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Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. (born December 11, 1908, died November 5, 2012) is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American
composer born and living in New York City, a composer encompassing many facets of classical music, from neoclassicism to
serialism. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, during which time he published his first composition in 1937
and then returned to the United States. After a neoclassical phase, he went on to write atonal, rhythmically complex music.
His compositions, which have been performed all over the world, include orchestral and chamber music ...read more
Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. (born December 11, 1908, died November 5, 2012) is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American
composer born and living in New York City, a composer encompassing many facets of classical music, from neoclassicism to
serialism. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, during which time he published his first composition in 1937
and then returned to the United States. After a neoclassical phase, he went on to write atonal, rhythmically complex music.
His compositions, which have been performed all over the world, include orchestral and chamber music as well as solo
instrumental and vocal works.
Elliott Carter has been the recipient of the highest honors a composer can receive: the Gold Medal for Music awarded by the
National Institute of Arts and Letters, the National Medal of Arts, membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters
and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and honorary degrees from many universities. Hailed by Aaron Copland as
“one of America’s most distinguished creative artists in any field,” Carter has received two Pulitzer Prizes and commissions
from many prestigious organizations.
Carter’s father, Elliott Carter, Sr. was a businessman and his mother was the former Florence Chambers. The family was
well-to-do. As a teenager he developed an interest in music and was encouraged in this regard by the composer Charles Ives
(who sold insurance to his family). In 1924 a “galvanized” 15-year-old Carter was in the audience when Pierre Monteux
conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the New York première of The Rite of Spring, according to a 2008 report.
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