Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1908 December 11 | Born in New York City to Elliott Cook Carter Sr., and Florence Chambers |
| 1924 | Met Charles Ives, who exposed him to modern music |
| 1926 | Studied piano, oboe, and solfeggio at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| 1926-1932 | Studied at Harvard University; earned a BA in English and an MA in Music under the tutelage of Gustav Holst and Walter Piston |
| 1932-1935 | Studied music with Nadia Boulanger as a private student and at École Normale de Musique de Paris Studied choral conducting with Henri Expert |
| 1935-1940 | Music director of Ballet Caravan |
| 1936 | Composed Pocahontas ballet commissioned by Lincoln Kirstein |
| 1939 July 6 | Married sculptor and art critic Helen Frost-Jones (1907 July 4-2003 May 17) in Cheltenham, Massachusetts |
| 1943 January 4 | Son David Chambers Carter born |
| 1943-1944 | Worked for the Office of War Information |
| 1945-1946 | Received a Guggenheim Fellowship in musical composition; composed Piano Sonata |
| 1947 March 27 | Premiere of the Minotaur, a ballet commissioned by Lincoln Kirstein for the Ballet Society |
| 1950 | Received a Guggenheim Fellowship in musical composition; composed String Quartet no. 1 |
| 1960 | Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Music for String Quartet no. 2 |
| 1961 | Awarded Sibelius Medal |
| 1971 | Received American Academy of Arts and Letters gold medal |
| 1973 | Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Music for String Quartet no. 3 |
| 1985 | Awarded the Ernst von Siemens Prize Received the National Medal of the Arts |
| 1996 | Awarded Royal Philharmonic Society gold medal |
| 1998 | Inducted into the Classical Music Hall of Fame Received Prince Rainier Foundation Music Award |
| 2012 October 25 | Dialogues II premiered in Milan |
| 2012 November 5 | Died in New York City |