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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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