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Seymour Shifrin (Composer)

Born: 28th February 1926, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Died: 26th September 1979, Natick, Massachusetts, United States

Nationality: American

Seymour Shifrin was an American composer. He was described by Time Magazine as "one of the most significant composers of his generation."

Shifrin's Satires of Circumstance (1964, text by Thomas Hardy) received the Koussevitzky International Recording Award for 1970. He received the Naumburg Award, Columbia University's Bearns Prize (1949), the Copley Award, the Horblit Prize (1963), and two Guggenheim Fellowships, in 1956 and 1959. A graduate of Columbia University (M.A., 1947), he was a member of the faculty at the University of California at Berkeley (1952–66) and at Brandeis University from 1966 until his death in 1979.

Shifrin studied with William Schuman, Otto Luening, and Darius Milhaud.

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