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Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor
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Ned Rorem
Ned Rorem
American composer
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Harold Shapero
Harold Shapero
American composer
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Morton Gould
Morton Gould
American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist
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Henry Cowell
Henry Cowell
American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario
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Jerome Moross
Jerome Moross
American composer; film score composer
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Lewis Spratlan
Lewis Spratlan
American music academic and composer of contemporary classical music
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Marc Blitzstein
Marc Blitzstein
American composer, lyricist, and librettist
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Ferde Grofé
Ferde Grofé
American composer, arranger, pianist and instrumentalist
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Deems Taylor
Deems Taylor
American composer, music critic, and promoter of classical music
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Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer, pianist and conductor
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Lou Harrison
Lou Harrison
American composer
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John Adams
John Adams
American composer
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Marvin Hamlisch
Marvin Hamlisch
American composer and conductor (1944-2012)
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John Corigliano
John Corigliano
American composer
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Nadia Boulanger
Nadia Boulanger
French musician and teacher
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Eugene Aynsley Goossens
Eugene Aynsley Goossens
English conductor and composer
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Elliott Carter
Elliott Carter
American composer
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Johnny Green
Johnny Green
American conductor, arranger, composer, pianist; Harvard AB 1928, achieved early fame as a songwriter and orchestra leader in the 1920s and 1930s
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Christopher Rouse
Christopher Rouse
American composer
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Frederick Stock
Frederick Stock
German composer
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Richard Rodgers
Richard Rodgers
American composer of songs and Broadway musicals
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Elmer Bernstein
Elmer Bernstein
American composer and conductor (1922-2004)
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Steven Richman
Steven Richman
American conductor
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Paul Romero
Paul Romero
American computer and video game music composer and classical pianist
Virgil Thomson
American composer and critic

Virgil Thomson

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American composer and critic
Awards Received
Guggenheim Fellowship
National Medal of Arts
Pulitzer Prize for Music
Kennedy Center Honors
Member of, past and present
American Academy of Arts and Letters

American Academy of Arts and Letters

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896 – September 30, 1989) was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music. He has been described as a modernist, a neoromantic, a neoclassicist, and a composer of "an Olympian blend of humanity and detachment" whose "expressive voice was always carefully muted" until his late opera Lord Byron which, in contrast to all his previous work, exhibited an emotional content that rises to "moments of real passion".