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People In Music History
Hanson, Howard (1896-1981) A significant influence on original classical
compositions and composers of the twentieth century, Howard Hanson is
considered one of the leading American composers and teachers. Originally
director of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, he went on to
become director of the Institute of American Music at the University of
Rochester. He carried the musical ideals of Romanticism long past their
nineteenth-century origins, most notably in his symphonic and choral works The
Lament for Beowulf (1925), The Song for Democracy (1957), and his Fourth
Symphony (1944), which earned him the Pulitzer Prize. One his most unique
American pieces was an opera composition based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's Merry
Mount.