Category
page 1American male classical composers

Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer (1882–1971)

Arnold Schoenberg
Austrian-Jewish American composer (1874-1951)

John Williams
American composer and conductor (born 1932)
Billy Joel
American singer, songwriter, and pianist (born 1949)
James Horner
American film composer and conductor (1953-2015)
Scott Joplin
American composer, musician, pianist (1867/68-1917)

Vladimir Horowitz
Russian and American pianist (1903–1989)
Jerry Goldsmith
American film composer (1929–2004)

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

Charles Ives
American modernist composer (1874–1954)

Bohuslav Martinů
Czech composer (1890–1959)

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

André Previn
German-American conductor, pianist, and composer (1929–2019)

Fritz Kreisler
Austrian violinist and composer (1875-1962)

Lorin Maazel
French-American conductor (1930-2014)

Elmer Bernstein
American composer and conductor (1922-2004)

Gian Carlo Menotti
Italian-American composer and librettist (1911–2007)
Otto Klemperer
German conductor and composer (1885–1973)

Harry Partch
American composer, music theorist, creator of musical instruments
Leopold Auer
Hungarian violinist, conductor and composer (1845–1930)

Morton Feldman
American composer (1926–1987)
Mike Patton
American singer

Ernest Bloch
American composer (1880-1959)
Milton Babbitt
American composer (1916–2011)

Terry Riley
American composer and musician (born 1935)
Edward MacDowell
American composer (1860–1908)
La Monte Young
American avant-garde composer (born 1935)

Brian Tyler
American composer
George Crumb
American composer (1929-2022)
Ernst Krenek
Austrian/American composer (1900–1991)
Basil Poledouris
Greek-American composer, conductor, and orchestrator of film and television scores (1945-2006)
Henry Cowell
American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario (1897-1965)
Franz Waxman
German film composer (1906-1967)
Alex North
American composer (1910–1991)
Leopold Godowsky
American pianist, composer, and teacher (1870–1938)
Glenn Branca
American composer and guitarist (1948-2018)
Oscar Levant
American comedian, composer, pianist and actor (1906-1972)
Leroy Anderson
American composer (1908-1975)
John Debney
American composer and conductor of film, television, and video game scores (born 1956)

Lukas Foss
American composer (1922-2009)
Arkady Luxemburg
American composer
Walter Piston
American composer (1894–1976)
Victor Herbert
American composer (1859–1924)
Alan Hovhaness
Armenian-American composer (1911-2000)
Eric Whitacre
American composer
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
American musician and composer (1829-1869)
Michael Tilson Thomas
American conductor, pianist and composer
Bradley Joseph
American composer, pianist, keyboardist, arranger, producer, recording artist
Jaromír Weinberger
Czechoslovak-American composer (1896–1967)
John Corigliano
American composer (born 1938)
Anthony Braxton
American musician, composer and philosopher (born 1945)
Ernst Toch
Austrian composer (1887-1964)
David Diamond
American classical composer (1915-2005)
Rod McKuen
American poet, songwriter, composer, and singer (1933-2015)

Alexander Tcherepnin
American composer (1899-1977)
Frederic Rzewski
American pianist and composer (1938–2021)
Conlon Nancarrow
American composer (1912–1997)
Robert Russell Bennett
American composer, arranger (1894-1981)
Lowell Mason
American composer; leading figure in American church music