Composers in America : biographical sketches of contemporary composers with a record of their works
Revised and enlarged edition
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| Achron, Joseph (b. 1886) | compositore, violin |
| Allen, Paul Hastings (b. 1883 d. 1952) | composer |
| Alter, Martha (b. 1904 d. 1976) | piano, composer |
| Amfiteatrov, Daniele Alexandrovich (b. 1901 d. 1983) | composer, conductor |
| Antheil, George Johann Carl (b. 1900 d. 1959) | composer, musicisti |
| Applebaum, Louis (b. 1918) | composer |
| Arnell, Richard Anthony Sayer (b. 1917) | composer |
| Bacon, Ernst (b. 1898 d. 1990) | composer, conductor |
| Barber, Samuel (b. 1910 d. 1981) | baritone, composer |
| Barlow, Samuel Latham Mitchell (b. 1892 d. 1982) | composer, piano |
| Barlow, Wayne Brewster (b. 1912) | composer, teacher |
| Barrows, John R. (b. 1913 d. 1974) | composer |
| Barth, Hans (d. 1956) | piano, composer |
| Bartok, Bela (b. 1881 a. 1939) | composer, compositeur |
| Bate, Stanley (b. 1911 d. 1959) | composer, piano |
| Bauer, Marion (b. 1887 d. 1955) | composer, teacher |
| Beach, Amy Marcy Cheney (b. 1867 d. 1944) | piano, composer |
| Beach, John Parsons (b. 1877 d. 1953) | piano, composer |
| Becker, John Joseph (b. 1886 d. 1961) | composer |
| Behrend, Jeanne (b. 1911 d. 1988) | composer, piano |
| Bennett, Robert Russell (b. 1894 d. 1981) | arranger, composer |
| Berckmann, Evelyn (b. 1900) | composer, piano |
| Berezovsky, Nicolai Tikhonovich (b. 1900 d. 1953) | composer, Komponist |
| Berger, Arthur Victor (b. 1912) | composer, critic |
| Bergsma, William Laurence (b. 1921) | composer, teacher |
| Bernstein, Leonard (b. 1918 d. 1990) | composer, conductor |
| Binder, Abraham Wolfe (b. 1895 d. 1966) | composer |
| Bingham, Seth (b. 1882 d. 1972) | organ, composer |
| Blitzstein, Marc (b. 1905 d. 1964) | author, cast |
| Bloch, Ernest (b. 1880) | composer, compositore |
| Bonner, Eugene MacDonald (b. 1889) | composer |
| Bornschein, Franz Carl (b. 1879 d. 1948) | composer, violin |
| Borowski, Felix (b. 1872 d. 1956) | composer, critic |
| Bowles, Paul Frederic (b. 1910) | composer, writer |
| Branscombe, Gena (b. 1881 d. 1977) | music educator, composer |
| Brant, Henry Dreyfus (b. 1913) | composer |
| Bricken, Carl Ernest (b. 1898 d. 1971) | composer, piano |
| Britain, Radie (b. 1908) | composer |
| Brown, John Harold (b. 1902 d. 1981) | composer |
| Brunswick, Mark (b. 1902 d. 1971) | composer, teacher |
| Bryan, Charles Faulkner (b. 1911 d. 1955) | folksinger, composer |
| Burleigh, Cecil (b. 1885 d. 1980) | composer, violin |
| Buttolph, David (b. 1902) | composer |
| Cadman, Charles Wakefield (b. 1881 d. 1946) | composer, piano |
| Cage, John (b. 1912 d. 1992) | composer, direttore d'orchestra |
| Carpenter, John Alden (b. 1876 d. 1951) | composer |
| Carter, Elliott (Cook) (b. 1908) | composer, Komposition |
| Carter, Ernest Trow (b. 1866 d. 1953) | choral director, composer |
| Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario (b. 1895) | composer, compositore |
| Cazden, Norman (b. 1914 d. 1980) | composer, musicologist |
| Cella, Theodore (b. 1897 d. 1960) | harp, composer |
| Chajes, Julius (b. 1910 d. 1985 a. 1950) | composer, piano |
| Chanler, Theodore (Ward) (b. 1902 d. 1961) | critic, composer |
| Chasins, Abram (b. 1903 d. 1987) | piano, writer |
| Cheslock, Louis (b. 1898 d. 1981) | composer, violin |
| Citkowitz, Israel (b. 1909 d. 1974) | composer, teacher |
| Claflin, Avery [Alan Avery] (b. 1898 d. 1979) | composer |
| Cohn, Arthur (b. 1910) | composer, author |
| Cole, Rossetter Gleason (b. 1866 d. 1952) | composer, organ |
| Cole, Ulric (b. 1905) | composer |
| Cone, Edward Toner (b. 1917) | composer, theorist |
| Converse, Frederick Shepherd (b. 1871 d. 1940) | composer, teacher |
| Copland, Aaron (b. 1900) | composer, Dirigent |
| Cowell, Henry (Dixon) (b. 1897 d. 1965) | composer, Komposition |
| Crawford Seeger, Ruth (b. 1901 d. 1953) | composer, music educator |
| Creston, Paul (b. 1906 d. 1985) | composer, musicisti |
| Crist, Bainbridge (b. 1883 d. 1969) | composer, music educator |
| Cushing, Charles (b. 1905) | composer |
| Dahl, Ingolf (b. 1912 d. 1970) | composer, piano |
| Damrosch, Walter (Johannes) (b. 1862 d. 1950) | composer, conductor |
| Daniels, Mabel Wheeler (b. 1878 d. 1971) | composer |
| Dawson, William Levi (b. 1899 d. 1990) | composer, conductor |
| Delaney, Robert (Mills) (b. 1903 d. 1956) | composer |
| Dello Joio, Norman (b. 1913) | composer, piano |
| Denny, William D. [William Douglas] (b. 1910 d. 1980) | composer, teacher |
| Dessau, Paul (b. 1894 d. 1979) | composer, Komponist |
| Dett, Robert Nathaniel (Farbiger) (b. 1882 d. 1943) | composer, teacher |
| Deutsch, Adolph (b. 1897 d. 1980) | composer, music director |
| Diamond, David (Leo) (b. 1915) | composer, musicisti |
| Donovan, Richard Frank (b. 1891 d. 1970) | composer, organ |
| Dubensky, Arcady (b. 1890 d. 1966) | violin, composer |
| Duke, John Woods (b. 1899 d. 1984) | bass (instrument), composer |
| Duke, Vernon (b. 1903 d. 1969) | composer, lyricist |
| Eichheim, Henry (b. 1870 d. 1942) | violin, conductor |
| Eisler, Hanns (b. 1898 d. 1962) | composer, Komposition |
| Elkus, Albert Israel (b. 1884 d. 1962) | teacher, composer |
| Elwell, Herbert (b. 1898 d. 1974) | composer, critic |
| Engel, Lehman [A. Lehman] (b. 1910 d. 1982) | composer, librettist |
| Eppert, Carl (b. 1882 d. 1961) | teacher, composer |
| Etler, Alvin (Derald) (b. 1913 d. 1973) | composer, oboe |
| Farwell, Arthur (b. 1872 d. 1952) | composer, critic |
| Fickenscher, Arthur (b. 1871 d. 1954) | composer, piano |
| Filippi, Amadeo (b. 1900 a. 1905) | composer, conductor |
| Fine, Vivian (b. 1913) | composer, piano |
| Finney, Ross Lee (b. 1906) | composer |
| Fiorillo, Dante (b. 1905 d. 1970s) | composer |
| Fitelberg, Jerzy (b. 1903 d. 1951 a. 1940) | composer |
| Foote, George (b. 1886 d. 1956) | composer |
| Forst, Rudolf (b. 1900 d. 1973) | violin, composer |
| Foss, Lukas (b. 1922 a. 1937) | composer, conductor |
| Franco, Johan (Henri Gustave) (b. 1908 d. 1988 a. 1934) | composer |
| Freed, Isadore (b. 1900 d. 1960) | composer, teacher |
| Fuleihan, Anis (b. 1900 d. 1970) | piano, composer |
| Fuller, Donald Sanborn (b. 1919) | composer |
| Galayikian, Florence Grandland (b. 1900 d. 1972) | piano, composer |
| Gallico, Paolo (b. 1868 d. 1955 a. 1892) | piano, composer |
| Ganz, Rudolph (d. 1972) | Dirigent, pianiste |
| Gardner, Samuel (b. 1891 d. 1984) | violin, composer |
| Gerschefski, Edwin (b. 1909) | composer, piano |
| Gershwin, George (b. 1898) | author, cast |
| Giannini, Vittorio (b. 1903 d. 1966) | composer |
| Gideon, Miriam (b. 1906) | composer, music educator |
| Gilbert, Henry Franklin Belknap (b. 1868 d. 1928) | composer |
| Gillis, Don (b. 1912 d. 1978) | piano, trumpeter |
| Giorni, Aurelio (b. 1895 d. 1938) | pianiste, piano |
| Goldman, Richard Franko (b. 1910 d. 1980) | bandmaster, composer |
| Goldmark, Rubin (b. 1872 d. 1936) | composer, educator |
| Goossens, Eugene (b. 1893 d. 1962) | composer, conductor |
| Gould, Morton (b. 1913) | composer, conductor |
| Grainger, Percy (Aldridge) (b. 1882 d. 1961) | composer, Klavier |
| Grant, William Parks (b. 1910) | composer, music educator |
| Green, Johnny [John William] (b. 1908 d. 1989) | composer, music director |
| Green, Ray Burns (b. 1908) | composer, publisher |
| Griffes, Charles Tomlinson (b. 1884 d. 1920) | composer, musicisti |
| Griffis, Elliot (b. 1893 d. 1967) | composer, piano |
| Grofe, Ferde (b. 1892 d. 1972) | composer, musicisti |
| Gruenberg, Louis (b. 1884 d. 1964) | composer, compositore |
| Guion, David Wendell Fentress (b. 1892 d. 1981) | composer, musicisti |
| Hadley, Henry (Kimball) (b. 1871 d. 1937) | composer, conductor |
| Hageman, Richard (b. 1882 d. 1966) | composer, conductor |
| Haieff, Alexei (b. 1914 a. 1931) | composer |
| Haines, Edmund Thomas (b. 1914 d. 1974) | composer |
| Hammond, Richard (b. 1896) | composer |
| Hanson, Howard (Harold) (b. 1896 d. 1981) | composer, conductor |
| Harline, Leigh (b. 1907 d. 1969) | composer, vocals |
| Harmati, Sandor (b. 1892 d. 1936) | Dirigent, violin |
| Harris, Roy (b. 1898 d. 1979) | composer, musicisti |
| Hart, Frederic Patton (b. 1898) | composer |
| Hart, Weldon (b. 1911 d. 1957) | composer |
| Haubiel, Charles Troubridge (b. 1892 d. 1978) | piano, composer |
| Haufrecht, Herbert (b. 1909) | composer |
| Haussermann, John (b. 1909) | composer |
| Heiden, Bernhard (b. 1910 a. 1935) | composer, teacher |
| Heilner, Irwin (b. 1908) | composer, writer |
| Helfer, Walter (b. 1896 d. 1959) | composer, music educator |
| Helm, Everett (Burton) (b. 1913) | writer on music, composer |
| Herrmann, Bernard (b. 1911 d. 1975) | composer, conductor |
| Heymann, Werner Richard (b. 1896) | composer |
| Hier, Ethel Glenn (b. 1889 d. 1971) | composer, piano |
| Hill, Edward Burlingame (b. 1872 d. 1960) | composer, musician |
| Hindemith, Paul (b. 1895) | composer, compositeur |
| Holden, David Justin (b. 1911) | composer |
| Howe, Mary Alberta Bruce (b. 1882 d. 1964) | composer, piano |
| Huss, Henry Holden (b. 1862 d. 1953) | piano, composer |
| Inch, Herbert Reynolds (b. 1904 d. 1988) | composer |
| Ives, Charles Edward (b. 1874 d. 1954) | composer, Komposition |
| Jacobi, Frederick (b. 1891 d. 1952) | conductor, composer |
| James, Dorothy (b. 1901 d. 1982) | composer, teacher |
| James, Philip (Frederick Wright) (b. 1890 d. 1975) | composer, music director |
| Janssen, Werner (b. 1899 d. 1990) | composer, conductor |
| Johnson, Horace (b. 1893 d. 1964) | composer, critic |
| Johnson, Hunter (b. 1906) | composer, teacher |
| Jones, Charles (b. 1910) | choreographer, composer |
| Josten, Werner (Erich) (b. 1885 d. 1963) | conductor, composer |
| Kay, Ulysses (Simpson) (b. 1917 d. 1995) | composer |
| Keller, Homer Todd (b. 1915) | composer, music educator |
| Kelley, Edgar Stillman (b. 1857 d. 1944) | organ, composer |
| Kennan, Kent Wheeler (b. 1913) | composer, teacher |
| Kernochan, Marshall Rutgers (b. 1880 d. 1955) | composer |
| Kerr, Harrison (b. 1897 d. 1978) | composer |
| Kleinsinger, George (b. 1914 d. 1982) | composer, orchestrator |
| Kohs, Ellis (Bonoff) (b. 1916) | composer, teacher |
| Korngold, Erich Wolfgang (b. 1897 d. 1957) | arranger, composer |
| Koutzen, Boris (b. 1901 d. 1966) | violin, composer |
| Kramer, Arthur Walter (b. 1890 d. 1969) | music critic, composer |
| Krenek, Ernst (b. 1900) | composer, compositeur |
| Kreutz, Arthur (b. 1906 d. 1991) | composer |
| Kubik, Gail (Thompson) (b. 1914 d. 1984) | composer |
| Kurtz, Edward Frampton (b. 1881) | violin, composer |
| La Violette, Wesley (b. 1894 d. 1978) | composer, music educator |
| Langstroth, Ivan Shed (b. 1887 d. 1971) | composer |
| Laufer, Beatrice (b. 1923) | composer, lecturer |
| Lee, Dai-Keong (b. 1915) | composer |
| Leonard, Clair (b. 1901) | conductor, composer |
| Lessard, John (Ayers) (b. 1920) | composer |
| Levant, Oscar (b. 1906 d. 1972) | cast, composer |
| Levy, Ernst (b. 1895 d. 1981) | composer, piano |
| Lewis, H. Merrills (b. 1908 d. 1980) | composer, conductor |
| Lieberson, Goddard (b. 1911 d. 1977) | composer, recording executive |
| Lockwood, Normand (b. 1906) | composer |
| Loeffler, Charles Martin (b. 1861 d. 1935) | composer, violin |
| Lopatnikoff, Nikolai L'vovich (b. 1903 d. 1976 a. 1939) | composer, piano |
| Lourie, Arthur Vincent (b. 1892 d. 1966) | composer |
| Lubin, Ernest (Viviani) (b. 1916 d. 1977) | composer, piano |
| Luening, Otto (Clarence) (b. 1900) | composer, teacher |
| MacColl, Hugh Frederick (b. 1885) | composer |
| Maganini, Quinto (b. 1897 d. 1974) | composer, conductor |
| Mamorsky, Morris (b. 1910) | composer |
| Mannes, Leopold Damrosch (b. 1899 d. 1964) | piano, composer |
| Manziarly, Marcelle (b. 1899) | composer |
| Martinu, Bohuslav (Jan) (b. 1890) | composer, Komponist |
| Mason, Daniel Gregory (b. 1873 d. 1953) | composer, writer on music |
| McBride, Robert (Guyn) (b. 1911) | composer, instrumentalist |
| McCollin, Frances (b. 1892 d. 1960) | composer, conductor |
| McDonald, Harl (b. 1899 d. 1955) | composer, piano |
| McKay, George Frederick (b. 1899 d. 1970) | composer |
| McKinley, Carl (b. 1895 d. 1966) | composer, organ |
| McPhee, Colin (Carhart) (b. 1900 d. 1964) | composer, ethnomusicologist |
| Menasce, Jacques (b. 1905 d. 1960) | composer, musicisti |
| Mennin, Peter (b. 1923 d. 1983) | composer, teacher |
| Menotti, Gian Carlo (b. 1911) | composer, conductor |
| Michelet, Michel (b. 1894 a. 1941) | composer, cello |
| Mills, Charles (Borromeo) (b. 1914 d. 1982) | composer |
| Mockridge, Cyril (John) (b. 1896 d. 1979) | composer of film music |
| Montemezzi, Italo (b. 1875) | composer, compositore |
| Moore, Douglas Stuart (b. 1893 d. 1969) | composer, teacher |
| Moross, Jerome (b. 1913 d. 1983) | Broadway and film composer, composer |
| Morris, Harold Cecil (b. 1890 d. 1964) | composer, teacher |
| Mueller, Otto (b. 1870 d. 1960 a. 1913) | composer, conductor |
| Nabokov, Nicolas (b. 1903 d. 1978) | composer, musicisti |
| Naginski, Charles (b. 1909 d. 1940) | piano, composer |
| Newman, Alfred (b. 1901 d. 1970) | composer, conductor |
| Nordoff, Paul (b. 1909 d. 1977) | composer, music therapist |
| North, Alex (b. 1910 d. 1991) | composer, film music composer |
| Nowak, Lionel (Henry) (b. 1911) | piano, composer |
| Nyman, Uno (b. 1879) | composer, violin |
| Ornstein, Leo (b. 1892) | composer, piano |
| Palmer, Robert (Moffat) (b. 1915) | composer, teacher |
| Partch, Harry (b. 1901 d. 1974) | composer, musicisti |
| Patterson, Franklin Peale (b. 1871 d. 1966) | composer, tenor |
| Persichetti, Vincent (b. 1915 d. 1987) | composer, piano |
| Phillips, Burrill (b. 1907 d. 1988) | composer, music educator |
| Pimsleur, Solomon (b. 1900 d. 1962 a. 1903) | piano, composer |
| Pisk, Paul Amadeus (b. 1893 d. 1990) | composer, musicologist |
| Piston, Walter (Hamor) (b. 1894 d. 1976) | composer, musicisti |
| Porter, Quincy [William Quincy] (b. 1897 d. 1966) | cello, composer |
| Powell, John (b. 1882 d. 1963) | piano, composer |
| Powell, Laurence (b. 1899) | composer, conductor |
| Rachmaninov, Sergey (Vasilyevich) (b. 1873 a. 1936) | composer, compositore |
| Raksin, David (b. 1912) | clarinet, composer |
| Rapoport, Eda Rothstein (b. 1886 d. 1968) | composer, piano |
| Rathaus, Karol (b. 1895 d. 1954) | composer |
| Read, Gardner (b. 1913) | writer, composer |
| Reed, Herbert Owen (b. 1910) | composer |
| Reiser, Alois (b. 1884 d. 1977 a. 1914) | composer |
| Riegger, Wallingford (b. 1885 d. 1961) | composer |
| Rieti, Vittorio (b. 1898) | composer, compositore |
| Robertson, Leroy Jasper (b. 1896 d. 1971) | composer |
| Robinson, Earl Hawley (b. 1910 d. 1991) | songwriter, conductor |
| Rogers, Bernard (b. 1893 d. 1968) | composer, teacher |
| Rozsa, Miklos (b. 1907) | composer, conductor |
| Rubinstein, Beryl (d. 1952) | piano, composer |
| Ruggles, Carl (Sprague) (b. 1876 d. 1971) | cast, composer |
| Saar, Louis Victor (Franz) (b. 1868 d. 1937) | composer, music critic |
| Salzedo, Carlos (Leon) (b. 1885 d. 1961) | harp, composer |
| Saminsky, Lazare (b. 1882 d. 1959) | composer, compositore |
| San Juan, Pedro (b. 1887 d. 1976) | composer, conductor |
| Sanders, Robert Levine (b. 1906 d. 1974) | composer |
| Sapp, Allen Dwight (b. 1922) | composer |
| Schelling, Ernest Henry (b. 1876 d. 1939) | Klavier, pianiste |
| Schillinger, Joseph (Moiseyevich) (b. 1895 d. 1943) | theorist, teacher |
| Schlein, Irving (b. 1905 d. 1986) | conductor, piano |
| Schnabel, Artur (b. 1882 d. 1951) | piano, composer |
| Schoenberg, Arnold (Franz Walter) (b. 1874 d. 1951) | composer |
| Schuman, William (Howard) (b. 1910 d. 1992) | composer, conductor |
| Schwartz, Paul (b. 1907 a. 1938) | music director |
| Sessions, Roger (Huntington) (b. 1896 d. 1985) | composer, piano |
| Shapero, Harold (Samuel) (b. 1920) | composer, teacher |
| Shepherd, Arthur (b. 1880 d. 1958) | composer, piano |
| Shilkret, Nathaniel (b. 1895 d. 1982) | composer, conductor |
| Shortall, Harrington (b. 1895) | composer, teacher |
| Siegmeister, Elie (b. 1909 d. 1991) | composer, dance arranger |
| Skilton, Charles Sanford (b. 1868 d. 1941) | composer, musician |
| Slonimsky, Nicolas (b. 1894) | composer, Dirigent |
| Smit, Leo (b. 1921) | composer, piano |
| Smith, David Stanley (b. 1877 d. 1949) | conductor, composer |
| Sowerby, Leo (b. 1895 d. 1968) | composer, Klavier |
| Spelman, Timothy (Mather) (b. 1891 d. 1970) | composer |
| Stahl, Willy (b. 1896) | teacher, violin |
| Stein, Leon (b. 1910) | composer, writer on music |
| Steiner, Max [Maximilian Raoul Walter] (b. 1888 d. 1971) | film composer |
| Steinert, Alexander Lang (b. 1900 d. 1982) | piano, composer |
| Stevens, Halsey (b. 1908 d. 1989) | composer, musicologist |
| Still, William Grant (b. 1895 d. 1978) | arranger, composer |
| Stoessel, Albert Frederick (b. 1894 d. 1943) | violin, conductor |
| Stokowski, Leopold (Anthony) (b. 1882 d. 1977) | cast, conductor |
| Stothart, Herbert (b. 1885 d. 1949) | composer, director |
| Strang, Gerald (b. 1908) | composer |
| Stravinsky, Igor (Fyodorovich) (b. 1882 d. 1971) | composer, compositore |
| Stringfield, Lamar Edwin (b. 1897 d. 1959) | composer, flute |
| Stringham, Edwin John (b. 1890 d. 1974) | music educator, composer |
| Strube, Gustav (b. 1867 d. 1953) | composer, conductor |
| Talma, Louise Juliette (b. 1906 a. 1922) | composer, piano |
| Tansman, Alexandre (b. 1897 d. 1986) | composer, compositore |
| Taylor, Deems [Joseph Deems] (b. 1885 d. 1966) | cast, composer |
| Thompson, Randall (b. 1899 d. 1984) | composer, musicisti |
| Thomson, Virgil (Garnett) (b. 1896 d. 1989) | composer, musicisti |
| Tiomkin, Dimitri (b. 1894 d. 1979) | composer, Klavier |
| Toch, Ernst (b. 1887 d. 1964) | composer, compositore |
| Tremblay, George (Amadee) (b. 1911 d. 1982) | composer, piano |
| Tuthill, Burnet (Corwin) (b. 1888 d. 1982) | composer, writer on music |
| Tweedy, Donald (Nichols) (b. 1890 d. 1948) | composer |
| Van Vactor, David (b. 1906) | composer, flute |
| Vardell, Charles Gildersleeve (b. 1893 d. 1962) | composer |
| Varese, Edgard [Edgar] (Victor Achille Charles) (b. 1883 d. 1965) | composer, fire sirens |
| Verrall, John (Weedon) (b. 1908) | composer, teacher |
| Wagenaar, Bernard (b. 1894 d. 1971 a. 1920) | composer, conductor |
| Wagner, Joseph Frederick (b. 1900 d. 1974) | composer |
| Wald, Max (b. 1889 d. 1954) | composer |
| Ward, Edward (b. 1896) | composer, lyricist |
| Ward, Robert (Eugene) (b. 1917) | composer, teacher |
| Waxman, Franz (b. 1906 d. 1967) | composer, conductor |
| Weaver, Powell (b. 1890 d. 1951) | accompanist, composer |
| Webb, Roy (b. 1888 d. 1982) | composer, lyricist |
| Weigl, Karl (b. 1881 d. 1949) | composer |
| Weill, Kurt (Julian) (b. 1900 d. 1950) | author, composer |
| Weiner, Lazar (b. 1897 d. 1982) | composer, piano |
| Weiss, Adolph Andreas (b. 1891 d. 1971) | composer, bassoon |
| Wessel, Mark E. (b. 1894 d. 1973) | composer |
| Wetzler, Hermann (Hans) (b. 1870 d. 1943) | organ, conductor |
| White, Paul Taylor (b. 1895 d. 1973) | violin, conductor |
| Whithorne, Emerson (b. 1884 d. 1958) | composer, piano |
| Whitney, Robert (Sutton) (b. 1904 d. 1986) | conductor, composer |
| Willman, Allan Arthur (b. 1909) | composer, piano |
| Wolpe, Stefan (b. 1902 d. 1972) | composer, musicisti |
| Woltmann, Frederick (b. 1908) | composer |
| Wood, Joseph Roberts (b. 1915) | music educator, composer |
| Wood-Hill, Mabel (b. 1870 d. 1954) | composer |
| Young, Victor (b. 1889 d. 1968) | piano, composer |
| Zador, Eugene [Jeno] (b. 1894 d. 1977) | composer |
| Zimbalist, Efrem (Alexandrovich) (b. 1889 d. 1985) | composer, violin |