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Pulitzer Prize for Music

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The Pulitzer Prize for Music.

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 Stuart Moore Giants in the Earth (opera)
1952
Gail Kubik Symphony Concertante
1953
(no award)  
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 award)  
1965
(no award)  
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 award)  
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
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, 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
2006
Yehudi Wyner Chiavi in Mano
2007
Ornette Coleman Sound Grammar
2008
David Lang The Little Match Girl Passion



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