CARTER, ELLIOTT (b 1908 )
While no one will ever agree on who is the most
important living American composer, Elliott Carter is
often called the most eminent, which is difficult to
dispute. Now 95 years old and actively composing for
eight decades, Carter spans nearly the entire twentieth
century and the...
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While no one will ever agree on who is the most
important living American composer, Elliott Carter is
often called the most eminent, which is difficult to
dispute. Now 95 years old and actively composing for
eight decades, Carter spans nearly the entire twentieth
century and the beginning of the 21st. Famous for
highly demanding atonal scores using extraordinarily
sophisticated rhythms, Carter is a prime architect of
modernist music in the United States. Among his most
important works are: the Double Concerto for Piano
and Harpsichord with Two Chamber Orchestras, which
Stravinsky hailed as a masterpiece, a Concerto for
Orchestra which Bernstein championed, a Grammy-winning
Violin Concerto, and five string quartets, often
hailed as the most important works in the genre since
Bartók, two of which were awarded Pulitzers. His most
recent compositions include his first opera, What Next?,
and a Cello Concerto for Yo-Yo Ma.
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