American Classical Composers Web Poll

 

These are the results of an Internet survey taken in 1999.

As chosen by readers,  here are the...       

Top 10 Favorite American Composers From The Past

 

(Aaron Copland with Leonard Bernstein)

 

1. Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

           2. George Gershwin (1898-1937) 

3. Charles Edward Ives (1874-1954)

4. Samuel Barber (1910-1981)

5. George Whitefield Chadwick (1854-1931) 

6. Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884-1920)

7. Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)

8. Edward "Duke" Ellington (1899-1974)

9. Roy Harris (1898-1979)

10. Randall Thompson (1899-1984)

 

        

Other American Composers  

 Louis Moreau Gottschalk and Edward MacDowell

 

There were 25 other American composers who were chosen by web voters in this poll but did not have enough votes to make the Top Ten.

Here are the composers voted on:

• William Billings
• John Alden Carpenter
• John Cage
• Frederick Converse
• Henry Cowell
• Paul Creston
• Richard Donovan
• Henry F. Gilbert
• Louis Moreau Gottschalk
• Henry Hadley
• Howard Hanson
• Bernard Herrmann
• Edward B. Hill
• Norman dello Joio
• Edward MacDowell
• Daniel Gregory Mason
• Peter Menin
• Conlon Nancarrow
• Harry Partch
• Walter Piston
• Carl Ruggles
• William Schuman
• Ruth Crawford Seeger
• Roger Sessions
• John Philip Sousa

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Tunemaker Hall of Fame

Though it is no longer active, this list contains ten American composers and songwriters which were added each year to this Hall of Fame. See the names chosen each year --

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