Morton Gould
Morton Gould · Arts & Literature
Composer and conductor
1913, Richmond Hill, Queens, New York, USA — 1996, Orlando, Florida, USA
United States
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Morton Gould, born to a family of Austrian-Jewish heritage in Queens, was an American composer, conductor, arranger and pianist and a child prodigy who published his first work at six. He wrote symphonic, Broadway, film and ballet music that fused classical form with American jazz, blues and folk idioms, and won a Grammy and the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Music. He also led ASCAP and championed American composers throughout his career.
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Composer and conductor
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music
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