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Billy Joel | William Martin Joel | 1949 | n/a | American | musician, singer-songwriter, and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Joel |
Matt Stone | Matthew Richard Stone | 1971 | n/a | American | actor, animator, writer, producer, and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Stone |
Hans Zimmer | Hans Florian Zimmer | 1957 | n/a | German | film score composer and record producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Zimmer |
Theodor W. Adorno | Theodor W. Adorno | 1903 | 1969 | German | philosopher, sociologist, psychologist, musicologist, and composer known for his critical theory of society | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_W._Adorno |
Philip Glass | Philip Morris Glass | 1937 | n/a | American | composer and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Glass |
George Gershwin | George Gershwin | 1898 | 1937 | American | pianist and composer, whose compositions spanned both popular and classical genres | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gershwin |
Leonard Bernstein | Leonard Bernstein | 1918 | 1990 | American | conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Bernstein |
Felix Mendelssohn | Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy | 1809 | 1847 | German | composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Mendelssohn |
Gustav Mahler | Gustav Mahler | 1860 | 1911 | Austrian | Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Mahler |
Irving Berlin | Irving Berlin | 1888 | 1989 | Russian | composer and lyricist, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in history | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Berlin |
Danny Elfman | Daniel Robert Elfman | 1953 | n/a | American | composer, singer, and songwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Elfman |
Joey Ramone | Jeffrey Ross Hyman | 1951 | 2001 | American | musician, singer, composer, and lead vocalist of the punk rock band the Ramones | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Ramone |
Arnold Schoenberg | Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg | 1874 | 1951 | Austrian | composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schoenberg |
Richard Rodgers | Richard Charles Rodgers | 1902 | 1979 | American | composer, known largely for his work in musical theater | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Rodgers |
Kurt Weill | Kurt Julian Weill | 1900 | 1950 | German | (later American) composer, active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Weill |
Randy Newman | Randall Stuart Newman | 1943 | n/a | American | singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist known for his Southern-accented singing style, early Americana-influenced soul songs (often with mordant or satirical lyrics), and various film scores | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Newman |
Aaron Copland | Aaron Copland | 1900 | 1990 | American | composer, composition teacher, writer, and later a conductor of his own and other American music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Copland |
Burt Bacharach | Burt Freeman Bacharach | 1928 | n/a | American | composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist who composed hundreds of pop songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s, many in collaboration with lyricist Hal David | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Bacharach |
Arthur Schwartz | Arthur Schwartz | 1900 | 1984 | American | composer and film producer, widely noted for his songwriting collaborations with Howard Dietz | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schwartz |
Ira Gershwin | Ira Gershwin | 1896 | 1983 | American | lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs in the English language of the 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Gershwin |
Stephen Sondheim | Stephen Joshua Sondheim | 1930 | 2021 | American | composer and lyricist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Sondheim |
James Horner | James Roy Horner | 1953 | 2015 | American | composer, conductor, and orchestrator of film scores | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Horner |
Steve Reich | Stephen Michael Reich | 1936 | n/a | American | composer known for his contribution to the development of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Reich |
Chuck Lorre | Charles Michael Lorre | 1952 | n/a | American | television director, writer, producer, composer and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Lorre |
Jerome Kern | Jerome David Kern | 1885 | 1945 | American | composer of musical theatre and popular music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Kern |
John Zorn | John Zorn | 1953 | n/a | American | composer, conductor, saxophonist, arranger and producer who "deliberately resists category" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Zorn |
J. J. Abrams | Jeffrey Jacob Abrams | 1966 | n/a | American | filmmaker and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Abrams |
Harold Arlen | Harold Arlen | 1905 | 1986 | American | composer of popular music, who composed over 500 songs, a number of which have become known worldwide | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Arlen |
Johann Strauss II | Johann Baptist Strauss II | 1825 | 1899 | Austrian | composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Strauss_II |
Jacques Offenbach | Jacques Offenbach | 1819 | 1880 | German | composer, cellist and impresario of the Romantic period | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Offenbach |
Howard Shore | Howard Leslie Shore | 1946 | n/a | Canadian | composer and conductor noted for his film scores | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Shore |
Samuel Gold | Samuel Gold | 1835 | 1920 | Hungarian | physician, journalist and composer of chess problems | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Gold |
Jule Styne | Jule Styne | 1905 | 1994 | English | songwriter and composer best known for a series of Broadway musicals, including several famous frequently-revived shows that also became successful films: Gypsy, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Funny Girl | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jule_Styne |
Jerry Goldsmith | Jerrald King Goldsmith | 1929 | 2004 | American | composer and conductor known for his work in film and television scoring | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Goldsmith |
Stanley Black | Stanley Black OBE | 1913 | 2002 | English | bandleader, composer, conductor, arranger and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Black |
Victor Young | Albert Victor Young | 1899 | 1956 | American | composer, arranger, violinist and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Young |
André Previn | André George Previn | 1929 | 2019 | German | pianist, composer, and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Previn |
Robbie Robertson | Jaime Royal "Robbie" Robertson, OC | 1943 | n/a | Canadian | musician, songwriter, film composer, producer, actor, and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Robertson |
Mel Tormé | Melvin Howard Tormé | 1925 | 1999 | American | musician, singer, composer, arranger, drummer, actor, and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Tormé |
Darius Milhaud | Darius Milhaud | 1892 | 1974 | French | composer, conductor, and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_Milhaud |
Raymond Scott | Raymond Scott | 1908 | 1994 | American | composer, band leader, pianist, record producer, and inventor of electronic instruments | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Scott |
Elmer Bernstein | Elmer Bernstein | 1922 | 2004 | American | composer and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Bernstein |
Vladimir Horowitz | Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz | 1989 | n/a | Russian | classical pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Horowitz |
Neil Sedaka | Neil Sedaka | 1939 | n/a | American | pop singer, pianist, composer, and record producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Sedaka |
Lalo Schifrin | Boris Claudio "Lalo" Schifrin | 1932 | n/a | Argentine | pianist, composer, arranger and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lalo_Schifrin |
Johnny Green | John Waldo Green | 1908 | 1989 | American | songwriter, composer, musical arranger, conductor and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Green |
Richard Band | Richard Howard Band | null | null | American | composer of film music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Band |
György Ligeti | György Sándor Ligeti | 1923 | 2006 | Hungarian | composer of contemporary classical music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/György_Ligeti |
Paul Shaffer | Paul Allen Wood Shaffer | 1949 | n/a | Canadian | singer, composer, actor, author, comedian, and multi-instrumentalist who served as David Letterman's musical director, band leader, and sidekick on the entire run of both Late Night with David Letterman (1982–1993) and Late Show with David Letterman (1993–2015) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Shaffer |
Disco D | David Aaron Shayman | 1980 | 2007 | American | record producer and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_D |
Giacomo Meyerbeer | Giacomo Meyerbeer | 1791 | 1864 | German | opera composer of Jewish birth, "the most frequently performed opera composer during the nineteenth century, linking Mozart and Wagner" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Meyerbeer |
Artie Shaw | Artie Shaw | 1910 | 2004 | American | clarinetist, composer, bandleader, actor and author of both fiction and non-fiction | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artie_Shaw |
James Newton Howard | James Newton Howard | 1951 | n/a | American | composer, conductor, and record producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Newton_Howard |
Max Steiner | Maximilian Raoul Steiner | 1888 | 1971 | Austrian | music composer for theatre and films, as well as a conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Steiner |
Michael Nyman | Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE | 1944 | n/a | English | composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for numerous film scores (many written during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway), and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Nyman |
Oneohtrix Point Never | Daniel Lopatin | 1982 | n/a | American | experimental electronic music producer, composer, singer and songwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneohtrix_Point_Never |
Alan Menken | Alan Irwin Menken | 1949 | n/a | American | composer, songwriter, conductor, music director and record producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Menken |
Christopher Guest | Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest | 1948 | n/a | American | screenwriter, composer, musician, director, actor, and comedian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Guest |
Friz Freleng | Isadore "Friz" Freleng | 1905 | 1995 | American | animator, cartoonist, director, producer, and composer known for his work at Warner Bros | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friz_Freleng |
Bernard Herrmann | Bernard Herrmann | 1911 | 1975 | American | composer and conductor best known for his work in composing for films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Herrmann |
Lee Konitz | Leon Konitz | 1927 | 2020 | American | composer and alto saxophonist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Konitz |
Tony Levin | Anthony Frederick Levin | 1946 | n/a | American | musician and composer, specializing in electric bass, Chapman Stick and upright bass | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Levin |
Marvin Hamlisch | Marvin Frederick Hamlisch | 1944 | 2012 | American | composer and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Hamlisch |
Christopher Cross | Christopher Cross | 1951 | n/a | American | singer, songwriter, musician, and composer from San Antonio, Texas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Cross |
Al Hoffman | Al Hoffman | 1902 | 1960 | American | song composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Hoffman |
Jim Steinman | James Richard Steinman | 1947 | 2021 | American | composer, lyricist, record producer, and playwright | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Steinman |
Robert Mann | Robert Nathaniel Mann | 1920 | 2018 | null | violinist, composer, conductor, and founding member of the Juilliard String Quartet, as well as a faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mann |
Jay Livingston | Jay Livingston | 1915 | 2001 | American | composer best known as half of a song-writing duo with Ray Evans that specialized in songs composed for films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Livingston |
Mack Gordon | Mack Gordon | 1904 | 1959 | American | composer and lyricist for the stage and film | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mack_Gordon |
Alfred Schnittke | Alfred Garrievich Schnittke | 1934 | 1998 | Russian | composer of Jewish-German descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Schnittke |
Jaron Lanier | Jaron Zepel Lanier | 1960 | n/a | American | computer scientist, visual artist, computer philosophy writer, technologist, futurist, and composer of contemporary classical music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaron_Lanier |
Harry Connick Jr. | Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Jr. | 1967 | n/a | American | singer, pianist, composer, actor, and television host | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Connick_Jr. |
Charles Cohen | Charles Cohen | 1945 | 2017 | null | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area-based free jazz musician and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Cohen |
Michael Isaacson | Michael Isaacson | 1946 | n/a | null | composer of Jewish synagogue music, and one of the originators of the Jewish camp song movement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Isaacson |
Misha Mansoor | Misha Mansoor | 1984 | n/a | American | guitarist, businessman, entrepreneur, composer, songwriter, and music producer, best known as the founder of and one of the three guitarists in the progressive metal band Periphery | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misha_Mansoor |
Jordan Rudess | Jordan Rudess | 1956 | n/a | American | keyboardist and composer best known as a member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater and the progressive metal supergroup Liquid Tension Experiment | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Rudess |
Dave Grusin | Robert David Grusin | 1934 | n/a | American | composer, arranger, producer, and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Grusin |
Joseph Joachim | Joseph Joachim | 1831 | 1907 | Hungarian | violinist, conductor, composer and teacher who made an international career, based in Hanover and Berlin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Joachim |
Johnny Mandel | John Alfred Mandel | 1925 | 2020 | American | composer and arranger of popular songs, film music and jazz | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mandel |
Frederick Loewe | Frederick Loewe | null | null | Austrian | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Loewe |
Michael Kamen | Michael Arnold Kamen | 1948 | 2003 | American | composer (especially of film scores), orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, songwriter, and session musician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kamen |
Cy Coleman | Cy Coleman | 1929 | 2004 | American | composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cy_Coleman |
Sammy Fain | Sammy Fain | 1902 | 1989 | American | composer of popular music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammy_Fain |
Johann Strauss I | Johann Baptist Strauss I | 1804 | 1849 | Austrian | composer of the Romantic Period | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Strauss_I |
Stephen Schwartz (composer) | Stephen Lawrence Schwartz | 1948 | n/a | American | musical theater lyricist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Schwartz_(composer) |
Yip Harburg | Edgar Yipsel Harburg | 1896 | 1981 | American | popular song lyricist and librettist who worked with many well-known composers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yip_Harburg |
Leo Robin | Leo Robin | 1900 | 1984 | American | composer, lyricist and songwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Robin |
Thomas Newman | Thomas Montgomery Newman | 1955 | n/a | American | composer best known for his many film scores | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Newman |
Josef Strauss | Josef Strauss | 1827 | 1870 | Austrian | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Strauss |
Anton Rubinstein | Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein | null | null | Russian | pianist, composer and conductor who became a pivotal figure in Russian culture when he founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Rubinstein |
Bruno Walter | Bruno Walter | 1876 | 1962 | German | conductor, pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Walter |
Marc Shaiman | Marc Shaiman | 1959 | n/a | American | composer and lyricist for films, television, and theatre, best known for his collaborations with lyricist and director Scott Wittman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Shaiman |
John Kander | John Harold Kander | 1927 | n/a | American | composer, known largely for his work in the musical theater | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kander |
Fritz Kreisler | Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler | 1875 | 1962 | Austrian | violinist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Kreisler |
Erich Wolfgang Korngold | Erich Wolfgang Korngold | 1897 | 1957 | Austrian | composer and conductor who, having lost his Austrian nationality, adopted US citizenship | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Wolfgang_Korngold |
Alfred Newman (composer) | Alfred Newman | 1900 | 1970 | American | composer, arranger, and conductor of film music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Newman_(composer) |
Paul Dukas | Paul Abraham Dukas | 1865 | 1935 | French | composer, critic, scholar and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dukas |
Otto Klemperer | Otto Nossan Klemperer | 1885 | 1973 | German | orchestral conductor and composer, described as "the last of the few really great conductors of his generation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Klemperer |
Thomas Bangalter | Thomas Bangalter | 1975 | n/a | French | musician, record producer, singer, songwriter, DJ, and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bangalter |
Sigmund Romberg | Sigmund Romberg | 1887 | 1951 | Hungarian | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Romberg |
Shuki Levy | Shuki Levy | 1947 | n/a | Israeli | music composer and television producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuki_Levy |
Milton Babbitt | Milton Byron Babbitt | 1916 | 2011 | American | composer, music theorist, mathematician, and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Babbitt |
Dimitri Tiomkin | Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin | 1894 | 1979 | Russian | film composer and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitri_Tiomkin |
John Corigliano | John Paul Corigliano | 1938 | n/a | American | composer of contemporary classical music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Corigliano |
Burton Lane | Burton Lane | 1912 | 1997 | American | composer and lyricist primarily known for his theatre and film scores | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burton_Lane |
Jerry Bock | Jerrold Lewis Bock | 1928 | 2010 | American | musical theater composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Bock |
Leonard Feather | Leonard Geoffrey Feather | 1914 | 1994 | British | jazz pianist, composer, and producer, who was best known for his music journalism and other writing | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Feather |
William Schuman | William Howard Schuman | 1910 | 1992 | American | composer and arts administrator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Schuman |
Morton Feldman | Morton Feldman | 1926 | 1987 | American | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Feldman |
Michael Tilson Thomas | Michael Tilson Thomas | 1944 | n/a | American | conductor, pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Tilson_Thomas |
Jerry Herman | Gerald Sheldon Herman | 1931 | 2019 | American | composer and lyricist, known for his work in Broadway musical theater | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Herman |
Lionel Bart | Lionel Bart | 1930 | 1999 | British | writer and composer of pop music and musicals | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Bart |
Leonard Slatkin | Leonard Edward Slatkin | 1944 | n/a | American | conductor, author and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Slatkin |
Fred Ebb | Fred Ebb | 1928 | 2004 | American | musical theatre lyricist who had many successful collaborations with composer John Kander | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Ebb |
Mike Bloomfield | Michael Bernard Bloomfield | 1943 | 1981 | American | guitarist and composer, born in Chicago, Illinois, who became one of the first popular music superstars of the 1960s to earn his reputation almost entirely on his instrumental prowess, as he rarely sang before 1969 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Bloomfield |
Sheldon Harnick | Sheldon Mayer Harnick | 1924 | n/a | American | lyricist and songwriter best known for his collaborations with composer Jerry Bock on musicals such as Fiorello! and Fiddler on the Roof | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Harnick |
Joshua Redman | Joshua Redman | 1969 | n/a | American | jazz saxophonist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Redman |
Franz Waxman | Franz Waxman | 1906 | 1967 | German | composer and conductor of Jewish descent, known primarily for his work in the film music genre | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Waxman |
Leo Low | Leo Low (born Moshe Leib Liow; 15 January 1878, Wolkowysk, Grodno Governorate – 5 October 1960, New York City) | 1878 | 1960 | null | Jewish choral conductor, composer, arranger, teacher and lecturer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Low |
Percy Faith | Percy Faith | 1908 | 1976 | Canadian | bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor, known for his lush arrangements of pop and Christmas standards | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Faith |
Randy Edelman | Randy Edelman | 1947 | n/a | American | musician, producer, and composer for film and television | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Edelman |
Jimmy Pop | James Moyer Franks | 1972 | n/a | American | retired rapper, singer, musician, and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Pop |
Ernest Bloch | Ernest Bloch | 1880 | 1959 | Swiss | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Bloch |
Serge Koussevitzky | Serge Alexandrovich KoussevitzkyKoussevitzky's | null | null | Russian | conductor, composer and double-bassist, known for his long tenure as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1924 to 1949 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Koussevitzky |
Fromental Halévy | Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy, usually known as Fromental Halévy | 1799 | 1862 | French | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fromental_Halévy |
Miklós Rózsa | Miklós Rózsa | 1907 | 1995 | Hungarian | composer trained in Germany (1925–1931) and active in France (1931–1935), the United Kingdom (1935–1940), and the United States (1940–1995), with extensive sojourns in Italy from 1953 onward | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miklós_Rózsa |
Alex North | Alex North | 1910 | 1991 | American | composer best known for his many film scores, including A Streetcar Named Desire (one of the first jazz-based film scores), Viva Zapata!, Spartacus, Cleopatra, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? He was the first composer to receive an Honorary Academy Award, but never won a competitive Oscar despite fifteen nominations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_North |
Trevor Rabin | Trevor Charles Rabin | null | null | South African | musician, singer-songwriter, producer, and film composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Rabin |
Marc Blitzstein | Marcus Samuel Blitzstein | 1905 | 1964 | American | composer, lyricist, and librettist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Blitzstein |
Murray Gold | Murray Jonathan Gold | 1969 | n/a | English | composer for stage, film, and television and a dramatist for both theatre and radio | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Gold |
Charles-Valentin Alkan | Charles-Valentin Alkan | 1813 | 1888 | French | Jewish composer and virtuoso pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles-Valentin_Alkan |
Theodore Bikel | Theodore Meir Bikel | 1924 | 2015 | Austrian | actor, folk singer, musician, composer, unionist, and political activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Bikel |
Charles Strouse | Charles Strouse | 1928 | n/a | American | composer and lyricist best known for writing the music to such Broadway musicals as Bye Bye Birdie, Applause, and Annie | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Strouse |
Max Brod | Max Brod | 1884 | 1968 | Czech | German-speaking Jewish, later Israeli, author, composer, and journalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Brod |
Irving Caesar | Irving Caesar | 1895 | 1996 | American | lyricist and theater composer who wrote lyrics for numerous song standards, including "Swanee", "Sometimes I'm Happy", "Crazy Rhythm", and "Tea for Two", one of the most frequently recorded tunes ever written | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Caesar |
Al Cohn | Al Cohn (November 24, 1925 – February 15, 1988) | 1925 | 1988 | American | jazz saxophonist, arranger and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Cohn |
George Szell | George Szell | 1897 | 1970 | Hungarian | conductor and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Szell |
Oscar Levant | Oscar Levant | 1906 | 1972 | American | concert pianist, composer, music conductor, author, radio game show panelist, television talk show host, comedian and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Levant |
Robby Benson | Robby Benson | 1956 | n/a | American | actor, singer, composer, teacher, and filmmaker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robby_Benson |
Artur Schnabel | Artur Schnabel | 1882 | 1951 | Austrian | classical pianist, composer and pedagogue | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artur_Schnabel |
Mauricio Kagel | Mauricio Raúl Kagel | 1931 | 2008 | Argentine | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauricio_Kagel |
Lenny Kaye | Lenny Kaye | 1946 | n/a | American | guitarist, composer, and writer who is best known as a member of the Patti Smith Group | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Kaye |
Elliot Goldenthal | Elliot Goldenthal | 1954 | n/a | American | composer of contemporary classical music and film and theatrical scores | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot_Goldenthal |
Robert Wells (songwriter) | Robert Wells | 1922 | 1998 | American | songwriter, composer, script writer and television producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wells_(songwriter) |
Morton Gould | Morton Gould | 1913 | 1996 | American | composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Gould |
Joseph Kosma | Joseph Kosma | 1905 | 1969 | Hungarian | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kosma |
Peter Tork | Peter Halsten Thorkelson | 1942 | 2019 | American | musician, composer, and actor who was best known as the keyboardist and bass guitarist of the Monkees and a co-star of the TV series The Monkees (1966–1968) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Tork |
Ariel Zilber | Ariel Zilber | 1943 | n/a | Israeli | singer-songwriter and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Zilber |
Lukas Foss | Lukas Foss | 1922 | 2009 | German | composer, pianist, and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukas_Foss |
Richard Robert | Richard Robert | 1861 | 1924 | Austrian | pianist, composer, music critic, and music administrator, but he is most notable as a pedagogue in piano, composition and conducting | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Robert |
Leopold Godowsky | Leopold Godowsky | 1870 | 1938 | Russian | virtuoso pianist, composer and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Godowsky |
Felix Bernard | Felix William Bernard | 1897 | 1944 | American | conductor, pianist and a composer of popular music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Bernard |
Gerald Finzi | Gerald Raphael Finzi | 1901 | 1956 | British | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Finzi |
Meredith Monk | Meredith Jane Monk | 1942 | n/a | American | composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_Monk |
Jeff Lorber | Jeffrey H. Lorber | 1952 | n/a | American | keyboardist, composer, and record producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Lorber |
Claude-Michel Schönberg | Claude-Michel Schönberg | 1944 | n/a | French | record producer, actor, singer, songwriter, and musical theatre composer, best known for his collaborations with lyricist Alain Boublil | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude-Michel_Schönberg |
Michael Masser | Michael William Masser | 1941 | 2015 | American | songwriter, composer and producer of popular music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Masser |
Harry Ruby | Harry Rubenstein | 1895 | 1974 | American | actor, pianist, composer, songwriter and screenwriter, who was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Ruby |
Vivian Kubrick | Vivian Vanessa Kubrick | 1960 | n/a | American | filmmaker and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Kubrick |
David Shire | David Lee Shire | 1937 | n/a | American | songwriter and composer of stage musicals, film and television scores | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shire |
Mariss Jansons | Mariss Ivars Georgs Jansons | 1943 | 2019 | Latvian | conductor best known for his interpretations of Mahler, Strauss and Russian composers such as Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariss_Jansons |
Ignaz Moscheles | Isaac Ignaz Moscheles | 1794 | 1870 | Bohemian | piano virtuoso and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Moscheles |
Walter Kent | Walter Kent | 1911 | 1994 | American | composer and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Kent |
Alain Boublil | Alain Boublil | 1941 | n/a | French | musical theatre lyricist and librettist, best known for his collaborations with the composer Claude-Michel Schönberg for musicals on Broadway and London's West End | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Boublil |
Shlomo Bar | Shlomo Bar | 1943 | n/a | Israeli | musician, composer, and social activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Bar |
Reynaldo Hahn | Reynaldo Hahn | 1874 | 1947 | Venezuelan | composer, conductor, music critic, and singer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynaldo_Hahn |
Louis Moreau Gottschalk | Louis Moreau Gottschalk | 1829 | 1869 | American | composer and pianist, best known as a virtuoso performer of his own romantic piano works | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Moreau_Gottschalk |
Carl Davis | Carl Davis | 1936 | n/a | American | conductor and composer who has made his home in the United Kingdom since 1961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Davis |
Jonathan Larson | Jonathan David Larson | 1960 | 1996 | American | composer, lyricist and playwright who explored the social issues of multiculturalism, addiction, and homophobia in his work | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Larson |
Walter Damrosch | Walter Johannes Damrosch | 1862 | 1950 | German | conductor and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Damrosch |
Bronisław Kaper | Bronisław Kaper | 1902 | 1983 | Polish | film composer who scored films and musical theater in Germany, France, and the USA. The American immigration authorities misspelled his name as Bronislau Kaper | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronisław_Kaper |
Nicolas Slonimsky | Nicolas Slonimsky | none | 1995 | Russian | conductor, author, pianist, composer and lexicographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Slonimsky |
Charles Fox (composer) | Charles Ira Fox | 1940 | n/a | American | composer for film and television | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fox_(composer) |
David Newman (composer) | David Louis Newman | 1954 | n/a | American | composer and conductor known particularly for his film scores | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Newman_(composer) |
Frederic Rzewski | Frederic Anthony Rzewski | 1938 | 2021 | American | composer and pianist who is considered to be an American one of the most important composer-pianists of his time | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Rzewski |
Jimmie Haskell | Jimmie Haskell | 1926 | 2016 | American | composer and arranger for motion pictures and a wide variety of popular artists, including Elvis Presley, Neil Diamond, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Steely Dan, Billy Joel, and the Everly Brothers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmie_Haskell |
Allie Wrubel | Elias Paul "Allie" Wrubel | 1905 | 1973 | American | composer and songwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allie_Wrubel |
Alexander von Zemlinsky | Alexander Zemlinsky or Alexander von Zemlinsky | 1871 | 1942 | Austrian | composer, conductor, and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Zemlinsky |
Arthur Benjamin | Arthur Leslie Benjamin | 1893 | 1960 | Australian | composer, pianist, conductor and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Benjamin |
Richard Adler | Richard Adler | 1921 | 2012 | American | lyricist, writer, composer and producer of several Broadway shows | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Adler |
Ron Moody | Ron Moody | 1924 | 2015 | English | actor, composer, singer and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Moody |
Henryk Wieniawski | Henryk Wieniawski | 1835 | 1880 | Polish | virtuoso violinist, composer and pedagogue who is regarded amongst the greatest violinists in history | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Wieniawski |
György Kurtág | György Kurtág | 1926 | n/a | Hungarian | classical composer and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/György_Kurtág |
John Barnett | John Barnett | 1802 | 1890 | English | composer and writer on music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barnett |
Ari Folman | Ari Folman | 1962 | n/a | Israeli | film director, screenwriter, animator and film score composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ari_Folman |
Adam Schlesinger | Adam Lyons Schlesinger | 1967 | 2020 | American | musician, singer, songwriter, composer, and record producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Schlesinger |
Lew Soloff | Lewis Michael Soloff | 1944 | 2015 | American | jazz trumpeter, composer, and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Soloff |
Ludwig Minkus | Ludwig Minkus | 1826 | 1917 | Austrian | Jewish composer of ballet music, a violin virtuoso and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Minkus |
Fanny Mendelssohn | Fanny Mendelssohn | 1805 | 1847 | German | composer and pianist of the early Romantic era who was also known as Fanny (Cäcilie) Mendelssohn Bartholdy and, after her marriage, Fanny Hensel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Mendelssohn |
Max Bemis | Maxim Adam Bemis | null | null | null | lead singer, primary composer and primary lyricist of the band Say Anything | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Bemis |
John Rubinstein | John Arthur Rubinstein | 1946 | n/a | American | actor, composer and director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rubinstein |
Michael Penn | Michael Daniel Penn | 1958 | n/a | American | singer-songwriter and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Penn |
Mitch Leigh | Mitch Leigh | 1928 | 2014 | American | musical theatre composer and theatrical producer best known for the musical Man of La Mancha | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Leigh |
Władysław Szpilman | Władysław Szpilman | 1911 | 2000 | Polish | pianist and classical composer of Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Władysław_Szpilman |
Andrés Calamaro | Andrés Calamaro | 1961 | n/a | Argentine | musician, composer and Latin Grammy winner | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrés_Calamaro |
David Diamond (composer) | David Leo Diamond | 1915 | 2005 | American | composer of classical music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Diamond_(composer) |
Elliott Sharp | Elliott Sharp | 1951 | n/a | American | contemporary classical composer, multi-instrumentalist, and performer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Sharp |
Franz Schreker | Franz Schreker | 1878 | 1934 | Austrian | composer, conductor, teacher and administrator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Schreker |
Emmerich Kálmán | Emmerich Kálmán | 1882 | 1953 | Hungarian | composer of operettas and a prominent figure in the development of Viennese operetta in the 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmerich_Kálmán |
Richard Réti | Richard Selig Réti | 1889 | 1929 | null | Austrian, later Czechoslovakian chess player, chess author, and composer of endgame studies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Réti |
Joel Goldsmith | Joel King Goldsmith | 1957 | 2012 | American | composer of film, television, and video game music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Goldsmith |
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco | Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco | 1895 | 1968 | Italian | composer, pianist and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Castelnuovo-Tedesco |
Leopold Auer | Leopold von Auer | 1845 | 1930 | Hungarian | violinist, academic, conductor, composer, and instructor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Auer |
Walter Scharf | Walter Scharf | 1910 | 2003 | American | musician, best known as a film, television and concert composer and arranger/conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Scharf |
Ann Ronell | Ann Ronell | 1905 | 1993 | American | composer and lyricist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Ronell |
George Wyle | George Wyle | 1916 | 2003 | American | orchestra leader and composer best known for having written the theme song to 1960s television sitcom Gilligan's Island | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wyle |
David Lang (composer) | David Lang | 1957 | n/a | American | composer living in New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lang_(composer) |
Roy Turk | Roy Kenneth Turk | 1892 | 1934 | American | songwriter and lyricist, he frequently collaborated with composer Fred E. Ahlert – their popular 1929 song "Mean to Me" has become a jazz standard | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Turk |
Samuel Adler (composer) | Samuel Hans Adler | 1928 | n/a | American | composer, conductor, author, and professor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Adler_(composer) |
Nathaniel Shilkret | Nathaniel Shilkret | 1889 | 1982 | American | composer, conductor, clarinetist, pianist, business executive, and music director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Shilkret |
Michael Gielen | Michael Andreas Gielen | 1927 | 2019 | Austrian | conductor and composer known for promoting contemporary music in opera and concert | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gielen |
Osvaldo Golijov | Osvaldo Noé Golijov | 1960 | n/a | Argentine | composer of classical music and music professor, known for his vocal and orchestral work | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osvaldo_Golijov |
Gloria Shayne Baker | Gloria Shayne Baker | 1923 | 2008 | American | composer and songwriter best known for composing the "Do You Hear What I Hear?" Christmas carol in 1962 with her then husband, Noël Regney | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Shayne_Baker |
Saul Chaplin | Saul Chaplin | 1912 | 1997 | American | composer and musical director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Chaplin |
Bryce Dessner | Bryce David Dessner | 1976 | n/a | American | composer and guitarist based in Paris, also known as a member of the rock band the National | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryce_Dessner |
Justin Hurwitz | Justin Gabriel Hurwitz | 1985 | n/a | American | film composer and a television writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Hurwitz |
Evgeny Kissin | Evgeny Igorevich Kissin | 1971 | n/a | Russian | concert pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Kissin |
Ernest Gold (composer) | Ernst Sigmund Goldner | 1921 | 1999 | Austrian | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Gold_(composer) |
Bud Freeman | Lawrence "Bud" Freeman | 1906 | 1991 | American | jazz musician, bandleader, and composer, known mainly for playing tenor saxophone but also able at the clarinet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Freeman |
George Perle | George Perle | 1915 | 2009 | null | composer and music theorist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Perle |
Oscar Straus (composer) | Oscar Nathan Straus | 1870 | 1954 | null | Viennese composer of operettas, film scores, and songs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Straus_(composer) |
Jeanine Tesori | Jeanine Tesori | null | null | American | composer and musical arranger | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanine_Tesori |
Nikolai Rubinstein | Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein | null | null | Russian | pianist, conductor, and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Rubinstein |
Lionel Newman | Lionel Newman | 1916 | 1989 | American | conductor, pianist, and film and television composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Newman |
Alexander Goehr | Peter Alexander Goehr | 1932 | n/a | English | composer and academic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Goehr |
George Rochberg | George Rochberg | 1918 | 2005 | American | composer of contemporary classical music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Rochberg |
Friedrich Hollaender | Friedrich Hollaender | 1896 | 1976 | German | film composer and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hollaender |
Kay Thompson | Kay Thompson | 1909 | 1909 | American | author, singer, vocal arranger, vocal coach, composer, musician, dancer, actress, and choreographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Thompson |
David Amram | David Werner Amram III | 1930 | n/a | American | composer, arranger, and conductor of orchestral, chamber, and choral works, many with jazz flavorings | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Amram |
Mario Davidovsky | Mario Davidovsky | 1934 | 2019 | Argentine | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Davidovsky |
Steve Dorff | Stephen Dorff | 1949 | n/a | American | songwriter and composer whose work is mainly in the field of country music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Dorff |
Maury Yeston | Maury Yeston | 1945 | n/a | American | composer, lyricist and music theorist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maury_Yeston |
Uri Caine | Uri Caine | 1956 | n/a | American | classical and jazz pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uri_Caine |
Mort Garson | Morton Sanford Garson | 1924 | 2008 | Canadian | composer, arranger, songwriter, and pioneer of electronic music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mort_Garson |
David Axelrod (musician) | David Axelrod | 1931 | 2017 | American | composer, arranger, and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Axelrod_(musician) |
Leonard Rosenman | Leonard Rosenman | 1924 | 2008 | American | film, television and concert composer with credits in over 130 works, including Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Barry Lyndon and the animated The Lord of the Rings | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Rosenman |
Milton Ager | Milton Ager | 1893 | 1979 | American | composer, regarded as one of the top songwriters of the 1920s and 1930s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Ager |
George Benjamin (composer) | Sir George William John Benjamin, CBE | 1960 | n/a | English | composer of contemporary classical music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Benjamin_(composer) |
Mieczysław Weinberg | Mieczysław Weinberg | 1919 | 1996 | null | Jewish composer from Poland who resided in the USSR. Ever since a revival concert series in the 2010 Bregenz Festival in Austria, his music has been increasingly described as "some of the most individual and compelling music of the twentieth century" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mieczysław_Weinberg |
Hy Zaret | Hy Zaret | 1907 | 2007 | American | Tin Pan Alley lyricist and composer best known as the co-author of the 1955 hit "Unchained Melody," one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hy_Zaret |
Jerry Fielding | Jerry Fielding | 1922 | 1980 | American | jazz musician, arranger, band leader, and film composer who emerged in the 1960s after a decade on the blacklist to create boldly diverse and evocative Oscar-nominated scores, primarily for gritty, often brutally savage, films in western and crime action genres, including the Sam Peckinpah movies The Wild Bunch (1969) and Straw Dogs (1971) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Fielding |
William Finn | William Alan Finn | 1952 | n/a | American | composer and lyricist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Finn |
Moritz Moszkowski | Moritz Moszkowski | 1854 | 1925 | German | composer, pianist, and teacher of Polish-Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritz_Moszkowski |
Oscar Hammerstein I | Oscar Hammerstein I | 1846 | 1919 | German | businessman, theater impresario, and composer in New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Hammerstein_I |
Fred Steiner | Frederick Steiner | 1923 | 2011 | American | composer, conductor, orchestrator, film historian and arranger for television, radio and film | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Steiner |
Efrem Zimbalist | Efrem Zimbalist Sr. | none | 1985 | null | concert violinist, composer, conductor and director of the Curtis Institute of Music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efrem_Zimbalist |
Paul Dessau | Paul Dessau | 1894 | 1979 | German | composer and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dessau |
Eddie Daniels | Eddie Daniels | 1941 | n/a | American | musician and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Daniels |
Hans J. Salter | Hans J. Salter | 1896 | 1994 | Austrian | film composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_J._Salter |
Jerry Ross (composer) | Jerry Ross | 1926 | 1955 | American | lyricist and composer whose works with Richard Adler for the musical theater include The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees, winners of Tony Awards in 1955 and 1956, respectively, in both the "Best Musical" and "Best Composer and Lyricist" categories | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Ross_(composer) |
Leo Ornstein | Leo Ornstein | none | 2002 | American | experimental composer and pianist of the early twentieth century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Ornstein |
Michael Gore | Michael Gore | 1951 | n/a | American | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gore |
Magnus Uggla | Per Allan Magnus Claësson Uggla | 1954 | n/a | Swedish | artist, composer, actor, and occasional radio host | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Uggla |
Karl Goldmark | Karl Goldmark | 1830 | 1915 | Hungarian | Viennese composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Goldmark |
Thomas Blachman | Thomas Blachman | 1963 | n/a | Danish | jazz musician, composer, and judge on the Danish version of X Factor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Blachman |
David Rose (songwriter) | David Daniel Rose | 1910 | 1990 | American | songwriter, composer, arranger, pianist, and orchestra leader | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rose_(songwriter) |
Ernst Toch | Ernst Toch | 1887 | 1964 | Austrian | composer of classical music and film scores | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Toch |
Luis Bacalov | Luis Enríquez Bacalov | 1933 | 2017 | Argentine | film composer who learned music from Enrique Barenboim, father of Daniel Barenboim the conductor of the Berlin, and Chicago orchestras, and also Berta Sujovolsky | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Bacalov |
Stefan Kisielewski | Stefan Kisielewski | 1911 | 1991 | Polish | writer, publicist, composer and politician, and one of the members of Znak, one of the founders of the Unia Polityki Realnej, the Polish libertarian and conservative political party | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Kisielewski |
Benjamin Wallfisch | Benjamin Mark Lasker Wallfisch | 1979 | n/a | British | composer, conductor, orchestrator, and producer of film scores | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Wallfisch |
Stefan Wolpe | Stefan Wolpe | 1902 | n/a | German | Jewish-American composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Wolpe |
Vatroslav Lisinski | Vatroslav Lisinski | 1819 | 1854 | Croatian | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatroslav_Lisinski |
Harold Rome | Harold Jacob "Hecky" Rome | 1908 | 1993 | American | composer, lyricist, and writer for musical theater | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Rome |
Harry Revel | Harry Revel | 1905 | 1958 | British | composer, mostly of musical theatre, working with various lyricists, notably Mack Gordon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Revel |
Mike Melvoin | Mike Melvoin | 1937 | 2012 | American | jazz pianist, composer, and arranger | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Melvoin |
Georg Kreisler | Georg Kreisler | 1922 | 2011 | Austrian | Viennese-language cabarettist, satirist, composer, and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Kreisler |
Tony Macaulay | Tony Macaulay | 1944 | n/a | English | author, composer for musical theatre, and songwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Macaulay |
Adolph Deutsch | Adolph Deutsch | 1897 | 1980 | British | composer, conductor and arranger | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Deutsch |
Jack Segal | Jack Segal | 1918 | 2005 | null | pianist and composer of American popular songs, known for writing the lyrics to Scarlet Ribbons | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Segal |
Alexandre Tansman | Alexander Tansman | 1897 | 1986 | Polish | composer, virtuoso pianist and conductor of Jewish origin, since 1938 a French citizen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Tansman |
Benjamin Frankel | Benjamin Frankel | 1906 | 1973 | British | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Frankel |
Jack Keller (songwriter) | Jack Walter Keller | 1936 | 2005 | American | composer, songwriter and record producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Keller_(songwriter) |
Viktor Ullmann | Viktor Ullmann | 1898 | 1944 | null | Silesia-born Austrian composer, conductor and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Ullmann |
Martial Solal | Martial Solal | 1927 | n/a | French | jazz pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_Solal |
Hans May | Hans May | 1886 | 1959 | Austrian | film composer who went into exile in Britain in 1936 after the Nazis came to power in his homeland, being of Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_May |
Jay Ungar | Jay Ungar | 1946 | n/a | American | folk musician and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Ungar |
Egon Wellesz | Egon Joseph Wellesz | 1885 | 1974 | null | Austrian, later British composer, teacher and musicologist, notable particularly in the field of Byzantine music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egon_Wellesz |
Jonathan Tunick | Jonathan Tunick | 1938 | n/a | American | orchestrator, musical director, and composer, and one of sixteen "EGOTs" - people to have won all four major American showbusiness awards: the Tony Awards, Academy Awards, Emmy Awards and Grammy Awards | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Tunick |
Peter Matz | Peter Matz | 1928 | 2002 | American | musician, composer, arranger and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Matz |
Mikhail Men | Mikhail Alexandrovich Men | 1960 | n/a | Russian | statesman, entrepreneur, musician, composer, producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Men |
Ferdinand Hiller | Ferdinand | 1811 | 1885 | German | composer, conductor, pianist, writer and music director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Hiller |
Richard Danielpour | Richard Danielpour | 1956 | n/a | American | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Danielpour |
Jerome Moross | Jerome Moross | 1913 | 1983 | American | composer best known for his music for film and television | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Moross |
Eduard Strauss | Eduard "Edi" Strauss | 1835 | 1916 | Austrian | composer who, together with his brothers Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss made up the Strauss musical dynasty | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Strauss |
Elena Kats-Chernin | Elena Kats-Chernin | 1957 | n/a | Soviet | pianist and composer, best known for her ballet Wild Swans | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Kats-Chernin |
George Bassman | George Bassman | 1914 | 1997 | American | composer and arranger | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bassman |
Aaron Jay Kernis | Aaron Jay Kernis | 1960 | n/a | null | Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy Award-winning American composer serving as a member of the Yale School of Music faculty | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Jay_Kernis |
Gerald Marks | Gerald Marks | 1900 | 1997 | American | composer from Saginaw, Michigan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Marks |
Seymour Simons | Seymour Simons | 1896 | 1949 | American | pianist, composer, orchestra leader, and radio producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Simons |
Leon Kirchner | Leon Kirchner | 1919 | 2009 | American | composer of contemporary classical music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Kirchner |
Benjamin Godard | Benjamin Louis Paul Godard | 1849 | 1895 | French | violinist and Romantic-era composer of Jewish extraction, best known for his opera Jocelyn | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Godard |
Josef Tal | Josef Tal | 1910 | 2008 | Israeli | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Tal |
René Leibowitz | René Leibowitz | 1913 | 1972 | null | Polish, later naturalised French, composer, conductor, music theorist and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Leibowitz |
Monty Norman | Monty Norman | 1928 | n/a | English | singer and film composer best known for composing the "James Bond Theme" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Norman |
Harry Von Tilzer | Harry Von Tilzer | null | null | American | composer, songwriter, publisher and vaudeville performer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Von_Tilzer |
Al Sherman | Avrum Sherman | 1897 | 1973 | Russian | songwriter and composer active during the Tin Pan Alley era in American music history | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Sherman |
Ferdinand David (musician) | Ferdinand Ernst Victor Carl David | 1810 | 1873 | German | virtuoso violinist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_David_(musician) |
Lew Pollack | Lew Pollack | 1895 | 1946 | American | song composer and musician active during the 1920s and the 1930s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Pollack |
Scott Putesky | Scott Mitchell Putesky | 1968 | 2017 | American | musician, songwriter, composer, visual artist, and record producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Putesky |
Lennie Niehaus | Leonard Niehaus | 1929 | 2020 | American | alto saxophonist, composer and arranger on the West Coast jazz scene | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennie_Niehaus |
Lera Auerbach | Lera Auerbach | 1973 | n/a | Soviet | classical composer and concert pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lera_Auerbach |
Laura Karpman | Laura Anne Karpman | 1959 | n/a | American | composer, whose work has included music for film, television, video games, theater, and the concert hall | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Karpman |
Lennie Hayton | Leonard George Hayton | 1908 | 1971 | American | musician, composer, conductor and arranger | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennie_Hayton |
Jacob Druckman | Jacob Raphael Druckman | 1928 | 1996 | American | composer born in Philadelphia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Druckman |
Irving Fine | Irving Gifford Fine | 1914 | 1962 | American | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Fine |
Moses de León | Moses de León | 1240 | 1305 | Spanish | rabbi and Kabbalist who is considered the composer or redactor of the Zohar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_de_León |
Mary Rodgers | Mary Rodgers | 1931 | 2014 | American | composer, author, and screenwriter, most famous for her novel Freaky Friday, which served as the basis of a 1976 film starring Jodie Foster, for which she wrote the screenplay, as well as three other versions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Rodgers |
Hans Krása | Hans Krása | 1899 | 1944 | Czech | composer, murdered during the Holocaust at Auschwitz | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Krása |
Roger Wolfe Kahn | Roger Wolfe Kahn | 1907 | 1962 | American | jazz and popular musician, composer, bandleader (Roger Wolfe Kahn and His Orchestra) and an aviator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Wolfe_Kahn |
Hugo Riesenfeld | Hugo Riesenfeld | 1879 | 1939 | Austrian | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Riesenfeld |
Andrew Lippa | Andrew Lippa | 1964 | n/a | American | composer, lyricist, book writer, performer, and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lippa |
Chaz Jankel | Charles Jeremy Jankel | 1952 | n/a | English | singer, songwriter, arranger, composer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaz_Jankel |
Iván Fischer | Iván Fischer | 1951 | n/a | Hungarian | conductor and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iván_Fischer |
Nicholas Britell | Nicholas Britell | 1980 | n/a | American | composer, pianist, and film producer based in New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Britell |
Mischa Spoliansky | Mischa Spoliansky | 1898 | 1985 | Russian | composer who lived for many years in Britain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischa_Spoliansky |
Erwin Schulhoff | Erwin Schulhoff | 1894 | 1942 | Czech | composer and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schulhoff |
Werner R. Heymann | Werner Richard Heymann | 1896 | 1961 | German | Jewish composer active in Germany and in Hollywood | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_R._Heymann |
Moe Koffman | Morris "Moe" Koffman, OC | 1928 | 2001 | Canadian | jazz saxophonist and flautist, as well as composer and arranger | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_Koffman |
Victor de Sabata | Victor de Sabata | 1892 | 1967 | Italian | conductor and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_de_Sabata |
Glenn Slater | Glenn Slater | 1968 | n/a | American | lyricist who collaborates with Alan Menken, Christopher Lennertz, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and other musical theatre composers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Slater |
Ignaz Friedman | Ignaz Friedman | null | null | Polish | pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Friedman |
Ilan Eshkeri | Ilan Eshkeri | 1977 | n/a | British | neoclassical composer known for his concert music, films scores and artist collaborations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilan_Eshkeri |
Mel Powell | Mel Powell | 1923 | 1998 | American | Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, and the founding dean of the music department at the California Institute of the Arts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Powell |
Karel Ančerl | Karel Ančerl | 1908 | 1973 | Czechoslovak | conductor and composer, renowned especially for his performances of contemporary music and for his interpretations of music by Czech composers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Ančerl |
Isaak Dunayevsky | Isaak Osipovich Dunaevskiy | 1955 | n/a | Soviet | film composer and conductor of the 1930s and 1940s, who composed music for operetta and film comedies, frequently working with the film director Grigori Aleksandrov | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaak_Dunayevsky |
Adam Guettel | Adam Guettel | 1964 | n/a | American | composer-lyricist of musical theater and opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Guettel |
David Schiff | David Schiff | 1945 | n/a | American | composer, writer and conductor whose music draws on elements of jazz, rock, and klezmer styles, showing the influence of composers as diverse as Stravinsky, Mahler, Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy and Terry Riley | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schiff |
Dave Frishberg | David Lee Frishberg | 1933 | 2021 | American | jazz pianist, vocalist, composer, and lyricist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Frishberg |
Teddy Charles | Teddy Charles | 1928 | 2012 | American | jazz musician and composer, whose instruments were the vibraphone, piano, and drums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Charles |
José Serebrier | José Serebrier | 1938 | n/a | Uruguayan | conductor and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Serebrier |
David Yazbek | David Norman Yazbek | 1961 | n/a | American | writer, musician, composer, and lyricist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Yazbek |
Nicholas Brodszky | Nicholas "Slug" Brodszky | 1905 | 1958 | null | composer of popular songs for the theatre and for films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Brodszky |
David Pomeranz | David Pomeranz | 1951 | n/a | American | singer, composer, lyricist, and writer for musical theatre | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Pomeranz |
Mort Glickman | Mort Glickman | 1898 | 1953 | American | composer of film scores | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mort_Glickman |
Sunny Skylar | Sunny Skylar | 1913 | 2009 | American | composer, singer, lyricist, and music publisher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunny_Skylar |
Ernst Fuchs (artist) | Ernst Fuchs | 1930 | 2015 | Austrian | painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, architect, stage designer, composer, poet, and one of the founders of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Fuchs_(artist) |
Alvin Curran | Alvin Curran | 1938 | n/a | American | composer, performer, improviser, sound artist, and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Curran |
Vic Schoen | Victor Schoen | 1916 | 2000 | American | bandleader, arranger, and composer whose career spanned from the 1930s until his death in 2000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Schoen |
Julius Benedict | Sir Julius Benedict | 1804 | 1885 | German | composer and conductor, resident in England for most of his career | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Benedict |
Romanos the Melodist | Romanos the Melodist | 555 | n/a | Byzantine | hymnographer and composer, who is a central early figure in the history of Byzantine music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanos_the_Melodist |
Mátyás Seiber | Mátyás György Seiber | 1905 | 1960 | Hungarian | composer who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1935 onwards | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mátyás_Seiber |
Alma Deutscher | Alma Elizabeth Deutscher | 2005 | n/a | British | composer, pianist and violinist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Deutscher |
Manuel Rosenthal | Manuel Rosenthal | 1904 | 2003 | French | composer and conductor who held leading positions with musical organizations in France and America | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Rosenthal |
Albert Hague | Albert Hague | 1920 | 2001 | German | songwriter, composer, and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hague |
Morton Stevens | Morton Stevens | 1929 | 1991 | American | film score composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Stevens |
Rolf Liebermann | Rolf Liebermann | 1910 | 1999 | Swiss | composer and music administrator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Liebermann |
Loren Bouchard | Loren Hal Bouchard | 1969 | n/a | American | animator, writer, producer, director, and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_Bouchard |
Shlomo Carlebach (musician) | Shlomo Carlebach | 1925 | 1994 | null | Jewish rabbi, religious teacher, spiritual leader, composer, and singer dubbed "the singing rabbi" during his lifetime | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Carlebach_(musician) |
Larry Sitsky | Lazar "Larry" Sitsky | 1934 | n/a | Australian | composer, pianist, and music educator and scholar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Sitsky |
Nikolai Kapustin | Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin | 1937 | 2020 | Soviet | composer and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Kapustin |
Paul Misraki | Paul Misraki | 1908 | 1998 | French | composer of popular music and film scores | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Misraki |
Ryan Shore | Ryan Shore | 1974 | n/a | Canadian | composer, songwriter, conductor, music producer, and music director for film, television, virtual reality, records, games, concerts, and theater | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Shore |
Bob Wiseman | Robert Neil "Bob" Wiseman | 1962 | n/a | null | film composer, songwriter, author and music teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Wiseman |
Joseph Brooks (songwriter) | Joseph Brooks | 1938 | 2011 | American | composer, director, producer, and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Brooks_(songwriter) |
Alexander Serov | Alexander Nikolayevich Serov | null | null | Russian | composer and music critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Serov |
David Popper | David Popper | 1843 | 1913 | Bohemian | cellist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Popper |
Van Alexander | Van Alexander | 1915 | 2015 | American | bandleader, arranger, and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Alexander |
Sammy Timberg | Samuel Timberg | 1903 | 1992 | American | musician and composer for the stage, film studios, and television | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammy_Timberg |
Richard Joseph | Richard Joseph | 1953 | 2007 | English | computer game composer, musician and sound specialist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Joseph |
Daniel Catán | Daniel Catán | 1949 | 2011 | Mexican | composer, writer and professor known particularly for his operas and his contribution of the Spanish language to the international repertory | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Catán |
Avihu Medina | Avihu Medina | 1948 | n/a | Israeli | composer, arranger, songwriter, and singer of Mediterranean Israeli music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avihu_Medina |
Henri Herz | Henri Herz | 1803 | 1888 | null | virtuoso pianist, composer and piano manufacturer, Austrian by birth and French by nationality and domicile | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Herz |
Alberto Franchetti | Alberto Franchetti | 1860 | 1942 | Italian | composer, best known for the 1902 opera Germania | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Franchetti |
Walter Goehr | Walter Goehr | 1903 | 1960 | German | composer and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Goehr |
Svika Pick | Zvika Pick | 1949 | n/a | Israeli | pop singer, songwriter, composer, and television personality | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svika_Pick |
Stephen Trask | Stephen Trask | 1966 | n/a | American | musician and composer who graduated from Wesleyan University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Trask |
Leo Fall | Leopold Fall | 1873 | 1925 | Austrian | Kapellmeister and composer of operettas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Fall |
Gideon Koren | Gideon Koren, FACMT, FRCP | 1947 | n/a | Israeli | pediatrician, clinical pharmacologist, toxicologist, and a composer of Israeli folk music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_Koren |
Gershon Kingsley | Gershon Kingsley | 1922 | 2019 | German | composer, a pioneer of electronic music and the Moog synthesizer, a partner in the electronic music duo Perrey and Kingsley, founder of the First Moog Quartet, and writer of rock-inspired compositions for Jewish religious ceremonies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gershon_Kingsley |
Lucy Simon | Lucy Simon | null | null | American | composer for the theatre and of popular songs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Simon |
Cyril Ornadel | Cyril Ornadel | 1924 | 2011 | British | conductor, songwriter and composer, chiefly in musical theatre | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Ornadel |
Harry Rosenthal | Harry Rosenthal | 1893 | 1953 | null | orchestra leader, composer, pianist and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Rosenthal |
Michael Gordon (composer) | Michael Gordon | 1956 | n/a | American | composer and co-founder of the Bang on a Can music collective and festival | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gordon_(composer) |
Isidor Philipp | Isidor Edmond Philipp | 1863 | 1958 | French | pianist, composer, and pedagogue of Hungarian Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidor_Philipp |
Hugo Weisgall | Hugo David Weisgall | 1912 | 1997 | American | composer and conductor, known chiefly for his opera and vocal music compositions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Weisgall |
Lex van Delden | Lex van Delden | 1919 | 1988 | Dutch | composer, and the father of actor Lex van Delden | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_van_Delden |
Edward Kleban | Edward “Ed” Kleban | 1939 | 1987 | American | musical theatre composer and lyricist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Kleban |
Salomon Jadassohn | Salomon Jadassohn | 1831 | 1902 | German | pianist, composer and a renowned teacher of piano and composition at the Leipzig Conservatory | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salomon_Jadassohn |
Ezra Laderman | Ezra Laderman | 1924 | 2015 | American | composer of classical music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Laderman |
Joseph Schillinger | Joseph Moiseyevich Schillinger | null | null | null | composer, music theorist, and composition teacher who originated the Schillinger System of Musical Composition | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Schillinger |
Marcus Paus | Marcus Nicolay Paus | 1979 | n/a | Norwegian | composer and one of the most performed contemporary Scandinavian composers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Paus |
Hans Gál | Hans Gál OBE | 1890 | 1987 | Austrian | composer, pedagogue, musicologist, and author, who emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1938 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Gál |
Landon Ronald | Sir Landon Ronald | 1873 | 1938 | English | conductor, composer, pianist, teacher and administrator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landon_Ronald |
Edward Solomon | Edward Solomon | 1855 | 1895 | English | composer, conductor, orchestrator and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Solomon |
William Weiner | William Weiner | 1955 | n/a | Armenian | composer, violinist and vocalist; Meritorious Worker of Art of Armenia (2008); a member of the Israel Composers League (2013); president of the Jewish cultural center "Menorah" in Armenia (1994), and director of the Yerevan State Chamber Choir (2018) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Weiner |
Avishai Cohen (bassist) | Avishai Cohen | 1970 | n/a | Israeli | jazz double bassist, composer, singer, and arranger | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avishai_Cohen_(bassist) |
Isaac Nathan | Isaac Nathan | 1864 | n/a | English | composer, musicologist, journalist and self-publicist, who has been called the "father of Australian music" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Nathan |
Peter Lieberson | Peter Goddard Lieberson | 1946 | 2011 | American | classical composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lieberson |
Walter Jurmann | Walter Jurmann | 1903 | 1971 | Austrian | composer of popular music renowned for his versatility who, after emigrating to the United States, specialized in film scores and soundtracks | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Jurmann |
Keren Ann | Keren Ann Zeidel | 1974 | n/a | Israeli | singer, songwriter, composer, producer, and engineer based largely in Paris, Tel Aviv, and New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keren_Ann |
Bernard Rogers | Bernard Rogers | 1893 | 1968 | American | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Rogers |
Jeff Blumenkrantz | Jeff Blumenkrantz | 1965 | n/a | American | actor, composer and lyricist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Blumenkrantz |
David D'Or | David D'Or | 1965 | n/a | Israeli | singer, composer, and songwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_D'Or |
John Weinzweig | John Jacob Weinzweig | 1913 | 2006 | Canadian | composer of classical music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Weinzweig |
Myra Melford | Myra Melford | 1957 | n/a | American | avant-garde jazz pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myra_Melford |
Louis Gruenberg | Louis Gruenberg | 1964 | n/a | Russian | pianist and prolific composer, especially of operas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Gruenberg |
Felix Blumenfeld | Felix Mikhailovich Blumenfeld | none | 1931 | Russian | composer, conductor of the Imperial Opera St-Petersburg, pianist, and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Blumenfeld |
Paul Kletzki | Paul Kletzki | 1900 | 1973 | Polish | conductor and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kletzki |
George Henschel | Sir Isidor George Henschel | 1850 | 1934 | German | baritone, pianist, conductor, and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Henschel |
Pavel Haas | Pavel Haas | 1899 | 1944 | Czech | composer who was murdered during the Holocaust | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Haas |
Sylvia Fine | Sylvia Fine Kaye | 1913 | 1991 | American | lyricist, composer, and producer, and the wife of the comedian Danny Kaye | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Fine |
Paul Ben-Haim | Paul Ben-Haim (or Paul Ben-Chaim, Hebrew: פאול בן חיים) | 1897 | 1984 | Israeli | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ben-Haim |
Walter Braunfels | Walter Braunfels | 1882 | 1954 | German | composer, pianist, and music educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Braunfels |
Sholom Secunda | Sholom Secunda | 1974 | n/a | American | composer of Ukrainian-Jewish descent, best known for the tunes of Bei Mir Bistu Shein and Donna Donna | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholom_Secunda |
Chuck Israels | Charles H. Israels | 1936 | n/a | American | jazz composer, arranger, and bassist who is best known for his work with the Bill Evans Trio | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Israels |
Sol Kaplan | Sol Kaplan | 1919 | 1990 | American | film and television music composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Kaplan |
David Hein | David Hein | null | null | Canadian | librettist, composer-lyricist, musician, and actor best known for co-writing the Broadway musical Come from Away with his writing partner and wife, Irene Sankoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hein |
Josef Goldstein | Josef Goldstein | 1836 | 1899 | Austrian | cantor and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Goldstein |
Juan del Encina | Juan del Encina | 1468 | 1529 | null | composer, poet, and playwright, often called the founder, along with Gil Vicente, of Iberian drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_del_Encina |
Frederic Hymen Cowen | Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen | 1852 | 1935 | English | composer, conductor and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Hymen_Cowen |
Tom Glazer | Thomas Zachariah Glazer | 1914 | 2003 | American | folk singer and songwriter known primarily as a composer of ballads, including: "Because All Men Are Brothers", recorded by The Weavers and Peter, Paul and Mary, "Talking Inflation Blues", recorded by Bob Dylan, and "A Dollar Ain't A Dollar Anymore" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Glazer |
Doron Medalie | Doron Medalie | 1977 | n/a | Israeli | songwriter, composer and artistic director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doron_Medalie |
Estelle Liebling | Estelle Liebling | 1880 | 1970 | American | soprano, composer, arranger, music editor, and celebrated voice teacher and vocal coach | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estelle_Liebling |
Irving Taylor (songwriter) | Irving Taylor | 1914 | 1983 | American | composer, lyricist, and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Taylor_(songwriter) |
Babydaddy | Scott Hoffman | 1976 | n/a | American | musician and the Ivor Novello Award-winning multi-instrumentalist, backing vocalist and composer for the U.S. glam rock band, Scissor Sisters | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babydaddy |
Ernest Reyer | Louis Étienne Ernest Reyer | 1823 | 1909 | French | opera composer and music critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Reyer |
Jay Beckenstein | Jay Barnet Beckenstein | 1951 | n/a | American | saxophonist, composer, producer, and the co-founder of the band Spyro Gyra | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Beckenstein |
Eduard Steuermann | Eduard Steuermann | 1892 | 1964 | Austrian | (and later American) pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Steuermann |
Andrew Weiss (guitarist) | Andrew Weiss | null | null | American | musician, composer, audio engineer and Grammy-winning record producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Weiss_(guitarist) |
Alexander Gradsky | Alexander Borisovich Gradsky | 1949 | 2021 | Russian | rock singer, bard, multi-instrumentalist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Gradsky |
Chava Alberstein | Chava Alberstein | 1946 | n/a | Israeli | musician, lyricist, composer, and musical arranger | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chava_Alberstein |
Chester Kallman | Chester Simon Kallman | 1921 | 1975 | American | poet, librettist, and translator, best known for collaborating with W. H. Auden on opera librettos for Igor Stravinsky and other composers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Kallman |
Thijs van Leer | Thijs van Leer | 1948 | n/a | Dutch | musician, singer, songwriter, composer and producer, best known as the founding member of the rock band Focus as its primary vocalist, keyboardist, and flautist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thijs_van_Leer |
Joseph Horovitz | Joseph Horovitz | 1926 | 2022 | Austrian | composer and conductor best known for his 1970 pop cantata Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo, which achieved widespread popularity in schools | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Horovitz |
Robert Saxton | Robert Saxton | 1953 | n/a | British | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Saxton |
Grzegorz Fitelberg | Grzegorz Fitelberg | 1879 | 1953 | Polish | conductor, violinist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grzegorz_Fitelberg |
Harold Shapero | Harold Samuel Shapero | 1920 | 2013 | American | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shapero |
Berthold Goldschmidt | Berthold Goldschmidt | 1903 | 1996 | German | Jewish composer who spent most of his life in England | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold_Goldschmidt |
Ossip Gabrilowitsch | Ossip Salomonovich Gabrilowitsch | null | null | Russian | pianist, conductor and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossip_Gabrilowitsch |
Iván Erőd | Iván Erőd | 1936 | 2019 | Hungarian | composer and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iván_Erőd |
Igor Krutoy | Igor Yakovlevich Krutoy | 1954 | n/a | Ukrainian | music composer, performer, producer and musical promoter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Krutoy |
Louis Applebaum | Louis Applebaum | 1918 | 2000 | Canadian | film score composer, administrator, and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Applebaum |
Anna Waronker | Anna Jeanette Waronker | 1972 | n/a | null | singer/songwriter, composer, and producer best known as the frontwoman of That Dog | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Waronker |
Anton Kuerti | Anton Emil Kuerti, OC | 1938 | n/a | Austrian | pianist, music teacher, composer, and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Kuerti |
Ned Rothenberg | Ned Rothenberg | 1956 | n/a | American | multi-instrumentalist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Rothenberg |
Robert Greenberg | Robert M. Greenberg | 1954 | n/a | American | composer, pianist, and musicologist who was born in Brooklyn, New York | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Greenberg |
Ingolf Dahl | Ingolf Dahl | 1912 | 1970 | German | composer, pianist, conductor, and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingolf_Dahl |
Ralph Shapey | Ralph Shapey | 1921 | 2002 | American | composer and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Shapey |
Maurice Ohana | Maurice Ohana | 1913 | 1992 | French | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Ohana |
Luigi Arditi | Luigi Arditi | 1822 | 1903 | Italian | violinist, composer and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Arditi |
Lou Handman | Lou Handman | 1894 | 1956 | American | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Handman |
Émile Waldteufel | Charles Émile Waldteufel | 1837 | 1915 | French | pianist, conductor and composer known for his numerous popular salon pieces | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Émile_Waldteufel |
Julian Nott | Julian Franklin Keith Nott | 1960 | n/a | British | film composer and conductor, mostly of animated films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Nott |
Andy Narell | Andy Narell | 1954 | n/a | American | jazz steel pannist, composer and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Narell |
Tony Crombie | Anthony John Kronenberg | 1925 | 1999 | English | jazz drummer, pianist, bandleader, and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Crombie |
Leo Friedman | Leo Friedman | 1869 | 1927 | American | composer of popular music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Friedman |
William Kraft | William Kraft | 1923 | 2022 | American | composer, conductor, teacher, timpanist, and percussionist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kraft |
Edwin Franko Goldman | Edwin Franko Goldman | 1878 | 1956 | American | composer and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Franko_Goldman |
Moriz Rosenthal | Moriz Rosenthal | 1862 | 1946 | Polish | pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moriz_Rosenthal |
André Gedalge | André Gedalge | 1856 | 1926 | null | influential French composer and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Gedalge |
Ninet Tayeb | Nati Ninet Tayeb | 1983 | n/a | Israeli | musician, singer-songwriter, composer, DJ, model, actress, and a reality television program judge in Rising Star: Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninet_Tayeb |
Sam Rosenthal | Sam Rosenthal | null | null | American | musician, composer, artist, and novelist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Rosenthal |
Salamone Rossi | Salamone Rossi or Salomone Rossi | 1570 | 1630 | Italian | Jewish violinist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salamone_Rossi |
Matt Schwartz | Matt Schwartz | 1971 | n/a | Israeli | record producer, songwriter, composer, arranger, programmer, sound engineer, mixing engineer and DJ. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Schwartz |
Bart Berman | Bart Berman | 1938 | n/a | Dutch | pianist and composer, best known as an interpreter of Franz Schubert and 20th-century music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Berman |
Leo Blech | Leo Blech | 1871 | 1958 | German | opera composer and conductor who is perhaps most famous for his work at the Königliches Opernhaus (later the Berlin State Opera / Staatsoper Unter den Linden) from 1906 to 1937, and later as the conductor of Berlin's Städtische Oper from 1949 to 1953 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Blech |
Michel Jonasz | Michel Jonasz | 1947 | n/a | French | composer-songwriter, singer and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Jonasz |
Carlos Salzedo | Carlos Salzedo | 1885 | 1961 | French | harpist, pianist, composer and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Salzedo |
Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst | Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst | 1812 | 1865 | null | Moravian-Jewish violinist, violist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Wilhelm_Ernst |
Pancho Vladigerov | Pancho Haralanov Vladigerov | 1899 | 1978 | Bulgarian | composer, pedagogue, and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancho_Vladigerov |
Lewis Furey | Lewis Furey | 1949 | n/a | Canadian | composer, singer, violinist, pianist, actor and director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Furey |
Fania Fénelon | Fania Fénelon | 1908 | 1983 | French | pianist, composer and cabaret singer whose 1976 memoir, Sursis pour l'orchestre, about survival in the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz during the Holocaust was adapted as the 1980 television film, Playing for Time | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fania_Fénelon |
Franz Reizenstein | Franz Theodor Reizenstein | 1911 | 1968 | German | composer and concert pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Reizenstein |
Rubin Goldmark | Rubin Goldmark | 1872 | 1936 | American | composer, pianist, and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubin_Goldmark |
Baruch Chait | Baruch Chait | null | null | null | Orthodox Jewish rabbi, musician and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Chait |
Jaromír Weinberger | Jaromír Weinberger | 1896 | 1967 | Bohemian | born Jewish subject of the Austrian Empire, who became a naturalized American composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaromír_Weinberger |
Milcho Leviev | Milcho Leviev | 1937 | 2019 | Bulgarian | composer, arranger, and jazz pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milcho_Leviev |
Irving Gertz | Irving Gertz | 1915 | 2008 | American | composer recognized for his compositions for many fantasy and horror B-movies and TV series of the 1950s and 1960s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Gertz |
Pierre Barouh | Pierre Barouh | 1934 | 2016 | French | writer-composer-singer best known for his work on Claude Lelouch's film A Man and a Woman both as actor, and as lyricist/singer for Francis Lai's music for the film | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Barouh |
Peter Himmelman | Peter Himmelman | 1959 | n/a | American | singer-songwriter and film and television composer from Minnesota, who formerly played in the Minneapolis indie rock band Sussman Lawrence before pursuing an extensive solo career | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Himmelman |
Alexander Goldenweiser (composer) | Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser | 1961 | n/a | Soviet | pianist, teacher and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Goldenweiser_(composer) |
Ignaz Brüll | Ignaz Brüll | 1846 | 1907 | null | Moravian-born pianist and composer who lived and worked in Vienna | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Brüll |
Henry Russell (musician) | Henry Russell | 1812 | 1813 | English | pianist, baritone singer and composer, born into a distinguished Jewish family | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Russell_(musician) |
Gabriela Lena Frank | Gabriela Lena Frank | 1972 | n/a | American | pianist and composer of contemporary classical music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriela_Lena_Frank |
Leopold Damrosch | Leopold Damrosch | 1832 | 1885 | German | orchestral conductor and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Damrosch |
Sigmund Mogulesko | Sigmund Mogulesko | 1858 | 1914 | null | singer, actor, and composer in the Yiddish theater in New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Mogulesko |
Roman Haubenstock-Ramati | Roman Haubenstock-Ramati | 1919 | 1994 | null | composer and music editor who worked in Kraków, Tel Aviv and Vienna | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Haubenstock-Ramati |
Lior Navok | Lior Navok | 1971 | n/a | Israeli | classical composer, conductor and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lior_Navok |
Isidore de Lara | Isidore de Lara | 1858 | 1935 | English | composer and singer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidore_de_Lara |
Herman Stein | Herman Stein | 1915 | 2007 | American | composer who wrote music for many of the 1950s science-fiction and horror films from Universal Studios | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Stein |
Baruch Levine | Baruch Levine | 1977 | n/a | Canadian | Orthodox Jewish composer and singer whose songs have become popular and classic throughout the Orthodox Jewish world | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Levine |
Yoav Goren | Yoav Goren | null | null | Israeli | musician, composer, and record producer specializing in soundtracks and trailer music for films and television series | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoav_Goren |
Guy Gross | Guy Gross | null | null | Australian | film and television composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Gross |
Darío Moreno | David Arugete | 1921 | 1968 | Turkish | Jewish polyglot singer, an accomplished composer, lyricist, and guitarist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darío_Moreno |
Benjamin Lees | Benjamin Lees | 1924 | 2010 | American | composer of classical music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Lees |
Vladimir Shainsky | Vladimir Yakovlevich Shainsky | 1925 | 2017 | Soviet | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Shainsky |
Ernst Hermann Meyer | Ernst Hermann Ludimar Meyer | 1905 | 1988 | German | composer and musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Hermann_Meyer |
Gerhard Bronner | Gerhard Bronner | 1922 | 2007 | Austrian | composer, writer, musician and a cabaret artist, known for his contribution to Austrian culture in the post-World War II period | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Bronner |
Arthur Berger (composer) | Arthur Victor Berger | 1912 | 2003 | American | composer and music critic who has been described as a New Mannerist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Berger_(composer) |
Yehudi Wyner | Yehudi Wyner | 1929 | n/a | American | composer, pianist, conductor and music educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehudi_Wyner |
Leó Weiner | Leó Weiner | 1885 | 1960 | null | one of the leading Hungarian music educators of the first half of the twentieth century, and a composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leó_Weiner |
Bernhard Horwitz | Bernhard Horwitz | 1807 | 1885 | German | chess master, chess writer and chess composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Horwitz |
Joseph Brent | Joseph Frederick Brent | 1976 | n/a | American | composer, mandolinist, multi-instrumentalist, and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Brent |
Vytas Brenner | Vytas Brenner | 1946 | 2004 | German | musician, keyboardist, guitarist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vytas_Brenner |
Henryk Wars | Henryk Wars | 1947 | 1902 | Polish | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Wars |
Harry Rabinowitz | Harry Rabinowitz MBE | 1916 | 2016 | South African | conductor and composer of film and television music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Rabinowitz |
Rezső Seress | Rezső Seress | 1899 | 1968 | Hungarian | pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rezső_Seress |
Arkady Ostrovsky | Arkady (Avraam) Il'ich Ostrovsky | 1914 | 1967 | Soviet | composer of light music, the author of the song May There Always Be Sunshine and other Soviet songs of the 1960s, including the lullaby of Good Night, Little Ones, the children's TV program aired for more than 50 years | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkady_Ostrovsky |
Alan Shulman | Alan Shulman | 1915 | 2002 | American | composer and cellist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Shulman |
Daniel Platzman | Daniel James Platzman | 1986 | n/a | American | musician, songwriter, record producer and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Platzman |
Robert Kahn (composer) | Robert Kahn | 1865 | 1951 | German | composer, pianist, and music teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kahn_(composer) |
Jean Gilbert | Jean Gilbert | 1879 | 1942 | German | operetta composer and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Gilbert |
Wilhelm Grosz | Wilhelm Grosz | 1894 | 1939 | Austrian | composer, pianist, and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Grosz |
Olivier Greif | Olivier Greif | 1950 | 2000 | French | composer of Polish-Jewish parentage | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Greif |
Yitzhak Yedid | Yitzhak Yedid | 1971 | n/a | Israeli | contemporary classical music composer and improvising pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Yedid |
Yossele Rosenblatt | Josef "Yossele" Rosenblatt | 1882 | 1933 | Ukrainian | chazzan (cantor) and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yossele_Rosenblatt |
Max Deutsch | Max Deutsch | 1892 | 1982 | Austrian | composer, conductor, and academic teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Deutsch |
Murray Adaskin | Murray Adaskin | 1906 | 2002 | null | Toronto-born Canadian violinist, composer, conductor and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Adaskin |
Camille Erlanger | Camille Erlanger | 1863 | 1919 | French | opera composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Erlanger |
Marion Bauer | Marion Eugénie Bauer | 1882 | 1955 | American | composer, teacher, writer, and music critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Bauer |
Karl Geiringer | Karl Geiringer | 1899 | 1989 | Austrian | musicologist, educator, and biographer of composers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Geiringer |
Al Goodman | Alfred Goodman | 1890 | 1972 | null | conductor, songwriter, stage composer, musical director, arranger, and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Goodman |
Sergei Slonimsky | Sergei Mikhailovich Slonimsky | 1932 | 2020 | Russian | composer, pianist and musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Slonimsky |
Ernst Levy | Ernst Levy | 1895 | 1981 | Swiss | musicologist, composer, pianist and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Levy |
Gideon Klein | Gideon Klein | 1919 | 1945 | null | Czechoslovakia pianist, classical music composer, educator and organizer of cultural life at Theresienstadt concentration camp | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_Klein |
Stewart Wallace | Stewart Wallace | 1960 | n/a | American | composer and cantor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Wallace |
Ben Steinberg | Ben Steinberg | 1930 | n/a | Canadian | composer, conductor, organist, and music educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Steinberg |
Stav Beger | Stav Beger | 1991 | n/a | Israeli | record producer, arranger, composer, songwriter and artistic director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stav_Beger |
Samuil Feinberg | Samuil Yevgenyevich Feinberg | 1890 | 1962 | Russian | composer and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuil_Feinberg |
Joseph Achron | Joseph Yulyevich Achron | 1886 | 1943 | Russian | Jewish composer and violinist, who settled in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Achron |
Matti Caspi | Matti Caspi | null | null | Israeli | composer, musician, singer, arranger, and lyricist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_Caspi |
Issay Dobrowen | Issay Alexandrovich Dobrowen | 1953 | n/a | null | Russian/Soviet-Norwegian pianist, composer and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issay_Dobrowen |
Michel Michelet | Michel Michelet | 1894 | 1995 | null | composer of film scores | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Michelet |
Larry Harlow (musician) | Larry Harlow Kahn | 1939 | 2021 | American | salsa music performer, composer, and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Harlow_(musician) |
Jane Joseph | Jane Marian Joseph | 1894 | 1929 | English | composer, arranger and music teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Joseph |
Matthew Sklar | Matthew Sklar | 1973 | n/a | American | composer for musical theatre, television, and film | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Sklar |
Itaal Shur | Itaal Shur | null | null | American | composer, producer and musician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itaal_Shur |
Anatol Vieru | Anatol Vieru | 1926 | 1998 | Romanian | Jewish music theoretician, pedagogue, and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatol_Vieru |
Edmund Eysler | Edmund Samuel Eysler | 1874 | 1949 | Austrian | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Eysler |
Robert Starer | Robert Starer | 1924 | 2001 | Austrian | composer, pianist and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Starer |
Richard Baskin | Aaron Richard Baskin | 1948 | n/a | American | film composer and producer, best known as the writer of several songs for the Robert Altman film Nashville, and other creative film scores in the 1970s and 1980s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Baskin |
Maria Szymanowska | Maria Szymanowska | 1789 | 1831 | Polish | composer and one of the first professional virtuoso pianists of the 19th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Szymanowska |
William Susman | William Joseph Susman | 1960 | n/a | American | composer of concert and film music and a pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Susman |
Avner Dorman | Avner Dorman | 1975 | n/a | Israeli | composer, educator and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avner_Dorman |
Israel Tanenbaum | Israel Tanenbaum-Rivera | null | null | American | pianist, music producer, composer, arranger and audio engineer who has produced more than 50 albums and participated in over 100 recordings | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Tanenbaum |
Fernand Halphen | Fernand Gustave Halphen | 1872 | 1917 | French | Jewish composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernand_Halphen |
Richard Fall | Richard Fall | 1882 | 1945 | Austrian | composer and conductor of Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Fall |
Henryk Gold | Henryk Gold | 1902 | 1977 | Polish | composer, arranger, and orchestra director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Gold |
Bruce Adolphe | Bruce Adolphe | 1955 | n/a | null | composer, music scholar, the author of several books on music, and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Adolphe |
Misha Segal | Misha Segal | null | null | Israeli | music producer and film composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misha_Segal |
Willy Rosen | Willy Rosen | 1894 | 1944 | German | Jewish composer, songwriter, and renowned cabaret player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Rosen |
Michał Bergson | Michał Bergson (Bergsohn) | 1820 | 1898 | Polish | composer and pianist, promoter of Frédéric Chopin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michał_Bergson |
Salomon Kalischer | Salomon Kalischer, or Solomon Kalischer | 1845 | 1924 | German | Jewish composer, pianist, and physicist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salomon_Kalischer |
Jon Appleton | Jon Howard Appleton | 1939 | 2022 | American | composer, an educator and a pioneer in electro-acoustic music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Appleton |
Jerzy Petersburski | Jerzy Petersburski | 1895 | 1979 | Polish | Jewish pianist and composer of popular music, renowned mostly for his Tangos, some of which (such as To ostatnia niedziela, Już nigdy and Tango Milonga) were milestones in popularization of the musical genre in Poland and are still widely known today, more than half a century after their creation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Petersburski |
Ursula Mamlok | Ursula Mamlok | 1923 | 2016 | German | composer and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Mamlok |
Harold Farberman | Harold Farberman | 1929 | 2018 | American | conductor, composer and percussionist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Farberman |
Maurice Goldman | Maurice Goldman | 1910 | 1984 | null | internationally known composer and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Goldman |
Artur Gold | Artur (Arthur) Gold | 1897 | 1943 | Polish | Jewish violinist and dance-music composer during the Interbellum | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artur_Gold |
Francis Chagrin | Francis Chagrin | 1905 | 1972 | null | composer of film scores and popular orchestral music, as well as a conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Chagrin |
George Dreyfus | George Dreyfus AM | 1928 | n/a | Australian | contemporary classical, film and television composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dreyfus |
Karol Rathaus | Karol Rathaus | 1895 | 1954 | German | Jewish composer who immigrated to the United States via Berlin, Paris, and London, escaping the rise of Nazism in Germany | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karol_Rathaus |
Artie Kane | Artie Kane | 1929 | n/a | American | pianist, film score composer, and conductor with a career spanning over six decades | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artie_Kane |
Frederick Jacobi | Frederick Jacobi | 1891 | 1952 | American | Jewish composer and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Jacobi |
Arthur Lourié | Arthur-Vincent Lourié | 1892 | 1966 | null | significant Russian composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Lourié |
Ervin Nyiregyházi | Ervin Nyiregyházi | 1903 | 1987 | Hungarian | pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ervin_Nyiregyházi |
Vittorio Rieti | Vittorio Rieti | 1898 | 1994 | Italian | Jewish-American composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vittorio_Rieti |
Stefan Themerson | Stefan Themerson | 1910 | 1988 | Polish | writer of children's literature, poet and inventor of Semantic Poetry, novelist, script writer filmmaker, composer and philosopher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Themerson |
Jan Klusák | Jan Klusák | 1934 | n/a | null | contemporary Czech composer, author of film, television and incidental music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Klusák |
Lev Naumov | Lev Nikolayevich Naumov | 1925 | 2005 | Russian | classical pianist, composer and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Naumov |
Tommy Tycho | Thomas Tycho AM MBE | 1928 | 2013 | null | multi-talented Hungarian-born Australian pianist, conductor, composer and arranger | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Tycho |
Matvey Blanter | Matvey Isaakovich Blanter | 1990 | n/a | Soviet | composer, and one of the most prominent composers of popular songs and film music in the Soviet Union | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matvey_Blanter |
Moshe Peretz | Moshe Haim Peretz | 1983 | n/a | Israeli | Mizrahi music pop singer-songwriter and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Peretz |
Stephen Tolkin | Stephen Tolkin | null | null | American | television writer, director and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Tolkin |
Abraham Zevi Idelsohn | Abraham Zevi Idelsohn | 1882 | 1938 | null | prominent Jewish ethnologist, musicologist and composer, who conducted several comprehensive studies of Jewish music around the world | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Zevi_Idelsohn |
Len Blum | Leonard Solomon Blum | 1951 | n/a | Canadian | screenwriter, film producer and film composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Blum |
Fritz Stiedry | Fritz Stiedry | 1883 | 1968 | Austrian | conductor and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Stiedry |
Mireille Hartuch | Mireille Hartuch | 1906 | 1996 | French | singer, composer, and actress | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mireille_Hartuch |
Yehudit Ravitz | Yehudit Ravitz | 1956 | n/a | Israeli | singer-songwriter, multidisciplinary artist, composer and music producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehudit_Ravitz |
Richard Einhorn | Richard Einhorn | 1952 | n/a | American | composer of contemporary classical music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Einhorn |
Marvin David Levy | Marvin David Levy | 1932 | 2015 | American | composer, best known for his opera Mourning Becomes Electra | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_David_Levy |
Dave Stamper | David Stamper | 1883 | 1963 | American | songwriter of the Tin Pan Alley and vaudeville eras, a contributor to twenty-one editions of the Ziegfeld Follies, writer for the Fox Film Corporation, and composer of more than one thousand songs, in spite of never learning to read or write traditional music notation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Stamper |
Leon Jessel | Leon Jessel, or Léon Jessel | 1871 | 1942 | German | composer of operettas and light classical music pieces | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Jessel |
Frank Glazer | Frank Glazer | 1915 | 2015 | American | pianist, composer, and teacher of music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Glazer |
Otto Goldschmidt | Otto Moritz David Goldschmidt | 1829 | 1907 | German | composer, conductor and pianist, known for his piano concertos and other piano pieces | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Goldschmidt |
Michail Jurowski | Michail Vladimirovich Jurowski | 1945 | n/a | Russian | conductor and the son of composer Vladimir Michailovich Jurowski (1915–1972) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michail_Jurowski |
Artur Guttmann | Artur Guttmann | 1891 | 1945 | Austrian | Jewish film score composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artur_Guttmann |
Erran Baron Cohen | Erran Boaz Baron Cohen | 1968 | n/a | English | composer and trumpet player known for collaborations with his younger brother, Sacha Baron Cohen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erran_Baron_Cohen |
Sidney Torch | Sidney Torch MBE | 1908 | 1990 | British | pianist, cinema organist, conductor, orchestral arranger and a composer of light music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Torch |
Hank Levy | Henry Jacob "Hank" Levy | 1927 | 2001 | American | jazz composer and saxophonist whose works often employed unusual time signatures | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Levy |
Alexander Knaifel | Alexander Aronovich Knaifel | 1943 | n/a | Russian | composer known for his operas The Ghost of Canterville and Alice in Wonderland as well as for his music for cinema | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Knaifel |
Joey Newman | Joey Newman | 1976 | n/a | American | film composer, orchestrator, arranger and conductor working in the fields of film and television | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Newman |
Isaac Schwartz | Isaac Iosifovich Schwartz | 1923 | 2009 | Soviet | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Schwartz |
Mathilde von Rothschild | Hannah Mathilde von Rothschild | 1832 | 1924 | German | Jewish baroness, composer and patron | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathilde_von_Rothschild |
Friedrich Gernsheim | Friedrich Gernsheim | 1839 | 1916 | German | composer, conductor and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Gernsheim |
Yoni Rechter | Yoni Rechter | 1951 | n/a | Israeli | musician, composer, pianist, arranger and singer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoni_Rechter |
Buz Kohan | Alan "Buz" Kohan | 1933 | n/a | American | television writer, producer and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buz_Kohan |
Elliot Willensky | Elliot A. Willensky | 1943 | 2010 | American | composer, lyricist and music producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot_Willensky |
Sam Spiegel (musician) | Sam Spiegel | 1979 | n/a | American | DJ, producer, composer, and director from New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Spiegel_(musician) |
Roman Turovsky-Savchuk | Roman Turovsky-Savchuk | null | null | American | artist-painter, photographer and videoinstallation artist, as well as a lutenist-composer, born in Ukraine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Turovsky-Savchuk |
Maksim Dunayevsky | Maksim Isaakovich Dunayevsky | 1945 | n/a | Soviet | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maksim_Dunayevsky |
Franck Amsallem | Franck Amsallem | null | null | French | jazz pianist, arranger, composer, singer and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franck_Amsallem |
Karl Weigl | Karl Ignaz Weigl | 1881 | 1949 | Austrian | Jewish composer and pianist, who later became a naturalized American citizen in 1943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Weigl |
Ödön Pártos | Ödön Pártos [alternate transcription in English: Oedoen Partos | 1907 | 1977 | Hungarian | violist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ödön_Pártos |
Scott Fields | Scott Fields | 1960 | n/a | null | guitarist, composer, and bandleader | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Fields |
Stanley Silverman | Stanley Silverman | 1938 | n/a | American | composer, arranger, conductor and guitarist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Silverman |
István Anhalt | István Anhalt | 1919 | 2012 | Hungarian | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/István_Anhalt |
Roberta Leigh | Roberta Leigh | 1926 | 2014 | British | author, artist, composer and television producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta_Leigh |
Miriam Gideon | Miriam Gideon | 1906 | 1996 | American | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Gideon |
Corky Siegel | Mark Paul "Corky" Siegel | 1943 | n/a | American | musician, singer-songwriter, and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corky_Siegel |
Noam Sheriff | Noam Sheriff | 1935 | none | Israeli | composer, conductor, educator and arranger | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Sheriff |
Kobi Oshrat | Kobi Oshrat | 1944 | n/a | Israeli | composer and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobi_Oshrat |
Bertram Turetzky | Bertram Jay Turetzky | 1933 | n/a | null | contemporary American double bass (contrabass) soloist, composer, teacher, and author of The Contemporary Contrabass (1974, 1989), a book that looked at a number of new and interesting ways of playing the double bass including featuring it as a solo performance vehicle with no other instrumental accompaniment | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertram_Turetzky |
Lukas Ligeti | Lukas Ligeti | 1965 | n/a | Austrian | composer and percussionist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukas_Ligeti |
Nurit Hirsh | Nurit Hirsh | 1942 | n/a | Israeli | composer, arranger and conductor who has written over a thousand Hebrew songs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurit_Hirsh |
Pál Kadosa | Pál Kadosa | 1903 | n/a | null | pianist and Hungarian composer of the post-Bartók generation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pál_Kadosa |
Günter Raphael | Günter Raphael | 1903 | 1960 | German | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Günter_Raphael |
Karl Tausig | Karl Tausig | 1841 | 1871 | Polish | virtuoso pianist, arranger and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Tausig |
Leon Schidlowsky | Leon Schidlowsky | 1931 | n/a | Chilean | composer and painter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Schidlowsky |
Oskar Fried | Oskar Fried | 1871 | 1941 | German | conductor and composer, and was known as a great admirer of Gustav Mahler, whose works he performed a great many times throughout his life | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Fried |
Ryan Ochoa | Ryan Ochoa | 1996 | n/a | American | actor, rapper, songwriter, music video director, producer, music video editor and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Ochoa |
Paul Kochanski | Paul Kochanski | 1887 | 1934 | Polish | violinist, composer and arranger active in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kochanski |
Gil Shohat | Gil Shohat | 1973 | n/a | Israeli | classical music composer, conductor, pianist and lecturer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Shohat |
Yan Frenkel | Yan Abramovich Frenkel | 1920 | 1989 | Soviet | popular composer and performer of Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Frenkel |
Rafael Joseffy | Rafael Joseffy | 1852 | 1915 | null | Jewish pianist, teacher and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Joseffy |
Uzi Hitman | Uzi Chitman | 1952 | 2004 | Israeli | singer-songwriter, composer, musician, actor, director and television personality | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzi_Hitman |
Jacobo Ficher | Jacobo Ficher | 1896 | 1978 | Argentine | composer, violinist, conductor, and music educator of Russian birth | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobo_Ficher |
Felix Otto Dessoff | Felix Otto Dessoff | 1835 | 1892 | German | conductor and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Otto_Dessoff |
Rami Bar-Niv | Rami Bar-Niv | 1945 | n/a | Israeli | pianist, composer, author, and instructor of master classes | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rami_Bar-Niv |
Robert Rutman | Robert Rutman | 1931 | 2021 | German | visual artist, musician, composer, and instrument builder | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rutman |
Boris Papandopulo | Boris Papandopulo | 1906 | 1991 | Croatian | composer and conductor of Greek Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Papandopulo |
Leonard Salzedo | Leonard Salzedo | 1921 | 2000 | English | composer and conductor of Spanish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Salzedo |
Bernhard Heiden | Bernhard Heiden | 1910 | 2000 | German | composer and music teacher, who studied under and was heavily influenced by Paul Hindemith | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Heiden |
Johann Strauss III | Johann Maria Eduard Strauss III | 1866 | 1939 | Austrian | composer whose father was Eduard Strauss, whose uncles were Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss, and whose grandfather was Johann Strauss I. Born in Vienna, he was unofficially entrusted with the task of upholding his family's tradition after the dissolution of the Strauss Orchestra by his father in 1901 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Strauss_III |
Gabriel Kahane | Gabriel Kahane | 1981 | n/a | American | composer and singer-songwriter living in New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Kahane |
André Tchaikowsky | André Tchaikowsky | 1935 | 1982 | Polish | composer and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Tchaikowsky |
Gábor Presser | Gábor Presser | 1948 | n/a | null | Kossuth Prize winning Hungarian musician, composer, singer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gábor_Presser |
Grigory Frid | Grigory Samuilovich Frid also known as Grigori Fried | 1915 | 2012 | Russian | composer of music written in many different genres, including chamber opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Frid |
Joseph Rumshinsky | Joseph Rumshinsky | 1881 | 1956 | null | Jewish composer born near Vilna, Lithuania (then part of Russian Poland) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Rumshinsky |
Daniel Lévi | Daniel Lévi | 1961 | n/a | French | singer-songwriter, composer and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Lévi |
Paul Schoenfield | Paul Schoenfield | null | null | null | classical composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Schoenfield |
Cheb i Sabbah | Cheb i Sabbah"Jewish DJ Captivates Arab Ears", The Forward, January 19, 2007. | 1947 | 2013 | null | DJ and composer/producer known for combining Asian, Arabian, and African sounds into his compositions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheb_i_Sabbah |
Mark Minkov | Mark Anatolievich Minkov | 1944 | 2012 | Soviet | / Russian music composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Minkov |
Lou Fleischer | Lou Fleischer | 1891 | 1985 | American | arranger, composer, and the brother of Max and Dave Fleischer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Fleischer |
Lisa Lambert | Lisa Lambert | 1962 | n/a | null | actress, comedy writer, and Tony Award-winning composer, best known for writing the music and lyrics to The Drowsy Chaperone | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Lambert |
Lionel Belasco | Lionel Belasco | 1881 | none | null | prominent pianist, composer and bandleader, best known for his calypso recordings | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Belasco |
Tony Fox Sales | Tony Fox Sales | 1951 | n/a | American | rock musician and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Fox_Sales |
Moose Charlap | Morris Isaac "Moose" Charlap | 1928 | 1974 | American | Broadway composer best known for Peter Pan (1954), for which Carolyn Leigh wrote the lyrics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose_Charlap |
Maria Newman | Maria Louise Newman | 1962 | n/a | American | composer of classical music, violist and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Newman |
Noa (singer) | Achinoam Nini | null | null | Israeli | singer-songwriter, percussionist, poet, composer, and human rights activist working internationally | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noa_(singer) |
Marilyn Michaels | Marilyn Michaels | 1943 | n/a | null | comedian, singer, actress, impressionist, author, and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Michaels |
Georges Jacobi | Georges Jacobi | 1840 | 1906 | German | violinist, composer and conductor who was musical director of the Alhambra Theatre in London from 1872 to 1898 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Jacobi |
Jelka Rosen | Jelka Rosen | 1868 | 1935 | German | painter, best known as the wife of the English composer Frederick Delius | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelka_Rosen |
Rudolph Reti | Rudolph Reti | 1885 | 1957 | null | musical analyst, composer and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_Reti |
Arthur Friedheim | Arthur Friedheim | 1859 | 1932 | Russian | concert pianist and composer who was one of Franz Liszt's foremost pupils | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Friedheim |
Veniamin Basner | Veniamin Efimovich Basner | 1925 | 1996 | Russian | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veniamin_Basner |
Gilad Hochman | Gilad Hochman | 1982 | n/a | Israeli | classical music composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilad_Hochman |
Marjo Tal | Marjo Tal | 1915 | 2006 | Dutch | composer and pianist who wrote the music for over 150 songs and often performed them while accompanying herself on the piano | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjo_Tal |
Leonard Kastle | Leonard Gregory Kastle | 1929 | 2011 | American | opera composer, librettist, and director, although he is best known as the writer/director of the 1969 film The Honeymoon Killers, his only venture into the cinema, for which he did all his own research | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Kastle |
Meyer Kupferman | Meyer Kupferman | 1926 | 2003 | American | composer and clarinetist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer_Kupferman |
Ede Reményi | Ede Reményi or Eduard Reményi | 1828 | 1898 | Hungarian | violinist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ede_Reményi |
Ignatz Waghalter | Ignatz Waghalter | 1881 | 1949 | Polish | composer and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatz_Waghalter |
Judith Lang Zaimont | Judith Lang Zaimont | 1945 | n/a | American | composer and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Lang_Zaimont |
Józef Wieniawski | Józef Wieniawski | 1837 | 1912 | Polish | pianist, composer, conductor and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Józef_Wieniawski |
Louis Lewandowski | Louis Lewandowski | 1821 | 1894 | Polish | Jewish-Jewish composer of synagogal music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Lewandowski |
Brian Elias | Brian Elias | 1948 | n/a | British | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Elias |
Gabriel Cowan | Gabriel Cowan | null | null | null | film director, composer and film producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Cowan |
Allen Shawn | Allen Evan Shawn | 1948 | n/a | American | composer, pianist, educator, and author who lives in Vermont | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Shawn |
Bernhard Sekles | Bernhard Sekles | 1872 | 1934 | German | composer, conductor, pianist and pedagogue | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Sekles |
Victor Bendix | Victor Emanuel Bendix | 1851 | 1926 | Danish | composer, conductor and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Bendix |
Vyacheslav Ganelin | Vyacheslav (Slava) Ganelin | 1944 | n/a | Lithuanian | jazz pianist, composer, and pedagogue | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyacheslav_Ganelin |
Gary Barwin | Gary Barwin | 1964 | n/a | Canadian | poet, writer, composer, multimedia artist, performer and educator who lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Barwin |
Otto Joachim (composer) | Otto Joachim, CQ | 1910 | 2010 | German | violist and composer of electronic music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Joachim_(composer) |
Abraham Ellstein | Abraham "Abe" Ellstein | 1907 | 1963 | American | composer for Yiddish entertainments | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Ellstein |
Sheila Silver | Sheila Silver | 1946 | n/a | American | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Silver |
Raoul Gunsbourg | Raoul Samuel Gunsbourg | 1860 | 1955 | null | Jewish-Romania-born opera director, impresario, composer and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Gunsbourg |
David Tamkin | David Tamkin | 1906 | 1975 | American | composer of Jewish descent, born in Chernihiv, Ukraine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tamkin |
Lipa Schmeltzer | Lipa Schmeltzer | 1978 | n/a | American | singer, entertainer, and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipa_Schmeltzer |
Minuetta Kessler | Minuetta Shumiatcher Borek Kessler | 1914 | 2002 | Russian | and later American concert pianist, classical music composer, and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minuetta_Kessler |
Arkady Shilkloper | Arkady Shilkloper | 1956 | n/a | Russian | multi-instrumentalist (Horn, Alphorn, Flugelhorn, Vogelhorn, Karnay, Elephant Kuhlo-Horn, Corno da caccia, Corno pastoriccio, Shells, Didgeridoo, Shofar) and composer, currently living in Berlin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkady_Shilkloper |
Nina Cassian | Nina Cassian | 1924 | 2014 | Romanian | poet, children's book writer, translator, journalist, accomplished pianist and composer, and film critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Cassian |
Robert Levin (Norwegian pianist) | Robert Levin | 1912 | 1996 | Norwegian | classical pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Levin_(Norwegian_pianist) |
Henriëtte Bosmans | Henriëtte Hilda Bosmans | 1895 | 1952 | Dutch | composer and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henriëtte_Bosmans |
Oscar Feltsman | Oscar Borisovich Feltsman | 1921 | 2013 | Ukrainian | composer of Lithuanian Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Feltsman |
Oskar Danon | Oskar Danon | 1913 | 2009 | Yugoslav | composer and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Danon |
Lazare Saminsky | Lazare Saminsky | 1882 | 1959 | null | performer, conductor and composer, especially of Jewish music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazare_Saminsky |
Claudio Spies | Carlos Claudio Spies | 1925 | 2020 | Chilean | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_Spies |
Salomon Sulzer | Salomon Sulzer | 1804 | 1890 | Austrian | hazzan (cantor) and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salomon_Sulzer |
Georg Riedel (jazz musician) | Georg Riedel | 1934 | n/a | Czech | double bass player and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Riedel_(jazz_musician) |
Jacob do Bandolim | Jacob do Bandolim born Jacob Pick Bittencourt | 1918 | 1969 | Brazilian | composer and musician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_do_Bandolim |
Bernardo Segall | Bernardo Segall | 1911 | 1993 | Brazilian | composer and concert pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardo_Segall |
Lillian Fuchs | Lillian Fuchs | 1901 | 1995 | American | violist, teacher and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Fuchs |
Hershey Felder | Hershey Felder | 1968 | n/a | null | pianist, actor, and playwright known for his portrayals of classical and American composers on the theatrical stage | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey_Felder |
Jacob Avshalomov | Jacob Avshalomov | 1919 | 2013 | null | composer and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Avshalomov |
Mark Kopytman | Mark Kopytman | 1929 | 2011 | null | composer, musicologist and pedagogue | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kopytman |
Alexander S. Bermange | Alexander S. Bermange | null | null | null | composer and lyricist whose musicals and theatre productions have enjoyed successful runs in the West End and around the world, whose comic writing is regularly listened to by millions of listeners to BBC Radio, and whose songs have been recorded and released by many international singing stars | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_S._Bermange |
Abe Holzmann | Abraham "Abe" Holzmann | 1874 | 1939 | American | composer, who is most famous today for his march Blaze-Away! | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_Holzmann |
Veniamin Fleishman | Veniamin Iosifovich Fleishman | 1913 | 1941 | Soviet | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veniamin_Fleishman |
Lev Zhurbin | Lev Zhurbin | 1978 | n/a | null | composer and violist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Zhurbin |
Oscar Strasnoy | Oscar Strasnoy | 1970 | n/a | French | composer, conductor and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Strasnoy |
Peter Freeman (musician) | Peter Freeman | 1965 | 2021 | American | bassist, composer, and record producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Freeman_(musician) |
Bree Lowdermilk | Bree Lowdermilk | null | null | American | musical theater composer and lyricist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bree_Lowdermilk |
Toby Marlow | Toby Marlow | 1994 | n/a | English | writer, composer and actor most known for his work as composer and co-writer of the West End musical Six | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Marlow |
Erich Zeisl | Erich Zeisl | 1905 | 1959 | Austrian | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Zeisl |
Alfi Kabiljo | Alfons 'Alfi' Kabiljo | 1935 | n/a | Croatian | composer and musician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfi_Kabiljo |
Rami Kleinstein | Rami Kleinstein | 1962 | n/a | Israeli | singer and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rami_Kleinstein |
Srul Irving Glick | Srul Irving Glick | 1934 | 2002 | Canadian | composer, radio producer, conductor, and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srul_Irving_Glick |
Tzvi Avni | Tzvi Jacob Avni | 1927 | n/a | Israeli | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzvi_Avni |
Sergiu Natra | Sergiu Natra | 1924 | 2021 | Israeli | composer of classical music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergiu_Natra |
Joseph Cherniavsky | Joseph Cherniavsky | 1890 | 1959 | American | Jewish cellist, theatre and film composer, orchestra director, and recording artist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cherniavsky |
Christopher Cerf (producer) | Christopher Cerf | 1941 | n/a | American | author, composer-lyricist, voice actor, and record and television producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Cerf_(producer) |
Herman David Koppel | Herman David Koppel | 1908 | 1998 | null | composer and pianist of Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_David_Koppel |
Robert Levin (musicologist) | Robert David Levin | 1947 | n/a | American | classical pianist, musicologist and composer, and served as the artistic director of the Sarasota Music Festival from 2007 to 2017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Levin_(musicologist) |
Arnold Rosner | Arnold Rosner | 1945 | 2013 | American | composer of classical music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Rosner |
Yair Rosenblum | Yair Rosenblum | 1944 | 1996 | Israeli | composer and arranger | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yair_Rosenblum |
Henry Krips (conductor) | Henry Maria Krips, MBE | 1912 | 1987 | Austrian | conductor and composer, best known for his 23-year record term (1949–72) as principal conductor of the South Australian Symphony Orchestra (it had been founded in 1936 as the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and reverted to that name in 1975) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Krips_(conductor) |
Jean-Philippe Rykiel | Jean-Philippe Rykiel | 1961 | n/a | French | composer, arranger, and musician, primarily a keyboard player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Philippe_Rykiel |
Julius Stern | Julius Stern | 1820 | 1883 | German | Jewish musical pedagogue and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Stern |
William Mayer (composer) | William Mayer | 1925 | 2017 | American | composer, best known for his prize-winning opera A Death in the Family | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Mayer_(composer) |
Siegfried Borris | Siegfried Borris | 1906 | 1987 | German | composer, musicologist and music educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Borris |
Walter Levin | Walter Levin | 1924 | 2017 | null | founder, first violinist, and guiding spirit of the LaSalle Quartet (active 1947–1987), which was known for its championing of contemporary composers, for its recordings of the Second Viennese School (Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern), as well as for its intellectually penetrating interpretations of the classical and romantic quartet repertory, in particular the late quartets of Beethoven | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Levin |
Isador Goodman | Isador Goodman AM | 1909 | 1982 | South African | Jewish pianist, composer and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isador_Goodman |
Charlie Fink | Charlie Fink | 1986 | n/a | English | songwriter, producer and filmmaker best known for fronting Noah and the Whale and for his work as a composer for theatre | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Fink |
Yossi Green | Yossi Green | 1955 | n/a | null | Hasidic Jewish composer of contemporary Jewish religious music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yossi_Green |
Dora Bright | Dora Estella Knatchbull | 1862 | 1951 | English | composer and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_Bright |
Alfred Grünfeld | Alfred Grünfeld | 1852 | 1924 | Austrian | pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Grünfeld |
Ethan Slater | Ethan Slater | 1992 | n/a | American | actor, singer, writer, and composer, best known for his role as SpongeBob SquarePants in the musical of the same name, for which he received a Tony Award nomination and won a Drama Desk Award | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Slater |
Fred Ahlert | Frederick Emil Ahlert | 1892 | 1953 | American | composer and songwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Ahlert |
Peter Gellhorn | Peter Gellhorn | 1912 | 2004 | German | conductor, composer, pianist and teacher who settled in London and made a career in Britain that lasted unbroken until his death | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gellhorn |
Peter Rodgers Melnick | Peter Rodgers Melnick | 1958 | n/a | American | author and composer for film, television and musical theatre | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Rodgers_Melnick |
Shmulik Kraus | Shmuel "Shmulik" Kraus | 1935 | 2013 | Israeli | pop-rock singer, composer, and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmulik_Kraus |
Atar Arad | Atar Arad | 1945 | n/a | Israeli | violist, professor of music, essayist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atar_Arad |
Alexander Krein | Alexander Abramovich Krein | 1883 | 1951 | Soviet | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Krein |
Julius Eichberg | Julius Eichberg | 1824 | 1893 | German | composer, musical director and educator who worked mostly in Boston, Massachusetts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Eichberg |
Ben-Zion Orgad | Ben-Zion Orgad | 1926 | 2006 | Israeli | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Zion_Orgad |
Drew Neumann | Drew Neumann | null | null | American | musician and composer of film and television scores | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Neumann |
Sharon Cheslow | Sharon Cheslow | 1961 | n/a | American | musician, composer, artist, writer, photographer, educator, and archivist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Cheslow |
Harry Farjeon | Harry Farjeon | 1878 | 1948 | British | composer and an influential teacher of harmony and composition at the Royal Academy of Music for more than 45 years | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Farjeon |
Bruce Wolosoff | Bruce Wolosoff | 1955 | n/a | American | classical composer, pianist, and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Wolosoff |
Hugo Leichtentritt | Hugo Leichtentritt | 1874 | 1951 | German | Jewish musicologist and composer who spent much of his life in the USA. His pupils include composers Leroy Robertson and Erich Walter Sternberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Leichtentritt |
Mira Mendelson | Mariya-Cecilia Abramovna Mendelson-Prokofieva , typically referred to as Mira Mendelson | n/a | 1968 | Russian | poet, writer, and translator who was the second wife of the composer Sergei Prokofiev | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira_Mendelson |
Michael Jeffrey Shapiro | null | null | null | American | composer, conductor, and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jeffrey_Shapiro |
Sophie Solomon | Sophie Solomon | 1978 | n/a | British | violinist, songwriter and composer who fuses many different musical influences into her music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Solomon |
Ferdinand Praeger | Ferdinand Praeger | 1815 | 1891 | null | composer, music teacher, pianist and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Praeger |
Peter Stadlen | Peter Stadlen | 1910 | 1996 | Austrian | pianist, musicologist and critic, specialising in the study and interpretation of Beethoven and the composers of the Second Viennese School | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Stadlen |
Hanns Jelinek | Hanns Jelinek | 1901 | 1969 | Austrian | composer of Czech descent who is also known under the pseudonyms Hanns Elin, H. J. Hirsch, Jakob Fidelbogen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_Jelinek |
Modest Altschuler | Modest (Moisei Isaacovich) Altschuler | 1873 | 1963 | null | cellist, orchestral conductor, and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modest_Altschuler |
Vitaly Chekhover | Vitaly Alexandrovich Chekhover | 1908 | 1965 | Soviet | chess player and chess composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Chekhover |
Thomas Koppel | Thomas Koppel | 1944 | 2006 | Danish | classical music and avant-garde popular composer and musician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Koppel |
Samuel Dushkin | Samuel Dushkin | 1891 | 1976 | American | violinist, composer, and pedagogue of Polish birth and Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Dushkin |
Leonid Hambro | Leonid Hambro | 1920 | 2006 | American | concert pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Hambro |
Casimir Oberfeld | Casimir Oberfeld | 1903 | 1945 | Polish | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_Oberfeld |
Herman Berlinski | Herman Berlinski | 1910 | 2001 | German | composer, organist, pianist, musicologist and choir conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Berlinski |
Józef Koffler | Józef Koffler | 1896 | n/a | Polish | composer, music teacher, musicologist and musical columnist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Józef_Koffler |
Mikhail Gnessin | Mikhail Fabianovich Gnessin | 1883 | 1957 | Russian | Jewish composer and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gnessin |
Mike Schleibaum | Michael J. Schleibaum | 1977 | n/a | null | guitarist, musician, composer, and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Schleibaum |
Navene Koperweis | Navene Koperweis | 1985 | n/a | American | drummer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer, best known as the former drummer of Animosity, Hoods and Animals as Leaders | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navene_Koperweis |
Sem Dresden | Samuel (Sem) Dresden | 1881 | 1957 | Dutch | conductor, composer, and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sem_Dresden |
Betty Olivero | Betty Olivero | 1954 | n/a | Israeli | music educator and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Olivero |
Yoni Bloch | Yoni Bloch | 1981 | n/a | Israeli | musician, songwriter, composer, rock singer and hi-tech entrepreneur | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoni_Bloch |
Leonard Liebling | Leonard Liebling | 1874 | 1945 | American | music critic, writer, librettist, editor, pianist, and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Liebling |
Bruno Granichstaedten | Bruno Bernhard Granichstaedten | 1879 | 1944 | Austrian | composer and librettist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Granichstaedten |
Edmund Meisel | Edmund Meisel | 1894 | 1930 | Austrian | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Meisel |
Boaz Sharabi | Boaz Sharabi | 1947 | n/a | Israeli | singer-songwriter, composer and lyricist, known for Israeli classics as Latet, Halevai, At Li Laila, Pamela, Lashir Itach, Kol Od, Mi Yada Shekach Yihiyeh, K'Shetavo (written for Ron Arad), Im at Adain Ohevet Oti and Etzli Hakol Beseder | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaz_Sharabi |
Seymour Shifrin | Seymour Shifrin | 1926 | 1979 | American | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Shifrin |
Ralph Erwin | Ralph Erwin | 1896 | 1943 | Austrian | composer of a number of film scores | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Erwin |
Charles Kensington Salaman | Charles Kensington Salaman | 1814 | 1901 | British | Jewish composer, pianist, and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kensington_Salaman |
Auguste van Biene | Auguste van Biene | 1849 | 1913 | Dutch | composer, cellist and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_van_Biene |
Omer Avital | Omer Avital | 1971 | n/a | Israeli | jazz bassist, composer and bandleader | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omer_Avital |
Jean Berger | Jean Berger | 1909 | 2002 | German | pianist, composer, and music educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Berger |
Lyubov Streicher | Lyubov Lvovna Streicher | 1888 | 1958 | Russian | composer, teacher, and violinist, as well as a founding member of the Society for Jewish Folk Music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyubov_Streicher |
Severo Ornstein | Severo M. Ornstein | 1930 | n/a | null | retired computer scientist and son of Russian-American composer Leo Ornstein | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severo_Ornstein |
Mosh Ben-Ari | Moshe "Mosh" Ben Ari | 1970 | n/a | Israeli | musician, lyricist, and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosh_Ben-Ari |
Leo Smit (Dutch composer) | Leopold "Leo" Smit | 1900 | 1943 | Dutch | composer, murdered during The Holocaust at the Sobibor extermination camp | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Smit_(Dutch_composer) |
Giacobbe Cervetto | Giacobbe Basevi | 1680 | 1783 | null | Anglo-Italian Jewish musician, who was a leading cellist and composer for cello in 18th century England | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacobbe_Cervetto |
Karel Berman | Karel Berman | 1919 | 1995 | Czech | Jewish opera singer, composer and opera director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Berman |
Jorge Liderman | Jorge Mario Liderman | 1957 | 2008 | Argentine | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Liderman |
Semyon Alapin | Semyon Zinovyevich Alapin | none | 1923 | Russian | chess player, openings analyst, and puzzle composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semyon_Alapin |
Abatte Barihun | Abatte Barihun | 1967 | n/a | Israeli | jazz saxophonist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abatte_Barihun |
Ofer Ben-Amots | Ofer Ben-Amots | 1955 | n/a | Israeli | composer and teacher of music composition and theory at Colorado College | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofer_Ben-Amots |
Anton Schwartz | Anton Schwartz | 1967 | n/a | American | jazz saxophonist and composer based in Seattle, Washington and Oakland, California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Schwartz |
Philip Herschkowitz | Philipp Herschkowitz | 1906 | 1989 | Romanian | composer and music theorist, pupil of Alban Berg and Anton Webern, who spent 47 years, from 1940 to 1987, in the Soviet Union | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Herschkowitz |
Leone Sinigaglia | Leone Sinigaglia | 1868 | 1944 | Italian | composer and mountaineer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leone_Sinigaglia |
Aleksey Igudesman | Aleksey Mikhailovich Igudesman | 1973 | n/a | Russian | violinist, composer, conductor, comedian and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksey_Igudesman |
Hankus Netsky | Hankus Netsky | null | null | American | multi-instrumentalist, composer, and ethnomusicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hankus_Netsky |
Heinrich Berté | Heinrich Berté | 1858 | 1924 | null | Austria-Hungarian composer of operas and operettas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Berté |
Alex Solowitz | Alexander Joshua Solowitz | 1979 | n/a | American | actor, composer, singer, dancer, and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Solowitz |
Fritz Rotter | Fritz Rotter | 1900 | 1984 | Austrian | writer and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Rotter |
Norbert Glanzberg | Norbert Glanzberg | 1910 | 2001 | Galician | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Glanzberg |
Thomas Rajna | Thomas Rajna | 1928 | 2021 | British | pianist and composer of Hungarian birth | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Rajna |
Flory Jagoda | Flory Jagoda | 1923 | 2021 | Bosnian | Jewishborn American guitarist, composer and singer-songwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flory_Jagoda |
Alicia Svigals | Alicia Svigals | 1963 | n/a | American | violinist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Svigals |
Gus Levene | Gus Levene | 1911 | 1979 | American | arranger, composer, orchestrator and guitarist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus_Levene |
Mikhail Goldstein | Mikhail Emmanuilovich Goldstein | 1989 | n/a | German | composer, violinist and violin teacher of German-Russian-Jewish origin, brother of prominent violinist Boris Goldstein | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Goldstein |
Mark Fradkin | Mark Grigoryevich Fradkin | 1914 | 1990 | Soviet | composer, author of numerous popular songs (many of which were co-written with poet Yevgeny Dolmatovsky) and musical scores for forty films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fradkin |
Klaus Pringsheim Sr. | Klaus Pringsheim Sr. | 1883 | 1972 | German | composer, conductor, music-educator and the twin brother of Katharina "Katia" Pringsheim, who married Thomas Mann in 1905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Pringsheim_Sr. |
Julius Schulhoff | Julius Schulhoff | 1825 | 1898 | Bohemian | pianist and composer of Jewish birth | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Schulhoff |
Ray Jessel | Raymond Jessel | 1929 | 2015 | Welsh | songwriter, screenwriter, orchestrator, and musical theatre composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Jessel |
Kyla Greenbaum | Kyla Betty Greenbaum | 1922 | 2017 | British | pianist and composer, the younger sister of conductor and composer Hyam Greenbaum | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyla_Greenbaum |
Bruno Bjelinski | Bruno Bjelinski | 1909 | 1992 | null | one of the most influential Croatian composers in the 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Bjelinski |
Gustav Brecher | Gustav Brecher | 1879 | 1940 | German | conductor, composer, and music critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Brecher |
Alex Weiser | Alex Weiser | null | null | American | composer of contemporary classical music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Weiser |
Ronald Cass | Ronald Cass | 1923 | 2006 | British | screenwriter, composer, playwright, novelist and music director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Cass |
Dmitri Klebanov | Dmytro Lvovich Klebanov | none | 1987 | Ukrainian | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Klebanov |
Herman Yablokoff | Herman Yablokoff | 1903 | 1981 | Belarusian | Jewish actor, singer, composer, poet, playwright, director and producer who became one of the biggest stars in Yiddish theatre | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Yablokoff |
Márk Rózsavölgyi | Márk Rózsavölgyi | 1787 | 1848 | Hungarian | composer and violinist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Márk_Rózsavölgyi |
Jean Dufresne | Jean Dufresne | 1829 | 1893 | German | chess player and chess composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Dufresne |
Solomon Rosowsky | Solomon Rosowsky | 1878 | 1962 | null | cantor (hazzan) and composer, and son of the Rigan cantor, Baruch Leib Rosowsky | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Rosowsky |
John Fischer (pianist) | John Fischer | 1930 | 2016 | American | pianist, composer, and artist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fischer_(pianist) |
Walter Kaufmann (composer) | Walter Kaufmann | 1907 | 1984 | null | composer, conductor, ethnomusicologist, librettist and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Kaufmann_(composer) |
Joel Engel (composer) | Joel (or Yoel) Engel | 1868 | 1927 | null | music critic, composer and one of the leading figures in the Jewish art music movement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Engel_(composer) |
Jewlia Eisenberg | Jewlia Eisenberg | 1970 | 2021 | American | singer, composer, bassist, educator, and cantor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewlia_Eisenberg |
Jack Shaindlin | Jack Shaindlin | 1909 | 1978 | Russian | musician, composer, arranger, conductor, and music director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Shaindlin |
Aaron Avshalomov | Aaron Avshalomov | 1894 | 1965 | Russian | Jewish composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Avshalomov |
Rudolf Nelson | Rudolf Nelson | 1878 | 1960 | German | composer of hit songs, film music, operetta and vaudeville, and the founder and director of the Nelson Revue, a significant cabaret troupe on the 1930s Berlin nightlife scene | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Nelson |
Dmitry Pokrass | Dmitry Yakovlevich Pokrass | 1899 | 1978 | Soviet | composer of Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Pokrass |
Verna Arvey | Verna Arvey | 1910 | 1987 | American | librettist, pianist and writer who is best known for her musical collaborations with her husband William Grant Still, a musician and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verna_Arvey |
Michaël Lévinas | Michaël Lévinas | 1949 | n/a | French | composer and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaël_Lévinas |
David Loeb (composer) | David Loeb | 1939 | n/a | American | composer of contemporary classical music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Loeb_(composer) |
András Mihály | András Mihály [ˈɒndraːʃ ˈmihaːj] | 1917 | 1993 | Hungarian | cellist, composer and academic teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/András_Mihály |
Yehezkel Braun | Yehezkel Braun | 1922 | 2014 | Israeli | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehezkel_Braun |
Zara Levina | Zara Aleksandrovna Levina | 1906 | 1976 | Soviet | pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zara_Levina |
Joel Derfner | Joel Derfner | 1973 | n/a | American | writer and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Derfner |
Alexander Goldstein | Alexander Goldstein | 1948 | n/a | Russian | music composer, conductor, songwriter, record producer, film producer, director, editor and is the founder of ABG World and SportMusic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Goldstein |
Serge Rezvani | Serge Rezvani | 1928 | n/a | French | painter, engraver, writer (novels, plays), as well as a songwriter-composer-performer (he describes himself as "multidisciplinary") He is also known by his pseudonym Cyrus Bassiak | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Rezvani |
Michael Zev Gordon | Michael Zev Gordon | 1963 | n/a | British | composer, of Jewish ancestry | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Zev_Gordon |
Raphy Leavitt | Raphy Leavitt | 1948 | 2015 | Puerto Rican | composer and founder of the salsa orchestra, La Selecta | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphy_Leavitt |
Irwin Bazelon | Irwin Bazelon | 1922 | 1995 | American | composer of contemporary classical music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin_Bazelon |
Abie Rotenberg | Abie Rotenberg | null | null | null | prolific Orthodox Jewish musician, composer and entertainer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abie_Rotenberg |
Ron Levy | Ron Levy | 1951 | n/a | American | electric blues musician and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Levy |
Peter Feuchtwanger | Peter Bernhard Feuchtwanger | 1930 | 2016 | German | pianist, composer, and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Feuchtwanger |
Alexander Olshanetsky | Alexander Olshanetsky | 1892 | 1946 | American | Jewish composer, conductor, and violinist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Olshanetsky |
Richard Stöhr | Richard Franz Stöhr | 1874 | 1967 | Austrian | composer, music author and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stöhr |
Eduard Zuckmayer | Eduard Zuckmayer | 1890 | 1972 | German | music educator, composer, conductor and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Zuckmayer |
Ari Goldwag | Ari Goldwag | 1979 | n/a | American | Orthodox Jewish singer, songwriter, composer, and producer of contemporary Jewish religious music, as well as an author and teacher living in Ramat Beit Shemesh, Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ari_Goldwag |
Hans G. Helms | Hans Günter Helms | 1932 | 2012 | German | experimental writer, composer, and social and economic analyst and critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_G._Helms |
Teddy Abrams | Edward "Teddy" Paul Maxwell Abrams | 1987 | n/a | American | conductor, pianist, clarinetist, and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Abrams |
Country Yossi | Yossi (Joseph) Toiv | 1949 | n/a | American | Orthodox Jewish composer, singer, radio show host, author, and magazine publisher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_Yossi |
Alexander Veprik | Alexander Moiseyevich Veprik | 1899 | 1958 | null | Russian-(Ukrainian); Soviet) composer and music educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Veprik |
Judith Kaplan Eisenstein | Judith Kaplan | 1909 | 1996 | null | author, musicologist, composer, theologian and the first person to celebrate a bat mitzvah publicly in America (see below) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Kaplan_Eisenstein |
Emanuel Schlechter | Emanuel Schlechter | 1904 | 1943 | Polish | Jewish artist, lyricist, screenwriter, librettist, writer, satirist, translator, composer and director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Schlechter |
Mana-Zucca | Mana-Zucca | 1885 | 1981 | American | actress, singer, pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mana-Zucca |
Henry Jolles | Henry Jolles | 1902 | 1965 | German | pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Jolles |
Jerzy Fitelberg | Jerzy Fitelberg | 1903 | 1951 | Polish | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Fitelberg |
Georges Tzipine | Georges Samuel Tzipine | 1907 | 1987 | French | violinist, conductor and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Tzipine |
Felicja Blumental | Felicja Blumental | 1908 | 1991 | Polish | pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicja_Blumental |
Adi Ran | Adi Ran (; born 1961 in Ramat Gan) | 1961 | n/a | Israeli | singer, musician, lyricist and composer who innovated a new music genre called Hasidic Underground (also known as Alternative Hasidic) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi_Ran |
Heinrich Kaminski | Heinrich Kaminski | 1886 | 1946 | German | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Kaminski |
Marcel Lattès | Marcel Lattès | 1886 | 1943 | French | composer of film scores | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Lattès |
Herbert Zipper | Herbert Zipper | 1904 | 1997 | null | internationally renowned composer, conductor, and arts activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Zipper |
Paul Hermann (composer) | Paul Hermann | 1902 | unknown | null | virtuoso cellist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hermann_(composer) |
Alicia Jo Rabins | Alicia Jo Rabins | null | null | null | performer, musician, singer, composer, poet, writer, and Jewish scholar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Jo_Rabins |
Adolphe Samuel | Adolphe-Abraham Samuel | 1824 | 1898 | Belgian | music critic, conductor and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_Samuel |
Marc Lavry | Marc Lavry | 1903 | 1967 | Israeli | composer and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Lavry |
Ioseb Bardanashvili | Ioseb Bardanashvili | 1948 | n/a | Israeli | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioseb_Bardanashvili |
Seymour Bernstein | Seymour Bernstein | 1927 | n/a | American | pianist, composer, and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Bernstein |
Benjamin Yusupov | Benjamin Yusupov | 1962 | n/a | null | classical composer, conductor and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Yusupov |
Jakob Rosenhain | Jakob Rosenhain | 1813 | 1894 | German | Jewish pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Rosenhain |
Stefan Weisman | Stefan Weisman | 1970 | n/a | American | composer of contemporary classical music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Weisman |
Minna Keal | Minna Keal, née Mina Nerenstein | 1909 | 1999 | British | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minna_Keal |
Yuliya Veysberg | Yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg | null | null | Russian | music critic and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuliya_Veysberg |
Trude Rittmann | Gertrud Rittmann | 1908 | 2005 | German | Jewish composer, musical director, arranger and orchestrator who lived and worked for much of her life in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trude_Rittmann |
Fini Henriques | Valdemar Fini Henriques | 1867 | 1940 | Danish | composer and violinist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fini_Henriques |
Leni Alexander | Leni Alexander | 1924 | 2005 | German | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leni_Alexander |
Herschel Garfein | Herschel Garfein | 1958 | n/a | American | composer, librettist, stage director, and faculty member of the Steinhardt School of Music at New York University, where he teaches Script Analysis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herschel_Garfein |
Eduard Kolmanovsky | Eduard Savelievich Kolmanovsky | 1923 | 1994 | Soviet | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Kolmanovsky |
Joseph Fischhof | Joseph Fischhof | 1804 | 1857 | Czech | pianist, composer and professor at the Vienna Conservatory of Music, belonging to the Romantic school | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fischhof |
Jerzy Wasowski | Jerzy Ryszard Wasowski | 1913 | 1984 | Polish | acoustics engineer, radio announcer, composer, pianist, actor and director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Wasowski |
Leo Kraft | Leo Abraham Kraft | 1922 | 2014 | American | composer, author, and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Kraft |
Samuel Pokrass | Samuel Yakovlevich Pokrass | 1894 | 1939 | Soviet | composer of Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Pokrass |
Yehuda Yannay | Yehuda Yannay | 1937 | n/a | null | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehuda_Yannay |
Ernesto Acher | Ernesto Acher | 1939 | n/a | Argentine | comedian, actor, composer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist and orchestral conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto_Acher |
Mirrie Hill | Mirrie Irma Hill | 1889 | 1986 | Australian | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirrie_Hill |
Jan Meyerowitz | Jan Meyerowitz | 1913 | 1998 | German | composer, conductor, pianist and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Meyerowitz |
Mounir Mourad | Mounir Mourad or Monir Morad | 1922 | 1981 | Egyptian | artist, singer, actor, and distinguished composer of lighthearted songs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mounir_Mourad |
Ben Salfield | Benjamin Dieter Salfield | 1971 | n/a | English | lutenist, guitarist, composer, teacher, promoter and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Salfield |
Luna Alcalay | Luna Alcalay | 1928 | 2012 | Croatian | pianist, music educator and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_Alcalay |
Joachim Stutschewsky | Joachim-Yehoyachin Stutschewsky | 1891 | 1982 | null | Ukraine-born Austrian cellist, composer, musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Stutschewsky |
Alexander Tsfasman | Alexander Naumovich Tsfasman | 1906 | 1971 | Soviet | Jazz pianist, composer, conductor, arranger, publisher and activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Tsfasman |
Siegfried Alkan | Siegfried Alkan | 1858 | 1941 | German | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Alkan |
Josef Stránský | Josef Stránský | 1872 | 1936 | Czech | conductor, composer, and art collector/dealer who moved to the United States and conducted the New York Philharmonic from 1911 to 1923 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Stránský |
Jeremy Menuhin | Jeremy Louis Eugene Menuhin | 1951 | n/a | null | composer and pianist and the son of violinist Yehudi Menuhin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Menuhin |
Ruslan Sirota | Ruslan Sirota | null | null | null | Grammy Award winning pianist, composer, and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruslan_Sirota |
Erich Walter Sternberg | Erich Walter Sternberg | 1891 | 1974 | German | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Walter_Sternberg |
Nachum Heiman | Nachum Heiman | 1934 | 2016 | Israeli | composer and musician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nachum_Heiman |
Akiva Nof | Akiva Nof | 1936 | n/a | Israeli | poet and songwriter, composer, politician, lawyer and a journalist, who served three terms as a member of the Knesset between 1974 and 1984 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akiva_Nof |
Max Liebling | Max Liebling | 1845 | 1927 | German | concert pianist, composer, conductor, and music educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Liebling |
Juliusz Wertheim | Juliusz Edward Wertheim | 1880 | 1928 | Polish | pianist, conductor and composer, a member of a prominent family, who had a significant influence on the career of Arthur Rubinstein | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliusz_Wertheim |
Matei Socor | Matei Socor | 1908 | 1980 | Romanian | composer and communist activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matei_Socor |
Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky | Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky | 1945 | n/a | Russian | composer, conductor and classical pianist who lives in Switzerland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Rabinovitch-Barakovsky |
Fred Stone (musician) | Fred Stone | 1935 | 1986 | Canadian | flugelhornist, trumpeter, pianist, composer, writer, and music educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Stone_(musician) |
Zlata Tkach | Zlata Moiseyevna Tkach | 1928 | 2006 | Moldovan | composer and music educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlata_Tkach |
Emil Liebling | Emil Liebling | 1851 | 1914 | German | pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Liebling |
Vitaly Halberstadt | Vitaly Halberstadt | 1903 | 1967 | French | chess player, theorist, tactician, problemist, and, above all, a noted endgame study composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Halberstadt |
Ricky Hyslop | Ricky Hyslop | 1915 | 1998 | Canadian | violinist, conductor, composer, and arranger | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Hyslop |
Hiyya al-Daudi | Hiyya al-Daudi | 1085 | 1154 | null | prominent rabbi, composer, and poet of Andalusia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiyya_al-Daudi |
Suleiman Yudakov | Suleiman (Solomon) Alexandrovich Yudakov | n/a | 1990 | Soviet | Bukharian composer of Bukharan Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suleiman_Yudakov |
Maurice Zbriger | Maurice Zbriger | 1896 | 1981 | Canadian | violinist, composer and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Zbriger |
Samuel Maykapar | Samuel Moiseyevich Maykapar | 1867 | 1938 | Russian | romantic composer, pianist, professor of music at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, and author of a number of piano practice pieces | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Maykapar |
Verdina Shlonsky | Verdina Shlonsky | 1905 | 1990 | Israeli | composer, pianist, publicist and painter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdina_Shlonsky |
Boston School (music) | The Boston School | null | null | null | group of composers, most of them Jewish, from Boston, Massachusetts who were influenced by the neoclassicism of Igor Stravinsky: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_School_(music) |
Erich Katz | Erich Katz | 1900 | 1973 | German | musicologist, composer, music critic, musician and professor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Katz |
Basya Schechter | Basya Schechter | null | null | American | singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, cantor, and music teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basya_Schechter |
Louis Fürnberg | Louis Fürnberg | 1909 | 1957 | null | Czechoslovakian-German writer, poet and journalist, composer and diplomat | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Fürnberg |
Leonora Duarte | Leonora Duarte | 1610 | 1678 | null | Flemish composer and musician, born in Antwerp | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonora_Duarte |
Sandor Harmati | Sandor Harmati | 1892 | 1936 | Hungarian | violinist, conductor and composer, best known for his song "Bluebird of Happiness" written in 1934 for Jan Peerce | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandor_Harmati |
Manoah Leide-Tedesco | Tranquillo Manoah Leide-Tedesco | 1894 | 1982 | Italian | composer, conductor and violinist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manoah_Leide-Tedesco |
Moshe Cotel | Moshe (Morris) Cotel | 1943 | 2008 | null | pianist and composer whose music was strongly influenced by his Jewish roots | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Cotel |
Rafael Schächter | Rafael Schächter | 1905 | 1945 | Czechoslovak | composer, pianist and conductor of Jewish origin, organizer of cultural life in Terezín concentration camp | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Schächter |
Irving Szathmary | Irving Szathmary | 1907 | 1983 | American | musical composer and arranger most known for scoring the Get Smart television series | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Szathmary |
Leo Ascher | Leo Ascher | 1880 | 1942 | Austrian | composer of operettas, popular songs and film scores | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Ascher |
Gertrud Schoenberg | Gertrud Bertha Schoenberg | 1898 | 1967 | null | second wife of Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg, whom she married in 1924, and the sister of his pupil, the violinist Rudolf Kolisch | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrud_Schoenberg |
Leon Dubinsky | Leon Dubinsky | null | null | Canadian | actor, theatre director and composer from Sydney, Nova Scotia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Dubinsky |
Chaya Arbel | Chaya Arbel | 1921 | 2007 | Israeli | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaya_Arbel |
Joseph Ascher | Joseph Ascher | 1829 | 1869 | Dutch | Jewish composer and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ascher |
Sydney John Kay | Kurt Kaiser | 1906 | 1970 | German | composer, musician and theatre entrepreneur | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_John_Kay |
Nikolay Kaufman | Nikolay Yankov Kaufman | 1925 | 2018 | Bulgarian | musicologist, folklorist and composer, sometimes cited as Bulgaria's foremost scholar in his field | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Kaufman |
Yekaterina Chemberdzhi | Yekaterina Chemberdzhi , also Katia Tchemberdji (nickname) | null | null | Russian | pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yekaterina_Chemberdzhi |
Ambrose Lupo | Ambrose, Ambrosius or Ambrosio Lupo | 1591 | n/a | null | court musician and composer to the English court from the time of Henry VIII to that of Elizabeth I, and the first of a dynasty of such court musicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Lupo |
Zavel Kwartin | Zevulun "Zavel" Kwartin | 1874 | 1952 | Russian | chazzan (cantor) and composer, a contemporary of Mordechai Hershman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zavel_Kwartin |
Nissan Spivak | Nissan Spivak | 1824 | 1906 | null | Jewish cantor and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Spivak |
Jonathan Goldstein (composer) | Jonathan Goldstein | 1968 | 2019 | English | composer of music for film, television, advertising, theatre and live events, whose work encompassed a range of contemporary classical styles with orchestral, jazz, electro-acoustic and world influences | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Goldstein_(composer) |
Charles Segal (pianist) | Charles Segal | 1929 | n/a | null | classically trained jazz and commercial pianist, and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Segal_(pianist) |
Benyamin Bahadori | Benyamin Bahadori | null | null | Iranian | pop singer, composer, songwriter and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benyamin_Bahadori |
Ruth Schönthal | Ruth Esther Hadassah Schonthal | 1924 | 2006 | null | pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Schönthal |
Moshe Wilensky | Moshe Wilensky | 1910 | 1997 | Polish | composer, lyricist, and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Wilensky |
Paul Pisk | Paul Amadeus Pisk | 1893 | 1990 | Austrian | composer and musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Pisk |
David Roitman | David Roitman | 1884 | 1943 | Russian | hazzan and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Roitman |
Felicitas Kukuck | Felicitas Kukuck | 1914 | 2001 | German | music educator and composer of opera and other works | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicitas_Kukuck |
Otto Sutro | Otto Sutro | 1833 | 1896 | German | organist, conductor, minor composer, publisher and music store owner, and a leading figure in the musical life of Baltimore, Maryland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Sutro |
Yefim Golyshev | Yefim Golyshev , variously transliterated as Golyscheff, Golyschev, Golishiff, Golishev, etc., 8 September 1897 – 25 September 1970) | null | null | Ukrainian | painter and composer who was mainly active in Europe | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yefim_Golyshev |
Valentina Serova (composer) | Valentina Semyonova Serova | 1846 | 1924 | Russian | composer of German-Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Serova_(composer) |
Alexandre Levy | Alexandre Levy | 1864 | 1892 | Brazilian | composer, pianist and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Levy |
Oscar Potoker | Oscar Potoker | 1880 | 1935 | null | musician and film composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Potoker |
Dror Elimelech | Dror Elimelech | 1956 | n/a | Israeli | psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and poet, and a composer and performer of contemporary classical music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dror_Elimelech |
Samuel Naumbourg | Samuel Naumbourg | 1817 | 1880 | French | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Naumbourg |
Yosef Karduner | Yosef Karduner | 1969 | n/a | Israeli | Hasidic singer, songwriter, and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosef_Karduner |
Leopold Spinner | Leopold Spinner | 1906 | 1980 | null | Austrian-born, British-domiciled composer and editor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Spinner |
Werner Wolf Glaser | Werner Wolf Glaser | 1910 | 2006 | German | composer, conductor, pianist, professor, music critic, and poet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Wolf_Glaser |
Isadore Freed | Isadore Freed | 1900 | 1960 | null | Jewish composer of Belarusian birth | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isadore_Freed |
Arlene Zallman | Arlene Zallman | 1934 | 2006 | American | composer and music educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlene_Zallman |
Menachem Avidom | Menachem Avidom | 1908 | 1995 | Israeli | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem_Avidom |
Jeanne Behrend | Jeanne Behrend | 1911 | 1988 | American | pianist, music educator, musicologist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Behrend |
Erika Fox | Erika Fox | 1936 | n/a | British | composer and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erika_Fox |
Adam Litovitz | Adam Litovitz | 1982 | 2019 | Canadian | musician and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Litovitz |
Elena Gnesina | Elena Fabianovna Gnesina | 1874 | 1967 | Soviet | composer and music educator, a sister of the composer Mikhail Gnesin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Gnesina |
Haim Alexander | Haim Alexander | 1915 | 2012 | Israeli | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haim_Alexander |
Ottalie Mark | Ottalie Mark | 1896 | 1979 | American | musicologist, copyright consultant, composer, and music editor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottalie_Mark |
Adam Seelig | Adam Seelig | 1975 | n/a | Canadian | poet, playwright, director, composer and Artistic Director of One Little Goat Theatre Company in Toronto | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Seelig |
Joseph Alfidi | Joseph Alfidi | 1949 | 2015 | American | pianist, composer, and conductor and initially a child prodigy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Alfidi |
Marti Epstein | Marti Epstein | 1959 | n/a | American | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marti_Epstein |
Lívio Tragtenberg | Lívio Romano Tragtenberg | 1961 | n/a | Brazilian | musician, composer, music theorist, professor and record producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lívio_Tragtenberg |
Georg Liebling | Georg Liebling | 1865 | 1946 | German | pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Liebling |
Max Leibowitz | Max Leibowitz | 1884 | 1942 | American | klezmer violinist, composer and bandleader in New York City primarily in the 1910s and 1920s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Leibowitz |
Eda Rapoport | Eda Rothstein Rapoport | 1890 | 1968 | American | Jewish composer and pianist of Latvian origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eda_Rapoport |
Alexander Uriah Boskovich | Alexander (Sándor) Uriah Boskovich | 1907 | 1964 | Israeli | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Uriah_Boskovich |
Maurice Jacobson | Maurice Jacobson OBE | 1896 | 1976 | English | pianist, composer, music publisher and music festival judge | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Jacobson |
Dov Rosenblatt | Dov Rosenblatt | 1981 | n/a | American | singer, songwriter, producer, composer, and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dov_Rosenblatt |
David L. Kaplan | David Leon Kaplan | 1923 | 2015 | null | Chicago-born, U.S.-educated Canadian composer, university professor of music, performer, and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Kaplan |
Sylvia Kersenbaum | Sylvia Haydée Kersenbaum | 1941 | n/a | Argentine | pianist, composer and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Kersenbaum |
Nathan Currier | Nathan Currier | 1960 | n/a | American | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Currier |
Leo Zeitlin | Lev Mordukhovich Tseitlin | 1884 | 1930 | Russian | Jewish composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Zeitlin |
Vally Weigl | Vally Weigl | 1894 | 1982 | Austrian | composer and music therapist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vally_Weigl |
Herman Wohl | Herman Wohl | 1877 | 1936 | null | Jewish–American composer closely associated with the American Yiddish Theatre | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Wohl |
Dudu Aharon | Dudu Aharon | 1984 | n/a | null | singer-songwriter, musician, and composer from Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudu_Aharon |
Agnes Zimmermann | Agnes Zimmermann | 1847 | 1925 | German | concert pianist and composer who lived in England | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Zimmermann |
Stephen Deutsch | Stephen Deutsch | 1945 | n/a | American | filmmaker, professor, and film score composer who has composed over 30 scores for film, theatre, radio, and television | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Deutsch |
Tsippi Fleischer | Tsippi Fleischer | 1946 | n/a | Israeli | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsippi_Fleischer |
Rosy Wertheim | Rosy Wertheim | 1888 | 1949 | Dutch | pianist, music educator and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_Wertheim |
Harry Brauner | Harry Brauner | 1908 | 1988 | null | ethnomusicologist, composer, and professor of music from Romania | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Brauner |
Dawood Hosni | Dawood Hosni | 1870 | 1937 | Egyptian | music composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawood_Hosni |
Reine Colaço Osorio-Swaab | Reine Colaço Osorio-Swaab | 1881 | 1971 | Dutch | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reine_Colaço_Osorio-Swaab |
Jacques Klein | Jacques Klein | 1930 | 1982 | Brazilian | composer and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Klein |
Simeon Bellison | Simeon Bellison | 1881 | 1953 | null | clarinetist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Bellison |
Josef Dessauer | Josef Dessauer | 1798 | 1876 | Austrian | composer who wrote many popular songs, and also some less successful operas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Dessauer |
Léo Gandelman | Léo Gandelman | 1956 | n/a | Brazilian | saxophonist, composer and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léo_Gandelman |
Miki Gavrielov | Miki Gavrielov | 1949 | n/a | Israeli | composer and performer of folk/rock music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miki_Gavrielov |
Robin Spielberg | Robin Spielberg | 1962 | n/a | null | Billboard charts American pianist, composer and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Spielberg |
Joseph Beer | Joseph Beer | 1908 | 1987 | null | composer, mainly of operettas, singspiele, and operas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Beer |
RebbeSoul | Bruce Burger | 1957 | n/a | American | Jewish singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RebbeSoul |
Revol Bunin | Revol Samuilovich Bunin | 1924 | 1976 | Russian | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revol_Bunin |
Jonathan Leshnoff | Jonathan Leshnoff | 1973 | n/a | American | classical music composer and pedagogue | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Leshnoff |
Ernest Manheim | Ernest Manheim | 1900 | 2002 | American | sociologist, anthropologist, and composer born in Hungary, at that time part of the Austrian Empire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Manheim |
Mordecai Seter | Mordecai Seter | 1916 | 1994 | Russian | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordecai_Seter |
Milan Sachs | Milan Sachs | 1884 | 1968 | Czech | opera conductor and composer, who was long associated with the Zagreb Opera in Croatia, where he conducted some important local premieres, including Wagner's Parsifal, and Janáček's Jenůfa (1920) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan_Sachs |
Harold Blumenfeld | Murray Harold Blumenfeld | 1923 | 2014 | American | classical composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Blumenfeld |
Marian Filar (pianist) | Marian Filar | 1917 | 2012 | Polish | concert pianist and virtuoso composer living in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Filar_(pianist) |
Nano Stern | Nano Stern | 1985 | n/a | Chilean | singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer of the “third generation of Chilean singer-songwriters” who appear after the 1990s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano_Stern |
Arkady Ukupnik | Arkady Semyonovich Ukupnik | 1953 | n/a | Russian | composer, pop singer, actor, and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkady_Ukupnik |
Yochanan Afek | Yochanan Afek | 1952 | n/a | Israeli | chess player, composer, trainer and arbiter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yochanan_Afek |
César Lerner | César Lerner | null | null | null | film composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/César_Lerner |
Anna Pletnyova | Anna Yuryevna Pletnyova | 1977 | n/a | Russian | singer, composer, and songwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Pletnyova |
Franciszek Zachara | Franciszek Zachara | null | null | Polish | pianist and composer who concertized extensively throughout Europe in the years leading up to 1928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciszek_Zachara |
Mark Brunswick | Mark Brunswick | 1902 | 1971 | American | composer of the twentieth century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Brunswick |
Hermann Leopoldi | Hermann Leopoldi | 1888 | 1959 | Austrian | composer and cabaret star who survived Dachau and Buchenwald | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Leopoldi |
Moshe Yess | Moshe Aaron Yess | 1945 | 2011 | null | Orthodox Jewish musician, composer and entertainer from Montreal, Quebec, Canada | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Yess |
Sergius Kagen | Sergius Kagen | 1909 | 1964 | American | pianist, composer, music editor and voice teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergius_Kagen |
Marko Rothmüller | Marko Rothmüller | 1908 | 1993 | Croatian | operatic baritone, composer and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marko_Rothmüller |
Yardena Alotin | Yardena Alotin | 1930 | 1994 | Israeli | composer and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yardena_Alotin |
Camilla Frydan | Camilla Frydan, birthname Herzl, married name Friedmann, pseudonym Herzer | 1887 | 1949 | Austrian | pianist, soubrette singer, composer and song writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilla_Frydan |
Dmitri Jurowski | Dmitri Jurowski | 1979 | n/a | German | conductor and the grandson of composer Vladimir Michailovich Jurowski | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Jurowski |
Margrit Zimmermann | Margrit Zimmermann | 1927 | 2020 | Swiss | pianist, composer, conductor and music educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margrit_Zimmermann |
Julius Isserlis | Julius Isserlis | null | null | Russian | pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Isserlis |
Ahuva Ozeri | Ahuva Ozeri | 1948 | 2016 | Israeli | singer, songwriter and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahuva_Ozeri |
Ron Nesher | Ron Nesher | 1983 | n/a | Israeli | rapper, songwriter and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Nesher |
Mark Warshawsky | Mark Markovich Warshawsky (Varshavsky) | 1848 | 1907 | null | Yiddish-language folk poet and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Warshawsky |
James Simon (composer) | James Simon | 1880 | 1944 | German | composer, pianist and musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Simon_(composer) |
Sarah Lancaster (composer) | Sarah "Sally" Lancaster | 1834 | 1918 | American | composer in the Sacred Harp tradition | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Lancaster_(composer) |
Anna Rubin | Anna Rubin | 1946 | n/a | American | composer of electroacoustic and instrumental music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Rubin |
Erna Tauro | Erna Tauro, née Pergament | 1916 | 1993 | Finnish | pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erna_Tauro |