- George Antheil
- Milton Babbitt
- Samuel Barber
- Bela Bartók
- Leonard Bernstein
- Ernest Bloch
- John Cage
- Elliott Carter
- Carlos Chávez
- Henry Cowell
- Paul Creston
- Claude Debussy
- Edward "Duke" Ellington
- Roy Harris
- Lou Harrison
- Paul Hindemith
- Charles Ives
- Witold Lutoslawski
- Gian Carlo Menotti
- Harry Partch
- Sergei Prokefiev
- Ravel
- Max Reger
- Erik Satie
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Alexander Scriabin
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Igor Stravinsky
- Alexander Tcherepnin
- Virgil Thomson
- Edgard Varese
- Ralph Vaughn-Williams
- William Walton
- Anton von Webern (1883-1945)