Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg

male, deceased (1951)
Arnold Schoenberg (the anglicized form of Schönberg - Schoenberg changed the spelling officially when he left Germany and re-converted to Judaism i...
Alban Berg

Alban Berg

male, deceased (1935)
Alban Maria Johannes Berg (February 9, 1885 - December 24, 1935) was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School along with...
Luc Ferrari

Luc Ferrari

male, deceased (2005)
Luc Ferrari was a French composer, particularly noted for his tape music. Ferrari was born in Paris and studied the piano under Alfred Cortot,...
Jandek

Jandek

male, 64 years old
Jandek is the musical project of an outsider musician who operates out of Houston, Texas. Since 1978, Jandek has self-released 50 albums of...
Stefan Wolpe

Stefan Wolpe

male, deceased (1972)
Stefan Wolpe was a German-born composer. Wolpe was born in Berlin. He attended the Berlin Conservatory from the age of fourteen, attended the...
Dewey Redman

Dewey Redman

male, deceased (2006)
Dewey Redman (born Walter Redman in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, May 17, 1931; d. Brooklyn, New York, September 2, 2006) was an American free...
Phill Niblock

Phill Niblock

male, 76 years old
Phill Niblock (born 2 October 1933, in Anderson, Indiana) is a minimalist composer, filmmaker, videographer, and director of Experimental...
Carl Ruggles

Carl Ruggles

male, deceased (1971)
American composer Charles Sprague Ruggles, better known as Carl, wrote finely-crafted pieces using "dissonant counterpoint", a term coined by...
Ruth Crawford Seeger

Ruth Crawford Seeger

female, deceased (1953)
Ruth Crawford Seeger (July 3, 1901 in East Liverpool, Ohio - November 18, 1953 in Chevy Chase, Maryland), born Ruth Porter Crawford, was a...
Ralph Shapey

Ralph Shapey

male, deceased (2002)
Ralph Shapey (March 12, 1921 - June 13, 2002) was an American composer and conductor. He is well-known for his work as a composition professor at...