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Fast Facts
- Born: November 14, 1900Lucid Café: Copland biography
- 1913-1917: took music lessons with Leopold WolfsohnMusic Academy Online: Leopold Wolfsohn
- First performance: at a at a Wanamaker recitalAmerican Composers: The Cat and the Mouse
- 1917-1921: composed short piano pieces and songs
- 1934: completed first ballet scoreAzstartnet: Aaron Copland
- 1939: completed first two film scoresAmerican Music Preservation: Aaron Copland Tribute
- 1953: testified that he was never a communistMinnosota Public Radio: Conscience Vs Mccarthy; the Policital Aaron Copeland
- Died: December 2, 19908 Notes: Copland's Life and Works
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Selected Musical Compositions
- The Cat and the Mouse for piano (1920)
- Three Moods for piano (1920)
- Passacaglia for piano (1922)
- Dance Symphony for orchestra (1925)
- Piano Concerto for piano and orchestra (1926)
- Four Piano Blues for piano (1926-48)
- Poet's Song for voice and piano (1927)
- Vocalise No.1 for voice (1928)
- Symphony No.1 for orchestra (1928)
- Of Mice and Men soundtrack (1939)
- The City soundtrack (1939)
- Our Town soundtrack (1940)
- John Henry for orchestra (1940, revised in 1952)
- Piano Sonata for piano (1941)
- North Star soundtrack (1943)
- Dirge in the Woods for voice and piano (1954)
- Three Latin American Sketches for piano (1972)
- Threnody No. for orchestra (1972)
- Threnody No.2 for orchestra (1973)
- Proclamation for orchestra (1973-82)
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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. - Aaron Copland
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Listening to Aaron Copland and thinking about the past, well thinking about the past and reading about consciousness.
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Aaron Copland (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) - $6.95
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Aaron Copland: THE LIFE AND WORK OF AN UNCOMMON MAN (Music in American Life) - $40.00
One of America's most beloved and accomplished composers, Aaron Copland played a crucial role in the coming of age of American music. This substantial biography is the first full-length scholarly study of Copland's life and work. A conducto...
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Bernstein Century - Copland: Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, etc / Bernstein, New York PO - $11.98
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