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John Adams
American composer
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Tan Dun
Chinese composer
2
Richard Hageman
Dutch conductor
3
Anthony Davis
American pianist and composer
4
Francisco Mignone
Brazilian composer
5
Jonathan Kramer
American composer
6
Roger Nixon
American composer
7
Mark Adamo
American composer and librettist
8
Samuel Barber
American composer (1910-1981)
9
John Luther Adams
American composer
10
Paul Hindemith
German-born American composer (1895–1963)
11
Seiji Ozawa
Japanese orchestra conductor
12
Henry Kimball Hadley
American composer
13
Robert Ward
American composer
14
Gian Carlo Menotti
Italian-American composer and librettist
15
Louise Talma
American composer
16
Michael Tilson Thomas
American conductor, pianist and composer
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Daniel Lentz
American composer
18
Jerome Moross
American composer; film score composer
19
Gordon Getty
American businessman, investor, philanthropist and classical music composer
20
Marc Blitzstein
American composer, lyricist, and librettist
21
Arnold Schoenberg
Austrian-American composer (1874-1951)
22
Jacques Ibert
French composer
23
Rudolf Friml
Czech composer
24
Jurriaan Andriessen
Dutch composer
25
Seymour Barab
American musician
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Ernst Bacon
American composer and musician
27
Dudley Buck
American composer and organist
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Katherine Kennicott Davis
American teacher, classical music composer, pianist
