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People who create music. More specifically, people who put extremely careful craftsmanship into their music. These aren't just artists that "jam out" their songs. These are artists who usually use sheet music, or at the very least computer software to plan out their music.

Baroque (16001760)

Classical (17301820)

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Romantic (18151910)

Impressionist (1880s1920s)

Verismo (1880s1920s)

Atonal and Avant-Garde

Neotonality and Neoclassicism

Samuel Barber: wrote "Adagio for Strings".

Aaron Copland: Mentioned in a few spots on the Wiki. "Fanfare for the Common Man" is Awesome Music in distilled form, but he's probably most famous for Rodeo which you've almost certainty heard, either in a western or in the background while someone told you what Beef is for, and while he didn't compose the melody, he did immortalize the Shaker hymn "Simple Gifts" in his ballet Appalachian Spring.

Gustav Holst: Born in England to Swedish parents, his suite "The Planets" has been an inspiration to composers for generations. If you've ever watched a movie, you've heard his influence.

Olivier Messiaen: "The most important French composer of born in the twentieth century." Wrote a lot of church music.

Sergei Prokofiev: Wrote Peter and the Wolf. Also known for his piano works, motor rhythms, and dissonance.

Dmitri Shostakovich: One of the composers who struggled under the Soviet Union. He was criticized, even censured, but was still able to express what was "inexpressible" through his music.

Richard Strauss: Wrote 2 symphonies, operas (the most famous being Salome and Der Rosenkavalier), and the tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra.

Igor Stravinsky: Wrote The Rite of Spring in 1913. Known as the composer who wouldn't die (lived 1882 to 1971). Also wrote Firebird and Petrushka.

Musical Theatre

Film and Television Score Composers

Contemporary

Video Games

Fandom Musicians