Not surprisingly, the most telling piece came from America's best-known composer of electronic music, Morton Subotnick.
Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin American composer to date.
The best-known composers born around 1910 studied in Europe, mostly in Prague.
At his time Steiner was one of the best-known composers in Hollywood.
He remains Russia's best-known composer outside Russia.
Toru Takemitsu, Japan's best-known composer, has had a long if informal association with these musicians.
Dietrich Buxtehude, the best-known composer, appears in five works.
Brahms is one of the best-known classical composers.
And he passed over many of the region's best-known composers because their works are heard regularly.
Beethoven is perhaps our best-known composer; also the one whose music we know the least.