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Elliot Carter was born in New York City on December 11, 1908. He grew up as a comfortable child. Carter studied at Harvard University with Walter Piston, E.B. Hill, and Gustav Holst. After college he traveled to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger from 1932 to 1935. After his training in Europe, he returned to New York to compose and teach. Carter composes very complex, mature music. He uses tempo as an element of form.
Carter never succumbed totally to the influence of Ives, and he was never even briefly to try serial composition.
Carter constructed what he was later to call "an auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments."
Carter was the first American composer outside the field of popular music to achieve his reputation not as a minor follower of a European school or as a provincial voice exploiting a purely native material.
Carter's earlier works are influenced by Stravinsky and Hindemith, and are mainly neoclassical in aesthetic.
While Carter seems to set up rigorous systems for deriving the pitch content of a piece, he deviates from them on occasion: not every note can be explained with the same rigor as can be done, for example, in Webern.
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