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Aaron Copland [ˈærən ˈkoʊplənd] war ein US-amerikanischer Komponist.

Copland wurde als Sohn litauischer Einwanderer geboren. Er gilt als einer der wichtigsten Vertreter der amerikanischen Moderne, vor allem der Bühnenmusik galt seine Vorliebe. Nach expressionistisch-experimentalen Frühwerken wandte er sich einem klar verständlichen, rhythmisch geprägten tonalen Stil zu, der Volkslieder, Märsche und Tänze einschloss. Er verschloss sich nie der zeitgenössischen Musik, etwa in Connotations für Orchester, und ließ auch Harmonien und Rhythmik des Jazz in seine Werke einfließen. Der Komponist und Dirigent Leonard Bernstein setzte sich sehr für seine Musik ein.

Allgemein bekannt ist sein Werk Fanfare for the Common Man , das 1977 von der britischen Rockband Emerson, Lake and Palmer auf dem Album Works Volume I interpretiert wurde. 1972 hatten sie auf ihrem Album Trilogy mit Hoedown schon ein Werk Coplands interpretiert. Für sein Stück Appalachian Spring erhielt Copland 1945 den Pulitzer-Preis. Er war Namensgeber für das Softwareprojekt Copland der Firma Apple. Seinen Namen trägt auch der Copland Peak, ein Berg auf der Alexander-I.-Insel in der Antarktis, sowie der Asteroid Copland. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. November 1900 – 2. Dezember 1990
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“Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or
perhaps of subconsciousness—I wouldn't know. But I am
sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.”

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“The composer who is frightened of losing his artistic integrity through contact with a mass audience is no longer aware of the meaning of the word art.”

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Aaron Copland and His World, ISBN 9780691124704.

“For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever.”

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Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music, ISBN 0028645812.

“I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.”

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Aaron Copland: the Life and Work of an Uncommon Man, ISBN 0805049096.

“So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it.”

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Music as an Aspect of the Human Spirit (1954).

“If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.”

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Aaron Copland: the Life and Work of an Uncommon Man, ISBN 0805049096.

“I don't compose. I assemble materials.”

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Aaron Copland: the Life and Work of an Uncommon Man, ISBN 0805049096.

“Nadia Boulanger was quite aware that as a composition teacher she labored under two further disadvantages: she was not herself a regularly practicing composer and in so far as she composed at all she must of necessity be listed in that unenviable category of the woman composer. Everyone knows that the high achievement of women musicians as vocalists and instrumentalists has no counterpart in the field of musical composition. This historically poor showing has puzzled more than one observer. … Is it possible that there is a mysterious element in the nature of musical creativity that runs counter to the nature of the feminine mind? … The future may very well have a different tale to tell; for the present, however, no woman's name will be found on the list of world-famous composers.”

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Copland on Music (1960) ISBN 0393001989.

“I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.”

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Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music, ISBN 0028645812.

“I object to background music no matter how good it is. Composers want people to listen to their music, they don't want them doing something else while their music is on. I'd like to get the guy who sold all those big businessmen the idea of putting music in the elevators, for he was really clever. What on earth good does it do anybody to hear those four or eight bars while going up a few flights.”

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Quoted in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music, ISBN 0028645812.

“Somehow, suddenly, a musical idea occurs to you; either a whole phrase, or three notes, or a series of chords, something that seems pregnant with possibilities for development. Once you have the kinds of ideas that fascinate you, you're no longer in a position to decide the nature of the animal. It's going to take its essence from the musical ideas that occur to you…. Some musical ideas are too short, they don't seem long enough to carry you through ten minutes of music, so you have to start searching about for other ideas; contrasting ones that seem to fit with the original ones.”

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Aaron Copland: the Life and Work of an Uncommon Man, ISBN 0805049096.

“If the listener does eventually come to the point where he makes the ultimate performance by splicing tapes from other musicians' recordings, he will eventually become just as bored with it as with other recordings, for it will still always be the same. Look, for instance, at electronic music. The boys are already becoming bored with what they do because they put it irrevocably on tape. The best indication of this is that more and more they are mixing the live performance element with their tapes.”

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Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music, ISBN 0028645812.

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