20th Century Composers by style
Romantic style
- Samuel Barber
- Leonard Bernstein
- Aaron Copland
- John Corigliano
- George Gershwin
- Henryk Górecki
- Percy Grainger
- Howard Hanson
- Roy Harris
- Alan Hovhaness
- Gustav Holst
- Aram Khachaturian
- Colin McPhee
- Carl Nielsen
- Giacomo Puccini
- Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Ned Rorem
- Jean Sibelius
- Elie Siegmeister
- Ralph Vaughan Williams
Modernism
The Second Viennese School, atonality and serialism
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Anton Webern
- Alban Berg
- Milton Babbitt
- Pierre Boulez
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Luigi Nono
- Stravinsky
Free dissonance and experimentalism
- Charles Ives
- Henry Cowell
- Edgard Varčse
- Charles Seeger
- Carl Ruggles
- Ruth Crawford-Seeger
- Igor Stravinsky
- Darius Milhaud
- Paul Hindemith
- Amadeo Roldán
Neoclassicism
- Maurice Ravel
- Igor Stravinsky
- Paul Hindemith
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Vangelis Papathanasiou
- Béla Bartók
- Darius Milhaud
- Francis Poulenc
- Nadia Boulanger
- Aaron Copland
- Roy Harris
- Ástor Piazzolla
- Virgil Thomson.
FOLK Inspired
- Béla Bartók
- Zoltán Kodály
- Leoš Janáček
Post-modernist music
Minimalism
- Terry Riley's
- Steve Reich
- Philip Glass
- La Monte Young t
- Arvo Pärt
- John Tavener
- Henryk Górecki
- John Adams
- Aaron Jay Kernis
Electronic music
- Pierre Schaeffer
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Milton Babbitt
- Mario Davidovsky
- Oskar Sala
- Morton Subotnick
- Vladimir Ussachevsky
- Edgar Varčse.
- Iannis Xenakis
- Alvin Lucier
- Gordon Mumma
Jazz-influenced composition
A number of composers combined elements of the jazz idiom with classical compositional styles. Notable examples include:
- George Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue
- Claude Debussy, Golliwog's Cakewalk (from Children's Corner, 1908)
- Igor Stravinsky's Ragtime for 11 instruments (1918)
- Paul Hindemith, 1922 Suite für Klavier
- Kurt Weill, Threepenny Opera (1928)
- Maurice Ravel, Piano Concerto in G (1929–1931)
- Ernst Krenek, Jonny spielt auf (1926)
- Bruce Arnold, A Few Dozen (1955)
- Elie Siegmeister, Clarinet Concerto (1956)
- Darius Milhaud, La Création du monde (1923)[1]
- George Antheil, Jazz Symphony (1925)