Which 20-21 century male composers do you like? Your answer may help you get better recommendations.

If we're limiting it to relatively modern composers, I really like Amy Beach.

The little I've heard of Germaine Tailleferre makes me curious to hear more. Pathbreaker did one of her pieces for Recital#2.

    Apart from Martha Mier mentioned by @Sam, there is Pam Wedgwood, Melanie Spanswick or Barbara Arens.

    If you like film music, I would recommend Rachel Portman.

    rsl12 Good point, I should have started saying that my favourite composer is Bela Bartok

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    Maybe you would like Grazyna Bacewicz. Like Bartok, her themes incorporate quite a bit of her national (Polish) folk music.

      rsl12 Maybe you would like Grazyna Bacewicz

      I liked thanks. I have just listen her Suite for Children. It is still too advanced for me but I will try maybe next year

      I just listened to Children's Suite. It's wonderful! Thanks for letting me know!

        I don't know what you mean by classical, but some other women composers are Ailbhe McDonagh, Angeline Bell, Anne Crosby, Catherine Rollin, Chee-Hwa Tan, Eugénie Rocherolle, Linda Niamath, Melody Bober, Nancy Telfer, Susan Griesdale.

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        ... feeling like the pianist on the Titanic ...

        I can recommend Cécile Chaminade who wrote many pieces for piano. And if you like Bartok, then maybe Galina Ustvolskaya who was a student of Shostakovitch.

          Sidokar WoW Ustvolskaya is so unique! I am listening to her 12 preludes now.

          I liked some of Elena Kats-Chernin's stuff someone showed me a while back. Don't have any specific pieces, but I thought I might throw the name out there in case someone is interested.

          AaronSF
          Add to the list Giselle Galos, a relatively obscure French composer of the early 20th Century known for "Le Lac de Come", a beautiful piece for piano solo.

          plop_symphony I too was going to recommend this book as well.

          Cécile Chaminade ( Sidokar ) and Germaine Tailleferre ( rsl12 ) are great examples. Staying in France you could also add Nadia Boulanger.

          I found this great video today on Cécile Chaminade:

          For American composers you could check out Florence Price and Margaret Bonds.

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