Composers in America : biographical sketches of contemporary composers with a record of their works
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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 |