I have a thread running on pre 20th century composers.
Here is the follow up - what are your fave 20th century composers?
I'm going Shostakovich and Philip Glass.
Oh, and Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin.
Ralph Vaughn Williams, Shostakovich, Arvo Part
Arvo Part - respect, man.
Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Don Ellis.
Aaron Copeland and Knut Nystedt.
Copeland. Good one. The common man needs more fanfare.
Do you include Rachmaninoff in the 20th century? He died in 1943. In a different genre was Duke Ellington, a true jazz master.
I think we can be flexible about this. The Rach does seem to me to be 20th century.
I like Shostakovich.
The Brodsky Quartet did an amazing set of his string quartets: