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Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist.He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. [1 ...
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:20th-century African-American composers and Category:20th-century Native American composers and Category:20th-century American women composers The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
Harmony Twichell. . (m. 1908) . Charles Edward Ives (/ aɪvz /; October 20, 1874 – May 19, 1954) was an American modernist composer, actuary and businessman. [1] Ives was among the earliest renowned American composers to achieve recognition on a global scale. [2] His music was largely ignored during his early career, and many of his works ...
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 ...
George Gershwin. George Gershwin (/ ˈɡɜːrʃ.wɪn /; born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres. Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue (1924) and An American in Paris (1928), the songs ...
Signature. John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde. Critics have lauded him as one of the most influential ...
Stephen Albert. Thomas Albert (composer) William Albright (musician) Pauline Alderman. Robert Aldridge (composer) Joseph Alfidi. Esther Allan. Benjamin Dwight Allen. Martha Alter.
The "Great American Songbook" is the canon of the most important and influential American popular songs and jazz standards from the early 20th century that have stood the test of time in their life and legacy. Often referred to as "American Standards", the songs published during the Golden Age of this genre include those popular and enduring ...