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Notable 20th Century Composers
If you are searching for interesting and concise facts about the names of 20th Century Composers of classical music then search no more! 20th Century music evolved from the classical period of late Romantic music. The
Impressionist Composers led by Debussy focussed on suggestion and atmosphere as opposed to the emotional themes of the Romantic Period Composers.

Following WW1 20th century composers and musicians focussed on harmony, melody and structure, led by Stravinsky, and referred to as neoclassicism.

20th Century composers were later inspired by technology, nationalism and changes in culture and there was considerable interest in the jazz genre of music.  Click a link for interesting and fast  facts and information about the greatest top classical 20th Century musicians via this article about famous 20th Century Composers!

Leonard Bernstein
Benjamin Britten
John Alden Carpenter

Frederick Delius
Percy Grainger
Dizzy Gillespie
Benny Goodman
Charles Ives
Scott Joplin
Paul Lansky
Henry Mancini
Paul McCartney
Carl Nielsen
Charlie "Bird" Parker
Richard Rodgers
Richard Strauss
Fats Waller
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Ralph Vaughan Williams

Louis Armstrong

Claude Debussy

Edward Elgar

Duke Ellington

George Gershwin

Gustav Holst

Prokofiev

Giacomo Puccini

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Maurice Ravel

Jean Sibelius

Igor Stravinsky

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