List of Jewish American composers
This is a list of Jewish American composers. For listings of Jewish American songwriters, musicals writers, and film composers, see List of Jewish American musicians, which shares some names with this list. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.
- Larry Adler, composer
- Lera Auerbach, naturalized American, Russian-born composer
- Milton Babbitt, composer
- Irving Berlin, composer and lyricist
- Leonard Bernstein, composer and conductor
- José Antonio Bowen , jazz musician and president of Goucher College
- David Burger composer of choral music, including Tefliah Lishlom Medinat Yisrael
- Aaron Copland, composer and conductor
- Morton Feldman, composer
- George Gershwin, composer and songwriter
- Philip Glass
- Yossi Green, Hasidic Jewish composer of contemporary Jewish religious music
- Jerome Kern, composer and songwriter
- Fritz Kreisler, violinist and composer, one of the most famous of his day
- Leo Ornstein, modernist composer and pianist, Russian-born
- Lou Reed, songwriter, composer and guitarist, a member of the Velvet Underground
- Steve Reich, composer
- Arnold Schoenberg, naturalized American, Austrian-born composer
- Nicolas Slonimsky, naturalized American, Russian-born composer, conductor and author
- Stephen Sondheim, composer and lyricist
- Morton Subotnick, composer of electronic and other music, husband to Joan LaBarbara
- Kurt Weill, naturalized American, German-born composer and songwriter, who wrote orchestral music and "show music"
- John Zorn, composer and saxophonist
