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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

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American composer

United StatesMusiciansBorn 1939 · age 87
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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich is an American composer, the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Her early works are marked by atonal exploration, but by the late 1980s, she had shifted to a postmodernist, neoromantic style. " She was a 1994 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame.

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Awards 6

1983Pulitzer Prize for Music
1980Guggenheim Fellowship
Rome Prize
Florida Artists Hall of Fame
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Arts and Letters Award in Music

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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich is an American composer, the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Her early works are marked by atonal exploration, but by the late 1980s, she had shifted to a postmodernist, neoromantic style. She has been called "one of America's most frequently played and genuinely popular living composers." She was a 1994 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. Zwilich has served as the Francis Eppes Distinguished Professor at Florida State University.

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United States
Category
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
living
Dates
Born 1939 · age 87
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