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Born October 28, 1896 • Nebraska
Died February 26, 1981 (aged 84) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize
Notable Works “Symphony No. 2”
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
American composer
Schuller, Gunther
Gunther Schuller
American composer
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Zhou Long
Chinese American composer
John Corigliano
John Corigliano
American composer
Toch
Ernst Toch
Austrian composer
John Adams
John Adams
American composer and conductor
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Charles Ives
American composer
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
American composer
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Samuel Barber
American composer
Sessions
Roger Sessions
American composer
William Bolcom
William Bolcom
American composer
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William Schuman
American composer
Virgil Thomson
Virgil Thomson
American musician
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Walter Piston
American composer
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Norman Dello Joio
American composer
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Douglas Stuart Moore
American composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian 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
Kurt Weill
Kurt Weill
German-American composer
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Ernst Krenek
American composer

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