Modern Classical Music

Modernism 

-early 20th century-

composers:

Charles Ives (American)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ives

Elliott Carter (American)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Carter

George Gershwin (American)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gershwin

Arnold Schoenberg (Austrian)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schoenberg

Alban Berg (Austrian)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alban_Berg

Anton Webern (Austrian)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Webern

Bela Bartok (Hungarian)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Bart%C3%B3k

Heitor Villa-Lobos (Brazilian)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heitor_Villa-Lobos

Igor Stravinsky (Russian)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Stravinsky

Sergei Prokofiev (Russian)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Prokofiev

Dmitri Shostakovich (Russian)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich

Edgard Varèse (French)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgard_Var%C3%A8se

Olivier Messiaen (French)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Messiaen

-mid 20th century-

John Cage (American)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cage

Benjamin Britten (English)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Britten

Witold Lutosławski (Polish)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Lutos%C5%82awski

György Ligeti (Hungarian)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Ligeti

Pierre Boulez (French)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Boulez

Karlheinz Stockhausen (German)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlheinz_Stockhausen

Minimalism

-1960s onwards-

composers:

Arvo Pärt (Estonian)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvo_P%C3%A4rt

La Monte Young (American)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Monte_Young

Steve Reich (American)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Reich

Terry Riley (American)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Riley

Philip Glass (American)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Glass