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Dan Welcher
American composer
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Samuel Barber
American composer (1910-1981)
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Charles Wuorinen
American composer
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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
American composer
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Lou Harrison
American composer
5
Peter Dickinson
British composer
6
Tim McAllister
American musician
7
Dmitri Smirnov
Russian composer
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Alexander Mackenzie
Scottish conductor and composer
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Shulamit Ran
American composer
10
Tan Dun
Chinese composer
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Virgil Thomson
American composer and critic
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Mark Adamo
American composer and librettist
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George Gershwin
American composer and pianist (1898-1937)
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Howard Blake
composer
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Arthur Bliss
British composer
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Scott Joplin
American composer, musician, and pianist
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William Schuman
American composer and arts administrator (1910-1992)
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Stephen Paulus
American composer
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Elliott Carter
American composer
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Lewis Spratlan
American music academic and composer of contemporary classical music
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Elena Kats-Chernin
Australian composer
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John Corigliano
American composer
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Bright Sheng
Chinese-American composer, conductor, and pianist
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Marc Blitzstein
American composer, lyricist, and librettist
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Richard Strauss
German composer and orchestra director
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Jennifer Higdon
American composer
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Anthony Davis
American pianist and composer
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Robert Ward
American composer
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Benjamin Boretz
American composer
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Philip Glass
American composer and pianist
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Frank Ticheli
American composer
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John Adams
American composer
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Joseph Schwantner
American composer
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Seymour Barab
American musician
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Erik Chisholm
20th century Scottish composer and conductor
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Eubie Blake
Composer, lyricist, and pianist (1887-1983)
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Donald Martino
American composer
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William Russo
American musician
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Benjamin Britten
English composer, conductor, and pianist
