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page 120th-century American classical composers

Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer (1882–1971)

Frank Zappa
American musician (1940–1993)
Ezra Pound
American poet and critic (1885–1972)
George Gershwin
American composer and pianist (1898–1937)
Leonard Bernstein
American conductor and composer (1918–1990)

John Williams
American composer and conductor (born 1932)

John Cage
American avant-garde composer (1912-1992)
Billy Joel
American singer, songwriter, and pianist (born 1949)
James Horner
American film composer and conductor (1953-2015)
Philip Glass
American composer (born 1937)
Scott Joplin
American composer, musician, pianist (1867/68-1917)

Vladimir Horowitz
Russian and American pianist (1903–1989)
Aaron Copland
American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor (1900-1990)
Jerry Goldsmith
American film composer (1929–2004)

Alan Silvestri
American composer, conductor, orchestrator and music producer
Kurt Weill
German composer (1900–1950)

Samuel Barber
American composer (1910-1981)
Charles Ives
American modernist composer (1874–1954)

John Philip Sousa
Luso-American conductor and composer (1854–1932)

Keith Jarrett
American jazz/classical pianist and composer (born 1945)

André Previn
German-American conductor, pianist, and composer (1929–2019)
Bernard Herrmann
American composer and conductor (1911-1975)
John Adams
American composer (born 1947)

Elmer Bernstein
American composer and conductor (1922-2004)
John Zorn
American composer, saxophonist and bandleader
Paul Bowles
American composer and writer (1910–1999)
Otto Klemperer
German conductor and composer (1885–1973)

Wendy Carlos
American composer and electronic musician (born 1939)

Harry Partch
American composer, music theorist, creator of musical instruments

Morton Feldman
American composer (1926–1987)

Ernest Bloch
American composer (1880-1959)
George Antheil
American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor (1900–1959)
Milton Babbitt
American composer (1916–2011)

Terry Riley
American composer and musician (born 1935)
Edward MacDowell
American composer (1860–1908)
George Szell
Classical conductor and composer (1897–1970)
Amy Beach
American composer and pianist
La Monte Young
American avant-garde composer (born 1935)
Elliot Goldenthal
American composer
George Crumb
American composer (1929-2022)
Franz Waxman
German film composer (1906-1967)
Henry Cowell
American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario (1897-1965)
Alex North
American composer (1910–1991)
Basil Poledouris
Greek-American composer, conductor, and orchestrator of film and television scores (1945-2006)
Diamanda Galás
American singer-songwriter
Glenn Branca
American composer and guitarist (1948-2018)
Meredith Monk
American musician (born 1942)
Virgil Thomson
American composer and critic (1896–1989)
Elliott Carter
American composer (1908-2012)
Leroy Anderson
American composer (1908-1975)
Oscar Levant
American comedian, composer, pianist and actor (1906-1972)
Gunther Schuller
American composer and conductor (1925–2015)

Lukas Foss
American composer (1922-2009)
Walter Piston
American composer (1894–1976)
Eric Whitacre
American composer
Howard Hanson
American composer, conductor, educator and music theorist (1896–1981)
Michael Tilson Thomas
American conductor, pianist and composer
Alan Hovhaness
Armenian-American composer (1911-2000)
Cathy Berberian
American mezzo-soprano and composer
Roger Sessions
American composer, critic, and teacher of music (1896-1985)