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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
Zhou Long
Chinese American composer
John Corigliano
John Corigliano
American composer
Toch
Ernst Toch
Austrian composer
John Adams
John Adams
American composer and conductor
Charles Ives
American composer
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
American composer
Samuel Barber
American composer
Sessions
Roger Sessions
American composer
William Bolcom
William Bolcom
American composer
William Schuman
American composer
Virgil Thomson
Virgil Thomson
American musician
Walter Piston
American composer
Norman Dello Joio
American composer
Douglas Stuart Moore
American composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg
American composer
Kurt Weill
Kurt Weill
German-American composer
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein
American composer and conductor

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