Category
page 120th-century American conductors (music)
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer (1882–1971)

Duke Ellington
American jazz pianist and composer (1899–1974)
Leonard Bernstein
American conductor and composer (1918–1990)

John Williams
American composer and conductor (born 1932)
Quincy Jones
American record producer and composer (1933–2024)
James Horner
American film composer and conductor (1953-2015)
Aaron Copland
American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor (1900-1990)
Yehudi Menuhin
American violinist and conductor (1916–1999)
Henry Mancini
American film composer (1924–1994)
Jerry Goldsmith
American film composer (1929–2004)
Jackie Gleason
American comedian and actor (1916–1987)
Burt Bacharach
American pianist, composer, producer (1928–2023)
Alan Silvestri
American composer, conductor, orchestrator and music producer
Bobby McFerrin
American jazz vocalist and composer (born 1950)

Samuel Barber
American composer (1910-1981)
James Newton Howard
American composer and music producer (born 1951)
Randy Newman
American singer-songwriter and pianist

John Philip Sousa
Luso-American conductor and composer (1854–1932)

Alfred Newman
American composer (1900-1970)

André Previn
German-American conductor, pianist, and composer (1929–2019)

Max Steiner
Austrian-born American music composer and conductor (1888–1971)
John Adams
American composer (born 1947)

Lorin Maazel
French-American conductor (1930-2014)
Victor Borge
Danish comedian and pianist (1909–2000)

Alan Menken
American composer (born 1949)

Elmer Bernstein
American composer and conductor (1922-2004)

Michael Kamen
American composer (1948–2003)

Barry Manilow
American singer
Bruno Walter
German-born conductor, pianist, and composer (1876-1962)

Jelly Roll Morton
American ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader and composer (1890–1941)
Otto Klemperer
German conductor and composer (1885–1973)

James Levine
American conductor and pianist (1943–2021)
Murray Perahia
American pianist and conductor (born 1947)

Dimitri Tiomkin
Ukrainian and American composer
Eugene Ormandy
Hungarian-American conductor and violinist
George Szell
Classical conductor and composer (1897–1970)

Dave Grusin
American composer, arranger, producer, and pianist
Bill Conti
American composer and conductor
Paul Whiteman
American jazz musician and popular bandleader (1890–1967)
Marin Alsop
American conductor and violinist (born 1956)
Neeme Järvi
Estonian conductor (born 1937)
Basil Poledouris
Greek-American composer, conductor, and orchestrator of film and television scores (1945-2006)
Fritz Reiner
Hungarian American orchestra conductor (1888–1963)
Fletcher Henderson
American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer (1897–1952)
Richard Carpenter
American pop musician
Leon Fleisher
American conductor and pianist (1928–2020)
Donny Hathaway
American singer-songwriter and musician (1945-1979)

Lukas Foss
American composer (1922-2009)
Victor Herbert
American composer (1859–1924)
Howard Hanson
American composer, conductor, educator and music theorist (1896–1981)
Percy Faith
Canadian-born American bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor (1908-1976)
Bob James
American jazz keyboardist, arranger, and record producer (born 1939)
Michael Tilson Thomas
American conductor, pianist and composer
Shirley Walker
American film and television composer (1945–2006)
Leonard Slatkin
American conductor and composer
Neal Hefti
American jazz trumpeter, composer, songwriter, and arranger (1922-2008)
Antonia Brico
American conductor (1902–1989)
Lou Harrison
American composer (1917-2003)
William Christie
American-born French conductor and harpsichordist (born 1944)
Semyon Bychkov
Soviet and American conductor