Dr. Heuser's List of 20th-Century Composers

Basic Listening List of 20th Century Composers

Bela Bartok
Alban Berg
Luciano Berio
Pierre Boulez
Benjamin Britten
John Cage
Aaron Copland
Claude Debussy
Alberto Ginastera
Paul Hindemith
Charles Ives
Gyorgy Ligeti
Wiltold Lutoslawski
Gustav Mahler
Olivier Messiaen
Darius Milhaud
Krzysztof Penderecki
Fancis Poulenc
Sergei Prokofiev
Maurice Ravel
Eric Satie
Arnold Schoenberg
Dmitry Shostakovich
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Igor Stravinsky
Edgard Varese
Ralph Vaughn Williams
Anton Webern
Iannis Xenakis

Other Composers (many living)

John Adams
Thomas Ades
Samuel Adler
Stephen Albert
William Albright
Hendrik Andriessen
George Antheil
Dominick Argento
Larry Austin
Milton Babbitt
Simon Bainbridge
Samuel Barber
Leonard Bernstein
Harrison Birtwistle
Ernest Bloch
William Bolcolm
Paul Bowles
Leo Brouwer
Earl Brown
Elliott Carter
Carlos Chavez
John Corigliano
Henry Cowell
Ruth Crawford (Seeger)
George Crumb
Luigi Dallapiccola
Mario Davidovsky
Peter Maxwell Davies
Edison Denisov
Tan Dun
Jacob Druckman
Donald Erb
Morton Feldman
Brian Ferneyhough
Irving Fine
Lukus Foss
Frederick Fox
Philip Glass
Sofia Gubaidulina
John Harbison
Lou Harrison
Gustav Holst
Arthur Honegger
Karel Husa
Andrew Imbrie
Aaron Jay Kernis
Ernest Krenek
György Kurtág
Helmut Lachenmann
Libby Larsen
Magnus Lindberg
Tania León
Bruno Maderna
Donald Martino
Salvatore Martirano
Conlon Nancarrow
Luigi Nono
Per Norgard
Michael Nyman
Carl Orff
Harry Partch
Steve Reich
Silvestre Revueltas
Roger Reynolds
George Rochberg
Ned Rorem
Chris Rouse
Poul Ruders
Carl Ruggels
Giacinto Scelsi
Alfred Schnittke
Gunther Schuller
Joseph Schwantner
Alexander Scriabin
Roger Sessions
Bright Sheng
Morton Subotnik
Toru Takemitsu
John Tavener
Joan Tower
Augusta Read Thomas
Virgil Thomson
Heitor Villa-Lobos
George Walker
Kurt Weil
Stefan Wolpe
Charles Wuorinen
Chen Yi
Frank Zappa
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich