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Morton Feldman
American avant-garde composer
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David Tudor
American pianist and composer
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Henry Cowell
American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario
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Christian Wolff
American composer
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Howard Skempton
British composer and accordionist
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La Monte Young
American avant-garde composer
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Tōru Takemitsu
Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory (1930-1996)
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James Tenney
American composer and music theorist
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Charles Ives
American composer
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Leonard Stein
American conductor and musicologist
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Pierre Boulez
French composer, conductor, writer and pianist
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Giacinto Scelsi
Italian composer and poet
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Alvin Lucier
American composer of experimental music and sound installations
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Lou Harrison
American composer
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Steve Reich
American composer
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Philip Glass
American composer and pianist
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Debora Petrina
Italian musician
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Arnold Schoenberg
Austrian-American composer (1874-1951)
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Aaron Copland
American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor
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Russ Lossing
American jazz musician
