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20th-century German classical composers

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Theodor W. Adorno
German philosopher, sociologist and theorist (1903–1969)
Richard Strauss
German composer and orchestra director (1864–1949)
Hans Zimmer
German film composer (born 1957)
Carl Orff
German composer (1895–1982)
Karlheinz Stockhausen
German composer (1928–2007)
Paul Hindemith
German composer (1895–1963)
Max Reger
German composer, pianist and conductor (1873-1916)
Kurt Weill
German composer (1900–1950)
Wilhelm Furtwängler
German conductor and composer (1886–1954)
Max Bruch
German romantic composer and conductor (1838-1920)
André Previn
German-American conductor, pianist, and composer (1929–2019)
Engelbert Humperdinck
German composer (1854–1921)
Carl Reinecke
German composer, conductor and pianist (1824–1910)
Hans Werner Henze
German composer (1926–2012)
Siegfried Wagner
German opera producer and composer, son of Richard Wagner and Cosima Liszt (1869–1930)
Mauricio Kagel
Argentine-German composer (1931-2008)
Franz Waxman
German film composer (1906-1967)
Moritz Moszkowski
German composer, pianist and teacher (1854–1925)
Wolfgang Rihm
German composer and teacher (1952–2024)
Karl Amadeus Hartmann
German composer (1905-1963)
Josef Rheinberger
Liechtensteiner organist and composer (1839-1901)
Helmut Lachenmann
German composer (born 1935)
Sigfrid Karg-Elert
German composer (1877–1933)
Hermann Scherchen
German conductor (1891–1966)
Paul Dessau
German composer and conductor (1894-1979)
Boris Blacher
German composer (1903-1975)
Werner Egk
German composer (1901–1983)
Bernd Alois Zimmermann
German composer (1918–1970)
Emil von Sauer
German composer, pianist, score editor, and music (piano) teacher (1862-1942)
Aribert Reimann
German composer, pianist and accompanist
Felix Draeseke
German composer (1835-1913)
Xaver Scharwenka
German pianist, composer and teacher (1850-1924)
Max von Schillings
German conductor, composer and theatre director (1868–1933)
Hans von Koessler
German composer (1853–1926)
Friedrich Gernsheim
German composer, conductor, pianist and teacher (1839–1916)
Arnold Mendelssohn
German composer and music teacher (1855-1933)
Udo Zimmermann
German composer, musicologist, opera director, and conductor (1943–2021)
Hugo Distler
German organist, choral conductor, teacher and composer (1908–1942)
Hans Zender
German conductor and composer
Ludger Stühlmeyer
German composer, music director and music historian
Walter Braunfels
German composer, pianist, and music educator (1882–1954)
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
German conductor and composer (1900-1973)
Karl Klindworth
German musician (1830–1916)
Richard Wetz
German composer (1875–1935)
Stefan Wolpe
German composer (1902–1972)
Peer Raben
German composer and actor (1940–2007)
Paul Graener
German composer (1872-1944)
Harald Genzmer
German composer (1909-2007)
Rudi Stephan
German composer (1887-1915)
Giselher Klebe
German composer (1925–2009)
Günter Raphael
German composer (1903–1960)
Heiner Goebbels
German composer and theatre director
Oskar Rieding
German composer (1846–1916)
Hermann Grädener
German composer, conductor and teacher (1844–1929)
Wolfgang Fortner
German composer and conductor (1907–1987)
Matthias Pintscher
German composer
Hans Erich Apostel
Austrian composer (1901–1972)
Friedrich Seitz
German composer (1848-1918)
Ernst Pepping
German composer (1901–1981)
Heinrich Köselitz
German composer (1854-1918)