Best Modern Composers

[memyselfandus]

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[nonform_noise]

George Gershwin
John Cage

[Guitarslayer]

Or better, who are "Your" favorite "Modern" composers and why?
And what cd's should we check out?

Toni Kakko, Sonata Arctica

Refreshes the metal genre and combines it with a sense of musical-feel to it. I love all their albums, but this last one has some nice theatrical touch to it.

Search for Sonata Arctica - Days of Grays on spotify.

[Winstontaneous]

If by modern we're talking 20th century music, then (in vaguely chronological order) these are a lot of the musicians whom I greatly respect:

- Aleksandyr Scriabin ()
- Rachmaninoff
- Shostakovich
- Django Rheinhardt
- G.I. Gurdjieff/Thomas de Hartmann
- Miles Davis
- John Coltrane
- Brian Wilson
- The Beatles
- Talking Heads/David Byrne
- Fugazi
- Autechre
- Aphex Twin
- Radiohead

There are a lot of other artists and bands, of course, but all these people achieved something great in compositional terms.

Never seen Gurdjieff name-checked alongside Fugazi and Radiohead, but I'm all for it!

Some of my favorites:
-Claude Debussy
-Duke Ellington
-Brian Eno
-Nina Simone
-Bob Dylan--IMO his stuff from the last 10 years is the best of his career--an incredible synthesis of American musical history
-U2
-John Luther Adams
-Wayne Shorter--he has this incredible way of creating short, simple circular structures that never get old
-Joni Mitchell
-Charles Mingus

[peppy197]

Has anyone mentionned Claude deBussy?

My two main artists that I am trying to learn to play off are Miles Davis as arranged by Edstrom and Claude deBussy's favorites.

allen

edit: I am blind. The previous post had he as the very first in a list.