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Biography of Aaron Copland
Name: Aaron Copland
Birth Date: November 14, 1900
Death Date: December 2, 1990
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: composer
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland (1900-1990) was one of the most important figures in American music during the second quarter of the 20th century, both as a composer and as a spokesman who was concerned about making Americans conscious of the importance of their indigenous music.Aaron Copland was born on November 14, 1900, in Brooklyn, New York, the youngest of five children born to Harris Morris Copland and Sarah (Mittenthal) Copland. He attended Boys' High School and studied music privately (theory and composition with Rubin Goldmark, beginning in 1917). In 1921 he went to France to study at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, where his principal teacher was Nadia Boulanger. During his early studies, he had been much attracted by the music of Scriabin, Debussy, and Ravel; the years in Paris provided an opportunity to hear and absorb all the most recent trends in European music, notably the works of Stravinsky, Bartók, and Schoenberg.Upon …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…America. Although he had been out of the major spotlight for almost twenty years, he remained semi-active in the music world up until his death, conducting his last symphony in 1983.Copland died on December 2,1990 in New York City and was remembered as a man who encouraged young composers to find their own voice, no matter the style, just as he had done for six decades. Further Reading An autobiographical sketch is included in Copland's The New Music, 1900-1960 (titled Our New Music)(1968). Arthur V. Berger Aaron Copland (1953), contains more penetrating observations about Copland's music, but Julia F. Smith Aaron Copland: His Work and Contribution to American Music (1955), is also useful. A detailed biography up to that point appears in the 1951 issue of Current Biography. Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man, an exceptionally thorough biography, was published in 1999. Copland's obituary appears in the December 17, 1990, issue of Time magazine.
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