Category
page 1American opera composers

Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer (1882–1971)
Ezra Pound
American poet and critic (1885–1972)
George Gershwin
American composer and pianist (1898–1937)

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

Kurt Weill
German composer (1900–1950)

Samuel Barber
American composer (1910-1981)
Richard Rodgers
American composer of songs and Broadway musicals (1902–1979)

Bohuslav Martinů
Czech composer (1890–1959)
Steve Reich
American composer (born 1936)

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

Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Austrian-born American composer and conductor (1897–1957)

Gian Carlo Menotti
Italian-American composer and librettist (1911–2007)
Paul Bowles
American composer and writer (1910–1999)

George Antheil
American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor (1900–1959)

Carla Bley
American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader (1936–2023)
Amy Beach
American composer and pianist
Elliot Goldenthal
American composer
Ernst Krenek
Austrian/American composer (1900–1991)
Meredith Monk
American musician (born 1942)
Virgil Thomson
American composer and critic (1896–1989)
Elliott Carter
American composer (1908-2012)
Ernest Guiraud
French composer and music teacher (1837-1892)
Gunther Schuller
American composer and conductor (1925–2015)
Sigmund Romberg
Hungarian-born American composer (1887–1951)
Roger Sessions
American composer, critic, and teacher of music (1896-1985)
Howard Hanson
American composer, conductor, educator and music theorist (1896–1981)
Jaromír Weinberger
Czechoslovak-American composer (1896–1967)
Charles Wuorinen
American composer (1938–2020)
Christopher Tin
American composer
Ned Rorem
American composer and diarist (1923–2022)
Peter Schickele
American composer, musical educator, and parodist (1935-2024)
Ernst Toch
Austrian composer (1887-1964)
Anthony Braxton
American musician, composer and philosopher (born 1945)
William Bolcom
American composer (born 1938)
Efrem Zimbalist
Russian-American violinist, composer, teacher, conductor (1889–1985)
Norman Dello Joio
American composer (1913–2008)
Lou Harrison
American composer (1917-2003)
Don Davis
American composer, conductor, orchestrator and trombonist

Terence Blanchard
American musician and composer
William Schuman
American composer and arts administrator (1910-1992)
Rudolf Friml
Czech composer (1879–1972)
William Grant Still
American composer (1895–1978)
Robert Ashley
American composer (1930–2014)
Samuel Adler
American composer and conductor
Randall Thompson
American composer (1899–1984)
Anton Coppola
American conductor (1917–2020)
Dominick Argento
American composer (1927-2019)
Jenő Zádor
American composer (1894–1977)
Walter Damrosch
German American conductor and composer (1862–1950)
Carlisle Floyd
American composer (1926–2021)
Stefan Wolpe
German composer (1902–1972)
Frederick Converse
American classical music composer (1871-1940)
Tania León
Cuban composer and conductor