Popular American composers : From revolutionary times to the present.
A biographical and critical guide
A biographical and critical guide
Compiled and edited by David Ewen
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| Adler, Richard (b. 1921) | composer, lyricist |
| Ager, Milton (b. 1893 d. 1979) | composer, songwriter |
| Ahlert, Fred E. (b. 1892 d. 1953) | cast, composer |
| Alter, Louis (b. 1902 d. 1980) | composer |
| Anderson, Leroy (b. 1908 d. 1975) | composer, conductor |
| Archer, Harry (b. 1888 d. 1960) | author, composer |
| Arlen, Harold (b. 1905 d. 1986) | cast, composer |
| Arndt, Felix George (b. 1889 d. 1918) | composer, piano |
| Ball, Ernest R. (b. 1878 d. 1927) | composer, songwriter |
| Berlin, Irving (b. 1888 d. 1989) | cast, composer |
| Bernstein, Leonard (b. 1918 d. 1990) | composer, conductor |
| Billings, William (b. 1746 d. 1800) | composer |
| Bland, James Allen (b. 1854 d. 1911) | minstrel show musician, professor |
| Bock, Jerry (Lewis) (b. 1928) | composer, librettist |
| Bond, Carrie Jacobs (b. 1862 d. 1946) | composer, publisher |
| Braham, David (b. 1834 d. 1905) | composer, incidental music |
| Brooks, Shelton (b. 1886 d. 1975) | cast, composer |
| Brown, Nacio Herb (b. 1896 d. 1964) | composer, lyricist |
| Carmichael, Hoagy [Hoagland Howard] (b. 1899 d. 1981) | composer, cornet |
| Carroll, Harry (b. 1892 d. 1962 a. 1918) | composer |
| Caryll, Ivan (b. 1861 d. 1921) | author, composer |
| Cohan, George M. [George Michael] (b. 1878 d. 1942) | author, cast |
| Conrad, Con (b. 1891 d. 1938) | composer, director |
| Coots, John Frederick (b. 1897 d. 1985) | piano, composer |
| Danks, Hart Pease (b. 1834 d. 1903) | composer, lyricist |
| De Koven, Reginald [Henry Louis Reginald] (b. 1859 d. 1920) | composer, conductor |
| De Rose, Peter (b. 1900 d. 1953) | composer |
| Donaldson, Walter (b. 1893 d. 1947) | composer, lyricist |
| Dresser, Paul [John Paul] (b. 1857 d. 1906) | composer, author |
| Duke, Vernon (b. 1903 d. 1969) | composer, lyricist |
| Edwards, Gus (b. 1879 d. 1945) | cast, composer |
| Ellington (b. 1899 d. 1974) | composer, direttore d'orchestra |
| Emmett, Daniel Decatur (b. 1815 d. 1904) | composer, lyricist |
| Englaender, Ludwig (b. 1859 d. 1914) | author, composer |
| Fain, Sammy (b. 1902 d. 1989) | author, cast |
| Fisher, Fred (b. 1875 d. 1942) | composer, lyricist |
| Foster, Stephen Collins (b. 1826 d. 1864) | bass guitar, composer |
| Friedland, Anatole (b. 1888 d. 1938) | composer |
| Friml, Rudolf [Charles Rudolph] (b. 1879 d. 1972) | composer, librettist |
| Gaunt, Percy (b. 1852 d. 1896) | popular composer |
| Gershwin, George (b. 1898) | author, cast |
| Goldman, Edwin Franko (b. 1878 d. 1956) | conductor, composer |
| Gorney, Jay (b. 1896 d. 1990) | composer, librettist |
| Gould, Morton (b. 1913) | composer, conductor |
| Green, Johnny [John William] (b. 1908 d. 1989) | composer, music director |
| Grofe, Ferde (b. 1892 d. 1972) | composer, musicisti |
| Guion, David Wendell Fentress (b. 1892 d. 1981) | composer, musicisti |
| Hague, Albert (b. 1920) | composer, dance arranger |
| Handy, W.C. [William Christopher] (b. 1873 d. 1958) | additional Music, cast |
| Harney, Ben [Benjamin Robertson] (b. 1871 d. 1938) | ragtime piano, songwriter |
| Harris, Charles Kassell (b. 1867 d. 1930) | composer, lyricist |
| Hays, Will S. [William Shakespeare] (b. 1837 d. 1907) | songwriter, songwriter |
| Henderson, Ray (b. 1896 d. 1970) | cast, composer |
| Herbert, Victor (August) (b. 1859 d. 1924) | composer, conductor |
| Hewitt, John Hill (b. 1801 d. 1890) | composer, poet |
| Hill, Billy [William J.] (b. 1899 d. 1940) | composer, danceband leader |
| Hirsch, Louis Achille (b. 1887 d. 1924) | composer, director |
| Hoschna, Karl L. (b. 1877 d. 1911) | composer, oboe |
| Howard, Joseph Edgar (b. 1878 d. 1961) | cast, composer |
| Hubbell, Raymond (b. 1879 d. 1954) | composer, lyricist |
| Jacobi, Victor (b. 1883 d. 1921) | author, composer |
| Jones, Isham (b. 1894 d. 1956) | composer, lyricist |
| Joplin, Scott (b. 1868 d. 1917) | composer, librettist |
| Kerker, Gustav Adolph (b. 1857 d. 1923) | author, composer |
| Kern, Jerome (David) (b. 1885 d. 1945) | cast, composer |
| King, Robert Adolph (b. 1862 d. 1932) | composer, lyricist |
| Klein, Manuel (b. 1876 d. 1919) | composer, librettist |
| Lane, Burton (b. 1912) | composer, lyricist |
| Livingston, Jay Harold (b. 1915) | composer, lyricist |
| Loesser, Frank (Henry) (b. 1910 d. 1969) | songwriter, playwright |
| Loewe, Frederick (b. 1901 d. 1988) | composer, lyricist |
| Losonczy, Andor (b. 1932) | composer, piano |
| Luders, Gustav (Carl) (b. 1865 d. 1913) | composer, music director |
| Martin, Hugh (b. 1914) | arranger, cast |
| McHugh, Jimmy [James Francis] (b. 1894 d. 1969) | cast, composer |
| Merrill, Robert (b. 1921) | baritone, bass |
| Metz, Theodore August (b. 1848 d. 1936) | composer, vaudeville entertainer |
| Meyer, George W. (b. 1884 d. 1959) | composer of popular songs, composer |
| Meyer, Joseph (b. 1894 d. 1987) | composer of popular songs, composer |
| Mills, Kerry [Frederick Allen] (b. 1869 d. 1948) | composer, publisher |
| Monaco, James V. (b. 1885 d. 1945) | composer, lyricist |
| Morse, Theodore F. (b. 1873 d. 1924) | publisher, songwriter |
| Muir, Lewis F. (b. 1883 d. 1915) | composer, lyricist |
| Newman, Alfred (b. 1901 d. 1970) | composer, conductor |
| Olcott, Chauncey (b. 1858) | cast, composer |
| Porter, Cole (Albert) (b. 1891 d. 1964) | cast, composer |
| Previn, Andre (George) (b. 1929) | composer, conductor |
| Rainger, Ralph (b. 1901 d. 1942) | cast, composer |
| Revel, Harry (b. 1905 d. 1958) | composer, lyricist |
| Rodgers, Richard (Charles) (b. 1902 d. 1979) | cast, composer |
| Romberg, Sigmund (b. 1887 d. 1951) | cast, composer |
| Rome, Harold (Jacob) (b. 1908 d. 1993) | composer, incidental music |
| Root, George Frederick (b. 1820 d. 1895) | composer, music educator |
| Rose, David (b. 1910 d. 1990) | bass guitar, composer |
| Ruby, Harry (b. 1895 d. 1974) | author, cast |
| Russell, Henry (b. 1812 d. 1900) | composer, piano |
| Scanlan, William James (b. 1856 d. 1898) | actor, singer |
| Schertzinger, Victor (b. 1890 d. 1941) | composer, music director |
| Schwartz, Arthur (b. 1900 d. 1984) | cast, composer |
| Schwartz, Jean (b. 1878 d. 1956) | author, cast |
| Scott, Raymond (b. 1910) | bandleader, composer |
| Sloane, Alfred Baldwin (b. 1872) | composer, musician |
| Smith, Chris (b. 1879 d. 1949) | songwriter |
| Snyder, Ted (b. 1881 d. 1965) | cast, composer |
| Sousa, John Philip (b. 1854 d. 1932) | additional Music, cast |
| Speaks, Oley (b. 1874 d. 1948) | singer, songwriter |
| Stamper, David (b. 1883 d. 1963) | cast, composer |
| Steiner, Max [Maximilian Raoul Walter] (b. 1888 d. 1971) | film composer |
| Stern, Joseph W. (b. 1870 d. 1934) | songwriter, publisher |
| Stromberg, John [Honey] (b. 1853 d. 1902) | songwriter |
| Styne, Jule (b. 1905) | composer, director |
| Thornton, James (b. 1861 d. 1938) | composer, entertainer |
| Tierney, Harry (Austin) (b. 1890 d. 1965) | composer, lyricist |
| Tiomkin, Dimitri (b. 1894 d. 1979) | composer, Klavier |
| Van Alstyne, Egbert Anson (b. 1882 d. 1951) | songwriter, composer |
| Van Heusen, Jimmy (b. 1913 d. 1990) | composer, lyricist |
| Von Tilzer, Albert (b. 1878 d. 1956) | composer, songwriter |
| Von Tilzer, Harry (b. 1872 d. 1946) | cast, composer |
| Waller, Fats [Thomas Wright] (b. 1904 d. 1943) | cast, composer |
| Warren, Harry (b. 1893 d. 1981) | songwriter |
| Weill, Kurt (Julian) (b. 1900 d. 1950) | author, composer |
| Wenrich, Percy (b. 1887 d. 1952) | cast, composer |
| White, Charles Albert (b. 1829 d. 1892) | composer, publisher |
| Whiting, Richard A. (b. 1891 d. 1938) | composer, lyricist |
| Willson, Meredith (b. 1902 d. 1984) | author, composer |
| Winner, Septimus (b. 1827 d. 1902 a. 1870) | composer, lyricist |
| Wolfe, Jacques (Leon) (b. 1896 d. 1973 a. 1898) | composer |
| Woods, Harry MacGregor (b. 1896 d. 1970) | composer |
| Work, Henry Clay (b. 1832 d. 1884) | composer of popular songs, composer |
| Youmans, Vincent (Millie) (b. 1898 d. 1946) | composer, musicisti |
| Young, Victor (b. 1900 d. 1956) | composer, violin |