Twentieth Century Music: An Introduction
by Eric Salzman
Period: Early 20th Century
Born: Thursday, August 10, 1893 in Cutchoque, New York (USA)
Died: Friday, July 25, 1969 in Greenport, New York (USA)
Nation of Origin: United States
Major Works:
Operas:
White Wings, chamber opera (1935)
The Headless Horseman (1936)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1939)
The Emperor's New Clothes (1949 and revised in 1956)
Giants in the Earth (1951 and revised in 1963)
The Ballad of Baby Doe (1956)
Wings of the Dove (1961)
The Greenfield Christmas Tree (1962)
Carrie Nation (1966)
Other Information:
He won the Pulitzer Prize in Music for Giants in the Earth in 1951.
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
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