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Hanson, Howard (1896–1981)| US composer. He studied music in New York and at Evanston University, Illinois. After various appointments, he gained the American Prix de Rome, and after his stay in Italy was director of the Eastman School of Music at Rochester, New York, 1924–64. |
Works Opera Merry Mount (after Hawthorne, 1934). |
Choral The Lament for Beowulf for chorus and orchestra (1926). |
Orchestral seven symphonies (1923–77), symphonic poems North and West, Lux aeterna, and Pan and the Priest for orchestra. |
Chamber string quartet (1923), piano quintet, concerto for piano quintet. |
Other piano pieces; songs. |
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