* Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951): Austrian-American composer, music theorist, and teacher.
* Béla Bartók (1881-1945): Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist.
* Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943): Russian composer, pianist, and conductor.
* Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): French composer, pianist, and orchestrator.
* Claude Debussy (1862-1918): French composer, pianist, and music critic.
* Gustav Mahler (1860-1911): Bohemian-Austrian composer, conductor, and pianist.
* Richard Strauss (1864-1949): German composer, conductor, and pianist.
* Jean Sibelius (1865-1957): Finnish composer and violinist.
* Edward Elgar (1857-1934): English composer, violinist, and conductor.