This Text Surveys The Life And Work Of The Great American Composer Elliott Carter (1908-2012). It Examines His Formative, And Often Ambivalent, Engagements With Charles Ives And Other 'ultra-modernists', With The Classicist Ideas He Encountered At Harvard And In His Three Years Of Study With Nadia Boulanger In Paris; And With The Populism Developed By His Friends Aaron Copland And Marc Blitzstein In Depression-era New York, And The Unique Synthesis Of Modernist Idioms That He Began To Develop In The Late 1940s. David Schiff. Previously Issued In Print: 2018. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.