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Writer's pictureAndy McIlvain

God's Gift of Music - Aaron Copland - Fanfare For The Common Man

Updated: Oct 7, 2022


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"American composer Aaron Copland is known for works like "Appalachian Spring" and "Fanfare for the Common Man," among many others.

Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, and went on to study piano and composition and studying in Europe for some time. He became one of the century’s foremost composers with highly influential music that had a distinctive blend of classical, folk and jazz idioms. Some of Copland’s most prominent pieces included Fanfare for the Common Man, El Salon Mexico and Appalachian Spring, for which he won the Pulitzer. An Oscar-winning writer of film scores as well, Copland died on December 2, 1990." from video introduction


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