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The 1983 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Music
For distinguished musical composition by an American in any of the larger forms including chamber, orchestral, choral, opera, song, dance, or other forms of musical theatre, which has had its first performance in the United States during the year, One thousand dollars ($1,000).

Symphony No. I (Three Movements for Orchestra), by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

Commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra and premiered by that orchestra on May 5, 1982 in Alice Tully Hall, New York City.

Winning Work

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Symphony No. 1 is presented here in a 1986 New World Records recording by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra with conductor John Nelson.

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Music in 1983:

Vivian Fine

Premiered on January 5, 1983 by the San Francisco Symphony, at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco.

The Jury

Miriam Gideon

Composer

Leon Kirchner*

Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music, Harvard University

Robert Ward*

Professor of Composition, Duke University

Winners in Music

1982

Roger Sessions

First performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra on October 23, 1981, Seiji Ozawa, conductor.
1980

David Del Tredici

A work for soprano solo and orchestra, commissioned by the St. Louis Symphony for its 100th anniversary and premiered by that orchestra on February 23, 1980.
1979

Joseph Schwantner

First performed by the American Composers Orchestra on January 29, 1979 in Alice Tully Hall New York City.
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1983 Prize Winners

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