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Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky was a revolutionary Russian composer whose career spanned multiple stylistic periods, each profoundly im...

Russia Russian Ballet Modernist

9.2 Excellent

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Maurice Ravel

Maurice Ravel was a prominent French composer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is particularly k...

Ballet French Orchestration Impressionist

9.0 Excellent

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Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sergei Rachmaninoff was a prominent Russian composer and pianist active in the early 20th century. He is recognized for...

Symphony Russian Concerto Piano

8.9 Great

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Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) was a prominent Russian composer known for his impactful symphonies, concertos, and ballets...

Symphony Russian Modern Ballet

8.9 Great

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Alfred Garrievich Schnittke

Alfred Garrievich Schnittke was a significant Russian composer of the late 20th century. He is known for his innovative...

Symphony Russian Contemporary Chamber

8.9 Great

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Saariaho Kaija

Kaija Saariaho was a Finnish composer renowned for pioneering spectral music techniques within opera and orchestral work...

Opera Contemporary Electronic Spectral

8.8 Great

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Léo Delibes

Léo Delibes was a 19th-century French Romantic composer known for his significant contributions to the ballet and opera...

Romantic Opera Ballet French

8.7 Great

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Georges Bizet

French Romantic composer Georges Bizet (1838–1875) is best known for his final opera, Carmen, which became one of the mo...

Romantic Opera French Orchestral

8.6 Great

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Modest Mussorgsky

Modest Mussorgsky was a Russian composer primarily known for his innovative and emotionally raw music. He belonged to “T...

Romantic Opera Russian Piano

8.4 Great

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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was a prominent Russian composer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is particularly c...

Romantic Opera Russian Orchestration

8.3 Great

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Sofia Gubaidulina

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

Russian Contemporary Avant Garde Experimental

8.2 Great

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Kaija Saariaho

Kaija Saariaho was a Finnish composer (1952–2023) celebrated for her innovative approach to opera and music. Her composi...

Opera Contemporary Electronics Spectral

8.2 Great

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Howard Shore

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

Opera Contemporary Canadian Film

8.2 Great

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Camille Saint-Saëns

Camille Saint-Saëns was a prominent French composer of the late Romantic period. His extensive catalog includes symphoni...

Symphony Romantic Opera French

8.1 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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Alexander Scriabin

Russian composer and pianist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, noted for his mystical, highly chromatic, and at...

Russian Modernist Piano Mystical

8.0 Great

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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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Anton Arensky

Russian composer Anton Arensky (1861–1906) was a late Romantic musician known for his elegant chamber music, particularl...

Romantic Opera Russian Piano

6.7 Fair

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Poul Ruders

Poul Ruders is a prominent Danish contemporary composer recognized for his dramatic modernist style, notably expressed i...

Opera Danish Contemporary Orchestral

6.5 Fair