Top 10 post 1950 composers

[JBS]

In no particular order
Part
Ligeti
Carter
Roberto Sierra
John Adams
Corigliano
Boulez
Henning
Xenakis
Arnold

Xenakis is more a composer I "like what he does" than a composer I like (does that make sense?)

[some guy]

The females are weighing in at less than 10%, which is slightly* less than their actual contributions.

Pauline Oliveros
Maryanne Amacher
Christina Kubisch
Michèle Bokanowski
Alice Shields
Beatriz Ferreyra
Andrea Neumann
Sachiko M
Katsura Mouri
Natasha Barrett
Agata Zubel
Christine Groult
Carola Bauckholt
Anna Clyne
Lidia Zielińska
Elsa Justel
Suzanne Dycus-Gendreau
Iris ter Schiphorst
Brunhild Ferrari
Ana-Maria Avram
Gráinne Mulvey
Françoise Barrière
Zeena Parkins
Diamanda Galas
Katarzyna Glowicka
Annie Gosfield
Eliane Radigue
Hilda Westerkamp
Monique Jean
Annette Vande Gorne
Elainie Lillios
Roxanne Turcotte
Lucie Vítková

OK, that's my attempt to get that percentage slightly more balanced.

*sarcasm

[Overtones]

I once interviewed Andrea Neumann for an Italian webzine: she's a very kind and intelligent person.

[steve ridgway]

I haven't heard enough to do an informed list but am encouraged that most of those I listen to appear in somebody's top ten. Apart from Harrison Birtwistle and George Crumb - are they not generally regarded as highly?