Pulitzer Prize for Music

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Pulitzer Prize for Music

HONOR

1943 William Schuman Secular Cantata No. 2: A Free Song

1944 Howard Hanson Symphony No. 4

1945 Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring (ballet)

1946 Leo Sowerby The Canticle of the Sun

1947 Charles Ives Symphony No. 3

1948 Walter Piston Symphony No. 3

1949 Virgil Thomson Louisiana Story (film score)

1950 Gian-Carlo Menotti The Consul (opera)

1951 Douglas Stuart Moore Giants in the Earth (opera)

1952 Gail Kubik Symphony Concertante

1953 (no award)

1954 Quincy Porter Concerto Concertante for two pianos and orchestra

1955 Gian-Carlo Menotti The Saint of Bleecker Street (opera)

1956 Ernst Toch Symphony No. 3

1957 Norman Dello Joio Meditations on Ecclesiastes

1958 Samuel Barber Vanessa (opera)

1959 John La Montaine Piano Concerto

1960 Elliott Carter String Quartet No. 2

1961 Walter Piston Symphony No. 7

1962 Robert Ward The Crucible (opera)

1963 Samuel Barber Piano Concerto No. 1

1964 (no award)

1965 (no award)

1966 Leslie Bassett Variations for Orchestra

1967 Leon Kirchner Quartet No. 3 for strings and electronic tape

1968 George Crumb Echoes of Time and the River

1969 Karel Husa String Quartet No. 3

1970 Charles Wuorinen Time's Encomium

1971 Mario Davidovsky Synchronisms No. 6

1972 Jacob Druckman Windows

1973 Elliott Carter String quartet No. 3

1974 Donald Martino Notturno

1975 Dominick Argento From the Diary of Virginia Woolf

1976 Ned Rorem Air Music

1977 Richard Wernick Visions of Terror and Wonder

1978 Michael Colgrass Deja Vu for percussion and orchestra

1979 Joseph Schwantner Aftertones of Infinity

1980 David Del Tredici In Memory of a Summer Day

1981 (no award)

1982 Roger Sessions Concerto for Orchestra

1983 Ellen Zwilich Three Movements for Orchestra (Symphony No. 1)

1984 Bernard Rands Canti del Sole

1985 Stephen Albert Symphony RiverRun

1986 George Perle Wind Quintet No. 4, for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon

1987 John Harbison The Flight into Egypt

1988 William Bolcom 12 New Etudes for Piano

1989 Roger Reynolds Whispers Out of Time

1990 Mel D. Powell Duplicates

1991 Shulamit Ran Symphony

1992 Wayne Peterson The Face of the Night

1993 Christopher Rouse Trombone Concerto

1994 Gunther Schuller Of Reminiscences and Reflections

1995 Morton Gould Stringmusic

1996 George Walker Lilacs, for soprano and orchestra

1997 Wynton Marsalis Blood on the Fields (oratorio)

1998 Aaron Jay Kernis String Quartet No. 2, Musica Instrumentalis

1999 Melinda Wagner Concerto for Flute, Strings, and Percussion

2000 Lewis Spratlan Life is a Dream (opera, for concert version of Act II)

2001 John Corigliano Symphony No. 2 for string orchestra

2002 Henry Brant Ice Field

2003 John Adams On the Transmigration of Souls

2004 Paul Moravec Tempest Fantasy

2005 Steven Stucky Second Concerto for Orchestra

2006 Yehudi Wyner Chiavi in Mano

2007 Ornette Coleman Sound Grammar

2008 David Lang The Little Match Girl Passion

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