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84 years old
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Taurus
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Celebrities born on April 30
Born in 1939
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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich is an American composer, the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Her early works are marked by atonal exploration, but by the late 1980s, she had shifted to a postmodernist, neoromantic style. She has been called "one of America's most frequently played and genuinely popular living composers." She was a 1994 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. Zwilich has served as the Francis Eppes Distinguished Professor at Florida State University.
BornEllen Taaffe, April 30, 1939, Miami, Florida, U.S.
EducationFlorida State University
OccupationViolinst, Composer, Academic teacher
EraContemporary

About Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

Composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich was born on April 30, 1939 in Florida, United States (She's 84 years old now).

For her Three Movements for Orchestra (Symphony No. 1), which was originally played by the American Symphony Orchestra in 1982, she became the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.

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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich before becoming famous

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich was born in the Zodiac sign Taurus (The Bull), and 1939 is also the year of Rabbit (兔) in the Chinese Zodiac.

She went to Florida State University to study violin. Atonal music piqued her interest at first, but she later created a post-modernist, neoromantic style.

Achievement of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

In 1994, she was elected to the Florida Artists Hall of Fame.

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

Joseph, her spouse, died in 1979.

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Composer Roger Sessions won the Pulitzer Prize the year after she did.

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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Income & Net worth

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Latest information about Ellen Taaffe Zwilich updated on March 12 2023.