swap_horiz Hans Abrahamsen Alternatives

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George Benjamin

George Benjamin is a British composer and conductor born in 1960. He studied composition with Olivier Messiaen and Alexa...

Music Opera Contemporary Orchestral

7.8 Good

2

Alexandre Desplat

Alexandre Desplat is a French film composer born in Paris in 1961. He has composed music for over 100 films and received...

Music French Contemporary Film

7.8 Good

3

Valentin Silvestrov

Valentin Silvestrov, born in 1937, is a Ukrainian composer recognized for his post-minimalist, lyrical, and atmospheric...

Music Contemporary Orchestral Chamber

7.7 Good

4

Gérard Grisey

Gérard Grisey (1946–1998) was a French composer and a founding figure of the spectral music movement. Spectral music use...

Music French Contemporary Orchestral

7.7 Good

5

Magnus Lindberg

Magnus Lindberg (born 1958) is a Finnish composer recognized for his vivid orchestration and intricate, dense musical te...

Music Contemporary Modernist Orchestral

7.6 Good

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Wolfgang Rihm

Wolfgang Rihm (1952–2024) was a German composer renowned for his extraordinary productivity and highly expressive, often...

Music German Contemporary Expressionist

7.6 Good

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Giya Kancheli

Giya Kancheli (1935–2019) was a Georgian composer recognized for his atmospheric and spiritually intense orchestral and...

Music Contemporary Orchestral Chamber

7.6 Good

8

Per Nørgård

Per Nørgård was a prominent Danish composer whose work significantly influenced contemporary Nordic classical music. He...

Music Opera Danish Contemporary

7.6 Good

9

Jennifer Higdon

Jennifer Higdon is an American composer of contemporary classical music whose catalog includes orchestral, chamber, chor...

Music American Contemporary Accessible

7.5 Good

10

George Walker

George Walker was an American composer and pianist whose music includes orchestral, chamber, vocal, and solo piano works...

Music American Contemporary Orchestral

7.4 Good

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Toshio Hosokawa

Toshio Hosokawa (born 1955) is a Japanese composer whose works blend Western contemporary classical techniques with Japa...

Music Contemporary Japanese Orchestral

7.3 Good

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Joan Tower

Joan Tower, born in 1938, is an American composer whose catalog includes orchestral, chamber, piano, and wind-band music...

Music American Contemporary Orchestral

7.3 Good

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Tigran Mansurian

Tigran Mansurian is an Armenian composer born in 1939 in Beirut who settled in Soviet Armenia as a child and studied at...

Music Contemporary Orchestral Chamber

7.2 Good

14

Chen Yi

Chen Yi is a Chinese-American composer born in 1953 whose music combines elements of Chinese musical traditions with tec...

Music Contemporary Orchestral Chamber

7.2 Good

15

Rebecca Saunders

Rebecca Saunders is a British composer of contemporary classical music recognized for her visceral and spatially aware a...

Music Contemporary Orchestral Chamber

6.7 Fair

16

Poul Ruders

Poul Ruders is a Danish composer whose work includes opera, orchestral music, chamber music, choral pieces, and composit...

Music Opera Danish Contemporary

6.5 Fair

17

Augusta Read Thomas

Augusta Read Thomas is an American composer whose catalogue includes orchestral, chamber, vocal, and instrumental music....

Music American Contemporary Lyrical

6.3 Fair

18

Luca Francesconi

Luca Francesconi is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music, born in Milan in 1956. He studied with Azio Cor...

Music Opera Italian Contemporary

5.9 Mediocre

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Matthias Pintscher

Matthias Pintscher is a German composer and conductor whose work includes orchestral and chamber music. His compositions...

Music German Contemporary Orchestral

5.5 Mediocre

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Peter Ruzicka

Peter Ruzicka is a German composer, conductor, and cultural administrator born in Düsseldorf in 1948. His operas include...

Music German Contemporary Lyrical

5.0 Mediocre