Emma Lou Diemer

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Emma Lou Diemer (born November 24, 1927 in Kansas City , Missouri ) is an American composer and music teacher .

Life

She completed her studies in composition and piano at several universities and conservatories and with many professors. She studied at the Kansas City Conservatory with Wiktor Łabuński and Gardner Read , and at the same time organ with Edna Scotten Billings at the University of Central Missouri . From 1945 she studied composition with Edward Royce (composer) at the Eastman School of Music , from 1947 to 1950 at Yale University with Paul Hindemith and Richard Donovan (composer) , where she achieved her Bachelor's degree in 1949 and her Master's of Music in 1950 . From 1952 to 1953 she studied composition with Jean Absil as part of the Fulbright program in Brussels . She then returned to the US, studied at Tanglewood composition with Ernst Toch (1954), Roger Sessions (1955) and again at the Eastman School of Music with Bernard Rogers and Howard Hanson - where she graduated in 1960 with its Symphony on American Indian themes .

From 1959 to 1961 she worked for the Ford Foundation Young Composers Project . From 1964 to 1965 she was an advisory composer for the Contemporary Music Project of Music Educators . The University of Maryland appointed her for the years 1965 to 1970 to an assistant professorship in music theory and composition . From 1971 she taught at the University of California in Santa Barbara as a professor of music theory and composition until 1991. From January 1991 she worked as a professor emeritus at the same institute. Since 1940 she has also worked as an organist, a. a. at the First Church of Christ Scientist (1973–1984) and at the First Presbyterian Church in Santa Barbara (1984–2001).

Her oeuvre includes around 500 compositions. Her best-known works include Three Madrigals to texts by Shakespeare . Their stylistic spectrum ranges from tonal to atonal , from neoclassical to experimental, from spiritual to secular, from orchestral works to electronic music .

Works

Works for orchestra

  • 1954 Suite for Orchestra
  • 1958 Concerto for Harpsichord and Chamber Orchestra
  • 1959 Symphony No. 2 on American Indian Themes
  • 1959 Pavane for string orchestra
  • 1959 Youth Overture
  • 1960 Rondo Concertante
  • 1961 Symphony Antique
  • 1961 Festival Overture
  • 1963 Concerto for Flute
  • 1967 Fairfax Festival Overture
  • 1977 Concert Piece for Organ and Orchestra
  • 1985 Suite of Homages
  • 1988 Serenade for String Orchestra
  • 1991 Concerto in One Movement for Marimba
  • 1991 Concerto in One Movement for Piano
  • 1995 Concerto in One Movement for Organ and Chamber Orchestra: "Alaska"
  • 1996 Santa Barbara Overture
  • 2004 Homage to Tchaikovsky
  • 2004 Chumash Dance Celebration
  • 2004 Concerto in One Movement for Piano
  • Aria for String Orchestra

Works for wind orchestra

  • 1960 Brass Menagerie Suite
  • 1981 La Rag
  • Concert for Flute and Band

Choral music

  • 1960 Three Madrigals
  • 1970 Anniversary Choruses on texts from the Psalms for choir and orchestra
  • 1970 O to Make the Most Jubilant Song
  • 1976 Four Poems by Alice Meynell for soprano or tenor and chamber orchestra (2 flutes incl. Piccolo, 2 percussion, vibraphone, xylophone, harp, harpsichord, piano and strings)
  • 1976 From This Hour, Freedom strings and drums
  • 1984 Three Poems by Oscar Wilde
  • 1984 More Madrigals
  • 1985 Invocation Text by May Sarton for choir and orchestra
  • 1988 Christmas Cantata, "The Holy Chld"
  • 1988 A Feast for Christmas for brass quintet and piano
  • 1991 There is a Morn Unseen Text by Emily Dickinson for choir and orchestra
  • 1993 Kyrie for mixed choir, four-handed piano and organ
  • 1993 To Come So for mixed choir, female choir and chamber ensemble
  • 1996 Gloria for mixed choir, two pianos and percussion
  • 1996–2000 MASS in Latin for mixed choir, soloists, two pianos and percussion

Chamber music

  • 1960 Woodwind Quintet No. 1
  • 1960 "Declamation" for Brass and Percussion
  • 1962 Sextet for Piano and Woodwind Quintet
  • 1972 Music for Woodwind Quartet
  • 1974 Movement for Flute, Oboe and Organ
  • 1976 Movement for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet and Piano
  • 1987 String Quartet No. 1
  • 1990 "Laudate" for Trumpet and Organ
  • 1992 Sextet for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano
  • 2000 Psalms for Trumpet and Organ
  • 2000 Psalms for Organ and two Percussion
  • 2000 Psalm 122 and Psalm 1 for Bass Trombone and Organ
  • 2000 Psalm 121 for Organ, Brass and Percussion

Music for keyboard instruments

  • 1951 St. Anne for organ
  • 1957 Festival Voluntary for the Feast of St. Mark for organ
  • 1958 Fantasy for Organ
  • 1959 Hymn setting on He Leadeth Me for organ
  • 1960 Ten Hymn Preludes for organ
  • 1961 Time Pictures for piano
  • 1964 Toccata for organ
  • 1965 Seven Etudes for piano
  • 1965 Seven Hymn Preludes for organ
  • 1967 Fantasy on "O Sacred Head" for organ
  • 1969 Toccata and Fugue for organ
  • 1970 Celebration, Seven Hymn Settings for organ
  • 1970 Three Fantasies on Advent / Christmas Hymns for organ
  • 1971 Sound Pictures for piano
  • 1971 Four on a Row for piano
  • 1973 Declarations for Organ
  • 1976 Jubilate and Contrasts for organ
  • 1979 Toccata for piano
  • 1982 Elegy for Organ Duo for organ
  • 1984 Suite of Easter Hymns for organ
  • 1992 Psalms for Organ for Organ
  • 1992 Toccata for harpsichord
  • 1993 Fantasy for Piano for piano
  • 1994 God With Us, Eleven Pieces for Organ
  • 1995 We Praise Your Name, Suite for Organ on "Grosser Gott"

Music for percussion

  • 1955 Toccata for Marimba
  • 1980 Solo trio for xylophone, vibraphone and marimba (one player)
  • 1990 Concerto in One Movement for Marimba
  • 2004 Toccata for Six for 2 xylophones, 2 marimbas, 2 vibraphones
  • Ice Rhythm (solo marimba)
  • Toccata for Timpani (solo timpani)

Electronic music

  • 1978 Patchworks 2- or 4-channel tape created on Electrocomp 101 and sequencer
  • 1980 Scherzo
  • 1982 God is Love for SSAATBB and tape
  • 1984 A Day in the Country for clarinet and tape
  • 1985 The Lord's Prayer for SATB and Tape (or organ)
  • 1986 Church Rock for Organ and Tape
  • 1989 Serenade for Woodwind Quintet and Tape

literature

  • Ellen Grolman Schlegel and Ellen K. Grolman: Emma Lou Diemer: A Bio-bibliography , Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001, ISBN 031331814X , ISBN 9780313318146
  • Antje Olivier, Karin Weingartz-Peschel: Diemer, Emma Lou . In: composers from A to Z . Tokkata, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-9801603-0-0 , p. 99 f .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Ellen Grolman Schlegel: Emma Lou Diemer: a bio-bibliography . Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut 2001, ISBN 0-313-31814-X , pp. 6–11 ( google.de [accessed on March 1, 2019]).
  2. Jennifer Susan Morgan: A Conductor's Guide to Selected Choral-Orchestral Works of Emma Lou Diemer . University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati 2005, OCLC 63192802 , p. 13–14 ( ohiolink.edu [accessed March 1, 2019] dissertation).
  3. Jennifer Kelly: Emmy Lou Diemer . In: In Her Own Words: Conversations with Composers in the United States . University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Chicago, Springfield 2013, ISBN 978-0-252-03759-7 , pp. 437 .
  4. Bruce Duffle: Interview with Emma Lou Diemer, April 16, 1988