Elliott Carter

American composer Elliott Carter (b. 1908). His instrumental works are filled with complexity, activity and energy. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, and then returned to the United States. After a neoclassical phase, he went on to write atonal, rhythmically complex music. His compositions, which have been performed all over the world, include orchestral and chamber music as well as instrumental and vocal works.