Great list of 20th century compositions! 20th century art music gets an undeservedly bad rap, IMO.
I would add a few more composers:
1930: Kurt Weill: Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny
1935: George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
1940-1941: Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps
1944: Aaron Copeland: Appalachian Spring
Kurt Weill’s work might be considered theater music rather than art music, but I would argue that it is both of those things. Messiaen is admittedly avant garde and a bit outside of the mainstream, but is approachable by a wide range of audiences, including many who would not care for the composers of the Second Viennese School. Many of Messiaen’s compositions could have been added to the list, so I picked one of the best known.
For what it’s worth, I omitted Weill and Gershwin because I thought ohwilleke might not consider them arty enough, Messiaen becase I wasn’t confident enough ohwilleke would concede that his music sounds good, and Copeland because Appalachian Spring was the obvious work to use and I already had enough from around that time :-). Of course I agree that otherwise those works are all worthy of inclusion in any list like mine.
Great list of 20th century compositions! 20th century art music gets an undeservedly bad rap, IMO. I would add a few more composers:
1930: Kurt Weill: Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny
1935: George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
1940-1941: Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps
1944: Aaron Copeland: Appalachian Spring
Kurt Weill’s work might be considered theater music rather than art music, but I would argue that it is both of those things. Messiaen is admittedly avant garde and a bit outside of the mainstream, but is approachable by a wide range of audiences, including many who would not care for the composers of the Second Viennese School. Many of Messiaen’s compositions could have been added to the list, so I picked one of the best known.
For what it’s worth, I omitted Weill and Gershwin because I thought ohwilleke might not consider them arty enough, Messiaen becase I wasn’t confident enough ohwilleke would concede that his music sounds good, and Copeland because Appalachian Spring was the obvious work to use and I already had enough from around that time :-). Of course I agree that otherwise those works are all worthy of inclusion in any list like mine.