swap_horiz Tristan Murail Alternatives

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Ennio Morricone

Italian composer (1928–2020) who scored over 500 films, including Sergio Leone's Westerns such as The Good, the Bad and...

Italian Contemporary Film Orchestral

8.9 Great

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Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen was a French composer and organist whose highly distinctive modernist works famously incorporated recor...

Modern French Orchestral Religious

8.8 Great

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Joe Hisaishi

Japanese composer best known for his decades-long collaboration with director Hayao Miyazaki, scoring virtually every St...

Anime Contemporary Japanese Film

8.4 Great

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Ryuichi Sakamoto

Japanese composer and musician who won an Academy Award for The Last Emperor (1987) and was a pioneering figure in elect...

Contemporary Electronic Japanese Film

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

Finnish composer (1952–2023) known for spectralist-influenced works including the opera L'Amour de loin, premiered at Sa...

Opera Contemporary Electronics Spectral

8.2 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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Henri Dutilleux

Henri Dutilleux was a prominent French composer of the 20th century, renowned for his meticulously crafted scores and ri...

Modern French Impressionist Orchestral

8.0 Great

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Iannis Xenakis

Greek-French composer (1922–2001) who combined architecture and mathematics with music, pioneering stochastic compositio...

Avant Garde Electronic Orchestral Greek French

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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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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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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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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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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James MacMillan

Scottish composer (born 1959) whose works, including The Confession of Isobel Gowdie (1990), often reflect his Catholic...

Contemporary Orchestral Sacred Scottish

7.4 Good

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Vangelis

Greek composer and electronic musician who won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for Chariots of Fire (1981).

Contemporary Electronic Film Greek

7.4 Good