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Howard Hanson

Born: 28th October 1896, Wahoo, Nebraska, U.S.A

Died: 26th February 1981, New York, U.S.A

Nationality: American

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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