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Stephanie Camello Ranks the Top 10 Best Modern Composers

There are so many excellently talented modern composers that it's very difficult to narrow it to 10, but here is Stephanie Camello's list of her top 10 best modern composers (primarily those born in the 1900s).

1) John Williams
Country: United States of America
Known For: Modern Motion Picture Soundtracks, Conducting, and Film Scoring hugely popular and successful movies primarily with Director Steven Spielberg
Compositions: Star Wars theme, E.T. theme, Indian Jones theme, Jaws theme, Jurassic Park theme, March from 1941, Lost in Space T.V. theme, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, War Horse, theme music for the Olympics (1984 summer games in Los Angeles), just to name a few!
2) Sergei Rachmaninoff
Country: Russia
Known For: Piano Compositions
Compositions: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, The Bells, Preludes in C-sharp minor, Piano Concertos
3) George Gershwin
Country: United States of America
Known For: Blending Classical with Jazz
Compositions: Rhapsody in Blue, Porgy and Bess, I got Rhythm, An American In Paris
4) Aaron Copland
Country: United States of America
Known For: Combining Classical, Jazz and Folk with a Western flare
Compositions: Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid, Fanfare for the Common Man, Hoedown, Rodeo, Our Town, Of Mice and Men
5) Scott Joplin
Country: United States of America
Known For: King of Ragtime
Compositions: The Entertainer, Maple Leaf Rag, The Ragtime Dance, The Easy-Winners Ragtime
6) Leonard Bernstein
Country: United States of America
Known For: Combining Classical and Popular styles and composing for famous musicals
Compositions: West Side Story, On the Town, Peter Pan, On the Waterfront, The Lark
7) Henry Mancini
Country: United States of America
Known For: Unique sound style and for movie soundtrack composition
Compositions: The Pink Panther soundtracks, Breakfast at Tiffany's soundtrack, Baby Elephant Walk
8) Wladyslaw Szpilman
Country: Poland
Known For: The Pianist book and movie was about his life and how he survived the Holocaust through various means and eventually was helped by a German soldier who helped hide him until the war ended. He was always a piano player and came from a musical Jewish family in Poland. His story of determination and survival is now well-known throughout the world after being brought to life by Adrien Brody who won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Let us never forget these stories!
Compositions: Mazurka, Jazz Melody, Polonaise Fantaisie, Concertino for Piano and Orchestra
9) Hans Zimmer
Country: Germany
Known For: Action Movie Soundtracks, Film Scoring
Compositions: Pirates of the Caribbean, Inception, Batman Begins, Interstellar, The Dark Knight, Rain Man, Gladiator, Hannibal, The Simpsons Movie and Pearl Harbor soundtracks
10) Vince Guaraldi
Country: United States of America
Known For: Jazz piano and the Charlie Brown theme songs
Compositions: Linus & Lucy, Christmas Time Is Here, all Charlie Brown songs, Cast Your Fate to the Wind
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