George Pearl

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George Perle (born May 6, 1915 in Bayonne , New Jersey , † January 23, 2009 in New York City ) was an American composer and music theorist .

Career

Perle studied in Chicago in the early 1930s . His first teacher was Wesley LaViolette and later Ernst Krenek . In the 1940s he began to be interested in the Viennese school , especially Alban Berg . During World War II he interrupted his music studies to do his military service in Europe and the Pacific. After the war he went to New York University , where he received his doctorate in 1956 .

He has taught at various universities, including the University of Louisville , the University of California at Davis , Yale and Queens College , where he retired in 1985. As a professor emeritus, he continued to teach at the Aaron Copland School of Music , which was part of New York University.

Perle researched among other things the twelve-tone music ; his earliest work dates from 1941. In particular, his work on the music of Alban Berg, Arnold Schönberg and Anton Webern Serial Composition and Atonality: An Introduction to the Music of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern is considered to be one of the most important works on this subject. She was in the German-speaking area in the anthology Schönberg, Webern, Berg. The second Viennese school published.

In the 1960s, Perle was one of the first to discover that Berg's opera Lulu was far more complete than previously thought. He showed an interest in completing the opera, but Universal Edition selected Friedrich Cerha for the task. Furthermore, in 1977 he was able to discover a subtext in Berg's works in which Berg had dealt with an affair with Hanna Fuchs-Robettin .

In addition to his research activities, George Perle also composed his own music. Although this was of course influenced by his role models, he tried to create his own note. Although he based his music on twelve-tone music, he preferred a middle ground between twelve-tone and conventional tonality, which he christened 12-tone tonality . He won for the Wind Quintet No. 4 1986 Pulitzer Prize and the MacArthur Fellowship . In 1978 he was admitted to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1985 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Fonts

  • Serial Composition and Atonality: An Introduction to the Music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern. University of California Press, 1962. Reprint 1991.
  • Twelve-tone tonality. University of California Press, 1978. Reprint 1992.
  • The Operas of Alban Berg. Vol. 1: Wozzeck . University of California Press, California 1980.
  • The Operas of Alban Berg. Vol. 2: Lulu . University of California Press, California 1985.
  • The Listening Composer. University of California Press, California 1990.
  • Reflections on musicassociatesofamerica.com, 1990.
  • New Music and Listener Expectation on musicassociatesofamerica.com, 1992.

Discography

  • Complete Wind Quintets (1992)
  • Piano Works (1992)
  • Serenade No. 3; Ballad; Concertino (1992)
  • Orchestral Work (1999)
  • A Retrospective (2007)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ UC Davis News & Information: Composer George Perle Helped Launch UC Davis Music Department (January 27, 2009)
  2. ↑ Allan Kozinn : George Perle, a Composer and Theorist, Dies at 93 , The New York Times, January 24, 2009

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personal data
SURNAME Pearl, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer and music theorist
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayonne , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 2009
Place of death New York City