Background
Shapero, Harold Samuel was born on April 29, 1920 in Lynn, Massachusetts, United States.
Shapero, Harold Samuel was born on April 29, 1920 in Lynn, Massachusetts, United States.
Attended, Malkin Conservatory, Boston, 1936-1937; studied composition with Ernst Krenek, 1937; studied piano with Eleanor Kerr studied composition with Walter Piston, Harvard University, 1938-1941; studied composition with Paul Hindemith, Berkshire Music Center, Tanglewood, Massachusetts, 1970; studied composition with Nadia Boulanger, Longy School, 1942-1943.
Founding professor music department Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1952-1985.
(Distinguished mid-20th-century American composer Harold S...)
Married Esther Geller, 1945.