Charles Fussell

Charles Clement Fussell (born February 14, 1938 ) is an American composer.

Fussell studied at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester and at the Berlin University of Music with Boris Blacher . During this time he also attended master classes with Friedelind Wagner in Bayreuth. He later worked as an assistant to the composer Virgil Thomson . For decades he had a decisive influence on the Boston music scene: as artistic director of the first Boston festival for new music New Music Harvest and founder and director of the New England Composer's Orchestra as well as professor of composition and music theory at Boston University . He also teaches at Rutgers University .

In addition to five symphonies, Fussell a. a. Julian for choir, soloists and orchestra based on Gustave Flaubert and the chamber drama Cymbeline based on William Shakespeare . The Wilde Symphony for baritone and orchestra, based on a libretto by Will Graham , was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 . On the 100th anniversary of Walt Whitman's death in 1992, the compositions Specimen Days for baritone, choir and orchestra (text by Will Graham based on poems by Whitman) and Being Music were composed .

Fussell has received scholarships from the Fulbright , Ford, and Copland Foundation . In 1992 he received an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters . Several of his compositions were recorded on record: in addition to the two compositions for the Whitman anniversary and the symphony Wilde u. a. a concert for cello and string orchestra, The Astronaut's Tale and Right River .

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SURNAME	Fussell, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fussell, Charles Clement
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	February 14, 1938