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Greatest American composers

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A local radio station asked listeners for submissions. Here are my top 10 favorites, in no particular order. Various genres and styles included. (And by "American," I mean American born.)

George Gershwin
Richard Rodgers
Bob Dylan
Scott Joplin
Jerome Kern
Duke Ellington
Howard Hanson
Cole Porter
Phillip Glass
Aaron Copland

Irving Berlin should be on the list, but he wasn't US born.

Here are 5 close runners up:

Samuel Barber
Carole King
Leonard Bernstein
Paul Simon
Henry Mancini
 
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