Pytheas Center for Contemporary Music

Our ever expanding list of contemporary composers is intented to fill a void on the web: contemporary music information with a chronological perspective. The list below arranges composers by date of birth, giving us the starting point of a perspective of the flow of new music through the 19th,  20th and 21st centuries. And each composer's individual works list in also given chronologically, 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.


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1850 - 1875      1876 - 1900      1901 - 1925      1926 - 1950      1951 - 1975      1976 - 2008

Composers in Selected States

1850 - 1875
Leos Janacek (1854-1928), Czech
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), French
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), Finnish
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931), Danish
Erik Satie (1866-1925), French
Scott Joplin (1868-1917), American
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), English
Gustav Holst (1874-1934), English
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), German
Charles Ives (1874-1954), American
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), French
1876 - 1900
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946), Spanish
Bela Bartok (1881-1945), Hungarian
Percy Grainger (1882-1961), Australian-American
Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967), Hungarian
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Russian
Edgard Varese (1883-1965), American
Anton Webern (1883-1945), Austrian
Alban Berg (1885-1935), Austrian
Hietor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959), Brazilian
Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959), Czech
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), Russian-Soviet
Arthur Honegger (1892-1955), Swiss
Ferde Grofe (1892-1972), American
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963), German
Roger Sessions (1896-1985), American
Henry Cowell (1897-1965), American
Wolfgang  Korngold  (1897-1957), Austrian
George Gershwin  (1898-1937), American
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), French
Aaron Copland  (1900-1990), American
Kurt Weill  (1900-1983), German
1901 - 1925
 Harry Partch  (1901-1974), American
Richard Rodgers  (1902-1979), American
William Walton  (1902-1983), British
Dimitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), Soviet-Russian
Miklos Rozsa (1907-1995), Hungarian-American
Leroy Anderson  (1908-1975), American
Olivier Messiaen  (1908-1992), French
Elliott Carter  (1908-     ), American
Samuel Barber  (1910-1981), American
William Schuman  (1910-1992), American
Giancarlo Menotti  (1911-     ), Italian-American
Nino Rota  (1911-1979), Italian
Bernard Hermann  (1911-1975), American
John Cage  (1912-1992), American
Benjamin Britten  (1913- 1976), English
Witold Lutoslawski  (1913-1994), Polish
Milton Babbitt  (1916-     ), American
Lou Harrison  (1917-2003), American
Leonard Bernstein  (1918-1990), American
Astor Piazolla (1921-1992), Argentinian
Iannis Xenakis  (1922-     ), Greek
Gyorgy Ligeti  (1923-2006), Hungarian
Luciano Berio  (1925-     ), Italian
1926 - 1950
 Morton Feldman (1926-1987), American
Karlheinz Stockhausen  (1928-     ), German
George Crumb  (1929-     ), American
Toru Takemitsu  (1930-1996), Japanese
Sofia Gubaidulina (1931-     ), Soviet
John Williams  (1932-     ), American
Krystof Penderecki  (1933-     ), Polish
Gorecki, Henryk (1933-     ), Polish
Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998), Russian-Soviet
Arvo Part  (1935-     ), Estonian
Aulis Sallinen (1935-     ), Finnish
Steve Reich  (1936-     ), American
Elliott Schwartz (1936-     ), American
Philip Glass  (1937-     ), American
John Harbison  (1938-     ), American
John Corigliano  (1938-     ), American
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich  (1939-     ), American
John Tavener  (1944-     ), British
Michael Nyman  (1944-     ), British
John Rutter  (1945-     ), British
Harold Stover (1946-     ), American
John Adams  (1947-     ), American
Meira Warshauer (1949-    ), American
  Dennis Báthory-Kitsz (1949-     ), American
1951 - 1975
 Philip Carlsen (1951-     ), American
Lee Actor (1952-    ), American
Robert Gans (1952-     ), American
Johathan Hallstom  (1954-     ), American
William Matthews  (1954-     ), American
Kile Smith (1956-    ), American
Tan Dun (1957-     ), Korean
Michael Glenn Williams (1957-    ), American
Tom Myron (1959-     ), American
Gregory Hall (1959-     ), American
Gia Comolli (1965-     ), American
Jonathan Golove (1966-     ), American
Karen Amrhein (1970-     ), American
1976 - 2008
Eli Marshall (1977-     ), American


1850 - 1875      1876 - 1900      1901 - 1925      1926 - 1950      1951 - 1975      1976 - 2008



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