Category
page 1African-American classical composers
Scott Joplin
American composer, musician, pianist (1867/68-1917)
Anthony Braxton
American musician, composer and philosopher (born 1945)

Florence Price
American composer (1887-1953)
William Grant Still
American composer (1895–1978)
Margaret Bonds
American composer and pianist (1913–1972)
Will Marion Cook
African American composer and violinist (1869–1944)
Philippa Schuyler
American pianist and composer (1931–1967)
Catalina Berroa
composer
Eva Jessye
American conductor (1895–1992)
Julius Eastman
American composer
Harry T. Burleigh
American composer, arranger, and baritone (1866–1949)
Ulysses Kay
composer (1917–1995)
Michael Abels
American composer

Julia Perry
American composer (1924-1979)
Anthony Davis
American pianist and composer

David Baker
American jazz composer, trombonist, professor of music and author (1931-2016)
Jules Bledsoe
American opera singer

J. Rosamond Johnson
American classical composer (1873–1954)
Leslie Adams
American musician (1932–2024)
Marvin Peterson
American jazz trumpeter and composer
Robert Nathaniel Dett
Canadian-American Black composer (1882–1943)
Hale Smith
American composer, music pedagogue, and jazz pianist (1925–2009)
Tyshawn Sorey
American composer and multi-instrumentalist
Dorothy Rudd Moore
African American composer
Zenobia Powell Perry
American composer and composition teacher

Arthur Marshall
American composer and pianist (1881–1968)
William L. Dawson
American composer and music pedagogue (1899-1990)

Harry Lawrence Freeman
American composer
Charles Lucien Lambert
American composer (1828–1896)
Clarence Cameron White
American composer (1880–1960)
Diedre Murray
American composer
T. J. Anderson
African American composer, conductor, educator

Abdul Wadud
American musician

Scott Hayden
American composer of ragtime music (1882-1915)
Pamela Z
American composer, performer, and media artist
Howard Swanson
American composer (1907–1978)