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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.
Persons listed with a double asterisks (**) are winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Jewish composers constitute 20% of the award's recipients, although Jewish Americans are less than 2% of the United States population. This list includes both Jewish composers who were born and raised in the United States and who were born in Europe or elsewhere and immigrated to and settled in the United States.
- Joseph Achron, composer
- Larry Adler, composer
- Samuel Adler, composer
- Milton Ager, composer
- David Amram, composer
- Leopold Auer, composer
- Lera Auerbach, composer
- Aaron Avshalomov, composer
- Milton Babbitt, composer
- Marion Bauer, composer
- Arthur Berger, composer
- Herman Berlinski, composer
- Elmer Bernstein, composer
- Leonard Bernstein, composer
- Marc Blitzstein, composer
- Ernest Bloch, composer
- Jerry Bock, composer
- Aaron Copland, composer **
- Nathan Currier, composer
- Sebastian Currier, composer
- Richard Danielpour, composer
- Walter Johannes Damrosch, composer
- Mario Davidovsky, composer **
- David Diamond, composer
- Deborah Drattell, composer
- Jacob Druckman, composer **
- Abraham Ellstein, composer
- Stephen Feigenbaum, composer
- Morton Feldman, composer
- Lukas Foss, composer
- Rudolf Friml, composer
- George Gershwin, composer
- Miriam Gideon, composer
- Philip Glass, composer
- Ernest Gold, composer
- Rubin Goldmark, composer
- Annie Gosfield, composer
- Louis Gruenberg, composer
- Louis Moreau Gottschalk, composer (Jewish father)
- Morton Gould, composer **
- Friedrich Holländer, composer
- Michael Isaacson, composer
- Jerome Kern, composer
- Aaron Jay Kernis, composer **
- Leon Kirchner, composer **
- Fritz Kreisler (1875 - 1962) violinist and composer, one of the most famous of his day
- Oscar Levant, composer and pianist
- Adam Levowitz, composer
- Steve Margoshes, composer
- Norman Martin, composer
- Jerome Moross, composer
- Alex North, composer
- Alexander Olshanetsky, composer
- Leo Ornstein, composer
- George Perle, composer
- Andre Previn, composer
- Shulamit Ran, composer **
- Steve Reich, composer
- George Rochberg, composer
- Laurence Rosenthal, composer
- Joseph Rumshinsky, composer
- Arnold Schoenberg, composer
- Ruth Schonthal, composer
- William Schuman, composer **
- Allen Shawn, composer
- Nathaniel Shilkret, composer and conductor
- Elie Siegmeister, composer and conductor
- Sheila Silver, composer
- Stephen Sondheim, composer**
- Mischa Spoliansky, composer
- Ernst Toch, composer **
- Stewart Wallace, composer
- Kurt Weill, composer
- Jaromír Weinberger, composer
- Hugo Weisgall, composer
- Meredith Willson, composer
- Stefan Wolpe, composer
- Yehudi Wyner, composer **
- Efrem Zimbalist, composer and violinist
- John Zorn, composer and saxophonist
Footnotes
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Kreisler - "Jascha Heifetz, Fritz Kreisler, Mischa Elman... were all Jews, too"