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page 1Jazz-influenced classical composers

Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer (1882–1971)

Maurice Ravel
French composer (1875–1937)
Dmitri Shostakovich
Soviet composer and pianist (1906-1975)
George Gershwin
American composer and pianist (1898–1937)
Leonard Bernstein
American conductor and composer (1918–1990)

John Williams
American composer and conductor (born 1932)
Aaron Copland
American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor (1900-1990)

Francis Poulenc
French composer and pianist (1899–1963)

Kurt Weill
German composer (1900–1950)

Darius Milhaud
French composer (1892–1974)

André Previn
German-American conductor, pianist, and composer (1929–2019)
William Walton
English composer (1902–1983)

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

Malcolm Arnold
English composer and conductor (1921–2006)

Hans Werner Henze
German composer (1926–2012)
Frank Martin
Swiss composer (1890–1974)
Alex North
American composer (1910–1991)
Ernst Krenek
Austrian/American composer (1900–1991)
Henry Cowell
American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario (1897-1965)
Nikolai Kapustin
Soviet and Russian composer and pianist (1937–2020)
Leroy Anderson
American composer (1908-1975)
Gunther Schuller
American composer and conductor (1925–2015)
Friedrich Gulda
Austrian pianist and composer (1930–2000)
Richard Rodney Bennett
British composer and pianist (1936-2012)
Boris Blacher
German composer (1903-1975)
Anthony Braxton
American musician, composer and philosopher (born 1945)
Morton Gould
American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist (1913–1996)
Constant Lambert
British composer and conductor (1905–1951)
Ferde Grofé
American composer, arranger, pianist and instrumentalist (1892–1972)
William Grant Still
American composer (1895–1978)
Rolf Liebermann
Swiss composer (1910-1999)
David Amram
American composer, arranger, and conductor (born 1930)
Margaret Bonds
American composer and pianist (1913–1972)
John Alden Carpenter
American composer (1876-1951)
Mel Powell
American composer (1923-1998)
Charles Martin Loeffler
American violinist and composer (1861-1935)
Wilhelm Grosz
Austrian composer, pianist and conductor (1894–1939)
Jörg Widmann
German composer, conductor and clarinetist
John Serry Sr.
American concert accordionist, arranger, and composer (1915–2003)

Butch Morris
American cornetist (1947–2013)
Michael Torke
American composer
Larry Austin
American composer (1930–2018)
Don Banks
Australian composer (1923-1980)

David Baker
American jazz composer, trombonist, professor of music and author (1931-2016)
Anthony Davis
American pianist and composer
Takashi Kako
Japanese composer
Milton Adolphus
American pianist and composer (1913-1988)
Tale Ognenovski
Macedonian musician (1922-2012)
Yoriaki Matsudaira
Japanese contemporary music composer and biophysicist (1931-2023)