American Academy of Arts and Letters Music Prize (1941-1949)

1941: Frederick Woltmann

1942: Bernard Herrmann

1942: Edward Margetson

1942: Robert McBride

1943: Paul Creston

1943: William Schuman

1944: Burrill Phillips

1944: Nicolai Berezowsky

1944: David Leo Diamond

1945: Jerzy Fitelberg

1945: William Bergsma

1945: Gian Carlo Menotti

1946: Marc Blitzstein

1946: Peter Mennin

1946: Robert Palmer

1946: Norman Dello Joio

1946: Otto Luening

1946: Robert E. Ward

1947: Alexei Haieff

1947: Normand Lockwood

1947: Ulysses Kay

1948: Henry Cowell

1948: Lou Harrison

1948: Vincent Persichetti

1949: John Cage

1949: Louis Mennini