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ELLIOTT CARTER, AMERICAN COMPOSER, a musical innovator whose erudite style and novel principles of polyrhythm, called metric modulation, won worldwide attention.
Born: December 11, 1908, Manhattan, New York, NY
Died: November 5, 2012, (thirty-six days shy of his 104th birthday) New York, NY
Education: Salle Cortot (1932–1935), Longy School of Music of Bard College, Harvard College, Horace Mann School
Awards: He was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music, in 1960 and 1973.
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ELLIOTT CARTER, AMERICAN COMPOSER, a musical innovator whose erudite style and novel principles of polyrhythm, called metric modulation, won worldwide attention.
Born: December 11, 1908, Manhattan, New York, NY
Died: November 5, 2012, (thirty-six days shy of his 104th birthday) New York, NY
Education: Salle Cortot (1932–1935), Longy School of Music of Bard College, Harvard College, Horace Mann School
Awards: He was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music, in 1960 and 1973.
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