Quote by: Aaron Copland

You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.


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Author Bio


  • NameAaron Copland
  • DescriptionAmerican composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor
  • BornNovember 14, 1900
  • DiedDecember 2, 1990
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionConductor; Pianist; Composer; Choreographer; Musicologist; Music Educator; Jazz Musician
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; Rome Prize; Academy Award For Best Original Score; National Medal Of Arts; Handel Medallion; Presidential Medal Of Freedom; Grammy Trustees Award; Charles E. Lutton Man Of Music Award