swap_horiz Arvo Pärt Alternatives

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Ennio Morricone

Italian composer (1928–2020) who scored over 500 films, including Sergio Leone's Westerns such as The Good, the Bad and...

Italian Contemporary Film Orchestral

8.9 Great

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Henry Purcell

English Baroque composer considered the greatest of his era, known for the opera Dido and Aeneas (c. 1689) and his cerem...

Baroque Opera English Sacred

8.8 Great

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Anton Bruckner

Austrian composer of the late Romantic era, highly regarded for his massive, structurally complex symphonies and sacred...

Symphony Romantic Austrian Sacred

8.7 Great

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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Italian Renaissance composer whose smooth polyphonic sacred style became the Catholic Church's musical ideal after the C...

Italian Renaissance Sacred Polyphony

8.7 Great

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Antonio Vivaldi

Italian Baroque composer and violinist known for The Four Seasons and a prolific output exceeding 500 concertos.

Baroque Italian Violin Concerto

8.7 Great

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Meredith Monk

Meredith Monk is a pioneering American composer and performer known for her groundbreaking work exploring the expressive...

Performance Minimalist Experimental Vocal

8.5 Great

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Steve Reich

American composer (born 1936), a leading minimalist known for phasing techniques in works like Music for 18 Musicians (1...

American Minimalist Percussion Process

8.5 Great

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William Byrd

English Renaissance composer who produced important keyboard, vocal, and sacred works despite practicing Catholicism und...

Renaissance Keyboard English Sacred

8.5 Great

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Joe Hisaishi

Japanese composer best known for his decades-long collaboration with director Hayao Miyazaki, scoring virtually every St...

Anime Contemporary Japanese Film

8.4 Great

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Thomas Tallis

English Renaissance composer who served four Tudor monarchs and is celebrated for the 40-voice motet Spem in alium (c. 1...

Renaissance English Sacred Polyphony

8.4 Great

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György Kurtág

György Kurtág (b. 1926) is a Hungarian composer celebrated for his intensely concentrated miniatures and chamber works i...

Hungarian Contemporary Chamber Miniaturist

8.4 Great

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Ryuichi Sakamoto

Japanese composer and musician who won an Academy Award for The Last Emperor (1987) and was a pioneering figure in elect...

Contemporary Electronic Japanese Film

8.3 Great

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Guillaume Dufay

Franco-Flemish composer and a leading figure of the Burgundian School whose sacred and secular works defined early 15th-...

Renaissance Sacred Polyphony Mass

8.3 Great

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Tomás Luis de Victoria

Spanish Renaissance composer of sacred polyphony, considered one of the greatest masters of the genre in 16th-century Ca...

Spanish Renaissance Sacred Polyphony

8.3 Great

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Heinrich Schütz

German Baroque composer who introduced Italian polychoral style to Germany and composed the first German-language opera,...

German Baroque Pioneer Sacred

8.3 Great

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Kaija Saariaho

Finnish composer (1952–2023) known for spectralist-influenced works including the opera L'Amour de loin, premiered at Sa...

Opera Contemporary Electronics Spectral

8.2 Great

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Henryk Górecki

Polish composer (1933–2010) whose 1976 Symphony No. 3 became an unexpected international commercial success in the early...

Symphony Polish Modern Minimalist

8.0 Great

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John Tavener

British composer (1944–2013) known for spiritually inspired works including The Protecting Veil (1987) and Song for Athe...

Contemporary Minimalist British Sacred

7.5 Good

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James MacMillan

Scottish composer (born 1959) whose works, including The Confession of Isobel Gowdie (1990), often reflect his Catholic...

Contemporary Orchestral Sacred Scottish

7.4 Good

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Tigran Mansurian

Armenian composer (born 1939) whose works blend Armenian folk idioms with contemporary classical techniques and poetic s...

Contemporary Orchestral Chamber Sacred

7.2 Good