Top 25 Favorite Composers

[steve ridgway]

Typo?

I was really struggling with no. 25 but Strauss got there on the grounds of composing music by writing down actual notes to be played by regular instruments. I'll give the list a fair listen now and see how it gels.

[steve ridgway]

I bow to @Mandryka 's wisdom and replace Strauss with Stockhausen, plus a few I prefer listening to when they come up even though I don't have much by them.

Luciano Berio
Harrison Birtwistle
Pierre Boulez
George Crumb
Gérard Grisey
Charles Ives
Mauricio Kagel
György Ligeti
Bruno Maderna
Olivier Messiaen
Tristan Murail
Luigi Nono
Krzysztof Penderecki
Horațiu Rădulescu
Giacinto Scelsi
Alfred Schnittke
Arnold Schoenberg
Alexander Scriabin
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Igor Stravinsky
Karol Szymanowski
Toru Takemitsu
Edgard Varese
Anton Webern
Iannis Xenakis