(born 1937), Iranian-Armenian conductor and composer of 5 symphonies Wang Xilin (born 1937), Chinese composer of at 7 symphonies Elizabeth R. Austin (born 1938), American composer of 2 symphonies Howard Blake (born 1938), English composer of 2 symphonies William Bolcom (born 1938), American pianist and composer of 6 symphonies Youri Boutsko (1938–2015), Russian composer of 13 symphonies Gloria Coates (born 1938), American composer of 16 symphonies John Corigliano (born 1938), American composer of 3 symphonies John Harbison (born 1938), American composer of 6 symphonies Paavo Heininen (1938–2022), Finnish composer of 6 symphonies Frederic Rzewski (1938–2021), American composer of a Scratch Symphony (1997) José Serebrier (born 1938), Uruguayan composer of 3 symphonies Christopher Steel (1938–1991), British composer of 7 symphonies Charles Wuorinen (1938–2020), American composer of 8 numbered symphonies and a Microsymphony (1992) Louis Andriessen (1939–2021), Dutch composer of De negen symfonieën van Beethoven, for orchestra and ice-cream vendor's bell (1970), Symfonieën der Nederlanden, for two or more wind bands (1974), and Symphony for Open Strings for 12 solo strings (1978) Robert Jager (born 1939), American composer of 2 symphonies and a sinfonietta Jaroslav Krček (born 1939), Czech composer of 6 symphonies Robert Matthew-Walker (born 1939), English composer of 8 symphonies and 1 sinfonietta John McCabe (1939–2015), English composer of 5 numbered symphonies, plus a Six-minute Symphony for strings Patric Standford (1939–2014), English composer of 5 symphonies Tomáš Svoboda (1939–2022), Czech-American composer of 6 symphonies Boris Tishchenko (1939–2010), Russian composer of 7 symphonies plus a "French Symphony", "Sinfonia Robusta", the Choreo-symphonic cycle of "Beatrice" (5 symphonies), and a "Pushkin Symphony" Margaret Lucy Wilkins (born 1939), English composer of 1 symphony Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (born 1939), American composer of 5 symphonies Alireza Mashayekhi (born 1940), Iranian composer of 9 symphonies Tilo Medek (1940–2006), German composer of 3 symphonies Stephen Albert (1941–1992), American composer of 2 symphonies (the second with orchestration completed by Sebastian Currier) Judith Margaret Bailey (born 1941), English composer of 2 symphonies Derek Bourgeois (1941–2017), British composer of 114 symphonies Sebastian Forbes (born 1941), British composer of 1 symphony Friedrich Goldmann (1941–2009), German composer of 4 numbered symphonies and 4 unnumbered symphonies plus a sinfonietta and Quasi una sinfonia Adolphus Hailstork (born 1941), American composer of 3 symphonies John Melby (born 1941), American composer of 2 symphonies Gillian Whitehead (born 1941), New Zealand–born Australian composer of 1 symphony Richard Edward Wilson (born 1941), American composer of 3 symphonies Philip Bračanin