Period: Early 20th
Century
Born: Thursday, October 24, 1929 in Charleston, West
Virginia (USA)
As of May 2005 this composer is still living.
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Nation of Origin: United States
Major Works:
Ancient Voices of Children
Echoes of Time and the River
Other Information:
Crumb's Echoes of Time and the River won the Pulitzer Prize
in 1968.
General Bibliography:
Kennedy, Michael, The Oxford Dictionary of
Music, Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 1997, ISBN:
0198691629
Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John; Editors, The New Grove
Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Groves Dictionaries, Inc.,
January 2001, ISBN: 1561592390
Slonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, Laura; Editors,
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Gale Group,
December 2000, ISBN: 0028655257
Slonimsky, Nicolas, Music Since 1900,
Schirmer Books, July 1994, ISBN: 0028724186
Links to essays at other sites:
![]() Twentieth Century Music: An Introduction by Eric Salzman |
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Biographical essay at the Karadar site
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directly.
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