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These are sort of in order of how much I love them...
John Cage (I know it may be a cliche, but the man is so brilliant, I can't help it, I LOVE his compositions)
Harry Partch
Sun Ra
Iannis Xenakis
Pierre Schaeffer
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Pauline Oliveros
La Monte Young
Tony Conrad
Arvo Part
Olivier Messiaen
Luc Ferarri
Gyorgi Ligeti
Ennio Morricone
Ornette Coleman (and I am talking specifically about his compositions for strings rather than his jazz improvisations, though I love those too)
Edgard Varese
Igor Stravinsky
Bela Bartok
Charles Ives
Carl Stalling
Terry Riley
Walter/Wendy Carlos
John Zorn
Jonn Oswald
Lauie Anderson
Robert Ashley (totally concur with you on him)
Lou Reed (I can't ignore Metal Machine Music as a brilliant twentieth century "composition")
Astor Piazzolla
Steve Reich
Kurt Weill
Phillip Glass
the list goes on...
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