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Born November 14, 1900 • New York City • New York • (Birthday tomorrow)
Died December 2, 1990 (aged 90) • New York
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize • Kennedy Center Honors (1979) • Grammy Award (1960) • Academy Award (1950)
Notable Works “Appalachian Spring” • “Billy the Kid” • “Fanfare for the Common Man” • “Symphony No. 3” • “The Red Pony”

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Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
Martha Graham dances center stage in Appalachian Spring, 1954, with four women seated against a simple set, a woman in dark dress at left, and a man seated in the foreground.
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Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Schuller, Gunther
Gunther Schuller
American composer
John Corigliano
John Corigliano
American composer
Portrait of composer Sergey Prokofiev, circa 1938, wearing round glasses, a suit, and a tie, looking slightly to the side.
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Toch
Ernst Toch
Austrian composer
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Walter Piston
American composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
BĂŠla BartĂłk
BĂŠla BartĂłk
Hungarian composer
Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
French composer
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Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
British composer
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Elliott Carter
American composer
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Samuel Barber
American composer
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William Schuman
American composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Dmitry Shostakovich sits at a desk by a window, looking at sheet music, wearing glasses and a suit, with papers and books arranged on the desk.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian composer
Hans Werner Henze.
Hans Werner Henze
German composer
Poulenc
Francis Poulenc
French composer
Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg in a suit, seated at a piano and holding a conductor's baton, appears to be conducting music in a wood-paneled room.
Arnold Schoenberg
American composer
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Carlos Surinach
American composer

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