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
 * Samuel Adler (1928– ), American (German-born) composer
 * Milton Babbitt (1916–2011), composer
 * Irving Berlin (1888–1989), composer and lyricist
 * Elmer Bernstein (1922–2004), composer
 * Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990), composer and conductor
 * José Antonio Bowen (b. 1952), jazz musician and president of Goucher College
 * David Burger composer of choral music, including Tefliah Lishlom Medinat Yisrael
 * Aaron Copland (1900–1990), composer and conductor
 * Bob Dylan (b. 1941), songwriter and lyricist, né Robert Zimmerman
 * Oliver Elfman (b. 2005), composer
 * Morton Feldman (1926–1987), composer
 * George Gershwin (1898–1937), composer and songwriter
 * Ira Gershwin (1896–1983), lyricist and songwriter
 * Philip Glass (b. 1937)
 * Israel Goldfarb composer of a melody for Shalom Aleichem
 * Yossi Green (b. 1955), Hasidic Jewish composer of contemporary Jewish religious music
 * Marvin Hamlisch (1944–2012)
 * Jerome Kern (1885–1945), composer and songwriter
 * Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962), violinist and composer, one of the most famous of his day
 * Hank Levy (1927–2001), jazz composer and saxophonist, composer of "Whiplash", which was featured in the 2014 film of the same name
 * Alan Menken (b. 1949), composer
 * Leo Ornstein (1893–2002), modernist composer and pianist, Russian-born
 * Lou Reed (1942–2013), songwriter, composer and guitarist, a member of the Velvet Underground
 * Steve Reich (b. 1937), composer
 * Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) composer (and occasional lyricist)
 * Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951), naturalized American, Austrian-born composer
 * Stephen Schwartz (1948–), composer and lyricist
 * Nicolas Slonimsky (1894–1995), naturalized American, Russian-born composer, conductor and author
 * Stephen Sondheim (b. 1930), composer and lyricist
 * David Stock (1939–2015), composer of chamber music and symphonic music
 * Morton Subotnick (b. 1933), composer of electronic and other music, husband to Joan LaBarbara
 * Kurt Weill (1900–1950), naturalized American, German-born composer and songwriter, who wrote orchestral music and "show music"
 * John Zorn (b. 1953), composer and saxophonist