Carter, Elliott Cook Jr.
Born: Dec 11, 1908 AD
Currently alive, at 103 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Composers
Currently alive, at 103 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Composers
1908 - Born on December 11th in New York. American composer.
1926 - Carter was educated at Harvard University, where he first majored in English.
1932-1935 - He studied with Walter Piston, E. B. Hill, and Gustav Holst at Harvard and with Nadia Boulanger in Paris.
- He worked as musical director of Ballet Caravan and as a teacher.
1939 - Married to Helen Frost-Jones and they had a son.
1946 - In his Piano Sonata, he began to work from the interval content of particular chords, and inevitably to loosen the hold of tonality.
1951 - A period of withdrawal led to the First Quartet, a work of complex rhythmic interplay, long-ranging atonal melody and unusual form.
1960 - He won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his String Quartet No. 2.
1973 - He won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his String Quartet No. 3.
1985 - Recipient of the National Medal of Arts.
1986 - His String Quartet No. 4 is in a simpler style.
2001 - Highlights from an unusually long and prolific musical career include the ballet Pocahontas, a cello and piano sonata, five string quartets, Variations for orchestra, a piano concerto, a concerto for orchestra, A Mirror on Which to Dwell for soprano and nine players to poems by Elizabeth Bishop , Night Fantasies for piano, Changes for guitar, Adagio Tenebroso for orchestra, the opera What's Next?, and a cello concerto composed for Yo-Yo Ma.
1926 - Carter was educated at Harvard University, where he first majored in English.
1932-1935 - He studied with Walter Piston, E. B. Hill, and Gustav Holst at Harvard and with Nadia Boulanger in Paris.
- He worked as musical director of Ballet Caravan and as a teacher.
1939 - Married to Helen Frost-Jones and they had a son.
1946 - In his Piano Sonata, he began to work from the interval content of particular chords, and inevitably to loosen the hold of tonality.
1951 - A period of withdrawal led to the First Quartet, a work of complex rhythmic interplay, long-ranging atonal melody and unusual form.
1960 - He won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his String Quartet No. 2.
1973 - He won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his String Quartet No. 3.
1985 - Recipient of the National Medal of Arts.
1986 - His String Quartet No. 4 is in a simpler style.
2001 - Highlights from an unusually long and prolific musical career include the ballet Pocahontas, a cello and piano sonata, five string quartets, Variations for orchestra, a piano concerto, a concerto for orchestra, A Mirror on Which to Dwell for soprano and nine players to poems by Elizabeth Bishop , Night Fantasies for piano, Changes for guitar, Adagio Tenebroso for orchestra, the opera What's Next?, and a cello concerto composed for Yo-Yo Ma.
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