Carl Ruggles
Carl Ruggles (born Charles Sprague Ruggles; March 11, 1876 – October 24, 1971) was an American composer, painter, and teacher. His music used a technique called “dissonant counterpoint,” a term created by fellow composer and musicologist Charles Seeger to describe Ruggles’ style. His method of atonal counterpoint avoided repeating a note until eight other notes had been used.
Henry Cowell
Henry Dixon Cowell ( / ˈ k aʊ əl / ; March 11, 1897 – December 10, 1965) was an American composer, writer, pianist, publisher, teacher, and the husband of ethnomusicologist Sidney Robertson Cowell. He became a well-known figure in American experimental music during the first half of the 20th century. His work and writings greatly influenced other artists, such as Lou Harrison, George Antheil, and John Cage.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was born on August 15, 1875, and died on September 1, 1912. He was a British composer and conductor. He is best known for creating three musical works based on the 1855 poem The Song of Hiawatha by American writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Karol Szymanowski
Karol Maciej Szymanowski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈkarɔl ˈmat͡ɕɛj ʂɨmaˈnɔfskʲi]; 3 October 1882 – 29 March 1937) was a Polish composer, pianist, and writer. He was part of a modernist group called the Young Poland movement, which was active in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Szymanowski’s early works show the influence of the late Romantic German school and the early compositions of Alexander Scriabin, as seen in his Étude Op.
Anton Webern
Anton Webern (German: [ˈantoːn ˈveːbɐn]; December 3, 1883 – September 15, 1945) was an Austrian composer, conductor, and music expert. His modern music was among the most extreme of its time, using short, poetic styles and new methods like atonal and twelve-tone techniques. Webern’s work was influenced by his studies of the Franco-Flemish School with Guido Adler and by Arnold Schoenberg’s focus on structure in teaching composition, inspired by the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, the First Viennese School, and Johannes Brahms.
Alban Berg
Alban Maria Johannes Berg (pronounced /bɛərɡ/ BAIRG; Austrian German: [ˈalbaːn ˈbɛrg]; February 9, 1885 – December 24, 1935) was an Austrian composer from the Second Viennese School. His music combined Romantic emotional expression with a method called the twelve-tone technique. Even though he created relatively few works, he is remembered as one of the most important composers of the 20th century because his music expressed deep emotions and complex structures.
Zoltán Kodály
Zoltán Kodály was a Hungarian composer, music teacher, and scholar who studied music from different cultures. He was also a linguist and philosopher. He is famous around the world for creating the Kodály method of teaching music.
John Ireland
John Benjamin Ireland was born on January 30, 1914, in Vancouver, British Columbia, and grew up in New York City. He was a Canadian-American actor and film director who became well-known for his supporting roles in popular Western films. These films include My Darling Clementine (1946), Red River (1948), Vengeance Valley (1951), and Gunfight at the O.K.
Herbert Howells
Herbert Norman Howells CH CBE was born on October 17, 1892, and died on February 23, 1983. He was an English composer, organist, and teacher. He is best known for creating many pieces of music used in Anglican churches.
Arthur Bliss
Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss was born on August 2, 1891, and died on March 27, 1975. He was a British composer and conductor. His musical training was interrupted by the First World War, during which he served in the army.