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- Max Richter. Composer, pianist, and producer, Max Richter is one of the best-known classical composers at work this century, with over one billion streams of his music online, and a further one million album sales.
- Ludovico Einaudi. Since the release of his debut album for solo piano, Le Onde, in 1996, Ludovico Einaudi’s name has become synonymous with hypnotically minimalist piano music.
- Hildur Guðnadóttir. Born to a family of musicians, the Icelandic composer, cellist, and vocalist Hildur Guðnadóttir is best known for her award-winning film and TV scores.
- Eric Whitacre. Award-winning composer and conductor Eric Whitacre is responsible for some of the most glorious choral music of the 21st century. Known for his close, crunchy, complex harmonies, which form what he calls ‘the golden brick’, his most famous works include Sleep, Cloudburst, and Lux Aurumque.
Aug 20, 2018 · After the Second World War, prodigiously complex systems of organizing music spread to all corners of the globe: twelve-tone composition, its serialist variants, chance operations, and so on.
Contemporary classical music is Western art music composed close to the present day. At the beginning of the 21st century, it commonly referred to the post-1945 modern forms of post-tonal music after the death of Anton Webern, and included serial music, electronic music, experimental music, and minimalist music.
Dec 31, 2019 · From a composer who broke into the public eye late in life, playing as many as 19.5 notes per second, to a percussion ensemble writing a new score to an old film, our selections form an intense tapestry of sound. And now, without further ado, A Closer Listen presents the Best Modern Composition Albums of 2010-19!
Modern Composition. A broad category that encompasses the various movements and directions in composition that sprung up during the 1900s such as minimalism, atonal; music that even by the end of the century found more acceptance (and respect) in avant-garde minded circles, than in the classical world.
Modern Composition. A broad category that encompasses the various movements and directions in composition that sprung up during the 1900s such as minimalism, atonal; music that even by the end of the century found more acceptance (and respect) in avant-garde minded circles, than in the classical world.
