List of postmodernist composers
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Lists of composers by philosophical stance: Postmodernist composers
Canada
[edit]- John Oswald (born 1953)[1]
Estonia
[edit]Finland
[edit]- Kaija Saariaho (1952–2023)[3]
France
[edit]- Pierre Boulez (1925–2016)[4]
- René Leibowitz (1913–1972)[5]
- Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)[5]
Germany
[edit]- Hans-Jürgen von Bose (born 1953)[6]
- Hans-Christian von Dadelsen (born 1948)[6]
- Heiner Goebbels (born 1952)[7]
- Wilhelm Killmayer (1927–2017)[6]
- Detlev Müller-Siemens (born 1957)[6]
- Wolfgang Rihm (born 1952)[7]
Greece
[edit]- Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001) [8]
Hungary
[edit]- György Ligeti (1923–2006) [9]
Italy
[edit]- Luciano Berio (1925–2003)[10]
- Aldo Clementi (1925–2011)[11]
- Luigi Nono (1924–1990)[12]
Norway
[edit]- Marcus Paus (born 1979)[13]
Poland
[edit]- Henryk Górecki (1933–2010)[14]
- Zygmunt Krauze (born 1938)[15]
United Kingdom
[edit]- Thomas Adès (born 1971)[16]
- Harrison Birtwistle (1934–2022)[14]
- Cornelius Cardew (1936–1981)[17]
- Brian Eno (born 1948)[18]
- Brian Ferneyhough (born 1943)[19]
- John Tavener (1944–2013)[14]
United States
[edit]- 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
[edit]Sources
[edit]- ^ 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. ISBN 0-8108-6765-6.
- ^ 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
- ^ Alastair Williams, Between modernism and postmodernism, The Routledge Research Companion to Modernism in Music, (Routledge, 2019). ISBN 9781315613291
- ^ Christopher Butler, After the Wake: An Essay on the Contemporary Avant-Garde (Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1980): p. 7; Nadia Mankowskaya, "L'esthétique musicale et le postmodernisme", New Sound: International Magazine for Music, no. 1 (1993): 91–100, citation on p. 91; Christian Ofenbauer, "Vom Faltenlegen: Versuch einer Lektüre von Pierre Boulez' Notation(s) I(1)", Musik-Konzepte, nos. 89–90 (1995): pp. 55–75 (passim); Nadežda Andreevna Petrusëva, "Новая форма в новейшей музыке" [The Formal Innovations of Postmodern Music], Muzyka i vremâ: Ežemesâčnyj naučnyj kritiko-publicističeskij žurnal, no. 8 (2003): 45–48, citation on p. 45.
- ^ a b Christopher Butler, After the Wake: An Essay on the Contemporary Avant-Garde (Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1980): p. 7.
- ^ a b c d 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.
- ^ a b David Beard and Kenneth Gloag, Musicology: The Key Concepts (New York: Routledge, 2005): p. 142. ISBN 978-0-415-31692-7.
- ^ Mâche, François Bernard, ed. (2001). Portrait(s) de Iannis Xenakis. Portrait(s). Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France. ISBN 978-2-7177-2178-2.
- ^ Searby, Michael D. (2010). Ligeti's stylistic crisis: transformation in his musical style, 1974-1985. Lanham (Md.): Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7250-9.
- ^ 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. ISBN 0-8153-3820-1.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Christopher Butler, After the Wake: An Essay on the Contemporary Avant-Garde (Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press,1980): p. 7.
- ^ Rickards, Guy (2017). "PAUS Odes & Elegies". Gramophone.
- ^ a b c David Beard and Kenneth Gloag, Musicology: The Key Concepts (New York: Routledge, 2005): p. 143. ISBN 978-0-415-31692-7.
- ^ Jonathan Kramer, "The Nature and Origins of Musical Postmodernism", in Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought, edited by Judy Lochhead and Joseph Aunder, pp. 13–26 (New York: Routledge, 2002): p. 13. ISBN 0-8153-3820-1.
- ^ Christopher Fox, "Tempestuous Times: The Recent Music of Thomas Adès", The Musical Times 145, No. 1888 (Autumn 2004): 41–56, citation on p. 53.
- ^ a b c 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).
- ^ 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. ISBN 0-8108-6765-6.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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. ISBN 0-8153-3820-1.
- ^ Nicole V. Gagné, Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2012): pp. 12, 19. ISBN 0-8108-6765-6.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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. ISBN 0-8108-6765-6.
- ^ 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) (subscription required).
- ^ 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. ISBN 0-8153-3820-1.
- ^ David Beard and Kenneth Gloag, Musicology: The Key Concepts (New York: Routledge, 2005): p. 144. ISBN 978-0-415-31692-7.
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