Earl Kim

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Earl Kim (born January 6, 1920 in Dinuba , † November 19, 1998 in Cambridge / Massachusetts ) was an American composer and music teacher.

The son of Korean immigrants studied composition and music theory with Arnold Schoenberg at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1941–41 . With Ernest Bloch and Roger Sessions he continued his education at the University of California, Berkeley , which he completed in 1952 with a master's degree. From 1952 to 1967 he taught at Princeton University , from 1971 to 1990 at Harvard University . He also worked as composer in residence at various music centers and universities . His students included u. a. Peter Maxwell Davies , Harrison Birtwistle and Bernard Rands .

Kim's vocal works based on texts by important writers such as Charles Baudelaire , Arthur Rimbaud , Rainer Maria Rilke and Anne Sexton and his stage works based on Samuel Beckett received great recognition . The best known of his instrumental works is the Violin Concerto, which he composed in 1979 and dedicated to Itzhak Perlman .

Works

  • The Road , song cycle for baritone and piano
  • Sonata for violin and piano
  • Sonata for cello and piano
  • Two Bagatelles for piano (1948–50)
  • Four Bagatelles for piano (1950)
  • Movement , string quartet (1952)
  • Four Letters for baritone and piano (1954) (Text: Frank Horne )
  • Letters Found Near a Suicide for soprano or baritone and piano (1954) (Text: Frank Horne)
  • Dialogues for piano and orchestra (1959)
  • Exercises en route , stage work for soprano, instruments, actors, dancers and film (1961–70) (based on Samuel Beckett)
  • Narratives for speakers, actors, instruments, TV and light (1973–78) (Text: Samuel Beckett)
  • Violin Concerto (1979)
  • Caprices for violin (1980)
  • Now and Then for soprano, flute, viola and harp (1981)
  • Where Grief Slumbers for soprano, harp and string orchestra (1989) (Texts: Guillaume Apollinaire , Arthur Rimbaud)
  • Footfalls , opera in one act (1983) (Text: Samuel Beckett)
  • Cornet: A Tale of Love and Death for narrator and orchestra (1983) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke)
  • Scenes From Childhood [August 1945] , Wind Quintet (1984)
  • Scenes From a Movie for soprano, baritone, violin, cello and piano (1986–88) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke)
    • The 7th Dream (1986)
    • The 11th Dream (1988)
  • Three Poems in French for soprano and string quartet (1989) (Text: Paul Verlaine , Charles Baudelaire)
  • Four Lines from Mallarmé for voice, flute, vibraphone and four percussionists (1989)
  • Some Thoughts on Keats and Coleridge for choir (1990)
  • Scenes from a Movie for baritone, choir, harp and string orchestra (1991) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke)
    • The 26th Dream (1991)
  • Dear Linda for female voice, flute, cello, marimba, piano and percussion (1992) (Text: Anne Sexton)
  • The White Hour for chamber orchestra, (1998)

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personal data
SURNAME Kim, Earl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Dinuba
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1998
Place of death Cambridge, Massachusetts