![]() While emigrating from Russia to the United States, Copland's father, Harris Morris Copland, lived and worked in Scotland for two to three years to pay for his boat fare to the US. He was the youngest of five children in a Conservative Jewish family of Lithuanian origins. During the Depression years, he traveled extensively to Europe, Africa, and Mexico, formed an important friendship with Mexican composer Carlos Chávez and began composing his signature works.Īaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 14, 1900. He shifted in the mid-1930s to a more accessible musical style which mirrored the German idea of Gebrauchsmusik ('music for use'), music that could serve utilitarian and artistic purposes. ![]() He found composing orchestral music in the modernist style he had adapted abroad a financially contradictory approach, particularly in light of the Great Depression. ![]() ![]() to make his way as a full-time composer, Copland gave lecture-recitals, wrote works on commission and did some teaching and writing. He studied three years with Boulanger, whose eclectic approach to music inspired his own broad taste. After some initial studies with composer Rubin Goldmark, Copland traveled to Paris, where he first studied with Isidor Philipp and Paul Vidal, then with noted pedagogueNadia Boulanger. ![]()
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