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- Curt Cacioppo (born 1951)
- Charles Wakefield Cadman (1881–1946)
- John Cage (1912–1992)
- Robert Carl (born 1954)
- John Alden Carpenter (1876–1951)
- Benjamin Carr (1768–1831)
- Elliott Carter (1908–2012)
- Kristopher Carter (born 1972)
- Romeo Cascarino (1922–2002)
- George Whitefield Chadwick (1854–1931)
- Chen Yi (born 1953)
- Paul Chihara (born 1938)
- F. Melius Christiansen (1871–1955)
- Paul J. Christiansen (1914–1997)
- Avery Claflin (1898–1979)
- Rene Clausen (born 1953)
- Gloria Coates (born 1938)
- Louis Coerne (1870–1922)
- Robert Cogan (born 1930)
- James Cohn (born 1928)
- Edward Joseph Collins (1886–1951)
- Edward T. Cone (1917–2004)
- Zez Confrey (1895–1971)
- Sylvia Constantinidis (born 1962)
- David Conte (born 1955)
- Charles Crozat Converse (1832–1918)
- Frederick Converse (1871–1940)
- Will Marion Cook (1869–1944)
- Carson Cooman (born 1982)
- David Cope (born 1941)
- Aaron Copland (1900–1990)
- Carmine Coppola (1910–1991)
- John Corigliano (born 1938)
- Henry Cowell (1897–1965)
- John Craton (born 1953)
- Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901–1953)
- Noah Creshevsky (born 1945)
- Paul Creston (1906–1985)
- David Crumb (born 1962)
- George Crumb (born 1929)
- Conrad Cummings (born 1948)
- Alvin Curran (born 1938)
- Sebastian Currier (born 1959)
- Hoyt Curtin (1922–2000)
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