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Ennio Morricone

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

Italian Contemporary Film Orchestral

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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Caroline Shaw

Caroline Shaw is an American composer and singer who became the youngest recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 20...

American Contemporary Vocal Chamber

8.5 Great

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György Kurtág

György Kurtág (b. 1926) is a Hungarian composer celebrated for his intensely concentrated miniatures and chamber works i...

Hungarian Contemporary Chamber Miniaturist

8.4 Great

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George Crumb

George Crumb was an American avant-garde composer noted for his unusual timbres and extended techniques, winning the 196...

American Contemporary Chamber Mystical

8.0 Great

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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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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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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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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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Kalevi Aho

Kalevi Aho is a highly regarded Finnish composer known for his massive orchestral output, having composed over fifteen s...

Symphony Contemporary Chamber Finnish

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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Luigi Boccherini

Luigi Boccherini (1743–1805) was an Italian Classical cellist and composer famous for his elegant chamber music and the...

Symphony Classical Italian 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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Luca Francesconi

Italian composer Luca Francesconi is prominent in contemporary classical music, recognized for his complex orchestral wo...

Opera Italian Contemporary Orchestral

5.9 Mediocre