Category
page 1American male opera composers
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 Cage
American avant-garde composer (1912-1992)
Philip Glass
American composer (born 1937)
Scott Joplin
American composer, musician, pianist (1867/68-1917)
Aaron Copland
American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor (1900-1990)

Samuel Barber
American composer (1910-1981)
Steve Reich
American composer (born 1936)
Bernard Herrmann
American composer and conductor (1911-1975)

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

Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Austrian-born American composer and conductor (1897–1957)
Paul Bowles
American composer and writer (1910–1999)
George Antheil
American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor (1900–1959)
Elliot Goldenthal
American composer
Virgil Thomson
American composer and critic (1896–1989)
Elliott Carter
American composer (1908-2012)
Gunther Schuller
American composer and conductor (1925–2015)
Sigmund Romberg
Hungarian-born American composer (1887–1951)
Howard Hanson
American composer, conductor, educator and music theorist (1896–1981)
Roger Sessions
American composer, critic, and teacher of music (1896-1985)
Charles Wuorinen
American composer (1938–2020)
Anthony Braxton
American musician, composer and philosopher (born 1945)
Peter Schickele
American composer, musical educator, and parodist (1935-2024)
Christopher Tin
American composer
William Bolcom
American composer (born 1938)
Ned Rorem
American composer and diarist (1923–2022)
Lou Harrison
American composer (1917-2003)
Norman Dello Joio
American composer (1913–2008)
Don Davis
American composer, conductor, orchestrator and trombonist

Terence Blanchard
American musician and composer
William Schuman
American composer and arts administrator (1910-1992)
William Grant Still
American composer (1895–1978)
Robert Ashley
American composer (1930–2014)
Samuel Adler
American composer and conductor
Anton Coppola
American conductor (1917–2020)
Dominick Argento
American composer (1927-2019)
Carlisle Floyd
American composer (1926–2021)
Walter Damrosch
German American conductor and composer (1862–1950)

Bernard Rogers
American composer (1893–1968)
Frederick Converse
American classical music composer (1871-1940)
Marc Blitzstein
American composer, lyricist, and librettist (1905–1964)
Mark Adamo
American composer and librettist (born 1962)
Robert Ward
American composer (1917-2013)
Malek Jandali
Award-winning composer & pianist
Charles Wakefield Cadman
American composer (1881-1946)
Oscar Hammerstein I
German-American businessman
Michael Daugherty
American composer, pianist, and teacher
Elie Siegmeister
American composer (1909-1991)
Louis Gruenberg
Russian-American musician (1884–1964)
Gordon Getty
American businessman, investor, philanthropist and classical music composer
John Harbison
American composer
Lazare Saminsky
Ukrainian opera composer (1882–1959)
Sholom Secunda
American composer (1894–1974)
Vittorio Giannini
American composer (1903–1966)
Jeronimas Kačinskas
Lithuanian composer (1907-2005)
Robert Moran
American composer
Michael Torke
American composer
John Eaton
American composer (1935–2015)