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25 best American composers of all time - Classical Music
- Leonard Bernstein
- Danny Elfman
- Duke Ellington
- Cole Porter
- Scott Joplin
- George Gershwin
- Florence Price
- Philip Glass
- John Cage
- Aaron Copland
Leonard Bernstein was a conductor and composer, and he was also a pianist, music teacher, author, and humanitarian. A first-generation American, Bernstein was born in 1918 in Lawrence, Massachusetts. On the insistence of his grandmother, he was born as Louis Bernstein, legally changing his name to Leonard as his parents called him shortly after his...
Danny Elfman is a current composer, singer, and songwriter who focuses on pop, new-age genres, and quirky film scores. He was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, where he still resides and works in television and movies as well as stage theater and concerts. He is best known for his collaborations with film directors Tim Burton, Sam Raimi, ...
Edward Kennedy Ellington more commonly known as Duke Ellington was born in Washington D.C. in 1899. He was one of the most famous jazz musicians of the 20th century and a fantastic pianist as well as a prolific composer sometimes composing multiple records within a single year. He was a rare talent that gained enough popularity that he played not o...
Cole Porter was born in Peru, Indiana in 1891. He was classically trained but was drawn to the theatre side of music from an early age which led to a majority of his compositions being musicals. Porter composed dozens of highly successful musicals finding success on Broadway beginning with Parisin 1928. By the 1930s, he was one of the most successf...
African American ragtime composer Scott Joplin was born in 1868 in Texas. Throughout his life, his family moved around quite a bit though and was located in at least 5 different states throughout the course of his life. He was among the first freeborn men in his family since his father was a freed slave. Both of his parents were amateur musicians s...
American Jewish composerGeorge Gershwin, born in 1898 and raised in the Yiddish Theater District of Brooklyn, New York is one of the best-remembered American composers. During the rise of jazz in America, his work help to transition classical music to the new style of music. At the age of ten, he started playing the piano originally meant for his b...
One of the few famous African American female composers, Florence Price was born in 1887 in Little Rock Arkansas. She was a pianist, organist, and music teacher in addition to being a composer and was the first African-American woman to be recognized as a symphonic composer. Her mother was a music teacher and led her to her first piano recital at a...
Philip Glass was born in 1937 in Baltimore was another American composer and pianist who is known for embodying minimalism. Glass has released various types of music including concertos, film scores, symphonies, and string quartets. He’s received a variety of awards for his music including a Golden Globe Award, BAFTA Award, National Medal of Arts. ...
John Cage Jr. born in 1912 in Los Angelos was an American composer best known for his experimental work with musical composition likely due to having a semi-diverse background in philosophy, art, and music theory. His unique style has made many consider him to be one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. Cage put a huge stamp on mo...
Anyone who watched American television in the ‘90s probably remembers the “Beef: It’s What’s for Dinner” commercial. The dramatic instrumental build-up to that iconic line is the climax of the Rodeo suite, one of Aaron Copland’s most famous compositions. Copland was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1900 and was the youngest of five first-generation children...
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Ever since the mid 1800s and the birth of the American culture, America has produced some of the greatest and unique (European Classical mixed with Black Folk) Classical music of all time, here are just some of Americas greatest composers. Most divisive: Philip Glass.
Discover 10 of the greatest American composers, complete with recommended recordings.
Top 10. The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary American Composers of all time. This list of famous American Composers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
Dec 1, 2020 · Composers explored the phenomena of their time – from the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud to the world wars that shook everything – and created powerful pieces of music that kept up with the fast pace of change that characterised the 20th century. Here are ten of the greatest composers who navigated all of this, and crafted it into their ...
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