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For distinguished musical composition in the larger forms of chamber, orchestral or choral music, or for an operatic work (including ballet), performed or published during the year by a composer of established residence in the United States, Five hundred dollars ($500).

Music for the film Louisiana Story , by Virgil Thomson

Released in 1948 by Robert Flaherty Productions.

The Jury

Chalmers Clifton

Henry Cowell

Beveridge Webster

Winners in Music

Walter Piston

First performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Boston, January, 1948.

Charles Ives

First performed by Lou Harrison and Chamber Orchestra in New York, April, 1946.

Leo Sowerby

Commissioned by the Alice M Ditson Fund, first performed by the Schola Cantorum in New York, April 1945.

Aaron Copland

A ballet written for and presented by Martha Graham and group, commissioned by Mrs. E. S. Coolidge, first presented at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. October, 1944.

1949 Prize Winners