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American Classical Composers Web Poll
These are the results of an Internet survey taken back in 1999
and not posted here ten years later.While the voting was not extensive, it was quite close.
Composers tied with the same number of votes
are arranged in alphabetical order.As chosen by web voters, 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 Ives (1874-1954)
4. Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
5. [tie] George Whitefield Chadwick (1854-1931)
6. [tie] Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884-1920)
7. [tie] Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
8. [tie] 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 their names:
- 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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