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Igor Stravinsky

Russian composer, pianist and conductor

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Lennox Berkeley

British composer

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Michael Tilson Thomas

American conductor, pianist and composer

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Elliott Carter

American composer

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Nadia Boulanger

French musician and teacher

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Tan Dun

Chinese composer

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Carlos Chávez

Mexican composer, conductor, music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra (1899-1978)

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Charles Wuorinen

American composer

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Ernst Toch

Austrian composer

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Conrad Tao

American musician

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Samuel Barber

American composer (1910-1981)

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Sergei Prokofiev

Ukrainian & Russian Soviet pianist and composer

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Harold Shapero

American composer

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Henry Cowell

American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario

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John Luther Adams

American composer

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Joan Tower

American composer, concert pianist and conductor

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Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt

German composer

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Albert Roussel

French composer

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John Corigliano

American composer

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Aaron Copland

American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor

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Tōru Takemitsu

Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory (1930-1996)