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Also Known As Walter Hamor Piston
Born January 20, 1894 • Rockland • Maine
Died November 12, 1976 (aged 82) • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize
Movement / Style Neoclassical art
Sergey Prokofiev
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
American composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
William Schuman
American composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
French composer
Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer
Elliott Carter
American composer
Toch
Ernst Toch
Austrian composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann
German composer
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian composer
Aleksandr Glazunov.
Aleksandr Glazunov
Russian composer
Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg
American composer
Carlos Surinach
American composer
Charles Ives
American composer
Schuller, Gunther
Gunther Schuller
American composer
Zhou Long
Chinese American composer
Samuel Barber
American composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer

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