Mark Gustavson (born September 19, 1959 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American composer[1] of contemporary classical music.

Gustavson also studied at the Sweelinck Conservatory with Ton De Leeuw on a Fulbright Fellowship in 1985-86 and was a composition fellow at Tanglewood in 1979.

His primary composition teachers were Chinary Ung, Ben Johnston and Fred Lerdahl.

The complex layering of lines or polyphony in this example from "A Fool's Journey" purposely avoids the coming together of the independent voices.

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