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1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909
1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919
1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929
1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939
1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

1900

Births: Aaron Copland (died 1990) - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1901

1902

1903

1904

1905

1906

1907

1908

Births: Elliott Carter - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1909

1910

Births: Samuel Barber (died 1981) - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music; William Schuman - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1911

Births: Gian-Carlo Menotti - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1912

1913

Births: Henry Brant - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music; Norman Dello Joio - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1914

Births: Gail Kubik (died 1984) - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1915

Births: George Perle - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1916

1917

Births: Robert Ward - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1918

1919

Births: Leon Kirchner - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1920

Births: John La Montaine - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1921

Births: Karel Husa - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1922

Births: George Walker - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1923

Births: Leslie Bassett - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music; Mel D. Powell (died 1998) - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music; Ned Rorem - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1924

1925

Births: Gunther Schuller - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music; Luciano Berio (October 24th - died May 27, 2003) - Berio, Luciano

1926

1927

Births: Dominick Argento - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music; Wayne Peterson - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1928

Births: Jacob Druckman (died 1996) - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1929

Births: George Crumb - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music; Jerry Goldsmith (February 10th) - Goldsmith, Jerry

1930

1931

Births: Morton Gould (died 1996) - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music; Donald Martino - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1932

Births: Michael Collgrass - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1933

1934

Births: Mario Davidowsky - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music; Bernard Rands - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music; Roger Reynolds - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music; Richard Wernick - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1935

1936

1937

Births: David Del Tredici - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1938

Births: William Bolcom - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music; Paul Seiko Chihara - Chihara, Paul; John Corigliano - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music; John Harbison - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music; Charles Wuorinen - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1939

Births: Ellen Taafe Zwilich - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1940

Births: Lewis Spratlan - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1941

Births: Stephen Albert (died 1992) - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1942

1943

Births: Joseph Schwantner - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: William Schuman for Secular Cantata No. 2: A Free Song for full chorus of mixed voices, with accompaniment of orchestra - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1944

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Howard Hanson for Symphony no. 4, op. 34 - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

Miscellaneous: A hand wound prematurely ended Luciano Berio's career as a concert pianist - Berio, Luciano

1945

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Aaron Copland for Appalachian Spring - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1946

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Leo Sowerby for The Canticle of the Sun - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1947

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Charles Ives for Symphony No. 3 - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1948

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Walter Piston for Symphony No. 3 - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1949

Births: Shulamit Ran - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music; Christopher Rouse - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Virgil Thomson for Louisiana Story - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1950

Marriages: Luciano Berio married to singer Cathy Berberian - Berio, Luciano

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Gian-Carlo Menotti for The Consul - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

Miscellaneous: Jerry Goldsmith employed as a clerk typist in the music department at CBS - Goldsmith, Jerry

1951

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Douglas Moore for Giants in the Earth - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1952

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Gail Kubik for Symphony Concertante - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1953

1954

Deaths: Charles Ives (born 1874) - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Quincy Porter for Concerto Concertante for Two Pianos and Orchestra - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1955

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Gian-Carlo Menotti for The Saint of Bleecker Street - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1956

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Ernst Toch for Symphony No. 3 - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1957

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Norman Dello Joio for Meditations on Ecclesiastes - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1958

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Samuel Barber for Vanessa - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1959

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: John La Montaine for Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 9 - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

Television: Jerry Goldsmith scores "The Twilight Zone" TV Series - Goldsmith, Jerry

1960

Births: Aaron Jay Kernis - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Elliott Carter for Second String Quartet - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

Television: Jerry Goldsmith hired by Revue Studios to score their "Thriller" series and meets Alfred Newman - Goldsmith, Jerry

1961

Births: Wynton Marsalis - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Walter Piston for Symphony No. 7 - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

Television: Jerry Goldsmith scores "Dr. Kildare" TV Series - Goldsmith, Jerry

1962

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Robert Ward for The Crucible - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1963

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Samuel Barber for Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 38 - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1964

Births: David Lefkowitz - Lefkowitz, David

Deaths: Ernst Toch (born 1887) - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

Television: Jerry Goldsmith scores "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." TV Series - Goldsmith, Jerry

1965

Births: Melinda Wagner - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

Marriages: Luciano Berio married to psychologist Susan Oyama (his second marriage) - Berio, Luciano

Graduations: Paul Chihara, D.M.A. from Cornell University - Chihara, Paul

1966

Deaths: Quincy Porter (born 1897) - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Leslie Bassett for Variations for Orchestra - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1967

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Leon Kirchner for Quartet No. 3 for Strings and Electronic Tape - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1968

Deaths: Leo Sowerby (born 1895) - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: George Crumb for Echoes of Time and the River - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1969

Deaths: Douglas Moore (born 1893) - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Karel Husa for String Quartet No. 3 - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1970

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Charles Wuorinen for Time's Encomium - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1971

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Mario Davidovsky for Synchronisms No. 6 - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

Miscellaneous: Toru Takemitsu and Paul Chihara are composers-in-residence for the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont - Chihara, Paul

1972

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Jacob Druckman for Windows - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1973

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Elliott Carter for String Quartet No. 3 - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

Positions/Appointments: Paul Chihara named composer-in-residence of the San Francisco Ballet (until 1986) - Chihara, Paul

1974

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Donald Martino for Notturno - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1975

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Dominick Argento for From the Diary of Virginia Woolf - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1976

Deaths: Walter Piston (born 1894) - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Ned Rorem for Air Music - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music; Oscar for Best Original Score: Jerry Goldsmith for "The Omen" - Goldsmith, Jerry

1977

Marriages: Luciano Berio married to musicologist Talia Pecker (his third marriage) - Berio, Luciano

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Richard Wernick for Visions of Terror and Wonder - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1978

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Michael Collgrass for Deja Vu for Percussion and Orchestra - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1979

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Joseph Schwantner for Aftertones of Infinity - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1980

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: David Del Tredici for In Memory of a Summer Day - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1981

Deaths: Samuel Barber (born 1910) - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music; Howard Hanson (born 1896) - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1982

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Roger Sessions for Concerto for Orchestra - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1983

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Ellen Taafe Zwilich for Symphony No. 1 - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1984

Deaths: Gail Kubik (born 1914) - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Bernard Rands for Canti del Sole - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1985

Deaths: Roger Sessions (born 1896) - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Stephen Albert for River Run - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1986

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: George Perle for Wind Quintet No. 4, for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, and Bassoon - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1987

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: John Harbison for Flight Into Egypt - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1988

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: William Bolcom for 12 New Etudes for Piano - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1989

Deaths: Virgil Thomson (born 1989) - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Roger Reynolds for Whispers Out of Time - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1990

Deaths: Aaron Copland (born 1900) - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Mel D. Powell for Duplicates: A Concerto - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1991

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Shulamit Ran for Symphony - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1992

Deaths: Stephen Albert (born 1941) - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Wayne Peterson for The Face of the Night - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music; Fukui International Harp Music Award: First Prize, David Lefkowitz for Calder's Closet - Lefkowitz, David

1993

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Christopher Rouse for Trombone Concerto - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music; ASCAP Foundation Grant to Young Composers: David Lefkowitz for Autumn Flowering - Lefkowitz, David

Residencies: Composer-in-Residence under the Meet the Composer program: David Lefkowitz - Lefkowitz, David

1994

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Gunther Schuller for Of Reminiscences and Reflections - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1995

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Morton Gould for Stringmusic - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1996

Deaths: Jacob Druckman (born 1928) - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music; Morton Gould (born 1931) - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: George Walker for Lilacs for Soprano and Orchestra - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1997

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Wynton Marsalis for Blood on the Fields - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

1998

Deaths: Mel D. Powell (born 1923) - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Aaron Jay Kernis for String Quartet No. 2, "musica instrumentalis" - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

Miscellaneous: Jerry Goldsmith awarded a Regents Residency at UCLA - Goldsmith, Jerry

1999

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Melinda Wagner for Concerto for Flute, Strings and Percussion - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

2000

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Lewis Spratlan for Life is a Dream - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

2001

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: John Corigliano for Symphony No. 2 for String Orchestra - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

2002

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music: Henry Brant for Ice Field: Spatial Narratives for Large and Small Orchestral Groups - Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music

2003

Deaths: Luciano Berio (May 27th - born October 24, 1925) - Berio, Luciano

2004

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2006

2007

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