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Elliott Carter
12+ albums
contemporary classicalClassicalAvant-Gardeamerican20th Century
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Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. (born December 11, 1908, died November 5, 2012) is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born in New York City, a composer encompassing many facets of classical music, from neoclassicism to serialism. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, during which time he published his first composition in 1937 and then returned to the United States. After a neoclassical phase, he went on to write atonal, rhythmically complex music. His compositions, which have been performed all over the world, include orchestral and chamber music as well as solo instrumental and vocal works. Elliott Carter has been the recipient of the highest honors a composer can receive: the Gold Medal for Music awarded by the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the National Medal of Arts, membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and honorary degrees from many universities. Hailed by Aaron Copland as "one of America's most distinguished creative artists in any field," Carter has received two Pulitzer Prizes and commissions from many prestigious organizations. Carter's father, Elliott Carter, Sr. was a businessman and his mother was the former Florence Chambers. The family was well-to-do. As a teenager he developed an interest in music and was encouraged in this regard by the composer Charles Ives (who sold insurance to his family). In 1924 a "galvanized" 15-year-old Carter was in the audience wh
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CARTER: Piano Concerto / Symphony No. 1 / Holiday Overture
Carter, E.: Piano Music (Complete)
Elgar & Carter Cello Concertos
The Minotaur; Piano Sonata; Two Songs
Elliott Carter: Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello & Harpsichord; Sonata for Cello & Piano; Double Concerto for Harpsichord
Carter: Clarinet Concerto; Symphonia
Carter: The Five String Quartets
Carter: Late Works
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Carter: Piano Works
Romantic Approach (The), Vol. 1 - 20Th Century American Music
Carter, E.: String Quartets Nos. 2, 3 and 4