Ran, Shulamit
Period: 21st Century
Born: Friday, October 21, 1949 in Tel Aviv, Israel
As of September 2023 this composer is still living.
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Nation of Origin: Israel
Major Works:
Symphony (1990)
Other Information:
Shulamit Ran won the Pulitzer Prize in Music for Symphony in 1991. She was born in Tel Aviv, Israel but moved to New York at the age of 14. She was the second woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
General Bibliography:
Lampert, Vera; Kemp, Ian; and White, Eric Walter, The New Grove Modern Masters (The New Grove Series), W. W. Norton & Company, November 1997, ISBN: 0393315924
Slonimsky, Nicolas, Music Since 1900, Schirmer Books, July 1994, ISBN: 0028724186
Griffiths, Paul, Modern Music and After: Directions Since 1945, Oxford University Press; 1st edition (April 11, 1996), ISBN: 0198165110
Slonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, Laura; Editors, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Gale Group, December 2000, ISBN: 0028655257
Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John; Editors, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Groves Dictionaries, Inc., January 2004, ISBN: 0195170679
Rutherford-Johnson, Tim, Kennedy, Michael, and Kennedy, Joyce The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Oxford University Press, 6th Edition, 2012, ISBN: 0199578109
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Biographical essay from Wikipedia
Biography at the Presser site
An interview with Shulamit Ran
