avant-garde
Some artists with this genre:
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Pierre Boulez
- Yusef Lateef
- Krzysztof Penderecki
- John Cage
- György Kurtág
- Luciano Berio
- Olivier Messiaen
- Terry Riley
- György Ligeti
- Thomas Adès
- Toru Takemitsu
- Morton Feldman
- Anton Webern
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Charles Ives
- Alban Berg
- Kaija Saariaho
- Ensemble Intercontemporain
- Pauline Oliveros
- Iannis Xenakis
- Arditti Quartet
- Ensemble Modern
- Frederic Rzewski
- Ned Rorem
- Julia Wolfe
- Harry Partch
- Sofia Gubaidulina
- Ensemble Recherche
- Lou Harrison
- Christian Wolff
- Salvatore Sciarrino
- Peter Eötvös
- George Crumb
- Edgard Varèse
- Wolfgang Rihm
- George Benjamin
- Giacinto Scelsi
- Éliane Radigue
- Robert Ashley
- Hans Werner Henze
- Louis Andriessen
- Luigi Dallapiccola
- George Antheil
- Conlon Nancarrow
- Elliott Carter
- Henry Cowell
- Alvin Lucier
- La Monte Young
- Pierre Schaeffer