Contemporary Composers
Our list of
contemporary composers fills a void on the web:
contemporary music information with a chronological
perspective.
The Chronological List arranges
composers by date of birth, giving us
a starting point for a perspective of the flow of new music
through the
19th, 20th and 21st centuries. And each composer's page
lists works both chronologically and by genre, letting us see the
placement
of individual works in the bigger picture of a composer's entire output
- and, exponentially, in the even larger frame of the flow of music
through our time. Works that are highly regarded have been highlighted, to act
as starting points for musical explorations ~ EXPLORE,
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A Chonological List
Born . . . 1850 - 1875 1876 - 1900 1901 - 1925 1926 - 1950 1951 - 1975 1976 - 2008
Contemporary Composers - An Alphabetical List
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Contemporary Composers - Continued . . .
Composers in Selected States
Film Composers
Award Winning Composers
Contemporary Composer Collectives and Associations
born . . . 1850 - 1875
Leos Janácek (1854-1928), Czech
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), French
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), Finnish
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931), Danish
Vladimir Rebikov (1866-1920), Russian
Erik Satie (1866-1925), French
Scott Joplin (1868-1917), American
Albert Roussel (1869-1937), French
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), English
Gustav Holst (1874-1934), English
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), Austrian
Charles Ives (1874-1954), American
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), French
born . . . 1876 - 1900
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946), Spanish
André Caplet (1878-1925), French
Béla Bartók (1881-1945), Hungarian
Percy Grainger (1882-1961), Australian-American
Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967), Hungarian
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Russian
Alfredo Casella (1883-1947), Italian
Edgard Varèse (1883-1965), American
Anton Webern (1883-1945), Austrian
Alban Berg (1885-1935), Austrian
Wallingford Riegger (1885-1961), American
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959), Brazilian
Max Steiner (1888-1971), Austrian-American
Jacques Ibert (1890-1962), French
Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959), Czech
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), Russian-Soviet
Arthur Honegger (1892-1955), Swiss
Ferde Grofé (1892-1972), American
Robert Russell Bennett (1894-1981), American
Walter Piston (1894-1976), American
Dimitri Tiomkin (1894-1979), Ukranian-American
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963), German
Carl Orff (1895-1982), German
Roger Sessions (1896-1985), American
Virgil Thomson (1896-1989), American
Henry Cowell (1897-1965), American
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), Austrian
Ernst Bacon (1898-1990), American
George Gershwin (1898-1937), American
Roy Harris (1898-1979), American
Georges Auric (1899-1983), French
Carlos Chávez (1899-1978), Mexican
Jon Leifs (1899-1968), Icelandic
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), French
Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940), Mexican
Aaron Copland (1900-1990), American
Otto Luening (1900-1996), American
Colin McPhee (1900-1964), Canadian-American
Kurt Weill (1900-1983), German
born . . . 1901 - 1925
Gerald Finzi (1901-1956), English
Alfred Newman (1901-1970), American
Harry Partch (1901-1974), American
Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999), Spanish
Richard Rodgers (1902-1979), American
William Walton (1902-1983), British
Stefan Wolpe (1902-1972), German/Jewish/American
Richard Addinsell (1904-1977), British
Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975), Italian
André Jolivet (1905-1974), French
Miriam Gideon (1906-1996), American
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), Soviet-Russian
Louise Talma (1906-1996), American
Franz Waxman (1906-1967), Jewish-German-American
M. Camargo Guarnieri (1907-1993), Brazilian
Jean Langlais (1907-1991), French
Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994), English
Miklos Rozsa (1907-1995), Hungarian-American
Leroy Anderson (1908-1975), American
Jean Coulthard (1908-2000), Canadian
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), French
Elliott Carter (1908- ), American
Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969), Polish
Samuel Barber (1910-1981), American
Alex North (1910-1991), American
Pierre Schaeffer (1910-1995), French
William Schuman (1910-1992), American
Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975), American
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000), Armenian-American
Gian Carlo Menotti (1911- ), Italian-American
Nino Rota (1911-1979), Italian
Vladimir Ussachevsky (1911-1990), Russian-American
Arthur Berger (1912-2003), American
John Cage (1912-1992), American
Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-1990), Australian
David Raksin (1912-2004), American
Benjamin Britten (1913- 1976), English
Norman Dello Joio (1913-2008), American
Witold Lutosławski (1913-1994), Polish
Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991), Polish
Douglas Lilburn (1915-2001), Australian
Milton Babbitt (1916-2011), American
Henri Dutilleux (1916- ), French
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983), Argentinian
Lou Harrison (1917-2003), American
Isang Yun (1917-1995), Korean-German
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), American
George Rochberg (1918-2005), American
Earl Kim (1920-1998), American
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992), Argentinian
Karel Husa (1921- ), Czech-American
Elmer Bernstein (1922-2004), American
Kazimierz Serocki (1922-1981), Polish
Iannis Xenakis (1922- ), Greek
György Ligeti (1923-2006), Hungarian
Maurice Jarre (1924- ), French
Benjamin Lees (1924-2010), American
Leonard Rosenman (1924-2008), American
Robert Starer (1924-2001), Austrian-American
Luciano Berio (1925- ), Italian
Pierre Boulez (1925- ), French
Mikis Theodorakis (1925- ), Greek
born . . . 1926 - 1950
Earle Brown (1926-2002), American
Manuel Enríquez (1926-1994), Mexican
Morton Feldman (1926-1987), American
Clermont Pépin (1926-2006), Canadian
Marga Richter (1926- ), American
Dominick Argento (1927- ), American
Pierre Henry (1927- ), French
Richard Maxfield (1927-1969), American
Samuel Adler (1928- ), American
Tadeusz Baird (1928-1981), Polish
Karl Korte (1928- ), American
Ennio Morricone (1928- ), Italian
Thea Musgrave (1928- ), Scottish
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007), German
George Crumb (1929- ), American
Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), American
Charles Knox (1929- ), American
Robert Muczynski (1929- ), American
Peter Sculthorpe (1929- ), Australian
David Amram (1930- ), American
Jacqueline Fontyn (1930- ), Belgian
Tōru Takemitsu (1930-1996), Japanese
Nancy Van de Vate (1930- ), American
Nancy Bloomer Deussen (1931- ), American
Sofia Gubaidulina (1931- ), Soviet
Alvin Lucier (1931- ), American
François Bayle (1932- ), Madagascar/French
Michael Colgrass (1932- ), American
Wojciech Kilar (1932- ), Polish
John Williams (1932- ), American
John Barry (1933-2011), English
John H. Beck (1933- ), American
Seóirse Bodley (1933- ), Irish
Henryk Górecki (1933-2010), Polish
Krystof Penderecki (1933- ), Polish
R. Murray Schafer (1933- ), Canadian
Morton Subotnick (1933- ), American
William Mathias (1934-1992), Welch
Peter Maxwell Davies (1934- ), British
Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998), Russian-Soviet
Arvo Pärt (1935- ), Estonian
Mitchell Peters (1935- ), American
Terry Riley (1935- ), American
Aulis Sallinen (1935- ), Finnish
Peter Schickele (1935- ), American
Kurt Schwertsik (1935- ), Austrian
Richard Rodney Bennett (1936- ), English
Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981), English
Steve Reich (1936- ), American
Vivian Adelberg Rudow (1936- ), American
Elliott Schwartz (1936- ), American
Delia Derbyshire (1937-2001), English
Brian Fennelly (1937- ), American
Philip Glass (1937- ), American
Benjamín Gutiérrez (1937- ), Costa Rican
Katherine Hoover (1937- ), American
Nikolai Kapustin (1937- ), Soviet-Russian
Ann Southam (1937-2010), Canadian
Elizabeth R. Austin (1938- ), American
William Bolcom (1938- ), American
Gloria Coates (1938- ), American
John Corigliano (1938- ), American
John Harbison (1938- ), American
Jacques Hétu (1938-2010), Canadian
Frederic Rzewski (1938- ), American
Joan Tower (1938- ), American
Hubert Bird (1939- ), American
Leo Brouwer (1939- ), Cuban
Don Dilworth (1939- ), American
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (1939- ), American
Margaret Brouwer (1940 - ), American
Frank Zappa (1940-1993), American
Adrienne Albert (1941- ), American
Johannes Fritsch (1941- ), German
Rudolf Růžička (1941- ), Czech
Elizabeth Vercoe (1941- ), American
Brian Cherney (1942- ), Canadian
Ulf Grahn (1942- ), Swedish
David Maslanka (1943- ), American
Gay Pearson (1943- ), American
Marta Ptaszyńska (1943- ), Polish-American
Alice Shields (1943- ), American
Karl Jenkins (1944- ), Welsh
Michael Nyman (1944- ), British
John Rea (1944- ), Canadian
John Tavener (1944- ), British
John Rutter (1945- ), British
Laurie Spiegel (1945- ), American
Judith Zaimont (1945- ), American
David Avshalomov (1946- ), American
Peter Lieberson (1946- ), American
Howard Shore (1946- ), Canadian
Marilyn Shrude (1946- ), American
Richard St. Clair (1946- ), American
Harold Stover (1946- ), American
Pēteris Vasks (1946- ), Latvian
John Adams (1947- ), American
Don Freund (1947- ), American
David Gillingham (1947- ), American
Michael Horwood (1947- ), Canadian-American
William Ortiz-Alvarado (1947- ), Puerto Rican
Paul Schoenfield (1947- ), American
Barry Truax (1947- ), Canadian
Joseph Turrin (1947- ), American
Gwyneth Walker (1947- ), American
Claude Baker (1948- ), American
Bernadette Speach (1948- ), American
Ayser Vançin (1948- ), Turkish
James Barnes (1949- ), American
Dennis Báthory-Kitsz (1949- ), American
Dan Locklair (1949- ), American
Stephen Paulus (1949- ), American
Shulamit Ran (1949- ), Israeli-American
Christopher Rouse (1949- ), American
Fred Frith (1949- ), English
Alexina Louie (1949- ), Canadian
Judith Shatin (1949- ), American
Steven Stucky (1949- ), American
Kevin Volans (1949- ), South African
Meira Warshauer (1949- ), American
Rain Worthington (1949- ), American
Beth Anderson (1950- ), American
Tom Flaherty (1950- ), American
Barbara Harbach (1950- ), American
Libby Larsen (1950- ), American
Boris Levenberg (1950- ), Israeli
Arturo Márquez (1950- ), Mexican
Bill Matthews (1950- ), American
Michael Schelle (1950- ), American
born . . . 1951 - 1975
Jesse Ayers (1951- ), American
Philip Carlsen (1951- ), American
Stephen Cohn (1951- ), American
Cecilia McDowall (1951- ), English
George Tsontakis (1951- ), American
Alejandro Viñao (1951- ), Argentinian
Robert Wendel (1951- ), American
Lee Actor (1952- ), American
Tina Davidson (1952- ), American
Robert Gans (1952- ), American
Lee Hyla (1952- ), American
Qu Xiao-Song (1952- ), Chinese
Wolfgang Rihm (1952- ), German
Ney Rosauro (1952- ), Brazilian
Steven Rosenhaus (1952- ), American
Kaija Saariaho (1952- ), Finnish
Reza Vali (1952- ), Iranian
John Luther Adams (1953- ), American
Danny Elfman (1953- ), American
David Felder (1953- ), American
Stan Grill (1953- ), American
Giorgio Koukl (1953- ), Czech
Anne LeBaron (1953- ), American
Cindy McTee (1953- ), American
Chen Yi (1953- ), Chinsese
Zhou Long (1953- ), Chinese
Robert Beaser (1954- ), American
Michael Daugherty (1954- ), American
Ge Gan-ru (1954- ), Chinese
Gary Kulesha (1954- ), Canadian
Ofer Ben-Amots (1955- ), Israeli-American
Behzad Ranjbaran (1955- ), Iranian
Tracey Rush (1955- ), American
Bright Sheng (1955- ), Chinese
Javier Alvarez (1956- ), Mexican
Richard Danielpour (1956- ), American
Daniel Dorff (1956- ), American
Michael Gordon (1956- ), American
Mark Gresham (1956- ), American
Nancy Gunn (1956- ), American
Graeme Koehne (1956- ), Australian
Andrew List (1956- ), American
Christopher John Marshall (1956- ), New Zealander
David Sartor (1956- ), American
Kile Smith (1956- ), American
Greg Bartholomew (1957- ), American
David Lang (1957- ), American
Paul Moravec (1957- ), American
Tan Dun (1957- ), Chinese
Melinda Wagner (1957- ), American
Michael Glenn Williams (1957- ), American
Gernot Wolfgang (1957- ), Austrian-American
Hans Zimmer (1957- ), German
Iva Bittová (1958- ), Czech
Mark Ford (1958- ), American
Magnus Lindberg (1958- ), Finnish
Zbyněk Matějů (1958- ), Czech
Robert McCauley (1958- ), American
David Rakowski (1958), American
Frank Ticheli (1958- ), American
Julia Wolfe (1958- ), American
Brad Ciechomski (1959- ), American
Lawrence Dillon (1959- ), American
Elaine Fine (1959- ), American
Gregory Hall (1959- ), American
Steve Martland (1959- ), English
Tom Myron (1959- ), American
Beth Wiemann (1959- ), American
Evan Ziporyn (1959- ), American
Osvaldo Golijov (1960- ), Argentine
Annie Gosfield (1960- ), American
Karl Henning (1960- ), American
Aaron Jay Kernis (1960- ), American
Rachel Portman (1960- ), British
António Chagas Rosa (1960- ), Portuguese
Richard O. Burdick (1961- ), American
David Gaines (1961- ), American
Daron Hagen (1961- ), American
Elizabeth Hoffman (1961- ), American
Lowell Liebermann (1961- ), American
Timothy Miller (1961- ), American
Karen Tanaka (1961- ), Japanese
Susan Botti (1962- ), American
Jonathan Elliott (1962- ), American
Jennifer Higdon (1962- ), American
Alexandros Mouzas (1962- ), Greek
Bruce Roter (1962- ), American
Andersen Viana (1962- ), Brazilian
Elena Ruehr (1963- ), American
Gia Comolli (1965- ), American
Anna-Lena Laurin (1962- ), Swedish
Alex Shapiro (1962- ), American
Manuel Rocha Iturbide (1963- ), Mexican
Federico Schumacher (1963- ), Chilean
Edson Zampronha (1963- ), Brazilian
George Grella (1964- ), American
Augusta Read Thomas (1964- ), American
Ted Vives (1964- ), American
Charlotte Seither (1965- ), German
Jonathan Golove (1966- ), American
Dorothy Hindman (1966- ), American
Don Pride (1966- ), American
John Psathas (1966- ), New Zealander
Derek Bermel (1967- ), American
Alexandra Gardner (1967- ), American
Juliet Kiri Palmer (1967- ), New Zealand-Canadian
Christopher Theofanidis (1967- ), American
Geoffrey Gordon (1968- ), American
Ramon Lazkano (1968- ), Spanish Basque
Paweł Łukaszewski (1968- ), Polish
Roxanna Panufnik (1968- ), British
Victoria Borisova-Ollas (1969- ), Russian
Dmitri Tymoczko (1969- ), American
Karim Al-Zand (1970- ), Canadian-American
Karen Amrhein (1970- ), American
Robert Bradshaw (1970- ), American
Tarik Ghiradella (1970- ), American
James Matheson (1970- ), American
Daniel Sonenberg (1970- ), American
Ken Ueno (1970- ), American
Michel van der Aa (1970- ), Netherlands
Aleksandra Vrebalov (1970- ), Serbian
Stefan Weisman (1970- ), American
Eric Whitacre (1970- ), American
Ezio Bosso (1971- ), Italian
Michael Rose (1971- ), American
Gabriela Lena Frank (1972- ), American
Rocco Havelaar (1972- ), Dutch
Amy Beth Kirsten (1972- ), American
Albert Schnelzer (1972- ), Swedish
Kenji Bunch (1973- ), American
Da Jeong Choi (1973- ), Korean
Patrício da Silva (1973- ), Portuguese
Tansy Davies (1973- ), British
Amy Scurria (1973- ), American
Paul Witney (1973- ), Australian
Delvyn Case (1974- ), American
Edward Ficklin (1974- ), American
Dean Rosenthal (1974- ), American
Heather Schmidt (1974- ), Canadian
Rune Søchting (1974- ), Danish
Dalit Warshaw (1974- ), American
Kati Agócs (1975- ), Canadian
Oscar Carmona (1975- ), Chilean
Jon Forshee (1975- ), American
Mikael Karlsson (1975- ), Swedish
Stefan Klaverdal (1975- ), Swedish
Nathan Kolosko (1975- ), American
David Morneau (1975- ), American
Robert Rival (1975- ), Canadian
born . . . 1976 - 2008
Svitlana Azarova (1976- ), Ukrainian
Kinan Azmeh (1976- ), Syrian
David Fennessy (1976- ), Irish
Mirjam Tally (1976- ), Estonian
Mason Bates (1977- ), American
Cheng Chin Man (1977- ), Chinese
Joshua DeScherer (1977- ), American
Todd Goodman (1977- ), American
Maija Hynninen (1977- ), Finnish
Eli Marshall (1977- ), American
Kala Pierson (1977- ), Amercian
Gyan Riley (1977- ), American
J. Anthony Allen (1978- ), American
Robin Jellis (1978- ), American
David T. Little (1978- ), American
Bojana Šaljić-Podešva (1978- ), Slovenian
Judd Greenstein (1979- ), American
Ricardo Romaneiro (1979- ), Brazilian
John Aylward (1980- ), American
Elliott Bark (1980- ), Korean-American
Missy Mazzoli (1980- ), American
Edward Wright (1980- ), English
Jakub Ciupinski (1981- ), Polish
Ryan Anthony Francis (1981- ), American
David Skidmore (1982- ), American
Jeni Hawkswell (1983- ), British
Patrick Harlin (1984- ), American
Sarah Horick (1984- ), American
Contemporary Composers - A Chonological List
Born . . . 1850 - 1875 1876 - 1900 1901 - 1925 1926 - 1950 1951 - 1975 1976 - 2008
And you can find more composer listings at:
Contemporary Composers - An Alphabetical List
Contemporary Composers - Continued . . .
Composers in Selected States
Film Composers
Award Winning Composers
Contemporary Composer Collectives and Associations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Lee Actor (1952- ), American
John Adams (1947- ), American
John Luther Adams (1953- ), American
Richard Addinsell (1904-1977), British
Samuel Adler (1928- ), American
Kati Agócs (1975- ), Canadian
Adrienne Albert (1941- ), American
J. Anthony Allen (1978- ), American
Javier Alvarez (1956- ), Mexican
Karim Al-Zand (1970- ), Canadian-American
David Amram (1930- ), American
Karen Amrhein (1970- ), American
Beth Anderson (1950- ), American
Leroy Anderson (1908-1975), American
Dominick Argento (1927- ), American
Georges Auric (1899-1983), French
Elizabeth R. Austin (1938- ), American
David Avshalomov (1946- ), American
Jesse Ayers (1951- ), American
John Aylward (1980- ), American
Svitlana Azarova (1976- ), Ukrainian
Kinan Azmeh (1976- ), Syrian
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Milton Babbitt (1916-2011), American
Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969), Polish
Ernst Bacon (1898-1990), American
Tadeusz Baird (1928-1981), Polish
Claude Baker (1948- ), American
Samuel Barber (1910-1981), American
Elliott Bark (1980- ), Korean-American
James Barnes (1949- ), American
John Barry (1933-2011), English
Greg Bartholomew (1957- ), American
Béla Bartók (1881-1945), Hungarian
Mason Bates (1977- ), American
Dennis Báthory-Kitsz (1949- ), American
François Bayle (1932- ), Madagascar/French
Robert Beaser (1954- ), American
John H. Beck (1933- ), American
Ofer Ben-Amots (1955- ), Israeli-American
Richard Rodney Bennett (1936- ), English
Robert Russell Bennett (1894-1981), American
Alban Berg (1885-1935), Austrian
Arthur Berger (1912-2003), American
Luciano Berio (1925- ), Italian
Derek Bermel (1967- ), American
Elmer Bernstein (1922-2004), American
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), American
Hubert Bird (1939- ), American
Iva Bittová (1958- ), Czech
Seóirse Bodley (1933- ), Irish
William Bolcom (1938- ), American
Victoria Borisova-Ollas (1969- ), Russian
Ezio Bosso (1971- ), Italian
Susan Botti (1962- ), American
Pierre Boulez (1925- ), French
Robert Bradshaw (1970- ), American
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), English
Leo Brouwer (1939- ), Cuban
Margaret Brouwer (1940 - ), American
Earle Brown (1926-2002), American
Kenji Bunch (1973- ), American
Richard O. Burdick (1961- ), American
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John Cage (1912-1992), American
André Caplet (1878-1925), French
Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981), English
Philip Carlsen (1951- ), American
Oscar Carmona (1975- ), Chilean
Elliott Carter (1908- ), American
Delvyn Case (1974- ), American
Alfredo Casella (1883-1947), Italian
António Chagas Rosa (1960- ), Portuguese
Carlos Chávez (1899-1978), Mexican
Chen Yi (1953- ), Chinsese
Cheng Chin Man (1977- ), Chinese
Brian Cherney (1942- ), Canadian
Da Jeong Choi (1973- ), Korean
Brad Ciechomski (1959- ), American
Jakub Ciupinski (1981- ), Polish
Gloria Coates (1938- ), American
Stephen Cohn, American
Michael Colgrass (1932- ), American
Gia Comolli (1965- ), American
Aaron Copland (1900-1990), American
John Corigliano (1938- ), American
Jean Coulthard (1908-2000), Canadian
Henry Cowell (1897-1965), American
George Crumb (1929- ), American
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Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975), Italian
Patrício da Silva (1973- ), Portuguese
Richard Danielpour (1956- ), American
Michael Daugherty (1954- ), American
Tina Davidson (1952- ), American
Tansy Davies (1973- ), British
Peter Maxwell Davies (1934- ), British - see "Maxwell Davies" here
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), French
Norman Dello Joio (1913-2008), American
Delia Derbyshire (1937-2001), English
Joshua DeScherer (1977- ), American
Nancy Bloomer Deussen (1931- ), American
Lawrence Dillon (1959- ), American
Don Dilworth (1939- ), American
Daniel Dorff (1956- ), American
Henri Dutilleux (1916- ), French
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Danny Elfman (1953- ), American
Jonathan Elliott (1962- ), American
Manuel Enríquez (1926-1994), Mexican
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Manuel de Falla (1876-1946), Spanish
David Felder (1953- ), American
Morton Feldman (1926-1987), American
Brian Fennelly (1937- ), American
David Fennessy (1976- ), Irish
Edward Ficklin (1974- ), American
Elaine Fine (1959- ), American
Gerald Finzi (1901-1956), English
Tom Flaherty (1950- ), American
Jacqueline Fontyn (1930- ), Belgian
Mark Ford (1958- ), American
Jon Forshee (1975- ), American
Ryan Anthony Francis (1981- ), American
Gabriela Lena Frank (1972- ), American
Don Freund (1947- ), American
Fred Frith (1949- ), English
Johannes Fritsch (1941- ), German
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
David Gaines (1961- ), American
Robert Gans (1952- ), American
Ge Gan-ru (1954- ), Chinese
Alexandra Gardner (1967- ), American
George Gershwin (1898-1937), American
Tarik Ghiradella (1970- ), American
Miriam Gideon (1906-1996), American
David Gillingham (1947- ), American
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983), Argentinian
Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-1990), Australian
Philip Glass (1937- ), American
Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), American
Osvaldo Golijov (1960- ), Argentine
Jonathan Golove (1966- ), American
Todd Goodman (1977- ), American
Geoffrey Gordon (1968- ), American
Michael Gordon (1956- ), American
Henryk Górecki (1933-2010), Polish
Annie Gosfield (1960- ), American
Ulf Grahn (1942- ), Swedish
Percy Grainger (1882-1961), Australian-American
Judd Greenstein (1979- ), American
George Grella (1964- ), American
Mark Gresham (1956- ), American
Stan Grill (1953- ), American
Ferde Grofé (1892-1972), American
M. Camargo Guarnieri (1907-1993), Brazilian
Sofia Gubaidulina (1931- ), Soviet
Nancy Gunn (1956- ), American
Benjamín Gutiérrez (1937- ), Costa Rican
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Daron Hagen (1961- ), American
Gregory Hall (1959- ), American
Barbara Harbach (1950- ), American
John Harbison (1938- ), American
Patrick Harlin (1984- ), American
Roy Harris (1898-1979), American
Lou Harrison (1917-2003), American
Rocco Havelaar (1972- ), Dutch
Jeni Hawkswell (1983- ), British
Karl Henning (1960- ), American
Pierre Henry (1927- ), French
Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975), American
Jacques Hétu (1938-2010), Canadian
Jennifer Higdon (1962- ), American
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963), German
Dorothy Hindman (1966- ), American
Elizabeth Hoffman (1961- ), American
Gustav Holst (1874-1934), English
Arthur Honegger (1892-1955), Swiss
Katherine Hoover (1937- ), American
Sarah Horick (1984- ), American
Michael Horwood (1947- ), Canadian-American
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000), Armenian-American
Karel Husa (1921- ), Czech-American
Lee Hyla (1952- ), American
Maija Hynninen (1977- ), Finnish
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Jacques Ibert (1890-1962), French
Manuel Rocha Iturbide (1963- ), Mexican
Charles Ives (1874-1954), American
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Maurice Jarre (1924- ), French
Leos Janácek (1854-1928), Czech
Robin Jellis (1978- ), American
Karl Jenkins (1944- ), Welsh
André Jolivet (1905-1974), French
Scott Joplin (1868-1917), American
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Nikolai Kapustin (1937- ), Soviet-Russian
Mikael Karlsson (1975- ), Swedish
Aaron Jay Kernis (1960- ), American
Wojciech Kilar (1932- ), Polish
Earl Kim (1920-1998), American
Amy Beth Kirsten (1972- ), American
Stefan Klaverdal (1975- ), Swedish
Charles Knox (1929- ), American
Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967), Hungarian
Graeme Koehne (1956- ), Australian
Nathan Kolosko (1975- ), American
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), Austrian
Karl Korte (1928- ), American
Giorgio Koukl (1953- ), Czech
Gary Kulesha (1954- ), Canadian
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David Lang (1957- ), American
Jean Langlais (1907-1991), French
Libby Larsen (1950- ), American
Anna-Lena Laurin (1962- ), Swedish
Ramon Lazkano (1968- ), Spanish Basque
Anne LeBaron (1953- ), American
Benjamin Lees (1924-2010), American
Jon Leifs (1899-1968), Icelandic
Boris Levenberg (1950- ), Israeli
Lowell Liebermann (1961- ), American
Peter Lieberson (1946- ), American
György Ligeti (1923-2006), Hungarian
Douglas Lilburn (1915-2001), Australian
Magnus Lindberg (1958- ), Finnish
Andrew List (1956- ), American
David T. Little (1978- ), American
Dan Locklair (1949- ), American
Alexina Louie (1949- ), Canadian
Alvin Lucier (1931- ), American
Otto Luening (1900-1996), American
Paweł Łukaszewski (1968- ), Polish
Witold Lutosławski (1913-1994), Polish
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Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994), English
Christopher John Marshall (1956- ), New Zealander
Eli Marshall (1977- ), American
Arturo Márquez (1950- ), Mexican
Steve Martland (1959- ), English
Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959), Czech
David Maslanka (1943- ), American
Zbyněk Matějů (1958- ), Czech
James Matheson (1970- ), American
William Mathias (1934-1992), Welch
Bill Matthews (1950- ), American
Richard Maxfield (1927-1969), American
Peter Maxwell Davies (1934- ), British
Missy Mazzoli (1980- ), American
Robert McCauley (1958- ), American
Cecilia McDowall (1951- ), English
Colin McPhee (1900-1964), Canadian-American
Cindy McTee (1953- ), American
Gian Carlo Menotti (1911- ), Italian-American
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), French
Timothy Miller (1961- ), American
Paul Moravec (1957- ), American
David Morneau (1975- ), American
Ennio Morricone (1928- ), Italian
Alexandros Mouzas (1962- ), Greek
Robert Muczynski (1929- ), American
Thea Musgrave (1928- ), Scottish
Tom Myron (1959- ), American
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Alfred Newman (1901-1970), American
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931), Danish
Alex North (1910-1991), American
Michael Nyman (1944- ), British
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Carl Orff (1895-1982), German
William Ortiz-Alvarado (1947- ), Puerto Rican
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Juliet Kiri Palmer (1967- ), New Zealand-Canadian
Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991), Polish
Roxanna Panufnik (1968- ), British
Arvo Pärt (1935- ), Estonian
Harry Partch (1901-1974), American
Stephen Paulus (1949- ), American
Gay Pearson (1943- ), American
Krystof Penderecki (1933- ), Polish
Clermont Pépin (1926-2006), Canadian
Mitchell Peters (1935- ), American
Ástor Piazzolla (1921-1992), Argentinian
Kala Pierson (1977- ), Amercian
Walter Piston (1894-1976), American
Rachel Portman (1960- ), British
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), French
Don Pride (1966- ), American
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), Russian-Soviet
John Psathas (1966- ), New Zealander
Marta Ptaszyńska (1943- ), Polish-American
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Qu Xiao-Song (1952- ), Chinese
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David Rakowski (1958), American
David Raksin (1912-2004), American
Shulamit Ran (1949- ), Israeli-American
Behzad Ranjbaran (1955- ), Iranian
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), French
John Rea (1944- ), Canadian
Vladimir Rebikov (1866-1920), Russian
Steve Reich (1936- ), American
Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940), Mexican
Marga Richter (1926- ), American
Wallingford Riegger (1885-1961), American
Wolfgang Rihm (1952- ), German
Gyan Riley (1977- ), American
Terry Riley (1935- ), American
Robert Rival (1975- ), Canadian
George Rochberg (1918-2005), American
Richard Rodgers (1902-1979), American
Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999), Spanish
Ricardo Romaneiro (1979- ), Brazilian
Ney Rosauro (1952- ), Brazilian
Michael Rose (1971- ), American
Steven Rosenhaus (1952- ), American
Leonard Rosenman (1924-2008), American
Dean Rosenthal (1974- ), American
Nino Rota (1911-1979), Italian
Bruce Roter (1962- ), American
Christopher Rouse (1949- ), American
Albert Roussel (1869-1937), French
Miklos Rozsa (1907-1995), Hungarian-American
Vivian Adelberg Rudow (1936- ), American
Elena Ruehr (1963- ), American
Tracey Rush (1955- ), American
John Rutter (1945- ), British
Rudolf Růžička (1941- ), Czech
Frederic Rzewski (1938- ), American
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Kaija Saariaho (1952- ), Finnish
Bojana Šaljić-Podešva (1978- ), Slovenian
Aulis Sallinen (1935- ), Finnish
David Sartor (1956- ), American
Erik Satie (1866-1925), French
Pierre Schaeffer (1910-1995), French
R. Murray Schafer (1933- ), Canadian
Michael Schelle (1950- ), American
Peter Schickele (1935- ), American
Heather Schmidt (1974- ), Canadian
Albert Schnelzer (1972- ), Swedish
Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998), Russian-Soviet
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), Austrian
Paul Schoenfield (1947- ), American
Federico Schumacher (1963- ), Chilean
William Schuman (1910-1992), American
Elliott Schwartz (1936- ), American
Kurt Schwertsik (1935- ), Austrian
Peter Sculthorpe (1929- ), Australian
Amy Scurria (1973- ), American
Charlotte Seither (1965- ), German
Kazimierz Serocki (1922-1981), Polish
Roger Sessions (1896-1985), American
Alex Shapiro (1962- ), American
Judith Shatin (1949- ), American
Bright Sheng (1955- ), Chinese
Alice Shields (1943- ), American
Howard Shore (1946- ), Canadian
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), Soviet-Russian
Marilyn Shrude (1946- ), American
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), Finnish
David Skidmore (1982- ), American
Kile Smith (1956- ), American
Rune Søchting (1974- ), Danish
Daniel Sonenberg (1970- ), American
Ann Southam (1937-2010), Canadian
Bernadette Speach (1948- ), American
Max Steiner (1888-1971), Austrian-American
Laurie Spiegel (1945- ), American
Richard St. Clair (1946- ), American
Robert Starer (1924-2001), Austrian-American
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007), German
Harold Stover (1946- ), American
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Russian
Steven Stucky (1949- ), American
Morton Subotnick (1933- ), American
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Tōru Takemitsu (1930-1996), Japanese
Mirjam Tally (1976- ), Estonian
Louise Talma (1906-1996), American
Tan Dun (1957- ), Chinese
Karen Tanaka (1961- ), Japanese
John Tavener (1944- ), British
Mikis Theodorakis (1925- ), Greek
Christopher Theofanidis (1967- ), American
Augusta Read Thomas (1964- ), American
Virgil Thomson (1896-1989), American
Frank Ticheli (1958- ), American
Dimitri Tiomkin (1894-1979), Ukranian-American
Joan Tower (1938- ), American
Barry Truax (1947- ), Canadian
George Tsontakis (1951- ), American
Joseph Turrin (1947- ), American
Dmitri Tymoczko (1969- ), American
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Ken Ueno (1970- ), American
Vladimir Ussachevsky (1911-1990), Russian-American
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Reza Vali (1952- ), Iranian
Nancy Van de Vate (1930- ), American
Michel van der Aa (1970- ), Netherlands
Ayser Vançin (1948- ), Turkish
Edgard Varèse (1883-1965), American
Pēteris Vasks (1946- ), Latvian
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), English
Elizabeth Vercoe (1941- ), American
Andersen Viana (1962- ), Brazilian
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959), Brazilian
Alejandro Viñao (1951- ), Argentinian
Ted Vives (1964- ), American
Kevin Volans (1949- ), South African
Aleksandra Vrebalov (1970- ), Serbian
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Melinda Wagner (1957- ), American
Gwyneth Walker (1947- ), American
William Walton (1902-1983), British
Meira Warshauer (1949- ), American
Dalit Warshaw (1974- ), American
Franz Waxman (1906-1967), Jewish-German-American
Anton Webern (1883-1945), Austrian
Kurt Weill (1900-1983), German
Stefan Weisman (1970- ), American
Robert Wendel (1951- ), American
Eric Whitacre (1970- ), American
Beth Wiemann (1959- ), American
John Williams (1932- ), American
Michael Glenn Williams (1957- ), American
Paul Witney (1973- ), Australian
Julia Wolfe (1958- ), American
Gernot Wolfgang (1957- ), Austrian-American
Stefan Wolpe (1902-1972), German/Jewish/American
Rain Worthington (1949- ), American
Edward Wright (1980- ), English
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Iannis Xenakis (1922- ), Greek
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Isang Yun (1917-1995), Korean-German
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Judith Zaimont (1945- ), American
Edson Zampronha (1963- ), Brazilian
Frank Zappa (1940-1993), American
Zhou Long (1953- ), Chinese
Hans Zimmer (1957- ), German
Evan Ziporyn (1959- ), American
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (1939- ), American
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A Chonological List
Born . . . 1850 - 1875 1876 - 1900 1901 - 1925 1926 - 1950 1951 - 1975 1976 - 2008
Contemporary Composers - An Alphabetical List
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Contemporary Composers - Continued . . .
Composers in Selected States
Film Composers
Award Winning Composers
Contemporary Composer Collectives and Associations
born . . . 1850 - 1875
Leos Janácek (1854-1928), Czech
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), French
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), Finnish
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931), Danish
Vladimir Rebikov (1866-1920), Russian
Erik Satie (1866-1925), French
Scott Joplin (1868-1917), American
Albert Roussel (1869-1937), French
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), English
Gustav Holst (1874-1934), English
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), Austrian
Charles Ives (1874-1954), American
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), French
born . . . 1876 - 1900
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946), Spanish
André Caplet (1878-1925), French
Béla Bartók (1881-1945), Hungarian
Percy Grainger (1882-1961), Australian-American
Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967), Hungarian
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Russian
Alfredo Casella (1883-1947), Italian
Edgard Varèse (1883-1965), American
Anton Webern (1883-1945), Austrian
Alban Berg (1885-1935), Austrian
Wallingford Riegger (1885-1961), American
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959), Brazilian
Max Steiner (1888-1971), Austrian-American
Jacques Ibert (1890-1962), French
Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959), Czech
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), Russian-Soviet
Arthur Honegger (1892-1955), Swiss
Ferde Grofé (1892-1972), American
Robert Russell Bennett (1894-1981), American
Walter Piston (1894-1976), American
Dimitri Tiomkin (1894-1979), Ukranian-American
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963), German
Carl Orff (1895-1982), German
Roger Sessions (1896-1985), American
Virgil Thomson (1896-1989), American
Henry Cowell (1897-1965), American
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), Austrian
Ernst Bacon (1898-1990), American
George Gershwin (1898-1937), American
Roy Harris (1898-1979), American
Georges Auric (1899-1983), French
Carlos Chávez (1899-1978), Mexican
Jon Leifs (1899-1968), Icelandic
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), French
Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940), Mexican
Aaron Copland (1900-1990), American
Otto Luening (1900-1996), American
Colin McPhee (1900-1964), Canadian-American
Kurt Weill (1900-1983), German
born . . . 1901 - 1925
Gerald Finzi (1901-1956), English
Alfred Newman (1901-1970), American
Harry Partch (1901-1974), American
Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999), Spanish
Richard Rodgers (1902-1979), American
William Walton (1902-1983), British
Stefan Wolpe (1902-1972), German/Jewish/American
Richard Addinsell (1904-1977), British
Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975), Italian
André Jolivet (1905-1974), French
Miriam Gideon (1906-1996), American
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), Soviet-Russian
Louise Talma (1906-1996), American
Franz Waxman (1906-1967), Jewish-German-American
M. Camargo Guarnieri (1907-1993), Brazilian
Jean Langlais (1907-1991), French
Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994), English
Miklos Rozsa (1907-1995), Hungarian-American
Leroy Anderson (1908-1975), American
Jean Coulthard (1908-2000), Canadian
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), French
Elliott Carter (1908- ), American
Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969), Polish
Samuel Barber (1910-1981), American
Alex North (1910-1991), American
Pierre Schaeffer (1910-1995), French
William Schuman (1910-1992), American
Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975), American
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000), Armenian-American
Gian Carlo Menotti (1911- ), Italian-American
Nino Rota (1911-1979), Italian
Vladimir Ussachevsky (1911-1990), Russian-American
Arthur Berger (1912-2003), American
John Cage (1912-1992), American
Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-1990), Australian
David Raksin (1912-2004), American
Benjamin Britten (1913- 1976), English
Norman Dello Joio (1913-2008), American
Witold Lutosławski (1913-1994), Polish
Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991), Polish
Douglas Lilburn (1915-2001), Australian
Milton Babbitt (1916-2011), American
Henri Dutilleux (1916- ), French
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983), Argentinian
Lou Harrison (1917-2003), American
Isang Yun (1917-1995), Korean-German
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), American
George Rochberg (1918-2005), American
Earl Kim (1920-1998), American
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992), Argentinian
Karel Husa (1921- ), Czech-American
Elmer Bernstein (1922-2004), American
Kazimierz Serocki (1922-1981), Polish
Iannis Xenakis (1922- ), Greek
György Ligeti (1923-2006), Hungarian
Maurice Jarre (1924- ), French
Benjamin Lees (1924-2010), American
Leonard Rosenman (1924-2008), American
Robert Starer (1924-2001), Austrian-American
Luciano Berio (1925- ), Italian
Pierre Boulez (1925- ), French
Mikis Theodorakis (1925- ), Greek
born . . . 1926 - 1950
Earle Brown (1926-2002), American
Manuel Enríquez (1926-1994), Mexican
Morton Feldman (1926-1987), American
Clermont Pépin (1926-2006), Canadian
Marga Richter (1926- ), American
Dominick Argento (1927- ), American
Pierre Henry (1927- ), French
Richard Maxfield (1927-1969), American
Samuel Adler (1928- ), American
Tadeusz Baird (1928-1981), Polish
Karl Korte (1928- ), American
Ennio Morricone (1928- ), Italian
Thea Musgrave (1928- ), Scottish
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007), German
George Crumb (1929- ), American
Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), American
Charles Knox (1929- ), American
Robert Muczynski (1929- ), American
Peter Sculthorpe (1929- ), Australian
David Amram (1930- ), American
Jacqueline Fontyn (1930- ), Belgian
Tōru Takemitsu (1930-1996), Japanese
Nancy Van de Vate (1930- ), American
Nancy Bloomer Deussen (1931- ), American
Sofia Gubaidulina (1931- ), Soviet
Alvin Lucier (1931- ), American
François Bayle (1932- ), Madagascar/French
Michael Colgrass (1932- ), American
Wojciech Kilar (1932- ), Polish
John Williams (1932- ), American
John Barry (1933-2011), English
John H. Beck (1933- ), American
Seóirse Bodley (1933- ), Irish
Henryk Górecki (1933-2010), Polish
Krystof Penderecki (1933- ), Polish
R. Murray Schafer (1933- ), Canadian
Morton Subotnick (1933- ), American
William Mathias (1934-1992), Welch
Peter Maxwell Davies (1934- ), British
Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998), Russian-Soviet
Arvo Pärt (1935- ), Estonian
Mitchell Peters (1935- ), American
Terry Riley (1935- ), American
Aulis Sallinen (1935- ), Finnish
Peter Schickele (1935- ), American
Kurt Schwertsik (1935- ), Austrian
Richard Rodney Bennett (1936- ), English
Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981), English
Steve Reich (1936- ), American
Vivian Adelberg Rudow (1936- ), American
Elliott Schwartz (1936- ), American
Delia Derbyshire (1937-2001), English
Brian Fennelly (1937- ), American
Philip Glass (1937- ), American
Benjamín Gutiérrez (1937- ), Costa Rican
Katherine Hoover (1937- ), American
Nikolai Kapustin (1937- ), Soviet-Russian
Ann Southam (1937-2010), Canadian
Elizabeth R. Austin (1938- ), American
William Bolcom (1938- ), American
Gloria Coates (1938- ), American
John Corigliano (1938- ), American
John Harbison (1938- ), American
Jacques Hétu (1938-2010), Canadian
Frederic Rzewski (1938- ), American
Joan Tower (1938- ), American
Hubert Bird (1939- ), American
Leo Brouwer (1939- ), Cuban
Don Dilworth (1939- ), American
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (1939- ), American
Margaret Brouwer (1940 - ), American
Frank Zappa (1940-1993), American
Adrienne Albert (1941- ), American
Johannes Fritsch (1941- ), German
Rudolf Růžička (1941- ), Czech
Elizabeth Vercoe (1941- ), American
Brian Cherney (1942- ), Canadian
Ulf Grahn (1942- ), Swedish
David Maslanka (1943- ), American
Gay Pearson (1943- ), American
Marta Ptaszyńska (1943- ), Polish-American
Alice Shields (1943- ), American
Karl Jenkins (1944- ), Welsh
Michael Nyman (1944- ), British
John Rea (1944- ), Canadian
John Tavener (1944- ), British
John Rutter (1945- ), British
Laurie Spiegel (1945- ), American
Judith Zaimont (1945- ), American
David Avshalomov (1946- ), American
Peter Lieberson (1946- ), American
Howard Shore (1946- ), Canadian
Marilyn Shrude (1946- ), American
Richard St. Clair (1946- ), American
Harold Stover (1946- ), American
Pēteris Vasks (1946- ), Latvian
John Adams (1947- ), American
Don Freund (1947- ), American
David Gillingham (1947- ), American
Michael Horwood (1947- ), Canadian-American
William Ortiz-Alvarado (1947- ), Puerto Rican
Paul Schoenfield (1947- ), American
Barry Truax (1947- ), Canadian
Joseph Turrin (1947- ), American
Gwyneth Walker (1947- ), American
Claude Baker (1948- ), American
Bernadette Speach (1948- ), American
Ayser Vançin (1948- ), Turkish
James Barnes (1949- ), American
Dennis Báthory-Kitsz (1949- ), American
Dan Locklair (1949- ), American
Stephen Paulus (1949- ), American
Shulamit Ran (1949- ), Israeli-American
Christopher Rouse (1949- ), American
Fred Frith (1949- ), English
Alexina Louie (1949- ), Canadian
Judith Shatin (1949- ), American
Steven Stucky (1949- ), American
Kevin Volans (1949- ), South African
Meira Warshauer (1949- ), American
Rain Worthington (1949- ), American
Beth Anderson (1950- ), American
Tom Flaherty (1950- ), American
Barbara Harbach (1950- ), American
Libby Larsen (1950- ), American
Boris Levenberg (1950- ), Israeli
Arturo Márquez (1950- ), Mexican
Bill Matthews (1950- ), American
Michael Schelle (1950- ), American
born . . . 1951 - 1975
Jesse Ayers (1951- ), American
Philip Carlsen (1951- ), American
Stephen Cohn (1951- ), American
Cecilia McDowall (1951- ), English
George Tsontakis (1951- ), American
Alejandro Viñao (1951- ), Argentinian
Robert Wendel (1951- ), American
Lee Actor (1952- ), American
Tina Davidson (1952- ), American
Robert Gans (1952- ), American
Lee Hyla (1952- ), American
Qu Xiao-Song (1952- ), Chinese
Wolfgang Rihm (1952- ), German
Ney Rosauro (1952- ), Brazilian
Steven Rosenhaus (1952- ), American
Kaija Saariaho (1952- ), Finnish
Reza Vali (1952- ), Iranian
John Luther Adams (1953- ), American
Danny Elfman (1953- ), American
David Felder (1953- ), American
Stan Grill (1953- ), American
Giorgio Koukl (1953- ), Czech
Anne LeBaron (1953- ), American
Cindy McTee (1953- ), American
Chen Yi (1953- ), Chinsese
Zhou Long (1953- ), Chinese
Robert Beaser (1954- ), American
Michael Daugherty (1954- ), American
Ge Gan-ru (1954- ), Chinese
Gary Kulesha (1954- ), Canadian
Ofer Ben-Amots (1955- ), Israeli-American
Behzad Ranjbaran (1955- ), Iranian
Tracey Rush (1955- ), American
Bright Sheng (1955- ), Chinese
Javier Alvarez (1956- ), Mexican
Richard Danielpour (1956- ), American
Daniel Dorff (1956- ), American
Michael Gordon (1956- ), American
Mark Gresham (1956- ), American
Nancy Gunn (1956- ), American
Graeme Koehne (1956- ), Australian
Andrew List (1956- ), American
Christopher John Marshall (1956- ), New Zealander
David Sartor (1956- ), American
Kile Smith (1956- ), American
Greg Bartholomew (1957- ), American
David Lang (1957- ), American
Paul Moravec (1957- ), American
Tan Dun (1957- ), Chinese
Melinda Wagner (1957- ), American
Michael Glenn Williams (1957- ), American
Gernot Wolfgang (1957- ), Austrian-American
Hans Zimmer (1957- ), German
Iva Bittová (1958- ), Czech
Mark Ford (1958- ), American
Magnus Lindberg (1958- ), Finnish
Zbyněk Matějů (1958- ), Czech
Robert McCauley (1958- ), American
David Rakowski (1958), American
Frank Ticheli (1958- ), American
Julia Wolfe (1958- ), American
Brad Ciechomski (1959- ), American
Lawrence Dillon (1959- ), American
Elaine Fine (1959- ), American
Gregory Hall (1959- ), American
Steve Martland (1959- ), English
Tom Myron (1959- ), American
Beth Wiemann (1959- ), American
Evan Ziporyn (1959- ), American
Osvaldo Golijov (1960- ), Argentine
Annie Gosfield (1960- ), American
Karl Henning (1960- ), American
Aaron Jay Kernis (1960- ), American
Rachel Portman (1960- ), British
António Chagas Rosa (1960- ), Portuguese
Richard O. Burdick (1961- ), American
David Gaines (1961- ), American
Daron Hagen (1961- ), American
Elizabeth Hoffman (1961- ), American
Lowell Liebermann (1961- ), American
Timothy Miller (1961- ), American
Karen Tanaka (1961- ), Japanese
Susan Botti (1962- ), American
Jonathan Elliott (1962- ), American
Jennifer Higdon (1962- ), American
Alexandros Mouzas (1962- ), Greek
Bruce Roter (1962- ), American
Andersen Viana (1962- ), Brazilian
Elena Ruehr (1963- ), American
Gia Comolli (1965- ), American
Anna-Lena Laurin (1962- ), Swedish
Alex Shapiro (1962- ), American
Manuel Rocha Iturbide (1963- ), Mexican
Federico Schumacher (1963- ), Chilean
Edson Zampronha (1963- ), Brazilian
George Grella (1964- ), American
Augusta Read Thomas (1964- ), American
Ted Vives (1964- ), American
Charlotte Seither (1965- ), German
Jonathan Golove (1966- ), American
Dorothy Hindman (1966- ), American
Don Pride (1966- ), American
John Psathas (1966- ), New Zealander
Derek Bermel (1967- ), American
Alexandra Gardner (1967- ), American
Juliet Kiri Palmer (1967- ), New Zealand-Canadian
Christopher Theofanidis (1967- ), American
Geoffrey Gordon (1968- ), American
Ramon Lazkano (1968- ), Spanish Basque
Paweł Łukaszewski (1968- ), Polish
Roxanna Panufnik (1968- ), British
Victoria Borisova-Ollas (1969- ), Russian
Dmitri Tymoczko (1969- ), American
Karim Al-Zand (1970- ), Canadian-American
Karen Amrhein (1970- ), American
Robert Bradshaw (1970- ), American
Tarik Ghiradella (1970- ), American
James Matheson (1970- ), American
Daniel Sonenberg (1970- ), American
Ken Ueno (1970- ), American
Michel van der Aa (1970- ), Netherlands
Aleksandra Vrebalov (1970- ), Serbian
Stefan Weisman (1970- ), American
Eric Whitacre (1970- ), American
Ezio Bosso (1971- ), Italian
Michael Rose (1971- ), American
Gabriela Lena Frank (1972- ), American
Rocco Havelaar (1972- ), Dutch
Amy Beth Kirsten (1972- ), American
Albert Schnelzer (1972- ), Swedish
Kenji Bunch (1973- ), American
Da Jeong Choi (1973- ), Korean
Patrício da Silva (1973- ), Portuguese
Tansy Davies (1973- ), British
Amy Scurria (1973- ), American
Paul Witney (1973- ), Australian
Delvyn Case (1974- ), American
Edward Ficklin (1974- ), American
Dean Rosenthal (1974- ), American
Heather Schmidt (1974- ), Canadian
Rune Søchting (1974- ), Danish
Dalit Warshaw (1974- ), American
Kati Agócs (1975- ), Canadian
Oscar Carmona (1975- ), Chilean
Jon Forshee (1975- ), American
Mikael Karlsson (1975- ), Swedish
Stefan Klaverdal (1975- ), Swedish
Nathan Kolosko (1975- ), American
David Morneau (1975- ), American
Robert Rival (1975- ), Canadian
born . . . 1976 - 2008
Svitlana Azarova (1976- ), Ukrainian
Kinan Azmeh (1976- ), Syrian
David Fennessy (1976- ), Irish
Mirjam Tally (1976- ), Estonian
Mason Bates (1977- ), American
Cheng Chin Man (1977- ), Chinese
Joshua DeScherer (1977- ), American
Todd Goodman (1977- ), American
Maija Hynninen (1977- ), Finnish
Eli Marshall (1977- ), American
Kala Pierson (1977- ), Amercian
Gyan Riley (1977- ), American
J. Anthony Allen (1978- ), American
Robin Jellis (1978- ), American
David T. Little (1978- ), American
Bojana Šaljić-Podešva (1978- ), Slovenian
Judd Greenstein (1979- ), American
Ricardo Romaneiro (1979- ), Brazilian
John Aylward (1980- ), American
Elliott Bark (1980- ), Korean-American
Missy Mazzoli (1980- ), American
Edward Wright (1980- ), English
Jakub Ciupinski (1981- ), Polish
Ryan Anthony Francis (1981- ), American
David Skidmore (1982- ), American
Jeni Hawkswell (1983- ), British
Patrick Harlin (1984- ), American
Sarah Horick (1984- ), American
Contemporary Composers - A Chonological List
Born . . . 1850 - 1875 1876 - 1900 1901 - 1925 1926 - 1950 1951 - 1975 1976 - 2008
And you can find more composer listings at:
Contemporary Composers - An Alphabetical List
Contemporary Composers - Continued . . .
Composers in Selected States
Film Composers
Award Winning Composers
Contemporary Composer Collectives and Associations
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Lee Actor (1952- ), American
John Adams (1947- ), American
John Luther Adams (1953- ), American
Richard Addinsell (1904-1977), British
Samuel Adler (1928- ), American
Kati Agócs (1975- ), Canadian
Adrienne Albert (1941- ), American
J. Anthony Allen (1978- ), American
Javier Alvarez (1956- ), Mexican
Karim Al-Zand (1970- ), Canadian-American
David Amram (1930- ), American
Karen Amrhein (1970- ), American
Beth Anderson (1950- ), American
Leroy Anderson (1908-1975), American
Dominick Argento (1927- ), American
Georges Auric (1899-1983), French
Elizabeth R. Austin (1938- ), American
David Avshalomov (1946- ), American
Jesse Ayers (1951- ), American
John Aylward (1980- ), American
Svitlana Azarova (1976- ), Ukrainian
Kinan Azmeh (1976- ), Syrian
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Milton Babbitt (1916-2011), American
Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969), Polish
Ernst Bacon (1898-1990), American
Tadeusz Baird (1928-1981), Polish
Claude Baker (1948- ), American
Samuel Barber (1910-1981), American
Elliott Bark (1980- ), Korean-American
James Barnes (1949- ), American
John Barry (1933-2011), English
Greg Bartholomew (1957- ), American
Béla Bartók (1881-1945), Hungarian
Mason Bates (1977- ), American
Dennis Báthory-Kitsz (1949- ), American
François Bayle (1932- ), Madagascar/French
Robert Beaser (1954- ), American
John H. Beck (1933- ), American
Ofer Ben-Amots (1955- ), Israeli-American
Richard Rodney Bennett (1936- ), English
Robert Russell Bennett (1894-1981), American
Alban Berg (1885-1935), Austrian
Arthur Berger (1912-2003), American
Luciano Berio (1925- ), Italian
Derek Bermel (1967- ), American
Elmer Bernstein (1922-2004), American
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), American
Hubert Bird (1939- ), American
Iva Bittová (1958- ), Czech
Seóirse Bodley (1933- ), Irish
William Bolcom (1938- ), American
Victoria Borisova-Ollas (1969- ), Russian
Ezio Bosso (1971- ), Italian
Susan Botti (1962- ), American
Pierre Boulez (1925- ), French
Robert Bradshaw (1970- ), American
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), English
Leo Brouwer (1939- ), Cuban
Margaret Brouwer (1940 - ), American
Earle Brown (1926-2002), American
Kenji Bunch (1973- ), American
Richard O. Burdick (1961- ), American
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
John Cage (1912-1992), American
André Caplet (1878-1925), French
Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981), English
Philip Carlsen (1951- ), American
Oscar Carmona (1975- ), Chilean
Elliott Carter (1908- ), American
Delvyn Case (1974- ), American
Alfredo Casella (1883-1947), Italian
António Chagas Rosa (1960- ), Portuguese
Carlos Chávez (1899-1978), Mexican
Chen Yi (1953- ), Chinsese
Cheng Chin Man (1977- ), Chinese
Brian Cherney (1942- ), Canadian
Da Jeong Choi (1973- ), Korean
Brad Ciechomski (1959- ), American
Jakub Ciupinski (1981- ), Polish
Gloria Coates (1938- ), American
Stephen Cohn, American
Michael Colgrass (1932- ), American
Gia Comolli (1965- ), American
Aaron Copland (1900-1990), American
John Corigliano (1938- ), American
Jean Coulthard (1908-2000), Canadian
Henry Cowell (1897-1965), American
George Crumb (1929- ), American
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975), Italian
Patrício da Silva (1973- ), Portuguese
Richard Danielpour (1956- ), American
Michael Daugherty (1954- ), American
Tina Davidson (1952- ), American
Tansy Davies (1973- ), British
Peter Maxwell Davies (1934- ), British - see "Maxwell Davies" here
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), French
Norman Dello Joio (1913-2008), American
Delia Derbyshire (1937-2001), English
Joshua DeScherer (1977- ), American
Nancy Bloomer Deussen (1931- ), American
Lawrence Dillon (1959- ), American
Don Dilworth (1939- ), American
Daniel Dorff (1956- ), American
Henri Dutilleux (1916- ), French
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Danny Elfman (1953- ), American
Jonathan Elliott (1962- ), American
Manuel Enríquez (1926-1994), Mexican
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946), Spanish
David Felder (1953- ), American
Morton Feldman (1926-1987), American
Brian Fennelly (1937- ), American
David Fennessy (1976- ), Irish
Edward Ficklin (1974- ), American
Elaine Fine (1959- ), American
Gerald Finzi (1901-1956), English
Tom Flaherty (1950- ), American
Jacqueline Fontyn (1930- ), Belgian
Mark Ford (1958- ), American
Jon Forshee (1975- ), American
Ryan Anthony Francis (1981- ), American
Gabriela Lena Frank (1972- ), American
Don Freund (1947- ), American
Fred Frith (1949- ), English
Johannes Fritsch (1941- ), German
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
David Gaines (1961- ), American
Robert Gans (1952- ), American
Ge Gan-ru (1954- ), Chinese
Alexandra Gardner (1967- ), American
George Gershwin (1898-1937), American
Tarik Ghiradella (1970- ), American
Miriam Gideon (1906-1996), American
David Gillingham (1947- ), American
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983), Argentinian
Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-1990), Australian
Philip Glass (1937- ), American
Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), American
Osvaldo Golijov (1960- ), Argentine
Jonathan Golove (1966- ), American
Todd Goodman (1977- ), American
Geoffrey Gordon (1968- ), American
Michael Gordon (1956- ), American
Henryk Górecki (1933-2010), Polish
Annie Gosfield (1960- ), American
Ulf Grahn (1942- ), Swedish
Percy Grainger (1882-1961), Australian-American
Judd Greenstein (1979- ), American
George Grella (1964- ), American
Mark Gresham (1956- ), American
Stan Grill (1953- ), American
Ferde Grofé (1892-1972), American
M. Camargo Guarnieri (1907-1993), Brazilian
Sofia Gubaidulina (1931- ), Soviet
Nancy Gunn (1956- ), American
Benjamín Gutiérrez (1937- ), Costa Rican
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Daron Hagen (1961- ), American
Gregory Hall (1959- ), American
Barbara Harbach (1950- ), American
John Harbison (1938- ), American
Patrick Harlin (1984- ), American
Roy Harris (1898-1979), American
Lou Harrison (1917-2003), American
Rocco Havelaar (1972- ), Dutch
Jeni Hawkswell (1983- ), British
Karl Henning (1960- ), American
Pierre Henry (1927- ), French
Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975), American
Jacques Hétu (1938-2010), Canadian
Jennifer Higdon (1962- ), American
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963), German
Dorothy Hindman (1966- ), American
Elizabeth Hoffman (1961- ), American
Gustav Holst (1874-1934), English
Arthur Honegger (1892-1955), Swiss
Katherine Hoover (1937- ), American
Sarah Horick (1984- ), American
Michael Horwood (1947- ), Canadian-American
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000), Armenian-American
Karel Husa (1921- ), Czech-American
Lee Hyla (1952- ), American
Maija Hynninen (1977- ), Finnish
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Jacques Ibert (1890-1962), French
Manuel Rocha Iturbide (1963- ), Mexican
Charles Ives (1874-1954), American
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Maurice Jarre (1924- ), French
Leos Janácek (1854-1928), Czech
Robin Jellis (1978- ), American
Karl Jenkins (1944- ), Welsh
André Jolivet (1905-1974), French
Scott Joplin (1868-1917), American
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Nikolai Kapustin (1937- ), Soviet-Russian
Mikael Karlsson (1975- ), Swedish
Aaron Jay Kernis (1960- ), American
Wojciech Kilar (1932- ), Polish
Earl Kim (1920-1998), American
Amy Beth Kirsten (1972- ), American
Stefan Klaverdal (1975- ), Swedish
Charles Knox (1929- ), American
Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967), Hungarian
Graeme Koehne (1956- ), Australian
Nathan Kolosko (1975- ), American
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), Austrian
Karl Korte (1928- ), American
Giorgio Koukl (1953- ), Czech
Gary Kulesha (1954- ), Canadian
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
David Lang (1957- ), American
Jean Langlais (1907-1991), French
Libby Larsen (1950- ), American
Anna-Lena Laurin (1962- ), Swedish
Ramon Lazkano (1968- ), Spanish Basque
Anne LeBaron (1953- ), American
Benjamin Lees (1924-2010), American
Jon Leifs (1899-1968), Icelandic
Boris Levenberg (1950- ), Israeli
Lowell Liebermann (1961- ), American
Peter Lieberson (1946- ), American
György Ligeti (1923-2006), Hungarian
Douglas Lilburn (1915-2001), Australian
Magnus Lindberg (1958- ), Finnish
Andrew List (1956- ), American
David T. Little (1978- ), American
Dan Locklair (1949- ), American
Alexina Louie (1949- ), Canadian
Alvin Lucier (1931- ), American
Otto Luening (1900-1996), American
Paweł Łukaszewski (1968- ), Polish
Witold Lutosławski (1913-1994), Polish
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994), English
Christopher John Marshall (1956- ), New Zealander
Eli Marshall (1977- ), American
Arturo Márquez (1950- ), Mexican
Steve Martland (1959- ), English
Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959), Czech
David Maslanka (1943- ), American
Zbyněk Matějů (1958- ), Czech
James Matheson (1970- ), American
William Mathias (1934-1992), Welch
Bill Matthews (1950- ), American
Richard Maxfield (1927-1969), American
Peter Maxwell Davies (1934- ), British
Missy Mazzoli (1980- ), American
Robert McCauley (1958- ), American
Cecilia McDowall (1951- ), English
Colin McPhee (1900-1964), Canadian-American
Cindy McTee (1953- ), American
Gian Carlo Menotti (1911- ), Italian-American
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), French
Timothy Miller (1961- ), American
Paul Moravec (1957- ), American
David Morneau (1975- ), American
Ennio Morricone (1928- ), Italian
Alexandros Mouzas (1962- ), Greek
Robert Muczynski (1929- ), American
Thea Musgrave (1928- ), Scottish
Tom Myron (1959- ), American
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Alfred Newman (1901-1970), American
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931), Danish
Alex North (1910-1991), American
Michael Nyman (1944- ), British
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Carl Orff (1895-1982), German
William Ortiz-Alvarado (1947- ), Puerto Rican
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Juliet Kiri Palmer (1967- ), New Zealand-Canadian
Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991), Polish
Roxanna Panufnik (1968- ), British
Arvo Pärt (1935- ), Estonian
Harry Partch (1901-1974), American
Stephen Paulus (1949- ), American
Gay Pearson (1943- ), American
Krystof Penderecki (1933- ), Polish
Clermont Pépin (1926-2006), Canadian
Mitchell Peters (1935- ), American
Ástor Piazzolla (1921-1992), Argentinian
Kala Pierson (1977- ), Amercian
Walter Piston (1894-1976), American
Rachel Portman (1960- ), British
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), French
Don Pride (1966- ), American
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), Russian-Soviet
John Psathas (1966- ), New Zealander
Marta Ptaszyńska (1943- ), Polish-American
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Qu Xiao-Song (1952- ), Chinese
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
David Rakowski (1958), American
David Raksin (1912-2004), American
Shulamit Ran (1949- ), Israeli-American
Behzad Ranjbaran (1955- ), Iranian
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), French
John Rea (1944- ), Canadian
Vladimir Rebikov (1866-1920), Russian
Steve Reich (1936- ), American
Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940), Mexican
Marga Richter (1926- ), American
Wallingford Riegger (1885-1961), American
Wolfgang Rihm (1952- ), German
Gyan Riley (1977- ), American
Terry Riley (1935- ), American
Robert Rival (1975- ), Canadian
George Rochberg (1918-2005), American
Richard Rodgers (1902-1979), American
Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999), Spanish
Ricardo Romaneiro (1979- ), Brazilian
Ney Rosauro (1952- ), Brazilian
Michael Rose (1971- ), American
Steven Rosenhaus (1952- ), American
Leonard Rosenman (1924-2008), American
Dean Rosenthal (1974- ), American
Nino Rota (1911-1979), Italian
Bruce Roter (1962- ), American
Christopher Rouse (1949- ), American
Albert Roussel (1869-1937), French
Miklos Rozsa (1907-1995), Hungarian-American
Vivian Adelberg Rudow (1936- ), American
Elena Ruehr (1963- ), American
Tracey Rush (1955- ), American
John Rutter (1945- ), British
Rudolf Růžička (1941- ), Czech
Frederic Rzewski (1938- ), American
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Kaija Saariaho (1952- ), Finnish
Bojana Šaljić-Podešva (1978- ), Slovenian
Aulis Sallinen (1935- ), Finnish
David Sartor (1956- ), American
Erik Satie (1866-1925), French
Pierre Schaeffer (1910-1995), French
R. Murray Schafer (1933- ), Canadian
Michael Schelle (1950- ), American
Peter Schickele (1935- ), American
Heather Schmidt (1974- ), Canadian
Albert Schnelzer (1972- ), Swedish
Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998), Russian-Soviet
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), Austrian
Paul Schoenfield (1947- ), American
Federico Schumacher (1963- ), Chilean
William Schuman (1910-1992), American
Elliott Schwartz (1936- ), American
Kurt Schwertsik (1935- ), Austrian
Peter Sculthorpe (1929- ), Australian
Amy Scurria (1973- ), American
Charlotte Seither (1965- ), German
Kazimierz Serocki (1922-1981), Polish
Roger Sessions (1896-1985), American
Alex Shapiro (1962- ), American
Judith Shatin (1949- ), American
Bright Sheng (1955- ), Chinese
Alice Shields (1943- ), American
Howard Shore (1946- ), Canadian
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), Soviet-Russian
Marilyn Shrude (1946- ), American
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), Finnish
David Skidmore (1982- ), American
Kile Smith (1956- ), American
Rune Søchting (1974- ), Danish
Daniel Sonenberg (1970- ), American
Ann Southam (1937-2010), Canadian
Bernadette Speach (1948- ), American
Max Steiner (1888-1971), Austrian-American
Laurie Spiegel (1945- ), American
Richard St. Clair (1946- ), American
Robert Starer (1924-2001), Austrian-American
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007), German
Harold Stover (1946- ), American
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Russian
Steven Stucky (1949- ), American
Morton Subotnick (1933- ), American
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Tōru Takemitsu (1930-1996), Japanese
Mirjam Tally (1976- ), Estonian
Louise Talma (1906-1996), American
Tan Dun (1957- ), Chinese
Karen Tanaka (1961- ), Japanese
John Tavener (1944- ), British
Mikis Theodorakis (1925- ), Greek
Christopher Theofanidis (1967- ), American
Augusta Read Thomas (1964- ), American
Virgil Thomson (1896-1989), American
Frank Ticheli (1958- ), American
Dimitri Tiomkin (1894-1979), Ukranian-American
Joan Tower (1938- ), American
Barry Truax (1947- ), Canadian
George Tsontakis (1951- ), American
Joseph Turrin (1947- ), American
Dmitri Tymoczko (1969- ), American
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Ken Ueno (1970- ), American
Vladimir Ussachevsky (1911-1990), Russian-American
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Reza Vali (1952- ), Iranian
Nancy Van de Vate (1930- ), American
Michel van der Aa (1970- ), Netherlands
Ayser Vançin (1948- ), Turkish
Edgard Varèse (1883-1965), American
Pēteris Vasks (1946- ), Latvian
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), English
Elizabeth Vercoe (1941- ), American
Andersen Viana (1962- ), Brazilian
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959), Brazilian
Alejandro Viñao (1951- ), Argentinian
Ted Vives (1964- ), American
Kevin Volans (1949- ), South African
Aleksandra Vrebalov (1970- ), Serbian
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Melinda Wagner (1957- ), American
Gwyneth Walker (1947- ), American
William Walton (1902-1983), British
Meira Warshauer (1949- ), American
Dalit Warshaw (1974- ), American
Franz Waxman (1906-1967), Jewish-German-American
Anton Webern (1883-1945), Austrian
Kurt Weill (1900-1983), German
Stefan Weisman (1970- ), American
Robert Wendel (1951- ), American
Eric Whitacre (1970- ), American
Beth Wiemann (1959- ), American
John Williams (1932- ), American
Michael Glenn Williams (1957- ), American
Paul Witney (1973- ), Australian
Julia Wolfe (1958- ), American
Gernot Wolfgang (1957- ), Austrian-American
Stefan Wolpe (1902-1972), German/Jewish/American
Rain Worthington (1949- ), American
Edward Wright (1980- ), English
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Iannis Xenakis (1922- ), Greek
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Isang Yun (1917-1995), Korean-German
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Judith Zaimont (1945- ), American
Edson Zampronha (1963- ), Brazilian
Frank Zappa (1940-1993), American
Zhou Long (1953- ), Chinese
Hans Zimmer (1957- ), German
Evan Ziporyn (1959- ), American
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (1939- ), American
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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