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Brian Ferneyhough

British composer

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Gérard Grisey

French composer

2

Steve Reich

American composer

3

Kaija Saariaho

Finnish composer

4

Louis Andriessen

Dutch composer and pianist

5

Arvo Pärt

Estonian composer

6

Fausto Romitelli

Italian composer

7

Georges Aperghis

Greek composer of contemporary music living in France

8

George Benjamin

British composer, conductor, pianist and teacher

9

Hélène Breschand

10

Claude Debussy

French composer

11

Darius Milhaud

French composer, conductor and teacher (1892-1974)

12

Unsuk Chin

South Korean composer

13

Thomas Adès

British composer, pianist and conductor

14

Graham Waterhouse

English composer

15

Tōru Takemitsu

Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory (1930-1996)

16

Harrison Birtwistle

British composer

17

Georg Friedrich Haas

Austrian composer

18

Terry Riley

American composer and performing musician

19

Jeanne Deroubaix

mezzo-soprano

20

Paul Dukas

French composer

21

Michel van der Aa

Dutch composer

22

Clarice Assad

American musician and singer

23

André Jolivet

French composer

24

Charles Koechlin

French composer, teacher and writer on music

25

Frank Ticheli

American composer

26

Philip Glass

American composer and pianist

27

Shulamit Ran

American composer

28

Edison Denisov

Russian Soviet composer

29

Éliane Radigue

French musician and composer

30

Igor Stravinsky

Russian composer, pianist and conductor

31

Edgard Varèse

French composer

32

Paul Méfano

French composer

33

Josquin des Prez

Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance

34

Michael Mantler

Austrian musician

35

Giacinto Scelsi

Italian composer and poet

36

Toshio Hosokawa

Japanese composer of contemporary classical music