20th century By nawaporn Period: 1813 to 1883 Richard Wagner Period: 1854 to 1928 Leoš Janáček Period: 1860 to 1911 Gustav Mahler Period: 1862 to 1918 Claude Debussy Period: 1864 to 1949 Richard Strauss Period: 1866 to 1924 Ferrucio Busoni Period: 1866 to 1925 Erik Satie Period: 1868 to 1915 Scott Joplin Period: 1872 to 1958 Vaughan Williams Period: 1872 to 1915 Aleksandr Scriabin Period: 1873 to 1943 Sergey Rachmaninov Period: 1874 to 1951 Arnold Schoenberg Period: 1874 to 1954 Charles Ives Period: 1875 to 1934 Maurice Ravel Period: 1880 to 1951 Nikolai Medtner Period: 1881 to 1944 Béla Bartók Period: 1882 to 1937 Karol Szymanowski Period: 1882 to 1971 Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky Period: 1884 to 1920 Charles Griffes Period: 1885 to 1935 Alban Berg Period: 1887 to 1959 Heitor Villa-Lobos Period: 1891 to 1953 Sergey Prokofiev Period: 1892 to 1986 Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji Period: 1893 to 1987 Frederic Mompou Period: 1893 to 1918 Lili Boulanger Period: 1895 to 1963 Paul Hindemith Period: 1895 to 1977 William Grant Still Period: 1896 to 1985 Roger Sessions Period: 1896 to 1989 Virgil Thomson Period: 1898 to 1937 George Gershwin Period: 1898 to 1937 George Gershwin Period: 1899 to 1963 Francis Poulenc Period: 1899 to 1953 Florence Price Period: 1900 to 1990 Aaron Copland Period: 1902 to 1986 Maurice Gustave Duruflé Period: 1902 to 1983 William Walton Period: 1903 to 1978 Aram Ilyich Khachaturian Period: 1905 to 1995 Michael Kemp Tippett Period: 1906 to 1975 Shostakovich Period: 1906 to 1974 Dmitri Shostakovich Period: 1908 to 1992 Olivier Messiaen Period: 1908 to 2012 Elliott Carter Period: 1910 to 1981 Samuel Barber Period: 1910 to 1992 William Schuman Period: 1912 to 1992 John Cage Period: 1913 to 1976 Benjamin Britten Period: 1913 to 1990 Witold Roman Lutosławski Period: 1915 to 1987 Vincent Persichetti Period: 1916 to 2011 Milton Babbitt Period: 1916 to 1980 Alberto Ginastera Period: 1916 to 2013 Henri Dutilleux Period: 1918 to 1990 Leonard Bernstein Period: 1922 to 2018 George Theophilus Walker Period: 1923 to 2020 Ned Rorem Period: 1923 to 2003 György Ligeti Period: 1926 to 2009 Ben Johnston Period: 1927 to 2019 Dominick Argento Period: 1927 to 2019 Dominick Argento Period: 1928 to 2005 Karlheinz Stockhausen Period: 1929 to 2020 George Crumb Period: 1933 to 2020 Krzysztof Penderecki Period: 1933 to 2010 Henryk Górecki Period: 1934 to 2019 Mario Davidovsky Period: 1935 to 2024 LaMonte Young Period: 1935 to 2024 Terry Riley Period: 1935 to 2024 Arvo Pärt Period: 1936 to 2024 Steve Reich Period: 1937 to 2020 Nikolai Kapustin Period: 1938 to 2024 William Bolcom Period: 1938 to 2021 Frederic Rzewski Period: 1939 to 2024 William Bolcom Period: 1941 to 2014 Curtis Curtis Smith Period: 1944 to 1998 William Albright Period: 1947 to 2024 John Adams Period: 1954 to 2024 Carl Vine Period: 1956 to 2024 Richard Danielpour Period: 1962 to 2024 Jennifer Higdon Period: 1964 to 2024 John Corigliano Period: 1972 to 2024 Gabriela Lena Frank Period: 1983 to 2024 Philip Glass