Howard Hanson

Howard Harold Hanson was an American composer, conductor, educator and music theorist. As director for forty years of the Eastman School of Music, he raised its quality and provided opportunities for commissioning and performing American classical music. In 1944, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his Symphony No. 4, and received numerous other awards, including the George Foster Peabody Award for Outstanding Entertainment in Music in 1946.

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Howard Harold Hanson, born in Wahoo, Nebraska, in 1896, received his training at Luther College in Nebraska, New York, and Evanston, Illinois. Early in his career, Hanson was active as a critic and coach in Kansas City in 1913, and subsequently taught at Northwestern University from 1915 to 1916, according to Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians: American Supplement (1920). Since 1916, he has served as a theory-teacher at the College of the Pacific in San Jose, California, where he became dean in 1919. His compositional output includes two symphonic poems, a Symphonic Rhapsody, a piano concerto, a piano quintet, a piano sonata and other pieces, and songs, alongside articles on musical science.