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NameNationalityBornDiedFlourishedEra(s)
James Hewitt American 1770 1827 Romantic-era
Anthony Heinrich American 1781 1861 Romantic-era
Stephen Foster American 1826 1864 Romantic-era
James Cutler Dunn Parker American 1828 1916 20th-century
Louis Moreau Gottschalk American 1829 1869 Romantic-era
Patrick Gilmore Irish-born American 1829 1892 Romantic-era
Susan McFarland Parkhurst American 1836 1918 20th-century
Smith Newell Penfield American 1837 1920 20th-century
John Knowles Paine American 1839 1906 20th-century, Romantic-era
Theodora Cormontan Norwegian American 1840 1922 20th-century
Ernst Perabo German-born American 1845 1920 20th-century
Oscar Hammerstein I German-born American 1846 1919 Romantic-era
Johann Baptist Singenberger Swiss-American 1848 1924 20th-century
William J. McCoy American 1848 1926 20th-century
Arthur Foote American 1853 1937 20th-century
George Whitefield Chadwick American 1854 1931 20th-century, Romantic-era
John Philip Sousa American 1854 1932 20th-century, Romantic-era
Julie Rivé-King American 1854 1937 20th-century
Frank White Meacham American 1856 1909 Romantic-era
George Strong American 1856 1948 20th-century
Helen Hopekirk Scottish-American 1856 1945 20th-century
Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter American 1856 1938 20th-century
Edwin Eugene Bagley American 1857 1922 Romantic-era
Henry Schoenfeld American 1857 1936 20th-century
Mary Knight Wood American 1857 1944 20th-century
Timothee Adamowski Polish-born American 1857 1943 20th-century
Frank Lynes American 1858 1913 20th-century
Stella Stocker American 1858 1925 20th-century
Laura Sedgwick Collins American 1859 1927 20th-century
Victor Herbert Irish-born American 1859 1924 20th-century, Romantic-era
Celeste de Longpré Heckscher American 1860 1928 20th-century
Edward MacDowell American 1860 1908 20th-century, Romantic-era
Charles Martin Loeffler French-born American 1861 1935 20th-century
Carrie Jacobs-Bond American 1862 1946 20th-century
Henry Holden Huss American 1862 1953 20th-century
Walter Damrosch German-born American 1862 1950 20th-century
Abbie Gerrish-Jones American 1863 1929 20th-century
Helen Francis Hood American 1863 1949 20th-century
Horatio Parker American 1863 1919 20th-century, Romantic-era
Clarence L. Partee American 1864 1915 Romantic-era
Eleanor Everest Freer American 1864 1942 20th-century
Harry Falkenau American 1864 1907 20th-century
Caro Roma American 1866 1937 20th-century
Clara Anna Korn American 1866 1941 20th-century
Amy Beach American 1867 1944 20th-century, Romantic-era
Margaret Ruthven Lang American 1867 1972 20th-century
Scott Joplin American 1868 1917 20th-century, Romantic-era
Seth Weeks American 1868 1953 Romantic-era
Harry Lawrence Freeman American 1869 1954 Romantic-era
John N. Klohr American 1869 1956 20th-century
Patty Stair American 1869 1926 20th-century
Arthur Pryor American 1870 1942 20th-century
Henry Eichheim American 1870 1942 20th-century
Frederick Converse American 1871 1940 20th-century
Henry Kimball Hadley American 1871 1937 20th-century, Romantic-era
Rubin Goldmark American 1872 1936 20th-century, Romantic-era
William H. Potstock American 1872 1941 20th-century
Mary Carr Moore American 1873 1957 20th-century
Arnold Schoenberg Austrian-American 1874 1951 20th-century, Romantic-era
Charles Ives American 1874 1954 20th-century, Romantic-era
George Botsford American 1874 1949 20th-century
Carl Ruggles American 1876 1971 20th-century, Romantic-era
Ernest Schelling American 1876 1939 20th-century
John Alden Carpenter American 1876 1951 20th-century, Romantic-era
Josef Hofmann Polish-American 1876 1957 20th-century
Russell Alexander American 1877 1915 20th-century
Avery Robinson American 1878 1965 20th-century
Mabel Wheeler Daniels American 1878 1971 20th-century
Ossip Gabrilowitsch Russian-born American 1878 1936 20th-century
Frank La Forge American 1879 1953 20th-century
Hugo Riesenfeld Austrian-American 1879 1939 20th-century
Clara Edwards American 1880 1974 20th-century
Clarence Cameron White American 1880 1960 20th-century
Ernest Bloch American (Swiss-born) 1880 1959 20th-century
Arthur Marshall American 1881 1968 20th-century
Fannie Charles Dillon American 1881 1947 20th-century
Henry Fillmore American 1881 1956 20th-century
Richard Hageman Dutch-born American 1881 1966 20th-century
Alberto Bimboni Italian-born American 1882 1960 20th-century
John Powell American 1882 1963 20th-century
Marion Bauer American 1882 1955 20th-century
Mary Howe American 1882 1964 20th-century
Nicholas Laucella Italian-American 1882 1952 20th-century
Maurice Abrahams American 1883 1931 20th-century
Boris Levenson Russian-born American 1884 1947 20th-century
Charles Griffes American 1884 1920 20th-century
Wintter Watts American 1884 1962 20th-century
Haig Gudenian Armenian-American 1885 1972 20th-century
James Scott American 1885 1938 20th-century
Mana-Zucca American 1885 1981 20th-century
Paul van Katwijk Dutch-American 1885 1974 20th-century
Wallingford Riegger American 1885 1961 20th-century
Edward Ballantine American 1886 1971 20th-century
Edward Joseph Collins American 1886 1951 20th-century
Elizabeth Gyring American 1886 1970 20th-century
John J. Becker American 1886 1961 20th-century
Ole Windingstad Norwegian-American 1886 1959 20th-century
Florence Price American 1887 1953 20th-century
Mildred Couper American 1887 1974 20th-century
Gabriel von Wayditch Hungarian-American 1888 1969 20th-century
Johanna Beyer German-American 1888 1944 20th-century
May Aufderheide American 1888 1972 20th-century
Philip Greeley Clapp American 1888 1954 20th-century
Alton Adams American 1889 1987 20th-century
Ethel Glenn Hier American 1889 1971 20th-century
Felix Arndt American 1889 1918 20th-century
Eda Rapoport American 1890 1968 20th-century
Kathleen Lockhart Manning American 1890 1951 20th-century
Philip James American 1890 1975 20th-century
Catherine Murphy Urner American 1891 1942 20th-century
Karl King American 1891 1971 20th-century
Thomas Griselle American 1891 1955 20th-century
Ferde Grofé American 1892 1972 20th-century
John Jacob Niles American 1892 1980 20th-century
Katherine Kennicott Davis American 1892 1980 20th-century
Louise Lincoln Kerr American 1892 1977 20th-century
Samuel L. M. Barlow American 1892 1982 20th-century
Sandor Harmati Hungarian-American 1892 1936 20th-century
Bernard Rogers American 1893 1968 20th-century
Douglas Moore American 1893 1969 20th-century
Helen Eugenia Hagan American 1893 1964 20th-century
John Laurence Seymour American 1893 1986 20th-century
Leo Ornstein American (Russian-born) 1893 2002 20th-century
Albert Stoessel American 1894 1943 20th-century
Bernard Wagenaar Dutch/American 1894 1971 20th-century
Edmund Jenkins American 1894 1926 20th-century
Mark Wessel American 1894 1973 20th-century
Nicolas Slonimsky Russian-born American 1894 1995 20th-century
Robert Russell Bennett American 1894 1981 20th-century
Vally Weigl Austrian-American 1894 1982 20th-century
Walter Piston American 1894 1976 20th-century
Ernest Charles American 1895 1984 20th-century
Eva Jessye American 1895 1992 20th-century
Leo Sowerby American 1895 1968 20th-century
William Grant Still American 1895 1978 20th-century
Howard Hanson American 1896 1981 20th-century
Leroy Robertson American 1896 1971 20th-century
Roger Sessions American 1896 1985 20th-century
Shirley Graham Du Bois American 1896 1977 20th-century
Virgil Thomson American 1896 1989 20th-century
Harrison Kerr American 1897 1978 20th-century
Henry Cowell American 1897 1965 20th-century
Kay Swift American 1897 1993 20th-century
Quincy Porter American 1897 1966 20th-century
Carlton Cooley American 1898 1981 20th-century
Edward Boatner American 1898 1981 20th-century
Ernst Bacon American 1898 1990 20th-century
George Gershwin American 1898 1937 20th-century
Roy Harris American 1898 1979 20th-century
Duke Ellington American 1899 1974 20th-century
George Frederick McKay American 1899 1970 20th-century
Harl McDonald American 1899 1955 20th-century
Radie Britain American 1899 1994 20th-century
Randall Thompson American 1899 1984 20th-century
Aaron Copland American 1900 1990 20th-century
Elinor Remick Warren American 1900 1991 20th-century
George Antheil American 1900 1959 20th-century
Isadore Freed Belarusian-born American 1900 1960 20th-century
Kurt Weill German/American 1900 1950 20th-century
Nicolai Berezowsky Russian-American 1900 1953 20th-century
Otto Luening American 1900 1996 20th-century
Boris Koutzen Russian-American 1901 1966 20th-century
Dorothy James American 1901 1982 20th-century
Harry Partch American 1901 1974 20th-century
Heinz Eric Roemheld American 1901 1985 20th-century
Lillian Fuchs American 1901 1995 20th-century
Ruth Crawford Seeger American 1901 1953 20th-century
John Vincent American 1902 1977 20th-century
Meredith Willson American 1902 1984 20th-century
Theodore Chanler American 1902 1961 20th-century
Abram Chasins American 1903 1987 20th-century
Vladimir Horowitz American 1903 1989 20th-century
Marc Blitzstein American 1905 1964 20th-century
Mario Braggiotti American (Italian-born) 1905 1996 20th-century
Ulric Cole American 1905 1992 20th-century
Antal Doráti American 1906 1988 20th-century
David Van Vactor American 1906 1994 20th-century
Louise Talma American 1906 1996 20th-century
Miriam Gideon American 1906 1996 20th-century
Normand Lockwood American 1906 2002 20th-century, 21st-century
Oscar Levant American 1906 1972 20th-century
Paul Creston American 1906 1985 20th-century
Willson Osborne American 1906 1979 20th-century
Alec Wilder American 1907 1980 20th-century
Burrill Phillips American 1907 1988 20th-century
Howard Swanson American 1907 1978 20th-century
Jeronimas Kačinskas Lithuanian-born American 1907 2005 20th-century, 21st-century
Lora Aborn American 1907 2005 20th-century, 21st-century
Elliott Carter American 1908 2012 20th-century, 21st-century
Halsey Stevens American 1908 1989 20th-century
Irwin Heilner American 1908 1991 20th-century
Leroy Anderson American 1908 1975 20th-century
Roberta Bitgood American 1908 2007 20th-century, 21st-century
Charles Naginski American 1909 1940 20th-century
Dana Suesse American 1909 1987 20th-century
Elie Siegmeister American 1909 1991 20th-century
Jean Berger American (German-born) 1909 2002 20th-century, 21st-century
Paul Nordoff American 1909 1977 20th-century
Bernhard Heiden German-American 1910 2000 20th-century
Francis Judd Cooke American 1910 1995 20th-century
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