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Aaron Copland
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Composer (Music Score), Featured Music Born: November 14, 1900 in Brooklyn, New York City, NY Death: December 2, 1990 in North Tarrytown, NY Biography:The son of immigrant parents from Poland and Lithuania, Copland was exposed to concert music up through the Impressionists at an early age while growing up in New York. (One of his teachers prevented him from glancing at "Charles Ives"' Concord Sonata so he wouldn't be "contaminated" by it.) He studied harmony, counterpoint, and sonata form at the Boy's High School, and saved enough money to take off for Paris at the age of 20. There he studied with the legendary Nadia Boulanger, teacher of a generation of American composers. In Europe, he met avant-garde composers, began to be interested in jazz, and decided to create a uniquely American sound in his works. This ideal began to be realized in his pieces of the 1930s and 1940s which include the ballets Billy the Kid (1938), Rodeo (1942), and Appalachian Spring (1943-1944), and the orchestral scores Music for Radio (Prairie Journal) (1937), An Outdoor... Full Biography
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