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![]() ![]() The composer later recalled, with a kind of ironic pride, that his neighborhood was a drab place, adding: “I am filled with mild wonder each time I realize that a musician was born on that street.” Yet his mother played the piano and sang, and some of his siblings also took an amateur interest in music.Ĭopland might also have become an amateur musician, but at fifteen he attended a concert by the famous pianist Ignacy Paderewski. (Originally Kaplan, Aaron’s father anglicized the family name en route to America.) Copland Senior put down roots in Brooklyn, where he owned a small department store the family lived upstairs and helped to run the business. His name was Aaron Copland.Ĭopland was the youngest of five children born into a family of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants. Many of her pupils went on to have impressive careers, but none more so than a twenty-one-year-old New Yorker who had started in music late but was determined to become a composer. ![]() The critic–composer Virgil Thomson famously declared, “Every town in America has two things - a five-and-dime and a Boulanger pupil.” He was talking about the famous French music teacher Nadia Boulanger, whose school at Fontainebleau Palace, just outside Paris, became a mecca for young composers from the United States.īoulanger was one of the defining forces of American music in the twentieth century. ![]()
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