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Bernard Herrmann

Bernard Herrmann was an American composer active from 1911 to 1975. He gained prominence through intensely dramatic orch...

Opera Modern American Film

8.8 Great

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Howard Shore

Canadian composer (born 1946) best known for his Academy Award-winning score for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (200...

Opera Contemporary Canadian Film

8.2 Great

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John Corigliano

John Corigliano is an acclaimed American composer of symphonic and film music who won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for his Sy...

Opera American Contemporary Film

8.1 Great

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William Bolcom

William Bolcom is an American composer and pianist who won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for his Twelve New Etudes for Piano a...

Opera American Contemporary Piano

8.1 Great

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Samuel Barber

Samuel Barber was an American composer of neo-Romantic music, best known for his profoundly emotional orchestral piece "...

Romantic Opera Modern American

7.9 Good

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Thomas Adès

British composer (born 1971) known for operas such as The Tempest (2004) and his virtuosic orchestral and chamber writin...

Opera Contemporary Orchestral Piano

7.9 Good

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George Benjamin

British composer (born 1960) whose opera Written on Skin (2012) has been widely performed and acclaimed internationally.

Opera Contemporary Orchestral Chamber

7.8 Good

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Missy Mazzoli

Missy Mazzoli is an American composer noted for her dramatic operas and was the first woman commissioned by the Metropol...

Opera American Contemporary Accessible

7.8 Good

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Unsuk Chin

South Korean composer (born 1961) whose acclaimed works include the opera Alice in Wonderland (2007) and Akrostichon-Wor...

Korean Opera Contemporary Modernist

7.7 Good

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Michael Giacchino

American composer who won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for Pixar's Up (2009) and scored the Mission: Imposs...

Television American Contemporary Film

7.7 Good

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Per Nørgård

Per Nørgård was a leading Danish composer who developed the infinity series compositional technique, first applied in hi...

Opera Danish Contemporary Orchestral

7.6 Good

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Jennifer Higdon

Jennifer Higdon is a prominent American composer of contemporary classical music who won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for her...

American Contemporary Accessible Orchestral

7.5 Good

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Andrew Norman

Andrew Norman is an American composer recognized for his complex, architecture-inspired orchestral works like his Pulitz...

Complex American Contemporary Innovative

7.4 Good

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George Walker

American composer George Walker was the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1996, notably for...

American Contemporary Orchestral Piano

7.4 Good

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Bright Sheng

Chinese-American composer (born 1955) who blends Chinese and Western traditions in works like the opera Dream of the Red...

Opera Contemporary Orchestral Cross Cultural

7.3 Good

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Joan Tower

Born in 1938, American composer Joan Tower is widely recognized for her orchestral works, particularly her notable conce...

American Contemporary Orchestral Chamber

7.3 Good

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Mark-Anthony Turnage

Born in 1960, British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage is recognized for his jazz-infused contemporary operas, most notably...

Opera Contemporary Orchestral British

7.2 Good

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Judith Weir

Born in 1954, British composer Judith Weir made history as the first woman appointed Master of the King's Music, recogni...

Opera Contemporary Orchestral British

7.1 Good

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Nico Muhly

Nico Muhly is an American contemporary classical composer known for his versatile output, including chamber operas and p...

Opera American Contemporary Orchestral

6.4 Fair

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Paola Prestini

Mexican-American composer Paola Prestini is a founder of the multimedia arts venue National Sawdust, recognized for her...

Opera American Contemporary Multimedia

4.9 Poor