5 bonafide masterpieces written during the 1970s

[Karl Henning]

Louis Andriessen, De staat
John Adams, Shaker Loops
Chas Wuorinen, Archæopteryx
Shostakovich, Viola Sonata
Holmboe, Quartetto rustico

I stand by this 

[Maestro267]

So much wrong with the thread title it hurts. There are NO masterpieces, bona fide or otherwise. Get your thread titles right (this applies to everyone) and I'll contribute.

[Drasko]

Xenakis - Jonchaies
Schnittke - Piano Quintet
Part - Variations for Healing of Arinushka
Birtwistle - Chronometer
Reich - Music for 18 Musicians

[Keep Going]

There are NO masterpieces, bona fide or otherwise.

Nah, there are. It's just that some of us have a better knack for identifying them.

[Karl Henning]

There are NO masterpieces, bona fide or otherwise.

What do you mean, please?

[The new erato]

[
Havergal Brian Symphony No.32 (1968...so close  )
Berio Sinfonia (1969...so close  )


Sarge

In tht case I nominate the Pettersson 8th.....

[Overtones]

Wow, how has western culture reached the point where the word "masterpiece" is rejected and its concept despised?

Do we really have to obey to the intolerant relativistic "correctness" that throws a grey blanket of flatness over everything?

Is it not polite for someone to say that in their opinion one work is better than another?

Or... Are you guys just joking, hopefully?

/rant

[Ken B]

Glass: Satyagraha
Adams: Christian Zeal and Activity
Rautavaara: Vigilia
Part: Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 15

Great list, but one piece needs inclusion:
Bryars, Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet, which is, surprisingly from the 70s. Sub for the Rautavaara.

[Ken B]

bona fide is two words.  Justsaying.

FTFY

[Ken B]

Gavin Bryars wrote two masterpieces of experimental music in the 1970s, The Sinking of the Titanic (1969-1972) and Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (1971).

sanantonio, minimalist??

[Turner]

Agree in particular concerning

Shosty 15 + Messiaen "Des Canyons ..."

Also, on top of my head,

Petterson 2nd Violin Concerto
Pärt Tabula Rasa
Nørgård 3rd Symphony

[ahinton]

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 15
Pettersson: Symphony No. 10
Tippett: Triple Concerto
Sorabji: Piano Symphony No. 6
Rubbra: Symphony No. 9

[Monsieur Croche]

So much wrong with the thread title it hurts. There are NO masterpieces, bona fide or otherwise. Get your thread titles right (this applies to everyone) and I'll contribute.

With all due respect, I suggest looking the word up before you embarrass yourself further in demonstrating your lack of understanding of its meaning, and then that iconic light bulb of gestalt will flick on, letting you see that -- by definition -- there are pieces by master composers littered all through the time line of music history, including from the 1970's

mas·ter·piece
ˈmastərˌpēs/
noun
noun: masterpiece; plural noun: masterpieces

    a work of outstanding artistry, skill, or workmanship.
    "a great literary masterpiece"
        an artist's or craftsman's best piece of work.
        "the painting is arguably Picasso's masterpiece"
        synonyms:   pièce de résistance, chef-d'œuvre, masterwork, magnum opus, finest/best work, tour de force
        "Vivaldi's masterpiece"
        historical
        a piece of work by a craftsman accepted as qualification for membership of a guild as an acknowledged master.


Best regards

[Madiel]

Holmboe, Symphony No.10.

In my personal opinion perhaps his finest.

[Monsieur Croche]

Olivier Messiaen ~ Des canyons aux étoiles (1974)

Elliott Carter ~ A Symphony of Three Orchestras (1976)
Steve Reich ~ Music for Eighteen Musicians (1976)

Luciano Berio ~ Coro for forty voices and instruments (1977)
György Ligeti ~ Le Grand Macabre (1977)

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

If you want five, then pick five from here, all are masterpieces as far as I am concerned:

Boulez: cummings ist der dichter
Boulez: Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna
Boulez: Multiples (Just pretend Éclat isn't attached to it because that's from the 60s)
Boulez: Messagesquisse
Cage: Etudes Australis
Feldman: The Viola in my Life (all parts of it I suppose)
Feldman: Why Patterns?
Berio: Cries of London
Berio: Eindrücke
Berio: Chemins IV
Berio: Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra
Grisey: Les Espaces Acoustiques (movements I to IV)
Dufourt: Antiphysis
Ligeti: Three Pieces for Two Pianos
Ligeti: Le Grand Macabre
Ligeti: Chamber Concerto (if I can just squeeze it in because the last movement was written in 1970)
Ferneyhough: Time and Motion Study II
Ferneyhough: Funérailles I
Xenakis: Erikhthon
Xenakis: Jonchaies
Xenakis: Phlegra
Birtwistle: Silbury Air
Birtwistle: The Triumph of Time
Lutosławski: Preludes and a Fugue
Lutoslawski: Variations of a Theme by Paganini
Carter: A Mirror on Which to Dwell
Carter: A Symphony of Three Orchestras
Copland: Night Thoughts
Britten: Phaedra
Britten: Death in Venice
Stockhausen: Donnerstag aus Licht
Stockhausen: Tierkreis
Stockhausen: Mantra
Crumb: Music for a Summer Evening
Crumb: Black Angels
Crumb: Ancient Voices of Children
Crumb: Vox Balaenae
Messiaen: Des canyons aux étoiles...
Shostakovich: String Quartet no. 13
Schnittke: Symphony no. 1
Schnittke: Concerto Grosso no. 1
Ginastera: Popol Vuh
Ginastera: String Quartet no. 3
Ginastera: Sonata for Guitar
Ginastera: Piano Concerto no. 2
Rautavaara: Cantus Arcticus
Rautavaara: Violin Concerto
Takemitsu: Quatrain
Takemitsu: In an Autumn Garden
Takemitsu: A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden
Brouwer: La Espiral Eterna
Brouwer: Tarantos
Andriessen: Hoketus
Reich: Drumming
Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
Reich: Octet
Glass: Einstein on the Beach
Dutilleux: Ainsi la nuit
Dutilleux: Tout un monde lointain
Dutilleux: Timbres, espace, mouvement

That's it for now

[Gaspard de la nuit]

Very difficult to list only five...

Ligeti - Clocks and Clouds (or Melodien, or San Francisco Polyphony  - they would make a nice trilogy)
Dutilleux - Timbres, Espace, Mouvement (or Ainsi la nuit, or Tout un monde lointain)
Birtwistle - Meridian (or The Triumph of Time)
Nørgård - Symphony No. 3
Feldman - Violin and Orchestra (or The Viola in My Life)

Honorable mention:
Boulez - Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna
Murail - Territoires de l'oubli (or Ethers)
Henze - Tristan
Lutosławski - Mi-parti (or Cello Concerto)
Berio - points on the curve to find... (or Linea)

[torut]

Bryars: Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (1972)
Reich: Music for 18 Musicians (1974-76)
Nyman: 1–100 (1976)
Simeon ten Holt: Canto Ostinato (1976-1979)
Cage: Freeman Etudes Books I & II (1977-80)

[arpeggio]

I like this thread and have learned about many new works to explore but GRRRRR I could not find one single concert band work.

Vincent Persichetti: Parable IX for Band, op.121, 1972
Norman Dello Joio: Satiric Dances for a Comedy by Aristophanes for band, 1975.  I have performed this work several times.
Karel Husa: Apotheosis of This Earth 1970
Alfred Reed: Armenian Dances 1972/1975. I have performed this work several times.
W. Francis McBeth: Kaddish 1975. I have performed this work several times.

Honorable Mention:  Robert Jager's Symphony No. 2 The Seal of Three Laws (1978).  I am not that crazy about Jager.  Sometimes his music can be a bit run-of-the-mill.  Some may find his ideas interesting. 

[Overtones]

In chronological order

1970: George Crumb \ Black Angels
1976: Alfred Shnitke \ Piano quintet <--- optima fide
1976: Henry Gorecki \ Symphony of sorrowful songs
1976: Luciano Berio \ Sequenza VIII
1977: Arvo Part \ Fratres


...and while I'm at it, if I can add 5 more from the non-classical domain...

1971: Fabrizio De André \ Non al denaro, non all'amore né al cielo
1971: Faust \ Faust
1972: Sun Ra \ Space Is the Place
1976: Tom Waits \ Small Change
1977: Suicide \ Suicide