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	Virgil Thomson Lord Byron Less well known than Thomson's other operas, Lord Byron, here in its first recording, shocked audiences at its premiere with its frank look at Byron's personal life.

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

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