
Derek Charke 1974 Canadian Falling from Cloudless Skies; Tundra Songs
Marek Brezovský 1974 1994 Slovak
Julian Cochran 1974 English-born Australian
Tim Benjamin 1975 Anglo-French
Đuro Živković 1975 Serbian-Swedish
Olesya Rostovskaya 1975 Russian Concert for oboe
Bongani Ndodana-Breen 1975 South African
Avner Dorman 1975 Israeli
Svitlana Azarova 1976 Ukrainian Dutch Beyond Context (chamber orchestra)
Pritom Ahmed 1976 Bangladeshi
Tomi Räisänen 1976 Finnish Piano Concerto; Stheno
Tarateño Rojas 1977 Bolivian
Frederik Magle 1977 Danish Concerto for organ and orchestra
Wu Fei 1977 Chinese She Huo
Daniel Hensel 1978 German Chant of consecrated life
Jimmy Lopez 1978 Peruvian Arco de luz
Tarik O'Regan 1978 British-American
Mehdi Hosseini 1979 Iranian
Christophe Bertrand 1981 2010 French
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