Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. (born December 11, 1908) is an American composer of classical music. Biography Elliott Carter was born in New York City. His father, Elliott Carter, Sr. was a businessman and his mother was the former Florence Chambers. The family was well-to-do. As a teenager he developed an interest in music and was encouraged in this regard by the composer Charles Ives (who sold insurance to his family). Although Carter majored in English at Harvard College, he also studied music there and and at the nearby Longy School of Music. His professors included Walter Piston. He sang with the Harvard Glee Club. He did graduate work in music at Harvard, from which he received a master's degree in music in 1932. He then went to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger (as did Aaron Copland, George Gershwin and many other American composers). Carter worked with Mlle Boulanger from 1932-35 and in 1935 he received a doctorate in m

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