List of modernist composers
by philosophical stance: modernist composersAustralia
- Roy Agnew
- Arthur Benjamin
- Hooper Brewster-Jones
- Peggy Glanville-Hicks
- Percy Grainger
- Margaret Sutherland
Austria
- Gustav Mahler
Russia/Soviet Union
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Alexander Scriabin
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Igor Stravinsky
Brazil
- Heitor Villa-Lobos
- Camargo Guarnieri
- Alban Berg
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Anton Webern
Germany
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Georg Böhm
- Paul Hindemith
- Hans Pfitzner
- Max Reger
- Franz Schreker
- Richard Strauss
- Johann Gottfried Walther
- Alexander Zemlinsky
Finland
- Erik Bergman
France
- Pierre Boulez
- Claude Debussy
- Gabriel Fauré
- André Jolivet
- Arthur Honegger
- Olivier Messiaen
- Darius Milhaud
- Francis Poulenc
- Maurice Ravel
- Erik Satie
- Edgard Varèse
Italy
- Luciano Berio
- Ferruccio Busoni
- Claudio Monteverdi
- Salvatore Sciarrino
Hungary
- Béla Bartók
- Franz Liszt
Poland
- Karol Szymanowski
Scotland
- Oliver Knussen
- Milton Babbitt
- Samuel Barber
- Irving Berlin
- John Cage
- Aaron Copland
- Henry Cowell
- Ruth Crawford-Seeger
- George Crumb
- Vernon Duke
- Morton Feldman
- George Gershwin
- Philip Glass
- Bernard Herrmann
- Charles Ives
- Jerome Kern
- Leon Kirchner
- Donald Martino
- Leo Ornstein
- Harry Partch
- Cole Porter
- Ezra Pound
- Lou Reed
- Steve Reich
- Richard Rodgers
- Dane Rudhyar
- Charles Seeger
- Edgard Varèse
- Brian Wilson
England
- Brian Ferneyhough
- William Walton
