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Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Verdi was a highly influential Italian composer of the Romantic era. He is best known for his operas, which dra...

Romantic Opera Italian Dramatic

9.2 Excellent

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Béla Bartók

Béla Bartók (1881-1945) was a prominent Hungarian composer known for his innovative approach to music. He synthesized tr...

String Quartet Modern Hungarian Piano

9.0 Excellent

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Arthur Sullivan

Arthur Sullivan was a prominent English composer primarily recognized for his operettas alongside W.S. Gilbert. His exte...

Romantic Operetta English Sacred

9.0 Excellent

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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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Saariaho Kaija

Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho (1952-2023) was notable for her distinctive use of spectral music and electronics, notab...

Opera Contemporary Electronic Spectral

8.8 Great

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Benjamin Britten

Benjamin Britten was a prominent 20th-century composer known primarily for his operas and choral works. His compositions...

Opera Modern Chamber English

8.7 Great

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Henryk Mikołaj Górecki

Polish composer Henryk Mikołaj Górecki is celebrated for his spiritual minimalist style, famously achieving global comme...

Symphony Polish Contemporary Minimalist

8.7 Great

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Leoš Janáček

Leoš Janáček was a Czech composer active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is notable for pioneer...

Opera Modern Folk Czech

8.6 Great

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Arvo Pärt

Arvo Pärt is an Estonian composer known for developing the “tintinnabuli” style. This minimalist approach utilizes simpl...

Contemporary Minimalist Sacred Estonian

8.6 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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Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) was a significant English composer known for his incorporation of English folk melodi...

Symphony Modern Folk English

8.4 Great

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Zoltán Kodály

Zoltán Kodály was a Hungarian composer and ethnomusicologist who collected indigenous folk songs and developed the inter...

Modern Hungarian Folk Choral

7.5 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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Judith Weir

Born in 1954, British composer Judith Weir made history as the first woman appointed Master of the King's Music, recogni...

Opera Contemporary Orchestral British

7.1 Good

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David Lang

David Lang is an American composer and Bang on a Can co-founder who won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for his choral piece The...

American Contemporary Minimalist Choral

7.1 Good

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Julia Wolfe

Julia Wolfe is an American composer and Bang on a Can co-founder whose Pulitzer Prize-winning oratorio Anthracite Fields...

American Contemporary Choral Downtown

7.0 Good

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Nico Muhly

Nico Muhly is an American contemporary classical composer known for his versatile output, including chamber operas and p...

Opera American Contemporary Orchestral

6.4 Fair

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Gabriela Ortiz

Gabriela Ortiz is a prominent Mexican contemporary composer born in 1964, acclaimed for her vibrant orchestral and chamb...

Contemporary Percussion Orchestral Folk

6.2 Fair

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Bernat Vivancos

Bernat Vivancos is a contemporary Spanish composer and conductor born in 1973, widely recognized for his sacred choral w...

Contemporary Sacred Polyphony Catalan

5.4 Mediocre