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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
I didn't even recognize Fry's name, but assumed that he was an American composer, because of the album being one in Naxos' "American Classics" series.
I'm trying to think of a popular American classical composer, and I'm drawing a blank! Of course, Europe and Russia had many, many years to produce great composers, while the U.S. is comparatively a very young country.
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Aaron Copland is who I thought of. I discovered that Wikipedia has a list of
American classical composers. I find it interesting that Pachelbel's son moved to the American colonies, so he's on the list. Not many of his works survived, apparently.
I think I had heard of Fry before, but was not familiar with his works.