Composer
| Name | Nationality | Date of Birth | Date of Death |
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| Aaron Copland |
American |
November 14, 1900 |
February 2, 1990 |
| Alan Hovhaness |
American |
March 8, 1911 |
June 21, 2000 |
| Alban Berg |
Austrian |
February 9, 1885 |
December 24, 1935 |
| Alex North |
American |
December 4, 1910 |
September 8, 1991 |
| Alexander Borodin |
Russian |
1833 |
1887 |
| Alexander Scriabin |
Russian |
January 6, 1872 |
April 27, 1915 |
| Alfred Newman |
American |
March 17, 1900 |
February 17, 1970 |
| Alfred Schnittke |
Russian |
November 24, 1934 |
August 3, 1998 |
| Alun Hoddinott |
Welsh |
August 11, 1929 |
March 12, 2008 |
| Andre Boucourechliev |
French |
July 28, 1925 |
November 13, 1997 |
| Andrew Law |
American |
1749 |
1821 |
| Andrew Lloyd Webber |
British |
March 22, 1948 |
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| Anne Boyd |
Australian |
October 10, 1946 |
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| Anne Dudley |
English |
May 7, 1956 |
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| Antal Dorati |
Hungarian |
April 9, 1906 |
November 13, 1988 |
| Anthony Davis |
American |
February 20, 1951 |
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| Antonin Dvorak |
Czechoslovakian |
September 8, 1841 |
May 1, 1904 |
| Arnold Schoenberg |
Austrian |
September 13, 1874 |
July 13, 1951 |
| Arthur Berger |
American |
May 15, 1912 |
October 7, 2003 |
| Arthur Honegger |
Swiss |
March 10, 1892 |
November 27, 1955 |
| Arthur Schwartz |
American |
November 25, 1900 |
September 3, 1984 |
| Arthur Sullivan |
British |
May 13, 1842 |
November 22, 1900 |
| Arvo Part |
Estonian |
September 11, 1935 |
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| Aulis Sallinen |
Finnish |
April 9, 1935 |
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| Barbara Kolb |
American |
February 10, 1939 |
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| Bart Howard |
American |
June 1, 1915 |
February 21, 2004 |
| Bela Bartok |
Hungarian |
March 25, 1881 |
September 26, 1945 |
| Benedetto Marcello |
Italian |
1686 |
1739 |
| Benjamin Britten |
English |
November 22, 1913 |
December 4, 1976 |
| Bernard Herrmann |
American |
June 29, 1911 |
December 24, 1975 |
| Beth Anderson |
American |
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| Big Bill Broonzy |
American |
June 26, 1893 |
August 15, 1958 |
| Billy Strayhorn |
American |
November 29, 1915 |
May 31, 1967 |
| Brian Ferneyhough |
British |
January 16, 1943 |
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| Bruno Walter |
German |
September 15, 1876 |
February 17, 1962 |
| Burt Bacharach |
American |
May 12, 1928 |
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| Burton Lane |
American |
February 2, 1912 |
January 5, 1997 |
| Carl Davis |
American |
October 28, 1936 |
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| Carl Maria von Weber |
German |
November 18, 1786 |
June 5, 1826 |
| Carl Orff |
German |
July 10, 1895 |
March 29, 1982 |
| Carlisle Floyd |
American |
June 11, 1926 |
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| Carter Burwell |
American |
November 19, 1955 |
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| Charles Gounod |
French |
June 17, 1818 |
October 18, 1893 |
| Charles Ives |
American |
October 20, 1874 |
May 19, 1954 |
| Claude Debussy |
French |
August 22, 1862 |
March 25, 1918 |
| Claudio Monteverdi |
Italian |
May 15, 1567 |
November 29, 1643 |
| Cole Porter |
American |
June 9, 1893 |
October 15, 1964 |
| Cy Coleman |
American |
June 14, 1929 |
November 18, 2004 |
| Darius Milhaud |
French |
September 4, 1892 |
June 22, 1974 |
| David Amram |
American |
November 17, 1930 |
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| David Baker |
American |
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| David Del Tredici |
American |
March 16, 1937 |
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| Dimitri Mitropoulos |
Greek |
March 1, 1896 |
November 2, 1960 |
| Dimitri Shostakovich |
Russian |
September 25, 1906 |
August 9, 1975 |
| Earle Brown |
American |
December 26, 1926 |
July 2, 2002 |
| Edgard Varese |
American |
December 22, 1883 |
November 6, 1965 |
| Edvard Grieg |
Norwegian |
June 15, 1843 |
September 4, 1907 |
| Edward Elgar |
British |
June 2, 1857 |
February 23, 1934 |
| Elliott Carter |
American |
December 11, 1908 |
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| Elmer Bernstein |
American |
April 4, 1922 |
August 18, 2004 |
| Ennio Morricone |
Italian |
November 10, 1928 |
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| Erich Wolfgang Korngold |
Austrian |
May 29, 1897 |
November 29, 1957 |
| Erik Satie |
French |
May 17, 1866 |
July 1, 1925 |
| Eubie Blake |
American |
February 7, 1883 |
February 12, 1983 |
| Eugene Chadbourne |
American |
January 4, 1951 |
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| Felix Mendelssohn |
German |
February 3, 1809 |
November 4, 1847 |
| Florent Schmitt |
French |
September 28, 1870 |
August 17, 1958 |
| Franz Lehar |
Austrian |
April 30, 1870 |
October 24, 1948 |
| Franz Liszt |
Hungarian |
October 22, 1811 |
July 31, 1886 |
| Franz Schubert |
Austrian |
January 31, 1797 |
November 19, 1828 |
| Fred Frith |
English |
February 17, 1949 |
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| Frederic Chopin |
Polish |
March 1, 1810 |
October 17, 1849 |
| Frederick Delius |
English |
January 29, 1862 |
June 10, 1934 |
| Frederick Loewe |
American |
June 10, 1904 |
1988 |
| Fritz Kreisler |
Austrian |
February 2, 1875 |
January 29, 1962 |
| Gavin Bryars |
English |
January 16, 1943 |
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| George Antheil |
American |
June 8, 1900 |
February 12, 1959 |
| George Crumb |
American |
October 24, 1929 |
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| George Gershwin |
American |
September 26, 1898 |
July 11, 1937 |
| George Lloyd |
English |
June 28, 1913 |
July 3, 1998 |
| George Szell |
Hungarian |
June 7, 1897 |
July 29, 1970 |
| Georges Bizet |
French |
October 25, 1838 |
June 3, 1875 |
| Gerald Finzi |
British |
July 14, 1901 |
September 27, 1956 |
| Giacomo Meyerbeer |
German |
September 5, 1791 |
May 2, 1864 |
| Giacomo Puccini |
Italian |
December 22, 1858 |
November 29, 1924 |
| Gian Carlo Menotti |
Italian |
July 7, 1911 |
February 1, 2007 |
| Gioachino Rossini |
Italian |
February 29, 1792 |
November 13, 1868 |
| Giuseppe Verdi |
Italian |
October 10, 1813 |
January 27, 1901 |
| Gunther Schuller |
American |
November 22, 1925 |
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| Gustav Mahler |
Austrian |
July 7, 1860 |
May 18, 1911 |
| Gyorgy Ligeti |
Hungarian |
May 28, 1923 |
June 12, 2006 |
| Hanns Eisler |
German |
July 6, 1898 |
September 6, 1962 |
| Harold Budd |
American |
May 24, 1936 |
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| Harrison Birtwistle |
British |
July 15, 1934 |
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| Harry Warren |
American |
December 24, 1893 |
September 22, 1981 |
| Hector Berlioz |
French |
December 11, 1803 |
March 8, 1869 |
| Hoagy Carmichael |
American |
November 22, 1899 |
December 27, 1981 |
| Igor Stravinsky |
Russian |
June 17, 1882 |
April 6, 1971 |
| Irving Caesar |
American |
July 4, 1895 |
December 18, 1996 |
| Jacques Ibert |
French |
August 15, 1890 |
February 5, 1962 |
| James Tenney |
American |
August 10, 1934 |
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| Jay Livingston |
American |
March 28, 1915 |
October 17, 2001 |
| Jean Philippe Rameau |
French |
September 25, 1683 |
September 12, 1764 |
| Jean Sibelius |
Finnish |
December 8, 1865 |
September 20, 1957 |
| Jerry Goldsmith |
American |
February 10, 1929 |
July 21, 2004 |
| Jerry Herman |
American |
July 10, 1933 |
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| Jerry Hunt |
American |
November 30, 1943 |
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| Jimmy Webb |
American |
August 15, 1946 |
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| Johann Nepomuk Hummel |
Austrian |
November 14, 1778 |
October 17, 1837 |
| Johannes Brahms |
German |
May 7, 1833 |
April 3, 1897 |
| Johannes Sebastian Bach |
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| John Barry |
British |
November 3, 1933 |
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| John Cage |
American |
September 5, 1912 |
August 12, 1992 |
| John Corigliano |
American |
February 16, 1938 |
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| John Powell |
American |
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| John Williams |
American |
February 8, 1932 |
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| John Zorn |
American |
September 2, 1953 |
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| Jonathan Larson |
American |
February 4, 1960 |
January 25, 1996 |
| Joseph Haydn |
Austrian |
March 31, 1732 |
May 31, 1809 |
| Joseph Parry |
Welsh |
1841 |
1903 |
| Jules Massenet |
French |
May 12, 1842 |
August 13, 1912 |
| Karl Amadeus Hartmann |
German |
August 2, 1905 |
December 5, 1963 |
| Karlheinz Stockhausen |
German |
August 22, 1928 |
December 5, 2007 |
| Keith Jarrett |
American |
May 8, 1945 |
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| Kevin Ayers |
English |
August 16, 1944 |
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| Klaus Schulze |
German |
August 4, 1947 |
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| Kurt Weill |
German |
March 2, 1900 |
April 3, 1950 |
| La Monte Young |
American |
October 14, 1935 |
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| Landon Ronald |
English |
1873 |
1938 |
| Leo Delibes |
French |
February 21, 1836 |
January 16, 1891 |
| Leo Ornstein |
American |
December 2, 1892 |
February 24, 2002 |
| Leo Robin |
American |
April 6, 1900 |
December 29, 1984 |
| Leonard Bernstein |
American |
August 25, 1918 |
October 14, 1990 |
| Lou Harrison |
American |
May 14, 1917 |
February 2, 2003 |
| Luc Ferrari |
French |
February 5, 1929 |
August 22, 2005 |
| Luciano Berio |
Italian |
October 24, 1925 |
May 27, 2003 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven |
German |
December 17, 1770 |
March 26, 1827 |
| Lukas Foss |
German |
August 15, 1922 |
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| Malcolm Arnold |
English |
October 21, 1921 |
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| Malcolm Williamson |
Australian |
November 21, 1931 |
March 2, 2003 |
| Marvin Hamlisch |
American |
June 2, 1944 |
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| Maurice Jarre |
French |
September 13, 1924 |
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| Maurice Ravel |
French |
March 7, 1875 |
December 28, 1937 |
| Max Reger |
German |
March 19, 1873 |
May 11, 1916 |
| Meredith Monk |
American |
November 20, 1942 |
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| Michael Nyman |
British |
March 23, 1944 |
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| Michael Tippett |
English |
January 2, 1905 |
January 8, 1998 |
| Michael Torke |
American |
September 21, 1961 |
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| Michel Legrand |
French |
February 24, 1932 |
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| Mikhail Glinka |
Russian |
May 20, 1804 |
February 15, 1857 |
| Milton Babbitt |
American |
May 10, 1916 |
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| Modest Mussorgsky |
Russian |
1839 |
1881 |
| Morton Feldman |
American |
January 12, 1926 |
September 3, 1987 |
| Ned Rorem |
American |
October 23, 1923 |
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| Nobuo Uematsu |
Japanese |
March 21, 1959 |
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| Olivier Messiaen |
French |
December 10, 1908 |
April 27, 1992 |
| Orlando Gibbons |
English |
December 25, 1583 |
June 5, 1625 |
| Oscar Levant |
American |
December 27, 1906 |
August 14, 1972 |
| Paul Bowles |
American |
December 30, 1910 |
November 18, 1999 |
| Peter Maxwell Davies |
English |
September 8, 1934 |
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