Aaron Copeland
Born in Brooklyn, New York on November 14, 1900. Born into a Jewish family and the youngest of five children. The family lived above a department store that they owned. Aaron's sister taught him how to play the piano at eleven years old, and it's where his love of music began. He attended the Boys High School in Brooklyn and began theory classes in 1917. After high school he left New York to attend the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France. There he studied piano from Nadia Boulanger. After leaving Paris he wanted to start writing music and started writing for Jazz.
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