Pulitzer for Music

Columbia University, on the recommendation of The Pulitzer Prize Board, annually awards a Pulitzer Prize in music of $10,000 for distinguished musical composition by an American that has had its first performance or recording in the United States during the year.

Year	Artist	Performance or Work
2008	David Lang	The Little Match Girl Passion
2007	Ornette Coleman	Sound Grammar
2006	Yehudi Wyner	Chiavi in Mano
2005	Steven Stucky	Second Concerto for Orchestra
2004	Paul Moravec	Tempest Fantasy
2003	John Adams	On the Transmigration of Souls
2002	Henry Brant	Ice Field
2001	John Corigliano	Symphony No. 2 for string orchestra
2000	Lewis Spratlan	Life is a Dream opera (awarded for concert version of Act II)
1999	Melinda Wagner	Concerto for Flute, Strings and Percussion
1998	Aaron Jay Kernis	String Quartet No. 2 Musica Instrumentalis
1997	Wynton Marsalis	Blood on the Fields oratorio
1996	George Walker	Lilacs for soprano and orchestra
1995	Morton Gould	Stringmusic
1994	Gunther Schuller	Of Reminiscences and Reflections
1993	Christopher Rouse	Trombone Concerto
1992	Wayne Peterson	The Face of the Night the Heart of the Dark
1991	Shulamit Ran	Symphony
1990	Mel D. Powell	Duplicates
1989	Roger Reynolds	Whispers Out of Time
1988	William Bolcom	12 New Etudes for Piano
1987	John Harbison	The Flight into Egypt
1986	George Perle	Wind Quintet No. 4 for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and Bassoon
1985	Stephen Albert	Symphony RiverRun
1984	Bernard Rands	Canti del Sole
1983	Ellen Zwilich	Three Movements for Orchestra (Symphony No. 1)
1982	Roger Sessions	Concerto for Orchestra
1981	no prize awarded	-
1980	David Del Tredici	In Memory of a Summer Day
1979	Joseph Schwantner	Aftertones of Infinity
1978	Michael Colgrass	Deja Vu for percussion and orchestra
1977	Richard Wernick	Visions of Terror and Wonder
1976	Ned Rorem	Air Music
1975	Dominick Argento	From the Diary of Virginia Woolf
1974	Donald Martino	Notturno
1973	Elliott Carter	String Quartet No. 3
1972	Jacob Druckman	Windows
1971	Mario Davidovsky	Synchronisms No. 6
1970	Charles Wuorinen	Time's Encomium
1969	Karel Husa	String Quartet No. 3
1968	George Crumb	Echoes of Time and the River
1967	Leon Kirchner	Quartet No. 3 for strings and electronic tape
1966	Leslie Bassett	Variations for Orchestra
1965	no prize awarded	-
1964	no prize awarded	-
1963	Samuel Barber	Piano Concerto
1962	Robert Ward	The Crucible opera
1961	Walter Piston	Symphony No. 7
1960	Elliott Carter	String Quartet No. 2
1959	John La Montaine	Piano Concerto
1958	Samuel Barber	Vanessa opera
1957	Norman Dello Joio	Meditations on Ecclesiastes
1956	Ernst Toch	Symphony No. 3
1955	Gian Carlo Menotti	The Saint of Bleecker Street opera
1954	Quincy Porter	Concerto Concertante for two pianos and orchestra
1953	no prize awarded	-
1952	Gail Kubik	Symphony Concertante
1951	Douglas Stuart Moore	Giants in the Earth opera
1950	Gian-Carlo Menotti	The Consul opera
1949	Virgil Thomson	Louisiana Story film score
1948	Walter Piston	Symphony No. 3
1947	Charles Ives	Symphony No. 3
1946	Leo Sowerby	The Canticle of the Sun
1945	Aaron Copland	Appalachian Spring ballet
1944	Howard Hanson	Symphony No. 4
1943	William Schuman	Secular Cantata No. 2

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