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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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Ernest Chausson

Ernest Chausson was a French Romantic composer whose small but influential output bridges Franck and Debussy, best known...

Romantic French Vocal Orchestral

8.5 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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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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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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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

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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

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Peter Ruzicka

German composer and conductor Peter Ruzicka is notable for his operas, including *Celan* (2001), and his tenure as direc...

German Contemporary Lyrical Orchestral

5.0 Mediocre