Lists of composers by philosophical stance: Postmodernist composers

Canada John Oswald (born 1953)Nicole V. Gagné, Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2012): pp. 199–200. .

Estonia Arvo Pärt (born 1935)Maria Cizmic, Transcending the Icon: Spirituality and Postmodernism in Arvo Pärt’s Tabula Rasa and Spiegel im Spiegel, Twentieth-Century Music 5, no. 1 (March 2008): 45-78

Finland Kaija Saariaho (1952–2023)Alastair Williams, Between modernism and postmodernism, The Routledge Research Companion to Modernism in Music, (Routledge, 2019).

France Pierre Boulez (1925–2016)Christopher Butler, After the Wake: An Essay on the Contemporary Avant-Garde (Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1980): p. 7; Nadia Mankowskaya, "L'esthétique musicale et le postmodernisme", New Sound: International Magazine for Music, no. 1 (1993): 91–100, citation on p. 91; Christian Ofenbauer, "Vom Faltenlegen: Versuch einer Lektüre von Pierre Boulez' Notation(s) I(1)", Musik-Konzepte, nos. 89–90 (1995): pp. 55–75 (passim); Nadežda Andreevna Petrusëva, "Новая форма в новейшей музыке" [The Formal Innovations of Postmodern Music], Muzyka i vremâ: Ežemesâčnyj naučnyj kritiko-publicističeskij žurnal, no. 8 (2003): 45–48, citation on p. 45. René Leibowitz (1913–1972)Christopher Butler, After the Wake: An Essay on the Contemporary Avant-Garde (Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1980): p. 7. Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)

Germany Hans-Jürgen von Bose (born 1953) Beate Kutschke, "The Celebration of Beethoven’s Bicentennial in 1970: The Antiauthoritarian Movement and Its Impact on Radical Avant-garde and Postmodern Music in West Germany", The Musical Quarterly 93, nos. 3–4 (Fall–Winter 2010): 560–615, citation on p. 582. Hans-Christian von Dadelsen (born 1948) Heiner Goebbels (born 1952) Wilhelm Killmayer (1927–2017) Detlev Müller-Siemens (born 1957) Wolfgang Rihm (1952–2024)David Beard and Kenneth Gloag, Musicology: The Key Concepts (New York: Routledge, 2005): p. 142. .

Greece Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001)

Hungary György Ligeti (1923–2006)

Italy Luciano Berio (1925–2003)Steven Connor, "The Decomposing Voice of Postmodern Music". New Literary History 32, no. 3: Voice and Human Experience (Summer 2001): 467–83, citation on pp. 477–78; Jonathan Kramer, "The Nature and Origins of Musical Postmodernism", in Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought, edited by Judy Lochhead and Joseph Aunder, 13–26 (New York: Routledge, 2002): p. 14. . Aldo Clementi (1925–2011) Geoffrey Morris, "The Guitar Works of Aldo Clementi", Contemporary Music Review 28, no. 6 (Aldo Clementi: Mirror of time I, 2009): pp. 559–86, citation on 559. Luigi Nono (1924–1990)Christopher Butler, After the Wake: An Essay on the Contemporary Avant-Garde (Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press,1980): p. 7.

Norway Marcus Paus (born 1979)

Poland Henryk Górecki (1933–2010) Zygmunt Krauze (born 1938)Jonathan Kramer, "The Nature and Origins of Musical Postmodernism", in Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought, edited by Judy Lochhead and Joseph Aunder, pp. 13–26 (New York: Routledge, 2002): p. 13. .

United Kingdom Thomas Adès (born 1971)Christopher Fox, "Tempestuous Times: The Recent Music of Thomas Adès", The Musical Times 145, No. 1888 (Autumn 2004): 41–56, citation on p. 53. Harrison Birtwistle (1934–2022)David Beard and Kenneth Gloag, Musicology: The Key Concepts (New York: Routledge, 2005): p. 143. . Cornelius Cardew (1936–1981) Georgina Born, Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1995): p. 56). Brian Eno (born 1948)Nicole V. Gagné, Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2012): pp. 90–91. . Brian Ferneyhough (born 1943) Robert Carl, "Six Case Studies in New American Music: A Postmodern Portrait Gallery", College Music Symposium 30, no. 1 (Spring 1990): pp. 45–63, citation on pp. 45–48. John Tavener (1944–2013)

United States John Adams (born 1947)Robert Carl, "Six Case Studies in New American Music: A Postmodern Portrait Gallery", College Music Symposium 30, no. 1 (Spring 1990): pp. 45–63, citations on pp. 45, 51–54; Jonathan Kramer, "The Nature and Origins of Musical Postmodernism", in Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought, edited by Judy Lochhead and Joseph Aunder, 13–26 (New York: Routledge, 2002): p. 13. . Robert Ashley (1930–2014)Nicole V. Gagné, Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2012): pp. 12, 19. . William Bolcom (born 1938)Robert Carl, "Six Case Studies in New American Music: A Postmodern Portrait Gallery", College Music Symposium 30, no. 1 (Spring 1990): pp. 45–63, citation on pp. 45, 59–63. Henry Brant (1913–2008)Nicole V. Gagné, Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2012): pp. 44–45, 208. . Earle Brown (1926–2002) John Cage (1912–1992)Georgina Born, Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1995): p. 56; Jann Pasler, "Postmodernism", Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online (accessed 11 December 2015) . John Corigliano (born 1938)Jonathan Kramer, "The Nature and Origins of Musical Postmodernism", in Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought, edited by Judy Lochhead and Joseph Aunder, 13–26 (New York: Routledge, 2002): p. 14. . Michael Daugherty (born 1954)Composer Michael Daugherty hears the sounds of America – Los Angeles TimesAmerican Pop: The Works of Michael Daugherty|AllMusic Morton Feldman (1926–1987) Philip Glass (born 1937)David Beard and Kenneth Gloag, Musicology: The Key Concepts (New York: Routledge, 2005): p. 144. . Steve Reich (born 1936)The Early Steve Reich (1965 – 1969)|Colin's Review John Zorn (born 1953)John Zorn/Masada|Pitchfork

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