Introduction
A list of selected pictures of real and invented American composers, from the list found here.
Gallery of American Composers
John Whipple, 1633 Thomas Young, 1635 Charles Greenley, 1643 Andreas Vanderheyden, 1647 Francis Hitch, 1650 James Middleton, 1658 Benjamin Withers, 1668 Solomon Barley, 1673 Josiah Faucett, 1675 Timothy Maxfield, 1678 Abraham Wright, 1683 Francis Honeywell, 1685
Born 1646-1712
Jacob Turner, 1689 Christopher Ingalls, 1693 Jeremy Chandler, 1705 Malachi Langston, 1708 Benjamin Dixon, 1712 George Henshaw, 1715 Thomas Mankin, 1723 John Holyfield, 1725 William Blackwell, 1728 Charles Merrill, 1735 Henry Judson, 1745 Christopher Fairfax, 1751
Classical era (c1730-c1820)
John Stebbins, 1757 Charles Hastings, 1762 George Warren, 1767 Andrew Dorsett, 1770 Francis Hyland, 1776 Nicholas Atherton, 1778 John Antes, 1781 William Hardrick, 1785 William Billings, 1787 George Farlow, 1789 Thomas Stubblefield, 1791 Robert Selleck, 1805
Romantic (c1800-c1910)
Born 1772-1817
William Sharpe, 1814 Thomas Blake, 1821 Robert Alldredge, 1827 Frederick Leaman, 1833 Vincent Hyde, 1842 Robert Fennell, 1850 William Henry Fry, 1853 Alexander Peniston, 1858
Born 1825-1860
George Frederick Bristow, 1862 Louis Moreau Gottschalk, 1864 Henry Litchfield, 1871 John Knowles Paine, 1879 Horatio Crocker, 1883 George Ingersoll, 1892 George Whitefield Chadwick, 1894 Edward MacDowell, 1899
Modern and Contemporary (c1880-????)
Born 1863-1898
Harry Wayne Lawley, 1903 Joseph Moffa, 1912 Reuben Friedman, 1914 Charles Ives, 1916 Carl Ruggles, 1919 Henry Kaplan, 1922 Roy Jacob Cooper, 1924 Deems Taylor, 1926 Ferde Grofe, 1930 George Gershwin, 1932 William Grant Still, 1934 Virgil Thomson, 1936
Born 1898-1924
Norman Stephen Richardson, 1938 Aaron Copland, 1940 Anthony Mangino, 1942 Ross Lee Finney, 1946 Elliott Carter, 1949 Samuel Barber, 1951 John Cage, 1953 Morton Gould, 1955 David Diamond, 1957 Lou Harrison, 1958 Leonard Bernstein, 1960 Joe Bonatto, 1966
Born 1926-1964
Morton Feldman, 1967 Nicolas Flagello, 1969 George Crumb, 1971 Steve Reich, 1976 Philip Glass, 1977 Bob Dametto, 1981 Jacques LaRue, 1985 John Coolidge Adams, 1988 Jose Delgado, 1990 John Luther Adams, 1993 Lionel Bullock, 2000 Mike Fedorov, 2004
