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20th-century classical composers

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Arnold Schoenberg
Austrian-Jewish American composer (1874-1951)
Pau Casals
Spanish cellist, conductor and composer (1876–1973)
Max Brod
Bohemian-Israeli author, composer, and journalist (1884–1968)
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Komárom-born Austrian music composer (1870–1948)
Iannis Xenakis
Greek-French composer, architect and engineer (1922–2001)
Miklós Rózsa
Hungarian-American composer (1907–1995)
Edgard Varèse
French composer (1883-1965)
Fritz Kreisler
Austrian violinist and composer (1875-1962)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Austrian-born American composer and conductor (1897–1957)
Gian Carlo Menotti
Italian-American composer and librettist (1911–2007)
Léo Ferré
French-born Monégasque poet and singer
Hanns Eisler
Austrian and German composer (1898–1962)
Second Viennese School
group of composers comprising A. Schönberg and his pupils and associates in early 20th century Vienna, initially characterized by late-Romantic expanded tonality, later by a totally chromatic atonal expressionism, and still later by 12-tone serialism
Ernest Bloch
American composer (1880-1959)
Dimitri Mitropoulos
Greek and American conductor (1896–1960)
Percy Grainger
Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist (1882–1961)
Tan Dun
Chinese composer
Noor Jehan
Pakistani singer and actress (1920–2000)
Peter Machajdík
Slovak composer
George Szell
Classical conductor and composer (1897–1970)
Mauricio Kagel
Argentine-German composer (1931-2008)
Karl Goldmark
Hungarian-born Viennese composer (1830–1915)
Zakaria Paliashvili
Georgian composer (1871–1933)
Leopold Godowsky
American pianist, composer, and teacher (1870–1938)
Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac
Serbian composer (1856-1914)
Reynaldo Hahn
Venezuelan-French composer (1874-1947)
David Popper
Bohemian cellist and composer (1843–1913)
Oscar Straus
Viennese composer (1870-1954)
Ilaiyaraaja
Ilaiyaraaja (born Gnanathesigan) is an Indian musician, composer, arranger, conductor, orchestrator, multi-instrumentalist, lyricist and playback singer popular for his works in Indian cinema, predominantly in Tamil in addition to Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi films. Regarded as one of the most prolific composers, in a career spanning over forty-nine years, he has composed over 8,600 songs, provided film scores for about 1,523 feature films in nine languages, and performed in over 20,000 concerts. He was one of the earliest Indian film composers to use Western classical music harmonies
Felip Pedrell
Catalan composer, teacher and musicologist (1841–1922)
Nikolai Kapustin
Soviet and Russian composer and pianist (1937–2020)
Igor Markevitch
Russian conductor and composer (1912–1983)
Arkady Luxemburg
American composer
Pavel Haas
Czech composer (1899–1944)
Egon Wellesz
Austrian, later British composer, teacher and musicologist (1885-1974)
Wim Mertens
Flemish Belgian composer, countertenor vocalist, pianist, guitarist, and musicologist
Victor Herbert
American composer (1859–1924)
Nicolas Slonimsky
Russian composer (1894-1995)
Jaromír Weinberger
Czechoslovak-American composer (1896–1967)
Fela Sowande
Nigerian musician and composer (1905-1987)
Conlon Nancarrow
American composer (1912–1997)
Julius Röntgen
German-Dutch composer (1855-1932)
Lera Auerbach
Soviet-Russian-born American classical composer and pianist
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh
Azerbaijani composer
Sergei Bortkiewicz
Russian Romantic composer and pianist (1877–1952)
Laurindo Almeida
Brazilian virtuoso guitarist and composer (1917-1995)
Abdylas Maldybaev
Soviet singer (1906-1978)
Daniel Alomía Robles
Peruvian composer and ethnomusicologist (1871–1942)
Betsy Jolas
French composer
Arturo Rodas
Ecuadorian composer
Oskar Danon
Yugoslav composer (1913–2009)
Stevan Hristić
Serbian composer (1885-1958)
Soltan Hajibeyov
Azerbaijani composer (1919-1974)
Bart Berman
Dutch-Israeli pianist and composer, best known as an interpreter of Franz Schubert and 20th century music.
Louis Aubert
French pianist and composer (1877-1968)
Isang Yun
Korean-born German composer (1917–1995)
Vladimír Godár
Slovak composer
Ernest Gold
Austrian American composer (1921-1999)
Jenő Zádor
American composer (1894–1977)
Khayyam Mirzazade
Azerbaijani film score composer (1935–2018)