The American Classical Music Hall of Fame and Museum is a non-profit organization celebrating past and present individuals and institutions that have made significant contributions to classical music—"people who have contributed to American music and music in America", according to Samuel Adler (co-chairman of the organization's first artistic directorate). The project was founded in 1996 by Cincinnati businessman and civic leader David A. Klingshirm and inducted its first honorees in 1998. The organization's offices and exhibits are housed in the Hamilton County Memorial Building, next door to the Cincinnati Music Hall in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. The exhibits are not open to the public but are on view during some events at the School for Creative and Performing Arts in Cincinnati and via a virtual museum. "The Classical Walk of Fame", pavement stones engraved with names of American Classical Music Hall of Fame inductees, was opened in Washington Park outside the steps of the Cincinnati Music Hall in 2012. A mobile app allows park visitors to read biographies of the inductees, listen to samples of their music, and view related pictures. They can also play classical music through a mobile jukebox which activates the park's "dancing fountain".

Inductees

1998

Marian Anderson · Samuel Barber · Leonard Bernstein · Elliott Carter · Aaron Copland · Duke Ellington · George Gershwin · Howard Hanson · Charles Ives · Scott Joplin · Serge Koussevitzky · John Knowles Paine · Leontyne Price · Fritz Reiner · Arnold Schoenberg · Gunther Schuller · Roger Sessions · Robert Shaw · Nicolas Slonimsky · John Philip Sousa · Isaac Stern · Leopold Stokowski · Igor Stravinsky · Theodore Thomas · Arturo Toscanini · United States Marine Band

1999

Milton Babbitt · Béla Bartók · Amy Beach · George W. Chadwick · Charles Tomlinson Griffes · Jascha Heifetz · H. Wiley Hitchcock · Marilyn Horne · Music Division of the Library of Congress · Dmitri Mitropoulos · Max Rudolf · William Schuman · William Grant Still · Edgard Varèse · William Warfield

2000

Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge · Leon Fleisher · Edward MacDowell · Metropolitan Opera · Eugene Ormandy · Walter Piston · Rudolf Serkin · Beverly Sills · George Szell · George Walker

2001

William Billings · Van Cliburn · George Crumb · Antonín Dvořák · Frederick Fennell · Arthur Fiedler · Paul Hindemith · Juilliard String Quartet · New York Philharmonic · Itzhak Perlman · Sergei Rachmaninoff · Virgil Thomson

2002

John Cage · Pablo Casals · Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra · Dorothy DeLay · Lukas Foss · Louis Moreau Gottschalk · Handel and Haydn Society · Lorin Maazel · Gian Carlo Menotti · Darius Milhaud · Jessye Norman · Artur Schnabel · Leonard Slatkin

2003

Boston Symphony Orchestra · Dave Brubeck · Morton Gould · James Levine · Steinway & Sons

2004

Gustav Mahler · Zubin Mehta · André Previn · Michael Tilson Thomas · Frederica Von Stade · John Williams

2006

Martin Bookspan

2007

Cleveland Orchestra · Yo-Yo Ma · Donald Martino · Harvey G. Phillips

2008

Samuel Adler · Chanticleer · The Juilliard School · Erich Kunzel · Lowell Mason · Risë Stevens

2009

John Adams · James Conlon · League of American Orchestras · Midori Gotō

2010

BMI · Marin Alsop · Joseph W. Polisi · William Bolcom · ASCAP · Emerson Quartet

2011

Sir Georg Solti · John Corigliano · Philip Glass · Gregor Piatigorsky · Charles Wadsworth · Chorus America · Chicago Symphony Orchestra

2012

Dale Warland · Beaux Arts Trio · Philadelphia Orchestra · Nadia Boulanger · Emanuel Ax · Opera America · Steve Reich · David Zinman

2013

Aaron Jay Kernis · American Guild of Organists · Guarneri Quartet · Weston Noble · André Watts

2015

Henry Lewis · Mormon Tabernacle Choir

2017

Los Angeles Master Chorale · Larry Rachleff · Fisk Jubilee Singers · Margaret Hillis · Renee Fleming

2018

Tanglewood Music Festival · Westminster Choir College · Ellen Taaffe Zwilich · Apollo's Fire · Ned Rorem · Janos Starker · Xian Zhang (conductor)

2019

Henry Burleigh · Sarah Caldwell · Gary Graffman · Adolph Herseth · Interlochen Arts Academy · Kronos Quartet · LaSalle Quartet · H. Robert Reynolds · Michael Steinberg (music critic) · Joan Tower · Bruno Walter

2020

Martina Arroyo · Baldwin Piano Company · Cincinnati Opera · Paula Crider · David Diamond (composer) · Josef Gingold · Gerre Hancock · John Philip Sousa Band · Libby Larsen · Riccardo Muti · Thomas Schippers · St. Louis Symphony