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The following is a list of modernist composers.. In music, modernism is an aesthetic stance underlying the period of change and development in musical language that occurred around the turn of the 20th century, a period of diverse reactions in challenging and reinterpreting older categories of music, innovations that led to new ways of organizing and approaching harmonic, melodic, sonic, and ...
James Horner. 1953. 2015. American. James Cameron's Titanic, James Cameron's Avatar, Apollo 13 (film), Braveheart, Legends of the Fall, Jumanji, A Beautiful Mind (film), Mighty Joe Young (1998 film), The Mask of Zorro, Field of Dreams (film) Composer of film, television scores.
This is a list of composers by name, alphabetically sorted by surname, then by other names.The list of composers is by no means complete. It is not limited by classifications such as genre or time period; however, it includes only music composers of significant fame, notability or importance who also have current Wikipedia articles.
This is a list of classical music composers by era.With the exception of the overview, the Modernist era has been combined with the Postmodern. Composers with a career spanning across more than one time period are colored in between their two respective eras.
Alexander Campkin. Laura Cannell. Liane Carroll. Philip Cashian. Richard Causton (composer) Gareth Coker. Jacob Collier. Nick Collins (composer) Geraldine Connor.
At the beginning of the 20th century, composers of classical music were experimenting with an increasingly dissonant pitch language, which sometimes yielded atonal pieces. . Following World War I, as a backlash against what they saw as the increasingly exaggerated gestures and formlessness of late Romanticism, certain composers adopted a neoclassic style, which sought to recapture the balanced ...
First awarded. 1961. Currently held by. Kevin Puts for Contact (2023) Website. grammy.com. The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, [1] to composers for quality works of contemporary classical music.
Post-modernism continues to exert an influence on composers in the 21st century. [4] Styles developed in the 20th century, such as minimalism (Philip Glass, Michael Nyman, Steve Reich), postminimalism (Louis Andriessen (died 2021), Gavin Bryars, John McGuire, Pauline Oliveros (died 2016), Julia Wolfe), New Complexity (James Dillon, Brian Ferneyhough), and New Simplicity (Wolfgang Rihm ...