Aaron Copland
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Music
- Subcategories: Entertainment, Entertainers, Composers, Songwriters, Homosexuality, Homosexuals, Gay Men, Lesbians, Sexuality
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, American History 1951-present
Article abstract: Copland advanced the cause of music in America through a lifetime of musical composition and an unending concern for and promotion of a distinctly American music.
Early Life
Aaron Copland, the fifth and youngest child of Harris and Sarah Mittenthal Copland, was born on November 14, 1900, in Brooklyn, New York, to a family neither musically gifted nor extraordinarily devoted to music. Both of Copland’s parents were Jewish immigrants from Lithuania, each emigrating to the United States as a child; they met and married in Brooklyn in...
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