Modern classical music

Modern classical music is music written in the 20th century and beyond. Although much of it draws heavily on earlier forms, modern composers also experimented with rejection of long-held ideas; notably, Arnold Schoenberg questioned the traditional notions of harmony with his twelve-tone system[?], and John Cage questioned the very definition of music with his use of chance and found sounds.

Modern classical composers include:

• John Adams
• Hugo Alfven[?]
• Louis Andriessen
• George Antheil
• Malcolm Arnold[?]
• Milton Babbitt
• Samuel Barber
• Jean Barraqué (1928 - 1973)
• Béla Bartók
• Arnold Bax
• David Bedford (born 1937)
• George Benjamin[?]
• Alban Berg
• Luciano Berio
• Irving Berlin
• Leonard Bernstein
• Ronald Binge
• Harrison Birtwistle
• Arthur Bliss
• Ernest Bloch[?]
• William Bolcom[?]
• Lili Boulanger[?]
• Nadia Boulanger[?]
• Pierre Boulez
• Havergal Brian
• Frank Bridge[?]
• Benjamin Britten
• Gavin Bryars
• Diana Burrell[?]
• Alan Bush (1900 - 1995)
• George Butterworth
• John Cage
• Elliott Carter
• Carlos Chavez[?]
• Mikolajus Konstantinas Ciurlionis[?]
• Eric Coates[?]
• Cecil Coles[?]
• Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
• John Corigliano
• George Crumb
• Luigi Dallapiccola
• Claude Debussy
• Frederick Delius
• David Diamond[?]
• Madeleine Dring[?]
• Marcel Dupré[?]
• Maurice Duruflé
• Henri Dutilleux[?]
• Ross Edwards[?]
• Hanns Eisler
• Edward Elgar
• Georges Enesco[?]
• Manuel De Falla[?]
• Morton Feldman
• Brian Ferneyhough[?]
• Luc Ferrari
• Gerald Finzi
• Peter Racine Fricker[?]
• Roberto Gerhardt[?]
• George Gershwin
• Cecil Armstrong Gibbs[?]
• Paul Gilson[?]
• Alberto Ginastera[?]
• Umberto Giordano[?]
• Gilbert and Sullivan
• Philip Glass
• Leopold Godowsky[?]
• Alexander Goehr[?]
• Carl Goldmark[?]
• Henryk Górecki
• Morton Gould[?]
• Percy Grainger
• Enrique Granados[?]
• Gérard Grisey[?]
• Carmago Guarnieri[?]
• Sofia Gubaidulina[?]
• Howard Hanson[?]
• Roy Harris
• Karl Amadeus Hartmann
• Pieter Hellendaal[?]
• Hans Werner Henze[?]
• Bernard Herrmann (1911 - 1975)
• Paul Hindemith
• Gustav Holst
• Arthur Honegger (1892 - 1955)
• Alan Hovhaness
• Philippe Hurel[?]
• Jacques Ibert[?]
• John Ireland
• Charles Ives
• Leos Janácek
• Scott Joplin
• Mauricio Kagel (born 1931)
• Oliver Knussen[?]
• Zoltán Kodály
• Ladislav Kupkovic
• Constant Lambert
• Eastwood Lane
• Lars-Erik Larsson [?]
• Philippe Leroux[?]
• György Ligeti
• Witold Lutoslawski[?]
• Elisabeth Lutyens[?]
• James Macmillan[?]
• Elizabeth Maconchy[?]
• Gustav Mahler
• Frank Martin
• Steve Martland[?]
• Peter Maxwell Davies[?]
• Bohuslav Martinu
• Nicholas Maw[?]
• Gian-Carlo Menotti
• Olivier Messiaen
• Darius Milhaud
• E.J. Moeran[?]
• Tristan Murail[?]
• Conlon Nancarrow
• Carl Nielsen
• Luigi Nono[?]
• Michael Nyman
• Sergio Roberto de Oliveira[?]
• Carl Orff
• Andrzej Panufnik[?]
• Roxanna Panufnik[?]
• Charles Hubert Parry
• Carlos Paredes[?]
• Arvo Pärt
• Harry Partch
• Krzysztof Penderecki
• Wilhelm Peterson Berger[?]
• Alan Pettersson[?]
• Astor Piazzolla
• Walter Piston[?]
• Francis Poulenc
• Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
• Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
• Einojuhani Rautavaara[?]
• Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
• Alan Rawsthorne[?]
• Steve Reich
• Ottorino Respighi[?]
• Terry Riley
• Joaquin Rodrigo
• Ned Rorem[?]
• Nino Rota (1911 - 1979)
• Albert Roussel[?]
• Edmund Rubbra[?]
• Carl Ruggles[?]
• John Rutter[?]
• Frederic Rzewski[?]
• Aulis Sallinen[?]
• Erik Satie (1866-1925)
• Florent Schmidt[?]
• Franz Schmidt
• Alfred Schnittke[?]
• Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
• Gunther Schuller[?]
• William Schuman
• Peter Sculthorpe[?]
• Roger Sessions[?] (1896- )
• Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
• Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
• Robert Simpson
• Nikos Skalkottas[?]
• Charles Villiers Stanford
• Rudi Stephan[?]
• Karlheinz Stockhausen
• Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
• Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
• Giles Swayne[?]
• Karol Szymanowski[?]
• Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996)
• John Tavener
• Mikis Theodorakis
• Virgil Thomson
• Michael Tippett
• Michael Torke[?]
• David Del Tredici[?]
• Eduard Tubin[?]
• Mark-Anthony Turnage
• Erkki-Sven Tüür[?]
• Geirr Tveitt[?]
• Moisei Vainberg[?]
• Edgard Varese
• Peteris Vask[?]
• Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
• Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
• David Ward-Steinman
• Anton Webern (1883-1945)
• Kurt Weill (1900-1950)
• Malcolm Williamson
• Dag Wirén[?]
• Hugo Wolf
• Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876-1948)
• Yannis Xenakis
• La Monte Young
• Alexander von Zemlinsky
• Bernd Alois Zimmermann[?]
• Ellen Zwilich (1939-)