Aaron Copland was an American composer, conductor, and writer often called the Dean of American Music for his role in forging a distinctly American classical sound. His best-known works, including the ballets Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid, and Rodeo, and the orchestral Fanfare for the Common Man, are built from open, slowly shifting harmonies that evoke the American landscape and its pioneer heritage. Especially in the compositions he wrote during the 1930s and 1940s, Copland deliberately pursued what he called a vernacular style, blending folk material and modernist technique into music accessible to broad audiences without sacrificing artistic ambition.
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Death PlaceNorth Tarrytown, New York, U.S. 1 Active From Year Aaron Copland
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Aaron Copland ( KOHP-lənd; November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer, critic, writer, teacher, pianist, and conductor of his own and other American music.
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November 14, 1900
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December 2, 1990
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Copland's health deteriorated through the 1980s, and he died of Alzheimer's disease and respiratory failure on December 2, 1990, in North Tarrytown, New York (now Sleepy Hollow).
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Aaron Copland ( KOHP-lənd; November 14, 1900 - December 2, 1990) was an American composer, critic, writer, teacher, pianist, and conductor of his own and other American music.
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His first published work, The Cat and the Mouse (1920), was a piece for piano solo based on the Jean de La Fontaine fable "The Old Cat and the Young Mouse".
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But he found that composing orchestral music in a modernist style, which he had adopted while studying abroad, was unprofitable, particularly in light of the Great Depression.
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Rodeo is a ballet composed by Aaron Copland and choreographed by Agnes de Mille, which premiered in 1942. Subtitled "The Courting at Burnt Ranch", the ballet consists of five sections: "Buckaroo Holiday", "Corral Nocturne", "Ranch
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