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1896–1981 United States

Howard Hanson 28 October 1896 - 26 February 1981) was a leading American composer, symphonic orchestra conductor, educator and music theorist who served as the music director of the Eastman School of Music for forty years. He was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for his Symphony No. 4 (1944) and the George Foster Peabody Award for Outstanding Entertainment in Music (1946).

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As a music theorist, I have always contended that the historical approach to music theory is not enough.

To the artist, to the musician, is given the task of creating and expressing beauty--of sensitizing the souls of men.

The most complete knowledge of tonal material cannot create a composer any more than the memorizing of Webster's dictionary can produce a dramatist or poet.

The artistic contribution of any nation and any age must be in terms of creation. Performers, symphony organizations, opera houses, museums, libraries - important as they are - are not enough. The arts, if they are to live, must be living arts.

My music springs from the soil of the American midwest. It is music of the plains rather than of the city and reflects, I believe, something of the broad prairies of my native Nebraska."

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Howard Hanson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.