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Mark Adamo (1962 - ) Up-and-coming composer-librettist	Julius Eichberg (1824 - 1893) German-born operettist	Elsie Maxwell
John Adams (1947 - ) Post-minimalist master	David Finko	Kirke Mechem
George Antheil (1900 - 1959)	Carlisle Floyd (1926 - ) Neo-romantic Southerner	Peter Menin
Dominick Argento (1927 - ) Eclectic Minnesotan	Lukas Foss (1922 - ) German-born Bostonian	Gian Carlo Menotti (1911 - 2007) Italian-American lyric master
Jan Bach (1937 - )	Harry Lawrence Freeman (1875 - 1954)	Douglas Moore (1893 - 1969) Baby Doe composer
P.D.Q. Bach see Peter Schickele	Eleanor Warner Everest Freer (1864 - 1942)	Mary Carr Moore (1873 - 1957) Eminent West Coast composer
Leonardo Balada (1933 - )	William Henry Fry (1815 - 1864) America's first opera composer	Irving Mopper
Seymour Barab (1921 - )	Margaret Garwood (1927 - )	Robert Moran
Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981) Opener of the Metropolitan Opera	Keith Gates (1948 - )	Arthur Finlay Nevin (1871 - 1943)
Samuel Barlow (1892 - 1982) An American in Paris	George Gershwin (1898 - 1937) Tinpan Alley opera	Pauline Oliveros
Amy Beach (1867 - 1944) Pioneer of women's music	Philip Glass (1937 - ) Prolific minimalist	John Knowles Paine (1839 - 1906) Harvard music founder
John Beall (1942 - )	Frederick G. Gleason (1848 - 1903) Early Chicagoan	Horatio Parker (1863 - 1919) Yale music founder
Jack Beeson (1921 - ) Composer and teacher	Osvaldo Golijov	Thomas Pasatieri (1945 - ) Popular neo-romantic
Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990) Multitalented master	Ricky Ian Gordon (1956 - )	Stephen Paulus (1949 - ) Vocal and choral romantic
Susan Bingham	Louis Gruenberg (1884 - 1964) Jazz, radio, and the Met	Tobias Picker (1954 - ) Neo-romantic tragedian
Marc Blitzstein (1905 - 1964) A radical on Broadway	Henry Hadley (1871 - 1937) Film composer and Met pioneer	Silas G. Pratt (1846 - 1916) Admired by Wagner
William Bolcom (1938 - ) Eclectic symphonist	Richard Hageman (1881 - 1966)	Andre Previn
Paul Bowles (1910 - 1999) Beat Generation icon	Daron Hagen (1961 - ) Gifted melodist	Joseph D. Redding (1859 - unknown) San Francisco society composer
Joseph Carl Breil (1870 - 1926) Hollywood drama in the opera house	Howard Hanson (1896 - 1981) Romantic symphonist	Mike Reid (1947 - ) All-Pro defensive lineman turned composer
G. F. Bristow (1825 - 1898) America's second opera composer	William F. Hanson	George Rochberg (1918 - 2005)
Dudley Buck (1839 - 1909) Renowned organist	John Harbison (1938 - ) Inventive songwriter	Bernard Rogers
Charles Wakefield Cadman (1881 - 1946) Leader of the Indianist school	Celeste de Longpré Massey Hecksher	Ned Rorem
John Cage (1912 - 1992)	Jake Heggie (1961 - ) Composer and accompanist	Peter Schickele (1935 - ) Creator of P.D.Q. Bach
Mary Elizabeth Caldwell (1909 - 2003)	Alva Henderson	Gunther Schuller (1925 - ) Miles Davis sideman
David Carlson Up-and-coming Californian	Victor Herbert (1859 - 1924) King of the operetta	William Schuman (1910 - 1992) Pulitzer Prize-winning symphonist
George W. Chadwick (1854 - 1931) New England School verismo	Bernard Hermann (1911 - 1975)	Roger Sessions (1896 - 1985) Influential modernist
Edward Joseph Collins (1889 - 1951) Chicago romantic	Horatio Dawes Hewitt (1829 - 1894)	Horatio Seymour
David Conte (1955 - )	Lee Hoiby	John Laurence Seymour (1893 - 1986) Playwright and composer
Frederick Shepherd Converse (1871 - 1940) Boston romantic	John Adam Hugo	Howard Shore
Stewart Copeland (1952 - )	Susan Hulsman	Elie Siegmeister (1909 - 1991) Author and educator
Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990) American icon	Abbie Gerrish Jones (1863 - 1929)	Charles Sanford Skilton
John Corigliano (1938 - ) Met symphonist	Scott Joplin (c. 1868 - 1917) King of Ragtime	John Philip Sousa (1854 - 1932)
Walter Damrosch (1862 - 1950) Eminent Wagnerian conductor	Ulysses Kay (1917 - 1995) Student of William Grant Still	Emma R. Steiner (1852 - 1929)
Richard Danielpour (1956 - )	David Lang	William Grant Still (1895 - 1978) Black opera pioneer
Anthony Davis (1951 - ) Opera, jazz, and beyond	Constance Faunt Le Roy	Deems Taylor (1885 - 1966) Critic and broadcaster
Reginald De Koven (1859 - 1920) Victorian operettist	Leonard J. Lehrman	Randall Thompson (1899 - 1984) Choral director and composer
Norman Dello Joio (1914 - 2008) Choral neoclassicist	Tania León	Virgil Thomson (1896 - 1989) Influential writer and critic
Celius Dougherty (1902 - 1986)	Adam Levowitz (1968 - )	Jane Van Etten
John Thomas Douglass (1847 - 1886)	Frank Lewin	Stewart Wallace (1960 - ) Unconventional cantor and composer
Deborah Drattell (1956 - ) Brooklyn-born woman composer	Lowell Liebermann (1961 - ) Monte Carlo premiere	Robert Ward (1917 - ) Pulitzer Prize winner
Vernon Duke (1903 - 1969)	Peter Lieberson (1946 - ) Buddhist symphonist	Hugo Weisgall (1912 - 1997) One-act specialist
Vladimir Dukelsky see Vernon Duke	Otto Luening (1900 - 1996) Composer and pioneer	Scott Wheeler
John Eaton (1935 - ) Synthesizer and microtonal pioneer	Tod Machover	Henry Hadley (1871 - 1937) Film composer and Met pioneer
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