Aaron Copland
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Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland was one of the most respected American, and one of American’s greatest composers of the twentieth century. He showed the word how to write classical music in an American way by incorporating popular forms of music such as jazz and folks into his composition.
Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 14, 1900. The fifth child of Russian-Jewish immigrants from Lithuania, he first showed interest in music. He learned to play the piano from his older sister Laurine, and in less than a year, Copland had learned everything she could teach him. Upon graduating from high school, Copland studied harmony and counterpoint through a correspondence course, a difficult to lean music. He went to Manhattan to study with Rubin Goldmark, a respected private instructor who was a specialist in harmony. During these years he preoccupied himself in contemporary classical music by attending performances at the New York Symphony and Brooklyn Academy of Music. Copland like other young musicians dreamt of studying music in France. So, he continue to practice while saving his money. In the Summer of 1921, he left New York for the School of Music for American Students at Fountainebleau, France.
In France, he studied with Nadia Boulanger and became her first American student. Copland found a musical community unlike any other he had known. It was at this time that he sold his first composition to Durand and Sons, the most respected music publisher in France. The piece, “Symphony for Organ and Orchestra” (1925) was Copland’s entry into the life of professional American music. After his successful debut, he followed with “Music for the Theater” (1925) and “Piano Concerto” (1926) which he described this style as symphonic jazz. For Copland, jazz was the first genuinely American major musical movement. In the late 1920s Copland’s attention turned to popular music of other countries. He had moved away from his...
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