Suvarna Garge (Editor)

List of modernist composers

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit

Lists of composers by philosophical stance: modernist composers

Contents

Austria

  • Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) (Webster 2008, 285)
  • Gustav Mahler (1860–1911) (Frisch 2005, 182–85, 203–13; Gagné 2012, 178)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) (Taruskin 2010, Vol. 4, 449)

    • Russia/Soviet Union

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

    • Second Viennese school

  • Alban Berg (1885–1935) (Ashby 2004a, 8; Ashby 2004b, 351)
  • Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) (Ashby 2004a, 8; Whitesell 2004, 104)
  • Anton Webern (1883–1945)

    • Germany

  • Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) (Clapp 1916, passim)
  • Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) (Purdy 2010, 278)
  • Georg Böhm (1661–1733) (Hanley 1954, 293)
  • Paul Hindemith (1895–1963) (Ashby 2004a, 8; Gagné 2012, 178; Rifkin 2006, 134, 157)
  • Hans Pfitzner (1869–1949) (Frisch 2005, 244–52)
  • Max Reger (1873–1916) (Dahlhaus 1989, 335; Frisch 2005, 139, 149, 150–54, 168–72)
  • Franz Schreker (1878–1934) (Dahlhaus 1989, 335)
  • Richard Strauss (1864–1949) (Dahlhaus 1989, 335; Frisch 2005, 214–44; Whitesell 2004, 103)
  • Johann Gottfried Walther (1684–1748) (Hanley 1954, 289)
  • Alexander Zemlinsky (1871–1942) (Dahlhaus 1989, 335)

    • Finland

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

    • France

  • Pierre Boulez (1925–2016) (Bauer 2001, 121) (Also described as a postmodern composer)
  • Claude Debussy (1862–1918) (Gagné 2012, 178)
  • Gabriel Fauré (Rifkin 2006, 134)
  • André Jolivet (1905–1974) (Gagné 2012, 146)
  • Arthur Honegger (Rifkin 2006, 134)
  • Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992) (Gagné 2012, 178)
  • Darius Milhaud (1892–1974) (Gagné 2012, 178)
  • Francis Poulenc (Rifkin 2006, 133–34, 141–43)
  • Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) (Gagné 2012, 178)
  • Erik Satie (1866–1925) (Gagné 2012, 178)
  • Edgard Varèse (1883–1965) (Gagné 2012, 178)

    • Italy

  • Luciano Berio (1925–2003) (Wilmotte 1994, passim) (Also described as a postmodern composer)
  • Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924) (Frisch 2005, 139)
  • Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) (Tommasini 2007; Werder 1965; Whenham 1997, 36)
  • Salvatore Sciarrino (1947- ) (Gagné 2012, 178)

    • Hungary

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

    • Poland

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

    • Scotland

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

    • United States

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

    • England

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

    • References

    List of modernist composers Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA