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Aaron Copland biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Aaron Copland

Author Name:

Aaron Copland

Born As:

Aaron Kaplan

Other Names:

Born:

14 Nov 1900

Died:

2 Dec 1990

Composer

Selected Works

Scherzo Humoristique: The Cat and the Mouse - 1920
Four Motets - 1922
Passacaglia- (piano solo - 1922
Symphony for Organ and Orchestra - 1924
Music for the Theater - 1925
Dance Symphony - 1925
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra - 1926
Symphonic Ode - 1927-1929
Piano Variations - 1930
Grohg - 1925/32 - ballet
Statements for orchestra - 1932-35
The Second Hurricane, play-opera for high school performance - 1936
El Salón México - 1936
Billy the Kid - 1938 - ballet
Quiet City - 1940
Our Town - 1940
Piano Sonata - 1939-41
An Outdoor Overture  - 1941, written for band
Fanfare for the Common Man (1942
Lincoln Portrait (1942
Rodeo - 1942) - ballet
Danzon Cubano - 1942
Music for the Movies - 1942
Sonata for violin and piano - 1943
Appalachian Spring - 1944 - ballet
Third Symphony - 1944-1946
In the Beginning - 1947
The Red Pony - 1948
Clarinet Concerto - commissioned by Benny Goodman - 1947-1948
Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson - 1950
Piano Quartet - 1950
Old American Songs - 1952
The Tender Land - 1954 - opera
Canticle of Freedom - 1955
Orchestral Variations - orchestration of Piano Variations - 1957
Piano Fantasy - 1957
Dance Panels - 1959; revised 1962 ballet
Connotations - 1962
Down A Country Lane - 1962
Music for a Great City - 1964 - based on his score of the 1961 film Something Wild
Emblems, for wind band - 1964
Inscape - 1967
Duo for flute and piano - 1971
Three Latin American Sketches = 1972

Known as the Dean of American composers.

Before immigrating to the United States from Scotland, Copland's father Anglicized his surname “Kaplan” to “Copland”.

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.

Paul Gauguin, 1848 – 1903

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