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
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
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
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959), Brazilian
Max Steiner (1888-1971), Austrian-American
Bohuslav Martinů (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
Virgil Thomson (1896-1989), American
Henry Cowell (1897-1965), American
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), Austrian
George Gershwin (1898-1937), American
Georges Auric (1899-1983), French
Jon Leifs (1899-1968), Icelandic
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), French
Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940), Mexican
Aaron Copland (1900-1990), American
Kurt Weill (1900-1983), German
born . . . 1901 - 1925
Gerald Finzi (1901-1956), English
Harry Partch (1901-1974), American
Richard Rodgers (1902-1979), American
William Walton (1902-1983), British
André Jolivet (1905-1974), French
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), Soviet-Russian
Franz Waxman (1906-1967), Jewish-German-American
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
William Schuman (1910-1992), American
Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975), American
Giancarlo Menotti (1911- ), Italian-American
Nino Rota (1911-1979), Italian
Arthur Berger (1912-2003), American
John Cage (1912-1992), American
Benjamin Britten (1913- 1976), English
Norman Dello Joio (1913-2008), American
Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994), Polish
Milton Babbitt (1916- ), American
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983), Argentinian
Lou Harrison (1917-2003), American
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), 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
Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006), Hungarian
Maurice Jarre (1924- ), French
Benjamin Lees (1924- ), American
Luciano Berio (1925- ), Italian
born . . . 1926 - 1950
Morton Feldman (1926-1987), American
Clermont Pépin (1926-2006), Canadian
Tadeusz Baird (1928-1981), Polish
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928- ), German
George Crumb (1929- ), American
Robert Muczynski (1929- ), American
David Amram (1930- ), American
Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996), Japanese
Nancy Bloomer Deussen (1931- ), American
Sofia Gubaidulina (1931- ), Soviet
Michael Colgrass (1932- ), American
Wojciech Kilar (1932- ), Polish
John Williams (1932- ), American
Henryk Gorecki (1933- ), Polish
Krystof Penderecki (1933- ), Polish
Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998), Russian-Soviet
Arvo Pärt (1935- ), Estonian
Terry Riley (1935- ), American
Aulis Sallinen (1935- ), Finnish
Peter Schickele (1935- ), American
Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981), English
Steve Reich (1936- ), American
Elliott Schwartz (1936- ), American
Philip Glass (1937- ), American
Benjamín Gutiérrez (1937- ), Costa Rican
Nikolai Kapustin (1937- ), Soviet-Russian
Ann Southam (1937- ), Canadian
John Corigliano (1938- ), American
John Harbison (1938- ), American
Jacques Hétu (1938- ), Canadian
Leo Brouwer (1939- ), Cuban
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (1939- ), American
Adrienne Albert (1941- ), American
Johannes Fritsch (1941- ), German
Rudolf Růžička (1941- ), Czech
Marta Ptaszyńska (1943- ), Polish-American
Karl Jenkins (1944- ), Welsh
Michael Nyman (1944- ), British
John Rea (1944- ), Canadian
John Tavener (1944- ), British
John Rutter (1945- ), British
Judith Zaimont (1945- ), American
Howard Shore (1946- ), Canadian
Harold Stover (1946- ), American
John Adams (1947- ), American
Michael Horwood (1947- ), Canadian-American
Barry Truax (1947- ), Canadian
Gwyneth Walker (1947- ), American
Bernadette Speach (1948- ), American
Dennis Báthory-Kitsz (1949- ), American
Dan Locklair (1949- ), American
Stephen Paulus (1949- ), American
Judith Shatin (1949- ), American
Meira Warshauer (1949- ), American
Shulamit Ran (1949- ), Israeli-American
Christopher Rouse (1949- ), American
Steven Stucky (1949- ), American
Tom Flaherty (1950- ), American
Barbara Harbach (1950- ), American
Libby Larsen (1950- ), American
Boris Levenberg (1950- ), Israeli
Arturo Márquez (1950- ), Mexican
born . . . 1951 - 1975
Jesse Ayers (1951- ), American
Philip Carlsen (1951- ), American
George Tsontakis (1951- ), American
Robert Wendel (1951- ), American
Lee Actor (1952- ), American
Robert Gans (1952- ), American
Qu Xiao-Song (1952- ), Chinese
Reza Vali (1952- ), Iranian
Chen Yi (1953- ), Chinsese
Michael Daugherty (1954- ), American
Ge Gan-ru (1954- ), Chinese
Gary Kulesha (1954- ), Canadian
Behzad Ranjbaran (1955- ), Iranian
Bright Sheng (1955- ), Chinese
Javier Alvarez (1956- ), Mexican
Richard Danielpour (1956- ), American
Daniel Dorff (1956- ), American
Mark Gresham (1956- ), American
David Sartor (1956- ), American
Kile Smith (1956- ), American
Greg Bartholomew (1957- ), American
David Lang (1957- ), American
Paul Moravec (1957- ), American
Tan Dun (1957- ), Chinese
Michael Glenn Williams (1957- ), American
Iva Bittová (1958- ), Czech
Magnus Lindberg (1958- ), Finnish
Zbyněk Matějů (1958- ), Czech
Frank Ticheli (1958- ), American
Elaine Fine (1959- ), American
Gregory Hall (1959- ), American
Tom Myron (1959- ), American
Beth Wiemann (1959- ), American
Aaron Jay Kernis (1960- ), American
António Chagas Rosa (1960- ), Portuguese
Alexandros Mouzas (1962- ), Greek
Bruce Roter (1962- ), American
Gia Comolli (1965- ), American
Alex Shapiro (1962- ), American
Charlotte Seither (1965- ), German
Jonathan Golove (1966- ), American
Dorothy Hindman (1966- ), American
John Psathas (1966- ), New Zealander
Juliet Kiri Palmer (1967- ), New Zealand-Canadian
Paweł Łukaszewski (1968- ), Polish
Victoria Borisova-Ollas (1969- ), Russian
Dmitri Tymoczko (1969- ), American
Karen Amrhein (1970- ), American
Robert Bradshaw (1970- ), American
Ken Ueno (1970- ), American
Michel van der Aa (1970- ), Netherlands
Stefan Weisman (1970- ), American
Ezio Bosso (1971- ), Italian
Da Jeong Choi (1973- ), Korean
Amy Scurria (1973- ), American
Paul Witney (1973- ), Australian
Dean Rosenthal (1974- ), American
Oscar Carmona (1975- ), Chilean
David Morneau (1975- ), American
Robert Rival (1975- ), Canadian
born . . . 1976 - 2008
Svitlana Azarova (1976- ), Ukrainian
David Fennessy (1976- ), Irish
Mirjam Tally (1976- ), Estonian
Mason Bates (1977- ), American
Maija Hynninen (1977- ), Finnish
Eli Marshall (1977- ), American
J. Anthony Allen (1978- ), American
Edward Wright (1980- ), English
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
Adrienne Albert (1941- ), American
J. Anthony Allen (1978- ), American
Javier Alvarez (1956- ), Mexican
David Amram (1930- ), American
Karen Amrhein (1970- ), American
Leroy Anderson (1908-1975), American
Georges Auric (1899-1983), French
Jesse Ayers (1951- ), American
Svitlana Azarova (1976- ), Ukrainian
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- ), American
Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969), Polish
Tadeusz Baird (1928-1981), Polish
Samuel Barber (1910-1981), American
Greg Bartholomew (1957- ), American
Bela Bartok (1881-1945), Hungarian
Mason Bates (1977- ), American
Dennis Báthory-Kitsz (1949- ), American
Alban Berg (1885-1935), Austrian
Arthur Berger (1912-2003), American
Luciano Berio (1925- ), Italian
Elmer Bernstein (1922-2004), American
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), American
Iva Bittová (1958- ), Czech
Victoria Borisova-Ollas (1969- ), Russian
Ezio Bosso (1971- ), Italian
Robert Bradshaw (1970- ), American
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), English
Leo Brouwer (1939- ), Cuban
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
Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981), English
Philip Carlsen (1951- ), American
Oscar Carmona (1975- ), Chilean
Elliott Carter (1908- ), American
Chen Yi (1953- ), Chinsese
Da Jeong Choi (1973- ), Korean
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
Richard Danielpour (1956- ), American
Michael Daugherty (1954- ), American
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), French
Norman Dello Joio (1913-2008), American
Nancy Bloomer Deussen (1931- ), American
Daniel Dorff (1956- ), 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
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946), Spanish
Morton Feldman (1926-1987), American
David Fennessy (1976- ), Irish
Elaine Fine (1959- ), American
Gerald Finzi (1901-1956), English
Tom Flaherty (1950- ), American
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
Robert Gans (1952- ), American
Ge Gan-ru (1954- ), Chinese
George Gershwin (1898-1937), American
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983), Argentinian
Philip Glass (1937- ), American
Jonathan Golove (1966- ), American
Henryk Gorecki (1933- ), Polish
Percy Grainger (1882-1961), Australian-American
Mark Gresham (1956- ), American
Ferde Grofe (1892-1972), American
Sofia Gubaidulina (1931- ), Soviet
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
Gregory Hall (1959- ), American
Barbara Harbach (1950- ), American
John Harbison (1938- ), American
Lou Harrison (1917-2003), American
Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975), American
Jacques Hétu (1938- ), Canadian
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963), German
Dorothy Hindman (1966- ), American
Gustav Holst (1874-1934), English
Arthur Honegger (1892-1955), Swiss
Sarah Horick (1984- ), American
Michael Horwood (1947- ), Canadian-American
Karel Husa (1921- ), Czech-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
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
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
Aaron Jay Kernis (1960- ), American
Wojciech Kilar (1932- ), Polish
Earl Kim (1920-1998), American
Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967), Hungarian
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), Austrian
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
Benjamin Lees (1924- ), American
Jon Leifs (1899-1968), Icelandic
Boris Levenberg (1950- ), Israeli
Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006), Hungarian
Magnus Lindberg (1958- ), Finnish
Dan Locklair (1949- ), American
Paweł Łukaszewski (1968- ), Polish
Witold Lutoslawski (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
Eli Marshall (1977- ), American
Arturo Márquez (1950- ), Mexican
Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959), Czech
Zbyněk Matějů (1958- ), Czech
Giancarlo Menotti (1911- ), Italian-American
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), French
Paul Moravec (1957- ), American
David Morneau (1975- ), American
Alexandros Mouzas (1962- ), Greek
Robert Muczynski (1929- ), American
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
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
Juliet Kiri Palmer (1967- ), New Zealand-Canadian
Arvo Pärt (1935- ), Estonian
Harry Partch (1901-1974), American
Stephen Paulus (1949- ), American
Krystof Penderecki (1933- ), Polish
Clermont Pépin (1926-2006), Canadian
Ástor Piazzolla (1921-1992), Argentinian
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), French
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
Shulamit Ran (1949- ), Israeli-American
Behzad Ranjbaran (1955- ), Iranian
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), French
John Rea (1944- ), Canadian
Steve Reich (1936- ), American
Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940), Mexican
Terry Riley (1935- ), American
Robert Rival (1975- ), Canadian
Richard Rodgers (1902-1979), American
António Chagas Rosa (1960- ), Portuguese
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
John Rutter (1945- ), British
Rudolf Růžička (1941- ), Czech
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
Aulis Sallinen (1935- ), Finnish
David Sartor (1956- ), American
Erik Satie (1866-1925), French
Peter Schickele (1935- ), American
Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998), Russian-Soviet
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), Austrian
William Schuman (1910-1992), American
Elliott Schwartz (1936- ), American
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
Howard Shore (1946- ), Canadian
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), Soviet-Russian
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), Finnish
Kile Smith (1956- ), American
Ann Southam (1937- ), Canadian
Bernadette Speach (1948- ), American
Max Steiner (1888-1971), Austrian-American
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928- ), German
Harold Stover (1946- ), American
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Russian
Steven Stucky (1949- ), 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
Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996), Japanese
Mirjam Tally (1976- ), Estonian
Tan Dun (1957- ), Chinese
John Tavener (1944- ), British
Virgil Thomson (1896-1989), American
Frank Ticheli (1958- ), American
Barry Truax (1947- ), Canadian
George Tsontakis (1951- ), 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
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
Michel van der Aa (1970- ), Netherlands
Edgard Varese (1883-1965), American
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), English
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959), Brazilian
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
Gwyneth Walker (1947- ), American
William Walton (1902-1983), British
Meira Warshauer (1949- ), 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
Beth Wiemann (1959- ), American
John Williams (1932- ), American
Michael Glenn Williams (1957- ), American
Paul Witney (1973- ), Australian
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
Judith Zaimont (1945- ), 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
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
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
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
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959), Brazilian
Max Steiner (1888-1971), Austrian-American
Bohuslav Martinů (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
Virgil Thomson (1896-1989), American
Henry Cowell (1897-1965), American
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), Austrian
George Gershwin (1898-1937), American
Georges Auric (1899-1983), French
Jon Leifs (1899-1968), Icelandic
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), French
Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940), Mexican
Aaron Copland (1900-1990), American
Kurt Weill (1900-1983), German
born . . . 1901 - 1925
Gerald Finzi (1901-1956), English
Harry Partch (1901-1974), American
Richard Rodgers (1902-1979), American
William Walton (1902-1983), British
André Jolivet (1905-1974), French
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), Soviet-Russian
Franz Waxman (1906-1967), Jewish-German-American
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
William Schuman (1910-1992), American
Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975), American
Giancarlo Menotti (1911- ), Italian-American
Nino Rota (1911-1979), Italian
Arthur Berger (1912-2003), American
John Cage (1912-1992), American
Benjamin Britten (1913- 1976), English
Norman Dello Joio (1913-2008), American
Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994), Polish
Milton Babbitt (1916- ), American
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983), Argentinian
Lou Harrison (1917-2003), American
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), 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
Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006), Hungarian
Maurice Jarre (1924- ), French
Benjamin Lees (1924- ), American
Luciano Berio (1925- ), Italian
born . . . 1926 - 1950
Morton Feldman (1926-1987), American
Clermont Pépin (1926-2006), Canadian
Tadeusz Baird (1928-1981), Polish
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928- ), German
George Crumb (1929- ), American
Robert Muczynski (1929- ), American
David Amram (1930- ), American
Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996), Japanese
Nancy Bloomer Deussen (1931- ), American
Sofia Gubaidulina (1931- ), Soviet
Michael Colgrass (1932- ), American
Wojciech Kilar (1932- ), Polish
John Williams (1932- ), American
Henryk Gorecki (1933- ), Polish
Krystof Penderecki (1933- ), Polish
Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998), Russian-Soviet
Arvo Pärt (1935- ), Estonian
Terry Riley (1935- ), American
Aulis Sallinen (1935- ), Finnish
Peter Schickele (1935- ), American
Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981), English
Steve Reich (1936- ), American
Elliott Schwartz (1936- ), American
Philip Glass (1937- ), American
Benjamín Gutiérrez (1937- ), Costa Rican
Nikolai Kapustin (1937- ), Soviet-Russian
Ann Southam (1937- ), Canadian
John Corigliano (1938- ), American
John Harbison (1938- ), American
Jacques Hétu (1938- ), Canadian
Leo Brouwer (1939- ), Cuban
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (1939- ), American
Adrienne Albert (1941- ), American
Johannes Fritsch (1941- ), German
Rudolf Růžička (1941- ), Czech
Marta Ptaszyńska (1943- ), Polish-American
Karl Jenkins (1944- ), Welsh
Michael Nyman (1944- ), British
John Rea (1944- ), Canadian
John Tavener (1944- ), British
John Rutter (1945- ), British
Judith Zaimont (1945- ), American
Howard Shore (1946- ), Canadian
Harold Stover (1946- ), American
John Adams (1947- ), American
Michael Horwood (1947- ), Canadian-American
Barry Truax (1947- ), Canadian
Gwyneth Walker (1947- ), American
Bernadette Speach (1948- ), American
Dennis Báthory-Kitsz (1949- ), American
Dan Locklair (1949- ), American
Stephen Paulus (1949- ), American
Judith Shatin (1949- ), American
Meira Warshauer (1949- ), American
Shulamit Ran (1949- ), Israeli-American
Christopher Rouse (1949- ), American
Steven Stucky (1949- ), American
Tom Flaherty (1950- ), American
Barbara Harbach (1950- ), American
Libby Larsen (1950- ), American
Boris Levenberg (1950- ), Israeli
Arturo Márquez (1950- ), Mexican
born . . . 1951 - 1975
Jesse Ayers (1951- ), American
Philip Carlsen (1951- ), American
George Tsontakis (1951- ), American
Robert Wendel (1951- ), American
Lee Actor (1952- ), American
Robert Gans (1952- ), American
Qu Xiao-Song (1952- ), Chinese
Reza Vali (1952- ), Iranian
Chen Yi (1953- ), Chinsese
Michael Daugherty (1954- ), American
Ge Gan-ru (1954- ), Chinese
Gary Kulesha (1954- ), Canadian
Behzad Ranjbaran (1955- ), Iranian
Bright Sheng (1955- ), Chinese
Javier Alvarez (1956- ), Mexican
Richard Danielpour (1956- ), American
Daniel Dorff (1956- ), American
Mark Gresham (1956- ), American
David Sartor (1956- ), American
Kile Smith (1956- ), American
Greg Bartholomew (1957- ), American
David Lang (1957- ), American
Paul Moravec (1957- ), American
Tan Dun (1957- ), Chinese
Michael Glenn Williams (1957- ), American
Iva Bittová (1958- ), Czech
Magnus Lindberg (1958- ), Finnish
Zbyněk Matějů (1958- ), Czech
Frank Ticheli (1958- ), American
Elaine Fine (1959- ), American
Gregory Hall (1959- ), American
Tom Myron (1959- ), American
Beth Wiemann (1959- ), American
Aaron Jay Kernis (1960- ), American
António Chagas Rosa (1960- ), Portuguese
Alexandros Mouzas (1962- ), Greek
Bruce Roter (1962- ), American
Gia Comolli (1965- ), American
Alex Shapiro (1962- ), American
Charlotte Seither (1965- ), German
Jonathan Golove (1966- ), American
Dorothy Hindman (1966- ), American
John Psathas (1966- ), New Zealander
Juliet Kiri Palmer (1967- ), New Zealand-Canadian
Paweł Łukaszewski (1968- ), Polish
Victoria Borisova-Ollas (1969- ), Russian
Dmitri Tymoczko (1969- ), American
Karen Amrhein (1970- ), American
Robert Bradshaw (1970- ), American
Ken Ueno (1970- ), American
Michel van der Aa (1970- ), Netherlands
Stefan Weisman (1970- ), American
Ezio Bosso (1971- ), Italian
Da Jeong Choi (1973- ), Korean
Amy Scurria (1973- ), American
Paul Witney (1973- ), Australian
Dean Rosenthal (1974- ), American
Oscar Carmona (1975- ), Chilean
David Morneau (1975- ), American
Robert Rival (1975- ), Canadian
born . . . 1976 - 2008
Svitlana Azarova (1976- ), Ukrainian
David Fennessy (1976- ), Irish
Mirjam Tally (1976- ), Estonian
Mason Bates (1977- ), American
Maija Hynninen (1977- ), Finnish
Eli Marshall (1977- ), American
J. Anthony Allen (1978- ), American
Edward Wright (1980- ), English
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
Adrienne Albert (1941- ), American
J. Anthony Allen (1978- ), American
Javier Alvarez (1956- ), Mexican
David Amram (1930- ), American
Karen Amrhein (1970- ), American
Leroy Anderson (1908-1975), American
Georges Auric (1899-1983), French
Jesse Ayers (1951- ), American
Svitlana Azarova (1976- ), Ukrainian
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- ), American
Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969), Polish
Tadeusz Baird (1928-1981), Polish
Samuel Barber (1910-1981), American
Greg Bartholomew (1957- ), American
Bela Bartok (1881-1945), Hungarian
Mason Bates (1977- ), American
Dennis Báthory-Kitsz (1949- ), American
Alban Berg (1885-1935), Austrian
Arthur Berger (1912-2003), American
Luciano Berio (1925- ), Italian
Elmer Bernstein (1922-2004), American
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), American
Iva Bittová (1958- ), Czech
Victoria Borisova-Ollas (1969- ), Russian
Ezio Bosso (1971- ), Italian
Robert Bradshaw (1970- ), American
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), English
Leo Brouwer (1939- ), Cuban
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
Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981), English
Philip Carlsen (1951- ), American
Oscar Carmona (1975- ), Chilean
Elliott Carter (1908- ), American
Chen Yi (1953- ), Chinsese
Da Jeong Choi (1973- ), Korean
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
Richard Danielpour (1956- ), American
Michael Daugherty (1954- ), American
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), French
Norman Dello Joio (1913-2008), American
Nancy Bloomer Deussen (1931- ), American
Daniel Dorff (1956- ), 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
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946), Spanish
Morton Feldman (1926-1987), American
David Fennessy (1976- ), Irish
Elaine Fine (1959- ), American
Gerald Finzi (1901-1956), English
Tom Flaherty (1950- ), American
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
Robert Gans (1952- ), American
Ge Gan-ru (1954- ), Chinese
George Gershwin (1898-1937), American
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983), Argentinian
Philip Glass (1937- ), American
Jonathan Golove (1966- ), American
Henryk Gorecki (1933- ), Polish
Percy Grainger (1882-1961), Australian-American
Mark Gresham (1956- ), American
Ferde Grofe (1892-1972), American
Sofia Gubaidulina (1931- ), Soviet
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
Gregory Hall (1959- ), American
Barbara Harbach (1950- ), American
John Harbison (1938- ), American
Lou Harrison (1917-2003), American
Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975), American
Jacques Hétu (1938- ), Canadian
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963), German
Dorothy Hindman (1966- ), American
Gustav Holst (1874-1934), English
Arthur Honegger (1892-1955), Swiss
Sarah Horick (1984- ), American
Michael Horwood (1947- ), Canadian-American
Karel Husa (1921- ), Czech-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
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
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
Aaron Jay Kernis (1960- ), American
Wojciech Kilar (1932- ), Polish
Earl Kim (1920-1998), American
Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967), Hungarian
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), Austrian
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
Benjamin Lees (1924- ), American
Jon Leifs (1899-1968), Icelandic
Boris Levenberg (1950- ), Israeli
Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006), Hungarian
Magnus Lindberg (1958- ), Finnish
Dan Locklair (1949- ), American
Paweł Łukaszewski (1968- ), Polish
Witold Lutoslawski (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
Eli Marshall (1977- ), American
Arturo Márquez (1950- ), Mexican
Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959), Czech
Zbyněk Matějů (1958- ), Czech
Giancarlo Menotti (1911- ), Italian-American
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), French
Paul Moravec (1957- ), American
David Morneau (1975- ), American
Alexandros Mouzas (1962- ), Greek
Robert Muczynski (1929- ), American
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
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
Juliet Kiri Palmer (1967- ), New Zealand-Canadian
Arvo Pärt (1935- ), Estonian
Harry Partch (1901-1974), American
Stephen Paulus (1949- ), American
Krystof Penderecki (1933- ), Polish
Clermont Pépin (1926-2006), Canadian
Ástor Piazzolla (1921-1992), Argentinian
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), French
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
Shulamit Ran (1949- ), Israeli-American
Behzad Ranjbaran (1955- ), Iranian
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), French
John Rea (1944- ), Canadian
Steve Reich (1936- ), American
Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940), Mexican
Terry Riley (1935- ), American
Robert Rival (1975- ), Canadian
Richard Rodgers (1902-1979), American
António Chagas Rosa (1960- ), Portuguese
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
John Rutter (1945- ), British
Rudolf Růžička (1941- ), Czech
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
Aulis Sallinen (1935- ), Finnish
David Sartor (1956- ), American
Erik Satie (1866-1925), French
Peter Schickele (1935- ), American
Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998), Russian-Soviet
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), Austrian
William Schuman (1910-1992), American
Elliott Schwartz (1936- ), American
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
Howard Shore (1946- ), Canadian
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), Soviet-Russian
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), Finnish
Kile Smith (1956- ), American
Ann Southam (1937- ), Canadian
Bernadette Speach (1948- ), American
Max Steiner (1888-1971), Austrian-American
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928- ), German
Harold Stover (1946- ), American
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Russian
Steven Stucky (1949- ), 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
Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996), Japanese
Mirjam Tally (1976- ), Estonian
Tan Dun (1957- ), Chinese
John Tavener (1944- ), British
Virgil Thomson (1896-1989), American
Frank Ticheli (1958- ), American
Barry Truax (1947- ), Canadian
George Tsontakis (1951- ), 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
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
Michel van der Aa (1970- ), Netherlands
Edgard Varese (1883-1965), American
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), English
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959), Brazilian
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
Gwyneth Walker (1947- ), American
William Walton (1902-1983), British
Meira Warshauer (1949- ), 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
Beth Wiemann (1959- ), American
John Williams (1932- ), American
Michael Glenn Williams (1957- ), American
Paul Witney (1973- ), Australian
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
Judith Zaimont (1945- ), 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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