Mykola Leontovych
Mykola Leontovych specialised in a cappella choral music. He is remembered today mostly through the musical works he left behind, which include over 150 choral compositions. These range from artistic arrangements of folk songs, religious works (including his liturgy), cantatas, and choral compositions set to the words of various Ukrainian poets. His two most famous works are the choral miniatures "Schedryk" and "Dudaryk".
Joonas Kokkonen
In the third style period Kokkonen wrote the music that made him internationally famous: the last two symphonies, the "...durch einen Spiegel" for twelve solo strings, the Requiem, and the opera "The Last Temptations" (1975) ("Viimeiset kiusaukset"), based on the life and death of the Finnish Revivalist preacher Paavo Ruotsalainen. The opera is punctuated with chorales which refer back to Johann Sebastian Bach, and which are also reminiscent of the African-American spirituals used for a similar purpose in Michael Tippett's oratorio "A Child of Our Time".
The opera was staged at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1983.