Moffat Palmer (1915–2010), American composer of 2 symphonies George Perle (1915–2009), American composer of a Short Symphony (1980) and 2 sinfoniettas Vincent Persichetti (1915–1987), American composer of 9 symphonies Humphrey Searle (1915–1982), British composer of 5 symphonies Carlos Surinach (1915–1997), American composer of Catalan origin, he wrote 3 symphonies Denis ApIvor (1916–2004), British composer of 5 symphonies Karl-Birger Blomdahl (1916–1968), Swedish composer of 3 symphonies Houston Bright (1916–1970), American composer of 1 symphony Peter Crossley-Holland (1916–2001), British composer of 1 symphony Henri Dutilleux (1916–2013), French composer of 2 symphonies Einar Englund (1916–1999), Finnish composer of 7 symphonies Ellis Kohs (1916–2000), American composer of 2 symphonies Tolia Nikiprowetzky (1916–1997), Russian–French composer of 1 symphony and 1 sinfonietta Roh Ogura (1916–1990), Japanese composer of 1 symphony Nikolay Peyko (1916–1995), Russian composer of 10 symphonies plus a sinfonietta and a Concerto–Symphony Bernard Stevens (1916–1983), British composer of 2 symphonies Richard Arnell (1917–2009), English composer of 6 symphonies Anthony Burgess (1917–1993), British novelist and composer of 3 symphonies, of which only No.3 remains. He also wrote a Petite symphonie pour Strasbourg (1988), and a Sinfonietta for Liana (1990) Edward T. Cone (1917–2004), American composer of 1 symphony Roque Cordero (1917–2008), Panamanian composer of 4 symphonies Robert Farnon (1917–2005), Canadian composer of 3 symphonies John Gardner (1917–2011), English composer of 3 symphonies Jovdat Hajiyev (1917–2002), Azerbaijani composer of 6 symphonies Lou Harrison (1917–2003), American composer of 4 symphonies Francis Jackson (1917–2022), British composer of 1 symphony Ulysses Kay (1917–1995), American composer of 1 symphony and 1 sinfonietta Robert Ward (1917–2013), American composer of 6 symphonies Richard Yardumian (1917–1985), American composer of 2 symphonies Isang Yun (1917–1995), Korean composer of 7 symphonies Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990), American composer and conductor, composed 3 symphonies Lorne Betts (1918–1985), Canadian composer of 2 symphonies Harold Gramatges (1918–2008), Cuban composer of 1 symphony and a Sinfonietta Argeliers León (1918–1991), Cuban composer of 2 numbered symphonies, as well as an unnumbered Symphony for Strings A. J. Potter (1918–1980), Irish composer of 2 symphonies Tauno Pylkkänen (1918–1980), Finnish composer of 1 symphony and 1 sinfonietta George Rochberg (1918–2005), American composer of 6 symphonies Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918–1970), German composer of a Sinfonia prosodica (1945), as well as a Symphony in 1 movement (1947–51/53) Carlos Enrique Vargas Méndez (1919–1998), Costa Rican composer of a symphonie Jacob Avshalomov (1919–2013), American composer of 2 symphonies and 1 sinfonietta Sven-Erik Bäck (1919–1994), Swedish composer of 2 string