Pulitzer Prize for Music

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David Del Tredici

03/16/1937 – 11/18/2023

86 years

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Lewis Spratlan

09/05/1940 – 02/09/2023

82 years

United States

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Ned Rorem

10/23/1923 – 11/18/2022

99 years

American composer and diarist

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George Crumb

10/24/1929 – 02/06/2022

92 years

American composer

Media

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Charles Wuorinen

06/09/1938 – 03/11/2020

81 years

American composer

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Mario Davidovsky

03/04/1934 – 08/23/2019

85 years

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Michael Colgrass

04/22/1932 – 07/02/2019

87 years

Toronto

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Karel Husa

08/07/1921 – 12/14/2016

95 years

Apex

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Gunther Schuller

11/22/1925 – 06/21/2015

89 years

American composer and conductor

Boston

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Ornette Coleman

03/09/1930 – 06/11/2015

85 years

American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer

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John La Montaine

03/17/1920 – 04/29/2013

93 years

Hollywood

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Robert Ward

09/13/1917 – 04/03/2013

95 years

Durham

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Elliott Carter

12/11/1908 – 11/05/2012

103 years

American composer

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George Perle

05/06/1915 – 01/23/2009

93 years

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Gian Carlo Menotti

07/07/1911 – 02/01/2007

95 years

Italian-American composer and librettist

Monte Carlo

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Donald Martino

05/16/1931 – 12/08/2005

74 years

Antigua

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Ross Lee Finney

12/23/1906 – 02/04/1997

90 years

Carmel-by-the-Sea

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Tania León

05/14/1943 – 01/01/1996

52 years

Cuba

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Stephen Albert

02/06/1941 – 12/27/1992

51 years

Cape Cod

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Aaron Copland

11/14/1900 – 12/02/1990

90 years

Sleepy Hollow

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Roger Sessions

12/28/1896 – 03/16/1985

88 years

Princeton

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Howard Hanson

10/28/1896 – 02/26/1981

84 years

Rochester

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Samuel Barber

03/09/1910 – 01/23/1981

70 years