Statistics for Pulitzer Prize for Music Winners

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General Stats

This quiz has been taken 11 times
The average score is 6 of 89

Answer Stats

Year	Winner	% Correct
2008	Bob Dylan	82%
1945	Aaron Copland	45%
2003	John Adams	36%
2014	John Luther Adams	36%
2018	Kendrick Lamar	36%
1947	Charles Ives	27%
2010	Hank Williams	27%
1958	Samuel Barber	27%
1963	Samuel Barber	27%
2013	Caroline Shaw	18%
1998	George Gershwin	18%
1944	Howard Hanson	18%
2010	Jennifer Higdon	18%
2015	Julia Wolfe	18%
1961	Walter Piston	18%
1948	Walter Piston	18%
2019	Aretha Franklin	9%
1951	Douglas Stuart Moore	9%
1983	Ellen Zwilich	9%
1960	Elliott Carter	9%
1973	Elliott Carter	9%
1999	Melinda Wagner	9%
1982	Milton Babbitt	9%
1995	Morton Gould	9%
1954	Quincy Porter	9%
1976	Scott Joplin	9%
2009	Steve Reich	9%
1998	Aaron Jay Kernis	0%
2020	Anthony Davis	0%
1984	Bernard Rands	0%
1970	Charles Wuorinen	0%
1993	Christopher Rouse	0%
1980	David Del Tredici	0%
2008	David Lang	0%
1975	Dominick Argento	0%
1974	Donald Martino	0%
1999	Duke Ellington	0%
2017	Du Yun	0%
2019	Ellen Reid	0%
1956	Ernst Toch	0%
1952	Gail Kubik	0%
1968	George Crumb	0%
1986	George Perle	0%
1996	George Walker	0%
1955	Gian Carlo Menotti	0%
1950	Gian Carlo Menotti	0%
1994	Gunther Schuller	0%
2002	Henry Brant	0%
2016	Henry Threadgill	0%
1972	Jacob Druckman	0%
2007	John Coltrane	0%
2001	John Corigliano	0%
1987	John Harbison	0%
1959	John La Montaine	0%
1979	Joseph Schwantner	0%
1969	Karel Husa	0%
2012	Kevin Puts	0%
1967	Leon Kirchner	0%
1946	Leo Sowerby	0%
1966	Leslie Bassett	0%
2000	Lewis Spratlan	0%
1971	Mario Davidovsky	0%
1990	Mel D. Powell	0%
1978	Michael Colgrass	0%
1976	Ned Rorem	0%
1964 - No prize awarded	No prize awarded	0%
1965 - No prize awarded	No prize awarded	0%
1981 - No prize awarded	No prize awarded	0%
1953 - No prize awarded	No prize awarded	0%
1957	Norman Dello Joio	0%
2007	Ornette Coleman	0%
2004	Paul Moravec	0%
1977	Richard Wernick	0%
1962	Robert Ward	0%
1989	Roger Reynolds	0%
1982	Roger Sessions	0%
1974	Roger Sessions	0%
1991	Shulamit Ran	0%
1985	Stephen Albert	0%
2005	Steven Stucky	0%
2006	Thelonious Monk	0%
1949	Virgil Thomson	0%
1992	Wayne Peterson	0%
1988	William Bolcom	0%
1985	William Schuman	0%
1943	William Schuman	0%
1997	Wynton Marsalis	0%
2006	Yehudi Wyner	0%
2011	Zhou Long	0%