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| Adler, Samuel Hans (b. 1928 a. 1939) | composer, conductor |
| Alette, Carl (b. 1922) | composer, music educator |
| Ames, William Thayer (b. 1901) | piano, composer |
| Amram, David Werner (b. 1930) | composer, frenchhorn |
| Andersen, Arthur Olaf (b. 1880 d. 1958) | composer, music educator |
| Andrews, Mark (b. 1875 d. 1939) | organ, composer |
| Antes, John (b. 1740 d. 1811) | composer, minister |
| Antheil, George Johann Carl (b. 1900 d. 1959) | composer, musicisti |
| Argento, Dominick (b. 1927) | composer, music educator |
| Ator, James Donald (b. 1938) | composer |
| Avshalomov, Jacob David (b. 1919) | composer, conductor |
| Ayres Johnson, Frederic (b. 1876 d. 1926) | composer, educator |
| Babbitt, Milton (Byron) (b. 1916) | composer |
| Bacon, Ernst (b. 1898 d. 1990) | composer, conductor |
| Baksa, Robert Frank (b. 1938) | composer |
| Bales, Richard Horner (b. 1915) | composer, conductor |
| Ballantine, Edward (b. 1886 d. 1971) | composer, piano |
| Barab, Seymour (b. 1921) | cello, composer |
| Barber, Samuel (b. 1910 d. 1981) | baritone, composer |
| Barnett, Alice (b. 1886 d. 1975) | piano teacher, composer |
| Bartlett, Homer Newton (b. 1846 d. 1920) | organ, composer |
| Bassett, Leslie Raymond (b. 1923) | composer, teacher |
| Bauer, Marion (b. 1887 d. 1955) | composer, teacher |
| Beach, Amy Marcy Cheney (b. 1867 d. 1944) | piano, composer |
| Beach, Bennie (b. 1925) | composer, trumpeter |
| Beach, John Parsons (b. 1877 d. 1953) | piano, composer |
| Beck, John Ness (b. 1930 d. 1987) | composer, percussion |
| Beeson, Jack (Hamilton) (b. 1921) | composer, teacher |
| Belcher, Supply (b. 1752 d. 1836) | composer |
| Berger, Jean (b. 1909 a. 1941) | composer |
| Bergh, Arthur (b. 1882 d. 1962) | violin, composer |
| Bergsma, William Laurence (b. 1921) | composer, teacher |
| Bernstein, Leonard (b. 1918 d. 1990) | composer, conductor |
| Bialosky, Marshall H. (b. 1923) | music educator, composer |
| Billings, William (b. 1746 d. 1800) | composer |
| Binkerd, Gordon Ware (b. 1916) | composer |
| Birch, Robert Fairfax (b. 1917) | composer |
| Blake, Dorothy Gaynor (b. 1893 d. 1967) | piano, composer |
| Blitzstein, Marc (b. 1905 d. 1964) | author, cast |
| Bone, Gene (b. 1915 d. 1992) | composer |
| Boott, Francis (b. 1813 d. 1904) | composer, singer |
| Bowles, Paul Frederic (b. 1910) | composer, writer |
| Brandeis, Friedrich (b. 1835 d. 1889) | piano, composer |
| Branscombe, Gena (b. 1881 d. 1977) | music educator, composer |
| Broutman, Emanuel | composer |
| Browne, Augusta (b. 1820 d. 1882) | composer, writer |
| Bullard, Frederick Field (b. 1864 d. 1904) | composer, teacher |
| Burge, David (Russell) (b. 1930) | composer, piano |
| Busch, Carl Reinholdt (b. 1862 d. 1943) | composer, conductor |
| Cadman, Charles Wakefield (b. 1881 d. 1946) | composer, piano |
| Cage, John (b. 1912 d. 1992) | composer, direttore d'orchestra |
| Calabro, Louis (b. 1926) | composer, percussion |
| Campbell-Tipton, Louis (b. 1877 d. 1921) | teacher, composer |
| Carpenter, John Alden (b. 1876 d. 1951) | composer |
| Carr, Benjamin (b. 1768 d. 1831) | publisher, composer |
| Carter, Elliott (Cook) (b. 1908) | composer, Komposition |
| Carter, John (b. 1932) | composer |
| Chadwick, George Whitefield (b. 1854 d. 1931) | composer, teacher |
| Chanler, Theodore (Ward) (b. 1902 d. 1961) | critic, composer |
| Charles, Ernest (b. 1895) | piano, song composer |
| Chenoweth, Wilbur Rossiter (b. 1899) | piano, organ |
| Citkowitz, Israel (b. 1909 d. 1974) | composer, teacher |
| Clokey, Joseph Waddell (b. 1890 d. 1961) | organ, composer |
| Clough-Leiter, Henry (b. 1874 d. 1956) | editor, composer |
| Cone, Edward Toner (b. 1917) | composer, theorist |
| Converse, Frederick Shepherd (b. 1871 d. 1940) | composer, teacher |
| Cooper, Esther Sayward (b. 1897) | piano, composer |
| Copland, Aaron (b. 1900) | composer, Dirigent |
| Corigliano, John (Paul) (b. 1938) | arranger, composer |
| Cortes, Ramiro (b. 1933 d. 1984) | composer, music educator |
| Cory, George C. (b. 1920) |
| Cowell, Henry (Dixon) (b. 1897 d. 1965) | composer, Komposition |
| Creston, Paul (b. 1906 d. 1985) | composer, musicisti |
| Crist, Bainbridge (b. 1883 d. 1969) | composer, music educator |
| Cumberworth, Starling A. (b. 1915) | composer |
| Cumming, Richard (Jackson) (b. 1928) | composer, music director |
| Curran, Pearl Gildersleeve (b. 1875 d. 1941) | composer |
| Dana, Charles Henshaw (b. 1846 d. 1883) | piano, organ |
| De Gastyne, Serge (b. 1930 a. 1962) | composer, music educator |
| De Koven, Reginald [Henry Louis Reginald] (b. 1859 d. 1920) | composer, conductor |
| De Pue, Wallace Earl (b. 1932) | composer, music educator |
| Deis, Carl (b. 1883 d. 1960) | teacher, composer |
| Del Tredici, David Walter (b. 1937) | composer, piano |
| Dello Joio, Norman (b. 1913) | composer, piano |
| Dempster, William Richardson (b. 1809 d. 1871) | singer, composer |
| Di Chiera, David (b. 1937) | opera director, administrator |
| Diamond, David (Leo) (b. 1915) | composer, musicisti |
| Diercks, John Henry (b. 1927) | composer, music educator |
| Diers, Ann MacDonald (a. 1953) | composer |
| Diton, Carl Rossini (b. 1886 d. 1962) | piano, composer |
| Dobson, Tom (b. 1890 d. 1918) | composer, singer |
| Donato, Anthony (b. 1909) | composer, violin |
| Donovan, Richard Frank (b. 1891 d. 1970) | composer, organ |
| Dougherty, Celius Hudson (b. 1902 d. 1986) | piano, composer |
| Duke, John Woods (b. 1899 d. 1984) | bass (instrument), composer |
| Duke, Vernon (b. 1903 d. 1969) | composer, lyricist |
| Eaton, John Charles (b. 1935) | composer, musicisti |
| Edmunds, John (b. 1913 d. 1986) | composer, scholar |
| Edwards, Clara (b. 1887 d. 1974) | songwriter |
| Elwell, Herbert (b. 1898 d. 1974) | composer, critic |
| Enders, Harvey Taylor (b. 1892 d. 1947) | composer, broker |
| Endicott, Samuel (a. 1916) | composer, arranger |
| Engel, Carl (b. 1883 d. 1944) | musicologist, administrator |
| English, Granville (b. 1895 d. 1968) | piano, composer |
| Fairchild, Blair (b. 1877 d. 1933) | composer |
| Farwell, Arthur (b. 1872 d. 1952) | composer, critic |
| Fennimore, Joseph William (b. 1940) | composer, piano |
| Fenton, Howard (b. 1892 d. 1959 a. 1941) | composer, lyricist |
| Fine, Irving Gifford (b. 1914 d. 1962) | composer, piano |
| Fink, Michael Armand (b. 1939) | composer, music educator |
| Finney, Ross Lee (b. 1906) | composer |
| Fisher, William Arms (b. 1861 d. 1948) | composer, lyricist |
| Fiske, Dwight | composer |
| Flagello, Nicolas Oreste (b. 1928) | composer, conductor |
| Flanagan, William (b. 1923 d. 1969) | composer, critic |
| Floyd, Carlisle (b. 1926) | composer, music educator |
| Foerster, Adolph Martin (b. 1854 d. 1927) | organ, composer |
| Fontrier, Gabriel (b. 1918) | composer, music educator |
| Foote, Arthur William (b. 1853 d. 1937) | composer |
| Foss, Lukas (b. 1922 a. 1937) | composer, conductor |
| Foster, Fay (b. 1886 d. 1960) | piano, composer |
| Foster, Stephen Collins (b. 1826 d. 1864) | bass guitar, composer |
| Freed, Arnold (b. 1926) | composer, writer |
| Freed, Isadore (b. 1900 d. 1960) | composer, teacher |
| Friedell, Harold William (b. 1905 d. 1958) | composer, organ |
| Fromm, Herbert (b. 1905) | composer, organ |
| Gaburo, Kenneth Louis (b. 1926) | composer |
| Ganz, Rudolph (d. 1972) | Dirigent, pianiste |
| Giannini, Vittorio (b. 1903 d. 1966) | composer |
| Gideon, Miriam (b. 1906) | composer, music educator |
| Gilbert, Henry Franklin Belknap (b. 1868 d. 1928) | composer |
| Glanville-Hicks, Peggy (b. 1912 d. 1990) | composer |
| Gleason, Frederick Grant (b. 1848 d. 1903) | composer, organ |
| Goetschius, Percy (b. 1853 d. 1943) | theorist, composer |
| Gold, Ernest (b. 1921) | arranger, composer |
| Golde, Walter (b. 1887 d. 1963) | piano, conductor |
| Goldman, Richard Franko (b. 1910 d. 1980) | bandmaster, composer |
| Gottschalk, Louis Fedinand (b. 1869 d. 1934) | composer, music director |
| Graham, Robert Virgil (b. 1912) | composer, teacher |
| Grant-Schaefer, George Alfred (b. 1872 d. 1939 a. 1896) | composer, organ |
| Griffes, Charles Tomlinson (b. 1884 d. 1920) | 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 |
| Hagen, Peter Albrecht (b. -1781 d. 1837) | musician |
| Harris, Roy (b. 1898 d. 1979) | composer, musicisti |
| Harris, Victor [William Victor] (b. 1869 d. 1943) | conductor, composer |
| Haubiel, Charles Troubridge (b. 1892 d. 1978) | piano, composer |
| Haussermann, John (b. 1909) | composer |
| Hawley, Charles Beach (b. 1858 d. 1915) | composer, conductor |
| Heilner, Irwin (b. 1908) | composer, writer |
| Heinrich, Anthony Philip (b. 1781 d. 1861 a. 1823-1825) | composer, Musiker |
| Heller, Alfred E. (b. 1931) | composer, piano |
| Heller, James Gutheim (b. 1892 d. 1971) | musicologist |
| Helm, Everett (Burton) (b. 1913) | writer on music, composer |
| Herbst, Johannes (b. 1735 d. 1812) | composer, minister |
| Hewitt, James (b. 1770 d. 1827) | conductor, composer |
| Hewitt, John Hill (b. 1801 d. 1890) | composer, poet |
| Hoag, Charles Kelso (b. 1931) | composer |
| Hoiby, Lee (b. 1926) | composer, piano |
| Holden, David Justin (b. 1911) | composer |
| Homer, Sidney (b. 1864 d. 1953) | music educator, composer |
| Hopkins, Harry Patterson (b. 1873 d. 1954) | teacher, composer |
| Hopkinson, Francis (b. 1737 d. 1791) | statesman, musician |
| Horn, Charles Edward (b. 1786 d. 1849 a. 1827) | composer, singer |
| Horsman, Edward (b. 1873 d. 1918) | composer, merchant |
| Horvit, Michael Miller (b. 1932) | composer, teacher |
| Hovhaness, Alan (b. 1911) | composer, piano |
| Howe, Mary Alberta Bruce (b. 1882 d. 1964) | composer, piano |
| Huhn, Bruno Siegfield (b. 1871 d. 1950) | composer, lyricist |
| Hundley, Richard (b. 1931) | composer |
| Ide, Chester Edward (b. 1878) | composer, editor |
| Ilgenfritz, McNair (b. 1886 d. 1953) | piano, composer |
| Ingalls, Jeremiah (b. 1764 d. 1838) | composer |
| Ives, Charles Edward (b. 1874 d. 1954) | composer, Komposition |
| Jacobi, Frederick (b. 1891 d. 1952) | conductor, composer |
| James, Philip (Frederick Wright) (b. 1890 d. 1975) | composer, music director |
| Jordan, Jules (b. 1850 d. 1927) | cast, singer |
| Kagen, Sergey [Sergius] (b. 1909 d. 1964 a. 1925) | pedagogue, composer |
| Kalmanoff, Martin (b. 1920) | composer |
| Kayden, Mildred (b. 1922 a. 1946-1952) | composer, dance arranger |
| Kelley, Edgar Stillman (b. 1857 d. 1944) | organ, composer |
| Kendrick, Virginia Bachmann (b. 1910) | composer |
| Kennedy, John Brodbin (b. 1934) | composer |
| Kerr, Harrison (b. 1897 d. 1978) | composer |
| Kettering, Eunice Lea (b. 1906) | organ, teacher |
| Kim, Earl (b. 1920) | composer, piano |
| Kingsford, Charles (b. 1907) | music therapist |
| Kirkman, Merle (a. 1947) | violin, composer |
| Klein, John McLaughlin (b. 1915 d. 1981) | composer, arranger |
| Klemm, Gustav (b. 1897 d. 1947) | composer, arranger |
| Koch, Frederick Charles (b. 1924) | composer, piano |
| Koch, John (b. 1928) | composer |
| Koemmenich, Louis (b. 1866 d. 1922) | conductor, musician |
| Koepke, Paul (b. 1918 a. 1960) | composer |
| Korte, Karl (Richard) (b. 1928) | composer |
| Kountz, Richard (b. 1896 d. 1950) | composer |
| Kramer, Arthur Walter (b. 1890 d. 1969) | music critic, composer |
| Krausz, Susan (b. 1914) | piano, composer |
| Krenek, Ernst (b. 1900) | composer, compositeur |
| Kreutz, Arthur (b. 1906 d. 1991) | composer |
| Kubik, Gail (Thompson) (b. 1914 d. 1984) | composer |
| La Forge, Frank (b. 1879) | Klavier, piano |
| La Montaine, John (b. 1920) | composer, piano |
| Laderman, Ezra (b. 1924) | composer, teacher |
| Lane, Richard Bamford (b. 1933) | composer, teacher |
| Lang, Margaret Ruthven (b. 1867 d. 1972) | composer |
| Latham, William Peters (b. 1917) | composer |
| Lees, Benjamin (b. 1924) | composer |
| Leichtling, Alan (b. 1947) | composer |
| Lekberg, Sven (b. 1899 d. 1984) | composer, music educator |
| Lessard, John (Ayers) (b. 1920) | composer |
| Lipsky, Alexander (b. 1901) | composer |
| Little, Arthur Reginald (a. 1905) | composer |
| Lockwood, Normand (b. 1906) | composer |
| Loeffler, Charles Martin (b. 1861 d. 1935) | composer, violin |
| Lombardo, Robert Michael (b. 1932) | composer |
| London, Edwin Wolf (b. 1929) | composer, conductor |
| Loomis, Clarence (b. 1889 d. 1965) | piano, composer |
| Lubin, Ernest (Viviani) (b. 1916 d. 1977) | composer, piano |
| Luening, Otto (Clarence) (b. 1900) | composer, teacher |
| Lybbert, Donald (b. 1923 d. 1981) | composer, teacher |
| Lyon, James (b. 1735 d. 1794) | composer, tunebook compiler |
| Macdowell, Edward (Alexander) (b. 1860 d. 1908) | composer, piano |
| Malotte, Albert Hay (b. 1895 d. 1964) | composer, organ |
| Mana-Zucca (b. 1885 d. 1981) | cast, composer |
| Manney, Charles Fonteyn (b. 1872 d. 1951) | composer, editor |
| Manning, Kathleen Lockhart (b. 1890 d. 1951) | singer, composer |
| Martino, Donald (James) (b. 1931) | composer |
| Mason, Daniel Gregory (b. 1873 d. 1953) | composer, writer on music |
| McArthur, Edwin Douglas (b. 1907 d. 1987) | accompanist, composer |
| McCoy, William Johnston (b. 1848 d. 1925) | composer |
| McGill, Josephine (b. 1877 d. 1919) | composer, folksong collector |
| Mechem, Kirke Lewis (b. 1925) | composer, conductor |
| Meineke, Christopher [Charles] [Christian] [Karl] (b. 1782 d. 1850) | piano, organ |
| Menotti, Gian Carlo (b. 1911) | composer, conductor |
| Merz, Karl (b. 1836 d. 1890) | composer, musician |
| Meyerowitz, Jan (b. 1913 a. 1946) | composer |
| Michael, David Moritz (b. 1751 d. 1827) | musician, composer |
| Millard, Harrison (b. 1830 d. 1895) | tenor, composer |
| Moevs, Robert (Walter) (b. 1920) | composer |
| Moore, Douglas Stuart (b. 1893 d. 1969) | composer, teacher |
| Mopper, Irving (b. 1914) | composer |
| Murray, Bain (b. 1926) | composer, music educator |
| Myers, Gordon (b. 1919) | composer |
| Naginski, Charles (b. 1909 d. 1940) | piano, composer |
| Nevin, Ethelbert (Woodbridge) (b. 1862 d. 1901) | composer |
| Niles, John Jacob (b. 1892 d. 1980) | folksinger, folksong collector |
| Nordoff, Paul (b. 1909 d. 1977) | composer, music therapist |
| Nunlist, Juli (Elizabeth Moora) (b. 1916) | composer, music educator |
| O'Hara, Geoffrey (b. 1882 d. 1967) | composer, lyricist |
| Orland, Henry (b. 1918 a. 1944) | composer, music educator |
| Owen, Richard (b. 1922) | composer |
| Paine, John Knowles (b. 1839 d. 1906) | composer, teacher |
| Panetti, Joan (b. 1941) | composer, concert pianist |
| Parchman, Gen Louis (b. 1929) | composer, double bass |
| Parker, Horatio (William) (b. 1863 d. 1919) | composer, music educator |
| Parker, James Cutler Dunn (b. 1828 d. 1916) | composer, organ |
| Pasatieri, Thomas (b. 1945) | composer |
| Pasmore, Henry Bickford (b. 1857 d. 1944) | bass, teacher of singing |
| Pattison, Lee (b. 1890 d. 1966) | piano, composer |
| Pease, Alfred Humphreys (b. 1838 d. 1882) | composer, piano |
| Pelissier, Victor (b. -1750 d. 1820) | composer, arranger |
| Pendleton, Edmund (b. 1899) | composer |
| Perry, Julia (Amanda) (b. 1924 d. 1979) | composer, conductor |
| Persichetti, Vincent (b. 1915 d. 1987) | composer, piano |
| Peter, Johann Friedrich (b. 1746 d. 1813) | composer, organ |
| Pfautsch, Lloyd Alvin (b. 1921) | music educator, conductor |
| Pinkham, Daniel (Rogers) (b. 1923) | composer, harpsichord |
| Porter, Quincy [William Quincy] (b. 1897 d. 1966) | cello, composer |
| Powell, John (b. 1882 d. 1963) | piano, composer |
| Powell, Mel (b. 1923) | piano, arranger |
| Price, Florence Beatrice (b. 1888 d. 1953) | composer, arranger |
| Protheroe, Daniel (b. 1866 d. 1934) | conductor, composer |
| Raphling, Sam (b. 1910 d. 1988) | composer |
| Read, Gardner (b. 1913) | writer, composer |
| Reed, Herbert Owen (b. 1910) | composer |
| Reif, Paul (b. 1910 d. 1978) | composer, arranger |
| Reinagle, Alexander Robert (b. 1799 d. 1877) | organ |
| Rich, Gladys (b. 1893) | composer |
| Riegger, Wallingford (b. 1885 d. 1961) | composer |
| Rochberg, George (b. 1918) | composer, Komposition |
| Rogers, Bernard (b. 1893 d. 1968) | composer, teacher |
| Rogers, Clara Kathleen (b. 1844 d. 1931) | singer, composer |
| Rogers, James Hotchkiss (b. 1857 d. 1940) | composer, organ |
| Rorem, Ned (b. 1923) | composer, musicisti |
| Roy, Klaus George (b. 1924 a. 1940) | composer, writer |
| Roy, William (b. 1928) | cast, composer |
| Russell, Sydney King (b. 1898 d. 1976) | ragtime composer |
| Saar, Louis Victor (Franz) (b. 1868 d. 1937) | composer, music critic |
| Sacco, John Charles (b. 1905) | composer, arranger |
| Sacco, Peter [Peter Patrick] (b. 1928) | composer, tenor |
| Salter, Mary Elizabeth (b. 1856 d. 1938) | soprano, composer |
| Saminsky, Lazare (b. 1882 d. 1959) | composer, compositore |
| Sargent, Paul (b. 1910) | clarinet |
| Saroni, Hermann S. (b. 1823 a. 1852) | writer, composer |
| Schinhan, Jan Philip (b. 1887) | composer |
| Schnabel-Tollefsen, Augusta (b. 1885 d. 1955) | piano, composer |
| Schuller, Gunther Alexander (b. 1925) | composer, conductor |
| Schuman, William (Howard) (b. 1910 d. 1992) | composer, conductor |
| Scott, John Prindle (b. 1877 d. 1932) | tenor, composer |
| Seeger, Charles (Louis) (b. 1886 d. 1979) | musicologist, composer |
| Selby, William (b. 1738 d. 1798) | composer, organ |
| Sessions, Roger (Huntington) (b. 1896 d. 1985) | composer, piano |
| Shapiro, Norman R. (b. 1930) | composer |
| Shaw, Clifford (b. 1911 d. 1976) | composer, piano |
| Shepherd, Arthur (b. 1880 d. 1958) | composer, piano |
| Siegmeister, Elie (b. 1909 d. 1991) | composer, dance arranger |
| Slonimsky, Nicolas (b. 1894) | composer, Dirigent |
| Smith, David Stanley (b. 1877 d. 1949) | conductor, composer |
| Smith, Hale (b. 1925) | composer, arranger |
| Smith, Julia (Frances) (b. 1911 d. 1989) | composer, piano |
| Smith, Melville (b. 1898) | concert organist, composer |
| Spalding, Albert (b. 1888 d. 1953) | violin, Violine |
| Speaks, Oley (b. 1874 d. 1948) | singer, songwriter |
| Starer, Robert (b. 1924 a. 1947) | composer, dance arranger |
| Steiner, Gitta Hana (b. 1932) | piano, composer |
| Steinert, Alexander Lang (b. 1900 d. 1982) | piano, composer |
| Sterne, Colin Chase (b. 1921) | composer, music educator |
| Still, William Grant (b. 1895 d. 1978) | arranger, composer |
| Stratton, George W. (b. 1830 d. 1901 a. 1867) | composer, publisher |
| Stravinsky, Igor (Fyodorovich) (b. 1882 d. 1971) | composer, compositore |
| Strilko, Anthony (b. 1931) | composer |
| Strong, George Templeton (b. 1856 d. 1948) | composer, oboe |
| Strukoff, Rudolf Stephen (b. 1938) | music educator, conductor |
| Swan, Timothy (b. 1758 d. 1842) | composer, musician |
| Swanson, Howard (b. 1907 d. 1978) | composer |
| Sydeman, William (Jay) (b. 1928) | composer |
| Taylor, Clifford (Oliver) (b. 1923 d. 1987) | composer, music educator |
| Taylor, Deems [Joseph Deems] (b. 1885 d. 1966) | cast, composer |
| Taylor, Rayner (b. 1747 d. 1825) | composer, organ |
| Thompson, Randall (b. 1899 d. 1984) | composer, musicisti |
| Thomson, Virgil (Garnett) (b. 1896 d. 1989) | composer, musicisti |
| Travis, Roy Elihu (b. 1922) | composer |
| Tucker, Henry L. (d. 1882) | composer |
| Turner, Charles (b. 1921) |
| Tyson, Mildred Lund (b. 1901) | composer, teacher |
| Ulehla, Ludmila (b. 1923) | music educator, composer |
| Wagenaar, Bernard (b. 1894 d. 1971 a. 1920) | composer, conductor |
| Walker, George Theophilius (b. 1922) | banjo, composer |
| Walton, Kenneth (b. 1904) |
| Ward, Robert (Eugene) (b. 1917) | composer, teacher |
| Ware, Harriet (b. 1877 d. 1962) | piano, composer |
| Warner, Philip (b. 1901) | composer, piano |
| Warren, Elinor Remick (b. 1900 d. 1991) | composer, piano |
| Waters, James Lipscombe (b. 1930) | composer, music educator |
| Watson, Walter Robert (b. 1933) | composer, music educator |
| Watts, Wintter (Haynes) (b. 1884 d. 1962) | composer |
| Webb, George James (b. 1803 d. 1887 a. 1835) | editor, composer |
| Weber, Ben (William Jennings Bryan) (b. 1916 d. 1979) | composer, teacher |
| Weil, Oscar (b. 1839 d. 1921) | composer, critic |
| Weisgall, Hugo (David) (b. 1912) | composer |
| Whelpley, Benjamin Lincoln (b. 1864 d. 1946) | organ, composer |
| White, John David (b. 1931) | composer, cello |
| Whithorne, Emerson (b. 1884 d. 1958) | composer, piano |
| Wilder, Alec (Lafayette Chew) (b. 1907 d. 1980) | composer, director |
| Wilding-White, Raymond (b. 1922 a. 1947) | music educator, composer |
| Williams, David H. (b. 1946) | composer |
| Willis, Richard Storrs (b. 1819 d. 1900) | composer, poet |
| Willson, James [or Joseph] (a. 1923) | composer |
| Wolf, Daniel (b. 1894 d. 1962) | composer, piano |
| Wolfe, Jacques (Leon) (b. 1896 d. 1973 a. 1898) | composer |
| Wolpe, Stefan (b. 1902 d. 1972) | composer, musicisti |
| Wood, Abraham (b. 1752 d. 1804) | composer, tunebook compiler |
| Woodbury, Isaac Baker (b. 1819 d. 1858) | composer, tunebook compiler |
| Woodman, Raymond Huntington (b. 1861 d. 1943) | composer, organ |
| Work, John Wesley (b. 1901 d. 1967) | composer, scholar |
| Young, Gordon Ellsworth (b. 1919) | composer, organ |
| Youse, Glad Robinson (b. 1898) | songwriter, composer |