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Student of Schoenberg; Known for musical brevity and clarity of texture; used pointillism and did not write and operas; Created symphonies, orchestral and choral music songs, and writings
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Created tone poems, 7 symphonies, concertos, and chamber music; his later music is more modern
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American composer; probably the most innovative, orignial, and creative of all 20th century composers; worked mostly in isolation and made his living in insurance
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Austrian Composer, theorist, and painter; Started playing the violin when we was 8 years out and began arranging music at the age of 10; Went atonal from 1907 to 1909, created "melodies" in atonality which were called "tone rows"
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Principal Spanish composer of the 20th century; Used Spanish popular and folk music; Earned international fame; Created orchestral works, stage works, vocal works, chamber music and writings
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Hungarian composer and pianist; Was an important ethnomusicologis; Known for his rhythmic music; Incorporated his own native folk music into his compositions: Created concertos, pianos works, chamber music, stage works, orchestral works, choral works, songs, many editions and writings
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Most versatile and interesting composer of the 20th century; rhythmic style; harmonically interesting; Created symphonies, ballets, operas, chamber music, choral music, and piano works
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Part of Les Six; Considered himself Swiss because both his parents were Swiss; Composed most of his works on commission; Had a huge compositional output in al mediums
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French-American composer who wrote non-tonal music; Focused on elements instead of pitch; innovative; took an interest in electronic music and the idea of organized sound as music; Created orchestral works, non-traditional genres, stage works, choral music, and writings
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American composer and teacher; Neo-classic and craft oriented; Wrote chamber music, symphonies, other orchestral music, and writings
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Student of Schoenberg; Expressive language; often atonal; created operas, orchestral works, songs, concertos, and chamber music writings
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Italian inventor, painter, and composer; Created a riot in Milan in 1913 when he demonstrated his new instruments that were to produce machine noises of daily experiences; Works for his instruments are mostly lost but his published writings survived
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American composer the adapted Juba folk dance and idioms of black spirituals; the first African-American women to win widespread fame as a symphonic composer but was omitted from the New Grove Dictionary in 1980; Created symphonies, concertos, choral music, vocal and piano works, and songs
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Part of Les Six; Was born in a non-musical family; Instigated the 1st Les Six album; Wrote songs for the French Resistance during WWII; Wrote with the Vietnamese themes in the 1960s as a protest to the war.
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Part of Les Six; Studied Debussy and immediately rejected the idea of Impressionism; Became close friends with Tailleferre and gave her some much needed encouragement to continue composing; Traveled to Brazil with Claudel in 1918 which helped influenced his compositions; American Jazz also influenced his work
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American composer; First African-American composer to have his symphony performed by a leading Orchestra; The first black American to conduct a major orchestra; The first black American to write for the radio, TV, and films; Incorporated folk idioms, jazz, and spirituals; Created 5 symphonies 9 operas, ballets, vocal and instrumental works, songs
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American composer, theorist, and teacher; mostly atonal; intense and dissonant; Created 8 symphonies (rarely performed);3 stage works; concertos, a few chamber and choral works, and writings
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Part of the Les Six;Studied composition in Paris with Satie's teachers;Neo-classicist;Film Music;Ran SACEM; Music journalist
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American jazz composer; band-leader and pianist; Created a unique style of big-band jazz; one of the first African-American composers to cross races with his music
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Part of Les Six; Born to rich parents and is a self-taught musical although he had musical tutors; Traveled to meet Schoenberg, Weburn, and Berg with Milhaud but they both had rejected their styles; Had a partner (Pierre Bernac) that premiered many of his songs.
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African-American jazz musician who revolutionized jazz; Sinfer, band-leader, and trumpeter; Created publications for trumpet
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American innovator; inventor of new instruments; developed and 43 not scale; Created works for his instruments and various non-traditional genres
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This attack led the United States to enter WWII by declaring war on Japan the next day on December 8, 1941, and three days later against Germany and Italy
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Attack on the Twin towers