Classical Music

» Sarah Canice Funke - 20th Century Web Sites

So many classical composers have websites these days. Quite a number of the composers who are still living maintain their own personal webpages. Those who sadly passed on before the technology of the internet made self-promotion possible still show up online thanks to the work of biographers establishing informational sites on individual composers. Some of these sites even offer downloadable MP3s and other samples of the composers' work. Please feel free to browse through these links collected and categorized here for your convenience. Enjoy!

If you are interested in minimalism, try Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and John Adams.

Try some early 20th century experimental composers like Henry Cowell and Charles Ives.

For an aggressively forward-looking music, examine the futurist compositions of Luigi Russolo and Francesco Balillia Pratella.

For experimental composers in electronic music, check out Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, and Edgard Varèse.

For good sites on the composers of the Second Viennese School (serialism), see Arnold Schönberg, Anton Webern, and Alban Berg.

For aleatoric composers, take a chance and just happen to drop by the John Cage page.

Finally, for good sites on composers interested in primitivism and folk music/nationalism, try Igor Stravinsky, Béla Bartók, and Aaron Copland.

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