Fanfare for the Common Man is a musical work by
American composer Aaron Copland. The piece was written in
1942 for the
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under
conductor Eugene Goossens. It was inspired in part by a famous speech made earlier in the same year where vice president
Henry A. Wallace proclaimed the dawning of the "Century of the Common Man". Several alternative versions have been made and fragments of work have appeared in many subsequent US and British cultural productions, such as in the musical scores of movies.