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BEST MUSICAL COMPOSITION FIRST RECORDED
AND RELEASED IN 1958 (OVER 5 MINUTES)
CROSS COUNTRY SUITE
Composer, Nelson Riddle
1959
ANATOMY OF A MURDER
Composer: Duke Ellington
1960
BEST CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL COMPOSITION
ORCHESTRAL SUITE FROM TENDER LAND SUITE
Aaron Copland, Composer
1961 (tie)
DISCANTUS
Comp: Laurindo Almeida
MOVEMENTS FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA
Comp: Igor Stravinsky
1962
BEST CLASSICAL COMPOSITION BY CONTEMPORARY COMPOSER
THE FLOOD
Comp: Igor Stravinsky
1963
WAR REQUIEM
Comp: Benjamin Britten
1964
PIANO CONCERTO
Comp: Samuel Barber
1965
SYMPHONY NO.4
Comp: Charles lves
1985
BEST NEW CLASSICAL COMPOSITION
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
Samuel Barber, Composer
BEST CONTEMPORARY COMPOSITION
1986
LLOYD WEBBER: REQUIEM
Composer: Andrew Lloyd Webber
1987
LUTOSLAWSKI: SYMPHONY NO.3
Composer: Witold Lutoslawski
1988
PENDERECKI: CELLO CON. NO.2
Composer. Krzysztof Penderecki
1989
ADAMS: NIXON IN CHINA
John Adams, Composer
1990
REICH: DIFFERENT TRAINS
Composer: Steve Reich
1991
BERNSTEIN: ARIAS & BARCAROLLES
Composer: Leonard Bernstein
1992
CORIGLIANO: SYM. NO. 1
John Corigliano, Composer
1993
BARBER: THE LOVERS
Samuel Barber, Composer
1994
CARTER: VIOLIN CONCERTO
Elliott Carter, Composer
1995
Albert: Cello Concerto
Stephen Albert, Composer
1996
Messiaen: Concert à Quatre
Olivier Messiaen, Composer
1997
String Quartet
John Corigliano, Composer
1998
John Adams: El Dorado
1999
Best Classical Contemporary Composition
A Composer's Award. (For a contemporary classical composition composed within the last
25 years, and released for the first time during the Eligibility Year.)
Penderecki: Violin Concerto No. 2 "Metamorphosen"
Krzysztof Penderecki, composer
2000
Boulez: Repons
Pierre Boulez, composer
2001
Star Child
George Crumb, composer
2002
Concert De Gaudi For Guitar And Orchestra
Christopher Rouse, composer
2003
Casa Guidi (five songs for soprano with orchestra based on letters of poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Dominick Argento, composer
2004
On the Transmigration of Souls
John Adams, composer
2005
Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience
William Bolcom, composer