Allegro Largo Scherzo Finale

This isn’t exactly a list of favourites – it’s more the composers who I feel are  the most significant of the 20th Century.

1. Karlheinz Stockhausen
2. John Cage
3. Arnold Schoenberg
4. Hans Werner Henze
5. Pierre Schaeffer
6. Steve Reich
7. Alban Berg
8. György Ligeti
9. Krzysztof Penderecki
10. Igor Stravinsky
11. Anton Webern
12. Iannis Xenakis
13. Dmitri Shostakovich
14. Gloria Coates
15. Sofia Gubaidalina
16. Luciano Berio
17. Pierre Boulez
18. John Zorn
19. Olivier Messiaen
20. Béla Bartók
21. Toru Takemitsu
22. Wolfgang Rihm
23. Jean Sibelius
24. Paul Hindemith
25. Harrison Birtwistle
26. Sergei Prokofiev
27. Gillian Whitehead
28. Carlos Chávez
29. Benjamin Britten
30. Bernard Parmegiani
31. John Adams
32. Karin Rehnqvist
33. Rebecca Saunders
34. Arthur Bliss
35. Luigi Russolo
36. John Cousins
37. Kaija Saariaho
38. Helmut Lachenmann
39. Salvatore Sciarrino
40. Stefan Wolpe
41. Louis Andriessen
42. Leo Ornstein
43. Sergei Rachmaninov
44. Charles Ives
45. Samuel Adler
46. Astor Pizzolla
47. Henryk Górecki
48. Carl Nielsen
49. George Walker
50. Jack Body