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Paul Hindemith

Paul Hindemith was a German composer, violist, and conductor whose substantial body of work includes the famous symphony...

German Modern Neoclassical Orchestral

7.8 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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Hans Zimmer

German film composer (born 1957) whose scores for The Lion King (1994) and Inception (2010) made him among Hollywood's m...

German Contemporary Electronic Film

7.8 Good

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Alexandre Desplat

French composer who won Academy Awards for The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and The Shape of Water (2017), among the most...

French Contemporary Film Orchestral

7.8 Good

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Georg Philipp Telemann

German Baroque composer considered among the most prolific in history, producing over 3,000 works across virtually every...

German Baroque Orchestral Chamber

7.8 Good

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Valentin Silvestrov

Ukrainian composer (born 1937) known for his post-minimalist, lyrical metamusic and the song cycle Silent Songs (1974–19...

Contemporary Orchestral Chamber Ukrainian

7.7 Good

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Gérard Grisey

Gérard Grisey (1946–1998) was a French composer and founding figure of spectral music, which derives musical structure f...

French Contemporary Orchestral Chamber

7.7 Good

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Magnus Lindberg

Finnish composer (born 1958) known for dense, complex orchestral works such as Kraft (1985) and his tenure with the New...

Contemporary Modernist Orchestral Chamber

7.6 Good

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Wolfgang Rihm

German composer (1952–2024), extraordinarily prolific, known for works like the opera Jakob Lenz and his expressive post...

German Contemporary Expressionist Orchestral

7.6 Good

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Giya Kancheli

Giya Kancheli (1935–2019) was a Georgian composer noted for his hauntingly atmospheric post-Soviet orchestral works and...

Contemporary Orchestral Chamber Spiritual

7.6 Good

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Helmut Lachenmann

German composer (born 1935) associated with musique concrète instrumentale, exploring unconventional sounds and extended...

German Contemporary Avant Garde Chamber

7.5 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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Jörg Widmann

Born in 1973, German composer and clarinetist Jörg Widmann is recognized for his contemporary works, notably his Jagged...

German Opera Contemporary Chamber

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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Toshio Hosokawa

Japanese composer (born 1955) known for works inspired by calligraphy and Zen aesthetics, including the opera Hanjo (200...

Contemporary Japanese Orchestral Chamber

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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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

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Chen Yi

Born in 1953, Chinese-American composer Chen Yi is recognized for her orchestral works that skillfully fuse traditional...

Contemporary Orchestral Chamber Cross Cultural

7.2 Good

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Rebecca Saunders

British composer Rebecca Saunders is acclaimed for her visceral, spatially aware acoustic compositions, winning the Erns...

Contemporary Orchestral Chamber British

6.7 Fair

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Augusta Read Thomas

Augusta Read Thomas is an American composer known for her lyrical, vibrant orchestral works and her tenure as the Chicag...

American Contemporary Lyrical Orchestral

6.3 Fair