Elliott Carter has been played on NTS in shows including Westward Ho! w/ Ashley Wales, featured first on 21 July 2017. Songs played include Double Concerto For Harpischord And Piano With Two Chamber Orchestras, Kantate Nr. 1, Op. 29 and String Quartet (1931).

Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. (born December 11, 1908, died November 5, 2012) is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born in New York City, a composer encompassing many facets of classical music, from neoclassicism to serialism. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, during which time he published his first composition in 1937 and then returned to the United…