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born April 30, 1939, Miami, Fla., U.S. U.S. composer. She was trained as a violinist, studying with Ivan Galamian (1903-81). She studied composition with Elliott Carter and Roger Sessions at Juilliard. Her straightforward and expressive music won wide recognition; her Symphony No. 1 (1983) was the first composition by a woman to win a Pulitzer Prize. Her orchestral work Symbolon premiered in Russia in 1988. She is noted for writing music that is both substantive and accessible
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