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List of oldest composers of today

A list of composers of any type (such as classical music composers, film composers, video game music composers, etc.).

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Russell Brower
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Russell Brower

Russell Brower is an American music composer and three-time Emmy Award-winning sound designer who has created sounds for Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs and Batman: The Animated Series, and video game music for games including Jo...
8
8
as video game music composer
from 1 vote
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George Martin
2

George Martin

Sir George Henry Martin (born 3 January 1926) is an English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer, and musician. He is sometimes referred to as "the Fifth Beatle" in reference to his extensive involvement...
0
0
as film music composer
from 0 votes
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Ennio Morricone
3

Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone (born November 10, 1928) is an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor and former trumpet player, who has written music for more than 500 motion pictures and television series, as well as contemporary classical w...
8.9
8.9
as film music composer
from 8 votes
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John Williams
4

John Williams

John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning over six decades, he has composed some of the most popular and recognizable film scores in cinematic history, inclu...
9.2
9.2
as film music composer
from 10 votes
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Philip Glass
5

Philip Glass

Philip Morris Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer.
8
8
as film music composer
from 1 vote
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Basil Poledouris
6

Basil Poledouris

Basil Poledouris (August 21, 1945 – November 8, 2006) was an American music composer who concentrated on the scores for films and television shows. Poledouris won the Emmy Award for Best Musical Score for work on part four of the...
7
7
as film music composer
from 1 vote
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Michael Stearns
7

Michael Stearns

Michael Stearns (born 1948) is a United States musician and composer of ambient music. He is also known as a film composer, sound designer and soundtrack producer for large format films, theatrical films, documentaries, commercial...
8
8
as film music composer
from 1 vote
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John Carpenter
8

John Carpenter

John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, editor and composer. Although Carpenter has worked in numerous film genres, he is most commonly associated with horror and science...
0
0
as film music composer
from 0 votes
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Alan Silvestri
9

Alan Silvestri

Alan Anthony Silvestri (born March 26, 1950) is an American composer and conductor who works primarily in film and television. He is known inter alia for his frequent collaboration with director Robert Zemeckis, including composin...
8
8
as film music composer
from 1 vote
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James Newton Howard
10

James Newton Howard

James Newton Howard (born June 9, 1951) is an American composer, conductor, music producer and musician. Throughout his career, he has scored over 100 films of all scales and genres, earning multiple award nominations for his work...
9
9
as film music composer
from 3 votes
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Ryuichi Sakamoto
11

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Ryuichi Sakamoto (坂本 龍一 Sakamoto Ryūichi, born January 17, 1952) (Japanese pronunciation: [sakamoto ɽju͍ːitɕi]) is a Japanese musician, activist, composer, record producer, writer, singer, pianist, and actor based in Tokyo and New...
8
8
as film music composer
from 1 vote
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Michael Hoenig
12

Michael Hoenig

Michael Hoenig (born 4 January 1952) is a German composer who has composed music for several films and games
8.5
8.5
as video game music composer
from 4 votes
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Danny Elfman
13

Danny Elfman

Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American composer, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is known as the lead singer and songwriter for the rock band Oingo Boingo from 1976 to 1995, and later for scori...
9
9
as film music composer
from 1 vote
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Carter Burwell
14

Carter Burwell

Carter Benedict Burwell (born November 18, 1955) is an American composer of film scores. He is best known as a regular collaborator of the Coen brothers, having scored many of their films, among them Raising Arizona (1987), Barton...
7
7
as film music composer
from 1 vote
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Tan Dun
15

Tan Dun

Tan Dun (simplified Chinese: 谭盾; traditional Chinese: 譚盾; pinyin: Tán Dùn; born 1957, Changsha, Hunan) is a Chinese contemporary classical composer and conductor, most widely known for his scores for the movies Crouching Tiger, Hi...
7
7
as film music composer
from 1 vote
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Hans Zimmer
16

Hans Zimmer

Hans Florian Zimmer born 12 September 1957) is a German film composer and music producer. He has composed music for over 150 films, including film scores for The Lion King, The Thin Red Line, Gladiator, The Last Samurai, Pirates...
9
9
as video game music composer
from 16 votes
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Nobuo Uematsu
17

Nobuo Uematsu

Nobuo Uematsu (植松 伸夫, born March 21, 1959) is a Japanese video game composer, best known for scoring the majority of titles in the Final Fantasy series. Uematsu, a self-taught musician, began playing the piano at the age of eleven...
8.5
8.5
as video game music composer
from 2 votes
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Harry Gregson-Williams
18

Harry Gregson-Williams

Harry Gregson-Williams (born 13 December 1961) is a British composer, orchestrator, conductor, and music producer. He has regularly written for television and films, such as The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wa...
8
8
as video game music composer
from 1 vote
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Sion Sono
19

Sion Sono

Sion Sono (born December 18, 1961) is a Japanese filmmaker, author and poet.
7
7
as film music composer
from 1 vote
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Koji Kondo
20

Koji Kondo

Koji Kondo ( born August 13, 1961) is a Japanese video game composer and sound director who has been employed at Nintendo since 1984. He is best known for his involvement in numerous titles in the Mario and The Legend of Zelda ser...
9
9
as video game music composer
from 1 vote
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Alexandre Desplat
21

Alexandre Desplat

Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat (born 23 August 1961) is a French and Greek film composer. He has won one Academy Award for his soundtrack to the film The Grand Budapest Hotel, and received seven additional Academy Award nominatio...
9
9
as film music composer
from 1 vote
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Soyo Oka
22

Soyo Oka

Soyo Oka (岡 素世, born April 9, 1964) (also known as DJ Alice) is a Japanese composer, musician, and author, formerly employed by Nintendo. She is best recognized for her video game soundtracks during the 1980s and 1990s...
7
7
as video game music composer
from 1 vote
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Trent Reznor
23

Trent Reznor

Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965), known professionally as Trent Reznor, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and film score composer. As a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, he has led the industrial rock pr...
8
8
as film music composer
from 1 vote
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Klaus Badelt
24

Klaus Badelt

Klaus Badelt (born 12 June 1967) is a German composer, best known for composing film scores. Badelt was born in Frankfurt, West Germany. He started his musical career composing for movies and commercials in his homeland. In 1998,...
7.5
7.5
as film music composer
from 2 votes
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Yasunori Mitsuda
25

Yasunori Mitsuda

Yasunori Mitsuda (光田 康典, born January 21, 1972) is a Japanese composer, musician, and sound producer noted for his score work for video games. He has composed music for or worked on over 40 games, and has contributed to many other...
7.5
7.5
as video game music composer
from 2 votes
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Ramin Djawadi
26

Ramin Djawadi

Ramin Djawadi (Persian: رامین جوادی‎‎; born July 19, 1974) is a German composer of Iranian origin. Djawadi is best known for his Grammy-nominated, guitar-heavy score for the 2008 Marvel film Iron Man and for the theme of HBO's pop...
7
7
as video game music composer
from 1 vote
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Daniel Pemberton
27

Daniel Pemberton

Daniel Pemberton (born 3 November 1977) is an English Ivor Novello winning and multi BAFTA nominated composer.
8
8
as film music composer
from 1 vote
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