List of Jewish American composers
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This is a list of famous Jewish American composers. For listings of famous Jewish American songwriters, musicals writers, and film composers, see List of Jewish American musicians, which shares some names with this list. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.
- Larry Adler, composer [1]
- Milton Babbitt, composer [2]
- Irving Berlin, (1888-1989) composer and lyricist
- Leonard Bernstein, (1918-1990) composer and conductor
- Aaron Copeland, (1900-1990) composer and conductor
- Morton Feldman, (1926-1987) composer
- Bob Dylan, (1941- ) songwriter and lyricist, née Robert Zimmerman
- George Gershwin, (1898-1937) composer and song writer
- Jerome Kern, (1885-19450) composer and song writer
- Fritz Kreisler (1875 - 1962) violinist and composer, one of the most famous of his day[3]
- Alan Menken, (1949-), composer
- Lou Reed, (1942- ), song-writer and guitarist
- Arnold Schoenberg, (1874-1951) Naturalized American, Austrian-born composer
- Stephen Schwartz, (1948-), composer and lyricist
- Nicolas Slonimsky, (1894-1995) Naturalized American, Russian-born composer, conductor and author
- Kurt Weill, (1900-1950) Naturalized American, German-born composer and song-writer, who wrote orchestral music and "show music"
- John Zorn, (1953- ), composer and saxophonist
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ [http://www.jinfo.org/Composers.html
- ^ Kreisler - [1] "Jascha Heifetz, Fritz Kreisler, Mischa Elman... were all Jews, too"
