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American composer (1939-2024)

United StatesMusiciansLived 1938 to 2024 · aged 86
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Barbara Kolb was an American composer and educator, the first woman to win the Rome Prize in musical composition. Her music features sound masses of colorful textures, impressionistic sounds and atonal vocabulary, with influences from literary and visual arts.

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1973Arts and Letters Award in Music
1971Guggenheim Fellowship
1971Rome Prize

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Barbara Kolb was an American composer and educator, the first woman to win the Rome Prize in musical composition. Her music features sound masses of colorful textures, impressionistic sounds and atonal vocabulary, with influences from literary and visual arts. She taught at the Third Street Music School Settlement, Rhode Island College and Eastman School of Music.

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United States
Category
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
deceased
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Lived 1938 to 2024 · aged 86
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8 languages

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