Lista de compositores clásicos del siglo XX
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Esta es una lista de compositores de música clásica del siglo XX, clasificable por nombre, año de nacimiento, año de fallecimiento, nacionalidad, obras destacadas y comentarios. Incluye únicamente compositores de gran fama e importancia. Se proporciona el estilo musical del compositor siempre que sea posible, teniendo en cuenta que algunos son difíciles de clasificar. Los nombres se enumeran primero por año de nacimiento y luego en orden alfabético dentro de cada año. El siglo XX se define por el calendario, más que por características unificadoras de estilo o actitud musical, y por lo tanto no es una era del mismo orden que la clásica o la romántica. Sin embargo, el siglo puede dividirse en eras modernas y posmodernas que se superponen y se definen más por diferencias de actitud que de estilo.
| Name | Year of birth | Year of death | Nationality | Notable 20th-century works | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Dancla | 1817 | 1907 | French | Solo de concours no. 7, Op. 224 | Romanticism |
| Luigi Arditi | 1822 | 1903 | Italian | ||
| Theodor Kirchner | 1823 | 1903 | German | ||
| Carl Reinecke | 1824 | 1910 | German | Trio for piano, clarinet and horn in B♭, Op. 274; String Quartet No. 5, Op. 287 | Romanticism |
| Richard Hol | 1825 | 1904 | Dutch | Organ music | Romanticism |
| Ludwig Minkus | 1826 | 1917 | Austrian | ||
| Morten Eskesen | 1826 | 1913 | Danish | ||
| François-Auguste Gevaert | 1828 | 1908 | Belgian | Romanticism | |
| Clémence de Grandval | 1828 | 1907 | French | ||
| James Cutler Dunn Parker | 1828 | 1916 | American | Romanticism | |
| Jacques Blumenthal | 1829 | 1908 | German | Romanticism | |
| Karl Goldmark | 1830 | 1915 | Hungarian | Ein Wintermärchen; Aus Jugendtagen | |
| Karl Klindworth | 1830 | 1916 | German | ||
| Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff | 1830 | 1913 | German | ||
| Jan Gerard Palm | 1831 | 1906 | Dutch Antillean | ||
| Benjamin Dwight Allen | 1831 | 1914 | German | ||
| Salomon Jadassohn | 1831 | 1902 | German | Romanticism | |
| Joseph Joachim | 1831 | 1907 | Hungarian | ||
| Mathilde Hannah von Rothschild | 1832 | 1924 | German | ||
| Charles-Wilfrid de Bériot | 1833 | 1914 | French | ||
| Caspar Joseph Brambach | 1833 | 1902 | German | ||
| Josef Richard Rozkošný | 1833 | 1913 | Czech | ||
| George Becker | 1834 | 1928 | German-Swiss | ||
| Francesco Berger | 1834 | 1933 | English | ||
| Kārlis Baumanis | 1835 | 1905 | Latvian | ||
| Giuseppe Branzoli | 1835 | 1909 | Italian | ||
| César Cui | 1835 | 1918 | Russian | ||
| Felix Draeseke | 1835 | 1913 | German | ||
| Camille Saint-Saëns | 1835 | 1921 | French | ||
| Eduard Strauss | 1835 | 1916 | Austrian | ||
| Friedrich Baumfelder | 1836 | 1916 | German | ||
| Bertha Tammelin | 1836 | 1915 | Swedish | ||
| Susan McFarland Parkhurst | 1836 | 1918 | American | ||
| Mily Balakirev | 1837 | 1910 | Russian | Islamey | |
| Théodore Dubois | 1837 | 1924 | French | ||
| Carlotta Ferrari | 1837 | 1907 | Italian | ||
| Alfred R. Gaul | 1837 | 1913 | English | The Prince of Peace (cantata) | |
| Otto Winter-Hjelm | 1837 | 1931 | Norwegian | ||
| Paul Lacombe | 1837 | 1927 | French | ||
| Smith Newell Penfield | 1837 | 1920 | American | ||
| Émile Waldteufel | 1837 | 1915 | French | ||
| Max Bruch | 1838 | 1920 | German | Concerto for Clarinet, Viola, and Orchestra in E minor, Op. 88 | Romanticism |
| Joseph Callaerts | 1838 | 1901 | Belgian | ||
| Melesio Morales | 1838 | 1908 | Mexican | ||
| Friedrich Gernsheim | 1839 | 1916 | German | ||
| Eduard Nápravník | 1839 | 1916 | Czech | Francesca da Rimini (opera), Op. 71; Deux pièces russes, for orchestra, Op. 74 | |
| Laura Netzel | 1839 | 1927 | Swedish | ||
| John Knowles Paine | 1839 | 1906 | American | ||
| Josef Rheinberger | 1839 | 1901 | German | Organ Sonata No. 20 in F Major (“Zur Friedensfeier”), Op. 196; Mass in A Minor, Op. 197 | historicist |
| Johan Svendsen | 1840 | 1911 | Norwegian | ||
| François Borne | 1840 | 1920 | French | ||
| Ingeborg Bronsart von Schellendorf | 1840 | 1913 | Swedish-German | ||
| Theodora Cormontan | 1840 | 1922 | Norwegian American | ||
| Oskar Rieding | 1840 | 1918 | German | ||
| Elfrida Andrée | 1841 | 1929 | Swedish | Swedish Masses Nos. 1 and 2 | |
| Antonín Dvořák | 1841 | 1904 | Czech | Armida (opera), "Zpěv z Lešetínského kováře" (song) | Romanticism, folk-influenced |
| Henri Gobbi | 1841 | 1920 | Hungarian | ||
| Friedrich Hegar | 1841 | 1927 | Swiss | ||
| Louise Héritte-Viardot | 1841 | 1918 | French | ||
| Joseph Friedrich Hummel | 1841 | 1919 | Austrian | ||
| Felip Pedrell | 1841 | 1922 | Spanish | ||
| Giovanni Sgambati | 1841 | 1914 | Italian | ||
| Giuseppe Silvestri | 1841 | 1921 | Italian | ||
| Arrigo Boito | 1842 | 1918 | Italian | Nerone (opera) | |
| Alphonse Duvernoy | 1842 | 1907 | French | ||
| Josef Labor | 1842 | 1924 | Czech | ||
| Jules Massenet | 1842 | 1912 | French | Piano Concerto; Le jongleur de Notre-Dame; Thérèse; Don Quichotte; Cigale | |
| Felipe Pedrell | 1842 | 1922 | Spanish | ||
| Ján Levoslav Bella | 1843 | 1936 | Slovak | ||
| Émile Bernard | 1843 | 1902 | French | Nocturne, for piano and orchestra, Op. 51; String Quartet, Op. 52 | |
| Josefina Brdlíková | 1843 | 1910 | Czech | ||
| Louis Diémer | 1843 | 1919 | French | ||
| Edvard Grieg | 1843 | 1907 | Norwegian | Lyrische Stücke, Op. 71; Slåtter, Op. 73; Four Psalms, Op. 74 | |
| Asger Hamerik | 1843 | 1923 | Danish | Variations on "Jeg gik mig ud en sommerdag" | |
| Franz Xaver Neruda | 1843 | 1915 | Danish | ||
| Karl Michael Ziehrer | 1843 | 1922 | Austrian | ||
| David Popper | 1843 | 1913 | Czech | ||
| Oliveria Prescott | 1843 | 1919 | English | ||
| George Stephănescu | 1843 | 1925 | Romanian | ||
| Eugène Gigout | 1844 | 1925 | French | ||
| Hermann Graedener | 1844 | 1929 | German | ||
| Richard Hofmann | 1844 | 1918 | German | ||
| Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | 1844 | 1908 | Russian | ||
| Pablo de Sarasate | 1844 | 1908 | Spanish | ||
| Charles-Marie Widor | 1844 | 1937 | French | ||
| Anton Jörgen Andersen | 1845 | 1926 | Norwegian | ||
| August Bungert | 1845 | 1915 | German | ||
| Ion Ivanovici | 1845 | 1902 | Romanian | ||
| Gabriel Fauré | 1845 | 1924 | French | Prométhée; Pénélope; Masques et bergamasques | |
| Alphonse Hasselmans | 1845 | 1912 | Belgian-born French | ||
| Ernst Perabo | 1845 | 1920 | German-born American | ||
| Ella Adayevskaya | 1846 | 1926 | Russian | ||
| Leopold Auer | 1846 | 1930 | Hungarian | ||
| Ignaz Brüll | 1846 | 1907 | Austrian | ||
| Luigi Denza | 1846 | 1922 | Italian | ||
| Zygmunt Noskowski | 1846 | 1909 | Polish | ||
| Riccardo Drigo | 1846 | 1930 | Italian | ||
| Andreas Hallén | 1846 | 1925 | Swedish | Valborgsmässa (opera) | Romanticism |
| Marie Jaëll | 1846 | 1925 | French | ||
| Albert Lavignac | 1846 | 1916 | French | ||
| Franz Ries | 1846 | 1932 | German | ||
| Paolo Tosti | 1846 | 1916 | Italian | ||
| Joachim Andersen | 1847 | 1909 | Danish | ||
| Agathe Backer Grøndahl | 1847 | 1907 | Norwegian | ||
| Ignacio Cervantes | 1847 | 1905 | Cuban | ||
| Francis Chassaigne | 1847 | 1922 | Belgian-born French | ||
| Constantin Dimitrescu | 1847 | 1928 | Romanian | ||
| Robert Fuchs | 1847 | 1927 | Austrian | Symphony No. 3 in E major, Op. 79; Clarinet Quintet in E♭ major, Op. 102 | |
| Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka | 1847 | 1917 | German-Polish | ||
| Chiquinha Gonzaga | 1847 | 1935 | Brazilian | ||
| Alexander Mackenzie | 1847 | 1935 | Scottish | The Cricket on the Hearth | Romanticism |
| Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson | 1847 | 1927 | Icelandic | ||
| Rudolf Tillmetz | 1847 | 1915 | German | ||
| Agnes Zimmermann | 1847 | 1925 | German | ||
| Frances Allitsen | 1848 | 1912 | English | ||
| Henri Duparc | 1848 | 1933 | French | ||
| Richard Eilenberg | 1848 | 1927 | German | ||
| František Kmoch | 1848 | 1912 | Czech | ||
| Otto Malling | 1848 | 1915 | Danish | ||
| William J. McCoy | 1848 | 1926 | American | ||
| Hubert Parry | 1848 | 1918 | English | Jerusalem | |
| Ludvig Schytte | 1848 | 1909 | Danish | ||
| Fritz Seitz | 1848 | 1918 | German | ||
| Johann Baptist Singenberger | 1848 | 1924 | Swiss-American | historicist | |
| Catalina Berroa | 1849 | 1911 | Cuban | ||
| Roberta Geddes-Harvey | 1849 | 1930 | Canadian | ||
| Ernesto Köhler | 1849 | 1907 | Italian | ||
| Nanna Liebmann | 1849 | 1935 | Danish | ||
| Stephanie Wurmbrand-Stuppach | 1849 | 1919 | Hungarian | ||
| Richard Barth | 1850 | 1923 | German | ||
| Ludvig Birkedal-Barfod | 1850 | 1937 | Danish | ||
| Tomás Bretón | 1850 | 1923 | Spanish | ||
| Richard Heuberger | 1850 | 1914 | Austrian | ||
| Iver Holter | 1850 | 1941 | Norwegian | ||
| Alfredo Keil | 1850 | 1907 | Portuguese | ||
| Peter Lange-Müller | 1850 | 1926 | Danish | ||
| Alexandre Luigini | 1850 | 1906 | French | ||
| C. A. Bracco | 1850 | 1903 | Italian | ||
| Franz Xaver Scharwenka | 1850 | 1924 | German | ||
| Antonio Scontrino | 1850 | 1922 | Italian | ||
| Emilio Serrano y Ruiz | 1850 | 1939 | Spanish | ||
| Hans Sitt | 1850 | 1922 | Czech | ||
| Heinrich Reimann | 1850 | 1906 | German | ||
| Alexander Taneyev | 1850 | 1918 | Russian | ||
| Victor Bendix | 1851 | 1926 | Danish | Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 30 | |
| Jan Blockx | 1851 | 1912 | Belgian | ||
| Mary Grant Carmichael | 1851 | 1935 | English | ||
| Emanuel Chvála | 1851 | 1924 | Czech | ||
| Gabrielle Ferrari | 1851 | 1921 | French-Italian | ||
| Ludvig Hegner | 1851 | 1923 | Danish | ||
| Vincent d'Indy | 1851 | 1931 | French | String Quartet No. 3; Symphony No. 2 in B♭; Jour d'été à la montagne | |
| W. H. Jude | 1851 | 1922 | English | ||
| André Wormser | 1851 | 1926 | French | ||
| Josef Bayer | 1852 | 1913 | Austrian | Das Damenduell | Romanticism |
| Frederick Corder | 1852 | 1932 | English | Romanticism | |
| Frederic Hymen Cowen | 1852 | 1935 | British | Miniature Variations for orchestra | Romanticism |
| Alfred Grünfeld | 1852 | 1924 | Austrian | Romanticism | |
| Francisco Tárrega | 1852 | 1909 | Spanish | ||
| Hans Huber | 1852 | 1921 | Swiss | Romanticism | |
| Helena Munktell | 1852 | 1919 | Swedish | Romanticism | |
| Henrique Oswald | 1852 | 1931 | Brazilian | ||
| Raoul Pugno | 1852 | 1914 | French | ||
| Émile Sauret | 1852 | 1920 | French | Romanticism | |
| Charles Villiers Stanford | 1852 | 1924 | Irish | Six Irish Rhapsodies | Romanticism |
| Teresa Carreño | 1853 | 1917 | Venezuelan | Romanticism | |
| Arthur Foote | 1853 | 1937 | American | Romanticism | |
| Hugo Richard Jüngst | 1853 | 1923 | German | Romanticism | |
| Iwan Knorr | 1853 | 1916 | German | Romanticism | |
| Hans von Koessler | 1853 | 1926 | German | Romanticism | |
| Charles Malherbe | 1853 | 1911 | French | Romanticism | |
| Jean Louis Nicodé | 1853 | 1919 | Prussian | Romanticism | |
| Emil Sjögren | 1853 | 1918 | Swedish | Romanticism | |
| Arturo Buzzi-Peccia | 1854 | 1943 | Italian | songs and piano works | |
| George Whitefield Chadwick | 1854 | 1931 | American | ||
| Oscar Fetrás | 1854 | 1931 | German | ||
| Gerónimo Giménez | 1854 | 1923 | Spanish | ||
| Pekka Hannikainen | 1854 | 1924 | Finnish | ||
| Engelbert Humperdinck | 1854 | 1921 | German | ||
| Leoš Janáček | 1854 | 1928 | Czech | Sinfonietta; Taras Bulba; Káťa Kabanová; The Cunning Little Vixen; The Makropoulos Affair; Glagolitic Mass, 2 string quartets | folk-influenced |
| Alexander Kopylov | 1854 | 1911 | Russian | ||
| Heinrich Köselitz | 1854 | 1918 | German | ||
| Moritz Moszkowski | 1854 | 1925 | German-Polish | ||
| Julie Rivé-King | 1854 | 1937 | American | ||
| Antonio Smareglia | 1854 | 1929 | Austro-Hungarian | ||
| John Philip Sousa | 1854 | 1932 | American | ||
| Bernard Zweers | 1854 | 1924 | Dutch | ||
| Károly Aggházy | 1855 | 1918 | Hungarian | ||
| Jørgen Ditleff Bondesen | 1855 | 1939 | Danish | ||
| Heinrich Grünfeld | 1855 | 1931 | Bohemian-Austrian | ||
| Nicolaj Hansen | 1855 | 1932 | Danish | ||
| Josef Klička | 1855 | 1937 | Czech | ||
| Jean Pietrapertosa | 1855 | 1940 | Italian-French | ||
| Anatoly Lyadov | 1855 | 1914 | Russian | ||
| Arnold Mendelssohn | 1855 | 1933 | German | Deutsche Messe, Op. 89; Geistliche Chormusik, Op. 90 | |
| Julius Röntgen | 1855 | 1932 | German | ||
| Richard Sahla | 1855 | 1931 | German | ||
| Maude Valérie White | 1855 | 1937 | French-born English | ||
| Guglielmo Zuelli | 1859 | 1941 | Italian | ||
| Cecilia Arizti | 1856 | 1930 | Cuban | ||
| Eva Dell'Acqua | 1856 | 1930 | Belgian | ||
| Kateřina Emingerová | 1856 | 1934 | Czech | ||
| Robert Fischhof | 1856 | 1918 | Austrian | ||
| André Gedalge | 1856 | 1926 | French | ||
| Helen Hopekirk | 1856 | 1945 | Scottish-American | ||
| Natalia Janotha | 1856 | 1932 | Polish | ||
| Felix Mottl | 1856 | 1911 | Austrian | ||
| Gilda Ruta | 1856 | 1932 | Italian | ||
| Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter | 1856 | 1938 | American | ||
| Eduard Schütt | 1856 | 1933 | Russian | ||
| Christian Sinding | 1856 | 1941 | Norwegian | Romanticism | |
| George Strong | 1856 | 1948 | American | ||
| Sergei Taneyev | 1856 | 1915 | Russian | String Quartet No. 6 in B♭ major; Piano Quartet in E major; Piano Quintet in G minor | |
| Timothee Adamowski | 1857 | 1943 | Polish-born American | ||
| Berta Bock | 1857 | 1945 | Romanian | ||
| Alfred Bruneau | 1857 | 1934 | French | ||
| Cécile Chaminade | 1857 | 1944 | French | Concertino for Flute | |
| Frederic Cliffe | 1857 | 1931 | English | Ode to the North-East Wind | Romanticism |
| Rudolf Dellinger | 1857 | 1910 | German | ||
| Árpád Doppler | 1857 | 1927 | Hungarian-German | ||
| Edward Elgar | 1857 | 1934 | English | Symphony No. 1; No. 2; Violin Concerto; Cello Concerto; The Dream of Gerontius; Pomp and Circumstance Marches | Romanticism |
| Ethel R. Harraden | 1857 | 1917 | English | ||
| Gustav Helsted | 1857 | 1924 | Danish | ||
| Wilhelm Kienzl | 1857 | 1941 | Austrian | ||
| Ruggero Leoncavallo | 1857 | 1919 | Italian | Zingari (opera) | verismo |
| František Ondříček | 1857 | 1922 | Czech | ||
| Rosalind Ellicott | 1857 | 1924 | English | ||
| Henry Schoenfeld | 1857 | 1936 | American | ||
| Achille Simonetti | 1857 | 1928 | Italian and English | ||
| César Thomson | 1857 | 1931 | Belgian | ||
| Mary Knight Wood | 1857 | 1944 | American | ||
| Siegfried Alkan | 1858 | 1941 | German | ||
| Heinrich Berté | 1858 | 1924 | Austrian-Hungarian | Der Glücksnarr | |
| Thomas Bidgood | 1858 | 1925 | English | ||
| Mélanie Bonis | 1858 | 1937 | French | ||
| Isidore de Lara | 1858 | 1935 | English | ||
| Catharinus Elling | 1858 | 1942 | Norwegian | Violin Concerto in D minor | Romanticism |
| Richard Franck | 1858 | 1938 | German | ||
| Guy d'Hardelot | 1858 | 1936 | French | ||
| Ludvig Holm | 1858 | 1928 | Danish | ||
| Jenő Hubay | 1858 | 1937 | Hungarian | ||
| Georges Hüe | 1858 | 1948 | French | ||
| Lucien-Léon Guillaume Lambert | 1858 | 1945 | French | ||
| Frank Lynes | 1858 | 1913 | American | ||
| Giacomo Puccini | 1858 | 1924 | Italian | La fanciulla del West; Turandot | Romanticism; post-romanticism; verismo |
| Catharina van Rennes | 1858 | 1940 | Dutch | ||
| Risto Savin | 1858 | 1948 | Slovenian | ||
| Ethel Smyth | 1858 | 1944 | English | ||
| Stella Stocker | 1858 | 1925 | American | ||
| Eugène Ysaÿe | 1858 | 1931 | Belgian | ||
| Gerard von Brucken Fock | 1859 | 1935 | Dutch | De wederkomst van Christus | |
| Hedwige Chrétien | 1859 | 1944 | French | ||
| Laura Sedgwick Collins | 1859 | 1927 | American | ||
| Teresa Tanco Cordovez de Herrera | 1859 | 1946 | Colombian | ||
| August Enna | 1859 | 1939 | Danish | ||
| Josef Bohuslav Foerster | 1859 | 1951 | Czech | ||
| Narcisa Freixas | 1859 | 1926 | Spanish | ||
| Arthur Friedheim | 1859 | 1932 | Russian | ||
| Susie Frances Harrison | 1859 | 1935 | Canadian | ||
| Basil Harwood | 1859 | 1949 | English | ||
| Victor Herbert | 1859 | 1924 | Irish-American | The Magic Knight (opera); The Red Mill (musical comedy); A Suite of Serenades | |
| Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov | 1859 | 1935 | Russian | ||
| Sergei Lyapunov | 1859 | 1924 | Russian | ||
| Ida Georgina Moberg | 1859 | 1947 | Finnish | Symphony | |
| Vincenza Garelli della Morea | 1859 | 1924 | Italian | ||
| William Reed | 1859 | 1945 | Canadian | ||
| Hope Temple | 1859 | 1938 | Irish | ||
| Ellen Riley Wright | 1859 | 1904 | English | ||
| Isaac Albéniz | 1860 | 1909 | Spanish | Iberia | Romanticism |
| Valborg Aulin | 1860 | 1928 | Swedish | ||
| Gustave Charpentier | 1860 | 1956 | French | Julien | |
| Victor Ewald | 1860 | 1935 | Russian | ||
| Bohumil Fidler | 1860 | 1944 | Czech | ||
| Pietro Floridia | 1860 | 1932 | Italian | ||
| Alberto Franchetti | 1860 | 1942 | Italian | ||
| Axel Gade | 1860 | 1921 | Danish | ||
| Raoul Gunsbourg | 1860 | 1955 | Romanian | ||
| Celeste de Longpré Heckscher | 1860 | 1928 | American | ||
| Edward MacDowell | 1860 | 1908 | American | ||
| Hugo Wolf | 1860 | 1903 | Austrian | ||
| Gustav Mahler | 1860 | 1911 | Austrian | No. 5, No. 6, No. 9, No. 10 in F; Das Lied von der Erde; Kindertotenlieder | Romanticism; modernism |
| Ignacy Jan Paderewski | 1860 | 1941 | Polish | Symphony in B minor, Op. 24 | |
| Edouard Potjes | 1860 | 1931 | Dutch | At Dawn Eastermorning for orchestra | |
| Emil von Reznicek | 1860 | 1945 | Austrian | two symphonies | |
| William Wallace | 1860 | 1940 | Scottish | ||
| Felix Woyrsch | 1860 | 1944 | German | ||
| Anton Arensky | 1861 | 1906 | Russian | Piano Trio no. 2 in F minor, Op. 73 | |
| Spyridon Samaras | 1861 | 1917 | Greek | ||
| Wilhelm Berger | 1861 | 1911 | German | Symphony No. 2 in B minor, Op. 80; Variations and Fugue on an Original Theme, Op. 97; Serenade for Twelve Winds, Op. 102 | Romanticism |
| Marco Enrico Bossi | 1861 | 1925 | Italian | ||
| Pierre de Bréville | 1861 | 1949 | French | ||
| Georgy Catoire | 1861 | 1926 | Russian | ||
| Florence Everilda Goodeve | 1861 | 1915 | English | ||
| Charles Martin Loeffler | 1861 | 1935 | French-born American | ||
| Rudolf Raimann | 1861 | 1913 | Hungarian | Unser Stammhalter (opera) | Romanticism |
| Marie Emmanuel Augustin Savard | 1861 | 1942 | French | ||
| Václav Suk | 1861 | 1933 | Czech-born Russian | ||
| Ludwig Thuille | 1861 | 1907 | Austrian | ||
| Conrad Ansorge | 1862 | 1930 | German | ||
| Florence Aylward | 1862 | 1950 | English | ||
| Meliton Balanchivadze | 1862 | 1937 | Georgian | ||
| Dora Bright | 1862 | 1951 | English | Ballets The Dryad (1907), A Dancer's Adventure (1915) | |
| Georgi Conus | 1862 | 1933 | Russian | ||
| Walter Damrosch | 1862 | 1950 | German-born American | Sonata for violin and piano | |
| Arthur De Greef | 1862 | 1940 | Belgian | Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in C minor, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in B flat minor, Sonata in C minor for 2 Pianos | |
| Claude Debussy | 1862 | 1918 | French | Clair de lune; Syrinx; La mer; Pelléas et Mélisande; Préludes | impressionism |
| Frederick Delius | 1862 | 1934 | English | A Village Romeo and Juliet; On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring | impressionism |
| Alphons Diepenbrock | 1862 | 1921 | Dutch | ||
| Stéphan Elmas | 1862 | 1937 | Armenian | ||
| Maurice Emmanuel | 1862 | 1938 | French | ||
| Edward German | 1862 | 1936 | English | Merrie England; A Princess of Kensington; Tom Jones | |
| Henry Holden Huss | 1862 | 1953 | American | ||
| Carrie Jacobs-Bond | 1862 | 1946 | American | "I Love You Truly" | |
| Mona McBurney | 1862 | 1932 | British | ||
| August Nölck | 1862 | 1928 | German | ||
| Ferdinand Pfohl | 1862 | 1949 | German | ||
| Emil von Sauer | 1862 | 1942 | German | ||
| Alberto Williams | 1862 | 1952 | Argentine | Poema del Iguazú, nine symphonies | folk-influenced, modernism, impressionism, nationalism, post-Wagnerian |
| Daniel Doura | 1957 | Argentine | Sinfonía argentina | ||
| Hugo Becker | 1863 | 1941 | German | Cello Concerto | |
| Felix Blumenfeld | 1863 | 1931 | Russian | ||
| Charles Bordes | 1863 | 1909 | French | ||
| Maria Chefaliady-Taban | 1863 | 1932 | Romanian | ||
| Enrique Fernández Arbós | 1863 | 1939 | Spanish | ||
| Abbie Gerrish-Jones | 1863 | 1929 | American | ||
| Helen Francis Hood | 1863 | 1949 | American | ||
| Hugo Kaun | 1863 | 1932 | German | Symphony No. 3 in E minor, Op. 96 | |
| Izabella Kuliffay | 1863 | 1945 | Hungarian | Magyar suite | |
| Pietro Mascagni | 1863 | 1945 | Italian | Amica | verismo |
| Emánuel Moór | 1863 | 1931 | Hungarian | ||
| Cornélie van Oosterzee | 1863 | 1943 | Dutch | ||
| Horatio Parker | 1863 | 1919 | American | ||
| Gabriel Pierné | 1863 | 1937 | French | Cydalise et le Chèvre-pied; Ramuntcho | |
| Alfred Reisenauer | 1863 | 1907 | German | ||
| Vladimir Sokalsky | 1863 | 1919 | Russian | ||
| Arthur Somervell | 1863 | 1937 | English | ||
| Jāzeps Vītols | 1863 | 1948 | Latvian | ||
| Eugen d'Albert | 1864 | 1932 | German, Swiss; Scottish-born | Tiefland | Romanticism |
| Hugh Blair | 1864 | 1932 | English | Magnificat; Nunc Dimittis for double choir | |
| Hjalmar Borgstrøm | 1864 | 1925 | Norwegian | Piano Concerto in C, Op. 22, Violin Concerto in G major Op. 25, Piano Quintet in F Op. 31, | |
| Ricardo Castro | 1864 | 1907 | Mexican | ||
| Harry Falkenau | 1864 | 1907 | American | ||
| Eleanor Everest Freer | 1864 | 1942 | American | ||
| Louis Glass | 1864 | 1936 | Danish | ||
| Alexander Gretchaninov | 1864 | 1956 | Russian | ||
| Peter Griesbacher | 1864 | 1933 | German | historicist | |
| Johan Halvorsen | 1864 | 1935 | Norwegian | Norwegian rhapsodies, three symphonies | Romanticism, French influence |
| Sakunosuke Koyama | 1864 | 1927 | Japanese | ||
| Alessandro Longo | 1864 | 1945 | Italian | ||
| Alberto Nepomuceno | 1864 | 1920 | Brazilian | ||
| Guy Ropartz | 1864 | 1955 | French | Le Pays | impressionism |
| Richard Strauss | 1864 | 1949 | German | An Alpine Symphony; Der Rosenkavalier; Oboe Concerto; Salome; Metamorphosen | Romanticism |
| Giovanni Tebaldini | 1864 | 1952 | Italian | historicist | |
| August de Boeck | 1865 | 1937 | Belgian | impressionism | |
| Herbert Brewer | 1865 | 1928 | English | ||
| Eduardo di Capua | 1865 | 1917 | Italian | ||
| Paul Dukas | 1865 | 1935 | French | La Péri (ballet) | |
| Herbert J. Ellis | 1865 | 1903 | English | ||
| Paul Gilson | 1865 | 1942 | Belgian | impressionism | |
| Alexander Glazunov | 1865 | 1936 | Russian | Symphony No. 4 and No. 5; The Seasons (ballet); Violin Concerto; Saxophone Concerto | Romanticism |
| Alfred Hollins | 1865 | 1942 | English | ||
| Borghild Holmsen | 1865 | 1938 | Norwegian | ||
| Gustav Jenner | 1865 | 1920 | German | ||
| Robert Kahn | 1865 | 1951 | German | ||
| Emil Kauppi | 1865 | 1930 | Finnish | ||
| Albéric Magnard | 1865 | 1914 | French | Guercoeur | |
| Enric Morera i Viura | 1865 | 1942 | Spanish | ||
| Carl Nielsen | 1865 | 1931 | Danish | Symphony No. 4; No. 5; Maskarade; Clarinet Concerto | |
| Giacomo Orefice | 1865 | 1922 | Italian | ||
| Jean Sibelius | 1865 | 1957 | Finnish | Symphonies No. 2, No. 4, No. 5, No. 7; Violin Concerto; String Quartet in D minor, Voces intimae; Pelléas et Mélisande; Pohjola's Daughter; Luonnotar; The Oceanides; Tapiola; The Tempest | |
| Amanda Christina Elizabeth Aldridge | 1866 | 1956 | British | ||
| Tor Aulin | 1866 | 1914 | Swedish | ||
| John Clare Billing | 1866 | 1955 | English | ||
| Ferruccio Busoni | 1866 | 1924 | Italian | Fantasia contrappuntistica; Turandot Suite; Piano Concerto | |
| Francesco Cilea | 1866 | 1950 | Italian | L'arlesiana; Adriana Lecouvreur | |
| Gustave Doret | 1866 | 1943 | Swiss | ||
| Vasily Kalinnikov | 1866 | 1901 | Russian | ||
| Clara Anna Korn | 1866 | 1941 | American | Piano Concerto | |
| Laura Lemon | 1866 | 1924 | Canadian | ||
| Vladimir Rebikov | 1866 | 1920 | Russian | Yolka (opera), Basni v litzakh (9 dramatic fables for children) | |
| Caro Roma | 1866 | 1937 | American | ||
| Erik Satie | 1866 | 1925 | French | Gymnopédies; Relâche; Socrate | minimalism, avant-garde, furniture music |
| Johann Strauss III | 1866 | 1939 | Austrian | ||
| Samuel Maykapar | 1867 | 1938 | Russian | ||
| Amy Beach | 1867 | 1944 | American | ||
| Margherita Galeotti | 1867 | 1912 | Italian | Piano Trio in D minor | |
| Umberto Giordano | 1867 | 1948 | Italian | Siberia; Madame Sans-Gêne; La cena delle beffe | verismo |
| Enrique Granados | 1867 | 1916 | Spanish | Goyescas (piano suite); Goyescas | |
| Fini Henriques | 1867 | 1940 | Danish | ||
| Amy Elsie Horrocks | 1867 | 1920 | English | ||
| Wilhelm Peterson-Berger | 1867 | 1942 | Swedish | Frösöblomster | Romantic nationalism |
| Charles Koechlin | 1867 | 1950 | French | Les Bandar-log; Les Heures persanes | eclectic, atonality, twelve-tone technique, serialism, polytonality, quartal and quintal harmony |
| Ferdinand Küchler | 1867 | 1937 | German | ||
| Margaret Ruthven Lang | 1867 | 1972 | American | ||
| Jules Mouquet | 1867 | 1946 | French | ||
| Karel Navrátil | 1867 | 1936 | Czech | ||
| Česlovas Sasnauskas | 1867 | 1916 | Lithuanian | ||
| Martinus Sieveking | 1867 | 1950 | Dutch | ||
| Gustav Strube | 1867 | 1953 | German | ||
| Georges Martin Witkowski | 1867 | 1943 | French | ||
| Granville Bantock | 1868 | 1946 | British | Omar Khayyám, Hebridean Symphony | Romanticism, often with an exotic flavour |
| Hermann Bischoff | 1868 | 1936 | German | ||
| František Drdla | 1868 | 1944 | Czech | ||
| Carl Frühling | 1868 | 1937 | Austrian | Suite in F major, Op. 36 | |
| Alberto Jonás | 1868 | 1943 | Spanish | ||
| Scott Joplin | 1868 | 1917 | American | Treemonisha | ragtime |
| Frederic Lamond | 1868 | 1948 | Scottish | ||
| Signe Lund | 1868 | 1950 | Norwegian | Valse de Concert Op. 40 | |
| Hamish MacCunn | 1868 | 1916 | Scottish | ||
| John Blackwood McEwen | 1868 | 1948 | Scottish | ||
| Oskar Merikanto | 1868 | 1924 | Finnish | ||
| Vittorio Monti | 1868 | 1922 | Italian | Csárdás | |
| Jan Brandts Buys | 1868 | 1933 | Dutch-Austrian | ||
| Lodewijk Mortelmans | 1868 | 1952 | Belgian | ||
| José Vianna da Motta | 1868 | 1948 | Portuguese | ||
| Annie Patterson | 1868 | 1934 | Irish | ||
| Max von Schillings | 1868 | 1933 | German | ||
| Tokichi Setoguchi | 1868 | 1941 | Japanese | ||
| Leone Sinigaglia | 1868 | 1944 | Italian | ||
| Haldane Stewart | 1868 | 1942 | English | ||
| Komitas | 1869 | 1935 | Armenian | ||
| Joséphine Boulay | 1869 | 1925 | French | ||
| Vassily Brandt | 1869 | 1923 | Russian | ||
| Julius Conus | 1869 | 1942 | Russian | ||
| Walford Davies | 1869 | 1941 | British | ||
| Christian Geisler | 1869 | 1951 | Danish | ||
| Alfred Hill | 1869 | 1960 | Australian | ||
| Armas Järnefelt | 1869 | 1958 | Finnish | ||
| Vasily Kalafati | 1869 | 1942 | Russian | ||
| John N. Klohr | 1869 | 1956 | American | Billboard March | |
| Demetrios Lialios | 1869 | 1940 | Greek | chamber music | |
| Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński | 1869 | 1928 | Polish | ||
| Hans Pfitzner | 1869 | 1949 | German | Palestrina | post-romanticism |
| Maria Antonietta Picconi | 1869 | 1926 | Italian | ||
| Albert Roussel | 1869 | 1937 | French | Symphony No. 3 and No. 4; Bacchus et Ariane (ballet) | neoclassicism |
| Patty Stair | 1869 | 1926 | American | ||
| Ludvík Čelanský | 1870 | 1931 | Czech | ||
| Cornelis Dopper | 1870 | 1939 | Dutch | ||
| Henry Eichheim | 1870 | 1942 | American | ||
| Leopold Godowsky | 1870 | 1938 | Polish | Studies on Chopin's Études; Passacaglia; Triakontameron | |
| Viktor Kalinnikov | 1870 | 1927 | Russian | ||
| Nobu Kōda | 1870 | 1946 | Japanese | Violin Sonata in E-flat major; Violin Sonata in D minor | |
| Arseny Koreshchenko | 1870 | 1921 | Russian | ||
| Zygmunt Stojowski | 1870 | 1946 | Polish | ||
| Franz Lehár | 1870 | 1948 | Hungarian | Der Graf von Luxemburg, Der Zarewitsch | operettas |
| Vítězslav Novák | 1870 | 1949 | Czech | ||
| Arthur Pryor | 1870 | 1942 | American | ||
| Joseph Ryelandt | 1870 | 1965 | Belgian | ||
| Rosario Scalero | 1870 | 1954 | Italian | ||
| Florent Schmitt | 1870 | 1958 | French | La Tragédie de Salomé | |
| Mon Schjelderup | 1870 | 1934 | Norwegian | Sonata in B minor, Op. 12 | |
| Oscar Straus | 1870 | 1954 | Austrian | Ein Walzertraum; The Chocolate Soldier | |
| Charles Tournemire | 1870 | 1939 | French | L'Orgue Mystique | |
| Louis Vierne | 1870 | 1937 | French | ||
| Ernest Walker | 1870 | 1949 | Indian-born English | ||
| Giacomo Balla | 1871 | 1958 | Italian | ||
| Henry Kimball Hadley | 1871 | 1937 | American | ||
| Adolphe Biarent | 1871 | 1916 | Belgian | ||
| Frederick Converse | 1871 | 1940 | American | The Mystic Trumpeter | |
| Hélène-Frédérique de Faye-Jozin | 1871 | 1942 | French | ||
| Leon Jessel | 1871 | 1942 | German | The Parade of the Tin Soldiers | |
| Ruben Liljefors | 1871 | 1936 | Swedish | ||
| Zakaria Paliashvili | 1871 | 1933 | Georgian | Operas Abesalom da Eteri, Daisi, Latavra | |
| Oreste Ravanello | 1871 | 1938 | Italian | ||
| Daniel Alomía Robles | 1871 | 1942 | Peruvian | ||
| Alexander Spendiaryan | 1871 | 1936 | Armenian | ||
| Wilhelm Stenhammar | 1871 | 1927 | Swedish | Symphony No. 2 | Romanticism |
| Alexander von Zemlinsky | 1871 | 1942 | Austrian | Lyric Symphony; String Quartet No. 2; Der Zwerg | post-Romanticism, New Objectivity, neoclassicism |
| Hugo Alfvén | 1872 | 1960 | Swedish | Symphony No. 4: From the Outermost Skerries; Midsummer Vigil | Romanticism |
| Eyvind Alnæs | 1872 | 1932 | Norwegian | two symphonies, Piano Concerto | |
| Frederic Austin | 1872 | 1952 | English | Symphony in E minor | |
| Stanislav Binički | 1872 | 1942 | Serbian | Marš na Drinu | |
| Henri Büsser | 1872 | 1973 | French | ||
| Julius Fučík | 1872 | 1916 | Czech | Entrance of the Gladiators | |
| Rubin Goldmark | 1872 | 1936 | American | ||
| Siegmund von Hausegger | 1872 | 1948 | Austrian | ||
| Ezra Jenkinson | 1872 | 1947 | English | ||
| Paul Juon | 1872 | 1940 | Russian | ||
| Joan Lamote de Grignon | 1872 | 1949 | Spanish | ||
| Lorenzo Perosi | 1872 | 1956 | Italian | Il Giudizio Universale (oratorio) | historicist |
| William H. Potstock | 1872 | 1941 | American | ||
| Albert Seitz | 1872 | 1937 | French | ||
| Bernhard Sekles | 1872 | 1934 | German | ||
| Alexander Scriabin | 1872 | 1915 | Russian | The Poem of Ecstasy; Prometheus: The Poem of Fire; piano sonatas nos. 4–10 | mysticism |
| Sergei Vasilenko | 1872 | 1956 | Russian | ||
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | 1872 | 1958 | English | A Sea Symphony; A London Symphony; Sinfonia antartica; Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Fantasia on Greensleeves; The Lark Ascending | impressionism, folk-influenced |
| Salvator Léonardi | 1872 | 1938 | Italian | ||
| Emil Votoček | 1872 | 1950 | Czech | ||
| Modest Altschuler | 1873 | 1963 | Russian | ||
| Dimitri Arakishvili | 1873 | 1953 | Georgian | ||
| William Henry Bell | 1873 | 1946 | English | ||
| Blagoje Bersa | 1873 | 1934 | Croatian | ||
| André Bloch | 1873 | 1960 | French | ||
| Lucien Capet | 1873 | 1928 | French | Poème for violin and orchestra | |
| Anna Cramer | 1873 | 1968 | Dutch | ||
| Leo Fall | 1873 | 1925 | Austrian | Madame Pompadour (operetta) | Romanticism |
| Joseph Jongen | 1873 | 1953 | Belgian | Symphonie Concertante for organ and orchestra | |
| Emma Lomax | 1873 | 1963 | English | ||
| Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Faria | 1873 | 1938 | Brazilian | ||
| María de las Mercedes Adam de Aróstegui | 1873 | 1957 | Cuban | ||
| Mary Carr Moore | 1873 | 1957 | American | ||
| Henri Rabaud | 1873 | 1949 | French | ||
| Walter Rabl | 1873 | 1940 | Austrian | Romanticism | |
| Pascual Marquina Narro | 1873 | 1948 | Spanish | ||
| Sergei Rachmaninoff | 1873 | 1943 | Russian | Piano Concerto No. 2 and No. 3; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; Symphony No. 2; Prelude in C-sharp minor | Romanticism, post-romanticism |
| Max Reger | 1873 | 1916 | German | organ music, Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart, Hebbel Requiem | historicism, modernism |
| Jean Roger-Ducasse | 1873 | 1954 | French | ||
| Arnold Safroni-Middleton | 1873 | 1950 | British | ||
| Nikolai Tcherepnin | 1873 | 1945 | Russian | ||
| David Vaughan Thomas | 1873 | 1934 | Welsh | ||
| Pol Albrecht | 1874 | 1975 | Luxembourgish | ||
| Eugénie-Victorine-Jeanne Alombert | 1874 | 1964 | French | Menuet champêtre | |
| Ernest Austin | 1874 | 1947 | English | Symphony | atonality, Romanticism, folk-influenced, impressionism |
| Edward Bairstow | 1874 | 1946 | English | ||
| Ethel Barns | 1874 | 1948 | English | ||
| Giulio Bas | 1874 | 1929 | Italian | Organ Sonata in F, XVI Preludi-Corali for organ | |
| George Botsford | 1874 | 1949 | American | ragtime | |
| Katharine Emily Eggar | 1874 | 1961 | English | ||
| Edmund Eysler | 1874 | 1949 | Austrian | ||
| Reynaldo Hahn | 1874 | 1947 | Venezuelan/French | Ciboulette (Opera) | |
| Carl Cohn Haste | 1874 | 1939 | Danish | ||
| Gustav Holst | 1874 | 1934 | English | The Planets; Beni Mora; Egdon Heath | |
| Charles Ives | 1874 | 1954 | American | The Unanswered Question; Central Park in the Dark; Variations on America; Three Places in New England; Concord Sonata | avant-garde, folk-influenced |
| Serge Koussevitzky | 1874 | 1951 | Russian | ||
| Henri Marteau | 1874 | 1934 | French | ||
| Oskar Nedbal | 1874 | 1930 | Czech | ||
| František Neumann | 1874 | 1929 | Czech | ||
| Arnold Schoenberg | 1874 | 1951 | Austrian | Gurre-Lieder; Verklärte Nacht; Variations for Orchestra; Pierrot Lunaire; Five Pieces for Orchestra; Violin Concerto | Romanticism, later expressionism and serialism; founder of the Second Viennese School |
| Josef Suk | 1874 | 1935 | Czech | Asrael Symphony; A Winter's Tale | |
| Franz Schmidt | 1874 | 1939 | Austrian | The Book with Seven Seals | |
| Franco Alfano | 1875 | 1954 | Italian | ||
| Julián Carrillo | 1875 | 1965 | Mexican | Preludio a Colón; Misa de la Restauración dedicada a Juan XXIII | microtonal music |
| Samuel Coleridge-Taylor | 1875 | 1912 | English | The Song of Hiawatha (cantata) | |
| Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis | 1875 | 1911 | Lithuanian | ||
| Ernesto De Curtis | 1875 | 1937 | Italian | ||
| Reinhold Glière | 1875 | 1956 | Russian | Horn Concerto; The Red Poppy | Romanticism |
| Alexander Goldenweiser | 1875 | 1961 | Russian | ||
| Dobri Hristov | 1875 | 1941 | Bulgarian | ||
| Albert Ketelbey | 1875 | 1959 | English | ||
| Jenő Huszka | 1875 | 1960 | Hungarian | ||
| Fritz Kreisler | 1875 | 1962 | Austrian | Caprice Viennois; Liebesfreud; Liebesleid; Schön Rosmarin | |
| Marcel Labey | 1875 | 1968 | French | ||
| Edgar Manas | 1875 | 1964 | Turkish | ||
| Erkki Melartin | 1875 | 1937 | Finnish | ||
| Adolf Mišek | 1875 | 1955 | Czech | ||
| Maurice Ravel | 1875 | 1937 | French | Daphnis et Chloé; Valses nobles et sentimentales; Rapsodie espagnole; Tzigane; Piano Concerto; Bolero; piano music | impressionism, neoclassicism |
| Henriette Renié | 1875 | 1956 | French | ||
| Cyril Rootham | 1875 | 1938 | English | ||
| Lucia Contini Anselmi | 1876 | 1913 | Italian | ||
| Hakon Børresen | 1876 | 1954 | Danish | The Royal Guest | romanticism |
| Havergal Brian | 1876 | 1972 | English | Gothic Symphony | |
| Edgar Bara | 1876 | 1962 | French | ||
| John Alden Carpenter | 1876 | 1951 | American | ||
| Pablo Casals | 1876 | 1973 | Spanish | ||
| Jens Laursøn Emborg | 1876 | 1957 | Danish | ||
| Manuel de Falla | 1876 | 1946 | Spanish | The Three-Cornered Hat; Nights in the Gardens of Spain | impressionism, neoclassicism |
| Josef Hofmann | 1876 | 1957 | Polish-American | ||
| Mieczysław Karłowicz | 1876 | 1909 | Polish | Lithuanian Rhapsody, Stanislaw i Anna Oświęcimovie, Smutna opowieść; Symphony in E Minor; Violin Concerto | Romanticism |
| Filippo Tommaso Marinetti | 1876 | 1944 | Italian | ||
| Fermo Dante Marchetti | 1876 | 1940 | Italian | ||
| Ludolf Nielsen | 1876 | 1939 | Danish | ||
| Armande de Polignac | 1876 | 1962 | French | ||
| Teresa del Riego | 1876 | 1968 | English | ||
| Carl Ruggles | 1876 | 1971 | American | Sun-Treader | |
| Mikhail Savoyarov | 1876 | 1941 | Russian | The Drunken Moon, Trumpeters, Because of the Ladies | chansonnier, light music, jazz-influenced |
| Ernest Schelling | 1876 | 1939 | American | ||
| Grikor Suni | 1876 | 1939 | Armenian | ||
| Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari | 1876 | 1948 | Italian | Comic operas | |
| Antonio Russolo | 1877 | 1942 | Italian | ||
| Russell Alexander | 1877 | 1915 | American | ||
| Louis Aubert | 1877 | 1968 | French | ||
| Sergei Bortkiewicz | 1877 | 1952 | Russian (Ukrainian-born) | Romanticism | |
| Pavel Chesnokov | 1877 | 1944 | Russian | ||
| Ernő Dohnányi | 1877 | 1960 | Hungarian | Variations on a Nursery Tune | Romanticism |
| Albert Dupuis | 1877 | 1967 | Belgian | ||
| Alexander Goedicke | 1877 | 1957 | Russian | ||
| Yevgeny Gunst | 1877 | 1950 | Russian | ||
| Jean Huré | 1877 | 1930 | French | ||
| Hans Jelmoli | 1877 | 1936 | Swiss | ||
| Sigfrid Karg-Elert | 1877 | 1933 | German | 66 Choral-Improvisationen for organ, Op. 65 | |
| Hnat Khotkevych | 1877 | 1938 | Ukrainian | ||
| Elisabeth Kuyper | 1877 | 1953 | Dutch | Violin Concerto in B minor, Violin Sonata in A major, Piano Trio in D major | |
| Mykola Leontovych | 1877 | 1921 | Ukrainian | Shchedryk, Church music, Arrangements of folk songs | A capella choral music |
| Roger Quilter | 1877 | 1953 | English | Songs | |
| Petar Stojanović | 1877 | 1957 | Serbian | ||
| Vladimir Tsybin | 1877 | 1949 | Russian | ||
| Jeanne Beijerman-Walraven | 1878 | 1969 | Dutch | ||
| Rutland Boughton | 1878 | 1960 | English | ||
| Fritz Brun | 1878 | 1959 | Swiss | ||
| Eugenia Calosso | 1878 | 1914 | Italian | ||
| Conrado del Campo | 1878 | 1953 | Spanish | ||
| André Caplet | 1878 | 1925 | French | ||
| Adam Carse | 1878 | 1958 | English | Two symphonies | |
| Mabel Wheeler Daniels | 1878 | 1971 | American | ||
| Antun Dobronić | 1878 | 1955 | Croatian | ||
| Gabriel Dupont | 1878 | 1914 | French | ||
| Carl Ehrenberg | 1878 | 1962 | German | Anneliese (opera) | post-romanticism |
| Harry Farjeon | 1878 | 1948 | British | ||
| Ossip Gabrilowitsch | 1878 | 1936 | Russian-born American | ||
| Joseph Holbrooke | 1878 | 1958 | English | ||
| Artur Kapp | 1878 | 1952 | Estonian | ||
| Albert Mallinson | 1878 | 1946 | British | ||
| Selim Palmgren | 1878 | 1951 | Finnish | ||
| Caradog Roberts | 1878 | 1935 | Welsh | ||
| Avery Robinson | 1878 | 1965 | American | ||
| Franz Schreker | 1878 | 1934 | Austrian | Der ferne Klang (opera), Kammersymphonie | modernism, eclectic (Romanticism, naturalism, symbolism, impressionism, Expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit) |
| Frank Bridge | 1879 | 1941 | English | Enter Spring; The Sea | impressionism, later expressionism; mentor of Benjamin Britten |
| Viggo Brodersen | 1879 | 1965 | Danish | ||
| Joseph Canteloube | 1879 | 1957 | French | Chants d'Auvergne | |
| Paul Corder | 1879 | 1942 | English | ||
| Jean Cras | 1879 | 1932 | French | ||
| Maurice Delage | 1879 | 1961 | French | Quatre poèmes hindous; Sept haï-kaïs | impressionism, oriental-influenced |
| Stefano Donaudy | 1879 | 1925 | Italian | ||
| Percy Fletcher | 1879 | 1932 | English | ||
| Philippe Gaubert | 1879 | 1941 | French | ||
| Gabriel Grovlez | 1879 | 1944 | French | ||
| Joseph Haas | 1879 | 1960 | German | Romanticism | |
| Hamilton Harty | 1879 | 1941 | Irish | An Irish Symphony; With the Wild Geese | |
| Josip Hatze | 1879 | 1959 | Croatian | ||
| Edgar Henrichsen | 1879 | 1955 | Danish | ||
| John Ireland | 1879 | 1962 | English | Piano Concerto in E flat | |
| Frank La Forge | 1879 | 1953 | American | ||
| Nikolaos Lavdas | 1879 | 1940 | Greek | composer for mandolin orchestra | |
| Pablo Luna | 1879 | 1942 | Spanish | El niño judío | |
| Stanyslav Lyudkevych | 1879 | 1979 | Ukrainian | ||
| Carmela Mackenna | 1879 | 1962 | Chilean | ||
| Jules Mazellier | 1879 | 1959 | French | ||
| Joaquín Nin | 1879 | 1949 | Cuban | ||
| Alma Mahler | 1879 | 1964 | Austrian | ||
| Otto Olsson | 1879 | 1964 | Swedish | Te Deum | |
| Otakar Ostrčil | 1879 | 1935 | Czech | ||
| Ottorino Respighi | 1879 | 1936 | Italian | The Fountains of Rome; The Pines of Rome | impressionism |
| Rudolf Sieczyński | 1879 | 1952 | Austrian | ||
| Hugo Riesenfeld | 1879 | 1939 | Austrian-American | ||
| Paul Rung-Keller | 1879 | 1966 | Danish | ||
| Cyril Scott | 1879 | 1970 | English | ||
| Johanna Senfter | 1879 | 1961 | German | ||
| Marcel Tournier | 1879 | 1951 | French | ||
| Richard Trunk | 1879 | 1968 | German | ||
| Otakar Zich | 1879 | 1934 | Czech | ||
| Rentarō Taki | 1879 | 1903 | Japanese | ||
| Leo Ascher | 1880 | 1942 | Austrian | ||
| Ernest Bloch | 1880 | 1959 | American (Swiss-born) | Schelomo; Suite hébraïque | |
| Edgar Thomas Cook | 1880 | 1953 | English | ||
| Clara Edwards | 1880 | 1974 | American | ||
| John Foulds | 1880 | 1939 | English | A World Requiem | Post-romanticism, Indian influence |
| Rudolf Karel | 1880 | 1945 | Czech | ||
| Jan Kubelík | 1880 | 1940 | Czech | ||
| Nikolai Medtner | 1880 | 1951 | Russian | 38 Skazki for piano, Piano Concerto No. 3 | Romanticism |
| Ildebrando Pizzetti | 1880 | 1968 | Italian | Assassinio nella cattedrale | |
| Ferdinand Rebay | 1880 | 1953 | Austrian | ||
| Ivan Matetić Ronjgov | 1880 | 1960 | Croatian | ||
| James Simon | 1880 | 1944 | German | ||
| Robert Stolz | 1880 | 1975 | Austrian | ||
| Guillermo Uribe Holguín | 1880 | 1971 | Colombian | ||
| Clarence Cameron White | 1880 | 1960 | American | neoromantic | |
| Healey Willan | 1880 | 1968 | English | ||
| Francesco Balilla Pratella | 1880 | 1955 | Italian | ||
| Domenico Alaleona | 1881 | 1928 | Italian | ||
| Béla Bartók | 1881 | 1945 | Hungarian | Concerto for Orchestra; six string quartets; The Miraculous Mandarin; Piano Concerto No. 1; Piano Concerto No. 2; Piano Concerto No. 3; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion | neoclassicism, folk-influenced |
| Theodor Blumer | 1881 | 1964 | German | ||
| Gena Branscombe | 1881 | 1977 | Canadian | ||
| Nancy Dalberg | 1881 | 1949 | Danish | String Quartet No. 2 | |
| Fannie Charles Dillon | 1881 | 1947 | American | ||
| Sem Dresden | 1881 | 1957 | Dutch | ||
| George Enescu | 1881 | 1955 | Romanian | Romanian Rhapsody No. 1, Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano ("In the Romanian Popular Style"), Octet for Strings, String Quartet No. 2, Œdip (opera), Cantabile et Presto for flute and piano | folk-influenced; father of Romanian classical music |
| Henry Fillmore | 1881 | 1956 | American | marches | |
| Jan van Gilse | 1881 | 1944 | Dutch | Thijl | |
| Peder Gram | 1881 | 1956 | Danish | ||
| Richard Hageman | 1881 | 1966 | Dutch-born American | ||
| Sigurd Islandsmoen | 1881 | 1964 | Norwegian | ||
| Axel Jørgensen | 1881 | 1947 | Danish | Romance for Trombone and Piano | |
| Edvin Kallstenius | 1881 | 1967 | Swedish | ||
| Paul Le Flem | 1881 | 1984 | French | ||
| Arthur Marshall | 1881 | 1968 | American | ||
| Nikolai Myaskovsky | 1881 | 1950 | Russian | Symphony No. 6, No. 10 and No. 13; Cello Concerto in C minor | Romanticism |
| Kenneth J. Alford | 1881 | 1945 | British | Colonel Bogey | "British March King" |
| Reine Colaço Osorio-Swaab | 1881 | 1971 | Dutch | ||
| Nikolai Roslavets | 1881 | 1944 | Russian | ||
| Ignatz Waghalter | 1881 | 1949 | Polish-German | Concerto for Violin in A Major; Mandragola; Jugend | Romanticism |
| Arthur Willner | 1881 | 1959 | Czech | ||
| Hermann Zilcher | 1881 | 1948 | German | ||
| Emil Ábrányi | 1882 | 1970 | Hungarian | ||
| Marion Bauer | 1882 | 1955 | American | ||
| Alberto Bimboni | 1882 | 1960 | Italian-born American | ||
| Walter Braunfels | 1882 | 1954 | German | Organ Concerto | neotonality |
| Percy Grainger | 1882 | 1961 | Australian | Mock Morris, Colonial Song, Lincolnshire Posy | folk-influenced |
| Mary Howe | 1882 | 1964 | American | ||
| Herbert Hughes | 1882 | 1937 | Irish | ||
| Emmerich Kálmán | 1882 | 1953 | Hungarian | Operettas | |
| Zoltán Kodály | 1882 | 1967 | Hungarian | Háry János; Székelyfonó; Psalmus Hungaricus | folk-influenced |
| Nicholas Laucella | 1882 | 1952 | Italian-American | Mokanna – opera; Fantastic Overture; Nocturne for Orchestra; Consolva & The White House – Impressions of Norfolk – Symphonic poems; Divertimento for Flute, Oboe & English Horn; String Quartet | classical |
| Maurice Le Boucher | 1882 | 1964 | French | ||
| Ernestina Lecuona y Casado | 1882 | 1951 | Cuban | Bolero | |
| Mary Lucas | 1882 | 1952 | English | ||
| Gian Francesco Malipiero | 1882 | 1973 | Italian | ||
| Joseph Marx | 1882 | 1964 | Austrian | vocal music | |
| Geoffrey O'Hara | 1882 | 1967 | Canadian | ||
| Manuel Ponce | 1882 | 1948 | Mexican | Concierto del Sur for guitar and orchestra, guitar and piano pieces, songs (especially "Estrellita"), and folk-song arrangements | |
| John Powell | 1882 | 1963 | American | ||
| Mart Saar | 1882 | 1963 | Estonian | ||
| Artur Schnabel | 1882 | 1951 | Austrian | ||
| Lazare Saminsky | 1882 | 1959 | Russian | ||
| Igor Stravinsky | 1882 | 1971 | Russian | The Rite of Spring; The Firebird; Petrushka; Pulcinella; The Soldier's Tale; Symphony of Psalms; Symphonies of Wind Instruments; Canticum Sacrum; Threni | neoclassicism, neotonality, later serialism, polystylism |
| Karol Szymanowski | 1882 | 1937 | Polish | Symphony No. 3 and No. 4; Violin Concerto No. 1 and No. 2 | impressionism, later folk-influenced |
| Joaquín Turina | 1882 | 1949 | Spanish | ||
| Ladislav Vycpálek | 1882 | 1969 | Czech | ||
| Haydn Wood | 1882 | 1959 | English | ||
| Maurice Abrahams | 1883 | 1931 | American | ||
| Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov | 1883 | 1946 | Russian | ||
| Emilius Bangert | 1883 | 1962 | Danish | ||
| Augustin Barié | 1883 | 1915 | French | ||
| Arnold Bax | 1883 | 1953 | English | Symphony No. 2, No. 3, and No. 6; Tintagel | Romanticism, impressionism |
| Alfredo Casella | 1883 | 1947 | Italian | ||
| Alexandre Eugène Cellier | 1883 | 1968 | French | ||
| Édouard Commette | 1883 | 1967 | French | ||
| George Dyson | 1883 | 1964 | English | Symphony in G major | |
| Mikhail Gnessin | 1883 | 1957 | Russian | ||
| Josef Matthias Hauer | 1883 | 1959 | Austrian | ||
| Manuel Infante | 1883 | 1958 | Spanish | ||
| Manolis Kalomiris | 1883 | 1962 | Greek | ||
| Paul von Klenau | 1883 | 1946 | Danish | ||
| Petar Konjović | 1883 | 1970 | Serbian | ||
| Alexander Krein | 1883 | 1951 | Russian | ||
| Luigi Russolo | 1883 | 1947 | Italian | futurism, noise music | |
| Jan Kunc | 1883 | 1976 | Czech | ||
| Toivo Kuula | 1883 | 1918 | Finnish | ||
| Fran Lhotka | 1883 | 1962 | Czech-born Croatian | ||
| Robert Graham Manson | 1883 | 1950 | British | ||
| Romanos Melikian | 1883 | 1935 | Armenian | ||
| Jules Van Nuffel | 1883 | 1953 | Belgian | In convertendo Dominus; Te Deum | |
| Ludomir Różycki | 1883 | 1953 | Polish | ||
| Theophrastos Sakellaridis | 1883 | 1950 | Greek | ||
| Maximilian Steinberg | 1883 | 1946 | Russian | ||
| Fritz Stiedry | 1883 | 1968 | Austrian | ||
| Peeter Süda | 1883 | 1920 | Estonian | ||
| Enrico Toselli | 1883 | 1926 | Italian | Serenata 'Rimpianto' Op. 6 No. 1 | |
| Edgard Varèse | 1883 | 1965 | French | Amériques; Ionisation; Arcana; Density 21.5 | Musique concrète, Electronic music |
| Anton Webern | 1883 | 1945 | Austrian | Symphony; Six Pieces for Orchestra | twelve-tone technique, serialism, polystylism; pupil of Arnold Schoenberg |
| Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann | 1883 | 1951 | Czech | ||
| Riccardo Zandonai | 1883 | 1944 | Italian | ||
| Juhan Aavik | 1884 | 1982 | Estonian | ||
| Dina Appeldoorn | 1884 | 1938 | Dutch | ||
| Boris Asafyev | 1884 | 1949 | Russian | ||
| Ralph Benatzky | 1884 | 1957 | Czech | ||
| York Bowen | 1884 | 1961 | English | ||
| May Brahe | 1884 | 1956 | Australian | Bless This House and other songs | |
| Max Brod | 1884 | 1968 | Czech | ||
| Charles Griffes | 1884 | 1920 | American | ||
| Louis Gruenberg | 1884 | 1964 | Russian | The Emperor Jones (opera) | |
| Juozas Gruodis | 1884 | 1948 | Lithuanian | ||
| Marguerite Béclard d'Harcourt | 1884 | 1964 | French | ||
| Jonny Heykens | 1884 | 1945 | Dutch | ||
| Jurgis Karnavičius | 1884 | 1941 | Lithuanian | ||
| Raoul Koczalski | 1884 | 1948 | Polish | Piano Concerto, Op. 83 | |
| Boris Levenson | 1884 | 1947 | Russian-born American | ||
| Ture Rangström | 1884 | 1947 | Swedish | four symphonies | |
| Jaime Teixidor | 1884 | 1957 | Spanish | ||
| Wintter Watts | 1884 | 1962 | American | ||
| Xiao Youmei | 1884 | 1940 | Chinese | ||
| Alexander Albrecht | 1885 | 1958 | Slovak | ||
| Pedro Humberto Allende | 1885 | 1959 | Chilean | ||
| Agustín Barrios | 1885 | 1944 | Paraguayan | ||
| Alban Berg | 1885 | 1935 | Austrian | Violin Concerto; Wozzeck; Lyric Suite | serialism, Romanticism, expressionism, polystylism; pupil of Arnold Schoenberg |
| George Butterworth | 1885 | 1916 | English | ||
| Henri Collet | 1885 | 1951 | French | ||
| Dimitrie Cuclin | 1885 | 1978 | Romanian | several exceptionally long symphonies | |
| Benjamin Dale | 1885 | 1943 | English | ||
| Ernest Farrar | 1885 | 1918 | English | ||
| Julius Harrison | 1885 | 1963 | English | ||
| Stevan Hristić | 1885 | 1958 | Serbian | ||
| Werner Josten | 1885 | 1963 | German | ||
| Heino Kaski | 1885 | 1957 | Finnish | ||
| Eduard Künneke | 1885 | 1953 | German | Der Vetter aus Dingsda | |
| Artur Lemba | 1885 | 1963 | Estonian | ||
| Adriano Lualdi | 1885 | 1971 | Italian | ||
| Hildor Lundvik | 1885 | 1951 | Swedish | ||
| Dora Pejačević | 1885 | 1923 | Croatian | Symphony in F-sharp Minor, Phantasie Concertante | |
| Wallingford Riegger | 1885 | 1961 | American | Symphony No. 3 | |
| Siegfried Salomon | 1885 | 1962 | Danish | ||
| Carlos Salzedo | 1885 | 1961 | French | ||
| James Scott | 1885 | 1938 | American | ragtime | |
| Juhan Simm | 1885 | 1959 | Estonian | ||
| Edith Swepstone | 1885 | 1930 | English | ||
| Paul van Katwijk | 1885 | 1974 | Dutch-American | ||
| Leó Weiner | 1885 | 1960 | Hungarian | ||
| Egon Wellesz | 1885 | 1974 | Austrian | Nine symphonies | |
| Mana-Zucca | 1885 | 1981 | American | ||
| Joseph Achron | 1886 | 1943 | Russian | Hebrew Melody | |
| Arseny Avraamov | 1886 | 1944 | Russian | avant-garde | |
| Edward Ballantine | 1886 | 1971 | American | Variations on "Mary Had a Little Lamb" for piano | |
| John J. Becker | 1886 | 1961 | American | ||
| Rebecca Clarke | 1886 | 1979 | English | ||
| Eric Coates | 1886 | 1957 | English | ||
| Ellen Coleman | 1886 | 1973 | English | ||
| Edward Joseph Collins | 1886 | 1951 | American | ||
| Marcel Dupré | 1886 | 1971 | French | Organ music | |
| Wilhelm Furtwängler | 1886 | 1954 | German | Symphony No. 1 in B minor, Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Symphony No. 3 in C♯ minor, Piano Quintet, Religöser Hymnus, Te Deum for Choir and Orchestra | neoclassicism, folk-influenced, twelve-tone technique |
| Henri Gagnebin | 1886 | 1977 | Belgian-born Swiss | ||
| Carlo Giorgio Garofalo | 1886 | 1962 | Italian | ||
| Jesús Guridi | 1886 | 1961 | Spanish | Sinfonia pirenaica | |
| Elizabeth Gyring | 1886 | 1970 | American | ||
| Algot Haquinius | 1886 | 1966 | Swedish | ||
| Jef van Hoof | 1886 | 1959 | Belgian | ||
| Ethel Leginska | 1886 | 1970 | British | ||
| Paul Paray | 1886 | 1979 | French | Mass for the 500th Anniversary of the Death of Joan of Arc | |
| Emilio Pujol | 1886 | 1980 | Spanish | ||
| Othmar Schoeck | 1886 | 1957 | Swiss | Penthesilea | |
| Ole Windingstad | 1886 | 1959 | Norwegian-American | ||
| Kōsaku Yamada | 1886 | 1965 | Japanese | Overture in D major | |
| Pietro Yon | 1886 | 1943 | Italian | Gesù bambino | |
| Willem Andriessen | 1887 | 1964 | Dutch | Piano Concerto in D♭ major | |
| Kurt Atterberg | 1887 | 1974 | Swedish | Symphony No. 6 "Dollar Symphony" | |
| Nadia Boulanger | 1887 | 1979 | French | ||
| Nicolae Bretan | 1887 | 1968 | Romanian | ||
| Lawrance Collingwood | 1887 | 1982 | English | ||
| Mildred Couper | 1887 | 1974 | American | quarter tone | |
| Heino Eller | 1887 | 1970 | Estonian | ||
| Emilia Gubitosi | 1887 | 1972 | Italian | ||
| Henry Ley | 1887 | 1962 | English | ||
| Oskar Lindberg | 1887 | 1955 | Swedish | ||
| Leevi Madetoja | 1887 | 1947 | Finnish | Symphony No. 1 (1916), Symphony No. 2 (1918), Symphony No. 3 (1926), the opera The Ostrobothnians (1923), the ballet-pantomime Okon Fuoko (1927), and Elegia (1909). | Student of Jean Sibelius, 1908–10. |
| Zorko Prelovec | 1887 | 1939 | Slovenian | ||
| Florence Price | 1887 | 1953 | American | ||
| Ernest Pingoud | 1887 | 1942 | Finnish | ||
| Anatol Provazník | 1887 | 1950 | Czech | ||
| Emil Reesen | 1887 | 1964 | Danish | Operas | |
| Stasys Šimkus | 1887 | 1943 | Lithuanian | ||
| Rudi Stephan | 1887 | 1915 | German | Romanticism | |
| Heinz Tiessen | 1887 | 1971 | German | ||
| Ernst Toch | 1887 | 1964 | German | 7 symphonies | |
| Max Trapp | 1887 | 1971 | German | ||
| Heitor Villa-Lobos | 1887 | 1959 | Brazilian | Chôros; Bachianas brasileiras; Magdalena: a Musical Adventure; Rudepoêma; | neoclassicism, folk-influenced |
| Anatoly Nikolayevich Alexandrov | 1888 | 1982 | Russian | ||
| May Aufderheide | 1888 | 1972 | American | ||
| Carmen Barradas | 1888 | 1963 | Uruguayan | ||
| Vasyl Barvinsky | 1888 | 1963 | Ukrainian | ||
| Johanna Beyer | 1888 | 1944 | German-American | ||
| Emil Bohnke | 1888 | 1928 | German | ||
| Ina Boyle | 1888 | 1967 | Irish | ||
| Philip Greeley Clapp | 1888 | 1954 | American | 12 symphonies | |
| Cecil Coles | 1888 | 1918 | Scottish | ||
| Claude Delvincourt | 1888 | 1954 | French | ||
| Ilse Fromm-Michaels | 1888 | 1986 | German | ||
| Anna Maria Klechniowska | 1888 | 1973 | Polish | ||
| Ion Nonna Otescu | 1888 | 1940 | Romanian | ||
| Julie Reisserová | 1888 | 1938 | Czech | ||
| Maria Rodrigo | 1888 | 1967 | Spanish | ||
| Poul Schierbeck | 1888 | 1949 | Danish | ||
| Alexei Stanchinsky | 1888 | 1914 | Russian | ||
| Cristòfor Taltabull | 1888 | 1964 | Spanish | ||
| Matthijs Vermeulen | 1888 | 1967 | Dutch | Seven symphonies | |
| Gabriel von Wayditch | 1888 | 1969 | Hungarian-American | ||
| Emiliana de Zubeldia | 1888 | 1987 | Spanish | ||
| Alton Adams | 1889 | 1987 | American | ||
| Aksel Agerby | 1889 | 1942 | Danish | ||
| Harald Agersnap | 1889 | 1982 | Danish | ||
| Felix Arndt | 1889 | 1918 | American | ||
| Grigoraș Dinicu | 1889 | 1949 | Romanian | ||
| Armstrong Gibbs | 1889 | 1960 | English | ||
| Ethel Glenn Hier | 1889 | 1971 | American | ||
| Václav Kaprál | 1889 | 1947 | Czech | ||
| Cyrillus Kreek | 1889 | 1962 | Estonian | ||
| Egon Ledeč | 1889 | 1944 | Czech | ||
| Rudolf Mauersberger | 1889 | 1971 | German | ||
| Vilém Petrželka | 1889 | 1969 | Czech | ||
| Karl Rautio | 1889 | 1963 | Finnish | ||
| Levko Revutsky | 1889 | 1977 | Ukrainian | Piano Concerto in F major | |
| Francisco Santiago | 1889 | 1947 | Filipino | ||
| Vladimir Shcherbachov | 1889 | 1952 | Russian | ||
| Johannes Andersen | 1890 | 1980 | Danish | ||
| Ernest Bullock | 1890 | 1979 | English | ||
| Victor Dolidze | 1890 | 1933 | Soviet Georgian | ||
| Samuil Feinberg | 1890 | 1962 | Russian and Soviet | ||
| Luís de Freitas Branco | 1890 | 1955 | Portuguese | ||
| Hans Gál | 1890 | 1987 | Austrian | ||
| Carlos Gardel | 1890 | 1935 | French | ||
| Ivor Gurney | 1890 | 1937 | English | ||
| Pauline Hall | 1890 | 1969 | Norwegian | ||
| Jacques Ibert | 1890 | 1962 | French | Concertino da camera; Escales | neoclassicism impressionism |
| Philip James | 1890 | 1975 | American | ||
| Sándor Jemnitz | 1890 | 1963 | Hungarian | ||
| Kathleen Lockhart Manning | 1890 | 1951 | American | ||
| Frank Martin | 1890 | 1974 | Swiss | Ballade for flute and piano; Petite symphonie concertante; Requiem | |
| Bohuslav Martinů | 1890 | 1959 | Czech | Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano, and Timpani, Symphony No. 3, No. 4, and No. 6; operas Julietta and The Greek Passion; Gilgamesh (oratorio) | neoclassicism, folk-influenced |
| Yves Nat | 1890 | 1956 | French | ||
| Gösta Nystroem | 1890 | 1966 | Swedish | ||
| Eda Rapoport | 1890 | 1968 | American | ||
| Morishige Takei | 1890 | 1947 | Japanese | ||
| Otto Albert Tichý | 1890 | 1973 | Czech | ||
| Roy Agnew | 1891 | 1944 | Australian | ||
| Schahan Berberian | 1891 | 1956 | Armenian | ||
| Arthur Bliss | 1891 | 1975 | English | A Colour Symphony | |
| Benjamin Burrows | 1891 | 1966 | English | ||
| Claude Champagne | 1891 | 1965 | Canadian | ||
| Noël Gallon | 1891 | 1966 | French | ||
| Marcel Grandjany | 1891 | 1975 | French | Pieces for harp; Headed Harp Dept at Fontainebleau & Juilliard | Noted harpist and teacher |
| Thomas Griselle | 1891 | 1955 | American | ||
| Karel Boleslav Jirák | 1891 | 1972 | Czechoslovak | ||
| Mihail Jora | 1891 | 1971 | Romanian | ||
| Alexander Kasyanov | 1891 | 1982 | Soviet Russian | ||
| Frida Kern | 1891 | 1988 | Austrian | ||
| Karl King | 1891 | 1971 | American | "Barnum and Bailey's Favorite" | Marches |
| Florentina Mallá | 1891 | 1973 | Czech | ||
| Federico Moreno Tórroba | 1891 | 1982 | Spanish | classical guitar | |
| Edmund Nick | 1891 | 1974 | German | ||
| Sergei Prokofiev | 1891 | 1953 | Russian | Romeo and Juliet; The Love for Three Oranges; Classical Symphony; Symphony No. 5 and No. 6; Violin Concerto No. 1 and No. 2; Piano Concerto No. 2 and No. 3; Alexander Nevsky; Lieutenant Kijé; Peter and the Wolf | neoclassicism, Romanticism |
| Alexis Roland-Manuel | 1891 | 1966 | French | ||
| Philip Sainton | 1891 | 1967 | British-French | ||
| W. K. Stanton | 1891 | 1978 | English | ||
| Richard Donovan | 1891 | 1970 | American | ||
| Catherine Murphy Urner | 1891 | 1942 | American | ||
| Paul Abraham | 1892 | 1960 | Hungarian | operettas | |
| Isidor Achron | 1892 | 1948 | Polish | ||
| Hendrik Andriessen | 1892 | 1981 | Dutch | father of Louis Andriessen | |
| Samuel L. M. Barlow | 1892 | 1982 | American | ||
| Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman | 1892 | 1971 | Dutch | ||
| Hans Bottermund | 1892 | 1949 | German | ||
| Augusto Brandt | 1892 | 1942 | Venezuelan | ||
| Katherine Kennicott Davis | 1892 | 1980 | American | ||
| Giorgio Federico Ghedini | 1892 | 1965 | Italian | ||
| Ferde Grofé | 1892 | 1972 | American | Grand Canyon Suite; Mississippi Suite | |
| Ilmari Hannikainen | 1892 | 1955 | Finnish | Romanticism | |
| Sandor Harmati | 1892 | 1936 | Hungarian-American | ||
| Mirrie Hill | 1892 | 1986 | Australian | ||
| Arthur Honegger | 1892 | 1955 | Swiss | Symphony No. 3 "Liturgique"; Pacific 231 | neoclassicism; also a composer of film music: Les Misérables |
| Herbert Howells | 1892 | 1983 | English | Hymnus paradisi | |
| Frank Hutchens | 1892 | 1965 | Australian | ||
| William G. James | 1892 | 1977 | Australian | ||
| Knud Jeppesen | 1892 | 1974 | Danish | ||
| Louise Lincoln Kerr | 1892 | 1977 | American | ||
| Otakar Jeremiáš | 1892 | 1962 | Czech | ||
| Yrjö Kilpinen | 1892 | 1959 | Finnish | neoclassical | |
| Fritz Heinrich Klein | 1892 | 1977 | Austrian | ||
| Jaroslav Kvapil | 1892 | 1958 | Czech | ||
| László Lajtha | 1892 | 1963 | Hungarian | ||
| Arthur Lourié | 1892 | 1966 | Russian | ||
| Darius Milhaud | 1892 | 1974 | French | La Création du Monde; Le Bœuf sur le toit | jazz-influenced, neoclassical, polytonal |
| John Jacob Niles | 1892 | 1980 | American | ||
| Nikolai Obukhov | 1892 | 1954 | Russian | ||
| Felix Petyrek | 1892 | 1951 | Austrian | ||
| Hilding Rosenberg | 1892 | 1985 | Swedish | Violin Concerto | |
| Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji | 1892 | 1988 | English | Opus clavicembalisticum; 100 Transcendental Studies; Sequentia cyclica super "Dies irae" ex Missa pro defunctis; Piano Symphony No. 2; "Gulistān" – Nocturne for Piano | neoclassical, neoromantic, postimpressionistic |
| Germaine Tailleferre | 1892 | 1983 | French | ||
| Nicanor Abelardo | 1893 | 1934 | Filipino | Piano Concerto in B-flat minor | |
| Jean Absil | 1893 | 1974 | Belgian | ||
| Arthur Benjamin | 1893 | 1960 | Australian | Jamaican Rhumba | |
| Georges Boulanger | 1893 | 1958 | Romanian | ||
| Lili Boulanger | 1893 | 1918 | French | ||
| Marta Canales | 1893 | 1986 | Chilean | ||
| Osvald Chlubna | 1893 | 1971 | Czech | ||
| Zinovy Feldman | 1893 | 1942 | Russian | ||
| Aleksandr Gauk | 1893 | 1963 | Russian/Soviet | ||
| Eugene Aynsley Goossens | 1893 | 1962 | English | ||
| Dorothy Gow | 1893 | 1982 | English | ||
| Hambarsoom Grigorian | 1893 | 1975 | Armenian | ||
| Alois Hába | 1893 | 1973 | Czech | Matka | microtonal |
| Helen Eugenia Hagan | 1893 | 1964 | American | ||
| Rued Langgaard | 1893 | 1952 | Danish | 16 symphonies, The Music of the Spheres, Antikrist | |
| Franz Mittler | 1893 | 1970 | Austrian | ||
| Federico Mompou | 1893 | 1987 | Spanish | piano music | |
| Douglas Moore | 1893 | 1969 | American | The Ballad of Baby Doe, The Devil and Daniel Webster (Folk opera) | |
| Ivor Novello | 1893 | 1951 | Welsh | ||
| Leo Ornstein | 1893 | 2002 | American (Russian-born) | Wild Men's Dance, Suicide in an Airplane, 8 piano sonatas, Piano Quintet, 3 String Quartets | avant-garde, later neoromanticism |
| Charles Wilfred Orr | 1893 | 1976 | English | Songs | |
| Sergei Protopopov | 1893 | 1954 | Russian | 3 piano sonatas | Avant-garde |
| Bernard Rogers | 1893 | 1968 | American | ||
| John Laurence Seymour | 1893 | 1986 | American | ||
| Marcel Tyberg | 1893 | 1944 | Austrian | ||
| Stanisław Wiechowicz | 1893 | 1963 | Polish | ||
| Pylyp Kozytskiy | 1893 | 1960 | Ukrainian | In memory of the Bolsheviks (1951) | avant-garde |
| Hugo Chaim Adler | 1894 | 1955 | Belgian | ||
| Aaron Avshalomov | 1894 | 1965 | Russian | ||
| Krešimir Baranović | 1894 | 1975 | Yugoslav | ||
| Robert Russell Bennett | 1894 | 1981 | American | Broadway arrangements; pieces for band | |
| Pavel Bořkovec | 1894 | 1972 | Czech | ||
| Paul Dessau | 1894 | 1979 | German | ||
| Sabin Drăgoi | 1894 | 1968 | Romanian | Piano Concerto | |
| Kalitha Dorothy Fox | 1894 | 1934 | English | ||
| Wilhelm Grosz | 1894 | 1939 | Austrian | ||
| Žiga Hirschler | 1894 | 1941 | Croatian | ||
| Edmund Jenkins | 1894 | 1926 | American | ||
| Jane Joseph | 1894 | 1929 | English | ||
| Filip Lazăr | 1894 | 1936 | Romanian | avant-garde | |
| Ernest John Moeran | 1894 | 1950 | English | Symphony in G minor | folk-influenced |
| Antonio Molina | 1894 | 1980 | Filipino | ||
| Willem Pijper | 1894 | 1947 | Dutch | Six Adagios; Piano Concerto | atonality |
| Walter Piston | 1894 | 1976 | American | The Incredible Flutist (ballet); Symphony No. 2, No. 3, No. 6, and No. 7 | Neoclassicism |
| Władysław Raczkowski | 1894 | 1959 | Polish | ||
| Erwin Schulhoff | 1894 | 1942 | Czech | ||
| Nicolas Slonimsky | 1894 | 1995 | Russian-born American | ||
| Albert Stoessel | 1894 | 1943 | American | ||
| Bernard Wagenaar | 1894 | 1971 | Dutch/American | ||
| Peter Warlock | 1894 | 1930 | Anglo-Welsh | Capriol Suite, The Curlew | |
| Vally Weigl | 1894 | 1982 | Austrian-American | ||
| Mark Wessel | 1894 | 1973 | American | The King of Babylon; Concertino for Flute or Violin and Orchestra | |
| August Baeyens | 1895 | 1966 | Belgian | ||
| Henriëtte Bosmans | 1895 | 1952 | Dutch | ||
| Jorge Bravo de Rueda | 1895 | 1940 | Peruvian | ||
| Bjarne Brustad | 1895 | 1978 | Norwegian | ||
| Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco | 1895 | 1968 | Italian | Naomi and Ruth; guitar music | |
| Juan José Castro | 1895 | 1968 | Argentine | ||
| Ernest Charles | 1895 | 1984 | American | ||
| Georges Dandelot | 1895 | 1975 | French | ||
| Johann Nepomuk David | 1895 | 1977 | Austrian | neoclassical | |
| Nico Dostal | 1895 | 1981 | Austrian | ||
| Lindley Evans | 1895 | 1982 | South African-born Australian | ||
| Jakov Gotovac | 1895 | 1982 | Croatian | ||
| Ivo Tijardović | 1895 | 1976 | Croatian | ||
| Paul Hindemith | 1895 | 1963 | German | Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber; Mathis der Maler; Ludus Tonalis | neoclassicism, Expressionism |
| Gordon Jacob | 1895 | 1984 | English | ||
| Eva Jessye | 1895 | 1992 | American | ||
| Rudolf Kattnigg | 1895 | 1955 | Austrian | ||
| Ernesto Lecuona | 1895 | 1963 | Cuban | ||
| Ernst Levy | 1895 | 1981 | Swiss | ||
| Borys Lyatoshynsky | 1895 | 1968 | Ukrainian | ||
| Carl Orff | 1895 | 1982 | German | Carmina Burana | polystylism |
| Slavko Osterc | 1895 | 1941 | Slovenian | Symphony | |
| Kathleen Richards | 1895 | 1984 | English | ||
| Dane Rudhyar | 1895 | 1985 | French | ||
| Boris Sobinov | 1895 | 1956 | Russian | ||
| Leo Sowerby | 1895 | 1968 | American | ||
| William Grant Still | 1895 | 1978 | American | 5 symphonies, including Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American"; Troubled Island (opera), A Bayou Legend (opera) | folk-influenced; known as "the Dean" of African-American composers |
| Eduard Toldrà | 1895 | 1962 | Spanish | ||
| Maria Bach | 1896 | 1978 | Austrian | Piano Quartet | |
| Erling Brene | 1896 | 1980 | Danish | ||
| František Brož | 1896 | 1962 | Czech | ||
| Shirley Graham Du Bois | 1896 | 1977 | American | ||
| Amice Calverley | 1896 | 1959 | English-born Canadian | String Quartet in F minor; Variations on a Harmonic Theme | |
| Eduard Erdmann | 1896 | 1958 | German | ||
| Jacobo Ficher | 1896 | 1978 | Argentine | 10 symphonies; 3 piano concertos; chamber music; El Oso (opera, after Chekhov) | eclectic |
| Roberto Gerhard | 1896 | 1970 | Spanish | ||
| Howard Hanson | 1896 | 1981 | American | 7 symphonies | Romanticism |
| Józef Koffler | 1896 | 1944 | Polish | ||
| Viktor Kosenko | 1896 | 1938 | Ukrainian | Piano concerto | |
| Dimitri Mitropoulos | 1896 | 1960 | Greek | ||
| María Teresa Prieto | 1896 | 1982 | Spanish | ||
| Jean Rivier | 1896 | 1987 | French | ||
| Leroy Robertson | 1896 | 1971 | American | ||
| Roger Sessions | 1896 | 1985 | American | 9 symphonies, Violin Concerto, Montezuma | neoclassicism, twelve-tone technique |
| Petko Staynov | 1896 | 1977 | Bulgarian | ||
| Bolesław Szabelski | 1896 | 1979 | Polish | ||
| George Thalben-Ball | 1896 | 1986 | British | ||
| Virgil Thomson | 1896 | 1989 | American | Four Saints in Three Acts, The Mother of Us All; Louisiana Story; also noted critic | folk-influenced, eclectic |
| Wladimir Vogel | 1896 | 1984 | Swiss | ||
| Jaromír Weinberger | 1896 | 1967 | Czech | Schwanda the Bagpiper | |
| Sergei Aslamazyan | 1897 | 1978 | Armenian | ||
| Břetislav Bakala | 1897 | 1958 | Czech | ||
| Paul Ben-Haim | 1897 | 1984 | Israeli | ||
| Jørgen Bentzon | 1897 | 1951 | Danish | ||
| Gaspar Cassadó | 1897 | 1966 | Spanish | Toccata, Requiebros | |
| Henry Cowell | 1897 | 1965 | American | The Tides of Manaunaun, Dynamic Motion | eclectic, experimental |
| Oscar Lorenzo Fernández | 1897 | 1948 | Brazilian | "Batuque" from Malazarte | nationalism |
| António Fragoso | 1897 | 1918 | Portuguese | ||
| Luis Gianneo | 1897 | 1968 | Argentine | ||
| Sim Gokkes | 1897 | 1943 | Dutch | Modernist | |
| Yefim Golyshev | 1897 | 1970 | Ukrainian | String Trio | |
| Hermann Heiss | 1897 | 1966 | German | ||
| Harrison Kerr | 1897 | 1978 | American | ||
| Erich Wolfgang Korngold | 1897 | 1957 | Austrian | Violin Concerto | also composed film music: Die Tote Stadt |
| György Kósa | 1897 | 1984 | Hungarian | ||
| Agustín Lara | 1897 | 1970 | Mexican | Granada | |
| Theo Mackeben | 1897 | 1953 | German | ||
| Enrico Mainardi | 1897 | 1976 | Italian | ||
| Karl Marx | 1897 | 1985 | German | ||
| Benna Moe | 1897 | 1983 | Danish | ||
| Hermann Neuling | 1897 | 1967 | German | ||
| Fernando Obradors | 1897 | 1945 | Spanish | Canciones clásicas españolas | |
| Quincy Porter | 1897 | 1966 | American | 2 symphonies, 9 string quartets, Piano Quintet, Concerto concertante for two pianos and orchestra | |
| Jaroslav Řídký | 1897 | 1956 | Czech | ||
| Knudåge Riisager | 1897 | 1974 | Denmark | ||
| Harald Sæverud | 1897 | 1992 | Norwegian | Peer Gynt, 9 symphonies | |
| Pablo Sorozábal | 1897 | 1988 | Spanish | ||
| Margaret Sutherland | 1897 | 1984 | Australian | Violin Concerto Haunted Hills | |
| Kay Swift | 1897 | 1993 | American | ||
| Alexandre Tansman | 1897 | 1986 | French (Polish-born) | ||
| Terig Tucci | 1897 | 1973 | Argentine | ||
| Alexander Abramsky | 1898 | 1985 | Russian | folk-influenced | |
| Thomas Armstrong | 1898 | 1994 | English | ||
| Ernst Bacon | 1898 | 1990 | American | ||
| Edward Boatner | 1898 | 1981 | American | ||
| Carlton Cooley | 1898 | 1981 | American | ||
| Norman Demuth | 1898 | 1968 | English | ||
| Hanns Eisler | 1898 | 1962 | German/Austrian | Auferstanden aus Ruinen (Eastern Germany national anthem) | |
| George Gershwin | 1898 | 1937 | American | Rhapsody in Blue; Piano Concerto; An American in Paris; Porgy and Bess | jazz-influenced; also a composer of popular songs |
| Barbara Giuranna | 1898 | 1998 | Italian | ||
| Ebbe Hamerik | 1898 | 1951 | Danish | ||
| Roy Harris | 1898 | 1979 | American | Symphony No. 3 | neotonality |
| Tibor Harsányi | 1898 | 1954 | Hungarian | ||
| Alberto Hemsi | 1898 | 1976 | Turkish | ||
| Dorothy Howell | 1898 | 1982 | English | Lamia | |
| Maurice Journeau | 1898 | 1999 | French | ||
| Lev Knipper | 1898 | 1974 | Russian | ||
| Jeanne Leleu | 1898 | 1979 | French | ||
| Marcel Mihalovici | 1898 | 1985 | French (Romanian-born) | Krapp, ou, La dernière bande | neoclassicism, serialism, etc.; folk-influenced |
| Günther Ramin | 1898 | 1956 | German | ||
| Vittorio Rieti | 1898 | 1994 | Italian | ||
| Rito Selvaggi | 1898 | 1972 | Italian | ||
| María Luisa Sepúlveda | 1898 | 1958 | Chilean | ||
| Viktor Ullmann | 1898 | 1944 | Austrian | ||
| Ephraim Amu | 1899 | 1995 | Ghanaian | ||
| Georges Auric | 1899 | 1983 | French | ||
| William Baines | 1899 | 1922 | English | ||
| Mansi Barberis | 1899 | 1986 | Romanian | ||
| Radie Britain | 1899 | 1994 | American | ||
| Carlos Chávez | 1899 | 1978 | Mexican | Sinfonía de Antígona, Sinfonía india, Symphony No. 6, Toccata for percussion instruments, The Visitors (opera) | modernist, primitivist, folk-influenced, neoclassicism, serialist |
| Frederic Curzon | 1899 | 1973 | English | ||
| Arthur Duff | 1899 | 1956 | Irish | ||
| Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté | 1899 | 1974 | Russian-born Canadian | ||
| Yusef Greiss | 1899 | 1961 | Egyptian | ||
| Patrick Hadley | 1899 | 1973 | British | ||
| Pavel Haas | 1899 | 1944 | Czech | ||
| Eduardo Hernández Moncada | 1899 | 1995 | Mexican | ||
| Finn Høffding | 1899 | 1997 | Danish | ||
| Albert Huybrechts | 1899 | 1938 | Belgian | ||
| Hans Krása | 1899 | 1944 | Czech | ||
| Ricard Lamote de Grignon | 1899 | 1962 | Spanish | ||
| Jón Leifs | 1899 | 1968 | Icelandic | Oratorios based on Edda | idiosyncratic orchestration and percussion used to evoke Icelandic natural phenomena |
| Marcelle de Manziarly | 1899 | 1989 | French | ||
| Harl McDonald | 1899 | 1955 | American | ||
| George Frederick McKay | 1899 | 1970 | American | ||
| Duke Ellington | 1899 | 1974 | American | ||
| Francis Poulenc | 1899 | 1963 | French | Babar the Elephant; Flute Sonata; Stabat Mater | neoclassicism |
| Silvestre Revueltas | 1899 | 1940 | Mexican | Janitzio; Homenaje a Federico García Lorca; Sensemayá | nationalist, political music, primitivist, popular-music influence. modernism |
| Herbert Sumsion | 1899 | 1995 | English | ||
| Alexander Tcherepnin | 1899 | 1977 | Russian | ||
| Randall Thompson | 1899 | 1984 | American | Alleluia; The Testament of Freedom | |
| Pancho Vladigerov | 1899 | 1978 | Bulgarian | 4 piano concertos | folk-influenced |
| Franz Salmhofer | 1900 | 1975 | Austrian | Lieder: Heiteres Herbarium | Late romantic / progressive |
| Evald Aav | 1900 | 1939 | Estonian | ||
| Kai Normann Andersen | 1900 | 1967 | Danish | ||
| George Antheil | 1900 | 1959 | American | Ballet mécanique; Symphony No. 4 | avant-garde, modernism, later neoclassical |
| Henry Barraud | 1900 | 1997 | French | Concertino for piano, flute, clarinet, horn, bassoon and chamber orchestra | |
| Nicolai Berezowsky | 1900 | 1953 | Russian-American | Christmas Festival Overture (Ukrainian Noel), Duo for Clarinet and Viola | |
| Willy Burkhard | 1900 | 1955 | Swiss | ||
| Alan Bush | 1900 | 1995 | English | ||
| Lola Castegnaro | 1900 | 1979 | Costa Rican | ||
| Niels Clemmensen | 1900 | 1950 | Danish | ||
| Aaron Copland | 1900 | 1990 | American | Appalachian Spring (ballet); Billy the Kid (ballet); Rodeo (ballet); Fanfare for the Common Man; Clarinet Concerto Lincoln Portrait | neoclassical, folk-influenced, jazz-influenced, early twelve-tone, later serialism |
| Isaak Dunayevsky | 1900 | 1955 | Russian | ||
| Pierre-Octave Ferroud | 1900 | 1936 | French | ||
| Isadore Freed | 1900 | 1960 | Belarusian-born American | ||
| Grigori Gamburg | 1900 | 1967 | Russian | ||
| Hector Gratton | 1900 | 1970 | Canadian | ||
| Gotfrid Hasanov | 1900 | 1965 | Russian | ||
| Hans Haug | 1900 | 1967 | Swiss | ||
| Michael Head | 1900 | 1976 | British | ||
| Maurice Jaubert | 1900 | 1940 | French | ||
| Yasuji Kiyose | 1900 | 1981 | Japanese | ||
| Uuno Klami | 1900 | 1961 | Finnish | Sea Pictures; Kalevala Suite | |
| Paul Kletzki | 1900 | 1973 | Polish | ||
| Ernst Krenek | 1900 | 1991 | Austrian | Jonny spielt auf, Karl V | neoclassical, twelve-tone, later serial, neoromantic, eclectic |
| Otto Luening | 1900 | 1996 | American | ||
| Colin McPhee | 1900 | 1964 | Canadian | Tabuh-Tabuhan: Toccata for Orchestra | folk-influenced |
| Alexander Mosolov | 1900 | 1973 | Russian | Iron Foundry | avant-garde |
| Henri Pensis | 1900 | 1958 | Luxembourger | ||
| Fred Raymond | 1900 | 1954 | Austrian | operettas; also composed film music | |
| Hermann Reutter | 1900 | 1985 | German | ||
| Amadeo Roldán | 1900 | 1939 | Cuban | Rítmicas Nos. 5 and 6 | |
| Hans Schimmerling | 1900 | 1967 | Czech | ||
| Bernd Scholz | 1900 | 1969 | German | ||
| Leo Smit | 1900 | 1943 | Dutch | ||
| Marko Tajčević | 1900 | 1984 | Serbian | ||
| Zdenka Ticharich | 1900 | 1979 | Hungarian | ||
| Elinor Remick Warren | 1900 | 1991 | American | ||
| Kurt Weill | 1900 | 1950 | German/American | 2 symphonies; String Quartets; "Die Dreigroschenoper"; Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny; "Mahagonny-Songspiel"; several Broadway musicals | neoclassical |
| David Wynne | 1900 | 1983 | Welsh | ||
| Walther Aeschbacher | 1901 | 1969 | Swiss | ||
| Karel Albert | 1901 | 1987 | Belgian | Marieken van Niemeghen (incidental music); four symphonies | constructionist, neoclassical, twelve-tone technique |
| Blaž Arnič | 1901 | 1970 | Slovenian | neoromanticism | |
| Conrad Beck | 1901 | 1989 | Swiss | ||
| Ruth Crawford Seeger | 1901 | 1953 | American | String Quartet | modernism |
| Gerald Finzi | 1901 | 1956 | English | Cello Concerto; songs | neoromantic |
| Lillian Fuchs | 1901 | 1995 | American | ||
| Eivind Groven | 1901 | 1977 | Norwegian | ||
| Povl Hamburger | 1901 | 1972 | Danish | ||
| Victor Hely-Hutchinson | 1901 | 1947 | British | ||
| Emil Hlobil | 1901 | 1987 | Czechoslovakian | ||
| Dorothy James | 1901 | 1982 | American | ||
| Olav Kielland | 1901 | 1985 | Norwegian | ||
| Boris Koutzen | 1901 | 1966 | Russian-American | ||
| Rudolf Matz | 1901 | 1988 | Croatian | ||
| William McKie | 1901 | 1984 | Australian | ||
| Dimitar Nenov | 1901 | 1953 | Bulgarian | Toccata | |
| Harry Partch | 1901 | 1974 | American | Daphne of the Dunes, Revelation in the Courthouse Park | microtonal, just intonation, self-built instruments |
| Juan Carlos Paz | 1901 | 1972 | Argentine | twelve-tone technique and serialism | |
| Marcel Poot | 1901 | 1988 | Belgian | ||
| Bernard Reichel | 1901 | 1992 | Swiss | ||
| Joaquín Rodrigo | 1901 | 1999 | Spanish | Concierto de Aranjuez; guitar music | neoclassical, folk music influence |
| Heinz Eric Roemheld | 1901 | 1985 | American | ||
| Kjell Roikjer | 1901 | 1999 | Danish | ||
| Edmund Rubbra | 1901 | 1986 | English | ||
| Henri Sauguet | 1901 | 1989 | French | ||
| Henri Tomasi | 1901 | 1971 | French | ||
| Emmy Wegener | 1901 | 1973 | Dutch | ||
| Werner Egk | 1901 | 1983 | German | ||
| Jesús Arámbarri | 1902 | 1960 | Spanish | ||
| Theodore Chanler | 1902 | 1961 | American | ||
| Maurice Duruflé | 1902 | 1986 | French | Requiem; organ music | |
| Vladimir Fere | 1902 | 1971 | Russian | ||
| Evaristo Fernández Blanco | 1902 | 1993 | Spanish | ||
| Lūcija Garūta | 1902 | 1977 | Latvian | Piano Concerto | |
| Antonio José | 1902 | 1936 | Spanish | ||
| Helvi Leiviskä | 1902 | 1982 | Finnish | ||
| Lino Liviabella | 1902 | 1964 | Italian | ||
| Jiro Nakano | 1902 | 2000 | Japanese | ||
| Vissarion Shebalin | 1902 | 1963 | Russian | The Taming of the Shrew (opera) | |
| Andriy Shtoharenko | 1902 | 1992 | Ukrainian | ||
| Veselin Stoyanov | 1902 | 1969 | Bulgarian | Three concertos for piano and orchestra; Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Concertino for violin | folk-influenced |
| Jenő Takács | 1902 | 2005 | Austrian | ||
| Rose Thisse-Derouette | 1902 | 1989 | Belgian | ||
| Antonio María Valencia | 1902 | 1952 | Colombian | ||
| John Vincent | 1902 | 1977 | American | Consort for Piano and Strings | neoclassical |
| William Walton | 1902 | 1983 | English | Symphony No. 1; Violin Concerto; Viola Concerto; Variations on a Theme by Hindemith; Belshazzar's Feast (oratorio) | avant-garde (early), neoromantic, neoclassical; also a composer of film music |
| Meredith Willson | 1902 | 1984 | American | ||
| Stefan Wolpe | 1902 | 1972 | German | Battle Piece for piano | serial, modernism |
| Claude Arrieu | 1903 | 1990 | French | ||
| Lennox Berkeley | 1903 | 1989 | English | Horn Trio | neoclassical, later serial |
| Boris Blacher | 1903 | 1975 | German | ||
| Abram Chasins | 1903 | 1987 | American | Two piano concertos; Parade for orchestra | |
| Tudor Ciortea | 1903 | 1983 | Romanian | ||
| Rhoda Coghill | 1903 | 2000 | Irish | ||
| Avril Coleridge-Taylor | 1903 | 1998 | English | ||
| Hugo Distler | 1908 | 1942 | German | ||
| Vernon Duke | 1903 | 1969 | Russian | both post-tonal style as Dukelsky and in the style of Tin Pan Alley as Duke | |
| André Fleury | 1903 | 1995 | French | ||
| Vittorio Giannini | 1903 | 1966 | Italian | Blennerhassett | neoclassical |
| Walter Goehr | 1903 | 1960 | German | ||
| Berthold Goldschmidt | 1903 | 1996 | German | ||
| Hilding Hallnäs | 1903 | 1984 | Swedish | ||
| He Luting | 1903 | 1999 | Chinese | ||
| Vladimir Horowitz | 1903 | 1989 | American | ||
| Jens Bjerre Jacobsen | 1903 | 1986 | Danish | ||
| Aram Khachaturian | 1903 | 1978 | Armenian | Gayane (ballet, includes Sabre Dance); Spartacus (ballet); concertos; Masquerade Suite | |
| Mykola Kolessa | 1903 | 2006 | Ukrainian | ||
| Marc Lavry | 1903 | 1967 | Israeli | Symphonic Poem Emek, Opera Dan Hashomer | |
| Leighton Lucas | 1903 | 1982 | English | ||
| Robin Milford | 1903 | 1959 | English | ||
| Saburō Moroi | 1903 | 1977 | Japanese | ||
| Ervin Nyiregyházi | 1903 | 1987 | Hungarian | Romanticism | |
| Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen | 1903 | 1984 | Norwegian | ||
| Flor Peeters | 1903 | 1986 | Belgian | ||
| Mario Pilati | 1903 | 1938 | Italian | Piedigrotta (opera) | |
| Thomas Pitfield | 1903 | 1999 | British | ||
| Priaulx Rainier | 1903 | 1986 | South African / English | Ploërmel, Quanta, String Trio | |
| Günter Raphael | 1903 | 1960 | German | ||
| Luis H. Salgado | 1903 | 1977 | Ecuadorian | Sanjuanito futurista; Eunice; Cumandá | folk-influenced, modernist |
| Åke Uddén | 1903 | 1987 | Swedish | ||
| Vladimir Vlasov | 1903 | 1986 | Russian | ||
| Rudolf Wagner-Régeny | 1903 | 1969 | German | Prometheus (opera) | |
| Percy Whitlock | 1903 | 1946 | English | ||
| Richard Addinsell | 1904 | 1977 | British | Warsaw Concerto | |
| Joseph Ahrens | 1904 | 1997 | German | ||
| Herbert Kennedy Andrews | 1904 | 1965 | English | ||
| John Antill | 1904 | 1986 | Australian | Corroboree (ballet suite) | |
| Jean Berveiller | 1904 | 1976 | French | ||
| Walter Bricht | 1904 | 1970 | Austrian | ||
| Antonino Buenaventura | 1904 | 1996 | Filipino | ||
| Erik Chisholm | 1904 | 1965 | Scottish | Piano Concerto No. 2 ("Hindustani") | "Scotland's forgotten composer", nicknamed "MacBartok" |
| Karl Clausen | 1904 | 1972 | Danish | ||
| Luigi Dallapiccola | 1904 | 1975 | Italian | Il prigioniero (opera); Il canto sospeso | serialism, electronic music |
| Balys Dvarionas | 1904 | 1974 | Lithuanian | ||
| Kunihiko Hashimoto | 1904 | 1949 | Japanese | ||
| Huang Tzu | 1904 | 1938 | Chinese | In Memoriam | |
| Dmitry Kabalevsky | 1904 | 1987 | Russian | The Comedians | |
| Tadeusz Kassern | 1904 | 1957 | Polish | ||
| Iša Krejčí | 1904 | 1968 | Czech | 20 Variations on the Composer s Own Theme in the Style of a Folk Song | neoclassical |
| Goffredo Petrassi | 1904 | 2003 | Italian | ||
| Gavriil Popov | 1904 | 1972 | Russian | Chamber Symphony; Symphony No. 1 | |
| Cemal Reşit Rey | 1904 | 1985 | Turkish | ||
| Manuel Rosenthal | 1904 | 2003 | French | ||
| Theodor Schaefer | 1904 | 1969 | Czech | ||
| Hermann Schroeder | 1904 | 1984 | German | ||
| Nikos Skalkottas | 1904 | 1949 | Greek | 36 Greek Dances for orchestra; Violin Concerto | twelve-tone, folk music influence, modernism |
| Franz Syberg | 1904 | 1955 | Danish | ||
| Jack Westrup | 1904 | 1975 | English | ||
| Konrad Wölki | 1904 | 1983 | German | ||
| Aleksey Zhivotov | 1904 | 1964 | Russian | ||
| Heikki Aaltoila | 1905 | 1992 | Finnish | ||
| William Alwyn | 1905 | 1985 | English | Lyra Angelica; Elizabethan Dances | neoromantic |
| Boris Arapov | 1905 | 1992 | Russian | Violin Concerto | neoromantic, atonality |
| Albert Arlen | 1905 | 1993 | Turkish Australian | ||
| Paul Arma | 1905 | 1987 | Hungarian-French | ||
| Vytautas Bacevičius | 1905 | 1970 | Lithuanian | atonality | |
| Marc Blitzstein | 1905 | 1964 | American | The Cradle Will Rock (musical) | political music |
| Eugène Bozza | 1905 | 1991 | French | ||
| Mario Braggiotti | 1905 | 1996 | American (Italian-born) | ||
| Yevgeny Brusilovsky | 1905 | 1981 | Kazakhstani | ||
| Francis Chagrin | 1905 | 1972 | Romanian | ||
| Ulric Cole | 1905 | 1992 | American | ||
| Christian Darnton | 1905 | 1981 | British | ||
| Ferenc Farkas | 1905 | 2000 | Hungarian | ||
| Karl Amadeus Hartmann | 1905 | 1963 | German | Concerto funebre; Gesangsszene; Symphony No. 1; Symphony No. 4 | |
| André Hossein | 1905 | 1983 | Iranian | ||
| André Jolivet | 1905 | 1974 | French | Flute Concerto No. 1 | |
| Erich Itor Kahn | 1905 | 1956 | German | ||
| Taneli Kuusisto | 1905 | 1988 | Finnish | ||
| Constant Lambert | 1905 | 1951 | English | The Rio Grande | popular music influence, jazz influence |
| Guillaume Landré | 1905 | 1968 | Dutch | ||
| Walter Leigh | 1905 | 1942 | English | Concertino for Harpsichord and Strings; Agincourt; Jolly Roger; Music for Strings | neoclassical |
| Ernst Hermann Meyer | 1905 | 1988 | German | ||
| Léon Orthel | 1905 | 1987 | Dutch | ||
| Alan Rawsthorne | 1905 | 1971 | English | 3 symphonies; Symphonic Studies | neoclassical |
| Luis Sandi | 1905 | 1996 | Mexican | ||
| Giacinto Scelsi | 1905 | 1988 | Italian | Quattro pezzi chiascuno su una nota sola | |
| Verdina Shlonsky | 1905 | 1990 | Israeli | Piano Concerto; String Quartet; numerous piano music, including Pages from the Diary; Five Sketches; Youth Suite; Reflection; Still Life | Polystylism |
| Fela Sowande | 1905 | 1987 | Nigerian | ||
| Daniel Sternefeld | 1905 | 1986 | Belgian | ||
| Michael Tippett | 1905 | 1998 | English | The Midsummer Marriage; 4 symphonies; A Child of Our Time (oratorio) | |
| Eduard Tubin | 1905 | 1982 | Estonian | 11 symphonies | |
| Xian Xinghai | 1905 | 1945 | Chinese | Yellow River Cantata | |
| Xiao Shuxian | 1905 | 1991 | Chinese | ||
| Winfried Zillig | 1905 | 1963 | German | ||
| Murray Adaskin | 1906 | 2002 | Canadian | ||
| Ahn Eak-tai | 1906 | 1965 | Korean | Aegukga | |
| Hasan Ferit Alnar | 1906 | 1978 | Turkish | ||
| Daniel Ayala Pérez | 1906 | 1975 | Mexican | Tribu (symphonic poem) | |
| Andria Balanchivadze | 1906 | 1992 | Georgian | ||
| Franz Biebl | 1906 | 2001 | German | Ave Maria | |
| Walter Braithwaite | 1906 | 1991 | English | ||
| Pierre Capdevielle | 1906 | 1969 | French | ||
| Bernhard Christensen | 1906 | 2004 | Danish | ||
| Alessandro Cicognini | 1906 | 1995 | Italian | ||
| Milo Cipra | 1906 | 1985 | Croatian | ||
| Arnold Cooke | 1906 | 2005 | British | ||
| Paul Creston | 1906 | 1985 | American | neoclassical | |
| Volfgangs Dārziņš | 1906 | 1962 | Latvian | ||
| Claire Delbos | 1906 | 1959 | French | ||
| Antal Doráti | 1906 | 1988 | American | ||
| Klaus Egge | 1906 | 1979 | Norwegian | ||
| Will Eisenmann | 1906 | 1992 | German-Swiss | ||
| Ulvi Cemal Erkin | 1906 | 1972 | Turkish | ||
| Eric Fenby | 1906 | 1997 | English | ||
| Armando José Fernandes | 1906 | 1983 | Portuguese | neoclassical | |
| Benjamin Frankel | 1906 | 1973 | English | ||
| Giovanni Fusco | 1906 | 1968 | Italian | ||
| Alejandro García Caturla | 1906 | 1940 | Cuban | ||
| Zoltán Gárdonyi | 1906 | 1986 | Hungarian | Psalm 46, organ sonatas, motets | sacred music |
| Miriam Gideon | 1906 | 1996 | American | modernism | |
| Radamés Gnattali | 1906 | 1988 | Brazilian | ||
| Philip Herschkowitz | 1906 | 1989 | Romanian | atonality, twelve-tone technique pupil of Alban Berg & Anton Webern | |
| Willy Hess | 1906 | 1997 | Swiss | ||
| Joaquim Homs | 1906 | 2003 | Spanish | ||
| Tomojirō Ikenouchi | 1906 | 1991 | Japanese | ||
| Jānis Ivanovs | 1906 | 1983 | Latvian | neoromantic | |
| Maxime Jacob | 1906 | 1977 | French | ||
| Jaroslav Ježek | 1906 | 1942 | Czech | ||
| Eugen Kapp | 1906 | 1996 | Estonian | ||
| Jacques Leguerney | 1906 | 1997 | French | ||
| Oscar Levant | 1906 | 1972 | American | ||
| Zara Levina | 1906 | 1976 | Ukrainian | ||
| Normand Lockwood | 1906 | 2002 | American | ||
| Fernando Lopes-Graça | 1906 | 1994 | Portuguese | ||
| Elisabeth Lutyens | 1906 | 1983 | English | ||
| Abdylas Maldybaev | 1906 | 1978 | Kyrgyzstani | ||
| Peter Mieg | 1906 | 1990 | Swiss | neoclassical | |
| Alexander Moyzes | 1906 | 1984 | Slovak | neoromantic | |
| Willson Osborne | 1906 | 1979 | American | neoclassical | |
| Carmelo Pace | 1906 | 1993 | Maltese | ||
| Boris Papandopulo | 1906 | 1991 | Croatian | ||
| Ludovit Rajter | 1906 | 2000 | Slovak | ||
| Dmitri Shostakovich | 1906 | 1975 | Russian | 15 symphonies, including No. 5, No. 7, No. 9, No. 10, and No. 11; Violin Concerto No. 1; Cello Concerto No. 1; Festive Overture; 15 string quartets, including String Quartet No. 8; Piano Quintet; The Gadfly Suite | modernism, neoclassical, neoromantic, polystylism |
| Berta Alves de Sousa | 1906 | 1997 | Portuguese | ||
| Leopold Spinner | 1906 | 1980 | Ukrainian | ||
| Louise Talma | 1906 | 1996 | American | ||
| Teng Yu-hsien | 1906 | 1944 | Taiwanese | ||
| Johannes Paul Thilman | 1906 | 1973 | German | ||
| David Van Vactor | 1906 | 1994 | American | ||
| Grace Williams | 1906 | 1977 | Welsh | ||
| Lora Aborn | 1907 | 2005 | American | Toccata for Piano | folk-influenced |
| Kurken Alemshah | 1907 | 1947 | Armenian | ||
| Henk Badings | 1907 | 1987 | Dutch | ||
| Günter Bialas | 1907 | 1995 | German | ||
| Yvonne Desportes | 1907 | 1993 | French | ||
| Roy Douglas | 1907 | 2015 | British | ||
| Federico Elizalde | 1907 | 1979 | Filipino-Spanish | Concertos, symphonic poems | |
| Wolfgang Fortner | 1907 | 1987 | German | Bluthochzeit (opera) | |
| Koharik Gazarossian | 1907 | 1967 | Armenian | ||
| Camargo Guarnieri | 1907 | 1993 | Brazilian | Dansa brasileira, Pedro Malazarte (opera), Suite IV Centenário | nationalism, neoclassicism, twelve-tone technique |
| Gene Gutchë | 1907 | 2000 | German | ||
| Heinz Friedrich Hartig | 1907 | 1969 | German | ||
| Karl Höller | 1907 | 1987 | German | ||
| Imogen Holst | 1907 | 1984 | British | ||
| Jeronimas Kačinskas | 1907 | 2005 | Lithuanian-born American | ||
| Walter Kaufmann | 1907 | 1984 | Czech | ||
| Jean Langlais | 1907 | 1991 | French | ||
| Elizabeth Maconchy | 1907 | 1994 | English | Quintet for oboe and strings; 13 string quartets | |
| Yoritsune Matsudaira | 1907 | 2001 | Japanese | ||
| Otto Mortensen | 1907 | 1986 | Danish | ||
| Zygmunt Mycielski | 1907 | 1987 | Polish | ||
| Roman Palester | 1907 | 1989 | Polish | ||
| Ödön Pártos | 1907 | 1977 | Hungarian-Israeli | ||
| Maria Teresa Pelegrí i Marimón | 1907 | 1995 | Spanish | ||
| Burrill Phillips | 1907 | 1988 | American | Selections from McGuffey's Reader | |
| Hisato Ohzawa | 1907 | 1953 | Japanese | ||
| Willem van Otterloo | 1907 | 1978 | Dutch | ||
| Harilaos Perpessas | 1907 | 1995 | Greek | Christus Symphony | |
| Miklós Rózsa | 1907 | 1995 | Hungarian | folk-influenced | |
| Tolibjon Sadikov | 1907 | 1957 | Uzbekistani | ||
| Ahmed Adnan Saygun | 1907 | 1991 | Turkish | ||
| Martin Scherber | 1907 | 1974 | German | ||
| Howard Swanson | 1907 | 1978 | American | Short Symphony; The Negro Speaks of Rivers | neoclassical |
| Václav Trojan | 1907 | 1983 | Czech | ||
| Georges Tzipine | 1907 | 1987 | French | ||
| Alec Wilder | 1907 | 1980 | American | ||
| Necil Kazım Akses | 1908 | 1999 | Turkish | ||
| Leroy Anderson | 1908 | 1975 | American | Sleigh Ride; Blue Tango; Jazz Pizzicato; Irish Suite; Suites of Carols | |
| Menachem Avidom | 1908 | 1995 | Israeli | ||
| Jan Zdeněk Bartoš | 1908 | 1981 | Czech | ||
| Joseph Beer | 1908 | 1987 | German | ||
| Roberta Bitgood | 1908 | 2007 | American | ||
| Elliott Carter | 1908 | 2012 | American | Variations for Orchestra; A Symphony of Three Orchestras; 5 string quartets | neoclassical (early), modernist |
| Jean Coulthard | 1908 | 2000 | Canadian | ||
| Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur | 1908 | 2002 | French | ||
| Gustav Ernesaks | 1908 | 1993 | Estonian | ||
| Howard Ferguson | 1908 | 1999 | British | ||
| Gunnar de Frumerie | 1908 | 1987 | Swedish | ||
| Helen Glatz | 1908 | 1996 | English | ||
| Irwin Heilner | 1908 | 1991 | American | ||
| Kurt Hessenberg | 1908 | 1994 | German | ||
| Miloslav Kabeláč | 1908 | 1979 | Czech | ||
| Herman David Koppel | 1908 | 1998 | Danish | neoclassical | |
| Lars-Erik Larsson | 1908 | 1986 | Swedish | ||
| Joan Mary Last | 1908 | 2002 | English | ||
| Nina Makarova | 1908 | 1976 | Russian | ||
| Lucien Martin | 1908 | 1950 | Canadian | ||
| Olivier Messiaen | 1908 | 1992 | French | Turangalila Symphony; Quartet for the End of Time; Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus; Saint François d'Assise | mysticism, postimpressionist |
| Vano Muradeli | 1908 | 1970 | Soviet Georgian | ||
| Trude Rittmann | 1908 | 2005 | German | ||
| Alice Samter | 1908 | 2004 | German | ||
| Julian Scriabin | 1908 | 1919 | Russian | ||
| Halsey Stevens | 1908 | 1989 | American | ||
| Eugen Suchoň | 1908 | 1993 | Slovak | folk-influenced | |
| Jonas Švedas | 1908 | 1971 | Lithuanian | ||
| Sidney Torch | 1908 | 1990 | British | ||
| Geirr Tveitt | 1908 | 1981 | Norwegian | folk-influenced | |
| William Wordsworth | 1908 | 1988 | Scottish | ||
| Lorenc Antoni | 1909 | 1991 | Kosovo Albanian | ||
| Isabel Aretz | 1909 | 2005 | Argentine-Venezuelan | ||
| Grażyna Bacewicz | 1909 | 1969 | Polish | String Quartet No. 3 | |
| Gunnar Berg | 1909 | 1989 | Danish (Swiss-born) | Suite for cello | serialism |
| Jean Berger | 1909 | 2002 | American (German-born) | ||
| Paul Constantinescu | 1909 | 1963 | Romanian | ||
| Václav Dobiáš | 1909 | 1978 | Czech | ||
| Jaroslav Doubrava | 1909 | 1960 | Czech | ||
| Maria Dziewulska | 1909 | 2006 | Polish | ||
| Harald Genzmer | 1909 | 2007 | German | neoclassicism | |
| Isador Goodman | 1909 | 1982 | South African-Australian | ||
| Richard de Guide | 1909 | 1962 | Belgian | 3 symphonies, choral works, songs for voice and piano, a concerto for the piano and chamber works | |
| Vagn Holmboe | 1909 | 1996 | Danish | 13 symphonies | neoclassicism |
| Koichi Kishi | 1909 | 1937 | Japanese | ||
| Angelo Francesco Lavagnino | 1909 | 1987 | Italian | ||
| Primitivo Lázaro | 1909 | 1997 | Spanish | ||
| Ljubica Marić | 1909 | 2003 | Serb | Sounds of Space; Ostinato Super Thema Octoicha; Threshold of Dream | post-modernism |
| Charles Naginski | 1909 | 1940 | American | ||
| Paul Nordoff | 1909 | 1977 | American | ||
| Robin Orr | 1909 | 2006 | Scottish | ||
| Kurt Schwaen | 1909 | 2007 | German | neoclassicism | |
| Elie Siegmeister | 1909 | 1991 | American | 9 operas; 8 symphonies; Western Suite | |
| Todor Skalovski | 1909 | 2004 | Macedonian | ||
| Ādolfs Skulte | 1909 | 2000 | Latvian | ||
| Ignace Strasfogel | 1909 | 1994 | Polish | ||
| Dana Suesse | 1909 | 1987 | American | ||
| Asaf Zeynally | 1909 | 1932 | Azerbaijani | ||
| Erkki Aaltonen | 1910 | 1990 | Finnish | ||
| Samuel Barber | 1910 | 1981 | American | Adagio for Strings; Violin Concerto; Symphony in One Movement; Vanessa | Romanticism |
| Willy Berking | 1910 | 1979 | German | ||
| Herman Berlinski | 1910 | 2001 | German-born American | ||
| Miguel Bernal Jiménez | 1910 | 1956 | Mexican | ||
| Ronald Binge | 1910 | 1979 | British | light music | |
| Patricia Blomfield Holt | 1910 | 2003 | Canadian | ||
| Paul Bowles | 1910 | 1999 | American | ||
| Henri Challan | 1910 | 1977 | French | ||
| Salvador Contreras | 1910 | 1982 | Mexican | String Quartet No. 2; Tres movimientos para guitarra; Dos piezas dodecafónicas | neoclassical, serial |
| Francis Judd Cooke | 1910 | 1995 | American | ||
| Farid El-Atrache | 1910 | 1974 | Syrian-Egyptian | ||
| Blas Galindo | 1910 | 1993 | Mexican | Sones de Mariachi | |
| Remo Giazotto | 1910 | 1998 | Italian | Adagio attributed to Albinoni | |
| Evgeny Golubev | 1910 | 1988 | Russian | ||
| Bernhard Heiden | 1910 | 2000 | German-American | ||
| Gerard Hengeveld | 1910 | 2001 | Dutch | ||
| Mohamed Jamoussi | 1910 | 1982 | Tunisian | ||
| Jiang Wen-Ye | 1910 | 1983 | Chinese | ||
| Otto Joachim | 1910 | 2010 | German-born Canadian | electronic music | |
| Charles Jones | 1910 | 1997 | Canadian | ||
| Abu Bakr Khairat | 1910 | 1963 | Egyptian | ||
| Erland von Koch | 1910 | 2009 | Swedish | ||
| Pierre Lantier | 1910 | 1998 | French | ||
| Rolf Liebermann | 1910 | 1999 | Swiss | Leonore 40/45 (opera); Concerto for Jazzband and Symphony Orchestra | |
| Jean Martinon | 1910 | 1976 | French | ||
| Paule Maurice | 1910 | 1967 | French | ||
| Alfred Mendelssohn | 1910 | 1966 | Romanian | ||
| Herbert Owen Reed | 1910 | 2014 | American | La Fiesta Mexicana | folk-influenced |
| William Reed | 1910 | 2002 | English | ||
| Karel Reiner | 1910 | 1979 | Czech | ||
| Pierre Schaeffer | 1910 | 1995 | French | Musique concrète | |
| Friedrich Schröder | 1910 | 1972 | German | light music | |
| William Schuman | 1910 | 1992 | American | New England Triptych; Symphony No. 6 | |
| Meinrad Schütter | 1910 | 2006 | Swiss | ||
| Leon Stein | 1910 | 2002 | American | ||
| Robert Still | 1910 | 1971 | English | ||
| Soulima Stravinsky | 1910 | 1994 | Swiss-American | ||
| Heinrich Sutermeister | 1910 | 1995 | Swiss | ||
| Josef Tal | 1910 | 2008 | Israeli | 7 operas; 6 symphonies; 13 concerti | |
| Stanley Vann | 1910 | 2010 | English | ||
| Jehan Alain | 1911 | 1940 | French | Litanies (organ) | |
| René Amengual | 1911 | 1954 | Chilean | ||
| José Ardévol | 1911 | 1981 | Cuban | 3 symphonies | atonality |
| Stanley Bate | 1911 | 1959 | English | ||
| Jeanne Behrend | 1911 | 1988 | American | ||
| Paul Burkhard | 1911 | 1977 | Swiss | ||
| Ján Cikker | 1911 | 1989 | Slovak | folk-influenced | |
| Gábor Darvas | 1911 | 1985 | Hungarian | electronic music | |
| Ding Shande | 1911 | 1995 | Chinese | Long March Symphony | |
| Mark Fax | 1911 | 1974 | American | ||
| Roberto García Morillo | 1911 | 2003 | Argentine | ||
| Jean-Jacques Grunenwald | 1911 | 1982 | French | ||
| Bernard Herrmann | 1911 | 1975 | American | Wuthering Heights | |
| Alan Hovhaness | 1911 | 2000 | Armenian-American | 67 numbered symphonies including Mysterious Mountain; And God Created Great Whales (taped whale sounds and orchestra); Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints | |
| Kikuko Kanai | 1911 | 1986 | Japanese | ||
| Jan Koetsier | 1911 | 2006 | Dutch | ||
| Vilho Luolajan-Mikkola | 1911 | 2005 | Finnish | ||
| Frederick May | 1911 | 1985 | Irish | ||
| Robert McBride | 1911 | 2007 | American | ||
| Gian Carlo Menotti | 1911 | 2007 | Italian | The Medium; The Consul; Amahl and the Night Visitors | |
| Anne-Marie Ørbeck | 1911 | 1996 | Norwegian | ||
| Allan Pettersson | 1911 | 1980 | Swedish | Barefoot Songs; Symphony No. 9 | |
| Eduard Pütz | 1911 | 2000 | German | ||
| Franz Reizenstein | 1911 | 1968 | German-born British | ||
| Nino Rota | 1911 | 1979 | Italian | ||
| Ananda Samarakoon | 1911 | 1962 | Sri Lankan | ||
| Endre Szervánszky | 1911 | 1977 | Hungarian | ||
| Władysław Szpilman | 1911 | 2000 | Polish | ||
| Tan Xiaolin | 1911 | 1948 | Chinese | ||
| Vladimir Ussachevsky | 1911 | 1990 | American | ||
| Hans Vogt | 1911 | 1992 | German | Die Stadt hinter dem Strom (opera), Requiem | |
| Eberhard Werdin | 1911 | 1991 | German | ||
| Bojan Adamič | 1912 | 1995 | Slovenian | ||
| Mukhtar Ashrafi | 1912 | 1975 | Uzbekistani | ||
| Wayne Barlow | 1912 | 1996 | American | The Winter's Passed, for oboe and string orchestra; Hampton Beach Overture; Sinfonia da camera | |
| Arthur Berger | 1912 | 2003 | American | ||
| John Cage | 1912 | 1992 | American | 4'33"; Sonatas and Interludes | Aleatoric music, extended technique, prepared piano |
| Ingolf Dahl | 1912 | 1970 | German-born American | ||
| Alfred Desenclos | 1912 | 1971 | French | ||
| Rudolf George Escher | 1912 | 1980 | Dutch | ||
| Arkady Filippenko | 1912 | 1983 | Ukrainian | ||
| Jean Françaix | 1912 | 1997 | French | Clarinet Concerto; Two-Piano Concerto | neoclassicism |
| Don Gillis | 1912 | 1978 | American | Symphony No. 5½ | |
| Peggy Glanville-Hicks | 1912 | 1990 | Australian | ||
| Carlos Guastavino | 1912 | 2000 | Argentine | ||
| Johana Harris | 1912 | 1995 | Canadian | ||
| Gisela Hernández | 1912 | 1971 | Cuban | ||
| Robert Hughes | 1912 | 2007 | Scottish-born Australian | ||
| Daniel Jones | 1912 | 1993 | Welsh | ||
| Sirvart Kalpakyan Karamanuk | 1912 | 2008 | Armenian | ||
| Felipe Padilla de León | 1912 | 1992 | Filipino | ||
| Ma Sicong | 1912 | 1987 | Chinese | ||
| Igor Markevitch | 1912 | 1983 | Ukrainian | ||
| Tauno Marttinen | 1912 | 2008 | Finnish | ||
| José Pablo Moncayo | 1912 | 1958 | Mexican | Huapango | |
| Xavier Montsalvatge | 1912 | 2002 | Spanish | ||
| Conlon Nancarrow | 1912 | 1997 | American-Mexican | Studies for player-piano | |
| Nie Er | 1912 | 1935 | Chinese | folk-influenced | |
| Barbara Pentland | 1912 | 2000 | Canadian | ||
| Sergiu Celibidache | 1912 | 1996 | Romanian | Der Taschengarten | Neoclassicism |
| Zoltán Pongrácz | 1912 | 2007 | Hungarian | ||
| Vadim Salmanov | 1912 | 1978 | Russian | Symphony No. 2 | |
| Jadwiga Szajna-Lewandowska | 1912 | 1994 | Polish | ||
| Jiří Traxler | 1912 | 2011 | Czech | ||
| Günter Wand | 1912 | 2002 | German | ||
| Milton Adolphus | 1913 | 1988 | American | ||
| Violet Archer | 1913 | 2000 | Canadian | ||
| Anatoly Bogatyrev | 1913 | 2003 | Belarusian | In the Forests of Polesie, Nadezhda Durova | Nationalism |
| Margaret Bonds | 1913 | 1972 | American | ||
| Henry Brant | 1913 | 2008 | Canadian-American | Orbits, Verticals Ascending, Angels and Devils | spatial music |
| Benjamin Britten | 1913 | 1976 | English | War Requiem; Sinfonia da Requiem; Peter Grimes; The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra; Cello Symphony | Neoclassicism, neotonality |
| Merton Brown | 1913 | 2000 | American | ||
| Storm Bull | 1913 | 2007 | American | ||
| Matilde Capuis | 1913 | 2017 | Italian | ||
| Ronald Center | 1913 | 1973 | Scottish | ||
| Peggy Stuart Coolidge | 1913 | 1981 | American | Spirituals in Sunshine and Shadow, New England Autumn | folk- and blues-influenced |
| Gyula Dávid | 1913 | 1977 | Hungarian | ||
| Norman Dello Joio | 1913 | 2008 | American | ||
| František Domažlický | 1913 | 1997 | Czech | ||
| Alvin Etler | 1913 | 1973 | American | ||
| Ernest van der Eyken | 1913 | 2010 | Belgian | Elegie voor Bieke | |
| Vivian Fine | 1913 | 2000 | American | ||
| Morton Gould | 1913 | 1996 | American | ||
| Raymond Hanson | 1913 | 1976 | Australian | ||
| Hans Henkemans | 1913 | 1995 | Dutch | ||
| Dulcie Holland | 1913 | 2000 | Australian | ||
| Miriam Hyde | 1913 | 2005 | Australian | ||
| Jørgen Jersild | 1913 | 2004 | Danish | ||
| Kent Kennan | 1913 | 2003 | American | ||
| Tikhon Khrennikov | 1913 | 2007 | Russian | ||
| René Leibowitz | 1913 | 1972 | French | Chamber Concerto for 12 instruments | |
| George Lloyd | 1913 | 1998 | English | ||
| Witold Lutosławski | 1913 | 1994 | Polish | Concerto for Orchestra; Jeux vénitiens; Musique funebre; Symphony No. 2; Symphony No. 3 | Neoclassicism, folk-influenced, later Aleatoric music |
| Aleksandr Machavariani | 1913 | 1995 | Georgian | ||
| Jerome Moross | 1913 | 1983 | American | ||
| Maurice Ohana | 1913 | 1992 | French | ||
| Willy Ostijn | 1913 | 1993 | Belgian | neoclassicism | |
| Gardner Read | 1913 | 2005 | American | ||
| Lucio San Pedro | 1913 | 2002 | Filipino | ||
| Svend S. Schultz | 1913 | 1998 | Danish | ||
| Constantin Silvestri | 1913 | 1969 | Romanian | ||
| Raimond Valgre | 1913 | 1949 | Estonian | ||
| Valery Zhelobinsky | 1913 | 1946 | Russian | ||
| Carl-Olof Anderberg | 1914 | 1972 | Swedish | Concerto for viola and orchestra | |
| Cacilda Borges Barbosa | 1914 | 2010 | Brazilian | ||
| Dimitris Dragatakis | 1914 | 2001 | Greek | ||
| Cecil Effinger | 1914 | 1990 | American | Little Symphony No. 1; Four Pastorales for oboe and chorus | neoclassicism |
| Irving Fine | 1914 | 1963 | American | Partita for wind quintet; Symphony | serial |
| Roger Goeb | 1914 | 1997 | American | ||
| Cor de Groot | 1914 | 1993 | Dutch | ||
| Alexei Haieff | 1914 | 1994 | American | Piano Concerto; Symphony No. 2 | neoclassical, jazz-influenced |
| Hermann Haller | 1914 | 2002 | Swiss | neoclassical | |
| Fumio Hayasaka | 1914 | 1955 | Japanese | ||
| Akira Ifukube | 1914 | 2006 | Japanese | ||
| Dezider Kardoš | 1914 | 1991 | Slovak | folk-influenced | |
| Rafael Kubelík | 1914 | 1996 | Czech | ||
| Gail Kubik | 1914 | 1984 | American | ||
| Ludwig Lenel | 1914 | 2002 | American | ||
| William Lloyd Webber | 1914 | 1982 | English | ||
| Riccardo Malipiero | 1914 | 2003 | Italian | atonality, twelve-tone technique | |
| Ismail Marzuki | 1914 | 1958 | Indonesian | ||
| Wilfrid Mellers | 1914 | 2008 | English | ||
| Josef Páleníček | 1914 | 1991 | Czech | ||
| Andrzej Panufnik | 1914 | 1991 | Polish | 10 symphonies | |
| Teresa Rampazzi | 1914 | 2001 | Italian | ||
| Stjepan Sulek | 1914 | 1986 | Croatian | ||
| Harold Truscott | 1914 | 1992 | English | ||
| Josée Vigneron-Ramackers | 1914 | 2002 | Belgian | ||
| Haim Alexander | 1915 | 2012 | Israeli | ||
| David Ashkenazi | 1915 | 1997 | Russian | ||
| Esther Ballou | 1915 | 1973 | American | ||
| Alexander Brott | 1915 | 2005 | Canadian | ||
| David Diamond | 1915 | 2005 | American | Rounds for string orchestra | neoclassicism |
| Grigory Frid | 1915 | 2012 | Russian | The Diary of Anne Frank | |
| Alojz Geržinič | 1915 | 2008 | Slovenian | ||
| Sembiin Gonchigsumlaa | 1915 | 1991 | Mongolian | ||
| Ebbe Grims-land | 1915 | 2015 | Swedish | ||
| Júlia Hajdú | 1915 | 1987 | Hungarian | ||
| Pamela Harrison | 1915 | 1990 | English | ||
| Najla Jabor | 1915 | 2001 | Brazilian | ||
| Vítězslava Kaprálová | 1915 | 1940 | Czech | Military Sinfonietta, Op. 11; Partita for Piano and Strings, Op. 20 | |
| Eunice Katunda | 1915 | 1991 | Brazilian | ||
| Homer Keller | 1915 | 1996 | American | ||
| Dorian Le Gallienne | 1915 | 1963 | Australian | ||
| Dai-Keong Lee | 1915 | 2005 | Chinese-American | ||
| Vic Legley | 1915 | 1994 | Belgian | ||
| Douglas Lilburn | 1915 | 2001 | New Zealander | ||
| Knut Nystedt | 1915 | 2014 | Norwegian | ||
| Robert Moffat Palmer | 1915 | 2010 | American | ||
| George Perle | 1915 | 2009 | American | ||
| Vincent Persichetti | 1915 | 1987 | American | neoclassicism | |
| Dimitar Sagaev | 1915 | 2003 | Bulgarian | ||
| Gösta Schwarck | 1915 | 2012 | Danish | ||
| John Serry Sr. | 1915 | 2003 | American | American Rhapsody; Concerto for Free Bass Accordion | symphonic jazz influenced |
| Robert Strassburg | 1915 | 2003 | American | ||
| Carlos Surinach | 1915 | 1997 | Spanish | ||
| Georgy Sviridov | 1915 | 1998 | Russian | Piano Sonata | neoromantic |
| Earl Wild | 1915 | 2010 | American | ||
| Joseph R. Wood | 1915 | 2000 | American | ||
| Jan Håkan Åberg | 1916 | 2012 | Swedish | ||
| Gaston Allaire | 1916 | 2011 | Canadian | ||
| Denis ApIvor | 1916 | 2004 | British | ||
| Milton Babbitt | 1916 | 2011 | American | Composition for Four Instruments; String Quartet No. 2; All Set; Philomel | serialism, electronic music |
| Philip Bezanson | 1916 | 1975 | American | ||
| Karl-Birger Blomdahl | 1916 | 1968 | Swedish | Aniara (opera) | Swedish modernism |
| Valentino Bucchi | 1916 | 1976 | Italian | ||
| Mutal Burhonov | 1916 | 2002 | Uzbekistani | ||
| Henri Dutilleux | 1916 | 2013 | French | Timbres, espace, mouvement; Tout un Monde Lointain; The Shadows of Time | neo-impressionism |
| Helmut Eder | 1916 | 2005 | Austrian | ||
| Merrill Leroy Ellis | 1916 | 1981 | American | ||
| Einar Englund | 1916 | 1999 | Finnish | ||
| Alberto Ginastera | 1916 | 1983 | Argentine | Bomarzo; Cinco canciones populares argentinas; Danzas Argentinas | |
| Douglas Guest | 1916 | 1996 | English | ||
| Luis Herrera de la Fuente | 1916 | 2014 | Mexican | ||
| Malcolm MacDonald | 1916 | 1992 | British | ||
| Carin Malmlöf-Forssling | 1916 | 2005 | Swedish | ||
| Warren Martin | 1916 | 1982 | American | ||
| Veli Mukhatov | 1916 | 2005 | Turkmenistani | ||
| Nydia Pereyra-Lizaso | 1916 | 1998 | Uruguayan | ||
| Nikolay Peyko | 1916 | 1995 | Russian | ||
| Jan Rychlík | 1916 | 1964 | Czech | ||
| Zikmund Schul | 1916 | 1944 | German | ||
| Mordecai Seter | 1916 | 1994 | Russian-born Israeli | ||
| Bernard Stevens | 1916 | 1983 | British | ||
| Irwin Swack | 1916 | 2006 | American | ||
| Erna Tauro | 1916 | 1993 | Finnish-Swedish | ||
| Guido Turchi | 1916 | 2010 | Italian | ||
| Arnold van Wyk | 1916 | 1983 | South African | ||
| Els Aarne | 1917 | 1995 | Estonian | ||
| Richard Arnell | 1917 | 2009 | English | ||
| Brian Boydell | 1917 | 2000 | Irish | ||
| Rudolf Brucci | 1917 | 2002 | Italian-Croatian | ||
| Anthony Burgess | 1917 | 1993 | English | ||
| Edward T. Cone | 1917 | 2004 | American | ||
| Roque Cordero | 1917 | 2008 | Panamanian | ||
| Ivor Darreg | 1917 | 1994 | American | microtone, xenharmonic | |
| Robert Erickson | 1917 | 1997 | American | twelve tone, extended technique | |
| Robert Farnon | 1917 | 2005 | Canadian | light music | |
| John Gardner | 1917 | 2011 | English | Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day | |
| Pietro Grossi | 1917 | 2002 | Italian | computer music | |
| Egil Harder | 1917 | 1997 | Danish | ||
| Lou Harrison | 1917 | 2003 | American | Concerto for Violin and Percussion Orchestra; Piano Concerto | |
| Prenkë Jakova | 1917 | 1969 | Albanian | ||
| Hilda Jerea | 1917 | 1980 | Romanian | ||
| Václav Kašlík | 1917 | 1989 | Czech | ||
| Rena Kyriakou | 1917 | 1994 | Greek | ||
| Antonio Lauro | 1917 | 1986 | Venezuelan | guitar music | |
| Clarisse Leite | 1917 | 2003 | Brazilian | ||
| Emanuel Leplin | 1917 | 1972 | American | Symphonies 1, 2 & 3; Violin Concerto; Comedy, Galaxy, Cosmos | |
| Dinu Lipatti | 1917 | 1950 | Romanian | ||
| José Maceda | 1917 | 2004 | Filipino | ||
| Jean-Étienne Marie | 1917 | 1989 | French | ||
| Oskar Morawetz | 1917 | 2007 | Canadian | ||
| Geraldine Mucha | 1917 | 2012 | Scottish | ||
| James Penberthy | 1917 | 1999 | Australian | ||
| Tarateño Rojas | 1917 | 2001 | Bolivian | ||
| Reginald Smith Brindle | 1917 | 2003 | British | El Polifemo de Oro for guitar | |
| Maj Sønstevold | 1917 | 1996 | Swedish | ||
| Eta Tyrmand | 1917 | 2008 | Belarusian | ||
| Robert Ward | 1917 | 2013 | American | Concerto for piano and orchestra | |
| Richard Yardumian | 1917 | 1985 | Armenian-American | ||
| Isang Yun | 1917 | 1995 | Korean-German | ||
| Olivier Alain | 1918 | 1994 | French | ||
| Louis Applebaum | 1918 | 2000 | Canadian | ||
| Jürg Baur | 1918 | 2010 | German | Concerto romano for oboe and orchestra; Der Roman mit dem Kontrabass (opera) | serialism, quotation, neoclassicism |
| Leonard Bernstein | 1918 | 1990 | American | West Side Story; Chichester Psalms; Candide; Serenade; Mass | jazz-influenced and pop-influence; also a composer of popular songs, under pseudonym "Lenny Amber" |
| Lorne Betts | 1918 | 1985 | Canadian | ||
| Lina Pires de Campos | 1918 | 2003 | Brazilian | ||
| Gayane C'ebotaryan | 1918 | 1998 | Armenian | ||
| Liviu Comes | 1918 | 2004 | Romanian | choral | |
| Philip Cranmer | 1918 | 2006 | English | ||
| Robert Docker | 1918 | 1992 | English | ||
| Gottfried von Einem | 1918 | 1996 | Austrian | Dantons Tod, Der Besuch der alten Dame, cantata An die Nachgeborenen | eclectic |
| Raymond Gallois-Montbrun | 1918 | 1994 | French | ||
| Gara Garayev | 1918 | 1982 | Azerbaijani | ||
| Harold Gramatges | 1918 | 2008 | Cuban | ||
| Lucrecia Roces Kasilag | 1918 | 2008 | Filipino | ||
| Marcelo Koc | 1918 | 2006 | Argentine | Música para 5 instrumentos; Concerto for Viola and Orchestra | |
| Lila Lalauni | 1918 | 1996 | Greek | ||
| Leonard B. Meyer | 1918 | 2007 | American | ||
| Anthony A. Mitchell | 1918 | 2009 | American | ||
| Arie Van de Moortel | 1918 | 1976 | Belgian | ||
| A. J. Potter | 1918 | 1970 | Irish | ||
| Godfrey Ridout | 1918 | 1984 | Canadian | ||
| George Rochberg | 1918 | 2005 | American | serialism, later Neoromanticism | |
| Denise Tolkowsky | 1918 | 1991 | English | ||
| Jórunn Viðar | 1918 | 2017 | Icelandic | ||
| Bernd Alois Zimmermann | 1918 | 1970 | German | Die Soldaten; Musique pour les soupers du Roi Ubi; Tratto; Tempus loquendi | serialism, musical quotation, collage, electronic music, jazz-influenced, eclectic, polystylism |
| István Anhalt | 1919 | 2012 | Hungarian-Canadian | ||
| Bülent Arel | 1919 | 1990 | Turkish | electronic music | |
| Jacob Avshalomov | 1919 | 2013 | American | ||
| Sven-Erik Bäck | 1919 | 1994 | Swedish | ||
| Bernard Barrell | 1919 | 2005 | English | ||
| Niels Viggo Bentzon | 1919 | 2000 | Danish | ||
| Karel Berman | 1919 | 1995 | Czech | ||
| Roslyn Brogue | 1919 | 1981 | American | ||
| Ota Čermák | 1919 | 1963 | Czech | ||
| John W. Duarte | 1919 | 2004 | British | ||
| Eleonora Eksanishvili | 1919 | 2003 | Georgian | ||
| Ludmila Frajt | 1919 | 1999 | Serbian | ||
| Udo Kasemets | 1919 | 2014 | Estonian-born Canadian | ||
| Leif Kayser | 1919 | 2001 | Danish | ||
| Talivaldis Kenins | 1919 | 2008 | Latvian-Canadian | ||
| Leon Kirchner | 1919 | 2009 | American | ||
| Gideon Klein | 1919 | 1945 | Czech | ||
| Li Huanzhi | 1919 | 2000 | Chinese | ||
| Václav Nelhýbel | 1919 | 1996 | Czech-American | ||
| Juan Orrego-Salas | 1919 | 2019 | Chilean | ||
| Jiří Pauer | 1919 | 2007 | Czech | ||
| Qu Xixian | 1919 | 2008 | Chinese | ||
| Rezső Sugár | 1919 | 1988 | Hungarian | ||
| Helen Tobias-Duesberg | 1919 | 2010 | Estonian-American | ||
| Akihiro Tsukatani | 1919 | 1995 | Japanese | ||
| Galina Ustvolskaya | 1919 | 2006 | Russian | ||
| Harold Van Heuvelen | 1919 | 2017 | American | ||
| Roman Vlad | 1919 | 2013 | Italian | eclectic | |
| Mieczysław Weinberg | 1919 | 1996 | Polish | The Passenger and other operas, Violin Concerto | |
| John Worley | 1919 | 1999 | American | ||
| Alexander Arutiunian | 1920 | 2012 | Armenian | Trumpet Concerto in A-flat major | avant-garde |
| Walter Arlen | 1920 | 2023 | Austrian-American | songs | |
| Bebe Barron | 1920 | 1989 | American | electronic music | |
| José Antonio Bottiroli | 1920 | 1990 | Argentine | ||
| Dave Brubeck | 1920 | 2012 | American | ||
| Geoffrey Bush | 1920 | 1998 | English | ||
| Henri Crolla | 1920 | 1960 | Italian | ||
| Rolande Falcinelli | 1920 | 1996 | French | ||
| Dorothea Anne Franchi | 1920 | 2003 | New Zealander | ||
| Peter Racine Fricker | 1920 | 1990 | English | ||
| Jacob Gilboa | 1920 | 2007 | Israeli | ||
| Karen Khachaturian | 1920 | 2011 | Soviet and Russian | ||
| Earl Kim | 1920 | 1998 | American | ||
| John La Montaine | 1920 | 2013 | American | ||
| Kurt Leimer | 1920 | 1974 | German | ||
| John Lessard | 1920 | 2003 | American | ||
| Aleksandr Lokshin | 1920 | 1987 | Russian | ||
| Bruno Maderna | 1920 | 1973 | Italian | Satyricon | avant-garde, electronic music |
| Robert Moevs | 1920 | 2007 | American | ||
| Jean Perrin | 1920 | 1989 | Swiss | ||
| Marco Rizo | 1920 | 1998 | Cuban | ||
| István Sárközy | 1920 | 2002 | Hungarian | Júlia énekek, Sinfonia concertante | |
| Armin Schibler | 1920 | 1986 | Swiss | ||
| Harold Shapero | 1920 | 2013 | American | Symphony for Classical Orchestra | |
| Heikki Suolahti | 1920 | 1936 | Finnish | Sinfonia piccola | Romanticism |
| Robert Turner | 1920 | 2012 | Canadian | ||
| John Vallier | 1920 | 1991 | English | ||
| Zbyněk Vostřák | 1920 | 1985 | Czech | ||
| Douglas Allanbrook | 1921 | 2003 | American | ||
| Chaya Arbel | 1921 | 2007 | Israeli | ||
| Malcolm Arnold | 1921 | 2006 | English | Symphony No. 5 and No. 7; English Dances | |
| Arno Babajanian | 1921 | 1983 | Armenian | ||
| Seymour Barab | 1921 | 2014 | American | ||
| Jack Beeson | 1921 | 2010 | American | Lizzie Borden | |
| William Bergsma | 1921 | 1994 | American | Violin Concerto, March with Trumpets | |
| Dennis Berry | 1921 | 1994 | English | ||
| Marcel Bitsch | 1921 | 2011 | French | ||
| Laci Boldemann | 1921 | 1969 | Swedish | ||
| Jarmil Burghauser | 1921 | 1997 | Czech | ||
| Adrienne Clostre | 1921 | 2006 | French | ||
| Jeanne Demessieux | 1921 | 1968 | French | ||
| Andrzej Dobrowolski | 1921 | 1990 | Polish | ||
| Johannes Driessler | 1921 | 1998 | German | ||
| Halim El-Dabh | 1921 | 2017 | Egyptian-born American | electronic music | |
| Hans Ulrich Engelmann | 1921 | 2011 | German | ||
| Oscar Feltsman | 1921 | 2013 | Russian | ||
| Fritz Geißler | 1921 | 1984 | German | ||
| Ruth Gipps | 1921 | 1999 | British | ||
| Nazife Güran | 1921 | 1993 | Turkish | ||
| Antony Hopkins | 1921 | 2014 | British | ||
| Karel Husa | 1921 | 2016 | Czech-American | Music for Prague 1968; Music for Band, Orchestra, Chamber Ensembles | |
| Andrew Imbrie | 1921 | 2007 | American | neoclassicism | |
| Yoshirō Irino | 1921 | 1980 | Japanese | ||
| Kan Ishii | 1921 | 2009 | Japanese | ||
| Božidar Kantušer | 1921 | 1999 | American/Slovenian | ||
| Joonas Kokkonen | 1921 | 1996 | Finnish | ||
| Mustafa Krantja | 1921 | 2002 | Albanian | ||
| Robert Kurka | 1921 | 1957 | American | ||
| Ingvar Lidholm | 1921 | 2017 | Swedish | ||
| Edward Salim Michael | 1921 | 2006 | French | ||
| Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia | 1921 | 2019 | Ghanaian | ||
| Will Ogdon | 1921 | 2013 | American | ||
| Astor Piazzolla | 1921 | 1992 | Argentine | tangos | |
| Ariel Ramírez | 1921 | 2010 | Argentine | Misa Criolla (1964) | |
| Primož Ramovš | 1921 | 1999 | Slovenian | ||
| Alfred Reed | 1921 | 2005 | American | ||
| Ralph Shapey | 1921 | 2002 | American | ||
| Robert Simpson | 1921 | 1997 | English | ||
| Leo Smit | 1921 | 1999 | American | ||
| Vladimír Sommer | 1921 | 1997 | Czech | ||
| Jan Tausinger | 1921 | 1980 | Czech | ||
| İlhan Usmanbaş | 1921 | 2025 | Turkish | ||
| Peter Wishart | 1921 | 1984 | English | ||
| Rosalina Abejo | 1922 | 1991 | Filipino | ||
| Fikret Amirov | 1922 | 1984 | Azerbaijani | ||
| Peter Tranchell | 1922 | 1993 | English | ||
| Raffaello de Banfield | 1922 | 2008 | English | ||
| Sadao Bekku | 1922 | 2012 | Japanese | ||
| Antonio Bibalo | 1922 | 2008 | Italian-Norwegian | opera | |
| John Boda | 1922 | 2002 | American | ||
| Gérard Calvi | 1922 | 2015 | French | ||
| Doreen Carwithen | 1922 | 2003 | British | ||
| Alessandro Casagrande | 1922 | 1964 | Italian | ||
| Chen Peixun | 1922 | 2007 | Chinese | ||
| Đỗ Nhuận | 1922 | 1991 | Vietnamese | ||
| Tom Eastwood | 1922 | 1999 | English | ||
| Lukas Foss | 1922 | 2009 | German-born American | Baroque Variations, Griffelkin | |
| Wim Franken | 1922 | 2012 | Dutch | ||
| German Galynin | 1922 | 1966 | Russian | Sonata Triad for piano, First Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Second Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Spanish Fantasy for piano | |
| Odette Gartenlaub | 1922 | 2014 | French | ||
| Stefans Grové | 1922 | 2014 | South African | ||
| Iain Hamilton | 1922 | 2000 | Scottish | chamber & orchestral works; operas & vocal works | |
| Michael Howard | 1922 | 2002 | English | ||
| Ilja Hurník | 1922 | 2013 | Czech | sonata da camera for flute, oboe, cello and harpsichord | |
| David N. Johnson | 1922 | 1987 | American | ||
| Kelsey Jones | 1922 | 2004 | Canadian | ||
| Leo Kraft | 1922 | 2014 | American | ||
| Otmar Mácha | 1922 | 2006 | Czech | ||
| Ester Mägi | 1922 | 2021 | Estonian | ||
| Tale Ognenovski | 1922 | 2012 | Macedonian | ||
| Pierre Petit | 1922 | 2000 | French | ||
| Allen Sapp | 1922 | 1999 | American | ||
| Kazimierz Serocki | 1922 | 1981 | Polish | ||
| Attia Sharara | 1922 | 2014 | Egyptian | ||
| Francis Thorne | 1922 | 2017 | American | ||
| Leif Thybo | 1922 | 2001 | Danish | ||
| Camillo Togni | 1922 | 1993 | Italian | Helian di Trakl, Rondeaux per dieci, Blaubart (opera) | |
| George Walker | 1922 | 2018 | American | ||
| Felix Werder | 1922 | 2012 | German-born Australian | electronic music | |
| Raymond Wilding-White | 1922 | 2001 | English | ||
| James Wilson | 1922 | 2005 | Irish | ||
| Iannis Xenakis | 1922 | 2001 | Greek | Metastaseis | avant-garde, stochastic music |
| Zhu Jian'er | 1922 | 2017 | Chinese | ||
| Doris Akers | 1923 | 1995 | American | ||
| Warren Barker | 1923 | 2006 | American | ||
| Leslie Bassett | 1923 | 2016 | American | ||
| Jocelyne Binet | 1923 | 1968 | Canadian | ||
| Jan Boerman | 1923 | 2020 | Dutch | ||
| Teresa Borràs i Fornell | 1923 | 2010 | Spanish | ||
| James Clifford Brown | 1923 | 2004 | English | ||
| Arthur Butterworth | 1923 | 2014 | English | influenced by Sibelius | |
| Jean Catoire | 1923 | 2005 | French | ||
| Chou Wen-chung | 1923 | 2019 | Chinese/American | Landscapes | |
| Radim Drejsl | 1923 | 1953 | Czech | ||
| Madeleine Dring | 1923 | 1977 | English | ||
| Asankhan Dzhumakhmatov | 1923 | 2008 | Kyrgyzstani | ||
| Karel Goeyvaerts | 1923 | 1993 | Belgian | Sonata for Two Pianos, Nr. 2 for thirteen instruments, Nr. 5 met zuivere tonen, Aquarius (opera) | neoclassicism, serialism, minimalism, postminimalism, mysticism, electronic music |
| Simeon ten Holt | 1923 | 2012 | Dutch | Canto Ostinato | minimalism |
| Jiří Hudec | 1923 | 1996 | Czech | ||
| Jean Eichelberger Ivey | 1923 | 2010 | American | ||
| Rune Lindblad | 1923 | 1991 | Swedish | ||
| György Ligeti | 1923 | 2006 | Hungarian | Atmosphères, Musica ricercata, Lux Aeterna | avant-garde, micropolyphony, polystylism |
| Ursula Mamlok | 1923 | 2016 | German-born, American | ||
| Peter Mennin | 1923 | 1983 | American | ||
| Vasilije Mokranjac | 1923 | 1984 | Serbian | ||
| Rexho Mulliqi | 1923 | 1982 | Albanian | ||
| Daniel Pinkham | 1923 | 2006 | American | ||
| Mel Powell | 1923 | 1998 | American | ||
| Stefan Remenkov | 1923 | 1988 | Bulgarian | ||
| Elena Romero | 1923 | 1996 | Spanish | ||
| Ned Rorem | 1923 | 2022 | American | Our Town, 3 symphonies | |
| Triphon Silyanovski | 1923 | 2005 | Bulgarian | ||
| Donald Swann | 1923 | 1994 | English | ||
| Lester Trimble | 1923 | 1986 | American | ||
| Ludmila Ulehla | 1923 | 2009 | American | ||
| Gerhard Wimberger | 1923 | 2016 | Austrian | ||
| Friedrich Zehm | 1923 | 2007 | German | ||
| Claude Abravanel | 1924 | 2012 | Swiss | ||
| Leni Alexander | 1924 | 2005 | German-Chilean | ||
| Axel Borup-Jørgensen | 1924 | 2012 | Danish | ||
| Altamiro Carrilho | 1924 | 2012 | Brazilian | ||
| Pierre Cochereau | 1924 | 1984 | French | ||
| Jeanne Colin-De Clerck | 1924 | Belgian | |||
| Ikuma Dan | 1924 | 2001 | Japanese | Symphony No. 4 (1965), Sonata for flute and piano (1986) | atonality |
| Stephen Dodgson | 1924 | 2013 | British | ||
| Heimo Erbse | 1924 | 2005 | German | ||
| Arthur Frackenpohl | 1924 | 2019 | American | ||
| Lejaren Hiller | 1924 | 1994 | American | HPSCHD (collaboration with John Cage) | computer music, stochastic music |
| Stanley Hollingsworth | 1924 | 2003 | American | ||
| Egil Hovland | 1924 | 2013 | Norwegian | church music | |
| Klaus Huber | 1924 | 2017 | Swiss | ||
| Maurice Jarre | 1924 | 2009 | French | ||
| Lockrem Johnson | 1924 | 1977 | American | ||
| Milko Kelemen | 1924 | 2018 | Croatian | ||
| Ezra Laderman | 1924 | 2015 | American | ||
| Yehoshua Lakner | 1924 | 2003 | Israeli | ||
| Benjamin Lees | 1924 | 2010 | American | Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra | |
| Riichiro Manabe | 1924 | 2015 | Japanese | ||
| Franco Mannino | 1924 | 2005 | Italian | ||
| Angela Morley | 1924 | 2009 | English | ||
| Krystyna Moszumańska-Nazar | 1924 | 2009 | Polish | ||
| Serge Nigg | 1924 | 2008 | French | ||
| Luigi Nono | 1924 | 1990 | Italian | Il canto sospeso, Intolleranza 1960, Prometeo | avant-garde |
| Gladys Nordenstrom | 1924 | 2016 | American | ||
| Mikhaïl Nossyrev | 1924 | 1981 | Russian | Modernist | |
| Julia Perry | 1924 | 1979 | American | ||
| Joly Braga Santos | 1924 | 1988 | Portuguese | ||
| Ruth Schönthal | 1924 | 2006 | German | ||
| Jitka Snížková | 1924 | 1989 | Czech | ||
| Robert Starer | 1924 | 2001 | Austrian-born American | ||
| Otar Taktakishvili | 1924 | 1989 | Georgian | ||
| Ernest Tomlinson | 1924 | 2015 | English | ||
| Georgi Tutev | 1924 | 1994 | Bulgarian | ||
| Yasushi Akutagawa | 1925 | 1989 | Japanese | Rapsodia per orchestra (1971) | atonality |
| Jurriaan Andriessen | 1925 | 1996 | Dutch | ||
| Louis Barron | 1925 | 2008 | American | electronic music | |
| Veniamin Basner | 1925 | 1996 | Russian | ||
| Robert Beadell | 1925 | 1994 | American | The Number of Fools (opera) | jazz-influenced |
| Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt | 1925 | 2010 | Chilean | ||
| Cathy Berberian | 1925 | 1983 | Armenian-American | Stripsody | avant-garde |
| Luciano Berio | 1925 | 2003 | Italian | Sequenza; Sinfonia | avant-garde, polystylism |
| Edith Borroff | 1925 | 2019 | American | ||
| André Boucourechliev | 1925 | 1997 | French | ||
| Pierre Boulez | 1925 | 2016 | French | Le marteau sans maître; …explosante-fixe…; Répons | avant-garde, serialism, aleatory, polystylism |
| Tristram Cary | 1925 | 2008 | English-Australian | ||
| Charles Chaynes | 1925 | 2016 | French | ||
| Aldo Clementi | 1925 | 2011 | Italian | ||
| Andrei Eshpai | 1925 | 2015 | Russian | ||
| Cromwell Everson | 1925 | 1991 | South African | ||
| Jindřich Feld | 1925 | 2007 | Czech | ||
| Eloy Fominaya | 1925 | 2002 | American | ||
| Fernando González Casellas | 1925 | 1998 | Argentine | ||
| Aurelio de la Vega | 1925 | 2022 | Cuban | ||
| Ron Goodwin | 1925 | 2003 | British | New Zealand Suite | best known as a composer of film scores |
| Clytus Gottwald | 1925 | 2023 | German | ||
| Manos Hatzidakis | 1925 | 1994 | Greek | ||
| Svatopluk Havelka | 1925 | 2009 | Czech | ||
| Bertold Hummel | 1925 | 2002 | German | ||
| Ginette Keller | 1925 | 2010 | French | ||
| Giselher Klebe | 1925 | 2009 | German | ||
| Gerard Kockelmans | 1925 | 1965 | Dutch | ||
| Włodzimierz Kotoński | 1925 | 2014 | Polish | Concerto per quattro, for piano, harpsichord, guitar, harp, and orchestra | |
| Frank Lewin | 1925 | 2008 | American | ||
| Teo Macero | 1925 | 2008 | American | One and Three Quarters | microtonal, jazz-influenced |
| Kiril Makedonski | 1925 | 1984 | Macedonian | five symphonies, two ballets, two symphonic poems, choral music and songs | |
| Ivo Malec | 1925 | 2019 | French | Cantate pour elle; Dodecameron; Lumina | |
| Kirke Mechem | 1925 | American | four operas (Tartuffe), two symphonies, choral music | ||
| Miroslav Miletić | 1925 | 2018 | Croatian | ||
| Nguyễn Văn Quỳ | 1925 | 2022 | Vietnamese | ||
| Julián Orbón | 1925 | 1991 | Spanish/Cuban | Three Symphonic Versions | |
| Michel Philippot | 1925 | 1996 | French | ||
| Hans-Hubert Schönzeler | 1925 | 1997 | German-born Australian | ||
| Gunther Schuller | 1925 | 2015 | American | jazz-influence; Third Stream | |
| Vladimir Shainsky | 1925 | 2017 | Russian | ||
| Hale Smith | 1925 | 2009 | American | ||
| Claudio Spies | 1925 | 2020 | Chilean-American | ||
| Ernie Stires | 1925 | 2008 | American | ||
| Boris Tchaikovsky | 1925 | 1996 | Russian | ||
| Mikis Theodorakis | 1925 | 2021 | Greek | Symphony No. 1-4,7, Sinfonietta Concerto for piano No.1,2, Creatan Concertino; Kata Saddukaion Pathi (Sadducean-Passion) | also composer of popular songs and film scores including Zorba the Greek; Serpico |
| Sulkhan Tsintsadze | 1925 | 1991 | Georgian | ||
| Vladimir Vavilov | 1925 | 1973 | Russian | ||
| Paul W. Whear | 1925 | 2021 | American | Catharsis Suite for orchestra; Lancaster Overture for orchestra; Catskill Legend for band | |
| Sergei Agababov | 1926 | 1959 | Russian | ||
| Herbert H. Ágústsson | 1926 | 2017 | Icelandic | ||
| Garbis Aprikian | 1926 | 2024 | Armenian | ||
| Rodolfo Arízaga | 1926 | 1985 | Argentine | ||
| John Bevan Baker | 1926 | 1994 | British | Suite for Piano; The Seer (opera) | |
| Edward Bland | 1926 | 2013 | American | ||
| Brian Bonsor | 1926 | 2011 | Scottish | ||
| Modesta Bor | 1926 | 1998 | Venezuelan | ||
| Brian Brockless | 1926 | 1995 | English | ||
| Earle Brown | 1926 | 2002 | American | December 1952; Available Forms I & II | open form; graphic notation |
| Louis Calabro | 1926 | 1991 | American | ||
| Edwin Carr | 1926 | 2003 | New Zealander | ||
| Jacques Castérède | 1926 | 2014 | French | ||
| Friedrich Cerha | 1926 | 2023 | Austrian | Spiegel | |
| Janine Charbonnier | 1926 | 2022 | French | ||
| Barney Childs | 1926 | 2000 | American | extended technique, improvisation, indeterminacy | |
| Eregzengiin Choidog | 1926 | 1988 | Mongolian | ||
| Jani Christou | 1926 | 1970 | Greek | Mysterion, Praxis for 12 | atonality, meta-serialism, improvisation |
| Francis Dhomont | 1926 | 2023 | French | ||
| Manuel Enríquez | 1926 | 1994 | Mexican | ||
| Franco Evangelisti | 1926 | 1980 | Italian | Incontri di fasce sonore | electronic music |
| Morton Feldman | 1926 | 1987 | American | Rothko Chapel, String Quartet No. 2 | |
| Carlisle Floyd | 1926 | 2021 | American | Susannah; Wuthering Heights; Of Mice and Men | |
| Kenneth Gaburo | 1926 | 1993 | American | The Flow of (u) | |
| Johann Melchior Gletle | 1926 | 1983 | Swiss | Vespers in Vienna | |
| Čestmír Gregor | 1926 | 2011 | Czech | ||
| Eric Gross | 1926 | 2011 | Austrian-Australian | ||
| Hans Werner Henze | 1926 | 2012 | German | Ondine | polystylism |
| Lee Hoiby | 1926 | 2011 | American | ||
| Zhun Huang | 1926 | 2024 | Chinese | ||
| Ben Johnston | 1926 | 2019 | American | Sonata for Microtonal Piano; String Quartet No. 4 (Variations on "Amazing Grace") | microtonal music |
| Betsy Jolas | 1926 | French | |||
| Werner Kaegi | 1926 | 2024 | Swiss | electronic music | |
| Melinda Kistétényi | 1926 | 1999 | Hungarian | ||
| Gottfried Michael Koenig | 1926 | 2021 | German-Dutch | Project 1 | computer music, electronic music |
| Karl Kohn | 1926 | 2024 | American | ||
| Oldřich František Korte | 1926 | 2014 | Czech | Concerto Grosso | neo-classicism, expressionist, neo-romantic |
| Meyer Kupferman | 1926 | 2003 | American | ||
| György Kurtág | 1926 | Hungarian | Játékok | ||
| Doming Lam | 1926 | 2023 | Chinese | ||
| John Lambert | 1926 | 1995 | British | ||
| Celso Garrido Lecca | 1926 | Peruvian | |||
| Ton de Leeuw | 1926 | 1996 | Dutch | ||
| George Martin | 1926 | 2016 | English | ||
| Maria de Lourdes Martins | 1926 | 2009 | Portuguese | ||
| Janez Matičič | 1926 | 2022 | Slovenian | ||
| Hans Otte | 1926 | 2007 | German | ||
| Carmen Petra-Basacopol | 1926 | 2023 | Romanian | ||
| Claire Polin | 1926 | 1995 | American | ||
| Marga Richter | 1926 | 2020 | American | Concerto for Piano and Violas, Cellos and Basses | |
| William Schmidt | 1926 | 2009 | American | ||
| William O. Smith | 1926 | 2020 | American | Concerto for Jazz Soloist and Orchestra | jazz-influenced; serialism; avant-garde |
| Kurt-Heinz Stolze | 1926 | 1970 | German | ||
| Natela Svanidze | 1926 | 2017 | Georgian | ||
| Cornel Trăilescu | 1926 | 2019 | Romanian | ||
| David Tudor | 1926 | 1996 | American | ||
| Anatol Vieru | 1926 | 1998 | Romanian | Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra; seven symphonies; eight string quartets | modality |
| Robert Wykes | 1926 | 2021 | American | ||
| Rolv Yttrehus | 1926 | 2018 | American | ||
| Aleksandr Zatsepin | 1926 | Russian | |||
| Marilyn J. Ziffrin | 1926 | 2018 | American | ||
| André Almuró | 1927 | 2009 | French | ||
| W. D. Amaradeva | 1927 | 2016 | Sri Lankan | ||
| Paul Angerer | 1927 | 2017 | Austrian | ||
| John Beckwith | 1927 | 2022 | Canadian | ||
| Pascal Bentoiu | 1927 | 2016 | Romanian | ||
| Josef Berg | 1927 | 1971 | Czech | ||
| Joseph Castaldo | 1927 | 2000 | American | ||
| Asger Lund Christiansen | 1927 | 1998 | Danish | neoclassicism | |
| Dolores Claman | 1927 | 2021 | Canadian | ||
| John Diercks | 1927 | 2020 | American | ||
| Emma Lou Diemer | 1927 | 2024 | American | ||
| Franco Donatoni | 1927 | 2000 | Italian | ||
| John W. Downey | 1927 | 2004 | American | ||
| Donald Erb | 1927 | 2008 | American | Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra; Concerto for Violin and Orchestra | jazz-influenced, aleatory, electronic music, eclectic |
| Pierre Henry | 1927 | 2017 | French | Symphonie pour un homme seul | musique concrète |
| Elaine Hugh-Jones | 1927 | 2020 | Welsh | ||
| Wilfred Josephs | 1927 | 1997 | English | ||
| John Joubert | 1927 | 2019 | English | ||
| Wilhelm Killmayer | 1927 | 2017 | German | Sinfonia I–III, Song cycles | |
| Osvaldo Lacerda | 1927 | 2011 | Brazilian | ||
| Vlastimil Lejsek | 1927 | 2010 | Czech | ||
| Bernhard Lewkovitch | 1927 | 2024 | Danish | ||
| Janet Maguire | 1927 | 2019 | American | ||
| Richard Maxfield | 1927 | 1969 | American | ||
| Ștefan Niculescu | 1927 | 2010 | Romanian | Ison II | |
| Bernard Parmegiani | 1927 | 2013 | French | electronic or acousmatic music | |
| Wayne Peterson | 1927 | 2021 | American | The Face of the Night, the Heart of the Dark | electro-acoustic, and electronic music |
| Witold Szalonek | 1927 | 2001 | Polish | ||
| William Ennis Thomson | 1927 | 2019 | American | ||
| George Balch Wilson | 1927 | 2021 | American | ||
| Thomas Wilson | 1927 | 2001 | Scottish | ||
| Çesk Zadeja | 1927 | 1997 | Albanian | ||
| Margrit Zimmermann | 1927 | 2020 | Swiss | ||
| Samuel Adler | 1928 | American (German-born) | |||
| Luna Alcalay | 1928 | 2012 | Austrian | ||
| Ruth Anderson | 1928 | 2019 | American | ||
| Tadeusz Baird | 1928 | 1981 | Polish | ||
| Jean Barraqué | 1928 | 1973 | French | Piano Sonata, Chant après chant | serialism |
| Lubor Bárta | 1928 | 1972 | Czech | Piano Trio in C Major, Concertino for trombone and piano | |
| Frank Bencriscutto | 1928 | 1997 | American | Concerto Grosso for saxophone quartet and band | concert band music |
| Euel Box | 1928 | 2017 | American | ||
| Vitaly Bujanovsky | 1928 | 1993 | Russian | ||
| Jean-Michel Damase | 1928 | 2013 | French | ||
| George Dreyfus | 1928 | French | |||
| Jacob Druckman | 1928 | 1996 | American | Windows | |
| Du Mingxin | 1928 | Chinese | |||
| Judith Dvorkin | 1928 | 1995 | American | ||
| David Farquhar | 1928 | 2007 | New Zealander | A Unicorn for Christmas, Ring Round the Moon | neoclassicism |
| Nicolas Flagello | 1928 | 1994 | American | Neoclassicism | |
| Valentin Gheorghiu | 1928 | 2023 | Romanian | ||
| Otar Gordeli | 1928 | 1994 | Georgia | ||
| Beverly Grigsby | 1928 | 2022 | American | ||
| Guo Zurong | 1928 | Chinese | |||
| Bengt Hambraeus | 1928 | 2000 | Swedish | ||
| Robert Helps | 1928 | 2001 | American | ||
| Frigyes Hidas | 1928 | 2007 | Hungarian | ||
| Miloslav Ištvan | 1928 | 1990 | Czech | ||
| Karl Korte | 1928 | 2022 | American | ||
| Bidzina Kvernadze | 1928 | 2010 | Georgian | ||
| Kamilló Lendvay | 1928 | 2016 | Hungarian | ||
| Henk van Lijnschooten | 1928 | 2006 | Dutch | ||
| Zdeněk Lukáš | 1928 | 2007 | Czech | ||
| Ennio Morricone | 1928 | 2020 | Italian | also a composer of film music: Once Upon a Time in America; The Mission; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; A Fistful of Dollars; Once Upon a Time in the West | |
| Diether de la Motte | 1928 | 2010 | German | operas, orchestra, chamber | |
| Thea Musgrave | 1928 | Scottish | |||
| Jorge Peña Hen | 1928 | 1973 | Chilean | ||
| Thomas Rajna | 1928 | 2021 | Hungarian | ||
| Einojuhani Rautavaara | 1928 | 2016 | Finnish | Cantus Arcticus; Symphony No. 7 "Angel of Light"; Piano Concerto No. 3 "The Gift of Dreams" | |
| Ronald Stevenson | 1928 | 2015 | British | ||
| Karlheinz Stockhausen | 1928 | 2007 | German | Kontra-Punkte; Gesang der Jünglinge; Klavierstücke; Gruppen; Kontakte; Hymnen; Stimmung; Mantra; Tierkreis; Inori, first six operas of the Licht cycle | avant-garde, electronic music, serialism, aleatory, intuitive music, formula composition, polystylism |
| Jay Sydeman | 1928 | 2021 | American | ||
| Peter Tahourdin | 1928 | 2009 | English-born Australian | ||
| Tommy Tycho | 1928 | 2013 | Hungarian-Australian | ||
| Raymond Warren | 1928 | British | |||
| Nikolla Zoraqi | 1928 | 1991 | Albanian | ||
| Harry Bannink | 1929 | 1999 | Dutch | ||
| Erling Bjerno | 1929 | 2019 | Danish | ||
| Augustyn Bloch | 1929 | 2006 | Polish | ||
| Antonio Braga | 1929 | 2009 | Italian | ||
| Reiner Bredemeyer | 1929 | 1995 | German | ||
| Theo Bruins | 1929 | 1993 | Dutch | ||
| Nini Bulterijs | 1929 | 1989 | Belgian | ||
| Geghuni Hovannesi Chitchian | 1929 | Armenian | |||
| Dinos Constantinides | 1929 | 2021 | Greek-American | Antigone (opera), Cello Concerto "Shenzhen" | |
| George Crumb | 1929 | 2022 | American | Ancient Voices of Children, Black Angels | extended technique, numerology |
| Samar Das | 1929 | 2001 | Bangladeshi | ||
| Edison Denisov | 1929 | 1996 | Russian | L'écume des jours (opera), Requiem, 2 Symphonies, Violin Concerto, Flute Concerto | avant-garde, serialism, extended technique, polystylism, electronic music |
| Frédéric Devreese | 1929 | 2020 | Belgian | ||
| Petr Eben | 1929 | 2007 | Czech | ||
| Hormoz Farhat | 1929 | 2021 | Iranian | ||
| Luc Ferrari | 1929 | 2005 | French | Presque rien No. 1: "Le Lever du jour au bord de la mer" | electronic music |
| Carlton Gamer | 1929 | 2023 | American | ||
| Jerry Goldsmith | 1929 | 2004 | American | also composer of film scores, Music for Orchestra; Fireworks | |
| Alun Hoddinott | 1929 | 2008 | Welsh | ||
| Pedro Iturralde | 1929 | 2020 | Spanish | ||
| Leonard Kastle | 1929 | 2011 | American | ||
| Waldemar Kazanecki | 1929 | 1991 | Polish | ||
| Charles Knox | 1929 | 2019 | American | neo-classical, musical palindromes | |
| Ctirad Kohoutek | 1929 | 2011 | Czech | ||
| Boris Kravchenko | 1929 | 1979 | Russian | ||
| Kenneth Leighton | 1929 | 1988 | English | ||
| Miłosz Magin | 1929 | 1999 | Polish | ||
| André Mathieu | 1929 | 1968 | Canadian | ||
| Teizo Matsumura | 1929 | 2007 | Japanese | atonality | |
| Toshiro Mayuzumi | 1929 | 1997 | Japanese | ||
| Robert Muczynski | 1929 | 2010 | American | ||
| Ron Nelson | 1929 | 2023 | American | Rocky Point Holiday | |
| Aleksandra Pakhmutova | 1929 | Russian | |||
| Henri Pousseur | 1929 | 2009 | Belgian | Scambi; Votre Faust; Trois visages à Liège; Couleurs croisées | serialism, aleatory, eclectic, polystylism, electronic music, world music, popular music influence, |
| André Previn | 1929 | 2019 | German/American | A Streetcar Named Desire | |
| Josef Anton Riedl | 1929 | 2016 | German | ||
| Bogusław Schaeffer | 1929 | 2019 | Polish | ||
| Peter Sculthorpe | 1929 | 2014 | Australian | Requiem; Kakadu; Earth Cry; Rites of Passage | |
| Hans Stadlmair | 1929 | 2019 | Austrian | Trumpet Concerto with strings; Saxofonia; Miró | |
| Siegfried Strohbach | 1929 | 2019 | German | 5 Galgenlieder; Ein Stern aus Jacob | |
| James Helme Sutcliffe | 1929 | 2000 | American | ||
| Avet Terterian | 1929 | 1994 | Armenian | ||
| Lloyd Ultan | 1929 | 1998 | American | ||
| James Yannatos | 1929 | 2011 | American | ||
| Akio Yashiro | 1929 | 1976 | Japanese | piano concerto | atonality |
| Gerd Zacher | 1929 | 2014 | German | ||
| Muhal Richard Abrams | 1930 | 2017 | American | ||
| Yardena Alotin | 1930 | 1994 | Israeli | ||
| David Amram | 1930 | American | |||
| Robert Ashley | 1930 | 2014 | American | In Memoriam... Kit Carson (opera) | electronic music, extended techniques |
| Larry Austin | 1930 | 2018 | American | Improvisations for Orchestra and Jazz Soloists | electronic music, computer music, jazz-influenced |
| Petar Bergamo | 1930 | 2022 | Croatian | Romanticism, atonality | |
| Claude Bolling | 1930 | 2020 | French | Suite for flute and jazz piano trio | jazz-influenced |
| Jacques Calonne | 1930 | 2022 | Belgian | ||
| John Carmichael | 1930 | Australian | |||
| Robert Cogan | 1930 | 2021 | American | ||
| John Davison | 1930 | 1999 | American | ||
| Pierre-Max Dubois | 1930 | 1995 | French | ||
| Jean Guillou | 1930 | 2019 | French | ||
| Friedrich Gulda | 1930 | 2000 | Austrian | ||
| Cristóbal Halffter | 1930 | 2021 | Spanish | Líneas y puntos; Don Quixote | eclectic, electronic music |
| Christopher Headington | 1930 | 1996 | British | ||
| Ryōhei Hirose | 1930 | 2008 | Japanese | ||
| Nikolai Karetnikov | 1930 | 1994 | Russian | Symphony No. 3, Concert Piece for piano | |
| Antoinette Kirkwood | 1930 | 2014 | English | ||
| Günter Kochan | 1930 | 2009 | German | ||
| Gordon Langford | 1930 | 2017 | English | Facets of Glass; Rhapsody for Trombone | brass band music |
| Theo Loevendie | 1930 | Dutch | |||
| Lu Yen | 1930 | 2008 | Chinese-born Taiwanese | ||
| Gudrun Lund | 1930 | 2020 | Danish | ||
| Usko Meriläinen | 1930 | 2004 | Finnish | ||
| William P. Perry | 1930 | American | |||
| Betty Roe | 1930 | English | |||
| Dieter Schnebel | 1930 | 2018 | German | Mahler-Moment; Maulwerke; Baumzucht | |
| Pieter van der Staak | 1930 | 2007 | Dutch | ||
| Tōru Takemitsu | 1930 | 1996 | Japanese | A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden; Toward the Sea | neo-impressionism |
| Eino Tamberg | 1930 | 2010 | Estonian | ||
| Veljo Tormis | 1930 | 2017 | Estonian | ||
| Nancy Van de Vate | 1930 | 2023 | American | ||
| Joan Franks Williams | 1930 | 2003 | American | ||
| Robert William Witt | 1930 | 1967 | American | neoclassical | |
| Heinz Werner Zimmermann | 1930 | 2022 | German | ||
| Louis W. Ballard | 1931 | 2007 | American | ||
| Vytautas Barkauskas | 1931 | 2020 | Lithuanian | ||
| Martin Boykan | 1931 | 2021 | American | Echoes of Petrarch; Piano Trio No. 2; String Quartet No. 3 | serialism |
| Sylvano Bussotti | 1931 | 2021 | Italian | ||
| Charles Camilleri | 1931 | 2009 | Maltese | ||
| Nancy Laird Chance | 1931 | American | |||
| F. R. C. Clarke | 1931 | 2009 | Canadian | ||
| Lucia Dlugoszewski | 1931 | 2000 | American | ||
| Felicia Donceanu | 1931 | 2022 | Romanian | ||
| Frederick A. Fox | 1931 | 2011 | American | ||
| Robert Gauldin | 1931 | American | |||
| Lucien Goethals | 1931 | 2006 | Belgian | serialism, electronic music | |
| Sofia Gubaidulina | 1931 | Russian | Offertorium; Music for Flute, Strings, and Percussion | ||
| Donald Harris | 1931 | 2016 | American | ||
| Hikaru Hayashi | 1931 | 2012 | Japanese | Viola Concerto "Elegia" | |
| Derek Holman | 1931 | 2019 | English | ||
| Josef Maria Horváth | 1931 | 2019 | Hungarian | ||
| Mauricio Kagel | 1931 | 2008 | Argentine / German | Staatstheater; Kantrimiusik; Ludwig van | polystylism |
| Rudolf Kelterborn | 1931 | 2021 | Swiss | ||
| Krzysztof Komeda | 1931 | 1969 | Polish | ||
| Rudolf Komorous | 1931 | Canadian | |||
| Yüksel Koptagel | 1931 | Turkish | |||
| André Laporte | 1931 | Belgian | Das Schloss | eclectic | |
| David Lumsdaine | 1931 | 2024 | Australian | ||
| Maria Dolores Malumbres | 1931 | 2019 | Spanish | ||
| Myriam Marbe | 1931 | 1997 | Romanian | ||
| Donald Martino | 1931 | 2005 | American | ||
| Arne Nordheim | 1931 | 2010 | Norwegian | Epitaffio; The Tempest (ballet); Magma | many works include electronics |
| Ib Nørholm | 1931 | 2019 | Danish | ||
| Ivo Petrić | 1931 | 2018 | Slovenian | ||
| Leon Schidlowsky | 1931 | 2022 | Chilean-Israeli | ||
| Makoto Shinohara | 1931 | 2024 | Japanese | Fragmente | electronic music, influence of traditional Japanese music |
| Yuzo Toyama | 1931 | 2023 | Japanese | ||
| Peter Westergaard | 1931 | 2019 | American | ||
| Malcolm Williamson | 1931 | 2003 | Australian | Mass of Christ the King; The Dawn is at Hand; 7 numbered symphonies; cassations | |
| Elaine Barkin | 1932 | 2023 | American | ||
| François Bayle | 1932 | French | |||
| Niccolò Castiglioni | 1932 | 1996 | Italian | ||
| Henning Christiansen | 1932 | 2008 | Danish | fluxus | |
| Jean-Michel Defaye | 1932 | 2025 | French | trombone music | |
| Rudi Martinus van Dijk | 1932 | 2003 | Dutch | ||
| Tod Dockstader | 1932 | 2008 | American | electronic music | |
| James Douglas | 1932 | 2022 | Scottish | ||
| Alexander Goehr | 1932 | 2024 | English | Arden Must Die, Behold the Sun, Arianna | twelve-tone, later modal, eclectic |
| Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen | 1932 | 2016 | Danish | ||
| André Hajdu | 1932 | 2016 | Israeli | ||
| Baligh Hamdi | 1932 | 1993 | Egyptian | ||
| Diana Pereira Hay | 1932 | Danish | |||
| Hans G. Helms | 1932 | 2012 | German | ||
| Marta Jiráčková | 1932 | Czech | |||
| Wojciech Kilar | 1932 | 2013 | Polish | Krzesany | holy minimalism; also composer of film music: Dracula (film music) |
| Marek Kopelent | 1932 | 2023 | Czech | chamber music, oratorios | |
| Bronius Kutavičius | 1932 | 2021 | Lithuanian | ||
| Henri Lazarof | 1932 | 2013 | Bulgarian | ||
| Martin Mailman | 1932 | 2000 | American | ||
| Tera de Marez Oyens | 1932 | 1996 | Dutch | ||
| Richard Meale | 1932 | 2009 | Australian | Voss | avant-garde |
| Per Nørgård | 1932 | Danish | Voyage into the Golden Screen | ||
| Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson | 1932 | 2004 | American | ||
| Malcolm Peyton | 1932 | American | |||
| Gundaris Pone | 1932 | 1994 | Latvian-American | ||
| Max Schubel | 1932 | 2010 | American | ||
| Christfried Schmidt | 1932 | 2025 | German | St. Mark Passion, Oboe Concerto | |
| Kilza Setti | 1932 | Brazilian | |||
| Rodion Shchedrin | 1932 | Russian | Lolita; 2 symphonies; The Carmen Ballet; 6 piano concertos | polystylism | |
| Sergei Slonimsky | 1932 | 2020 | Russian | polystylism | |
| Claude T. Smith | 1932 | 1987 | American | ||
| Gitta Steiner | 1932 | 1990 | American | ||
| Muammer Sun | 1932 | 2021 | Turkish | ||
| Gilles Tremblay | 1932 | 2017 | Canadian | Sonorisation du Pavillon du Québec; Fleuves | electronic music, serialism |
| John Williams | 1932 | American | also composer of film scores, The Five Sacred Trees | ||
| Hugh Wood | 1932 | 2021 | English | Symphony; Cello Concerto; Piano Concerto; Violin Concerto No. 1; Scenes from Comus | symphonic serialism |
| Leonardo Balada | 1933 | Spanish-American | 6 symphonies; 6 operas | Avant-garde, later folk-influenced | |
| Easley Blackwood | 1933 | 2023 | American | polyrhythm, microtone | |
| Seoirse Bodley | 1933 | 2023 | Irish | ||
| Michael Brimer | 1933 | 2023 | Australian | ||
| Colin Brumby | 1933 | 2018 | Australian | ||
| Walter Buczynski | 1933 | Canadian | |||
| Justin Connolly | 1933 | 2020 | British | modernism | |
| Ramiro Cortes | 1933 | 1984 | American | serialism, atonality | |
| Pozzi Escot | 1933 | American | |||
| Antón García Abril | 1933 | 2021 | Spanish | ||
| Henryk Górecki | 1933 | 2010 | Polish | Symphony of Sorrowful Songs | holy minimalism |
| Don Kay | 1933 | Australian | |||
| Ilkka Kuusisto | 1933 | 2025 | Finnish | operas | |
| István Láng | 1933 | 2023 | Hungarian | ||
| Bo Linde | 1933 | 1970 | Swedish | Neoromanticism | |
| Altaf Mahmud | 1933 | 1971 | Bangladeshi | ||
| W. Francis McBeth | 1933 | 2012 | American | ||
| Arne Mellnäs | 1933 | 2002 | Swedish | ||
| Akira Miyoshi | 1933 | 2013 | Japanese | ||
| Harrison Oxley | 1933 | 2009 | British | ||
| Krzysztof Penderecki | 1933 | 2020 | Polish | Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima; St. Luke Passion; Polish Requiem; Symphony No. 2: Christmas | avant-garde, extended technique, later neoromanticism, polystylism |
| Yves Prin | 1933 | French | neo-impressionism | ||
| Eric Salzman | 1933 | 2017 | American | avant-garde, atonal, electronic, new music theater | |
| John Sanders | 1933 | 2003 | English | ||
| George Tibbits | 1933 | 2008 | Australian | ||
| Tôn-Thất Tiết | 1933 | Vietnamese-French | |||
| Roland Trogan | 1933 | 2012 | American | ||
| Bertram Turetzky | 1933 | American | |||
| Xin Huguang | 1933 | 2011 | Chinese | Gada Meilin | |
| Pierre Ancelin | 1934 | 2001 | French | ||
| Alain Bancquart | 1934 | 2022 | French | ||
| İlhan Baran | 1934 | 2016 | Turkish | ||
| Harrison Birtwistle | 1934 | 2022 | English | The Mask of Orpheus (opera), Silbury Air | |
| Rob du Bois | 1934 | 2013 | Dutch | Pastorale VII; Concerto for Two Violins and Orchestra | serialism, improvisation, musical quotation |
| Benjamin Boretz | 1934 | American | |||
| Jeremy Dale Roberts | 1934 | 2017 | English | I heard a Voice; Cello Concerto – Deathwatch; Croquis; Capriccio | |
| Mario Davidovsky | 1934 | 2019 | American | ||
| Peter Maxwell Davies | 1934 | 2016 | English | Taverner, Eight Songs for a Mad King, Symphony No. 1, Symphony No. 3, Symphony No. 6, Strathclyde Concertos, Naxos Quartets | |
| Peter Dickinson | 1934 | 2023 | English | ||
| Anthony Gilbert | 1934 | 2023 | British | ||
| Vinko Globokar | 1934 | French | |||
| Geoffrey Grey | 1934 | British | |||
| Alemdar Karamanov | 1934 | 2007 | Ukrainian | ||
| Jan Klusák | 1934 | Czech | polystylism | ||
| Nicole Lachartre | 1934 | 1991 | French | ||
| William Mathias | 1934 | 1992 | Welsh | Let the people praise Thee, O God | |
| Siegfried Matthus | 1934 | 2021 | German | Judith, Te Deum | |
| Zhanneta Metallidi | 1934 | 2019 | Russian | ||
| Gonzalo de Olavide | 1934 | 2005 | Spanish | ||
| Paul Panhuysen | 1934 | 2015 | Dutch | ||
| Raymond Premru | 1934 | 1998 | American | ||
| Bernard Rands | 1934 | English | |||
| Roger Reynolds | 1934 | American | |||
| Alan Ridout | 1934 | 1996 | British | ||
| Alfred Schnittke | 1934 | 1998 | Russian | 10 symphonies, notably the First Symphony (1969–1972), the Third (1981), Fourth (1984), and Fifth (1988) Symphonies; Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra (1979 | polystylism |
| Ramon Sender | 1934 | Spanish | electronic music | ||
| Avo Sõmer | 1934 | American | |||
| Walter Steffens | 1934 | German | |||
| James Tenney | 1934 | 2006 | American | ||
| Alicia Terzian | 1934 | Armenian-Argentine | |||
| Fisher Tull | 1934 | 1994 | American | ||
| Bernard Vitet | 1934 | 2013 | French | ||
| Richard Wernick | 1934 | American | |||
| Christian Wolff | 1934 | American | Summer, for string quartet; Pebbles, for violin and piano | indeterminacy | |
| Arlene Zallman | 1934 | 2006 | American | ||
| Tomislav Zografski | 1934 | 2000 | Macedonian | Passacalia; Skherzo; Sonata for Two Pianos; In praise of Ciryl and Methodius | |
| Vasif Adigozalov | 1935 | 2006 | Azerbaijani | ||
| Luis Advis | 1935 | 2004 | Chilean | ||
| Theodore Antoniou | 1935 | 2018 | Greek | ||
| Ayo Bankole | 1935 | 1976 | Nigerian | ||
| Jiří Bárta | 1935 | 2012 | Czech | Concerto for Orchestra | |
| Derek Bell | 1935 | 2002 | Irish | ||
| Nigel Butterley | 1935 | 2022 | Australian | ||
| Chen Gang | 1935 | Chinese | Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto (collaboration with He Zhanhao) | ||
| John Eaton | 1935 | 2015 | American | microtonal music | |
| Biancamaria Furgeri | 1935 | Italian | |||
| Helen Gifford | 1935 | Australian | |||
| Kazuko Hara | 1935 | 2014 | Japanese | ||
| Elgar Howarth | 1935 | 2025 | English | ||
| Teiji Ito | 1935 | 1982 | Japanese | ||
| Samuel Jones | 1935 | American | |||
| Sándor Kalloś | 1935 | Russian | |||
| Giya Kancheli | 1935 | 2019 | Georgian | 7 symphonies | holy minimalism |
| Georg Katzer | 1935 | 2019 | German | Baukasten für Orchester; D-Dur Musikmaschine | |
| Helmut Lachenmann | 1935 | German | Schwankungen am Rand; Gran Torso; Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern | extended technique | |
| François-Bernard Mâche | 1935 | French | |||
| Pierre Mariétan | 1935 | 2003 | Swiss | ||
| Diego Masson | 1935 | French | |||
| Nicholas Maw | 1935 | 2009 | English | Odyssey; The World in the Evening | |
| Khayyam Mirzazade | 1935 | 2018 | Azerbaijani | ||
| Akin Euba | 1935 | 2020 | Nigerian | ||
| Jacqueline Nova | 1935 | 1975 | Colombian | ||
| Arvo Pärt | 1935 | Estonian | Tabula Rasa; Fratres; Summa; Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten | holy minimalism, polystylism | |
| Terry Riley | 1935 | American | In C | minimalism | |
| Aulis Sallinen | 1935 | Finnish | The King Goes Forth to France | ||
| Peter Schat | 1935 | 2003 | Dutch | ||
| Kurt Schwertsik | 1935 | Austrian | |||
| Noam Sheriff | 1935 | 2018 | Israeli | ||
| Donald Sur | 1935 | 1999 | American | ||
| Conrad Susa | 1935 | 2013 | American | ||
| Gloria Wilson Swisher | 1935 | American | |||
| André Tchaikowsky | 1935 | 1982 | Polish | ||
| Jiří Teml | 1935 | Czech | |||
| Wang Qiang | 1935 | Chinese | |||
| Manfred Weiss | 1935 | 2023 | German | symphonies, contertos, vocal music | |
| La Monte Young | 1935 | American | The Well-Tuned Piano | minimalism, microtonal music, improvisation, Asian-music influence | |
| Mirjana Živković | 1935 | 2020 | Serbian | ||
| Gilbert Amy | 1936 | French | serialism, electronic music, also composer of film music | ||
| Izabella Arazova | 1936 | Armenian | Concerto for Orchestra | ||
| Richard Rodney Bennett | 1936 | 2012 | English | ||
| David Blake | 1936 | British | |||
| Herbert Blendinger | 1936 | 2020 | German-Austrian | viola concerto, cantata Mdia in vita, string quartets | also a violist |
| Harold Budd | 1936 | 2020 | American | avant-garde, ambient music | |
| Cornelius Cardew | 1936 | 1981 | English | Treatise; The Great Learning | serialism, improvisation, aleatory |
| Monic Cecconi-Botella | 1936 | French | |||
| Michel Decoust | 1936 | French | |||
| Aleksandar Džambazov | 1936 | 2022 | Macedonian | Rhapsody for Skopje, Seven dance variations for piano and orchestra | |
| Iván Erőd | 1936 | 2019 | Hungarian-Austrian | opera Seidenraupen, song cycle Milchzahnlieder, piano trios | |
| Malcolm Forsyth | 1936 | 2011 | Canadian | ||
| Erika Fox | 1936 | British | |||
| Éric Gaudibert | 1936 | 2012 | Swiss | ||
| Frans Geysen | 1936 | Belgian | |||
| Malcolm Goldstein | 1936 | American | |||
| Daniel Goode | 1936 | American | |||
| Barbara Heller | 1936 | German | |||
| Michael Hennagin | 1936 | 1993 | American | ||
| Takekuni Hirayoshi | 1936 | 1998 | Japanese | ||
| Mogens Winkel Holm | 1936 | 1999 | Danish | ||
| Maki Ishii | 1936 | 2003 | Japanese | ||
| Oleksandr Krasotov | 1936 | 2007 | Ukrainian | ||
| Ladislav Kupkovič | 1936 | 2016 | Slovak | Vier Präparierter Texte | Wandelkonzerte, historicism |
| Young-ja Lee | 1931 | South Korean | |||
| Gérard Masson | 1936 | French | |||
| Colin Mawby | 1936 | 2019 | English | Laudate Pueri Dominum; Requiem of Hope; The Quest | |
| Sheila Nelson | 1936 | 2020 | English | ||
| Jocy de Oliveira | 1936 | Brazilian | |||
| Anthony Payne | 1936 | 2021 | English | ||
| Erika Radermacher | 1936 | German | |||
| Steve Reich | 1936 | American | Piano Phase; Music for 18 Musicians | minimalism; Neoconservative postmodernism | |
| Aribert Reimann | 1936 | 2024 | German | Lear; Nahe Ferne; Wolkenloses Christfest | |
| Vivian Adelberg Rudow | 1936 | American | |||
| Elliott Schwartz | 1936 | 2016 | American | Equinox for orchestra | |
| Brunhilde Sonntag | 1936 | 2002 | German | ||
| Robert Suderburg | 1936 | 2013 | American | Concerto, Within the Mirror of Time, for piano and orchestra; Chamber Music VII ("Ceremonies") | |
| John White | 1936 | 2024 | English | Cello and Tuba Machine; 175 piano sonatas | |
| Hans Zender | 1936 | 2019 | German | Stephen Climax (opera) | |
| Keiko Abe | 1937 | Japanese | |||
| Edward Applebaum | 1937 | 2020 | American | ||
| Rafig Babayev | 1937 | 1994 | Azerbaijani | ||
| Jan Bach | 1937 | 2020 | American | ||
| Junsang Bahk | 1937 | South Korean | |||
| Osvaldas Balakauskas | 1937 | Lithuanian | |||
| Janet Beat | 1937 | Scottish | |||
| David Bedford | 1937 | 2011 | British | ||
| David Behrman | 1937 | American | |||
| Constança Capdeville | 1937 | 1992 | Portuguese | ||
| Azio Corghi | 1937 | 2022 | Italian | Divara – Wasser und Blut | |
| Zbigniew Bargielski | 1937 | Polish | |||
| Miguel Ángel Coria | 1937 | 2016 | Spanish | ||
| David Cornwall | 1937 | 2006 | American | ||
| Gordon Crosse | 1937 | 2021 | British | ||
| David Del Tredici | 1937 | 2023 | American | Child Alice; Final Alice | neoromanticism |
| Harutiun Dellalian | 1937 | 1990 | Armenian | ||
| Eugen Doga | 1937 | Moldovan | My Sweet and Tender Beast Waltz, Gramophone Waltz | ||
| Anatoly Dokumentov | 1937 | Russian | |||
| John Ferritto | 1937 | 2010 | American | ||
| Misha Geller | 1937 | 2007 | Russian | Concerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra | |
| Philip Glass | 1937 | American | Violin Concerto; operas; 8 symphonies | minimalism | |
| Lóránt Hajdú | 1937 | Hungarian | |||
| Jon Hassell | 1937 | 2021 | American | ||
| Walter Hekster | 1937 | 2012 | Dutch | ||
| Katherine Hoover | 1937 | 2018 | American | ||
| Shamshi Kaldayakov | 1937 | 1992 | Kazakhstani | ||
| Nikolai Kapustin | 1937 | 2020 | Russian | ||
| Povl Kjøller | 1937 | 1999 | Danish | ||
| Marta Lambertini | 1937 | 2019 | Argentine | ||
| Philip Ledger | 1937 | 2012 | British | ||
| Paul Méfano | 1937 | 2020 | French | ||
| Robert Moran | 1937 | American | |||
| Gösta Neuwirth | 1937 | Austrian | |||
| Bo Nilsson | 1937 | 2018 | Swedish | ||
| Irina Odagescu | 1937 | Romanian | |||
| John Ogdon | 1937 | 1989 | English | ||
| Jean-Louis Petit | 1937 | French | |||
| Jože Privšek | 1937 | 1998 | Slovenian | ||
| Irma Ravinale | 1937 | 2013 | Italian | ||
| Rolf Riehm | 1937 | German | Les Chants de la Revolution sont des Chants de l’Amour | ||
| Edwin Roxburgh | 1937 | English | |||
| Valentyn Silvestrov | 1937 | Ukrainian | Symphony No. 5 | ||
| Dmitry Smolsky | 1937 | 2017 | Belarusian | ||
| Joop Stokkermans | 1937 | 2012 | Dutch | ||
| Loris Tjeknavorian | 1937 | Armenian-Iranian | |||
| Wang Xilin | 1937 | Chinese | folk-influenced | ||
| Olly Wilson | 1937 | 2018 | American | ||
| Guy Woolfenden | 1937 | 2016 | English | ||
| Yehuda Yannay | 1937 | 2024 | American-Israeli | At the End of the Parade; Radiant Inner Light; Piano Concerto | extended techniques, multimedia, postmodern |
| Maryanne Amacher | 1938 | 2009 | American | ||
| Elizabeth R. Austin | 1938 | American | |||
| Virko Baley | 1938 | Ukrainian-American | |||
| Bart Berman | 1938 | Dutch-Israeli | |||
| E. Clement Bethel | 1938 | 1987 | Bahamian | ||
| Howard Blake | 1938 | English | |||
| Jean-Claude Risset | 1938 | 2016 | French | ||
| William Bolcom | 1938 | American | Songs of Experience; Songs of Innocence | ||
| David Borden | 1938 | American | |||
| Álvaro Cassuto | 1938 | Portuguese | serialism, neotonality | ||
| Paul Chihara | 1938 | American | Shogun: The Musical | ||
| Gloria Coates | 1938 | 2023 | American | Music on Open Strings | |
| John Corigliano | 1938 | American | Symphony No. 2; A Dylan Thomas Trilogy | polystylism, also compose of film music: The Red Violin | |
| Alvin Curran | 1938 | American | For Cornelius; Songs and Views of the Magnetic Garden; Inner Cities | ||
| Jean-Claude Éloy | 1938 | French | Electroacoustic music | ||
| Givi Gachechiladze | 1938 | Georgian | |||
| Calvin Hampton | 1938 | 1984 | American | ||
| John Harbison | 1938 | American | The Great Gatsby | Neoconservative postmodernism | |
| Paavo Heininen | 1938 | 2022 | Finnish | ||
| Hans-Joachim Hespos | 1938 | 2022 | German | Seiltanz | avant-garde, extended techniques |
| Jacques Hétu | 1938 | 2010 | Canadian | ||
| Tyzen Hsiao | 1938 | 2015 | Taiwanese | ||
| Ashenafi Kebede | 1938 | 1998 | Ethiopian | The Shepherd Flutist | |
| Raja Hossain Khan | 1938 | 1989 | Bangladeshi | ||
| Zygmunt Krauze | 1938 | Polish | |||
| Piotr Lachert | 1938 | 2018 | Polish | ||
| Douglas Leedy | 1938 | 2015 | American | ||
| Reinbert de Leeuw | 1938 | 2020 | Dutch | ||
| Mesías Maiguashca | 1938 | Ecuadorian | F-Melodies; Ayayayayay | electronic music; spectralism | |
| Barton McLean | 1938 | American | Rainforest Images (jointly composed with Priscilla McLean) | postmodernist, ambient, drone, minimalist, musique concrète, computer music | |
| Dexter Morrill | 1938 | 2019 | American | Crosswalk, Getz Variations, Hudson River Dreams, Iron Horse Concerto, Fantasy Quintet, Ponzo, Roxbury Preludes, Three Lyric Pieces, Stelladagio, Walden Nocturnes | computer music, jazz-influenced, electronic music, improvisation |
| Michael Parsons | 1938 | English | |||
| Piera Pistono | 1938 | Italian | |||
| Simon Preston | 1938 | 2022 | English | ||
| Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee | 1938 | Armenian-American | |||
| Michel Rateau | 1938 | 2020 | French | ||
| Frederic Rzewski | 1938 | 2021 | American | The People United Will Never Be Defeated! | |
| Tona Scherchen | 1938 | Swiss | |||
| José Serebrier | 1938 | Uruguayan | |||
| Mieko Shiomi | 1938 | Japanese | |||
| Gregory Short | 1938 | 1999 | American | ||
| Christopher Steel | 1938 | 1991 | British | ||
| Atli Heimir Sveinsson | 1938 | 2019 | Icelandic | ||
| Yuji Takahashi | 1938 | Japanese | |||
| Cornelia Tăutu | 1938 | 2019 | Romanian | ||
| Dimitri Terzakis | 1938 | Greek | |||
| Joan Tower | 1938 | American | Petroushskates; Concerto for Orchestra; Sequoia; Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman | ||
| Jan Vriend | 1938 | Dutch | |||
| Charles Wuorinen | 1938 | 2020 | American | Time's Encomium; 8 symphonies; chamber music | twelve-tone technique, serialism |
| José Antonio Abreu | 1939 | 2018 | Venezuelan | ||
| Alojz Ajdič | 1939 | Slovenian | |||
| Louis Andriessen | 1939 | 2021 | Dutch | minimalism | |
| Jon Appleton | 1939 | 2022 | American | ||
| Elinor Armer | 1939 | American | |||
| Charles Boone | 1939 | American | |||
| Leo Brouwer | 1939 | Cuban | |||
| Wendy Carlos | 1939 | American | Switched-On Bach (record album of transcriptions, produced with the use of a Moog synthesizer) | Electronic music (original and transcriptions) | |
| Gian Paolo Chiti | 1939 | Italian | |||
| Maija Einfelde | 1939 | Latvian | |||
| Oleg Felzer | 1939 | 1998 | Azerbaijani | ||
| Jonathan Harvey | 1939 | 2012 | English | Mortuos Plango Vivos Voco; Advaya; Bhakti; Wheel of Emptiness | spectralism |
| Heinz Holliger | 1939 | Swiss | Schneewittchen | ||
| Nicolaus A. Huber | 1939 | German | |||
| Tom Johnson | 1939 | 2024 | American | An Hour for Piano | minimalism |
| Mikheil Kobakhidze | 1939 | 2019 | Georgian | ||
| Barbara Kolb | 1939 | American | |||
| Jaroslav Krček | 1939 | Czech | |||
| Jean-Pierre Leguay | 1939 | French | |||
| Arkady Luxemburg | 1939 | Moldovan-American | |||
| Ma Shui-Long | 1939 | 2015 | Taiwanese | ||
| Tigran Mansurian | 1939 | Armenian | |||
| Bruce Mather | 1939 | Canadian | |||
| John McCabe | 1939 | 2015 | English | Chagall Windows; symphonies; ballets; string quartets | |
| María Luisa Ozaita | 1939 | 2017 | Spanish | ||
| Florencio Pozadas | 1939 | 1968 | Bolivian | electroacoustic music | |
| Patric Standford | 1939 | 2014 | English | Symphony No.1 "The Seasons"; A Christmas Carol Symphony; Cello Concerto; Christus Requiem | |
| Tomáš Svoboda | 1939 | 2022 | Czech-American | Overture of the Season; Marimba Concerto; "Children's Treasure Box" piano series | |
| Zsigmond Szathmáry | 1939 | Hungarian | |||
| Richard Teitelbaum | 1939 | 2020 | American | ||
| Boris Tishchenko | 1939 | 2010 | Russian | polystylism | |
| Inger Wikström | 1939 | Swedish | |||
| James Willey | 1939 | American | |||
| Ellen Taaffe Zwilich | 1939 | American | neoromanticism | ||
| Dieter Acker | 1940 | 2006 | German | ||
| Juraj Beneš | 1940 | 2004 | Slovak | ||
| Margaret Brouwer | 1940 | American | |||
| Graciela Castillo | 1940 | Argentine | electroacoustic | ||
| Julius Eastman | 1940 | 1990 | American | ||
| Joseph Fennimore | 1940 | American | Berlitz: Introduction to French; Eventide | eclectic | |
| Henry Flynt | 1940 | American | |||
| Eleanor Hovda | 1940 | 2009 | American | ||
| Alden Jenks | 1940 | American | |||
| Terry Jennings | 1940 | 1981 | American | minimalist | |
| David C. Johnson | 1940 | 2021 | American | ||
| Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi | 1940 | Japanese | |||
| Maria Teresa Luengo | 1940 | Argentine | |||
| Dorothy Rudd Moore | 1940 | 2022 | American | ||
| Gary Lee Nelson | 1940 | American | |||
| Nguyen-Thien Dao | 1940 | 2015 | Vietnamese-French | ||
| Jorge Peixinho | 1940 | 1995 | Portuguese | electronic music | |
| Peer Raben | 1940 | 2007 | German | ||
| Dan-Alexandru Voiculescu | 1940 | 2009 | Romanian | ||
| Alexander Yossifov | 1940 | 2016 | Bulgarian | ||
| Frank Zappa | 1940 | 1993 | American | The Perfect Stranger; The Yellow Shark | |
| Stephen Albert | 1941 | 1992 | American | Symphony No. 1: Riverrun | |
| Judith Margaret Bailey | 1941 | English | |||
| Anđelka Bego-Šimunić | 1941 | 2022 | Bosnian | neoclassicism | |
| Konrad Boehmer | 1941 | 2014 | Dutch | ||
| Derek Bourgeois | 1941 | 2017 | English | ||
| Geoffrey Burgon | 1941 | 2010 | British | Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis; Monty Python's Life of Brian (film score) | |
| David Cope | 1941 | American | |||
| James Di Pasquale | 1941 | American | |||
| Francisco Feliciano | 1941 | 2014 | Filipino | ||
| Johannes Fritsch | 1941 | 2010 | German | ||
| Kay Gardner | 1941 | 2002 | American | ||
| Angelo Gilardino | 1941 | 2022 | Italian | ||
| Adolphus Hailstork | 1941 | American | |||
| Sorrel Hays | 1941 | 2020 | American | ||
| Moya Henderson | 1941 | Australian | Lindy | ||
| Valeri Kikta | 1941 | Ukrainian | |||
| Philip Krumm | 1941 | American | |||
| Antony le Fleming | 1941 | English | |||
| Paul Alan Levi | 1941 | American | |||
| John Melby | 1941 | American | |||
| Yvar Mikhashoff | 1941 | 1993 | American | ||
| John Mitchell | 1941 | American | |||
| Richard Nanes | 1941 | 2009 | American | ||
| Emmanuel Nunes | 1941 | 2012 | Portuguese | Machina Mundi; Quodlibet | electronic music |
| Sook-Ja Oh | 1941 | Korean | |||
| Magaly Ruiz | 1941 | Cuban | |||
| Erkki Salmenhaara | 1941 | 2002 | Finnish | minimalism | |
| Serge Tcherepnin | 1941 | American | |||
| Richard Edward Wilson | 1941 | American | |||
| Birgitte Alsted | 1942 | Danish | |||
| Philip Bračanin | 1942 | Australian | |||
| John Cale | 1942 | Welsh | |||
| John Barnes Chance | 1942 | 1972 | American | Elegie; Variations on a Korean Folk Song | |
| Brian Cherney | 1942 | Canadian | |||
| Charles Dodge | 1942 | American | Earth's Magnetic Field | electronic music, computer music | |
| Chinary Ung | 1942 | Cambodian | |||
| Adel Kamel | 1942 | 2003 | Egyptian | ||
| Volker David Kirchner | 1942 | 2020 | German | Die Trauung (opera); Missa Moguntina (Mainz Mass); Symphony No. 2 "Mythen" | |
| Jonathan Kramer | 1942 | 2004 | American | postmodernism | |
| Tomás Marco | 1942 | Spanish | Concierto del agua, for guitar and orchestra; 5 symphonies; String Quartet No. 3 Anatomía fractal de los ángeles; Ojos verdes de luna | avant-garde, neoclassical, folk-influenced, eclectic | |
| Ingram Marshall | 1942 | 2022 | American | electronic music; instrumental music | |
| David Matthews | 1942 | English | |||
| Paul McCartney | 1942 | English | Liverpool Oratorio; Standing Stone; Ecce Cor Meum | member of The Beatles and Wings | |
| John McGuire | 1942 | American | Pulse Music III; A Capella | electronic music, fusion of serialism and minimalism, postminimalism | |
| Priscilla McLean | 1942 | American | Rainforest Images (jointly composed with Barton McLean) | postmodernist, ambient, drone, minimalist, musique concrète, computer music | |
| Haruna Miyake | 1942 | Japanese | |||
| Meredith Monk | 1942 | American | |||
| Gentil Montaña | 1942 | 2011 | Colombian | ||
| David Padrós | 1942 | 2016 | Spanish | ||
| Horațiu Rădulescu | 1942 | 2008 | Romanian/French | six string quartets | spectralism |
| Diogenes Rivas | 1942 | Venezuelan | |||
| Daniel Roth | 1942 | French | |||
| Wojciech Rybicki | 1942 | 2019 | Polish | ||
| Shigeaki Saegusa | 1942 | Japanese | Piano Concerto | avant-garde | |
| Kyungsun Suh | 1942 | Korean | |||
| Viktor Suslin | 1942 | 2012 | Russian | ||
| José Antônio Rezende de Almeida Prado | 1943 | 2010 | Brazilian | ||
| Solange Ancona | 1943 | French | |||
| Daniel Börtz | 1943 | Swedish | |||
| Joanna Bruzdowicz | 1943 | 2021 | Polish | ||
| Gavin Bryars | 1943 | English | Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet, Doctor Ox's Experiment | ||
| Laura Clayton | 1943 | American | |||
| Eleanor Cory | 1943 | American | |||
| Edward Cowie | 1943 | English | |||
| William Duckworth | 1943 | 2012 | American | ||
| Hugues Dufourt | 1943 | French | |||
| Dennis Eberhard | 1943 | 2005 | American | ||
| Ross Edwards | 1943 | Australian | |||
| Margriet Ehlen | 1943 | Dutch | |||
| Julio Estrada | 1943 | Mexican | |||
| Brian Ferneyhough | 1943 | English | Etudes Transcendantales | New Complexity | |
| Faraj Garayev | 1943 | Azerbaijani | |||
| Rolf Gehlhaar | 1943 | 2019 | American | Sub rosa; Five German Dances | electronic music, sound installations |
| Heinz Karl Gruber | 1943 | Austrian | Frankenstein!!, Charivari, Aerial | ||
| Robin Holloway | 1943 | English | |||
| Bill Hopkins | 1943 | 1981 | English | En Attendant; Sensation | |
| Jerry Hunt | 1943 | 1993 | American | ||
| Ilaiyaraaja | 1943 | Indian | How to Name It?; Nothing but wind; Thiruvasagam -An Oratorio; The Music Messiah; India 24 hours; | Indian Classical (Carnatic), Western classical, Fusion, Jazz, Indian folk | |
| Zoltán Jeney | 1943 | 2019 | Hungarian | ||
| Alexander Knaifel | 1943 | Russian | The Canterville Ghost | modernism, polystylism | |
| Morten Lauridsen | 1943 | American | vocal works | ||
| Tania León | 1943 | Cuban | |||
| Fred Lerdahl | 1943 | American | Neoconservative postmodernism | ||
| Bruce MacCombie | 1943 | 2012 | American | ||
| Bill McGlaughlin | 1943 | American | Remembering Icarus; Walt Whitman's Dream | ||
| Krzysztof Meyer | 1943 | Polish | 12 string quartets | ||
| Costin Miereanu | 1943 | French | |||
| Alejandro Núñez Allauca | 1943 | Peruvian | |||
| Marta Ptaszynska | 1943 | Polish | |||
| Joseph Schwantner | 1943 | American | Aftertones of Infinity; A Sudden Rainbow | ||
| Alice Shields | 1943 | American | The Transformation of Ani, Criseyde, Komachi at Sekidera, White Heron Dance, Zhaojün – The Woman Who Saved the World, Dark Mountain in Spring | electronic and acoustic opera, vocal music, chamber music | |
| Roger Smalley | 1943 | 2015 | Australian (born English) | Pulses; 2 piano concertos | serialism, eclectic |
| Pril Smiley | 1943 | American | electronic music | ||
| Tim Souster | 1943 | 1994 | British | ||
| Ivan Tcherepnin | 1943 | 1998 | French-American | ||
| Vangelis | 1943 | Greek | electronic music | ||
| Michael Vetter | 1943 | 2013 | German | Missa Universalis | new-age, Zen-influenced |
| Alexander Vustin | 1943 | 2020 | Russian | Word | |
| Udo Zimmermann | 1943 | 2021 | German | Weiße Rose, Der Schuhu und die fliegende Prinzessin | opera |
| William Albright | 1944 | 1998 | American | polystylistic | |
| Alison Bauld | 1944 | Australian | |||
| Gilbert Biberian | 1944 | Armenian-British | |||
| Willem Breuker | 1944 | 2010 | Dutch | ||
| Neely Bruce | 1944 | American | postminimalist | ||
| Tatyana Chudova | 1944 | 2021 | Russian | ||
| Barry Conyngham | 1944 | Australian | |||
| Lyell Cresswell | 1944 | New Zealander | |||
| Péter Eötvös | 1944 | Hungarian | Love and Other Demons | eclectic, extended technique, electronic music, folk-music influence | |
| John Fodi | 1944 | 2009 | Canadian | ||
| Christopher Gunning | 1944 | British | |||
| John Hawkins | 1944 | 2007 | Canadian | ||
| York Höller | 1944 | German | Schwarze Halbinseln; Der Meister und Margarita | electronic music, serialism, Gestalt composition | |
| Karl Jenkins | 1944 | Welsh | The Armed Man; Adiemus; Requiem | ||
| Thomas Koppel | 1944 | 2006 | Danish | avant-garde | |
| Beatriz Lockhart | 1944 | 2015 | Uruguayan | ||
| Arif Mirzayev | 1944 | Azerbaijani | |||
| Pehr Henrik Nordgren | 1944 | 2008 | Finnish | ||
| Michael Nyman | 1944 | English | The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat | minimalism | |
| Claire Renard | 1944 | French | |||
| Goff Richards | 1944 | 2011 | English | ||
| Rhian Samuel | 1944 | Welsh | |||
| Leif Segerstam | 1944 | Finnish | |||
| John Tavener | 1944 | 2013 | English | holy minimalism | |
| László Vidovszky | 1944 | Hungarian | |||
| Ahmed Achour | 1945 | 2021 | Tunisian | Concerto for clarinet and orchestra | |
| Graciela Agudelo | 1945 | 2018 | Mexican | ||
| Charles Amirkhanian | 1945 | American | |||
| Georges Aperghis | 1945 | Greek | |||
| Clarence Barlow | 1945 | 2023 | Indian-British | ||
| Anthony Braxton | 1945 | American | |||
| Ole Buck | 1945 | Danish | |||
| Boudewijn Buckinx | 1945 | Belgian | |||
| Judith Clingan | 1945 | Australian | |||
| Rauf Dhomi | 1945 | Kosovan | |||
| Edward Gregson | 1945 | English | |||
| Keith Jarrett | 1945 | American | |||
| Ivan Karabyts | 1945 | 2002 | Ukrainian | ||
| Shirish Korde | 1945 | American | |||
| Fredric Kroll | 1945 | American | |||
| Chan-Hae Lee | 1945 | South Korean | |||
| Thomas Oboe Lee | 1945 | Chinese-American | |||
| Jacques Lenot | 1945 | French | |||
| Luca Lombardi | 1945 | Italian | |||
| Younghi Pagh-Paan | 1945 | South Korean | |||
| Thomas Pasatieri | 1945 | American | |||
| Russell Peck | 1945 | 2009 | American | ||
| Johnterryl Plumeri | 1945 | 2016 | American | ||
| Basil Poledouris | 1945 | 2006 | American | ||
| Štěpán Rak | 1945 | Czech | |||
| Doug Riley | 1945 | 2007 | Canadian | ||
| John Rutter | 1945 | English | choral music | ||
| Carol Sams | 1945 | American | Beauty and the Beast (children's opera) | ||
| İstemihan Taviloğlu | 1945 | 2006 | Turkish | ||
| Thomas Wells | 1945 | American | |||
| Maury Yeston | 1945 | American | Tom Sawyer: A Ballet in Three Acts, Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, An American Cantata | Broadway musicals Nine, Titanic, Grand Hotel Off Broadway Phantom | |
| Judith Lang Zaimont | 1945 | American | |||
| Zhao Jiping | 1945 | Chinese | |||
| Barbara Benary | 1946 | 2019 | German | ||
| Gilius van Bergeijk | 1946 | Dutch | |||
| Niels Bernhart | 1946 | 2008 | Danish | ||
| Renate Birnstein | 1946 | German | |||
| Anne Boyd | 1946 | Australian | |||
| Martin Bresnick | 1946 | American | |||
| Geneviève Calame | 1946 | 1993 | Swiss | ||
| Suzanne Ciani | 1946 | American | electronic music | ||
| Pierre Even (composer) | 1946 | Luxembourgish | |||
| Michael Finnissy | 1946 | English | |||
| Zsolt Gárdonyi | 1946 | Hungarian German | Magnificat, Mozart Changes (organ) | ||
| Janice Giteck | 1946 | American | |||
| Gérard Grisey | 1946 | 1998 | French | Vortex temporum | |
| Ann-Elise Hannikainen | 1946 | 2012 | Finnish | ||
| Ho Wai-On | 1946 | British | |||
| Tristan Keuris | 1946 | 1996 | Dutch | ||
| Ladislav Kubík | 1946 | 2017 | Czech-American | ||
| Yasuo Kuwahara | 1946 | 2003 | Japanese | ||
| Peter Lieberson | 1946 | 2011 | American | ||
| Ulrich Leyendecker | 1946 | 2018 | German | ||
| Vladimir Martynov | 1946 | Russian | minimalism | ||
| Colin Matthews | 1946 | English | |||
| Dimitri Nicolau | 1946 | 2008 | Italian | ||
| David Noon | 1946 | American | |||
| Pierre Pincemaille | 1956 | 2018 | French | ||
| Nicola Piovani | 1946 | Italian | |||
| Kenneth Platts | 1946 | 1989 | British | ||
| Robert Xavier Rodriguez | 1946 | American | |||
| Tolib Shakhidi | 1946 | Tajik | |||
| Giuseppe Sinopoli | 1946 | 2001 | Italian | ||
| Denis Smalley | 1946 | New Zealander | electroacoustic music, acousmatic music | ||
| Richard St. Clair | 1946 | American | The Lamentations of Shinran; Album of Ragtime Pieces for Piano; Love-Canzonettes for Chorus; Piano Sonatas | Neoromanticism | |
| Pēteris Vasks | 1946 | Latvian | |||
| Diderik Wagenaar | 1946 | Dutch | |||
| Dana Wilson | 1946 | American | |||
| Heinz Winbeck | 1946 | 2019 | German | ||
| John Adams | 1947 | American | Nixon in China; Harmonielehre; Shaker Loops, Short Ride in a Fast Machine; Violin Concerto | post-minimalism | |
| David Ahern | 1947 | 1988 | Australian | ||
| Liana Alexandra | 1947 | 2011 | Romanian | ||
| Franghiz Ali-Zadeh | 1947 | Azerbaijani | "Mugam Sayagi". Her works have been performed by Yo-Yo Ma and the Kronos Quartet. | She is best known for her works that combine the musical tradition of the Azerbaijani mugam and 20th-century Western compositional techniques. | |
| Laurie Anderson | 1947 | American | |||
| Ruth Bakke | 1947 | Norwegian | |||
| Jean-Yves Bosseur | 1947 | French | |||
| Alan Bullard | 1947 | English | |||
| Michel Chion | 1947 | French | |||
| Anders Eliasson | 1947 | 2013 | Swedish | four symphonies | |
| Jack Gallagher | 1947 | American | |||
| Donald Grantham | 1947 | American | |||
| Barry Guy | 1947 | British | |||
| John S. Hilliard | 1947 | 2019 | American | Baron Cimetiere's Mambo | |
| Ko Fan-long | 1947 | Taiwanese | |||
| Jo Kondo | 1947 | Japanese | |||
| Grigoriy Korchmar | 1947 | Russian | |||
| Nikolai Korndorf | 1947 | 2001 | Russian and Canadian | ||
| Zarrina Mirshakar | 1947 | Tajik | |||
| Tristan Murail | 1947 | French | Gondwana | spectral music | |
| Paul Patterson | 1947 | English | |||
| Morris Pert | 1947 | 2010 | Scottish | ||
| Karl Aage Rasmussen | 1947 | Danish | |||
| Václav Riedlbauch | 1947 | 2017 | Czech | ||
| Salvatore Sciarrino | 1947 | Italian | |||
| Howard Skempton | 1947 | English | |||
| Emil Tabakov | 1947 | Bulgarian | |||
| Roger Craig Vogel | 1947 | American | |||
| Gwyneth Van Anden Walker | 1947 | American | |||
| Zunduin Khangal | 1948 | 1996 | Mongolian | ||
| Claude Baker | 1948 | American | |||
| Josef Bardanashvili | 1948 | Georgian | |||
| Gisèle Barreau | 1948 | French | |||
| Michael Berkeley | 1948 | English | |||
| Chester Biscardi | 1948 | American | |||
| Glenn Branca | 1948 | 2018 | American | avant-garde | |
| Stephen Brown | 1948 | Canadian | |||
| Diana Burrell | 1948 | English | |||
| Brian Elias | 1948 | British | |||
| Brian Eno | 1948 | English | ambient music, minimalism | ||
| Richard Festinger | 1948 | American | |||
| Jani Golob | 1948 | Slovenian | |||
| Mikko Heiniö | 1948 | Finnish | |||
| Bern Herbolsheimer | 1948 | 2016 | American | Aria da capo (opera) | |
| Bo Holten | 1948 | Danish | |||
| Jean-Michel Jarre | 1948 | French | |||
| Kerstin Jeppsson | 1948 | Swedish | |||
| Theo Jörgensmann | 1948 | German | |||
| Marjan Mozetich | 1948 | Canadian | |||
| Peter Ruzicka | 1948 | German | |||
| Allen Shawn | 1948 | American | |||
| Dmitri Smirnov | 1948 | 2020 | Russian / British | Tiriel (opera), Thel (opera) | serialism, collage, electroacoustic music, polystylism, musical cryptography |
| Jukka Tiensuu | 1948 | Finnish | |||
| Julia Tsenova | 1948 | 2010 | Bulgarian | Sinfonia con piano concertante; Endless Circle for string quintet; Musica Solitudinis; Four songs, to poems by Emily Dickinson | |
| Claude Vivier | 1948 | 1983 | Canadian | Kopernikus: Rituel de la Mort | spectral music, Asian-music influence |
| Fu Tong Wong | 1948 | Chinese-American | Symphony: The Hero with Great Eagle | ||
| Eleanor Alberga | 1949 | Jamaican | |||
| Kalevi Aho | 1949 | Finnish | |||
| Carlos Azevedo | 1949 | 2012 | Portuguese | ||
| Carol E. Barnett | 1949 | American | |||
| Leonid Bobylev | 1949 | Russian | Symphony (1985), Concerto for viola and string orchestra (1970) | ||
| Jolyon Brettingham Smith | 1949 | 2008 | English | ||
| John Casken | 1949 | English | |||
| Daniel Catán | 1949 | 2011 | Mexican | Florencia en el Amazonas; Rappaccini's Daughter | neo-impressionism |
| Chan Ka Nin | 1949 | Canadian | |||
| Daniel Steven Crafts | 1949 | American | |||
| Rocco Di Pietro | 1949 | Italian | |||
| Dean Drummond | 1949 | 2013 | American | ||
| Tim Hodgkinson | 1949 | English | |||
| Michel Herr | 1949 | Belgian | |||
| Michaël Lévinas | 1949 | French | |||
| Dan Locklair | 1949 | American | |||
| Fernando Mencherini | 1949 | 1997 | Italian | ||
| Theodore Papakonstantinou | 1949 | 1970 | Cypriot | ||
| Stephen Paulus | 1949 | 2014 | American | Pilgrim's Hymn; The Road Home; | |
| Geoffrey Poole | 1949 | English | |||
| Christopher Rouse | 1949 | 2019 | American | Karolju; Phantasmata; Trombone Concerto; Symphony No. 1; Symphony No. 2 | |
| Poul Ruders | 1949 | Danish | |||
| Thomas Schmidt-Kowalski | 1949 | 2013 | German | ||
| Dave Smith | 1949 | English | |||
| Steven Stucky | 1949 | 2016 | American | Son et Lumière; Concerto for Orchestra No. 2; Rhapsodies; August 4, 1964 | |
| Vladimir Tošić | 1949 | Serbian | |||
| Kevin Volans | 1949 | South African | Hunting Gathering | ||
| Philip Wilby | 1949 | English | brass-band music | ||
| Ernani Aguiar | 1950 | Brazilian | |||
| Beth Anderson | 1950 | American | |||
| Robert Black | 1950 | 1993 | American | ||
| Gene Bowen | 1950 | American | |||
| Stephen Chatman | 1950 | Canadian | |||
| David B. Doty | 1950 | American | |||
| Elena Firsova | 1950 | Russian / British | The Nightingale and the Rose | ||
| Olivier Greif | 1950 | 2000 | French | ||
| Åse Hedstrøm | 1950 | Norwegian | |||
| Alistair Hinton | 1950 | Scottish | |||
| Christopher Hobbs | 1950 | English | |||
| Otomar Kvěch | 1950 | 2018 | Czech | ||
| Emmanuel Gyimah Labi | 1950 | Ghanaian | |||
| Lam Manyee | 1950 | Chinese | |||
| Libby Larsen | 1950 | American | Marimba Concerto | ||
| Elodie Lauten | 1950 | 2014 | American | ||
| Arturo Márquez | 1950 | Mexican | Danzón no. 2 | ||
| Joseph Pehrson | 1950 | 2020 | American | ||
| Stephen Oliver | 1950 | 1992 | English | ||
| Jay Reise | 1950 | American | |||
| Joe Hisaishi | 1950 | Japanese | also notable as a film composer | ||
| Lepo Sumera | 1950 | 2000 | Estonian | electro-acoustic music | |
| William Sweeney | 1950 | Scottish | folk-influenced | ||
| Carl Verbraeken | 1950 | Belgian | |||
| Rafał Augustyn | 1951 | Polish | |||
| Alan Belkin | 1951 | Canadian | |||
| Michael Blake | 1951 | South African | French Suite | ||
| John Burke | 1951 | 2020 | Canadian | ||
| Howard J. Buss | 1951 | American | Modern Times | ||
| Chen Qigang | 1951 | Chinese-French | |||
| Anthony Davis | 1951 | American | |||
| Paul Dresher | 1951 | American | |||
| Huib Emmer | 1951 | Dutch | |||
| Richard Emsley | 1951 | British | |||
| James Erber | 1951 | British | |||
| Lorenzo Ferrero | 1951 | Italian | Salvatore Giuliano, La Conquista, Risorgimento! | postmodern | |
| David Froom | 1951 | American | |||
| Nancy Galbraith | 1951 | American | postmodern/postminimalist | ||
| Francisco Guerrero Marín | 1951 | 1997 | Spanish | ||
| Halina Harelava | 1951 | Belarusian | |||
| Earl Howard | 1951 | American | avant-garde | ||
| Brian Israel | 1951 | 1986 | American | ||
| Viera Janárceková | 1951 | Slovakian | |||
| Patricia Jünger | 1951 | Swiss-Austrian | |||
| Aivars Kalējs | 1951 | Latvian | Neoromanticism | ||
| Patrick Larley | 1951 | British | |||
| Mona Lyn Reese | 1951 | American | |||
| Michael Rosenzweig | 1951 | South African | Symphony in One Movement; String Quartet No. 2 | ||
| Doina Rotaru | 1951 | Romanian | Concerto for clarinet and orchestra; Florilegium, concerto for flute and flutes orchestra; Wings of Light for 24 flutists | ||
| Craig Russell | 1951 | American | |||
| George Tsontakis | 1951 | American | |||
| Hans Abrahamsen | 1952 | Danish | |||
| Sérgio Assad | 1952 | Brazilian | |||
| Simon Bainbridge | 1952 | 2021 | British | ||
| Gerald Barry | 1952 | Irish | |||
| Max Beckschäfer | 1952 | German | Michelangelo-Fragmente, vocal music | also academic for music theory | |
| Judith Bingham | 1952 | British | |||
| Roger Bourland | 1952 | American | |||
| David Carlson | 1952 | American | |||
| Mark Carlson | 1952 | American | |||
| Rhys Chatham | 1952 | American | avant-garde, minimalism | ||
| Maia Ciobanu | 1952 | Romanian | |||
| Todd Tamanend Clark | 1952 | American | "Brain and Spinal Column", "The Grim Rider", "Into the Vision" | electronic, psychedelic | |
| Tina Davidson | 1952 | American | |||
| Richard Einhorn | 1952 | American | Voices of Light (oratorio); The Origin (opera/oratorio) | ||
| Reinhard Febel | 1952 | German | opera Sekunden und Jahre des Caspar Hauser, Wolkenstein, Sinfonie | ||
| Heiner Goebbels | 1952 | German | |||
| Stephen Hartke | 1952 | American | |||
| Margriet Hoenderdos | 1952 | 2010 | Dutch | ||
| Lee Hyla | 1952 | 2014 | American | ||
| Scott Johnson | 1952 | American | |||
| Oliver Knussen | 1952 | 2018 | British | Where the Wild Things Are | |
| Lev Konov | 1952 | Russian | |||
| Gerd Kühr | 1952 | German | operas Stallerhof, Tod und Teufel | ||
| Christian Lauba | 1952 | Tunisian born French | The Lose Forest for ensemble of 12 saxophones, Neuf études pour saxophone | ||
| Irfan Ljubijankić | 1952 | 1995 | Bosnian | ||
| Philippe Manoury | 1952 | French | 60th Parallel (opera), Pluton for piano and live electronics | punctualism, computer-assisted composition | |
| Kazuhiro Morita | 1952 | Japanese | |||
| Dominic Muldowney | 1952 | English | |||
| Alla Pavlova | 1952 | Russian | |||
| Qu Xiao-Song | 1952 | Chinese | |||
| Godfried-Willem Raes | 1952 | Belgian | |||
| Wolfgang Rihm | 1952 | 2024 | German | 12 string quartets; Die Eroberung von Mexico (opera) | New Simplicity, expressionism, neoromanticism |
| Kaija Saariaho | 1952 | 2023 | Finnish | L’amour de loin; Adriana Mater; La Passion de Simone Laterna Magica; | |
| Tatyana Sergeyeva | 1952 | Russian | |||
| Motoyuki Shitanda | 1952 | Japanese | |||
| Ryuichi Sakamoto | 1952 | 2023 | Japanese | ||
| Peter-Jan Wagemans | 1952 | Dutch | |||
| Moshe Zorman | 1952 | Israeli | |||
| John Luther Adams | 1953 | American | Various pieces inspired by Alaskan landscapes | ||
| Martin Amlin | 1953 | American | |||
| Avril Anderson | 1953 | English | |||
| Patrick Ascione | 1953 | 2014 | French | Divertissement | Electroacoustic and Acousmatic music |
| Daniel Asia | 1953 | American | |||
| Roger Bellon | 1953 | French | |||
| Josefina Benedetti | 1953 | American | |||
| Susan Morton Blaustein | 1953 | American | |||
| Cornelis de Bondt | 1953 | Dutch | |||
| Hans-Jürgen von Bose | 1953 | German | Piano music | ||
| Wendy Mae Chambers | 1953 | American | |||
| Chen Yi | 1953 | Chinese | |||
| Andrew Culver | 1953 | American | |||
| Stéphane Delplace | 1953 | French | |||
| Jody Diamond | 1953 | American | |||
| Violeta Dinescu | 1953 | Romanian | Der 35. Mai (children's opera) | ||
| Arnold Dreyblatt | 1953 | American | |||
| Denis Dufour | 1953 | French | Cycle Plis de perversion, Bocalises, Messe à l'usage des vieillards, Hérisson Cathédrale | instrumental perceptive morphology, acousmatic music, mixed music, electronic music | |
| Nicolas Economou | 1953 | 1993 | Cypriot | ||
| René Eespere | 1953 | Estonian | |||
| Eibhlis Farrell | 1953 | Irish | |||
| David Felder | 1953 | American | |||
| David First | 1953 | American | |||
| Georg Friedrich Haas | 1953 | Austrian | Double Concerto for accordion, viola and chamber ensemble, Concerto for violin and orchestra | spectral music | |
| He Xuntian | 1953 | Chinese | |||
| Adriana Hölszky | 1953 | Romanian-German | |||
| Juhani Komulainen | 1953 | Finnish | |||
| Peter Scott Lewis | 1953 | American | |||
| Tod Machover | 1953 | American | |||
| Jeff Manookian | 1953 | 2021 | American | ||
| Wim Mertens | 1953 | Belgian | The Belly of an Architect (incl. Struggle for Pleasure), Maximizing the Audience | minimalism | |
| Akira Nishimura | 1953 | Japanese | |||
| Anthony Powers | 1953 | British | |||
| Alexander Raskatov | 1953 | Russian | |||
| Roberto Sierra | 1953 | Puerto Rican | Missa Latina | ||
| Vladimir Soltan | 1953 | 1997 | Belarusian | ||
| Z. Randall Stroope | 1953 | American | "Inscription of Hope", "The Pasture", "Homeland" | ||
| James Wood | 1953 | English | Stoicheia, Ho shang Yao | microtonality, percussion, voice | |
| Takashi Yoshimatsu | 1953 | Japanese | Symphony No. 2 | ||
| Zhou Long | 1953 | Chinese | |||
| Lidia Zielińska | 1953 | Polish | |||
| John Zorn | 1953 | American | Avant-garde | ||
| Richard Blackford | 1954 | English | |||
| Sylvie Bodorová | 1954 | Czech | |||
| Elisabetta Brusa | 1954 | Italian | |||
| Robert Carl | 1954 | American | |||
| Chan Wing-wah | 1954 | Chinese | |||
| Nicolas Collins | 1954 | American | electronic music | ||
| Michael Daugherty | 1954 | American | UFO | ||
| Paul Dirmeikis | 1954 | American | Message laisse à Pondichéry le 18 novembre 1973 | eclectic | |
| Joël-François Durand | 1954 | French | Piano Concerto | ||
| María Escribano | 1954 | 2002 | Spanish | ||
| Eric Ewazen | 1954 | American | |||
| Susan Frykberg | 1954 | New Zealander | electroacoustic | ||
| Ge Gan-ru | 1954 | Chinese | |||
| Elliot Goldenthal | 1954 | American | |||
| Robert Greenberg | 1954 | American | |||
| Irina Hasnaș | 1954 | Romanian | |||
| Birgit Havenstein | 1954 | German | |||
| Anders Hillborg | 1954 | Swedish | |||
| Vladimír Hirsch | 1954 | Czech | avant-garde | ||
| Brenda Hutchinson | 1954 | American | |||
| Stephen Jaffe | 1954 | American | |||
| Denise Kelly | 1954 | Irish | |||
| Eric Moe | 1954 | American | |||
| John Musto | 1954 | American | |||
| Șerban Nichifor | 1954 | Romanian | |||
| Betty Olivero | 1954 | Israeli | |||
| Cecilie Ore | 1954 | Norwegian | |||
| Tobias Picker | 1954 | American | |||
| Arturo Rodas | 1954 | Franco-Ecuadorian | Arcaica, a concerto for percussion & orchestra; 24.5 Preludes for piano; El arbol de los pájaros (The birds tree): opera "for the voice of the instruments" | avant-garde, polystylism | |
| Jan Sandström | 1954 | Swedish | Motorbike Concerto, Es ist ein Ros entsprungen, Rekviem | ||
| Paweł Szymański | 1954 | Polish | |||
| Carl Vine | 1954 | Australian | |||
| Judith Weir | 1954 | British | |||
| René Wohlhauser | 1954 | Swiss | |||
| Bob Chilcott | 1955 | British | Choral music | ||
| David Conte | 1955 | American | |||
| Pascal Dusapin | 1955 | French | Perelà, uomo di fumo | ||
| Roland Dyens | 1955 | 2016 | Tunisian-French | ||
| Mark Edgley Smith | 1955 | 2008 | English | ||
| Ludovico Einaudi | 1955 | Italian | minimalism | ||
| Juraj Filas | 1955 | Slovak | |||
| Diamanda Galás | 1955 | American | |||
| Kyle Gann | 1955 | American | Just intonation | ||
| Naji Hakim | 1955 | Lebanese-French | |||
| Toshio Hosokawa | 1955 | Japanese | Vision of Lear, Circulating Ocean, Voiceless Voice in Hiroshima | neo-impressionism | |
| David A. Jaffe | 1955 | American | "Silicon Valley Breakdown"; "The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World" | computer music, folk-music-influenced | |
| Olli Kortekangas | 1955 | Finnish | |||
| Bernardo Kuczer | 1955 | Argentinian | Civilización o Barbarie | Electronic music | |
| Carter Larsen | 1955 | American | concertos, music for theater and film | ||
| Jukka Linkola | 1955 | Finnish | |||
| Pedro Luís Neves | 1955 | Portuguese | |||
| Michael Obst | 1955 | German | Solaris | electronic music | |
| Gérard Pape | 1955 | American | electronic music | ||
| Bright Sheng | 1955 | Chinese | The Silver River | Folk-influenced | |
| Tibor Szemző | 1955 | Hungarian | |||
| Krassimir Taskov | 1955 | Bulgarian | |||
| Ian Venables | 1955 | English | Songs of Eternity and Sorrow, Remember This | ||
| Ye Xiaogang | 1955 | Chinese | |||
| Eduardo Alonso-Crespo | 1956 | Argentine | |||
| Javier Álvarez | 1956 | 2023 | Mexican | Metro Chabacano, Temazcal | |
| Regina Harris Baiocchi | 1956 | American | |||
| Sally Beamish | 1956 | British | |||
| Chiara Benati | 1956 | Italian | |||
| Tim Brady | 1956 | Canadian | |||
| Benet Casablancas | 1956 | Spanish | Seven Scenes from Hamlet, New Epigrams, Alter Klang, Seven Haikus for sextet, L'enigma di Lea (opera) | Expressionism, Avant-garde, neo-impressionism | |
| Richard Danielpour | 1956 | American | Margaret Garner | ||
| Daniel Dorff | 1956 | American | |||
| Anne Dudley | 1956 | English | |||
| Dror Elimelech | 1956 | Israeli | |||
| Michelle Ekizian | 1956 | American | |||
| Miguel Frasconi | 1956 | American | |||
| Kenneth Fuchs | 1956 | American | Falling Man (for baritone voice and orchestra, text by Don DeLillo, adapted by J. D. McClatchy) | American Symphonic School | |
| Vladimír Godár | 1956 | Slovak | |||
| Michael Gordon | 1956 | American | |||
| Philip Grange | 1956 | English | |||
| Guo Wenjing | 1956 | Chinese | Opera | ||
| Madeleine Isaksson | 1956 | Swedish | |||
| Jouni Kaipainen | 1956 | 2015 | Finnish | ||
| Makiko Kinoshita | 1956 | Japanese | |||
| Graeme Koehne | 1956 | Australian | Inflight Entertainment (oboe concerto); Tivoli Dances | ||
| Leon Milo | 1956 | 2014 | American | TimeTexture for piano and electronics | electroacoustic music |
| Thomas Pernes | 1956 | 2018 | Austrian | avant-garde | |
| Paul Phillips | 1956 | American | |||
| Iris ter Schiphorst | 1956 | German | |||
| Oliver Schroer | 1956 | 2008 | Canadian | ||
| Stefano Scodanibbio | 1956 | 2012 | Italian | ||
| Laurence Traiger | 1956 | American | |||
| Miguel del Águila | 1957 | Uruguayan-American | Concierto en Tango, Conga, Salon Buenos Aires, Violin Concerto, Wind Quintet No. 2 | ||
| Masamichi Amano | 1957 | Japanese | |||
| Gheorghi Arnaoudov | 1957 | Bulgarian | minimalism | ||
| Charles Roland Berry | 1957 | American | |||
| Linda Bouchard | 1957 | Canadian | |||
| Mary Ellen Childs | 1957 | American | |||
| James Clarke | 1957 | English | |||
| Chaya Czernowin | 1957 | Israeli | |||
| Alexandre Danilevsky | 1957 | Russian-born French | |||
| Don Davis | 1957 | American | Río de Sangre | also composer of film music: The Matrix | |
| Andrew Ford | 1957 | English-born Australian | |||
| Ellen Fullman | 1957 | American | |||
| Jiří Gemrot | 1957 | Czech | |||
| Guan Xia | 1957 | Chinese | Symphonic Overture No. 1 | ||
| Regina Irman | 1957 | Swiss | |||
| Ivo Josipović | 1957 | Croatian | |||
| Elena Kats-Chernin | 1957 | Australian | |||
| Camille Kerger | 1957 | Luxembourg | |||
| Kim Jin-hi | 1957 | South Korean | |||
| David Lang | 1957 | American | The Little Match Girl Passion | ||
| Jorge Liderman | 1957 | 2008 | American | ||
| Paul Moravec | 1957 | American | Spiritdance; Chamber Symphony; Tempest Fantasy; The Time Gallery | ||
| Zurab Nadareishvili | 1957 | Georgian | |||
| Pan Shiji | 1957 | Taiwanese | String Quartet no. 4 | ||
| Gerhard Präsent | 1957 | Austrian | Himmelslicht; Missa minima; Trio intricato | ||
| Gerhard Schedl | 1957 | 2000 | Austrian | Slow, Cello Concerto | |
| Petros Shoujounian | 1957 | Armenian-Canadian | |||
| Cong Su | 1957 | Chinese | |||
| Tan Dun | 1957 | Chinese | Water Passion after St. Matthew | Extended technique, Folk-influenced; also composer of film music: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | |
| Michael Glenn Williams | 1957 | American | |||
| Falko Steinbach | 1957 | German | |||
| Patrick Hawes | 1958 | English | Highgrove Suite; Quanta Qualia; The Land; The Wedding at Cana | ||
| Eve Beglarian | 1958 | Armenian-American | |||
| Karl Gottfried Brunotte | 1958 | German | |||
| Giulio Castagnoli | 1958 | Italian | Concerto for Cello and Double Orchestra; Concerto for Piano and Orchestra; Missa Sancti Evasii | ||
| Oscar van Dillen | 1958 | Dutch | |||
| Paul Elwood | 1958 | American | |||
| Suzanne Giraud | 1958 | French | |||
| Juliana Hall | 1958 | American | |||
| Hanna Havrylets | 1958 | 2022 | Ukrainian | ||
| Richard Kastle | 1958 | American | Neoclassical | ||
| Mark Kilstofte | 1958 | American | |||
| Christian Lindberg | 1958 | Swedish | Arabenne, Mandrake in the Corner | ||
| Magnus Lindberg | 1958 | Finnish | Kraft; Clarinet Concerto | ||
| Mladen Milicevic | 1958 | Bosnian/American | cl? – for prepared clarinet and electronics (1985) | experimental music, sound installation, and film music | |
| Jun Miyake | 1958 | Japanese | |||
| Mo Wuping | 1958 | 1993 | Chinese | ||
| Esa-Pekka Salonen | 1958 | Finnish | LA Variations; Insomnia | ||
| Thomas Simaku | 1958 | Albanian | |||
| Bent Sørensen | 1958 | Danish | |||
| Rafał Stradomski | 1958 | Polish | |||
| Nigel Westlake | 1958 | Australian | |||
| Julia Wolfe | 1958 | American | |||
| Sinta Wullur | 1958 | Indonesian-Dutch | |||
| Akio Yasuraoka | 1958 | Japanese | |||
| Jay Alan Yim | 1958 | American | |||
| Andrew York | 1958 | American | |||
| Hiroaki Zakōji | 1958 | 1987 | Japanese | ||
| Davide Zannoni | 1958 | Italian | |||
| Caroline Ansink | 1959 | Dutch | |||
| Richard Barrett | 1959 | Welsh | Construction | electroacoustic music, improvisation | |
| Kendall Durelle Briggs | 1959 | American | |||
| Sebastian Currier | 1959 | American | |||
| Paul Doornbusch | 1959 | Australian | computer music, electroacoustic music | ||
| Alfio Fazio | 1959 | Italian | |||
| Vladimír Franz | 1959 | Czech | |||
| Lucio Garau | 1959 | Italian | |||
| James Harley | 1959 | Canadian | |||
| Adina Izarra | 1959 | Venezuelan | |||
| Vakhtang Kakhidze | 1959 | Georgian | |||
| Shigeru Kan-no | 1959 | Japanese | Play Station Cycles; Simulation Cycles | ||
| Ana Lara | 1959 | Mexican | |||
| James MacMillan | 1959 | Scottish | The Sacrifice; Veni veni Emmanuel (percussion concerto); The Confession of Isobel Gowdie; St. John Passion; 3 symphonies | ||
| Steve Martland | 1959 | 2013 | English | ||
| John Palmer | 1959 | British | |||
| Victor Rasgado | 1959 | 2023 | Mexican | ||
| Erkki-Sven Tüür | 1959 | Estonian | 6 symphonies; Violin Concerto; Piano Concerto; Searching for Roots | ||
| Nobuo Uematsu | 1959 | Japanese | Liberi Fatali | ||
| Robert Ian Winstin | 1959 | 2010 | American | ||
| Maria de Alvear | 1960 | Spanish-German | |||
| Miguel Álvarez-Fernández | 1979 | Spanish | Auto Sacramental Invisible; Voyelles | electronic music; sound installation; radio art | |
| Dirk Brossé | 1960 | Belgian | |||
| George Benjamin | 1960 | English | Sudden Time; Antara | ||
| Nigel Clarke | 1960 | English | Samurai; A Richer Dust (Symphony No 1.); The Miraculous Violin; Mysteries of the Horizon (Trumpet/Cornet Concerto); Earthrise; Gagarin | ||
| Sidney Corbett | 1960 | American | |||
| Nathan Currier | 1960 | American | Gaian Variations | ||
| Karlheinz Essl, Jr. | 1960 | Austrian | Lexikon-Sonate | electroacoustic and instrumental music | |
| Detlev Glanert | 1960 | German | operas Leyla und Medjnun, Caligula, Solaris | ||
| Osvaldo Golijov | 1960 | Argentine | |||
| Annie Gosfield | 1960 | American | |||
| Julian Grant | 1960 | English | |||
| Georg Hajdu | 1960 | German | |||
| Pertti Jalava | 1960 | Finnish | Music for orchestra (including five symphonies), chamber ensembles, big band, jazz ensembles, wind band and choir | ||
| Aaron Jay Kernis | 1960 | American | Musica Instrumentalis, Colored Field | ||
| Priti Paintal | 1960 | Indian | |||
| Alexander Shchetynsky | 1960 | Ukrainian | |||
| William Susman | 1960 | American | Marimba Montuño (solo); Camille (chamber ensmeble); Trailing Vortices (chamber orchestra); Fate of the Lhapa (film score) | postminimalism; also composer of film music: Native New Yorker | |
| Mark-Anthony Turnage | 1960 | English | Greek; From All Sides; Mambo, Blue and Tarantella (violin concerto); From the Wreckage (trumpet concerto); Fractured Lines (percussion concerto); Five Views of a Mouth (flute concerto); A Fast Stomp | ||
| Ezequiel Viñao | 1960 | Argentine-American | Piano Etudes; The Loss and the Silence; Vivian of Avalon; Saga; The Wanderer; Sirocco Dust | ||
| Ana-Maria Avram | 1961 | 2017 | Romanian | spectral music | |
| John Burge | 1961 | Canadian | |||
| Unsuk Chin | 1961 | South Korean | Alice in Wonderland; Violin Concerto; Fantasie mécanique; Cantatrix Sopranica | ||
| Marc-André Dalbavie | 1961 | French | |||
| Nailia Galiamova | 1961 | Uzbekistani | |||
| Lucio Gregoretti | 1961 | Italian | |||
| Jorge Grundman | 1961 | Spanish | |||
| Daron Hagen | 1961 | American | |||
| Jake Heggie | 1961 | American | Dead Man Walking | ||
| Hanna Kulenty | 1961 | Polish | Ad Unum, Breathe, The Mother of Black Winged-Dreams, Trumpet Concerto, String Quartet No. 4 | ||
| Lowell Liebermann | 1961 | American | |||
| Peter Machajdík | 1961 | Slovak / German | Namah; Double Bayan Concerto; Farewell Fanfares; Lasea; Nell'autunno del suo abbraccio insonne | postminimalism, electronic music | |
| Alo Mattiisen | 1961 | 1996 | Estonian | ||
| Erica Muhl | 1961 | American | Consolation | ||
| Remilson Nery | 1961 | Brazilian | Works for classical guitar, piano, strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion, chamber music, including mixed choir and children’s choir | ||
| Michiru Ōshima | 1961 | Japanese | |||
| Michael Torke | 1961 | American | "Vanada"; Javelin; Rapture (percussion concerto); Ecstatic Orange | ||
| Roman Turovsky-Savchuk | 1961 | Ukrainian/American | Tombeau for Omelyan Kovch | historicist–neo-Baroque | |
| Peter Zagar | 1961 | Slovak | |||
| Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah | 1962 | Egypt | Die Wunderzahl, String Quartet No. 2 "Monamnamat" | electroacoustic, postmodernism | |
| Michael Abels | 1962 | American | Global Warming | ||
| Sylvia Constantinidis | 1962 | Venezuelan-American | |||
| Arne Eigenfeldt | 1962 | Canadian | |||
| Carl Faia | 1962 | American | |||
| Stefano Gervasoni | 1962 | Italian | |||
| Jack Gibbons | 1962 | English | Ave Verum Corpus, Choral works, Serenade for string orchestra, Song cycles, Piano works | ||
| Jennifer Higdon | 1962 | American | |||
| Craig Hella Johnson | 1962 | American | Numerous choral compositions and arrangements | ||
| Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf | 1962 | German | |||
| P. Q. Phan | 1962 | Vietnamese | |||
| Surendran Reddy | 1962 | 2010 | South African | ||
| Rudi Spring | 1962 | German | Heimkunft, chamber symphonies, song cycles | ||
| Kaoru Wada | 1962 | Japanese | |||
| Graham Waterhouse | 1962 | English | Piccolo Quintet, Three Pieces for Solo Cello, Gestural Variations | ||
| Sandeep Bhagwati | 1963 | Indian | opera Ramanujan | ||
| Michel Bosc | 1963 | French | |||
| Philip Cashian | 1963 | British | |||
| Graham Fitkin | 1963 | British | |||
| Michael Zev Gordon | 1963 | British | |||
| Svante Henryson | 1963 | Swedish | |||
| Sophie Lacaze | 1963 | French | |||
| Shinkichi Mitsumune | 1963 | Japanese | |||
| Hikari Ōe | 1963 | Japanese | |||
| John Pickard | 1963 | British | |||
| Fausto Romitelli | 1963 | 2004 | Italian | ||
| Calliope Tsoupaki | 1963 | Greek | |||
| Hana Vejvodová | 1963 | 1994 | Czech | Brass Quintet | |
| Edson Zampronha | 1963 | Brazilian | Lamenti, Recycling Collaging Sampling, Concert for Piano N.1, Modelagem X-a | ||
| Luca Belcastro | 1964 | Italian | |||
| Marco Betta | 1964 | Italian | |||
| Scott Boerma | 1964 | American | |||
| Boris Böhmann | 1964 | German | |||
| Gregers Brinch | 1964 | Danish | |||
| Jörgen Dafgård | 1964 | Swedish | For the Sleeping – Dream Sonata | ||
| Judy Dunaway | 1964 | American | avant-garde | ||
| Julia Gomelskaya | 1964 | 2016 | Ukrainian | ||
| Fiona Joy Hawkins | 1964 | Australian | |||
| Jun Nagao | 1964 | Japanese | |||
| Javier Parrado | 1964 | Bolivian | |||
| Cristian Pațurcă | 1964 | 2011 | Romanian | ||
| Richard Rijnvos | 1964 | Dutch | Block Beuys | ||
| Anton Batagov | 1965 | Russian | post-minimalist | ||
| Irina Bogushevskaya | 1965 | Russian | |||
| Zana Clarke | 1965 | Australian | |||
| Carin Bartosch Edström | 1965 | Swedish | |||
| Moritz Eggert | 1965 | German | |||
| Thierry Escaich | 1965 | French | |||
| Yoshiki Hayashi | 1965 | Japanese | |||
| Yuri Khanon | 1965 | Russian | The Shagreen Bone, The Symphony of Dogs, The Middle Symphony, Agonia Dei, What Zarathustra Said Indeed | polystylism, neoclassicism | |
| Gordon McPherson | 1965 | Scottish | |||
| Peter Nardone | 1965 | Scottish | |||
| Bernd Redmann | 1965 | German | opera Die Gehetzten, orchestra Fiasko, chamber Migrant | ||
| Georgia Spiropoulos | 1965 | Greek | Klama, for mixed choir & live electronics | avant-garde | |
| Paul Steenhuisen | 1965 | Canadian | |||
| Mats Wendt | 1965 | Eddan – The Invincible Sword of the Elf-Smith | |||
| Roberto Carnevale | 1966 | Italian | Linae (1992–1995) | ||
| Nicholas Frances Chase | 1966 | American | |||
| Juan J. Colomer | 1966 | Spanish | La complicidad del espectro | ||
| Dorothy Hindman | 1966 | American | drowningXnumbers, Magic City for orchestra | ||
| Jan Müller-Wieland | 1966 | German | operas Gastspiel, Komödie ohne Titel, Das Märchen der 672. Nacht | ||
| John Psathas | 1966 | New Zealand | |||
| Juan María Solare | 1966 | Argentine | |||
| Donald Reid Womack | 1966 | American | |||
| Julian Anderson | 1967 | British | |||
| Mark Applebaum | 1967 | American | |||
| Derek Bermel | 1967 | American | |||
| Sansan Chien | 1967 | 2011 | Chinese | ||
| Salvatore Di Vittorio | 1967 | Italian | |||
| Amos Elkana | 1967 | Israeli | |||
| Jens Josef | 1967 | German | Musik für Flöte(n), Viola und Kontrabass, chamber music | ||
| Andreas Kunstein | 1967 | Dutch | |||
| Olli Mustonen | 1967 | Finnish | |||
| Alberto Posadas | 1967 | Spanish | |||
| Eric Qin | 1967 | 1993 | American | experimental music | |
| Christopher Theofanidis | 1967 | American | |||
| Xu Yi | 1967 | Chinese | |||
| Jun Yamaguchi | 1967 | Japanese | |||
| Hiroyuki Yamamoto | 1967 | Japanese | |||
| Laura Andel | 1968 | Argentine | |||
| Joe Cutler | 1968 | British | |||
| Jens Joneleit | 1968 | German | operas Der Brand, Piero &‐ Ende der Nacht, Metanoia. Über das Denken hinaus | ||
| Johannes Kretz | 1968 | Austrian | |||
| Francisco Lara | 1968 | Spanish | |||
| Olga Neuwirth | 1968 | Austrian | avant-garde | ||
| Roxanna Panufnik | 1968 | English | Westminster Mass | ||
| Alwynne Pritchard | 1968 | British | |||
| Victoria Borisova-Ollas | 1969 | Russian-Swedish | Wings of the Wind | ||
| Nicola Campogrande | 1969 | Italian | |||
| Andrea Cera | 1969 | Italian | Electroacoustic | ||
| Johanna Doderer | 1969 | Austrian | Opera | ||
| Ciarán Farrell | 1969 | Irish | |||
| Pierre Kolp | 1969 | Belgian | avant-garde | ||
| Yannis Kyriakides | 1969 | Cypriot | |||
| Jocelyn Morlock | 1969 | Canadian | |||
| Patrick Nunn | 1969 | British | |||
| Roy Zu-Arets | 1969 | American-Israeli | |||
| Michel van der Aa | 1970 | Dutch | After Life | ||
| Rodolfo Acosta | 1970 | Colombian | |||
| David Bruce | 1970 | British-American | |||
| Fred Momotenko | 1970 | Russian-Dutch | |||
| Graziella Concas | 1970 | Italian | |||
| Donnacha Dennehy | 1970 | Irish | |||
| Daniel Felsenfeld | 1970 | American | Insomnia Redux | ||
| Ivan Iusco | 1970 | Italian-American | Neoclassicism | ||
| Arlene Sierra | 1970 | American | |||
| Fazıl Say | 1970 | Turkish | 1001 Nights in the Harem, Istanbul Symphony | Piano symphony Turkish music (style) | |
| Eric Whitacre | 1970 | American | Cloudburst, Lux Aurumque, Water Night | choral music | |
| Thomas Adès | 1971 | English | Powder Her Face; Asyla; Traced Overhead | ||
| Yoshino Aoki | 1971 | Japanese | |||
| Richard Causton | 1971 | English | |||
| Carlo Forlivesi | 1971 | Italian | Requiem | ||
| Michael Hersch | 1971 | American | Symphony No. 1; Fracta; Arraché | ||
| Klaus Lang | 1971 | Austrian | |||
| Paweł Mykietyn | 1971 | Polish | |||
| Takatomi Nobunaga | 1971 | Japanese | String Quartet | ||
| Guto Puw | 1971 | Welsh | |||
| Tomomi Adachi | 1972 | Japanese | |||
| Natasha Barrett | 1972 | British | electroacoustic | ||
| Hiba Kawas | 1972 | Lebanese | |||
| Bappa Mazumder | 1972 | Bangladeshi | |||
| Kevin Puts | 1972 | American | |||
| André Ristic | 1972 | Canadian | |||
| Lera Auerbach | 1973 | Russian | |||
| J. Ryan Garber | 1973 | American | Parabolisms; Resonances | ||
| Nihad Hrustanbegovic | 1973 | Bosnian-Dutch | Stork suite; Sevdah Medieval Rhapsody | minimalism; also a composer of film music, and an improviser | |
| Mindia Khitarishvili | 1973 | Georgian | |||
| Andrew March | 1973 | English | Marine — à travers les arbres | ||
| Jörg Widmann | 1973 | German | Fantasie for Solo Clarinet; First String Quartet | ||
| Kristoffer Zegers | 1973 | Dutch | |||
| Ehesuma | 1974 | Chinese | |||
| Marek Brezovský | 1974 | 1994 | Slovak | ||
| Derek Charke | 1974 | Canadian | Past Winters Solstice, for piano trio | ||
| Julian Cochran | 1974 | English-born Australian | |||
| Sophie Viney | 1974 | English | Music of the Spheres | ||
| Tim Benjamin | 1975 | Anglo-French | |||
| Avner Dorman | 1975 | Israeli | |||
| Bongani Ndodana-Breen | 1975 | South African | |||
| Olesya Rostovskaya | 1975 | Russian | Concert for oboe | ||
| Đuro Živković | 1975 | Serbian-Swedish | |||
| Ali Ahmadifar | 1976 | Iranian | |||
| Pritom Ahmed | 1976 | Bangladeshi | |||
| Svitlana Azarova | 1976 | Ukrainian Dutch | Diagram for 5 cellos | ||
| Tomi Räisänen | 1976 | Finnish | A Walk Through the Fields of Symmetry | ||
| Frederik Magle | 1977 | Danish | Concerto for organ and orchestra | ||
| Wu Fei | 1977 | Chinese | |||
| Daniel Hensel | 1978 | German | |||
| Jimmy López | 1978 | Peruvian | Arco de luz | ||
| Tarik O'Regan | 1978 | British-American | Ave Maria | ||
| Mehdi Hosseini | 1979 | Iranian | |||
| Christophe Bertrand | 1981 | 2010 | French | ||
| Sergio Cervetti | 1940 | Uruguayan-American | Lux Lucet in Tenebris |
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