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annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It was first awarded in 1943. ... 
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of slavery, became not only the first jazz work to take the highest honor in 
American music but the first non-classical piece ever to win. ... the prize in 1943
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he won the first Pulitzer Prize for music in 1943. ... Mr. Schuman became a 
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awarded in 1943 to the great composer William Schuman for his Secular 
Cantata No. ... on the Fields became the first jazz composition to win a Pulitzer (I 
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that he would become a successful composer and leader in the music community
. .... 1939-41; first Pulitzer Prize in music, 1943; Concert Artists Guild award, 1967; 
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the largest American symphony orchestras last season, William Schuman had 
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last, an exclusion that had begun in 1943, when the first Pulitzer Prize for music 
went to the great classical composer William Schuman, had ended  more ... on 
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American Festival Overture became Schuman's first successful work and went far 
toward helping .... I'm going to win it because mine is the best piece. .... In most 
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Question: In 1943 American composer William Schuman became the first composer to win one of these prizes
Answer: Pulitzer