1

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

2

Miki Matsubara (1959-2004)

3

Scott Joplin (1868-1917)

4

Paul Shaffer, 71

5

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)

6

Armando Manzanero (1935-2020)

7

Aleksander Milwiw-Baron, 37

8

Joe Hisaishi, 70

9

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

10

Moose Charlap (1928-1974)

11

Sulaiman Merchant, 50

12

Harry Gregson-Williams, 59

13

Chuck Mangione, 80

14

John Altman, 71

15

Alice Parker, 95

16

Bappi Lahiri, 68

17

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

18

Deke Sharon, 53

19

Johnny Mandel (1925-2020)

20

Rachel Portman, 60

21

Manu Guix, 41

22

Jay Greenberg, 29

23

Hani Shaker, 68

24

Paul Hardcastle, 63

25

Nino Rota (1911-1979)

26

Slavko Avsenik (1929-2015)

27

Robert B. Sherman (1925-2012)

28

Harry Carroll (1892-1962)

29

Dobri Hristov (1875-1941)

30

Cesar Franck (1822-1890)

31

Arthur Fiedler (1894-1979)

32

Jeremy Soule, 45

33

Simon Viklund, 41

34

Joseph Lamb (1887-1960)

35

Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020)

36

Leo Ornstein (1893-2002)

37

Kayhan Kalhor, 57

38

Wadada Leo Smith, 79

39

Walter Murphy, 68

40

Heitor Pereira, 60

41

Egberto Gismonti, 73

42

A Scott Berg, 71

43

Gunther Schuller (1925-2015)

44

Alex North (1910-1991)

45

Jerry Bock (1928-2010)

46

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)

47

Ben Sollee, 37

48

John Lurie, 68