Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

Composer

Birthday April 30, 1939

Birth Sign Taurus

Birthplace Florida

Age 84 years old

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About

The first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for music for her Three Movements for Orchestra (Symphony No. 1), which was first performed by the American Symphony Orchestra in 1982.

Before Fame

She studied violin at Florida State University. She was initially fascinated by atonal music, but eventually developed a post-modernist, neoromantic style.

Trivia

She was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in 1994.

Family Life

Her husband Joseph died in 1979.

Associated With

She won the Pulitzer Prize the year after Roger Sessions won his.