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Morton Gould
American composer, conductor, arranger
1913 – 1996aged 82
A composer and conductor who published his first piece at age six and went on to write across ballet, Broadway, and film, including the ballet scores Interplay and Fall River Legend and the Broadway musical Billion Dollar Baby. In 1995 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for Stringmusic, and he later received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a Kennedy Center Honor, capping a career that treated popular and classical music as parts of one continuous tradition rather than separate worlds. He served as ASCAP's president from 1986 to 1994.