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Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone was a highly influential Italian composer renowned for his distinctive orchestral scores. He primarily w...

Music Italian Contemporary Film

8.88 Great

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Sofia Gubaidulina

Sofia Gubaidulina is a prominent Russian composer known for her distinctive and challenging orchestral works. Her music...

Music Russian Contemporary Avant Garde

8.58 Great

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Joe Hisaishi

Joe Hisaishi is a highly respected Japanese composer celebrated primarily for his extensive work with animator Hayao Miy...

Music Anime Contemporary Japan

8.38 Great

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Krzysztof Penderecki

Krzysztof Penderecki was a prominent Polish composer (1933–2020) recognized for his innovative approach to music. His wo...

Music Polish Modern Avant Garde

8.28 Great

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Howard Shore

Howard Shore is a prominent composer recognized primarily for his extensive orchestral scores, notably including the cri...

Music Opera Contemporary Canadian

8.22 Great

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Thomas Adès

Thomas Adès is a British composer, pianist, and conductor whose works integrate traditional classical forms with highly...

Music Opera Contemporary Orchestral

7.92 Good

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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

7.82 Good

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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

7.82 Good

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Hans Zimmer

Hans Zimmer is a German film score composer and the head of the film music production company Remote Control Productions...

Music German Contemporary Electronic

7.78 Good

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Unsuk Chin

Unsuk Chin, born in 1961 in Seoul, South Korea, is a contemporary classical composer known for her complex, modernist te...

Korean Music Opera Contemporary

7.72 Good

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Valentin Silvestrov

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

Music Contemporary Orchestral Chamber

7.72 Good

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Michael Giacchino

Michael Giacchino is an American composer of film, television, and video game music. He is known for his frequent collab...

Music Television American Contemporary

7.72 Good

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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

7.72 Good

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Magnus Lindberg

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

Music Contemporary Modernist Orchestral

7.62 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

7.62 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

7.62 Good

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Hubert Parry

Hubert Parry was an English composer and academic who played a foundational role in the late 19th-century revival of Bri...

Music Romantic Orchestral English

7.27 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

7.22 Good

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Judith Weir

Judith Weir is a British composer born in 1954 whose works include opera, orchestral music, chamber music, and choral re...

Music Opera Contemporary Orchestral

6.53 Fair

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Nico Muhly

Nico Muhly is an American composer whose work belongs broadly to the contemporary classical tradition. He writes for orc...

Music Opera American Contemporary

5.89 Mediocre