Pulitzer Prize for Music

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The Pulitzer Prize for Music was first awarded in 1943. Joseph Pulitzer did not call for such a prize in his will, but had arranged for a music scholarship to be awarded each year. This was eventually converted into a full fledged prize.

The winners in this category have been:

1943: William Schuman, Secular Cantata No. 2: A Free Song
1944: Howard Hanson, Symphony No. 4
1945: Aaron Copland, Appalachian Spring, ballet
1946: Leo Sowerby, The Canticle of the Sun
1947: Charles Ives, Symphony No. 3
1948: Walter Piston, Symphony No. 3
1949: Virgil Thomson, Louisiana Story, film score
1950: Gian-Carlo Menotti, The Consul, opera
1951: Douglas Moore, Giants in the Earth, opera
1952: Gail Kubik, Symphony Concertante
1953: no prize awarded
1954: Quincy Porter, Concerto Concertante for two pianos and orchestra
1955: Gian-Carlo Menotti, The Saint of Bleecker Street, opera
1956: Ernst Toch, Symphony No. 3
1957: Norman Dello Joio, Meditations on Ecclesiastes
1958: Samuel Barber, Vanessa, opera
1959: John La Montaine, Piano Concerto
1960: Elliott Carter, String Quartet No. 2
1961: Walter Piston, Symphony No. 7
1962: Robert Ward, The Crucible, opera
1963: Samuel Barber, Piano Concerto No. 1
1964: no prize awarded
1965: no prize awarded (See Duke Ellington)
1966: Leslie Bassett, Variations for Orchestra
1967: Leon Kirchner, Quartet No. 3 for strings and electronic tape
1968: George Crumb, Echoes of Time and the River
1969: Karel Husa, String Quartet No. 3
1970: Charles Wuorinen, Time's Encomium
1971: Mario Davidovsky, Synchronisms No. 6
1972: Jacob Druckman, Windows
1973: Elliott Carter, String quartet No. 3
1974: Donald Martino, Notturno
1975: Dominick Argento, From the Diary of Virginia Woolf
1976: Ned Rorem, Air Music
1977: Richard Wernick, Visions of Terror and Wonder
1978: Michael Colgrass, Deja Vu for percussion and orchestra
1979: Joseph Schwantner, Aftertones of Infinity
1980: David Del Tredici, In Memory of a Summer Day
1981: no prize awarded
1982: Roger Sessions, Concerto for Orchestra
1983: Ellen Zwilich, Three Movements for Orchestra (Symphony No. 1)
1984: Bernard Rands, Canti del Sole
1985: Stephen Albert, Symphony RiverRun
1986: George Perle, Wind Quintet No. 4, for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon
1987: John Harbison, The Flight into Egypt
1988: William Bolcom, 12 New Etudes for Piano
1989: Roger Reynolds, Whispers Out of Time
1990: Mel D. Powell, Duplicates: A Concerto
1991: Shulamit Ran, Symphony
1992: Wayne Peterson, The Face of the Night
1993: Christopher Rouse, Trombone Concerto
1994: Gunther Schuller, Of Reminiscences and Reflections
1995: Morton Gould, Stringmusic
1996: George Walker, Lilacs, for soprano and orchestra
1997: Wynton Marsalis, Blood on the Fields, oratorio
1998: Aaron Jay Kernis, String Quartet No. 2, Musica Instrumentalis
1999: Melinda Wagner, Concerto for Flute, Strings, and Percussion
2000: Lewis Spratlan, Life is a Dream, opera (awarded for concert version of Act II)
2001: John Corigliano, Symphony No. 2 for string orchestra
2002: Henry Brant, Ice Field
2003: John Adams, On the Transmigration of Souls
2004: Paul Moravec, Tempest Fantasy
2005: Steven Stucky, Second Concerto for Orchestra

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Pulitzer Prize for Music

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