Composers
- John Adams
- Leroy Anderson
- Béla Bartók
- Mason Bates
- Leonard Bernstein
- Victoria Bond
- Margaret Bonds
- Benjamin Britten
- Michael Colgrass
- Aaron Copland
- Claude Debussy
- Manuel De Falla
- Arcady Dubensky
- Duke Ellington
- Malcolm Forsyth
- Gabriela Lena Frank
- Nia Franklin
- George Gershwin
- Ferde Grofé
- Jennifer Higdon
- Paul Hindemith
- Vincent Ho
- Charles Ives
- James Weldon Johnson
- John Rosamond Johnson
- Scott Joplin
- Dmitri Kabalevsky
- Ulysses Kay
- Aram Khachaturian
- George Kleinsinger
- Zoltán Kodály
- John Lanchbery
- Jean Langlais
- Arturo Márquez
- Quinn Mason
- José Pablo Moncayo
- Jessie Montgomery
- Florence Price
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Maurice Ravel
- Ottorino Respighi
- William Schuman
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- William Grant Still
- Igor Stravinsky
- Joan Tower
- Heitor Villa-Lobos
- John Williams