List of Jewish American composers

"This is a list of famous Jewish American composers. For listings of famous Jewish American songwriters, musicals writers, and film composers, see List of Jewish American musicians, which shares some names with this list. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans."

Persons listed with a double asterisks (**) are winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Jewish composers constitute 20% of the award's recipients, although Jewish Americans are less than 2% of the United States population. This list includes both Jewish composers who were born and raised in the United States and who were born in Europe or elsewhere and immigrated to and settled in the United States.

* Joseph Achron, composer
* Larry Adler, composer [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]
* Samuel Adler, composer
* Milton Ager, composer
* David Amram, composer
* Leopold Auer, violinist and composer
* Lera Auerbach, composer
* Aaron Avshalomov, composer
* Milton Babbitt, composer [http://www.jinfo.org/Composers.html]
* Marion Bauer, composer
* Arthur Berger, composer
* Irving Berlin, composer
* Herman Berlinski, composer
* Elmer Bernstein, composer
* Leonard Bernstein, composer and conductor
* Marc Blitzstein, composer
* Ernest Bloch, composer
* Jerry Bock, composer
* Rob Bourdon, drummer for Linkin Park
* Aaron Copland, composer **
* Nathan Currier, composer
* Sebastian Currier, composer
* Richard Danielpour, composer
* Walter Johannes Damrosch, conductor and composer
* Mario Davidovsky, composer **
* Brad Delson, lead guitarist for nu metal band Linkin Park
* David Diamond, composer
* Deborah Drattell, composer
* Jacob Druckman, composer **
* Danny Elfman, composer, rock singer
* Abraham Ellstein, composer
* Stephen Feigenbaum, composer
* Morton Feldman, composer
* Lukas Foss, composer
* Rudolf Friml, composer
* George Gershwin, composer
* Miriam Gideon, composer
* Philip Glass, composer
* Ernest Gold, composer
* Rubin Goldmark, composer
* Benny Goodman, King of Swing, Patriarch of the Clarinet
* Annie Gosfield, composer
* Louis Gruenberg, composer
* Louis Moreau Gottschalk, composer (Jewish father)
* Morton Gould, composer **
* Friedrich Holländer, composer
* Michael Isaacson, composer
* Jerome Kern, composer
* Aaron Jay Kernis, composer **
* Leon Kirchner, composer **
*Fritz Kreisler (1875 - 1962) violinist and composer, one of the most famous of his day [Kreisler - [http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=16606] "Jascha Heifetz, Fritz Kreisler, Mischa Elman... were all Jews, too"]
* David Lang, composer **
* Vanessa Lann, composer and pianist
* Oscar Levant, composer and pianist
* Gary Lucas, composer and guitarist
* Paul Alan Levi, composer and pianist
* Adam Levowitz, composer
* Steve Margoshes, composer
* Norman Martin, composer
* Michael Masser, composer
* Jerome Moross, composer
* Alex North, composer
* Alexander Olshanetsky, composer
* Leo Ornstein, composer
* George Perle, composer
* Andre Previn, composer
* Shulamit Ran, composer **
* Steve Reich, composer
* George Rochberg, composer
* Laurence Rosenthal, composer
* Joseph Rumshinsky, composer
* Arnold Schoenberg, composer
* Ruth Schonthal, composer
* Chuck Schuldiner, composer and guitarist/singer
* William Schuman, composer **
* Allen Shawn, composer
* Nathaniel Shilkret, composer and conductor
* Elie Siegmeister, composer and conductor
* Sheila Silver, composer
* Stephen Sondheim, composer**
* Mischa Spoliansky, composer
* Scott Storch, composer and pianist
* Ernst Toch, composer **
* Stewart Wallace, composer
* Kurt Weill, composer
* Jaromír Weinberger, composer
* Hugo Weisgall, composer
* Meredith Willson, composer
* Stefan Wolpe, composer
* Yehudi Wyner, composer **
* Yehuda Yannay, composer
* Hy Zaret, lyricist
* Efrem Zimbalist, composer and violinist
* John Zorn, composer and saxophonist
* William Zuckerman, composer

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