Name of Composer Year Noted Accomplishments Claude 18621918 His creative style was characterized by his unique approach to the various musical instruments The harmonic progressions and modulations of his work are musically satisfying, pleasently dissonant and elegantly sophisticated Developed the highly celebrated twelve-tone technique. His works featured shifting rhythms and polytonality also has a new level of dissonance was reached a sense of tonality abandoned. He utilized changing meters and strong syncopations in his compositions and have rich melodies and lively rhythms. His progressive technique like pulvating rhythms, meliodic directress and a revolving dissonance. He was highly recognize His compositions had a cooly elegant modernity, tempered by a classical sense of proportion. He is a cross-over artist because of his serious competitions remain highly popular in the classical repertoire. He has Accomplishments in both classical and popular music for his flamboyant conducting style He explored the territories of ballet, opera, theater, film and television jingles. Debussy Maurice Ravel 18751937 Arnold Schoenberg 18741951 Igor Stravinsky 18821971 Bela Bartom 18811945 Sergei Prokofieff 18911953 Francis Paulene 18991963 George Gershwin 18981937 Leonard Bernstein 19181990 Philip Glass 1937Present