Pete Johnson (1904 – 1967): American Boogie-Woogie Pianist

Count Basie (1904 – 1984): American Jazz Pianist, Bandleader – 20th Century Period (Big Band/Swing Jazz)

Fats Waller (1904 – 1943): American Composer, Jazz Pianist, Organist, Singer, Bandleader – 20th century Period (Harlem Stride Jazz)

Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904 – 1987): Russian Composer, Teacher – 20th Century Period

Frances Clark (1905 – 1998): American Piano Pedagogue

• AB degree from Kalamazoo College with graduate studies in music from University of Michigan, The Juilliard School, the Paris Conservatory, and the American Academy at Fontainebleau.
• Trained under Nadia Bulanger and Isidor Philipp in Paris, and Ernest Hutcheson and Guy Maier from Julliard.
• Started the first four-year piano pedagogy degree program in the United States at Kalamazoo College (Louise Gross was a student of the first class).
• Along with Louise Goss, Clark was director of piano and piano pedagogy program at Westminster Choir College in New Jersey.
• Co-founded (along with Louise Goss) The New School for Music Study in Princeton.
• Pioneer of group piano teaching. Wrote Questions and Answers (1992) describing her philosophical approaches to group piano lessons.
• The mission statement of The Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy reads in part “to extend the influence of her [Francis Clark] inclusive and revolutionary philosophy of music education at the keyboard.” ^{[ 2 ]}

Roosevelt Sykes (1906 – 1983): American Blues Pianist, Singer

Little Brother Montgomery (1906 – 1985): American Blues Pianist, Singer, Bandleader

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 – 1975): Russian Composer, Pianist – 20th Century Period

Art Tatum, Jr. (1909 – 1956): American Jazz Pianist (Stride, Swing, Boogie-Woogie Jazz)

Soulima Stravinsky (1910 – 1994): Swiss Composer, Classical Pianist (Son of Igor Stravinsky) – 20th Century period