Periods
Modern
c. 1900–
From modernism and new harmonic languages through the avant-garde to living composers.
All 80
20th 49
Post-War 27
21st 4
Dmitri Shostakovich
1906–1975 · 20th Century
Arvo Pärt
b. 1935 · Post-War
Leonard Bernstein
1918–1990 · 20th Century
Sergei Prokofiev
1891–1953 · 20th Century
Philip Glass
b. 1937 · Post-War
William Walton
1902–1983 · 20th Century
Carl Orff
1895–1982 · 20th Century
Samuel Barber
1910–1981 · 20th Century
Aram Khachaturian
1903–1978 · 20th Century
Francis Poulenc
1899–1963 · 20th Century
John Adams
b. 1947 · 21st Century
Pierre Boulez
1925–2016 · Post-War
George Gershwin
1898–1937 · 20th Century
Astor Piazzolla
1921–1992 · 20th Century
Luciano Berio
1925–2003 · Post-War
Joaquín Rodrigo
1901–1999 · 20th Century
Igor Stravinsky
1882–1971 · 20th Century
Aaron Copland
1900–1990 · 20th Century
Alban Berg
1885–1935 · 20th Century
Benjamin Britten
1913–1976 · 20th Century
Arnold Schoenberg
1874–1951 · 20th Century
Béla Bartók
1881–1945 · 20th Century
Steve Reich
b. 1936 · Post-War
Henryk Górecki
1933–2010 · Post-War
Manuel de Falla
1876–1946 · 20th Century
Heitor Villa-Lobos
1887–1959 · 20th Century
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
1897–1957 · 20th Century
Malcolm Arnold
1921–2006 · Post-War
John Cage
1912–1992 · Post-War
Paul Hindemith
1895–1963 · 20th Century
Alberto Ginastera
1916–1983 · 20th Century
Krzysztof Penderecki
1933–2020 · Post-War
Jacques Ibert
1890–1962 · 20th Century
John Corigliano
b. 1938 · 21st Century
Kurt Weill
1900–1950 · 20th Century
Percy Grainger
1882–1961 · 20th Century
Alfred Schnittke
1934–1998 · Post-War
György Ligeti
1923–2006 · Post-War
Maurice Duruflé
1902–1986 · 20th Century
Olivier Messiaen
1908–1992 · 20th Century
Thomas Adès
b. 1971 · 21st Century
William Schuman
1910–1992 · 20th Century
Ernest Bloch
1880–1959 · 20th Century
Toru Takemitsu
1930–1996 · Post-War
Darius Milhaud
1892–1974 · 20th Century
Dmitry Kabalevsky
1904–1987 · 20th Century
Morton Gould
1913–1996 · Post-War
Zoltán Kodály
1882–1967 · 20th Century
Bohuslav Martinů
1890–1959 · 20th Century
Einojuhani Rautavaara
1928–2016 · Post-War
Howard Hanson
1896–1981 · 20th Century
Charles Ives
1874–1954 · 20th Century
Anton Webern
1883–1945 · 20th Century
Francisco Mignone
1897–1986 · 20th Century
Karlheinz Stockhausen
1928–2007 · Post-War
Iannis Xenakis
1922–2001 · Post-War
Arthur Honegger
1892–1955 · 20th Century
Carlos Chávez
1899–1978 · 20th Century
Henri Dutilleux
1916–2013 · Post-War
Arnold Bax
1883–1953 · 20th Century
Camargo Guarnieri
1907–1993 · 20th Century
George Crumb
1929–2022 · Post-War
Hans Werner Henze
1926–2012 · Post-War
Michael Tippett
1905–1998 · 20th Century
Sofia Gubaidulina
b. 1931 · Post-War
Edgard Varèse
1883–1965 · 20th Century
Elliott Carter
1908–2012 · Post-War
Ernest Moeran
1894–1950 · 20th Century
Fernando Lopes-Graça
1906–1994 · 20th Century
Ned Rorem
b. 1923 · Post-War
Michael Daugherty
b. 1954 · 21st Century
George Antheil
1900–1959 · 20th Century
Milton Babbitt
1916–2011 · Post-War
Wolfgang Rihm
b. 1952 · Post-War
Harrison Birtwistle
b. 1934 · Post-War
Roy Harris
1898–1979 · 20th Century
Luigi Nono
1924–1990 · Post-War
Vagn Holmboe
1909–1996 · 20th Century
Joly Braga Santos
1924–1988 · 20th Century
Witold Lutoslawski
1913–1994 · Post-War
