Ellen Taaffe Zwilich-6
The very first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for music, Ellen has also been mentioned in "Peanuts":
As you can see she composed a piece of music called "Peanuts Gallery".
Another first for Ellen- she was the first woman to earn a Doctor of Musical Arts in Compositionfrom the Juilliard school! Today she is in great demand as a composer -- writing several new pieces of music every year. Here are some of her most popular compositions:
Symphony Number 1 (won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983)
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