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Jewish classical composers

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Gustav Mahler
Austrian late-Romantic composer (1860–1911)
Felix Mendelssohn
German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of Jewish descent (1809-1847)
Jacques Offenbach
German-born French composer (1819–1880)
Theodor W. Adorno
German philosopher, sociologist and theorist (1903–1969)
Arnold Schoenberg
Austrian-Jewish American composer (1874-1951)
Giacomo Meyerbeer
German-French composer
Max Brod
Bohemian-Israeli author, composer, and journalist (1884–1968)
Anton Rubinstein
Russian pianist, composer and conductor (1829–1894)
György Ligeti
Hungarian composer (1923-2006)
Paul Dukas
French composer (1865–1935)
Władysław Szpilman
(1911-2000) Polish pianist, composer, Holocaust survivor
Howard Shore
Canadian film score composer (born 1946)
Fanny Mendelssohn
German pianist and composer (1805–1847)
Darius Milhaud
French composer (1892–1974)
Alfred Schnittke
Soviet-born Russian composer (1934–1998)
Fritz Kreisler
Austrian violinist and composer (1875-1962)
Charles-Valentin Alkan
French composer and pianist (1813–1888)
Emmerich Kálmán
Hungarian-born composer of operettas (1882–1953)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Austrian-born American composer and conductor (1897–1957)
Henryk Wieniawski
Russian-Polish musician (1835–1880)
Lalo Schifrin
Argentine-American pianist, composer, arranger and conductor (1932–2025)
Nikolai Rubinstein
Russian pianist, conductor and composer (1835-1881)
Joseph Joachim
Hungarian violinist, composer, and teacher (1831–1907)
Pancho Vladigerov
Bulgarian musician (1899-1978)
Otto Klemperer
German conductor and composer (1885–1973)
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English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist
Josef Strauss
Austrian composer
Alexander von Zemlinsky
Austrian Jewish composer, conductor, and teacher (1871-1942)
Artur Schnabel
Austrian pianist (1882-1951)
Eduard Strauss
Austrian composer (1835–1916)
Ferdinand Hiller
German composer and conductor (1811–1885)
Ignaz Moscheles
Bohemian conductor, music educator, composer and pianist (1794–1870)
György Kurtág
Hungarian composer
Ludwig Minkus
Austrian composer and violinist (1826–1917)
Émile Waldteufel
French composer (1837-1915)
Mauricio Kagel
Argentine-German composer (1931-2008)
David Popper
Bohemian cellist and composer (1843–1913)
Leopold Godowsky
American pianist, composer, and teacher (1870–1938)
Viktor Ullmann
Austrian composer (1898–1944)
Franz Waxman
German film composer (1906-1967)
Karl Goldmark
Hungarian-born Viennese composer (1830–1915)
Moritz Moszkowski
German composer, pianist and teacher (1854–1925)
Josef Tal
Israeli composer (1910–2008)
Erwin Schulhoff
Czech composer and pianist (1894–1942)
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Italian composer (1895–1968)
Alexandre Tansman
Franco-Polish musician (1897-1986)
Pavel Haas
Czech composer (1899–1944)
Paul Ben-Haim
Israeli composer (1897–1984)
Egon Wellesz
Austrian, later British composer, teacher and musicologist (1885-1974)
Hans Krása
Czech composer (1899-1944)
Paul Dessau
German composer and conductor (1894-1979)
Mieczysław Weinberg
Polish Soviet composer (1919–1996)
Leó Weiner
(1885–1960) composer, music pedagogue
Ignaz Brüll
Austrian musician (1846–1907)
Mikhail Gnesin
Russian Jewish composer and teacher (1883–1957)
Arthur Benjamin
Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher
Jaromír Weinberger
Czechoslovak-American composer (1896–1967)
Carl Tausig
Polish pianist (1841–1871)
Ernst Toch
Austrian composer (1887-1964)
Yan Frenkel
Ukrainian composer (1920-1989)