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The Koussevitzky Music Foundation, which celebrated its 60th anniversary during 2002, has throughout its history aided the birth of significant works by many of the world’s most important composers. Included among its commissions are:

John Adams’ Eros Piano
Samuel Barber’s Prayers of Kirkegaard
Bela Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra
Arthur Berger’s Septet
Luciano Berio’s Traces
Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade
Harrison Birtwistle’s Silbury Air
Ernest Bloch’s Sinfonia Breve
Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes
John Cage’s Cheap Imitation
Carlos Chavez’ Sinfonia no. 5
Aaron Copland’s Symphony no. 3
George Crumb’s Madrigals Books I and II
Luigi Dallapiccola’s Tartiniana
Peter Maxwell Davies’ Revelation and Fall
Jacob Druckman’s Windows
Henry Dutilleux’ Concerto for Two Orchestras
Morton Feldman’s Instruments
Irving Fine’s String Quartet
Lukas Foss’ Symphony of Chorales
Alexander Goehr’s Colossus or Panic
Howard Hanson’s Piano Concerto
Lou Harrison’s Elegiac Symphony
Jonathan Harvey’s Timepieces
Karel Husa’s Violin Sonata
Ulysses Kay’s The Bore
Oliver Knussen’s Ophelia Dances
Gyorgy Ligeti’s Ramifications
Olivier Messaien’s Turangalila-Symphonie
Douglas Moore’s Ballad of Baby Doe
Krzysztof Penderecki’s Cello Concerto
Goffredo Petrassi’s Quinto Concerto
Walter Piston’s Symphony no. 3
Francis Poulenc’s Gloria
Steve Reich’s Three Movements for Orchestra
Arnold Schoenberg’s Survivor from Warsaw
Gunther Schuller’s Double Bass Concerto
William Schuman’s Symphony no. 7
Roger Sessions’ Symphony no. 3
Harold Shapero’s Symphony for Classical Orchestra
Seymour Shifrin’s String Quartet no. 3
Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Mixtur
Igor Stravinsky’s Ode
Michael Tippett’s King Priam
Edgard Varese’s Notturno
William Walton’s The Bear

In the last decade alone, commissions have been awarded to a distinguished and diverse group of composers, among them:

Louis Andreissen
Milton Babbitt
William Bolcom
Chen Yi
Franco Donatoni
Osvaldo Golijov
Stephen Hartke
David Horne
Peter Lieberson
Steven Mackey
Wynton Marsalis
Donald Martino
Nicholas Maw
George Perle
Shulamit Ran
Terry Riley
Christopher Rouse
Poul Ruders
Frederic Rzewski
David Soley
Steven Stucky
Toru Takemitsu
Augusta Read Thomas
George Walker
Charles Wuorinen
Yehudi Wyner
Zhou Long

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