List of postmodernist composers

Lists of composers by philosophical stance: Postmodernist composers

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Canada

• John Oswald (born 1953)[1]

France

• Pierre Boulez (1925–2016)[2]
• René Leibowitz (1913–1972)[3]
• Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)[3]

Germany

• Hans-Jürgen von Bose (born 1953)[4]
• Hans-Christian von Dadelsen (born 1948)[4]
• Heiner Goebbels (born 1952)[5]
• Wilhelm Killmayer (1927–2017)[4]
• Detlev Müller-Siemens (born 1957)[4]
• Wolfgang Rihm (born 1952)[5]

Greece

• Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001)[6]

Hungary

• György Ligeti (1923–2006)[6]

Italy

• Luciano Berio (1925–2003)[7]
• Aldo Clementi (1925–2011)[8]
• Luigi Nono (1924–1990)[9]

Poland

• Henryk Górecki (1933–2010)[10]
• Zygmunt Krauze (born 1938)[11]

United Kingdom

• Thomas Adès (born 1971)[12]
• Harrison Birtwistle (born 1934)[10]
• Cornelius Cardew (1936–1981)[13]
• Brian Eno (born 1948)[14]
• Brian Ferneyhough (born 1943)[15]
• John Tavener (1944–2013)[10]

United States

• John Adams (born 1947)[16]
• Robert Ashley (1930–2014)[17]
• Samuel Barber (1910–1981)[18]
• William Bolcom (born 1938)[19]
• Henry Brant (1913–2008)[20]
• Earle Brown (1926–2002)[13]
• John Cage (1912–1992)[21]
• Elliott Carter (1908–2012)[10]
• John Corigliano (born 1938)[22]
• Morton Feldman (1926–1987)[13]
• Philip Glass (born 1937)[23]

See also

• Modernism
• Postmodernism

Sources

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23. David Beard and Kenneth Gloag, Musicology: The Key Concepts (New York: Routledge, 2005): p. 144. ISBN 978-0-415-31692-7.