Howard Hanson
Biography
Howard Harold Hanson (October 28, 1896 – February 26, 1981) was an American composer, conductor, educator and music theorist. As director for forty years of the Eastman School of Music, he raised its quality and provided opportunities for commissioning and performing American classical music. In 1944, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his Symphony No. 4, and received numerous other awards, including the George Foster Peabody Award for Outstanding Entertainment in Music in 1946.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
718 releases · 132 albums · active 1951–2024
- Performance · 1,023
- Other credits · 46
Studios: Eastman Theatre, Rochester, New York · Seattle Center Opera House · Symphony Hall, Boston · Carnegie Hall
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Hanson
- George Gershwin
- Gershwin
- Lawrence Tibbett
- Wallingford Riegger
- Ferde Grofé
- Walter Piston