List of postmodernist composers explained

Lists of composers by philosophical stance: Postmodernist composers

Canada

• John Oswald (born 1953)^[1]

Estonia

• Arvo Pärt (born 1935)^[2]

Finland

• Kaija Saariaho (1952–2023)^[3]

France

• Pierre Boulez (1925–2016)^[4]
• René Leibowitz (1913–1972)^[5]
• Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)

Germany

• Hans-Jürgen von Bose (born 1953)^[6]
• Hans-Christian von Dadelsen (born 1948)^[6]
• Heiner Goebbels (born 1952)
• Wilhelm Killmayer (1927–2017)^[6]
• Detlev Müller-Siemens (born 1957)^[6]
• Wolfgang Rihm (born 1952)^[7]

Greece

• Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001) ^[8]

Hungary

• György Ligeti (1923–2006) ^[9]

Italy

• Luciano Berio (1925–2003)^[10]
• Aldo Clementi (1925–2011)^[11]
• Luigi Nono (1924–1990)^[12]

Norway

• Marcus Paus (born 1979)^[13]

Poland

• Henryk Górecki (1933–2010)
• Zygmunt Krauze (born 1938)^[14]

United Kingdom

• Thomas Adès (born 1971)^[15]
• Harrison Birtwistle (1934–2022)^[16]
• Cornelius Cardew (1936–1981)^[17]
• Brian Eno (born 1948)^[18]
• Brian Ferneyhough (born 1943)^[19]
• John Tavener (1944–2013)

United States

• John Adams (born 1947)^[20]
• Robert Ashley (1930–2014)^[21]
• William Bolcom (born 1938)^[22]
• Henry Brant (1913–2008)^[23]
• Earle Brown (1926–2002)^[17]
• John Cage (1912–1992)^[24]
• John Corigliano (born 1938)^[25]
• Morton Feldman (1926–1987)^[17]
• Philip Glass (born 1937)^[26]

See also

• Modernism
• Postmodernism

Notes and References

1. Nicole V. Gagné, Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2012): pp. 199–200. .
2. Maria Cizmic, Transcending the Icon: Spirituality and Postmodernism in Arvo Pärt’s Tabula Rasa and Spiegel im Spiegel, Twentieth-Century Music 5, no. 1 (March 2008): 45-78
3. Alastair Williams, Between modernism and postmodernism, The Routledge Research Companion to Modernism in Music, (Routledge, 2019).
4. [Christopher Butler (literary scholar)|Christopher Butler]
5. Christopher Butler, After the Wake: An Essay on the Contemporary Avant-Garde (Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1980): p. 7.
6. Beate Kutschke, "The Celebration of Beethoven’s Bicentennial in 1970: The Antiauthoritarian Movement and Its Impact on Radical Avant-garde and Postmodern Music in West Germany", The Musical Quarterly 93, nos. 3–4 (Fall–Winter 2010): 560–615, citation on p. 582.
7. David Beard and Kenneth Gloag, Musicology: The Key Concepts (New York: Routledge, 2005): p. 142. .
8. Book: Portrait(s) de Iannis Xenakis . 2001 . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 978-2-7177-2178-2 . Mâche . François Bernard . Portrait(s) . Paris.
9. Book: Searby, Michael D. . Ligeti's stylistic crisis: transformation in his musical style, 1974-1985 . 2010 . Scarecrow Press . 978-0-8108-7250-9 . Lanham (Md.).
10. Steven Connor, "The Decomposing Voice of Postmodern Music". New Literary History 32, no. 3: Voice and Human Experience (Summer 2001): 467–83, citation on pp. 477–78; Jonathan Kramer, "The Nature and Origins of Musical Postmodernism", in Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought, edited by Judy Lochhead and Joseph Aunder, 13–26 (New York: Routledge, 2002): p. 14. .
11. Geoffrey Morris, "The Guitar Works of Aldo Clementi", Contemporary Music Review 28, no. 6 (Aldo Clementi: Mirror of time I, 2009): pp. 559–86, citation on 559.
12. Christopher Butler, After the Wake: An Essay on the Contemporary Avant-Garde (Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press,1980): p. 7.
13. Rickards . Guy. 2017 . PAUS Odes & Elegies . Gramophone .
14. [Jonathan Kramer]
15. [Christopher Fox (composer)|Christopher Fox]
16. David Beard and Kenneth Gloag, Musicology: The Key Concepts (New York: Routledge, 2005): p. 143. .
17. Georgina Born, Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1995): p. 56).
18. Nicole V. Gagné, Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2012): pp. 90–91. .
19. Robert Carl, "Six Case Studies in New American Music: A Postmodern Portrait Gallery", College Music Symposium 30, no. 1 (Spring 1990): pp. 45–63, citation on pp. 45–48.
20. Robert Carl, "Six Case Studies in New American Music: A Postmodern Portrait Gallery", College Music Symposium 30, no. 1 (Spring 1990): pp. 45–63, citations on pp. 45, 51–54; Jonathan Kramer, "The Nature and Origins of Musical Postmodernism", in Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought, edited by Judy Lochhead and Joseph Aunder, 13–26 (New York: Routledge, 2002): p. 13. .
21. Nicole V. Gagné, Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2012): pp. 12, 19. .
22. Robert Carl, "Six Case Studies in New American Music: A Postmodern Portrait Gallery", College Music Symposium 30, no. 1 (Spring 1990): pp. 45–63, citation on pp. 45, 59–63.
23. Nicole V. Gagné, Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2012): pp. 44–45, 208. .
24. Georgina Born, Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1995): p. 56; Jann Pasler, "Postmodernism", Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online (accessed 11 December 2015) .
25. Jonathan Kramer, "The Nature and Origins of Musical Postmodernism", in Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought, edited by Judy Lochhead and Joseph Aunder, 13–26 (New York: Routledge, 2002): p. 14. .
26. David Beard and Kenneth Gloag, Musicology: The Key Concepts (New York: Routledge, 2005): p. 144. .