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Best American Musical Composers
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1. Aaron Copland
2. George Gershwin
3. Charles Ives
4. Samuel Barber
5. George W. Chadwick
6. Charles T. Griffes
7. Leonard Bernstein
8. Duke Ellington
9. Roy Harris
10. Randall Thompson
11. William Billings
12. John Alden Carpenter
13. John Cage
14. Frederick Converse
15. Henry Cowell
16. Paul Creston
17. Richard Donovan
18. Henry F. Gilbert
19. Louis Moreau Gottschalk
20. Henry Hadley
21. Howard Hanson
22. Bernard Herrmann
23. Edward B. Hill
24. Norman dello Joio
25. Edward MacDowell
26. Daniel Gregory Mason
27. Peter Menin
28. Conlon Nancarrow
29. Harry Partch
30. Walter Piston
31. Carl Ruggles
32. William Schuman
33. Ruth Crawford Seeger
34. Roger Sessions
35. John Philip Sousa

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