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[[Lists of composers]] by style, time period, or technique: '''Modernist composers'''

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The following is a list of [[Modernism (music)|modernist]] composers.

In [[music]], '''modernism''' is an aesthetic stance underlying the period of change and development in musical language that occurred around the turn of the 20th century, a period of diverse reactions in challenging and reinterpreting older categories of music, innovations that led to new ways of organizing and approaching harmonic, melodic, sonic, and rhythmic aspects of music, and changes in aesthetic worldviews in close relation to the larger identifiable period of [[modernism]] in the arts of the time. The operative word most associated with it is "innovation".{{sfn|Metzer|2009|p=3}} Its leading feature is a "linguistic plurality", which is to say that no one [[music genre]] ever assumed a dominant position.{{sfn|Morgan|1984|p=443}}

*[[Igor Stravinsky]]

{{blockquote|Inherent within musical modernism is the conviction that music is not a static phenomenon defined by timeless truths and classical principles, but rather something which is intrinsically historical and developmental. {{em|While belief in musical progress or in the principle of innovation is not new or unique to modernism, such values are particularly important within modernist aesthetic stances.}}|Edward {{harvtxt|Campbell|2010|p=37}} [emphasis added]}} Examples include the celebration of [[Arnold Schoenberg]]'s rejection of [[tonality]] in chromatic [[atonality|post-tonal]] and [[twelve-tone technique|twelve-tone]] works and [[Igor Stravinsky]]'s move away from [[meter (music)|metrical]] [[rhythm]].{{sfn|Campbell|2010|p=37}}

== Second Viennese school ==

*[[Arnold Schönberg]]

*[[Alban Berg]]

*[[Anton Webern]]

{{Dynamic list}}

== America ==

*[[John Cage]]

*[[Henry Cowell]]

*[[Ruth Crawford-Seeger]]

*[[Dane Rudhyar]]

*[[Carl Ruggles]]

*[[Charles Seeger]]

*[[Edgard Varese]]

*[[Ralph Shapey]]

==Australia==

See [[modernism]], [[atonality]].

===Australia===

*[[Roy Agnew]] (1891–1944){{sfn|Skinner|2015|p=275}}

*[[Arthur Benjamin]] (1893–1960){{sfn|Skinner|2015|p=275}}

*[[Hooper Brewster-Jones]] (1887–1949){{sfn|Skinner|2015|p=275}}

*[[Peggy Glanville-Hicks]] (1912–1990){{sfn|Skinner|2015|p=275}}

*[[Percy Grainger]] (1882–1961){{r|RobinsonDrefus2015_3passim}}{{sfn|Skinner|2015|pp=275–7}}

*[[Margaret Sutherland]] (1897–1984){{sfn|Skinner|2015|p=275}}

==Europe==

===Austria===

*[[Alban Berg]] (1885–1935){{sfnm|Ashby|2004a|1p=8|Ashby|2004b|2p=351}}

*[[Ernst Krenek]] (1900–1991)

*[[Gustav Mahler]] (1860–1911){{sfnm|Frisch|2005|1pp=182–5, 203–13|Gagné|2012|2loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ppHoEX_6v10C&pg=PA178 p. 178]}}

*[[Arnold Schoenberg]] (1874–1951){{sfnm|Ashby|2004a|1p=8|Whitesell|2004|2p=104}}

*[[Anton Webern]] (1883–1945)

*[[Alexander Zemlinsky]] (1871–1942){{r|Dahlhaus1989_335}}

===Belgium===

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*[[Karel Goeyvaerts]] (1923–1993)<ref>{{Cite book |title=Music in Belgium: Contemporary Belgian Composers |publisher=CeBeDeM/A. Manteau Ltd. |year=1964 |___location=Brussels |pages=71 |chapter=Karel Goeyvaerts}}</ref>

===Finland===

*[[Erik Bergman]] (1911–2006){{sfn|Howell|2011|loc=passim}}

*[[Aarre Merikanto]] (1893–1958){{r|Suilamo1986}}

===France===

*[[Claude Debussy]] (1862–1918){{sfn|Gagné|2012|p=178}}

*[[André Jolivet]] (1905–1974){{sfn|Gagné|2012|p=146}}

*[[Charles Koechlin]] (1867–1950)

*[[Olivier Messiaen]] (1908–1992){{sfn|Gagné|2012|p=178}}

*[[Darius Milhaud]] (1892–1974){{sfn|Gagné|2012|p=178}}

*[[Francis Poulenc]] (1899–1963){{sfn|Rifkin|2006|pp=133–4, 141–3}}

*[[Maurice Ravel]] (1875–1937){{sfn|Gagné|2012|p=178}}

*[[Erik Satie]] (1866–1925){{sfn|Gagné|2012|p=178}}

*[[Edgard Varèse]] (1883–1965){{sfn|Gagné|2012|p=178}}

===Germany===

*[[Paul Hindemith]] (1895–1963){{sfnm|Ashby|2004a|1p=8|Gagné|2012|2p=178|Rifkin|2006|3pp=134, 157}}

*[[Hans Pfitzner]] (1869–1949){{sfn|Frisch|2005|pp=244–52}}

*[[Max Reger]] (1873–1916){{r|Dahlhaus1989_335}}{{sfn|Frisch|2005|pp=139, 149, 150–4, 168–72}}

*[[Franz Schreker]] (1878–1934){{r|Dahlhaus1989_335}}

*[[Richard Strauss]] (1864–1949){{r|Dahlhaus1989_335}}{{sfnm|Frisch|2005|1pp=214–44|Whitesell|2004|2p=103}}

===Greece===

*[[Nikos Skalkottas]] (1904–1949)

===Hungary===

*[[Béla Bartók]] (1881–1945){{sfn|Gagné|2012|p=178}}

===Italy===

*[[Ferruccio Busoni]] (1866–1924){{sfn|Frisch|2005|p=139}}

===Poland===

*[[Karol Szymanowski]] (1882–1937){{sfn|Ross|2007|p=159}}

===Russia===

*[[Edison Denisov]] (1929–1996)

*[[Leo Ornstein]] (1893–2002){{r|BroylesVonGlahn2007_xvi119}}

*[[Sergei Prokofiev]] (1891–1953){{sfnm|Gagné|2012|1p=178|Rifkin|2006|2pp=133–41, 145–7}}

*[[Alexander Scriabin]] (1872–1915){{sfn|Gagné|2012|p=178}}

*[[Igor Stravinsky]] (1882–1971){{sfnm|Ashby|2004a|1p=3|Ashby|2004b|2p=351}}

*[[Andrei Volkonsky]] (1933–2008)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dubinets |first=Elena |title=Князь Андрей Волконский: Партитура жизни |publisher=РИПОЛ Классик |year=2010 |isbn=978-5-386-02153-5 |___location=Moscow |page=12 |language=Russian}}</ref>

===Switzerland===

*[[Arthur Honegger]] (1892–1955){{sfn|Rifkin|2006|p=134}}

==North America==

===United States===

*[[George Antheil]] (1900–1959)

*[[Milton Babbitt]] (1916–2011){{sfnm|Ashby|2004a|1p=8|Bauer|2004|2p=121}}

*[[Elliott Carter]] (1908–2012)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000005030|title=Carter, Elliott {{!}} Grove Music|website=www.oxfordmusiconline.com|language=en|doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.05030|last=Schiff|first=David|author-link=David Schiff|isbn=978-1-56159-263-0}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Elliott Carter's Own Website Biography |url=https://www.elliottcarter.com/biography/ |access-date=March 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180318182815/https://www.elliottcarter.com/biography/ |archive-date=March 18, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Carter's Continuing Presence|work=[[NewMusicBox]]|url=https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/carters-continuing-presence/ |date=November 15, 2017 |access-date=March 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180319084512/https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/carters-continuing-presence/ |archive-date=March 19, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Elliott Carter's Own Book on Harmony |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z-54NaykVZYC&pg=PR3|isbn=9780825845949|last1=Carter|first1=Elliott|year=2002| publisher=Carl Fischer, L.L.C. }}</ref>

*[[Henry Cowell]] (1897–1965){{sfn|Lien|2002|p=51}}

*[[Ruth Crawford Seeger]] (1901–1953){{sfn|Ashby|2004a|p=3}}

*[[Vernon Duke]] (1903–1969){{sfn|Holden|2010|p=296}}

*[[Bernard Herrmann]] (1911–1975){{sfn|Ashby|2004a|p=8}}

*[[Charles Ives]] (1874–1954){{r|Botstein2008}}

*[[Harry Partch]] (1901–1974){{sfn|Lien|2002|pp=51–2}}

==See also==

*[[Modernism (music)]]

*[[Postmodernism]]

==References==

* {{cite book |last=Ashby |first=Arved Mark |date=2004a |chapter=Introduction |editor=Arved Mark Ashby |title=The Pleasure of Modernist Music: Listening, Meaning, Intention, Ideology |pages=1–22 |publisher=University of Rochester Press |isbn=1-58046-143-3

}}

* {{cite book |last=Ashby |first=Arved Mark |date=2004b |chapter=Modernism Goes to the Movies |editor=Arved Mark Ashby |title=The Pleasure of Modernist Music: Listening, Meaning, Intention, Ideology |pages=345–86 |publisher=University of Rochester Press |isbn=1-58046-143-3

}}

* {{cite book |last=Bauer |first=Amy |date=2004 |chapter=Tone-Color, Movement, Changing Harmonic Planes': Cognition, Constraints, and Conceptual Blends in Modernist Music |editor=Arved Mark Ashby |title=The Pleasure of Modernist Music: Listening, Meaning, Intention, Ideology |pages=121–152 |publisher=University of Rochester Press |isbn=1-58046-143-3

}}

* {{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Campbell|2010}}|reference=Campbell, Edward. 2010. ''Boulez, Music and Philosophy''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-521-86242-4}}.}}

* {{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Dahlhaus|1989}}|reference=[[Carl Dahlhaus|Dahlhaus, Carl]]. 1989. ''Nineteenth-Century Music''. Translated by J. Bradford Robinson. Berkeley: University of California Press.}}

* {{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Frisch|2005}}|reference=Frisch, Walter. 2005. ''German Modernism: Music and the Arts''. California Studies in 20th-Century Music. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press. {{ISBN|978-0-520-25148-9}}.}}

* {{cite book |last=Gagné |first=Nicole V. |date=2012 |title=Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music |series=Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts. [[Lanham, Maryland|Lanham MD]] |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=9780810867659

}}

* {{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Hanley|1954}}|reference=Hanley, Edwin. 1954. "''Chorale Variations''. Johann Gottfried Walther: ''Meinen Jesum lass' ich nicht''; ''Jesu meine Freude''. Georg Böhm: ''Ach wie nichtig, ach wie flüchtig''; ''Auf meinen lieben Gott''; ''Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend''. Finn Viderø, organ. 12" LP. Haydn HSL-3066" (record review). ''The Musical Quarterly'' 40, no. 2 (April): 289–94.}}

* {{cite journal |last=Holden |first=Scott |date=2010 |title=The 'Adventures and Battles' of Vladimir Dukelsky (a.k.a. Vernon Duke) |journal=American Music |volume=28 |issue=3 – Fall |pages=296–319

|doi=10.5406/americanmusic.28.3.0297 |s2cid=191312155 }}

* {{cite journal |last=Howell |first=Tim |date=2011 |title=The Legacy of a Modernist |journal=Finnish Music Quarterly |issue=4 |pages=38–41

}}

* {{cite book |last=Jurkowski |first=Edward |date=2020 |title=The Music of Joonas Kokkonen |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781138621114

}}

* {{cite web |url=https://muziekcentrum.kunsten.be/page.php?ID=136 |title=Vlaanderen en de nieuwe muziek |last=Knockaert |first=Yves |date=2005 |website= |publisher=Kunstenpunt Muziek |access-date=April 30, 2021 |quote=}}

* {{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Lien|2002}}|reference=Lien, Anthony Marcus. 2002. "Against the Grain: Modernism and the American Art Song, 1900 to 1950". PhD diss. Davis: University of California, Davis.}}

* {{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Metzer|2009}}|reference=Metzer, David Joel. 2009. ''Musical Modernism at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century''. Music in the Twentieth Century 26. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-521-51779-9}}.}}

* {{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Morgan|1984}}|reference=Morgan, Robert P. 1984. "Secret Languages: The Roots of Musical Modernism". ''[[Critical Inquiry]]'' 10, no. 3 (March): 442–461.}}

* {{cite journal |last=Petersen |first=Nils Holger |date=June 2010 |title=Quotation and Framing: Re-contextualization and Intertextuality as Newness in George Crumb's ''Black Angels'' |journal=Contemporary Music Review |volume=29 |issue=3 |pages=309–321

|doi=10.1080/07494467.2010.535365 |s2cid=218546107 }}

* {{cite journal |last=Rifkin |first=Deborah |date=2006 |title=Making It Modern: Chromaticism and Phrase Structure in Twentieth-Century Tonal Music |journal=Theory and Practice |volume=31 |pages=133–158

}}

* {{cite book |last=Ross |first=Alex |date=2007 |title=The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century |___location=New York City |publisher=Farrar, Straus, and Giroux |isbn=9780374249397

}}

* {{cite journal |last=Schwarz |first=K. Robert |date=1990 |title=Process vs. Intuition in the Recent Works of Steve Reich and John Adams |journal=American Music |volume=8 |issue=3 - Autumn |pages=245–273

|doi=10.2307/3052096 |jstor=3052096 }}

* {{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Skinner|2015}}|reference=Skinner, Graeme. 2015. "Australian Musical First Modernism". In ''The Modernist World'', edited by Stephen Ross and Allana C. Lindgren, 273–81. London and New York: Routledge. {{ISBN|978-0-415-84503-8}}.}}

* {{cite book |last=Whitesell |first=Lloyd |date=2004 |chapter=Twentieth-Century Tonality, or, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do |editor=Arved Mark Ashby |title=The Pleasure of Modernist Music: Listening, Meaning, Intention, Ideology |pages=103–120 |publisher=University of Rochester Press |isbn=1-58046-143-3

}}

* {{cite journal |last=Wilmotte |first=Marie-Hélène |date=1994 |title=L'expérimental comme gage de la modernité: La ''Sequenza I'' de Luciano Berio |journal=Les cahiers du CIREM |issue=30–31 |pages=71–84

}}

'''Footnotes'''

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<ref name=RobinsonDrefus2015_3passim>Robinson, Suzanne, and Kay Drefus (eds.). 2015. ''Grainger the Modernist''. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited; Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company. pp. 3 et passim. {{ISBN|978-1-4724-2022-0}}.</ref>

<ref name=Dahlhaus1989_335>Dahlhaus, Carl. 1989. ''Nineteenth-Century Music'', translated by J. Bradford Robinson. California Studies in 19th-Century Music. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press. p. 335. {{ISBN|978-0-520-07644-0}}.</ref>

<ref name=Suilamo1986>Suilamo, Harri. 13 March 1986. “Aarre Merikanto – a battered genius". ''Finnish Music Quarterly''.</ref>

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<ref name=Werder1965>Werder, Felix. 17 April 1965. "Monteverdi the Modernist: ''Monteverdi'', by Leo Schrade". ''The Age''.</ref>

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<ref name=Whenham1997_36>Whenham, John. 1997. ''Monteverdi: Vespers (1610)''. Cambridge Music Handbooks. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 36. {{ISBN|9780521459792}}.</ref>

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<ref name=Loya2011_15passim>Loya, Shay. 2011. ''Liszt's Transcultural Modernism and the Hungarian-Gypsy Tradition''. Eastman Studies in Music. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. pp. 1–5 et passim. {{ISBN|9781580463232}}.</ref>

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<ref name=Botstein2008>Leon Botstein. 2008. {{Full citation needed|date=April 2020}}.</ref>

<ref name=BroylesVonGlahn2007_xvi119>Broyles, Michael, and Denise Von Glahn. 2007. ''Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices''. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press. pp. xvi, 119. {{ISBN|9780253348944}}.</ref>

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==Further reading==

* {{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Botstein|2001}}|reference=Leon Botstein. 2001. "Modernism", Grove Music Online, edited by Laura Macy (accessed December 20, 2008), grovemusic.com (subscription access).}}

* {{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Clapp|1916}}|reference=Clapp, Philip Greeley. 1916. "[https://archive.org/stream/jstor-737959/737959#page/n1 Sebastian Bach, Modernist]". ''Musical Quarterly'' 2, no. 2 (April): 295–313.}}

* {{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Purdy|2010}}|reference=Purdy, Daniel. 2010. ''Goethe Yearbook 17''. New York: Camden House. {{ISBN|9781571134257}}.}}

* {{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Taruskin|2010}}|reference=Taruskin, Richard. 2010. ''[[Oxford History of Western Music]]'' (2nd ed., Oxford University Press).}}

* {{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Webster|2008}}|reference=Webster, James. 2008. "Rosen's Modernist Haydn". In ''Variations on the Canon: Essays on Music from Bach to Boulez in Honor of Charles Rosen on His Eightieth Birthday'', edited by Robert Curry, David Gable, Robert Lewis Marshall, 283–90. Eastman Studies in Music 58. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. {{ISBN|9781580462853}}.}}

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