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This is a list of 21st-century classical composers, sortable by name, year of birth and year of death. The list includes composers who have made classical music since 2001. The 21st century is defined by the calendar rather than by any unifying characteristics of musical style or attitude, and is therefore not an era of the same order as the ...
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 ...
He thence read music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the choir. Whilst an undergraduate, he had his first compositions published, including the " Shepherd's Pipe Carol ". [ 4 ] He served as director of music at Clare College from 1975 to 1979, and led the choir to international prominence.
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. For lists of music composers by other classifications, see lists of composers.
Pages in category "21st-century American classical composers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 594 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
William Mathias was born in Whitland, Carmarthenshire.A child prodigy, he started playing the piano at the age of three and began composing at the age of five. At Aberystwyth University Mathias was a member of the Elizabethan Madrigal Singers and wrote 'Gloria in Excelsis Deo' for them in 1954.
Works are listed in chronological order. These works are scored without orchestra, but the composers nevertheless titled or sub-titled them as symphonies. [3] Atalanta in Calydon, by Granville Bantock (1911) Vanity of Vanities, by Granville Bantock (1913) A Pageant of Human Life, by Granville Bantock (1913) Symphony for Voices, by Roy Harris (1935)