Famous Composers

Author	Nationality	Year
Lou Harrison	American	1917 - 2003
Luc Ferrari	French	1929 - 2005
Luciano Berio	Italian	1925 - 2003
Ludwig van Beethoven	German	1770 - 1827
Lukas Foss	German	1922 - 2009
Malcolm Arnold	English	1921 - 2006
Marvin Hamlisch	American	1944 - 2012
Maurice Jarre	French	1924 - 2009
Maurice Ravel	French	1875 - 1937
Meredith Monk	American	1942
Michael Nyman	British	1944
Michael Tippett	English	1905 - 1998
Michael Torke	American	1961
Michel Legrand	French	1932 - 2019
Mikhail Glinka	Russian	1804 - 1857
Milton Babbitt	American	1916 - 2011
Modest Mussorgsky	Russian	1839 - 1881
Morton Feldman	American	1926 - 1987
Ned Rorem	American	1923 - 2022
Nobuo Uematsu	Japanese	1959
Olivier Messiaen	French	1908 - 1992
Orlando Gibbons	English	1583 - 1625
Oscar Levant	American	1906 - 1972
Paul Bowles	American	1910 - 1999
Peter Maxwell Davies	English	1934 - 2016
Peter Warlock	English	1894 - 1930
Philip Glass	American	1937
Pierre Schaeffer	French	1910 - 1995
Pietro Mascagni	Italian	1863 - 1945
Ralph Vaughan Williams	English	1872 - 1958
Richard Rodgers	American	1902 - 1979
Richard Strauss	German	1864 - 1949
Richard Wagner	German	1813 - 1883
Robert Ashley	American	1930 - 2014
Robert Schumann	German	1810 - 1856
Roger Sessions	American	1896 - 1985
Roscoe Mitchell	American	1940
Ruggero Leoncavallo	Italian	1857 - 1919
Rupert Holmes	English	1947
Samuel Barber	American	1910 - 1981
Samuel Wesley	English	1766 - 1837
Sandy Wilson	British	1924
Scott Joplin	American	1868 - 1917
Sergei Prokofiev	Russian	1891 - 1953
Stephen Sondheim	American	1930 - 2021
Terry Riley	American	1935
Thomas Beecham	English	1879 - 1961
Thomas Campion	English	1567 - 1620
Toru Takemitsu	Japanese	1930 - 1996
Vernon Duke	Russian	1903 - 1969

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