Composer made a Living Legend

Gunther Schuller, who has played horn with Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and the Metropolitan Opera, has been named a Living Legend by the Library of Congress.

Schuller, 80, will receive the award Dec. 16 at a concert by the Jupiter String Quartet in the library in Washington.

Schuller has written more than 160 musical compositions, including a saxophone sonata and works commissioned by the New York and Berlin Philharmonic orchestras. He won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1994. His books include “The Compleat Conductor” and “The Swing Era,” a history of jazz.

The library gives the Living Legend award to figures deemed to have enriched American culture.