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JOHN WHITE, who has died aged 87, was an accomplished pianist and a maverick composer who wrote at least 180 piano sonatas, 25 symphonies and 30 ballets; he is credited […]

A tireless Hungarian advocate of contemporary music, he adapted literary sources both modern and classic, instilling his work with ''inimitable character and pathos.'' Peter Eotvos, a towering Hungarian composer and [...]

GEORGE NEWSON, who has died aged 91, was once a leading light in the avant-garde; he composed an early piece of British electronic music, saw his oratorio Arena (1971) conducted […]

PETER EOTVOS, who has died aged 80, was a Hungarian conductor and composer whose opera Love and Other Demons, based on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel, was premiered at Glyndebourne in […]

Byline: Tim Page Maurizio Pollini, a celebrated Italian pianist whose playing combined intellectual rigor with technical mastery, died March 23 at age 82. The death was announced by MilanÇÖs La [...]

His works, which were radically individual, were among the most celebrated of the late 20th and early 21st century. Aribert Reimann, whose powerful operas based on works by Shakespeare, Kafka, [...]

Byline: Tim Page Byron Janis, an American pianist celebrated for his extraordinary combination of technical virtuosity and urgent expression in Romantic-era music, died March 14 at a Manhattan hospital. He [...]

Byline: Amy Sedghi Karl Wallinger, the Welsh-born musician, composer and frontman of World Party, has died at the age of 66. His death was confirmed in a statement from his [...]

Byline: By, Katie Wilson A British composer who penned the music for hit comedy shows like Spitting Image and Dead Ringers has died at the age of 66. Steve Brown [...]

Byline: Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent The British comedy composer Steve Brown, who collaborated with the likes of Harry Hill, Steve Coogan and Lenny Henry, has died aged 66 [...]

PETER SCHICKELE, who has died aged 88, was better known as the fictional composer PDQ Bach, whose Victor Borge-style parodies delighted audiences; he was equally inventive with instruments, coming up […]

Byline: Margalit Fox Peter Schickele, an American composer whose career as a writer of serious concert music was often eclipsed by that of his antic alter ego, the thoroughly debauched, [...]

Peter Schickele, an American composer whose career as a writer of serious concert music was often eclipsed by that of his antic alter ego, the thoroughly debauched, terrifyingly prolific and [...]

Byline: Allan Kozinn Peter Schickele, a Grammy Award-winning composer and wry humorist who presented himself as the world's leading authority on the rule-fracturing P.D.Q. Bach, the 'last and least' of [...]

Byline: Allan Kozinn Peter Schickele, a Grammy Award-winning composer and wry humorist who presented himself as the world's leading authority on the rule-fracturing P.D.Q. Bach, the 'last and least' of [...]

Making music with no melody or rhythm and films with no plot, he became a darling of New York's experimental underground. Phill Niblock, an influential New York composer and film [...]

A master of American choral music, she wrote arrangements of hymns, folk songs and spirituals used in concert halls and churches countrywide. Alice Parker, whose arrangements of hymns, folk songs, [...]

Byline: Brian Murphy Alice Parker, a composer who embraced sparse and graceful musical traditions in more than 500 choral arrangements, spirituals and other pieces that often evoked the beauty of [...]

Byline: Brian Murphy Alice Parker, a prolific composer who embraced sparse and graceful musical traditions in more than 500 choral arrangements, spirituals and other pieces that often evoked the beauty [...]

Byline: Clay Risen When Brazilian musicians fused samba with jazz and classical influences in the 1950s and '60s, he was among the first, and the best. Carlos Lyra, a Brazilian [...]

A veteran of 25 years with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, she was known as much for her eccentricities as for her exceptional musicianship. When the Bronx-bred pianist Zita Carno auditioned [...]

When Brazilian musicians fused samba with jazz and classical influences in the 1950s and '60s, he was among the first, and the best. Carlos Lyra, a Brazilian composer, singer and [...]

Born before the outbreak of World War I, she began making albums in the 1990s. She released her latest, ''109 Ans de Piano,'' this year. When the French composer Claude [...]

Byline: Harrison Smith David Del Tredici, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who rejected the cerebral atonality of the mid-century avant-garde to write in a lush, melodious style, setting Lewis Carroll's 'Alice' [...]

David Del Tredici, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer who began as an experimentalist but became best known for a midcareer shift toward a style that came to be called the [...]

https://www.daviddeltredici.com/, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer who began as an experimentalist but became best known for a midcareer shift toward a style that came to be called the New Romanticism, [...]

He wrote several musicals without attracting much notice. Then he struck Broadway gold with ''A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder.'' Steven Lutvak, a composer and lyricist whose only Broadway [...]

Byline: Nate Chinen Her music, which ranged from chamber miniatures to blaring fanfares, was suffused with a slyly subversive attitude. Carla Bley, an irrepressibly original composer, arranger and pianist responsible [...]

Byline: Harrison Smith Carla Bley, a relentlessly inventive composer, arranger, pianist and bandleader whose work assimilated the 1960s avant-garde as well as traditional elements of melody and harmony, helping to [...]

Her music, which ranged from chamber miniatures to blaring fanfares, was suffused with a slyly subversive attitude. Carla Bley, an irrepressibly original composer, arranger and pianist responsible for more than [...]

Byline: Ben Beaumont-Thomas Carla Bley, the American jazz composer-pianist celebrated for boldly avant-garde work as well as her uplifting and beautiful takes on the genre's mainstream, has died aged 87. [...]

An American who settled in Vienna, she had a prolific career in contemporary classical music and broke gender barriers in her field. Early in her career, Nancy Van de Vate, [...]

A Wisconsin native, she was among the most prolific female composers of symphonies, 17 in all, finding particular prominence in Europe, where she lived. Gloria Coates, an adventurous composer who [...]

A Wisconsin native, she was among the most prolific female composers of symphonies, 17 in all, finding particular prominence in Europe, where she lived. Gloria Coates, an adventurous composer who [...]