Who is Aaron Copland?

was born in 1900 in Brooklyn, New York and Aaron Copland actually began to compose before formally began the piano lessons at 13.

In 1921 he began attending the US Conservatory in France and studying and composition. He continued his studies in Paris with Ricard Viñes and Nadia Boulangerová, who in 1924 performed their symphony organ. Since the mid -thirties to the 1940s, Copland had an incredibly fruitful period. Between 1939 and 1948 he wrote seven film scores; Opera - second hurricane ; Three Ballets - Billy The Kid, Rodeo and Appalachian Spring ; And his well -known orchestral pieces "calm city", "fanfjs for an ordinary man," "music for movies" and "Lincoln Portrait" - the last three of them were all composed in 1942. The songs and canticle of freedom .

COPLAND was nominated for six Academy Awards. In 1940 he was nominated for the two best music awards in 1940 and 1941 - the original score and scoring - for his work on mice and men and in our city. In 1944 he was nominated for the best music: scoring a dramatic or comedy picture of Fnebo North Star. And in 1950 he won the Oscar for the best music: scoring a dramatic or comedy picture for heritage.

Cophland was also the first recipient of the composer in Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1986 he won the American National Medal of Art of the National Foundation of the Art Award in 1986.

After the mid -70. He died in 1990 in North Tarrytown in New York.