Chronological list of American classical composers

Baroque

Charles Theodore Pachelbel (1690–1750)

Classical era

John Antes (1740–1811)

William Billings (1746–1800)

Justin Morgan (1747–1798)

Raynor Taylor (1747–1825)

Supply Belcher (1751–1836)

John Christopher Moller (1755–1803)

Alexander Reinagle (1756–1809)

Daniel Read (1757–1836)

Samuel Adams Holyoke (1762–1820)

Oliver Holden (1765–1844)

Benjamin Carr (1768–1831)

James Hewitt (1770–1827)

Romantic

Anthony Philip Heinrich (1781–1861)

Lowell Mason (1792–1872)

Francis Boott (1813–1904)

William Henry Fry (1813–1864)

Richard Storrs Willis (1819–1900)

George Frederick Bristow (1825–1898)

Edmond Dédé (1827–1903)

Charles Lucien Lambert (1828–1896)

J. C. D. Parker (1828–1916)

Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829–1869)

William Mason (1829–1908)

Charles Crozat Converse (1832–1918)

Benjamin Johnson Lang (1837–1909)

Frederic Archer (1838–1901)

Eugene Thayer (1838–1889)

Dudley Buck (1839–1909)

John Knowles Paine (1839–1906)

Benjamin Dwight Allen (1841–1914)

William Gilchrist (1846–1916)

Silas G. Pratt (1846–1916)

John Thomas Douglass (1847–1886)

Frederick Grant Gleason (1848–1903)

William Burdine Blake, Sr. (1852–1938)

Emma Roberto Steiner (1852–1929)

Arthur Foote (1853–1937)

Edwin Arthur Jones (1853–1911)

George Whitefield Chadwick (1854–1931)

John Philip Sousa (1854–1932)

Johann H. Beck (1856–1924)

George Strong (1856–1948)

Arthur H. Bird (1856–1923)

Humphrey John Stewart (1856–1932)

Edgar Stillman Kelley (1857–1944)

Henry Schoenefeld (1857–1936)

Timothee Adamowski (1858–1943)

Harry Rowe Shelley (1858–1947)

Frank Van der Stucken (1858–1929)

Victor Herbert (1859–1924)

Reginald De Koven (1859–1920)

Edward MacDowell (1860–1908)

Charles Martin Loeffler (1861–1935)

Walter Damrosch (1862–1950)

Henry Holden Huss (1862–1953)

Ethelbert Nevin (1862–1901)

Horatio Parker (1863–1919)

Sidney Homer (1864?–1953)

Jean Paul Kürsteiner (1864–1943)

Harvey Worthington Loomis (1865–1930)

Harry Burleigh (1866–1949)

Carl Valentin Wunderle (1866–1944)

Amy Beach (1867–1944)

Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867–1972)

Charles Sanford Skilton (1868–1941)

Harry Lawrence Freeman (1869–1954)

Victor Harris (1869–1943)

Modern/Contemporary

Joseph Carl Breil (1870–1926)

Howard Brockway (1870–1951)

Louis Coerne (1870–1922)

Henry Eichheim (1870–1942)

Frederick Converse (1871–1940)

Henry Kimball Hadley (1871–1937)

Arthur Nevin (1871–1943)

Arthur Farwell (1872–1952)

Rubin Goldmark (1872–1936)

Edward Burlingame Hill (1872–1960)

Daniel Gregory Mason (1873–1953)

Mary Carr Moore (1873–1957)

Fitzhugh Andrews (1873–1961)

Charles Ives (1874–1954)

Bert R. Anthony (1876–1923)

Frederick Ayres (1876–1926)

John Alden Carpenter (1876–1951)

Carl Ruggles (1876–1971)

Blair Fairchild (1877–1933)

Frank La Forge (1879–1953)

Ernest Bloch (1880–1959)

Arthur Shepherd (1880–1958)

Charles Wakefield Cadman (1881–1946)

Richard Hageman (1881–1966)

Paul Hastings Allen (1882–1952)

Marion Bauer (1882–1955)

Seth Bingham (1882–1972)

Ralph Lyford (1882–1927)

Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884–1920)

Louis Gruenberg (1884–1964)

Wallingford Riegger (1885–1961)

Deems Taylor (1885–1966)

John J. Becker (1886–1961)

Edward Joseph Collins (1886–1951)

Joseph Lamb (1887–1960)

Florence Price (1887–1953)

Ernst Toch (1887–1964)

Philip Greeley Clapp (1888–1954)

Philip James (1890–1975)

Frederick Jacobi (1891–1952)

Katherine K. Davis (1892–1980)

Ferde Grofé (1892–1972)

Douglas Moore (1893–1969)

Leo Ornstein (1893–2002)

Bernard Rogers (1893–1968)

John Laurence Seymour (1893–1986)

Robert Russell Bennett (1894–1981)

Walter Piston (1894–1976)

Mark Wessel (1894–1973)

Leo Sowerby (1895–1968)

William Grant Still (1895–1978)

Howard Hanson (1896–1981)

Leroy Robertson (1896–1971)

Roger Sessions (1896–1985)

Virgil Thomson (1896–1989)

Jaromír Weinberger (1896–1967)

Henry Cowell (1897–1965)

Erich Korngold (1897–1957)

Stanley R. Avery (1897–1967)

Quincy Porter (1897–1966)

Ernst Bacon (1898–1990)

Avery Claflin (1898–1979)

George Gershwin (1898–1937)

Roy Harris (1898–1979)

John Woods Duke (1899–1984)

George Frederick McKay (1899–1970)

Randall Thompson (1899–1984)

George Antheil (1900–1959)

Aaron Copland (1900–1990)

Ernst Krenek (1900–1991)

Otto Luening (1900–1996)

Elinor Remick Warren (1900–1991)

Alfredo Antonini (1901–1983)

Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901–1953)

Harry Partch (1901–1974)

Celius Dougherty (1902–1986)

John Vincent (1902–1977)

Meredith Willson (1902–1984)

Stefan Wolpe (1902–1972)

Vernon Duke (1903–1969)

Vittorio Giannini (1903–1966)

Undine Smith Moore (1904–1989)

Marc Blitzstein (1905–1964)

Paul Creston (1906–1985)

Ross Lee Finney (1906–1997)

Miriam Gideon (1906–1996)

Hubert Klyne Headley (1906–1996)

Normand Lockwood (1906–2002)

Willson Osborne (1906–1979)

Louise Talma (1906–1996)

David Tamkin (1906–1975)

David Van Vactor (1906–1994)

Franz Waxman (1906–1967)

Alec Wilder (1907–1980)

Leroy Anderson (1908–1975)

Elliott Carter (1908–2012)

John Verrall (1908–2001)

Charles Naginski (1909–1940)

Elie Siegmeister (1909–1991)

Samuel Barber (1910–1981)

Paul Bowles (1910–1999)

William Schuman (1910–1992)

Bernard Herrmann (1911–1975)

Alan Hovhaness (1911–2000)

Gian Carlo Menotti (1911–2007)

Julia Smith (1911–1989)

Wayne Barlow (1912–1996)

Arthur Berger (1912–2003)

John Cage (1912–1992)

Don Gillis (1912–1978)

Conlon Nancarrow (1912–1997)

Hugo Weisgall (1912–1997)

Milton Adolphus (1913–1988)

Margaret Bonds (1913–1972)

Henry Brant (1913–2008)

Norman Dello Joio (1913–2008)

Alvin Etler (1913–1973)

Vivian Fine (1913–2000)

Clare Grundman (1913–1996)

Morton Gould (1913–1996)

Jerome Moross (1913–1983)

Gardner Read (1913–2005)

Cecil Effinger (1914–1990)

Irving Fine (1914–1963)

Roger Goeb (1914–1997)

Alexei Haieff (1914–1994)

Gail Kubik (1914–1984)

David Diamond (1915–2005)

George Perle (1915–2009)

Vincent Persichetti (1915–1987)

Robert Strassburg (1915–2003)

Milton Babbitt (1916–2011)

Ellis B. Kohs (1916–2000)

Ben Weber (1916–1979)

Ruth Shaw Wylie (1916–1989)

Edward T. Cone (1917–2004)

Robert Erickson (1917–1997)

Lou Harrison (1917–2003)

Ulysses Kay (1917–1995)

Robert Ward (1917–2013)

Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990)

Howard Boatwright (1918–1999)

George Rochberg (1918–2005)

Joseph Willard Roosevelt (1918–2008)

Jacob Avshalomov (1919–2013)

Leon Kirchner (1919–2009)

Paul Manz (1919–2009)

Helen Tobias-Duesberg (1919–2010)

Earl Kim (1920–1998)

John La Montaine (1920–2013)

Harold Shapero (born 1920)

Douglas Allanbrook (1921–2003)

Jack Beeson (1921–2010)

William Bergsma (1921–1994)

Karel Husa (born 1921)

Andrew Imbrie (1921–2007)

Ralph Shapey (1921–2002)

Leo Smit (1921–1999)

Romeo Cascarino (1922–2002)

Lukas Foss (1922–2009)

David N. Johnson (1922–1987)

Francis Thorne (born 1922)

George Walker (born 1922)

Ursula Mamlok (born 1923)

Peter Mennin (1923–1983)

Ned Rorem (born 1923)

Daniel Pinkham (1923–2006)

Mel Powell (1923–1998)

Mark Bucci (1924–2002)

Ezra Laderman (born 1924)

Benjamin Lees (1924–2010)

Robert Starer (1924–2001)

Tony Acquaviva (1925–1986)

Robert Beadell (1925–1994)

Frank Lewin (1925–2008)

Kirke Mechem (born 1925)

Gunther Schuller (born 1925)

Paul W. Whear (born 1925)

Earle Brown (1926–2002)

Richard Faith (born 1926)

Morton Feldman (1926–1987)

Carlisle Floyd (born 1926)

Lee Hoiby (1926–2011)

Ben Johnston (born 1926)

William O. Smith (born 1926)

David Tudor (1926–1996)

Dominick Argento (born 1927)

John W. Downey (1927–2004)

Donald Erb (1927–2008)

Walter Hartley (born 1927)

Janet Maguire (born 1927)

Salvatore Martirano (1927–1995)

Richard Maxfield (1927–1969)

Richard Swift (1927–2003)

Samuel Adler (born 1928)

Ruth Anderson (born 1928)

T. J. Anderson (born 1928)

James Cohn (born 1928)

Jacob Druckman (1928–1996)

Nicolas Flagello (1928–1994)

Robert Helps (1928–2001)

Thea Musgrave (born 1928)

George Crumb (born 1929)

Leonard Kastle (1929–2011)

Charles Knox (born 1929)

Robert Muczynski (1929–2010)

André Previn (born 1929)

Yehudi Wyner (born 1929)

Robert Ashley (1930–2014)

Larry Austin (born 1930)

Robert Cogan (born 1930)

Frederick A. Fox (born 1931)

Richard Hundley (born 1931)

Alvin Lucier (born 1931)

Peter Westergaard (born 1931)

Donald Martino (1931–2005)

Leslie Adams (born 1932)

Marvin David Levy (born 1932)

Martin Mailman (1932–2000)

Pauline Oliveros (born 1932)

Garland Anderson (1933–2001)

Leonardo Balada (born 1933)

Easley Blackwood, Jr. (born 1933)

Pozzi Escot (born 1933)

Morton Subotnick (born 1933)

Robert T. Anderson (1934–2009)

Benjamin Boretz (born 1934)

Mario Davidovsky (born 1934)

Bernard Rands (born 1934)

James Tenney (1934–2006)

Richard Wernick (born 1934)

Samuel Jones (born 1935)

Terry Riley (born 1935)

Peter Schickele (born 1935)

Charles Shere (born 1935)

Conrad Susa (born 1935)

La Monte Young (born 1935)

Harold Budd (born 1936)

Stuart Dempster (born 1936)

Steve Reich (born 1936)

Robert Suderburg (1936–2013)

Jan Bach (born 1937)

David Del Tredici (born 1937)

Philip Glass (born 1937)

Robert Moran (born 1937)

Maryanne Amacher (1938–2009)

William Bolcom (born 1938)

David Borden (born 1938)

Paul Chihara (born 1938)

Gloria Coates (born 1938)

John Corigliano (born 1938)

Alvin Curran (born 1938)

John Harbison (born 1938)

Frederic Rzewski (born 1938)

Gregory Short (1938–1999)

Harvey Sollberger (born 1938)

Joan Tower (born 1938)

Charles Wuorinen (born 1938)

Jon Appleton (born 1939)

Tom Johnson (born 1939)

Tomas Svoboda (born 1939)

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (born 1939)

Margaret Brouwer (born 1940)

Adrienne Albert (born 1941)

Roger Lee Hall (born 1942)

Meredith Monk (born 1942)

Robert Morris (born 1943)

Joseph Schwantner (born 1943)

William Albright (1944–1998)

Charles Amirkhanian (born 1945)

Thomas Oboe Lee (born 1945)

Thomas Pasatieri (born 1945)

Peter Lieberson (1946–2011)

Jan Swafford (born 1946)

John Coolidge Adams (born 1947)

Roger Craig Vogel (born 1947)

Thomas Albert (born 1948)

Richard Festinger (born 1948)

William Ackerman (born 1949)

Stephen Paulus (1949–2014)

James Adler (born 1950)

Frank Ferko (born 1950)

Michael Schelle (born 1950)

Craig Russell (born 1951)

Roger Bourland (born 1952)

Robert Een (born 1952)

John Luther Adams (born 1953)

Daniel Asia (born 1953)

David Leisner (born 1953)

Roberto Sierra (born 1953)

Bruce Adolphe (born 1955)

Richard Danielpour (born 1956)

Kenneth Fuchs (born 1956)

Michael Gandolfi (born 1956)

Miguel del Aguila (born 1957)

Paul Moravec (born 1957)

Sebastian Currier (born 1959)

Sidney Corbett (born 1960

Thomas Hecht (born 1960)

Edward Knight (born 1961)

Lowell Liebermann (born 1961)

Michael Abels (born 1962)

Mark Adamo (born 1962)

Jennifer Higdon (born 1962)

Tanya Anisimova (born 1966)

Christopher Theofanidis (born 1967)

Peter Boyer (born 1970)

Eric Whitacre (born 1970)

Timothy Archambault (born 1971)

Peter Askim (born 1971)

Jason Wright Wingate (born 1971)

Dan Coleman (born 1972)

Carter Pann (born 1972)

Mark Aanderud (born 1976)

Nico Muhly (born 1981)

Nicholas Urie (born 1985)

Roger Zare (born 1985)