Donaueschingen Festival was canceled on short notice due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2021 Donaueschingen Festival features the Donaueschingen Global Project. List of selected composers 1921: Alban Berg, Alois Hába, Ernst Krenek, Philipp Jarnach, Anton Webern, Arnold Schönberg, Josef Matthias Hauer, Paul Hindemith 1925: Hanns Eisler, Paul Dessau, Igor Stravinsky 1926: Paul Hindemith, Ernst Toch, Gerhart Münch 1927: Kurt Weill, Darius Milhaud, George Antheil 1951–1960: Pierre Boulez, Olivier Messiaen, Hans Werner Henze, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Luigi Nono, Earle Brown, John Cage, Henri Pousseur, Iannis Xenakis, Luciano Berio, Elliott Carter, Mauricio Kagel, Edgard Varèse, Krzysztof Penderecki, Wilhelm Killmayer 1961–1980: György Ligeti, Heinz Holliger, Alfred Schnittke, Dieter Schnebel, Wolfgang Rihm, Helmut Lachenmann, Hans Zender, Brian Ferneyhough, Peter Eötvös, Younghi Pagh-Paan 1981–2000: Luc Ferrari, Helmut Lachenmann, Luigi Nono, Bruno Maderna, Harrison Birtwistle, Michael Levinas, Gerhard Rühm, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Zoltán Jeney, Hans Oesch, Hans Peter Haller, Christoph Staude, Klaus Huber, Cornelius Cardew, Michael Henning, James Tenney, Alvin Curran, Julio Estrada 2001–2010: Peter Ablinger, Salvatore Sciarrino, Mark Andre, Georg Friedrich Haas, Pascal Dusapin, Walter Zimmermann, Brian Ferneyhough, Peter Ruzicka, Chaya Czernowin, Enno Poppe, Pierluigi Billone Since 2011: Beat Furrer, Georges Aperghis, Francesco Filidei, Rebecca Saunders, Bernhard Lang, Marco Stroppa, Klaus Lang, Nima A Rowshan, Stefan Prins, Øyvind Torvund References Sources Josef Häusler: Spiegel der Neuen Musik: Donaueschingen. Chronik – Tendenzen – Werkbesprechungen. Kassel (1996) – Bennwitz, Hanspeter: Donaueschingen und die Neue Musik 1921–1955. Donaueschingen (1955). Further reading Michael Wackerbauer: "Mythos Donaueschingen". Zur Rolle einer Idee im Wandel von Festspielkonzeptionen, See also List of electronic music festivals External links Official website of the Donaueschingen Festival at SWR radio Music festivals established in 1921 Contemporary classical music festivals Electronic music festivals in Germany Electroacoustic music festivals Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis