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Jewish American classical composers

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George Gershwin
American composer and pianist (1898–1937)
Arnold Schoenberg
Austrian-Jewish American composer (1874-1951)
Leonard Bernstein
American conductor and composer (1918–1990)
Billy Joel
American singer, songwriter, and pianist (born 1949)
James Horner
American film composer and conductor (1953-2015)
Philip Glass
American composer (born 1937)
Vladimir Horowitz
Russian and American pianist (1903–1989)
Aaron Copland
American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor (1900-1990)
Jerry Goldsmith
American film composer (1929–2004)
Kurt Weill
German composer (1900–1950)
Miklós Rózsa
Hungarian-American composer (1907–1995)
Alfred Newman
American composer (1900-1970)
André Previn
German-American conductor, pianist, and composer (1929–2019)
Bernard Herrmann
American composer and conductor (1911-1975)
Lorin Maazel
French-American conductor (1930-2014)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Austrian-born American composer and conductor (1897–1957)
Elmer Bernstein
American composer and conductor (1922-2004)
John Zorn
American composer, saxophonist and bandleader
Leopold Auer
Hungarian violinist, conductor and composer (1845–1930)
Morton Feldman
American composer (1926–1987)
Ernest Bloch
American composer (1880-1959)
Milton Babbitt
American composer (1916–2011)
Leopold Godowsky
American pianist, composer, and teacher (1870–1938)
Franz Waxman
German film composer (1906-1967)
Alex North
American composer (1910–1991)
Oscar Levant
American comedian, composer, pianist and actor (1906-1972)
Lukas Foss
American composer (1922-2009)
Nicolas Slonimsky
Russian composer (1894-1995)
Michael Tilson Thomas
American conductor, pianist and composer
Sigmund Romberg
Hungarian-born American composer (1887–1951)
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
American musician and composer (1829-1869)
John Corigliano
American composer (born 1938)
Leo Ornstein
American composer and pianist (1895–2002)
David Diamond
American classical composer (1915-2005)
Efrem Zimbalist
Russian-American violinist, composer, teacher, conductor (1889–1985)
Leonard Rosenman
American composer (1924-2008)
Lera Auerbach
Soviet-Russian-born American classical composer and pianist
Morton Gould
American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist (1913–1996)
William Schuman
American composer and arts administrator (1910-1992)
George Perle
American composer (1915–2009)
Samuel Adler
American composer and conductor
David Amram
American composer, arranger, and conductor (born 1930)
Stefan Wolpe
German composer (1902–1972)
Joseph Achron
Russian composer and violinist (1886–1943)
George Rochberg
American composer (1918-2005)
Bernard Rogers
American composer (1893–1968)
Marc Blitzstein
American composer, lyricist, and librettist (1905–1964)
David Lang
American composer
Joseph Schillinger
American musician (1895-1943)
Mel Powell
American composer (1923-1998)
Leon Kirchner
American composer (1919-2009)
Rubin Goldmark
American composer, pianist and educator (1872-1936)
Jacob Druckman
American composer (1928-1996)
Marion Bauer
American composer (1882–1955)
Hugo Leichtentritt
German-Jewish musicologist and composer (1874–1951)
Irving Fine
American composer (1914-1962)
Sholom Secunda
American composer (1894–1974)
Benjamin Lees
American composer (1924–2010)
Vittorio Rieti
Italian composer (1898–1994)
Jerome Moross
American composer; film score composer (1913-1983)