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Home » Music Library » Priority List of Contemporary Composers

Priority List of Contemporary Composers

Primary Composers

  • John Adams

  • Milton Babbitt

  • Luciano Berio

  • Elliott Carter

  • George Crumb

  • Chaya Czernowin

  • Luigi Dallapiccola

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

  • Henri Dutilleux

  • Brian Ferneyhough

  • Philip Glass

  • Henry Gorecki

  • Gerard Grisey

  • Sofia Gubaidulina

  • Mauricio Kagel

  • Oliver Knussen

  • Gyorgy Kurtag

  • Helmut Lachenmann

  • Gyorgy Ligeti

  • Bruno Maderna

  • Luigi Nono

  • Pauline Oliveros

  • Arvo Part

  • Krzysztof Penderecki

  • Steve Reich

  • Wolfgang Rihm

  • Kaija Saariaho

  • Giacinto Scelsi

  • Salvatore Sciarrino

  • Alfred Schnittke

  • Karlheinz Stockhausen

  • Toru Takemitsu

  • John Tavener

  • Iannis Xenakis

Secondary Composers

  • Thomas Ades

  • Louis Andriessen

  • Georges Aperghis

  • Arthur Berger

  • Harrison Birtwistle

  • William Bolcom

  • Linda Bouchard

  • Cornelius Cardew

  • Mario Davidovsky

  • Tan Dun

  • Miriam Gideon

  • John Harbison

  • Jonathan Harvey

  • Betsy Jolas

  • David Lang

  • Libby Larsen

  • Donald Martino

  • Tristan Murail

  • Thea Musgrave

  • Michael Nyman

  • Astor Piazzolla

  • Frederic Rzewski

  • Murray R. Schafer

  • Gunther Schuller

  • Ralph Shapey

  • Bright Sheng

  • Morton Subotnick

  • August Read Thomas

  • Joan Tower

  • Gilles Tremblay

  • Charles Wuorinen

  • Frank Zappa

  • John Zorn

Stony Brook University Composers

  • Perry Goldstein

  • Billy Jim Layton

  • John Lessard

  • David Lewin

  • Isaac Nemiroff

  • Daria Semegen

  • Sheila Silver

  • Dan Weymouth

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