Composer · 20th Century · 1896–1981
Howard Hanson
American composer and music theorist (1896–1981).
Biography
Howard Harold Hanson (October 28, 1896 – February 26, 1981) was an American composer, conductor, educator and music theorist. As director for forty years of the Eastman School of Music, he raised its quality and provided opportunities for commissioning and performing American classical music. In 1944, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his Symphony No. 4, and received numerous other awards, including the George Foster Peabody Award for Outstanding Entertainment in Music in 1946.
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Works with flute
- Serenade for flute, harp and strings, op. 35
Works with oboe
- Pastorale, for oboe and piano, op. 38