... his musical interest from his family. Almost everyone, except his father, were musical beings. His mother even sang and played the piano. Because Aaron was so shy, it was second nature for him to take up his interest in music. At the ... created his first notated melody that he called Zonatello. From 1913-1917, Aaron began to study and take lessons from for Leopold Wolfsohn. Leopold focused his teaching on classical fare which lead to Aaron's first concert attendance and his initial public ... decided he wanted to become a composer. In 1940, Copland composed an incidental piece of mus...

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