England
- Harrison Birtwistle (born 1934)
- Brian Ferneyhough (born 1943) (Ashby 2004a, 3) (Also described as a postmodern composer)
- William Walton (1902–1983)
Read more about this topic: List Of Modernist Composers
Famous quotes containing the word england:
“While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognita to them,... Champlain, the first Governor of Canada,... had already gone to war against the Iroquois in their forest forts, and penetrated to the Great Lakes and wintered there, before a Pilgrim had heard of New England.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“An illiterate king is a crowned ass.”
—Medieval English proverb.
Said by the chronicler William of Malmesbury to have been much used by King Henry I of England (1068-1135)