{"id":792,"date":"2015-03-23T23:18:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T04:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/?p=792"},"modified":"2015-03-23T23:27:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T04:27:58","slug":"copland-in-paris-1921","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/2015\/03\/23\/copland-in-paris-1921\/","title":{"rendered":"Copland – Paris, France in 1921 – His Early Victories"},"content":{"rendered":"

In June\u00a0of 1921, Aaron Copland sailed to Paris, France\u00a0to study music composition at the Palais de Fontainebleau. He gained much knowledge and experience with the help of his instructors Paul Vidal and Nadia Boulanger, as well as meeting new\u00a0comrades like Harold Clurman. These\u00a0individuals\u00a0were formative in the early stages of\u00a0Copland’s composing career and thus left an immense impact on his\u00a0life and music. During his time in Paris, Copland had a great correspondence with his parents back in the United States.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Copland in early 1920s<\/h3>\n

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One particularly amazing written account of Copland’s early success in Paris is in a letter he wrote to his parents. Merely three months into his stay in Paris, Copland had an opportunity that excited him more than ‘any debut in Carnegie Hall ever could.’ The following shows a portion of his letter to his parents:<\/p>\n

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(Selected correspondence of Aaron copland, p. 39)<\/h3>\n

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Copland’s gained great success in Paris\u00a0very\u00a0early on in his stay. In the next letter to his parents, he writes of another great victory–he sells his first composition to one of the biggest publishing companies in all of Paris. Copland writes to his parents with a delightful voice, comfortable expressing his unadulterated joy\u00a0with his loved ones. Readers are lucky\u00a0to be able to get such a glimpse into\u00a0an intimate exchange of letters from a composer to his parents. Copland has left such a mark on music history in America, and to be able to read more closely at the details of the beginning of his career is unique and very telling of what he was experiencing in the moment.<\/p>\n

At the end of his letter about selling his composition,\u00a0with a charming tone Copland signs off saying, “So, we have a composer in the Copland family, it seems. Who says there are no more miracles. Lovingly, Aaron.” (Copland, p. 41)<\/p>\n

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Bibliography:<\/p>\n

Copland, Aaron. Selected Correspondence of Aaron Copland.<\/span> New Haven, CT, USA: Yale University Press, 2006. Accessed March 23, 2015. ProQuest ebrary.<\/p>\n

Image found at: \u00a0http:\/\/lcweb2.loc.gov\/diglib\/media\/loc.natlib.copland.phot0020\/ver01\/0001.tif\/225<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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