- Claude Debussy (France)
- Maurice Ravel (France)
- Igor Stravinsky (Russia)
- Arnold Schoenberg (Austria)
- Béla Bartók (Hungary)
- Alban Berg (Austria)
- Anton Webern (Austria)
- Richard Strauss (Germany)
- Max Reger (Germany)
- Gustav Mahler (Austria)
- Jean Sibelius (Finland)
- Edward Elgar (England)
- Ralph Vaughan Williams (England)
- Frederick Delius (England)
- Charles Ives (United States)
Popular music:
- George Gershwin (United States)
- Irving Berlin (United States)
- Cole Porter (United States)
- Jerome Kern (United States)
- Richard Rodgers (United States)
- Lorenz Hart (United States)
- Oscar Hammerstein II (United States)
- Duke Ellington (United States)
- Louis Armstrong (United States)
- Bessie Smith (United States)
- Billie Holiday (United States)
- Fats Waller (United States)