U.S. Classical Composers

Chronological List of American Classical Composers
American Classical Composers (Women)
American Classical Composers (Men)
American Classical Composers (African-American)
American Classical Composers (Jewish)
American Opera Composers


The First New England School (c. 1770-1840) 

William Billings, Supply Belcher, Daniel Read, Oliver Holden, Justin Morgan, Anthony Heinrich (1781 - 1861)

William Henry Frey - Macbeth Overture 

Louis Moreau Gottschalk  (1829–1869)

Edward MacDowell  (1860–1908)

Amy Beach  (1867–1944)


1910s:

Charles Ives  (1874–1954)

Charles Tomlinson Griffes  (1884–1920)  Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan

Henry Cowell  (1897–1965)


1920s:

Ernest Bloch  (1880–1959)

George Gershwin  (1898–1937)

George Antheil  (1900–1959)


1930s:

Florence Price  (1887 -1953)  African American

Ferde Grofé  (1892–1972)

William Grant Still  (1895–1978)  African-American

Carl Ruggles  (1876–1971) The Suntreader (1931) 

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Roger Sessions  (1896–1985)

Virgil Thomson  (1896–1989)


Avant-garde: 

Edgard Varèse   (1883-1975)  (originally French, moved to the U.S. in 1915)

1940s on....

Howard Hanson  (1896–1981)

Roy Harris  (1896-1973)

Aaron Copland  (1900–1990)

Samuel Barber  (1910-1981)

William Schuman  (1910 - 1992)


Morton Feldman