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  Frederic Rzewski

  (2,245 listeners)

  contemporary classical, avant-garde, piano, classical

  Frederic Rzewski (born Westfield, Massachusetts, 1938) studied music first with Charles Mackey of Springfield, and subsequently with Walter Piston, Roger Sessions, and Milton Babbitt at Harvard and Princeton Universities.

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  Gavin Bryars

  (73,908 listeners)

  contemporary classical, minimalism, ambient, experimental

  Richard Gavin Bryars (born 1943) is an English composer and double bassist. He has been active in (or has produced works in) many varied styles of music, including jazz, free improvisation, minimalism experimental music, avant-garde, neoclassicism, and ambient.

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  Lamonte Young

  (719 listeners)

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  Philip Glass

  (503,889 listeners)

  minimalism, classical, contemporary classical, soundtrack

  Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is a composer from the United States. His music is frequently described as minimalist, though he prefers to describe himself as a composer of "music with repetitive structures". Although his early, mature music is minimalist, he has evolved stylistically.

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  Simeon ten Holt

  (3,728 listeners)

  minimalism, contemporary classical, piano, classical

  Simeon ten Holt (born in Bergen, Netherlands, 24 January 1923) is a Dutch composer. Ten Holt studied with Jakob van Domselaer, eventually developing a highly personal style of minimal composition. Ten Holt generally uses consonant, tonal materials and his works are organized in numerous cells, made up of a few measures each, which are repeated ad libitum according to the player's preference.

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  Steve Reich

  (185,130 listeners)

  minimalism, contemporary classical, experimental, avant-garde

  Stephen Michael Reich (born October 3, 1936) is an American composer. He is a pioneer of minimalism, although his music has increasingly deviated from a purely minimalist style.

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  Terry Riley

  (101,157 listeners)

  minimalism, contemporary classical, avant-garde, experimental

  Terry Riley (born June 24, 1935) is an American composer associated with the minimalist school. Born in Colfax, California, Riley studied at Shasta College, San Francisco State University, and the San Francisco Conservatory before earning an MA in composition at the University of California, Berkeley, studying with Seymour Shifrin and Robert Erickson.