Favorite 20th Century composers

[Shiva]

Well, who?

[reith]

I tend to like specific works, so:

Vaughan Williams' 6th, 7th & 8th symphonies
Hilding Rosenberg's 3rd Symphony
Arnold Bax' 2nd and 3rd Symphonies
Walton's Symphony 1 in Bb minor
Honneger's Pastorale d'Eté
Alban Berg's musical dramas.

I quite like the American, Peter Mennin, Australian Peter Sulthorpe, and semi-Englishman Delius for any of their works.

[Ballaw de Quincewold]

Oh boy, where to start...

Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Ives, Webern, Schoenberg, Berg, Ginastera, Bartok, Scriabin, Debussy, Ravel, Piazzola, Ornstein.

Ah, great music

[Bassoonery]

OH so many...

Cage (prepared piano pieces), Reich (different trains), Prokofiev (is so cool), Rachmaninov (does he count?), Malcolm Arnold (carnival of animals - bats!!), Stravinsky, Schoenberg...

Film music? Michael Nyman (heart asks pleasure first)

Voila, C'est moi.

[Drego]

Robert W. Smith
Frank Ticheli
John Williams
Bill Brown
Beethoven

[val]

Above all, Debussy, Schönberg, Bartok, Stravinsky.

Then, in the next level, Alban Berg, Webern, Hindemith, Prokofiev, Enescu, Ravel, Lutoslawski, Dutilleux, Britten, Falla.

[reith]

I have to add Villa-Lobos.

A recording of his Symphony No 2 (1917) is about to be released if it hasn't already. I have an ancient bootleg of this work performed by an orchestra that doesn't exist (obviously, for bootleg reasons) and a review copy of the new one so, with (ugh!) snow on the ground today, I'm staying at home and try to compare them.
The absence of published scores for most of HVL's works makes study a problem. When they are available they're vastly expensive.

Happy sn*w, everyone.

[Will Kirk]

Villa Lobos, Rachmaninov, Piazzola those three would be my favorites for 20th century. Barrios was also 20th century so I can't forget him

[TheFrogPrince]

Oh man
No body mention Arvo Part's Te Deum?

That's is definitely my favorite.
but of course Debussy and Ravel and Stravinsky.

yeah...

[nyc_jay]

Almost all of the composers mentioned above. I'd also like to add John Adams - he is probably the best orchestrator alive writing in a modern language. His Chairman Dances is just a delight.