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Biography

(1937 – 2012)

Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. (born December 11, 1908, died November 5, 2012) is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City, a composer encompassing many facets of classical music, from neoclassicism to serialism. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, during which time he published his first composition in 1937 and then returned to the United States. After a neoclassical phase, he went on to write atonal, rhythmically complex music. His compositions, which have been performed all over the world, include orchestral and chamber music as well as solo instrumental and vocal works.

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1	Retrouvailles	10
2	Elegy	6
2	Moderately, wistfully	6
2	Holiday Overture	6
5	II.	5
6	String Quartet No. 1: III. Variations	4
6	String Quartet No. 4 (1986): Appassionata - Scherzando - Lento - Presto	4
6	Symphony No. 1: I. Moderately, wistfully	4
6	String Quartet No. 1 (1951): Allegro Scorrevole	4
6	Night Fantasies	4
6	Carter: Clarinet Concerto - Scherzando	4
12	The Minotaur, Scene I: King Minos' Palace in Crete, Overture	3
12	String Quartet No. 3	3
12	Enchanted Preludes	3
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