Aaron Copland (1900–1990)

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1. Aaron Copland

   Author of What to Listen for in Music, Copland: 1900-1942, Copland: Since 1943

2. Leonard Bernstein

   Author of The Joy of Music, The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures), Findings

3. Joseph Machlis

   Author of The Enjoyment of Music

4. Charles Rosen

   Author of The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Arnold Schoenberg

5. Donald Jay Grout

   Author of A History of Western Music

6. Harold C. Schonberg

   Author of The Lives of the Great Composers, The Great Pianists: From Mozart to the Present, The Great Conductors

7. Ted Libbey

   Author of The NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection : The 350 Essential Works

8. Igor Stravinsky

   Author of Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures), Igor Stravinsky: An Autobiography, Petrushka in Full Score: Original Version

9. Harold Bloom

   Author of The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages, How to Read and Why

10. Alex Ross

    Author of The Rest is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century

11. Joseph Kerman

    Author of Opera as Drama, New and Revised edition, Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology, The New Grove Beethoven

12. Robert Jourdain

    Author of Music, The Brain, And Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination

13. Edith Hamilton

    Author of The Greek Way

14. Virgil Thomson

    Author of A Virgil Thomson reader, Virgil Thomson

15. Johan Huizinga

    Author of The Autumn of the Middle Ages

16. Allan Bloom

    Author of The Closing of the American Mind

17. Nicolas Slonimsky

    Author of Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time, Lectionary of music, Perfect Pitch: A Life Story

18. Robert McCrum

    Author of The Story of English

19. Daniel J. Boorstin

    Author of The Discoverers

20. Lewis Thomas

    Author of The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher