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memyselfandus · Post by **memyselfandus** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 3:16 am

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

Dewdman42 · Post by **Dewdman42** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 11:12 pm

Define modern

memyselfandus · Post by **memyselfandus** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:56 am

1930-2007 or so

herboriseria · Post by **herboriseria** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:44 am

PHILIP GLASS
JOHN ADAMS

skipscada · Post by **skipscada** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:51 am

Robert Muczynski is worth more than one listen. You find some of his works on very reasonably priced Naxos records, with the composer himself playing the piano.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Muczynski

http://www.naxos.com/composerinfo/722.htm

Leeate · Post by **Leeate** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 4:20 pm

Mike Oldfield

Lance · Post by **Lance** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 4:35 pm

Hans Zimmer, Philip Glass

Download SOphist · Post by **Download SOphist** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 4:38 pm

Thelonious Monk, Bartok, Villa-Lobos, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Mary Lou Williams. No why, just my favourites. Sorry.

@skipscada: thanks for the sugestion

gravehill · Post by **gravehill** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 5:12 pm

Krsysztof Penderecki, Arvo Pärt, György Ligeti, Eino-Juhani Rautavaara.

Special mention for Stravinsky.

Dominus · Post by **Dominus** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 5:15 pm

Hell, I'll go with the most obvious ones.. not the most "talented" as some people would say, but the most recognizable..

John Williams
Danny Elfman
Jerry Goldsmith

*I* like them.

I prefer powerful orchestral writing... if it's not loud, it's not music.

asomers · Post by **asomers** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 5:32 pm

Morton subotnick
karlheinz stockhausen
iannis Xenakis
curtis roads
jonty harrison
harry partch
james tenney
steve reich
takemitsu
Olivier Messiaen
george crumb
luciano berio
Gyorgi ligeti

These composers I like because they seem to prevent concept from ruining aesthetics

EDIT: some recommendations

Morton subotnick - Touch/sky of cloudless sulphur

curtis roads - Point line cloud
jonty harrison - articles indefinis
steve reich - music for 18 musicians, drumming, piano phase
Olivier Messiaen - quartet for the end of time
george crumb - voice of the whale
Gyorgi ligeti - Lux Aeterna

rp314 · Post by **rp314** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:42 am

Besides some of those already mentioned:

Anton Webern
Charles Ives
Conlon Nancarrow
Edgar Varese
Pierre Boulez

agincourtdb · Post by **agincourtdb** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:46 am

I'll +1 Adams, Reich, Penderecki, and Part.

herodotus · Post by **herodotus** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 2:44 am

I'll break with the trend and name Schoenberg: opus 24 baby!

Bartok was the best by far (I have this on good authority) but Arnold was a pretty cool cat. Don't let his doctrinaire imitators fool you.

Nancarrow was also way cool. Varese was visionary, and his teacher Busoni is horribly underrated.

Webern was also very cool.

But if I continue, I will have no time left for work, because the era from 1890-1951 (Arnold's demise marks the end of the era to me) is the most fascinating era in music history to me.

kermitt8 · Post by **kermitt8** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:42 am

Jordan Rudess

- Check out scenes from a memory
Danny Elfman

Best Modern Composers