List of modernist composers
The following is a list of modernist composers.
Lists of classical composers by era and century | ||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Australia
- Roy Agnew (1891–1944)[1]
- Hugo Alpen (1842–1917)
- Arthur Benjamin (1893–1960)[1]
- Hooper Brewster-Jones (1887–1949)[1]
- Vince Courtney (died 1951)
- Arthur Chanter (1886–1950)
- Percy Code (1888–1953)
- George Savin De Chanéet (1861–1926)
- John Albert Delany (1852–1907)
- Herbert De Pinna (1880–1936)
- George De Cairos Rego (1858–1946)
- Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912–1990)[1]
- Percy Grainger (1882–1961)[2][3]
- Christian Helleman (1880–1954)
- Ernest Edwin Mitchell (1865-1951)
- Margaret Sutherland (1897–1984)[1]
Austria
- Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)[4]
- Alexander Zemlinsky (1871–1942)[5]
Belgium
- Flor Alpaerts (1876-1954)[6]
- Paul Gilson (1865-1942)[6]
- Karel Goeyvaerts (1923-1993)[6]
- Arthur Meulemans (1884-1965)[6]
- Flor Peeters (1903-1986)[6]
Russia/Soviet Union
- Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953)[7]
- Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915)[8]
- Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)[9]
- Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)[10]
Brazil
- Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959)[11]
- Camargo Guarnieri (1907–1993)[12]
Second Viennese school
- Alban Berg (1885–1935)[13]
- Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951)[14]
- Anton Webern (1883–1945)
Germany
- Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)[15]
- Hans Pfitzner (1869–1949)[16]
- Max Reger (1873–1916)[5][17]
- Franz Schreker (1878–1934)[5]
- Richard Strauss (1864–1949)[5][18]
- Johann Gottfried Walther (1684–1748)[19]
Finland
- Erik Bergman (1911–2006)[20]
- Joonas Kokkonen (1921–1996)[21]
- Aarre Merikanto (1893–1958)[22]
France
- Pierre Boulez (1925–2016)[23] (Also described as a postmodern composer)
- Claude Debussy (1862–1918) [8]
- Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)[9]
- André Jolivet (1905–1974)[24]
- Arthur Honegger (1892–1955)[9]
- Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)[8]
- Darius Milhaud (1892–1974)[8]
- Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)[25]
- Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)[8]
- Erik Satie (1866–1925)[8]
- Edgard Varèse (1883–1965)[8]
Italy
- Luciano Berio (1925–2003)[26] (Also described as a postmodern composer)
- Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924)[27]
- Salvatore Sciarrino (born 1947)
Hungary
- Béla Bartók (1881–1945)[8]
Norway
- Marcus Paus (b. 1979), sometimes described as a "lyrical modernist"[28] (also described as a postmodern composer)[29]
- Olav Anton Thommessen (b. 1946), often regarded as an atonal modernist[30]
Poland
- Karol Szymanowski (1882–1937)[31]
Scotland
- Oliver Knussen (1952–2018)[32]
United States
- Milton Babbitt (1916–2011)[33]
- Samuel Barber (1910–1981)[34][35]
- Irving Berlin (1888–1989)[36]
- Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)[37]
- John Cage (1912–1992)[38][39] (Also described as a postmodern composer)
- Aaron Copland (1900–1990)[40]
- Henry Cowell (1897–1965)[41]
- Ruth Crawford-Seeger (1901–1953)[42]
- George Crumb (born 1929)[43]
- Vernon Duke (1903–1969)[44]
- Morton Feldman (1926–1987)[45] (Also described as a postmodern composer)
- George Gershwin (1898–1937)[36]
- Philip Glass (born 1937)[46] (Also described as a postmodern composer)
- Bernard Herrmann (1911–1975)[47]
- Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)[48]
- Charles Ives (1874–1954)[49]
- Jerome Kern (1885–1945)[36]
- Leon Kirchner (1919–2009)
- Donald Martino (1931–2005)[42]
- Leo Ornstein (1893–2002)[50]
- Harry Partch (1901–1974)[51]
- Cole Porter (1891–1964)[36]
- Ezra Pound (1885–1972)[52]
- Lou Reed (1942–2013)[47]
- Steve Reich (born 1936)[53] (Also described as a postmodern composer)
- Richard Rodgers (1902–1979)[36]
- Dane Rudhyar (1895–1985)[8]
- Charles Seeger (1886–1979)[54]
England
- Brian Ferneyhough (born 1943)[42] (Also described as a postmodern composer)
- William Walton (1902–1983)[55]
See also
References
- Ashby, Arved Mark (2004a). "Introduction". In Arved Mark Ashby (ed.). The Pleasure of Modernist Music: Listening, Meaning, Intention, Ideology. University of Rochester Press. pp. 1–22. ISBN 1-58046-143-3.
- Ashby, Arved Mark (2004b). "Modernism Goes to the Movies". In Arved Mark Ashby (ed.). The Pleasure of Modernist Music: Listening, Meaning, Intention, Ideology. University of Rochester Press. pp. 345–86. ISBN 1-58046-143-3.
- Bauer, Amy (2004). "Tone-Color, Movement, Changing Harmonic Planes': Cognition, Constraints, and Conceptual Blends in Modernist Music". In Arved Mark Ashby (ed.). The Pleasure of Modernist Music: Listening, Meaning, Intention, Ideology. University of Rochester Press. pp. 121–152. ISBN 1-58046-143-3.
- Frisch, Walter. 2005. German Modernism: Music and the Arts. California Studies in 20th-Century Music. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-25148-9.
- Gagné, Nicole V. (2012). Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music. Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts. Lanham MD. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810867659.
- Hanley, Edwin. 1954. "Chorale Variations. Johann Gottfried Walther: Meinen Jesum lass' ich nicht; Jesu meine Freude. Georg Böhm: Ach wie nichtig, ach wie flüchtig; Auf meinen lieben Gott; Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend. Finn Viderø, organ. 12" LP. Haydn HSL-3066" (record review). The Musical Quarterly 40, no. 2 (April): 289–94.
- Holden, Scott (2010). "The 'Adventures and Battles' of Vladimir Dukelsky (a.k.a. Vernon Duke)". American Music. 28 (3 - Fall): 296–319.
- Howell, Tim (2011). "The Legacy of a Modernist". Finnish Music Quarterly (4): 38–41.
- Jurkowski, Edward (2020). The Music of Joonas Kokkonen. Routledge. ISBN 9781138621114.
- Knockaert, Yves (2005). "Vlaanderen en de nieuwe muziek". Kunstenpunt Muziek. Retrieved April 30, 2021.
- Lien, Anthony Marcus. 2002. "Against the Grain: Modernism and the American Art Song, 1900 to 1950". PhD diss. Davis: University of California, Davis.
- Petersen, Nils Holger (June 2010). "Quotation and Framing: Re-contextualization and Intertextuality as Newness in George Crumb's Black Angels". Contemporary Music Review. 29 (3): 309–321. doi:10.1080/07494467.2010.535365. S2CID 218546107.
- Rifkin, Deborah (2006). "Making It Modern: Chromaticism and Phrase Structure in Twentieth-Century Tonal Music". Theory and Practice. 31: 133–158.
- Ross, Alex (2007). The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century. New York City: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. ISBN 9780374249397.
- Schwarz, K. Robert (1990). "Process vs. Intuition in the Recent Works of Steve Reich and John Adams". American Music. 8 (3 - Autumn): 245–273. doi:10.2307/3052096. JSTOR 3052096.
- Skinner, Graeme. 2015. "Australian Musical First Modernism". In The Modernist World, edited by Stephen Ross and Allana C. Lindgren, 273–81. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-84503-8.
- Whitesell, Lloyd (2004). "Twentieth-Century Tonality, or, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do". In Arved Mark Ashby (ed.). The Pleasure of Modernist Music: Listening, Meaning, Intention, Ideology. University of Rochester Press. pp. 103–120. ISBN 1-58046-143-3.
- Wilmotte, Marie-Hélène (1994). "L'expérimental comme gage de la modernité: La Sequenza I de Luciano Berio". Les cahiers du CIREM (30–31): 71–84.
Footnotes
- Skinner 2015, p. 275.
- Robinson, Suzanne, and Kay Drefus (eds.). 2015. Grainger the Modernist. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited; Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company. pp. 3 et passim. ISBN 978-1-4724-2022-0.
- Skinner 2015, pp. 275–7.
- Frisch 2005, pp. 182–5, 203–13; Gagné 2012, p. 178.
- Dahlhaus, Carl. 1989. Nineteenth-Century Music, translated by J. Bradford Robinson. California Studies in 19th-Century Music. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press. p. 335. ISBN 978-0-520-07644-0.
- Knockaert 2005.
- Gagné 2012, p. 178; Rifkin 2006, pp. 133–41, 145–7.
- Gagné 2012, p. 178.
- Rifkin 2006, p. 134.
- Ashby 2004a, p. 3; Ashby 2004b, p. 351.
- Béhague, Gerard. 1994. Villa-Lobos: The Search for Brazil's Musical Soul. Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin. passim. ISBN 0-292-70823-8.
- Béhague, Gerard (2001). "Guarnieri, (Mozart) Camargo". In Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John (eds.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan. ISBN 9780195170672.
- Ashby 2004a, p. 8; Ashby 2004b, p. 351.
- Ashby 2004a, p. 8; Whitesell 2004, p. 104.
- Ashby 2004a, p. 8; Gagné 2012, p. 178; Rifkin 2006, pp. 134, 157.
- Frisch 2005, pp. 244–52.
- Frisch 2005, pp. 139, 149, 150–4, 168–72.
- Frisch 2005, pp. 214–44; Whitesell 2004, p. 103.
- Hanley 1954, p. 289.
- Howell 2011, passim.
- Jurkowski 2020.
- Suilamo, Harri. 13 March 1986. “Aarre Merikanto - a battered genius". Finnish Music Quarterly.
- Bauer 2004, p. 121.
- Gagné 2012, p. 146.
- Rifkin 2006, pp. 133–4, 141–3.
- Wilmotte 1994, passim.
- Frisch 2005, p. 139.
- Erikson, Trond (2015-04-30). "Marcus Paus: Lyrisk modernisme". NRK.
- Rickards, Guy (2017). "PAUS Odes & Elegies". Gramophone.
- Bjerkestrand, Nils E. (14 May 2021). "Olav Anton Thommessen". Store norske leksikon.
- Ross 2007, p. 159.
- Gagné 2012, pp. 151, 179.
- Ashby 2004a, p. 8; Bauer 2004, p. 121.
- Lien 2002, pp. xii–xiii, 54–5; Rifkin 2006, p. 157.
- Wright, Jeffrey Marsh, II. 2010. "The Enlisted Composer: Samuel Barber's Career, 1942–1945". PhD diss. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. p. 87-8.
- Ross 2007, p. 136.
- Leonard Bernstein|AllMusic
- Bernstein, David W. (2002). "Cage and High Modernism". In David Nicholls (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to John Cage. Cambridge University Press. pp. 186–213. ISBN 9781139002271.
- Williams, Alastair (2002). "Cage and Postmodernism". In David Nicholls (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to John Cage. Cambridge University Press. p. 241. ISBN 9781139002271.
- Gagné 2012, p. 178; Lien 2002, pp. 53–4.
- Lien 2002, p. 51.
- Ashby 2004a, p. 3.
- Petersen 2010, pp. 311, 313.
- Holden 2010, p. 296.
- Ross 2007, p. 355.
- Schwarz 1990, p. 247.
- Ashby 2004a, p. 8.
- Alan Hovhaness|AllMusic
- Leon Botstein. 2008. .
- Broyles, Michael, and Denise Von Glahn. 2007. Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press. pp. xvi, 119. ISBN 9780253348944.
- Lien 2002, pp. 51–2.
- Gagné 2012, p. 211.
- Schwarz 1990, pp. 247, 271.
- Ross 2007, p. 271.
- Karolyi, Otto. 1994. Modern British Music: The Second British Musical Renaissance—From Elgar to P. Maxwell Davies. Rutherford, Madison, Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses. p. 43. ISBN 0-8386-3532-6.
Further reading
- Leon Botstein. 2001. "Modernism", Grove Music Online, edited by Laura Macy (accessed December 20, 2008), grovemusic.com (subscription access).
- Clapp, Philip Greeley. 1916. "Sebastian Bach, Modernist". Musical Quarterly 2, no. 2 (April): 295–313.
- Purdy, Daniel. 2010. Goethe Yearbook 17. New York: Camden House. ISBN 9781571134257.
- Taruskin, Richard. 2010. Oxford History of Western Music (2nd ed., Oxford University Press).
- Webster, James. 2008. "Rosen's Modernist Haydn". In Variations on the Canon: Essays on Music from Bach to Boulez in Honor of Charles Rosen on His Eightieth Birthday, edited by Robert Curry, David Gable, Robert Lewis Marshall, 283–90. Eastman Studies in Music 58. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. ISBN 9781580462853.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.