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Contemporary Classical Composers

For each composition, name the contemporary classical composer who wrote it.
The definition of contemporary I am using is post-1945
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Last updated: August 24, 2020
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Quartet for the End of Time
Olivier Messiaen
War Requiem
Benjamin Britten
Gruppen
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Le marteau sans maître
Pierre Boulez
Poème électronique
Edgard Varèse
4'33"
John Cage
Atmosphères
György Ligeti
Philomel
Milton Babbitt
Intolleranza 1960
Luigi Nono
Sound Patterns
Pauline Oliveros
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In C
Terry Riley
November Steps
Toru Takemitsu
Inscape
Aaron Copland
The Well-Tuned Piano
La Monte Young
String Quartet No. 15 in E-flat minor, Op. 144
Dmitri Shostakovich
Spiegel im Spiegel
Arvo Pärt
Music for 18 Musicians
Steve Reich
Einstein on the Beach
Philip Glass
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Michael Nyman
Nixon in China
John Adams
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Level 76
Aug 24, 2020
Nice quiz! Olivier (Messiaen) and Spiegel im Spiegel have typos.
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Level 47
Aug 24, 2020
Fixed. Thank you for pointing them out.