How Did Aaron Copland Develop

Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 14, 1900. Growing up as a child Copland found himself attending a few different musicals such as New York symphony and Brooklyn Academy of music. Like many other young musicians, he was attracted to the classical history and musicians of Europe. In 1906 Copland was attending public school 111 in Brooklyn. By 1909 he was already making up songs on the piano. Copland was only 9 years of age making up his own classical music. In France, Copland found a music community unlike any had known. It was at this time he had sold his first composition to Durand and Sons.the most respected music publisher in France. While in Europe Copeland met many of the important artists of the time, including the famous composer Serge Koussevitsky. In 1919 Copland starts studying piano with Clarence Adler.

He had moved away from his interest in jazz and began to concern himself with expanding the audience for American classical music. He believed that classical music could eventually be as popular as jazz in America or folk music in Mexico. He worked toward this goal with both his music and a firm commitment to organizing and producing. (American Masters).After his return to America, Copland drifted toward an incisive, austere style that captured something of the sobriety of Depression-torn America. The most representative work of this period -- the Piano Variations (1930) -- remains one of the composer's seminal efforts. He tried to avoid taking a university position, instead writing for journals and newspapers, organizing concerts, and taking on administrative duties for composers' organizations, trying to promote American music. By the mid-1930s, taking the direct engagement of and communication with audiences as one of his central