U.S. American composers, listed by birth year

1689

• John Tufts

1696

• Thomas Walter

1734

• Philip Phile

1735

• James Lyon

1737

• Francis Hopkinson

1740

• Peter Valton

1744

• Amos Bull

1746

• William Billings
• Oliver Brownson
• Simeon Jocelin

1747

• Justin Morgan

1748

• Lemuel Babcock
• Lewis Edson

1749

• Alexander Gillet
• Sylvanus Ripley

1750

• Solomon Howe
• Elias Mann

1751

• Supply Belcher

1752

• Abraham Wood

1754

• Asahel Benham
• Jacob French

1756

• Elisha West

1757

• Daniel Read

1758

• Susanna Heath
• Joseph Stone
• Timothy Swan

1759

• Timothy Olmsted

1760

• Samuel Babcock
• Lucius Chapin
• Ezra Goff
• William Little
• William Read

1761

• Jacob Kimball
• Nehemiah Shumway
• William Smith (compiler)

1762

• Elijah Griswold
• Samuel Holyoke

1764

• Jeremiah Ingalls

1765

• Oliver Holden

1766

• Isaac Lane

1768

• Nathaniel Billings
• Benjamin Carr
• Amzi Chapin

1770

• Ebenezer Child

1771

• Daniel Belknap
• Robert Boyd
• Zedekiah Sanger

1772

• Bartholomew Brown
• Eliakim Doolittle
• Stephen Jenks
• Amos Pilsbury

1773

• Abraham Maxim

1774

• John Cole
• Truman Wetmore

1775

• Hezekiah Moors

1778

• Joseph Funk
• Berryman Hicks

1779

• Abijah Forbush
• Walter Janes
• Oliver Shaw

1780

• Ananias Davisson
• Freeman Lewis
• Merit Woodruff

1782

• Elkanah Dare

1784

• Thomas Hastings

1785

• S. McFarland

1786

• Charles Edward Horn

1787

• James P. Carrell

1790

• James C. Lowry
• William Moore

1791

• Alexander Johnson

1792

• John Henry Hopkins, Sr.
• Lowell Mason

1797

• Joseph Brackett
• William Bradshaw
• Frederick Price

1799

• Samuel Wakefield

1800

• Benjamin F. White

1801

• John H. Hewitt

1802

• Andrew Johnson

1803

• George J. Webb

1805

• Bernard Covert

1808

• Thomas à Becket

1809

• William Walker

1810

• John Massengale

1812

• George N. Allen
• William Hauser
• Henry Russell
• Jonathan E. Spilman

1813

• James Christopher
• Matthias Keller

1814

• Daniel Shryock

1815

• Matilda T. Durham
• Dan Emmett

1816

• William Batchelder Bradbury

1817

• Anthony Werner

1818

• Simeon P. Cheney
• Marshall Spring Pike
• Silas Jones Vail

1819

• Isaac Woodbury

1820

• Ossian E. Dodge
• Luther Orlando Emerson
• John Henry Hopkins, Jr.
• George Frederick Root

1822

• Faustina Hasse Hodges
• George W. Morgan
• James Pierpont

1823

• Augustus Damon Fillmore
• Edward A. Hosmer
• Nelson Kneass

1824

• Henry S. Thompson
• Theodore Wood

1825

• George F. Bristow
• Bernard Hellebusch

1826

• Stephen Collins Foster
• Robert Lowry
• William Fiske Sherwin

1827

• Elihu S. Rice
• Thomas Ryan
• Lucien H. Southard
• Septimus Winner

1828

• James Cutler Dunn Parker
• David Patillo White

1829

• Obadiah Bruen Brown
• William U. Butcher
• Alpheus A. Lusk
• William Mason (1829-1908)
• John Hugh McNaughton
• John Rogers Thomas

1830

• William Steffe

1831

• Rens. DeGeer
• William Perkins
• Lewis H. Redner
• Alexander Van Alstyne

1832

• William Howard Doane
• Webster Irving Hartshorn
• Benjamin Jepson
• Henry Clay Work

1833

• Benjamin Hanby
• George Brace Loomis
• Edwin T. Pound
• Cyrus Cornelius Pratt
• Gustav Stolpe
• Charles E. Whiting

1834

• James R. Dye
• John Franklin Fargo
• Walter Kittredge
• Horatio Richmond Palmer
• Edward Alexander Perkins
• Philip Phillips
• John Augustus Sterry
• Jairus Maxson Stillman
• Milton Z. Tinker
• William Aubrey Williams
• Chauncey Milton Wyman

1835

• Lyman Abbott
• Frederick Brandeis
• Arthur Coquard
• Henry L. Frisbie
• David Hayden Lloyde
• James Maximillian North
• Niccolò Piccinni
• John Henry Rheem
• Theodore F. Seward
• Thomas Martin Towne
• George Augustus Veazie

1836

• Sylvester W. Holdredge
• Karl Merz

1837

• James A. Butterfield
• John Cheshire
• Howard M. Dow
• Clara Gottschalk
• John Piersol McCaskey
• Charles P. Morrison
• Smith Newell Penfield
• Joseph Westley Ruggles
• Carlos Troyer

1838

• Chester G. Allen
• Frederic Archer
• Philip P. Bliss
• Ambrose Davenport
• William Kirkpatrick
• Newell Coe Stewart
• Robert Stewart Taylor
• Edward Anders Wimmerstedt
• David Duffield Wood

1839

• Dudley Buck
• Mary Holden Coggeshall
• Nelson D. Coon
• Frank M. Davis
• Robert Goldbeck
• Horace Estabrook Kimball
• Hubert Platt Main
• S. Wesley Martin
• John Knowles Paine
• Frederic Henry Pease
• Richard James Wilmot

1840

• William Horatio Clarke
• William Clayson
• Aldine Silliman Kieffer
• James McGranahan
• Ira David Sankey
• Emily B. Tallmadge
• John Harrison Tenney

1841

• Albert Junos Holden
• William John de Wolf Leavitt
• John Paul Morgan
• William A. Ogden
• Clara H. Scott

1842

• Oliver Day Adams
• Nathan L. Glover
• Richard Abel Kinzie
• Eliphalet Oram Lyte
• John Winans Shryock
• Solomon W. Straub

1843

• Charles Clinton Case
• Wilbur Fisk Heath
• William James Robjohn
• William F. Sudds
• Benjamin Carl Unseld

1844

• William T. Cramer
• Isaac Van Vleck Flagler
• Robert A. Glenn
• Elizabeth Field Hubbard
• Lyman S. Leason
• George Laurie Osgood

1845

• Wilbur A. Christy
• Thomas William Hubbard
• Daniel E. Kelley
• John H. Kissinger
• Charles Eddy Leslie
• Thomas P. Murphy
• Flora Ellis Wells

1846

• John R. Dunham
• Stephan Loomer Fish
• William Wallace Gilchrist
• Avanelle L. Holmes
• Frederic Woodman Root
• Albert H. RoSewig
• Charles Wenham Smith
• Sanford S. Turley

1847

• Maro Loomis Bartlett
• James Calvin Bushey
• Herbert Griggs
• Louis Casper Jacoby
• James J. Jelly
• Ransom H. Randall
• Samuel A. Ward

1848

• Alfred Beirly
• Frederic Grant Gleason
• John Haraden Pratt
• Thomas Griffin Shepard
• George R. Sturgis

1849

• William L. Blumenschein
• Thomas J. Douthitt
• James H. Fillmore

1850

• Emma Louise Ashford
• Frank G. Cauffman
• Arthur Albert Clappé
• John B. Grant
• Carl Pflueger
• Carrie Burpee Shaw
• Daniel B. Towner

1851

• James M. Dungan
• Orlando Smith Grinnell
• William A. Lafferty
• Samuel George Smith
• Charles Albert Tindley

1852

• Francis J. Barrett
• Thomas W. Dennington
• Louis M. Evilsizer
• George W. Fields
• Benjamin F. Griffeth
• John Bunyan Herbert
• John Franklin Kinsey
• Charles King Langley
• Addison Lam. Moore
• Constantin Ivanovich Edler von Sternberg

1853

• Arthur Foote
• Charles Edward Pollock
• Frank H. Simms

1854

• George Whitefield Chadwick
• James Gerald Dailey
• Thomas Jones Davies
• W. S. Fenollosa
• Hugh Henry McGranahan
• Matthew Lindsay McPhail
• Louis Arthur Russell
• Evan Stephens

1855

• John James Dawson
• Adam Geibel
• Jacob Henry Hall
• Edward Parks McMurray
• Alexander B. Morton
• George Noyes Rockwell
• Wilson G. Smith
• George Lowell Tracy

1856

• John Hyatt Brewer
• Charles H. Gabriel
• Alice E. Griffeth
• Jacob Franklin King
• Charles Lauren Moore
• Shilo Shaffer Myers
• Ignatius M Wilkins

1857

• Daniel W. Crist
• Arnold Johann Gantvoort
• George B. Holsinger
• Clayton Johns
• William H Pontius
• Kate M. Preston
• James Hotchkiss Rogers
• Clarence T. Steele

1858

• John Spencer Camp
• Grace Wilbur Conant
• William T. Giffe
• James Monroe Hagan
• Bruno Oscar Klein
• Peter C. Lutkin
• William E. Moore
• Chauncey Olcott
• Stephen Jesse Oslin
• Harry Rowe Shelley
• Anthony Johnson Showalter
• Max Spicker
• Frank Valentine Van der Stucken
• Thomas Byron Weaver
• Frank Wrigley

1859

• Hermann Bemberg
• Charles Whitney Coombs
• Reginald de Koven
• Reginald DeKoven
• George Balch Nevin

1860

• George C. Gow
• Henry Jacobsen
• Arthur Edward Johnstone
• Edward MacDowell
• Marcellus Webster Moore
• Albert W. Platte
• Edouard Potjes
• John B. Shirley

1861

• John H. Hopkins
• Abram Winne Lansing
• Wilberfoss George Owst
• Robert Morrison Stults
• Arthur B. Whiting
• Raymond Huntington Woodman
• Francis L. York

1862

• Carl Busch
• Walter Damrosch
• Henry Holden Huss
• Carrie Jacobs-Bond
• Ethelbert Nevin

1863

• Oliver L. Fleck
• Tod B. Galloway
• Thomas Hilton-Turvey
• Hugo Kaun
• James Christopher Marks
• William Harold Neidlinger
• Horatio W. Parker
• James Asher Parks
• Nathan Brown Sprague
• Frank William Westhoff

1864

• Winton James Baltzell
• William Berwald
• Henry Waller

1865

• Maurice Arnold
• Emilie Frances Bauer
• Carrie Bullard
• Eunice Dean
• Giuseppe Ferrata
• Harvey Worthington Loomis
• Gustav Luders
• Jessie Louise Pease
• James Hott Ruebush

1866

• Harry T. Burleigh
• Ernest Carter
• Rossetter G. Cole
• Arthur F. M. Custance
• Frederick W. Goodrich
• Ephraim Timothy Hildebrand
• Eva M. King
• Cleland Boyd McAfee
• Daniel Protheroe
• Caro Roma

1867

• Charles Winfred Douglas
• John S. Fearis
• Jennie M. Fleck
• Joseph E. Howard
• Michael John Kegrize
• Margaret Ruthven Lang
• Albert G. Sliffe

1868

• Paul Ambrose
• Edward B. Birge
• Francis A. Clark
• Hubbard W. Harris
• Patty Hill
• Scott Joplin
• Charles Austin Miles
• William Rhys-Herbert
• Louis Victor Saar

1869

• Leo Friedman
• Patty Stair

1870

• Louis A. Coerne
• Richard E. DeReef
• Sidney C. Durst
• Cecil Forsyth
• William Marion Runyan
• Thomas W. Talley

1871

• Frederick S. Converse
• Henry Kimball Hadley
• Walter Heaton
• Bruno Siegfried Huhn
• Henry A. Russotto
• Florence Turner-Maley

1872

• Felix Borowski
• John David Brunk
• Arthur Farwell
• George Alfred Grant-Schaefer
• Gustav Mehner
• Frank Edwin Ward
• Joseph Warren Yoder

1873

• Clarence Dickinson
• Daniel Gregory Mason
• Theodore Morse
• William Howe Ruebush
• Gertrude Sans Souci

1874

• William R. Cox
• John J. McClellan
• Oley Speaks

1875

• Mark Andrews
• Fred Fisher
• Arthur A. Penn

1876

• John Alden Carpenter
• Frederick Flaxington Harker
• George H. Knight
• Joseph Mandelberg
• Percy Rector Stephens
• Tell Taylor

1877

• Joseph Henius
• William Alfred White

1878

• Ernest Ball
• Mabel Wheeler Daniels
• Egbert Van Alstyne

1879

• Henry W. Armstrong
• Franz C. Bornschein
• Benjamin Lambord

1880

• Eric DeLamarter
• William Otto Miessner
• Edward Dudley Naff
• Alexander Russell
• Percy Wenrich

1881

• Charles Wakefield Cadman
• Harvey Bartlett Gaul
• Theodore Stearns
• Frederick J. Tindley

1882

• Richard Hageman

1883

• Carl Lowden
• Tom Pitts

1884

• Charles Tomlinson Griffes
• Al Piantadosi

1885

• Elizabeth Garrett
• Deems Taylor

1888

• Philip G. Clapp
• Charles A. Tindley, Jr.

1890

• Joseph W. Clokey
• Raymond B. Egan
• Philip James
• Arthur Walter Kramer

1891

• Con Conrad
• Clinton Lowden

1892

• J. Russel Robinson

1893

• M. K. Jerome

1895

• Ernest Charles
• Mildred Tanner Pettit
• Leo Sowerby

1896

• J. Vincent Higginson
• Leroy J. Robertson

1897

• Felix Bernard
• Maceo Pinkard

1899

• William L. Dawson
• John Duke
• Billy Hill

1927

• Grietje Rowley
• Toney Smith

1929

• William D. Thompson

1931

• Caroline S. Arnold
• James W. Keefe

1932

• Stephen J. Eisele

1938

• Douglas Leedy
• Roger Petrich

1939

• Mark D. Falcone

1940

• Charles H. Giffen

1941

• John Hetland

1943

• Barry Johnston
• Frank Mitchell

1944

• Alexander Ledkovsky

1945

• Tim Blickhan
• Robert Ehrhardt
• Józef Kocięda

1947

• Ronald McVey
• Walter Wells

1949

• Howard Barnaby
• William Ellison
• Paul Sawyer

1950

• Charles M. Herrold, Jr.
• Lawrence Sisk

1951

• Peter Bird
• Kitty Brazelton
• Anthony Cekada

1952

• Stewart Alan Hughes
• Paul Rosas
• Gabrael StClair

1953

• William Chimiak
• Gene Ryan

1954

• Bonnie Barrows
• Michael Gray
• David Lesniaski
• Larry Minton

1955

• Tim Brace

1956

• Sterling Wesley Branton
• Eric Haas
• Jeffrey Quick

1957

• Richard Damon
• Cheryl Lynn Helm
• Moses Hogan
• Craig Klampe
• Joseph Knapicius
• Tim Risher

1958

• Susan Partlan

1959

• Sally DeFord
• Tim Drewes
• Gregory Hamilton
• Allan Loucks
• Brian Marble
• Lyle K. Neff
• Allen H. Simon

1960

• Christopher W. Hart

1962

• Jonathan Adams
• J. Lee Graham

1963

• John Reager

1964

• Amy Dunker
• John David Eaton

1966

• Mark Wilber Stewart
• Thurlow Weed

1967

• Anthony Awtrey
• Paul Grady
• MB Krueger
• Patrick O'Shea

1968

• Christopher Garton-Zavesky
• Paul von Hippel
• Martin Kingfisher

1969

• David Joseph Stith

1970

• J. Ashley Hall
• Douglas Walczak
• Victor Wilburn

1971

• Matthew Guerrieri
• Scott Murphy
• Scott Villard

1972

• Joseph G. Stephens
• M. Ryan Taylor

1974

• John L. Wright

1975

• Aristotle Aure Esguerra
• User:Aristotle Aure Esguerra
• Henry Lebedinsky

1976

• Robinson McClellan

1979

• Timothy Max
• Nick Vasallo

1980

• Katherine Anne Davoli
• Mark Hamilton Dewey
• Maggie Furtak

1982

• Nathan Howe

1983

• Michael J. Drake, Jr.
• David Macfarlane

1985

• Melike Yersiz

1986

• Ross Jallo
• Alan Struck

1987

• Henry Gaida
• Nicholas Kelly
• Philip King
• David Leroy McIntyre III

1989

• Tyler Rusco

1990

• Matthew J. Pool

1991

• Sean Connolly
• Samuel Speer

1992

• Colton Martin

1993

• Peter Carter
• Mason Chadwick Shefa

1994

• Carlos Camejo

1999

• Andrew Richesson

2000

• Peter Yost