Aaron Copland grew up in Brooklyn far from the ... In 1930, in this idyllic location, he wrote the Piano Variations, his toughest, most uncompromising piece yet. The Piano Variations begins ...

Read more Born in a humble street in Brooklyn, the son of Lithuanian immigrants, Copland is generally regarded as the first indisputably great American composer. The piano came easily to him and, ...

Aaron Copland ... on horseback). Copland was born and brought up in Brooklyn, the youngest of 5 children all living above their father's grocery shop. Copland learned piano with his sister and ...