John Tavener (1944) - György Ligeti (1923-2006)
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) - Henk Badings (1907-1987)
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) - Carl Rütti (1949)
Randall Thompson (1899-1984) - Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Aaron Jay Kernis (1960) - Conrad Susa (1935)
Morten Lauridsen (1943) - Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Meredith Monk (1943) - Jerome Kern (1885-1945)
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)