Béla Bartók
I did not see a thread on Bartók, and this man is quite an inspiration to me.
His accessible works like "Concerto for Orchestra" are cinematic, echoing the film scores of John Williams, and his studies of folk music birthed ethnomusicology. His use of polymodal chromaticism argued that all pitches in the western twelve-tone oeuvre could be used with equal weight (though he was not the first to create composite scales or explore serialism of course). I consider him a bright and creative composer.
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