Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Composer
1939 –
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Who is Ellen Taaffe Zwilich?
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich is an American composer, the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Her early works are marked by atonal exploration, but by the late 1980s she had shifted to a post-modernist, neo-romantic style. She has been called "one of America’s most frequently played and genuinely popular living composers." She was a 1994 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame.
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- Born
- Apr 30, 1939
Miami - Also known as
- Zwilich, Ellen Taaffe
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Florida State University
- Doctor of Musical Arts, Juilliard School
Composition
( - 1975)
- Employment
- Florida State University
- Lived in
- New York City
(1964 - )
- New York City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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