Occasionally some modern composers have also written music for it.
The orchestra are world famous, and well known for playing a lot of music written by modern composers.
He was possibly the first modern Greek composer to write chamber music.
Many modern composers struggle to land just one major opera commission.
Taken as a whole, his music grips contemporary audiences like that of no other modern composer.
Beethoven is often called the first modern composer without real reasons given.
Very few of the modern composers, it developed, wrote their music at all.
Many modern composers have dedicated works to him over the years.
The choir has also been assigned various works by modern Australian composers.
"A lot of modern composers don't know anything about voices," he says.