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First name: Ezra
Last name: Laderman
Dates: 1924
Category: Quartet
Nationality: American
Opus name: Piano Quartet (1996)
Publisher: Schirmer
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Information: Ezra Laderman (born June 29, 1924 Brooklyn ) is an American composer of classical music. His parents, Isidor and Leah, both emigrated to the U.S. from Poland. Though poor, the family had a piano. Ezra writes, "At four, I was improvising at the piano; at seven, I began to compose music, writing it down. I hardly knew it then, but I had at a very early age made a giant step to becoming a composer." He attended New York City's High School of Music and Art. On April 25, 1943, Laderman was inducted into the U.S. Army and served as a radio operator with the 69th Infantry Division during World War II. Laderman writes: During the weeks after the war was over, Laderman composed his Leipzig Symphony. This work brought him recognition within the army, and subsequently he was assigned as orchestrator of the GI Symphony Orchestra. Laderman was discharged from the army on April 22, 1946. He studied composition under Stefan Wolpe of New York and Miriam Gideon of Brooklyn College where he earned his B.A. in 1950. He then went on to study under Otto Luening of Columbia University where he earned his M.A. in 1952. In 1991, he was elected into the membership of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2006, he was elected president for a three-year term ending in 2009. Laderman currently teaches music composition at Yale University,served as Dean at the Yale School of Music from 1989 to 1995.