This composer was active between 1898 and 1917, but considering the art of composition a private matter, his/her
works were rarely performed. Word of these unusual creations—s/he was the first to employ polytonality extensively—
gradually spread in the 1930s and he/she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in music for a symphony that had been composed
forty years earlier.
a. Copland
b. Ives
c. Schoenberg
d. Barber
e. Varèse
ANSWER: b
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