music.wikisort.org - Composer

This is a list of 20th-century American women composers ordered alphabetically by surname.

A

• Esther Allan (1914–1985)[1]
• Beth Anderson (born 1950)[2]
• Elinor Armer (born 1939)[3]
• Clarice Assad (born 1978)[4]
• Lera Auerbach (born 1973)[5]
• May Aufderheide (1888–1972)[6]

B

• Elaine Barkin (born 1932)[7]
• Floy Little Bartlett (1883–1955)[8]
• Amy Beach (1867–1944)[9]
• Eve Beglarian (born 1958)[10]
• Carla Bley (born 1938)[11]
• Margaret Bonds (1913–1972)[12]
• Radie Britain (1899–1994)[13]
• Rosemary Brown (1916–2001)[14]
• Canary Lee Burton (born 1942)[15]

C

• Gloria Coates (born 1938)[16]
• Nellie Weldon Cocroft (1885–1986)[17]
• Valerie Coleman
• Sylvia Constantinidis (born 1962)[18]

D

• Katherine Kennicott Davis (1892–1980)[19]
• Emma Lou Diemer (born 1927)[20]

E

• Marti Epstein (born 1959)[21]
• Reena Esmail (born 1983)[22]

F

• Sylvia Fine (1913–1991)[23]
• Vivian Fine (1913–2000)[24]

G

• Miriam Gideon (1906–1996)[25]
• Annie Gosfield (born 1960)[26]

H

• Juliana Hall (born 1958)[27]
• Barbara Harbach (born 1946)[28]
• Melissa Hui (born 1966)[29]
• Jennifer Higdon (born 1962)[30]

K

• Laura Karpman (born 1959)[31]

L

• Joan La Barbara (born 1947)[32]
• Anne La Berge (born 1955)[33]
• Vanessa Lann (born 1968)[34]
• Libby Larsen (born 1950)[35]
• Tania León (born 1943)[36]

M

• Linda Martinez (1975–2005)[37]
• Josephine McGill (1877–1919)[38]
• Cindy McTee (born 1953)[39]
• Missy Mazzoli (born 1980)[40]
• Meredith Monk (born 1942)[41]

O

• Pauline Oliveros (1932–2016)[42][43]

P

• Judith Palmer
• Florence Price (1887–1953)[44]

R

• Nancy Raabe (born 1954)[45]
• Shulamit Ran (born 1947)[46]

S

• Laura Schwendinger (born 1962)[47]
• Amy Scurria (born 1973)[48]
• Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901–1953)[49]
• Alex Shapiro (born 1962)[50]
• Judith Shatin (born 1949)[51]
• Faye-Ellen Silverman (born 1947)[52]
• Netty Simons (1913–1994)[53]
• Linda Catlin Smith (born 1957)[54]
• Cristina Spinei (born 1984)[55]
• Pauline Anna Strom (1946–2020)[56]

T

• Augusta Read Thomas (born 1964)[57]
• Karen P. Thomas (born 1957)[58]
• Joan Tower (born 1938)[59]

V

• Lois V. Vierk (born 1951)[60]

W

• Melinda Wagner (born 1957)[61]
• Gwyneth Van Anden Walker (born 1947)[62]
• Wang Jie (born 1980)
• Edwina Florence Wills (1915–2002)
• Diane Wittry
• Julia Wolfe (born 1958)[63]

Z

• Pamela Z (born 1956)[64]
• Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (born 1939)[65]

References

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