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Twentieth Century

Essays

  • Aleatory
  • Atonality
  • Czech Republic
  • Expressionism
  • France
  • Gebrauchsmusik
  • Germany
  • Hungary
  • Italy
  • Minimalism
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  • United States

Biographies

  • Adams, John
  • Adorno, Theodor
  • Andriessen, Louis
  • Babbitt, Milton
  • Bartók, Béla
  • Beach, Amy Marcy
  • Berg, Alban
  • Berio, Luciano
  • Bernstein, Leonard
  • Birtwistle, Sir Harrison
  • Boulanger, Lili
  • Boulez, Pierre
  • Britten, Benjamin
  • Cage, John
  • Copland, Aaron
  • Cowell, Henry
  • Dahlhaus, Carl
  • Debussy, Claude
  • Enescu, George
  • Feldman, Morton
  • Ferneyhough, Brian
  • Gershwin, George
  • Glass, Philip
  • Ives, Charles
  • Janáček, Leoš
  • Kagel, Mauricio
  • Lachenmann, Helmut
  • Lutosławski, Witold
  • Messiaen, Olivier
  • Nono, Luigi
  • Poulenc, Francis
  • Prokofiev, Sergey
  • Reich, Steve
  • Rihm, Wolfgang
  • Satie, Erik
  • Schoenberg, Arnold
  • Shostakovich, Dmitry
  • Sibelius, Jean
  • Skryabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich
  • Stockhausen, Karlheinz
  • Strauss, Richard
  • Stravinsky, Igor
  • Thomson, Virgil
  • Varèse, Edgard
  • Vaughan Williams, Ralph
  • Webern, Anton
  • Xenakis, Iannis
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