biography
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| lived:
| (1896–1981)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Wahoo, Nebraska, USA. He was awarded the American Prix de Rome in 1921, and after three years' study in Italy became director of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, a post he held until 1964. Under his leadership, the School became one of the most important centres of American musical life. His compositions, firmly in the tradition of 19th-c Romanticism, include an opera, The Merry Mount, and seven symphonies. |
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