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Juan Tizol
Puerto Rican trombonist and composer
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Russel Walder
American musician
2
Nicholas Maw
British composer
3
Wayne Peterson
American composer
4
Michael Kamen
American film score composer, orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, songwriter, and session musician
5
Michael Nyman
English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist
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John Cage
American avant-garde composer (1912-1992)
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Akira Ifukube
Japanese composer (1914-2006)
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Bernard Rands
British composer
9
Richard Tee
American musician
10
Bright Sheng
Chinese-American composer, conductor, and pianist
11
Edvard Grieg
Norwegian composer and pianist
12
Bill Smith
jazz musician and composer from the United States
13
Sérgio Assad
Brazilian composer, guitarist
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Kurt Cobain
American singer, musician, and songwriter
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Murray Perahia
American pianist and conductor
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John Harbison
American composer
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Duke Ellington
American jazz musician, composer and band leader
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Robert Ward
American composer
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Paul McCandless
American musician
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John Ireland
British composer and teacher of music
21
Lou Harrison
American composer
22
Joe Henderson
American jazz tenor saxophonist
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Ernesto Lecuona
Cuban composer (1896-1963)
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Marvin Hamlisch
American composer and conductor (1944-2012)
25
Helen Callus
British musician
26
Adam Rogers
American musician
27
Joaquín Rodrigo
Spanish composer, best known for his Concierto de Aranjuez
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William Alwyn
English composer, conductor, and music teacher
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Garrick Ohlsson
American pianist
30
Henry Kimball Hadley
American composer
31
Ellis Marsalis Jr.
American pianist
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Bob James
smooth jazz keyboardist and composer
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Alec Rowley
British composer
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Alan Ridout
British composer
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John Luther Adams
American composer
