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John Adams
American composer (born 1947)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 15 February 1947, 1947
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Adams
- Said to be the same as
- John Adams
- Genre
- opera, minimalist music, classical music
- Occupation
- conductor, composer, autobiographer, librettist, music arranger, musician
- Citizenship
- United States
- Native language
- English
- Awards
- Rome Prize, Harvard Centennial Medal, Pulitzer Prize for Music, Grawemeyer Awards, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Erasmus Prize, Grammy Awards, Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, Dresdner Musikfestspiel-Preis, Officer of Arts and Letters, Ditson Conductor's Award, Classic Brit Awards
- archives at
- Library of Congress Music Division
- described by source
- UbuWeb
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- instrument
- clarinet
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- nominated for
- Pulitzer Prize for Music, Pulitzer Prize for Music
- notable work
- Nixon in China, Doctor Atomic Symphony, Guide to Strange Places, Harmonielehre
- record label
- Nonesuch Records
- related category
- Category:Compositions by John Adams (composer)
- social media followers
- 16055, 16940, 17436
- start of work period
- 1973
- topic's main category
- Category:John Coolidge Adams
- writing language
- English
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