Who has won the Pulitzer Prize for music?

Answer 1

Pulitzer Prize Winners: Music

2011 Madame White Snake by Zhou Long (Oxford University Press)

2010 Violin Concerto by Jennifer Higdon (Lawdon Press)

2009 Double Sextet by Steve Reich (Boosey & Hawkes)

2008 "The Little Match Girl Passion" by David Lang

2007 Sound Grammar by Ornette Coleman

2006 Piano Concerto: 'Chiavi in Mano' by Yehudi Wyner (Associated Music Publishers)

2005 Second Concerto for Orchestra by Steven Stucky (Theodore Presser Company)

2004 Tempest Fantasy by Paul Moravec

2003 On the Transmigration of Souls by John Adams (Boosey & Hawkes)

2002 Ice Field by Henry Brant

2001 Symphony No. 2 for String Orchestra by John Corigliano (G. Schirmer)

2000 Life is a Dream, Opera in Three Acts: Act II, Concert Version by Lewis Spratlan

1999 Concerto for Flute, Strings and Percussion by Melinda Wagner

1998 String Quartet #2 (musica instrumentalis) by Aaron Jay Kernis

1997 Blood on the Fields by Wynton Marsalis

1996 Lilacs, for voice and orchestra by George Walker

1995 Stringmusic by Morton Gould

1994 Of Reminiscences and Reflections by Gunther Schuller

1993 Trombone Concerto by Christopher Rouse

1992 The Face of the Night, The Heart of the Dark by Wayne Peterson

1991 Symphony by Shulamit Ran

1990 "Duplicates": A Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra by Mel Powell

1989 Whispers Out of Time by Roger Reynolds

1988 12 New Etudes for Piano by William Bolcom

1987 The Flight Into Egypt by John Harbison

1986 Wind Quintet IV by George Perle

1985 Symphony, RiverRun by Stephen Albert

1984 "Canti del Sole" for Tenor and Orchestra by Bernard Rands

1983 Symphony No. I (Three Movements for Orchestra) by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

1982 Concerto for Orchestra by Roger Sessions

1981 (No Award)

1980 In Memory of a Summer Day by David Del Tredici

1979 Aftertones of Infinity by Joseph Schwantner

1978 Deja Vu for Percussion Quartet and Orchestra by Michael Colgrass

1977 Visions of Terror and Wonder by Richard Wernick

1976 Air Music by Ned Rorem

1975 From the Diary of Virginia Woolf by Dominick Argento

1974 Notturno by Donald Martino

1973 String Quartet No. 3 by Elliott Carter

1972 Windows by Jacob Druckman

1971 Synchronisms No. 6 for Piano and Electronic Sound (1970) by Mario Davidovsky

1970 Time's Encomium by Charles Wuorinen

1969 String Quartet No. 3 by Karel Husa

1968 Echoes of Time and the River by George Crumb

1967 Quartet No. 3 by Leon Kirchner

1966 Variations for Orchestra by Leslie Bassett

1965 (No Award)

1963 Piano Concerto No. 1 by Samuel Barber

1962 The Crucible by Robert Ward

1961 Symphony No. 7 by Walter Piston

1960 Second String Quartet by Elliott Carter

1959 Concerto for Piano and Orchestra by John LaMontaine

1958 Vanessa by Samuel Barber

1957 Meditations on Ecclesiastes by Norman Dello Joio

1956 Symphony No. 3 by Ernst Toch

1955 The Saint of Bleecker Street by Gian-Carlo Menotti

1954 Concerto For Two Pianos and Orchestra by Quincy Porter

1953 (No Award)

1952 Symphony Concertante by Gail Kubik

1951 Music in "Giants in the Earth" by Douglas S. Moore

1950 Music in The Consul by Gian-Carlo Menotti

1949 Music for the film Louisiana Story by Virgil Thomson

1948 Symphony, No. 3 by Walter Piston

1947 Symphony No. 3 by Charles Ives

1946 The Canticle of the Sun by Leo Sowerby

1945 Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland

1944 Symphony No. 4. Opus 34 by Howard Hanson

1943 Secular Cantata No. 2. A Free Song by William Schuman

Pulitzer Special Citations: Music

2010 Hank Williams

2008 Bob Dylan

2007 John Coltrane

2006 Thelonious Monk

1999 Duke Ellington

1998 George Gershwin

1985 William Schuman

1982 Milton Babbitt

1976 Scott Joplin

1974 Roger Sessions

1944 Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II