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Harold Shapero
Harold Shapero
American composer
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Donald Martino
Donald Martino
American composer
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Noël Lee
Noël Lee
American musician
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Robert Ward
Robert Ward
American composer
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Peter Dickinson
Peter Dickinson
British composer
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Thea Musgrave
Thea Musgrave
Scottish composer
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Alberto Ginastera
Alberto Ginastera
Argentine composer
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Michael Tilson Thomas
Michael Tilson Thomas
American conductor, pianist and composer
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Stefans Grové
Stefans Grové
South African composer
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José Serebrier
José Serebrier
Uruguayan conductor and composer
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Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein
American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist
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Anton Arensky
Anton Arensky
Russian composer, pianist and professor of music
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Amy Beach
Amy Beach
American composer and pianist
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Mikko Heiniö
Mikko Heiniö
Finnish composer
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Jörg Duda
Jörg Duda
German composer
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Joan Tower
Joan Tower
American composer, concert pianist and conductor
Irving Fine
American composer

Irving Fine

Intro
American composer
Awards Received
Guggenheim Fellowship
Music

Irving Gifford Fine (December 3, 1914 – August 23, 1962) was an American composer. Fine's work assimilated neoclassical, romantic, and serial elements. Composer Virgil Thomson described Fine's "unusual melodic grace" while Aaron Copland noted the "elegance, style, finish and...convincing continuity" of Fine's music.

Fine was a member of a close-knit group of Boston composers in the mid-20th century who were sometimes called the "Boston Six" or "Boston School." Other members of the Boston School included Arthur Berger, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss, and Harold Shapero.