Modern
1911-1945
6,238 items in this era
Modernist turnover, geopolitical rupture, and institutional persistence produce a compressed period of high change and stylistic branching.
- Premieres and major birth cohorts overlap at high density.
- Institutional continuity coexists with radical stylistic divergence.
- Recording-era documentation begins to reshape visibility.
Composers
200 composers from the Modern era, ranked by historical significance.
John Coltrane
1926–1967
Miles Davis
1926–1991
Bob Marley
1945–1981
Leonard Bernstein
1918–1990
Antônio Carlos Jobim
1927–1994
Aretha Franklin
1942–2018
John Cage
1912–1992
Steve Reich
1936–present
Benjamin Britten
1913–1976
Iannis Xenakis
1922–2001
Pierre Boulez
1925–2016
Philip Glass
1937–present
Alice Coltrane
1937–2007
Burt Bacharach
1928–2023
György Ligeti
1923–2006
Karlheinz Stockhausen
1928–2007
Krzysztof Penderecki
1933–2020
Thelonious Monk
1920–1982
Abdullah Ibrahim
1934–present
Adriano Celentano
1938–present
Agshin Alizadeh
1937–2014
Alain Goraguer
1931–2023
Alan Price
1941–present
Albert Ayler
1936–1970
Albert Elms
1920–2009
Aleksandar Džambazov
1936–2022
Alexander Zhurbin
1945–present
Ali Tajvidi
1919–2006
Allan Zavod
1945–2016
Alvin Curran
1938–present
Anandji Virji Shah
1933–present
Anđelka Bego-Šimunić
1941–2022
André Previn
1929–2019
Andreas Makris
1930–2005
Andrew Thomas
1939–present
Andy Summers
1942–present
Anil Biswas
1914–2003
Anne Lauber
1943–present
Anthony Burgess
1917–1993
Anthony Hopkins
1937–present
Anthony Newley
1931–1999
Arif Malikov
1933–2019
Arkady Luxemburg
1939–present
Armando Bó
1914–1981
Art Blakey
1919–1990
Artie Kane
1929–2022
Arvo Pärt
1935–present
Aulis Sallinen
1935–present
Notable Events
Hambourg Conservatory of Music is founded or opens
Derived from conservatory opening/inception statements.
Premiere of L'aube rouge (Camille Erlanger)
Derived from Wikidata date of first performance (P1191).
Premiere of The Rats
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Premiere of Mrs McSweeney
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Premiere of The Girl of My Dreams (Karl Hoschna)
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Premiere of Eva (Q191917)
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Premiere of Le martyre de Saint Sébastien (Claude Debussy)
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Premiere of If Not That One, Then This One (Uzeyir Hajibeyov)
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Premiere of Jedermann
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Premiere of The Little Cafe
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Premiere of I gioielli della Madonna (Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari)
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Premiere of Mendi-mendiyan (José María Usandizaga)
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Premiere of Les collines d'Anacapri (Claude Debussy)
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Premiere of String Quartet No. 1 in B-flat major (Alfred Hill)
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Premiere of String Quartet No. 2 in G minor (Alfred Hill)
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Premiere of Déjanire (Camille Saint-Saëns)
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Premiere of Goyescas (Enrique Granados)
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Premiere of The Marriage Market (Victor Jacobi)
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Premiere of Sonata No. 2 in A major (Karol Szymanowski)
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Premiere of Symphony No. 2 (Karol Szymanowski)
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Premiere of Conchita (Riccardo Zandonai)
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Premiere of The Man They Could Not Hang
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Premiere of Symphony No. 4 (Jean Sibelius)
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Premiere of Der Rosenkavalier (Richard Strauss)
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Premiere of Berceuse élégiaque (Ferruccio Busoni)
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Premiere of Der Kuhreigen (Wilhelm Kienzl)
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Premiere of Des pas sur la neige (Claude Debussy)
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Premiere of Fanny's First Play
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Premiere of L'heure espagnole (Maurice Ravel)
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Premiere of La fille aux cheveux de lin (Claude Debussy)
Derived from Wikidata date of first performance (P1191).
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