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Lejaren Hiller
American composer
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James Tenney
American composer and music theorist
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Arnold Schoenberg
Austrian-American composer (1874-1951)
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Horacio Vaggione
Argentine composer
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Cindy McTee
American composer
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Olivier Messiaen
French composer, organist and ornithologist
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Paul Hindemith
German-born American composer (1895–1963)
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Jon Appleton
American composer
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Leonard Bernstein
American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist
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Leonard Feather
British musician
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John Cage
American avant-garde composer (1912-1992)
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David Rosenboom
American composer
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David Cope
American composer and scientist
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Kaija Saariaho
Finnish composer
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Iannis Xenakis
Greek-French composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and engineer
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Leonard Rosenman
American composer (1924-2008)
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Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer, pianist and conductor
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Johann Sebastian Bach
German composer and musician of the Baroque era
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Morton Feldman
American avant-garde composer
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Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer and pianist
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Joji Yuasa
Japanese composer (1929-)
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
English composer
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George Gershwin
American composer and pianist (1898-1937)
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Erik Satie
French composer and pianist
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer of the Classical period
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Thomas Tallis
English composer
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Samuel Barber
American composer (1910-1981)