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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.
Find Modern Composition Albums, Artists and Songs, and Hand-Picked Top Modern Composition Music on AllMusic.
Aug 20, 2018 · In composed music, the big news was the retreat, and possible demise, of modernism. After the Second World War, prodigiously complex systems of organizing music spread to all corners of the...
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!
Feb 26, 2024 · Contemporary classical music, often just termed contemporary music, is a genre within Western music that was primarily composed after 1945. It features a mix of styles, ranging from modernism to experimental uses of electronic instruments and new technologies.
The following is a list of 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 ...
