List of Modernist Composers - United States

United States

  • George Antheil (1900–1959)
  • Milton Babbitt (1916–2011) (Ashby 2004a, 8; Bauer 2004, 121)
  • John J. Becker (1886–1961)
  • John Cage (1912–1992) (Bernstein 2002, passim; Williams 2002, 241) (Also described as a postmodern composer)
  • Aaron Copland (1900–1990) (Gagné 2012, 178)
  • Henry Cowell (1897–1965)
  • Ruth Crawford-Seeger (1901–1953) (Ashby 2004a, 3)
  • George Crumb (born 1929) (Petersen 2010, 311, 313)
  • Vernon Duke (1903–1969) (Holden 2010, 296)
  • Philip Glass (born 1937) (Schwarz 1990, 247) (Also described as a postmodern composer)
  • Lou Harrison (1917–2003)
  • Bernard Herrmann (1911–1975) (Ashby 2004a, 8)
  • Charles Ives (1874–1954) (Also described as a postmodern composer)
  • Leon Kirchner (1919–2009)
  • Donald Martino (1931–2005) (Ashby 2004a, 3)
  • Conlon Nancarrow (1912–1997)
  • Ezra Pound (1885–1972) (Gagné 2012, 211)
  • Lou Reed (born 1942) (Ashby 2004a, 8)
  • Steve Reich (born 1936) (Schwarz 1990, 247, 271 ) (Also described as a postmodern composer)
  • Wallingford Riegger (1885–1961)
  • Dane Rudhyar (1895–1985) (Gagné 2012, 178)
  • Carl Ruggles (1876–1971)
  • Charles Seeger (1886–1979)
  • Roger Sessions (1896–1985)
  • Virgil Thomson (1896–1989)
  • Edgard Varèse (1883–1965)
  • Brian Wilson (born 1942) (Ashby 2004a, 8)

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