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Elliott Carter by James Eugene Wierzbicki is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
What is Elliott Carter about?
This compact introduction to the life and works of composer Elliott Carter provides a fresh perspective on one of the most significant American composers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. A leading voice of the American classical music tradition and a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music, Carter was initially encouraged to become a composer by Charles Ives, and he went on to learn from Walter Piston at Harvard University and Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Drawing on Carter's vol
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- James Eugene Wierzbicki
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780252078002
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Music, Biography
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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