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This compact advantages to the life and works of composer Elliott Carter provides a fresh perspective on one of the very most significant American composers of the 20th and 21st generations. A leading tone of the American classical music custom and a two-time champion of the Pulitzer Award for Music, Carter was at first encouraged to become composer by Charles Ives, and he went on to study from Walter Piston at Harvard University or college and Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Drawing on Carter's voluminous writings and compositions, Wayne Wierzbicki provides a clear conversation of Carter's evolving knowledge of musical time and the influence of film on his work. Celebrating his 100th birthday in 2008 by premiering lots of new compositions, Carter is a powerful occurrence on the American new music picture, an important link with American music's foundational statistics, and a active force in its continuing evolution.
