Gloria Coates

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Gloria Coates (born October 10, 1938 in Wausau , Wisconsin ) is an American composer who lives in Munich .

Life

Gloria Coates began composing at an early age and won a national composition competition at the age of fourteen. After completing her composition studies, she continued her education at Louisiana State University and Columbia University in New York with Otto Luening , at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and with Alexander Tscherepnin .

Her Music on Open Strings ( Symphony No. 1), composed in 1973, was the most discussed work at the Warsaw Autumn in 1978; It was awarded the Koussevitzky Prize in 1986 as a finalist and was performed as the first orchestral composition by a female composer in the series' 35 years as part of the Musica Viva Concerts of the Bavarian Radio in 1980. Her works have also been performed at the Dresden Music Festival , New Music America and in 1972 at the Darmstadt Summer Course for New Music .

What stands out from her work is the high number of now 16 symphonies, which are often performed by well-known orchestras. She also composed string quartets , chamber music and vocal compositions, works for solo instruments, electronic music and works for the stage such as Everyman. Morality Play (incidental music for everyone ) 1962.

Between 1971 and 1984 she organized series of concerts with German-American music in Germany.

Works (selection)

Instrumental music

Orchestral works

  • Symphony No. 1 "Music on Open Strings" (1972)
  • Symphony No. 2 "Music on Abstract Lines / Illuminatio in Tenebris" (1973/74)
  • Symphony No. 3 "Symphony for Strings" / "Symphony Nocturne" (1974)
  • Symphony No. 3 - Version 2 (Violin Concerto) (2006)
  • Symphony No. 4 "Chiaroscuro" (1984/89)
  • Symphony No. 5 "Three Mystical Songs" (Text: Alexandra Coates) for choir and orchestra (1985)
  • Symphony No. 6 "Music in Microtones" (1985/86)
  • Symphony No. 7 (1989/90)
  • Symphony No. 8 "Indian Sounds" for voices and orchestra (1990/91)
  • Symphony No. 9 "Homage to Van Gogh" (1992–1994)
  • Symphony No. 10 "Drones of Druids on Celtic Ruins" for brass and percussion (1992/93)
  • Symphony No. 11 (1997)
  • Symphony No. 12 (1998)
  • Symphony No. 13 (2000)
  • Symphony No. 14 (2001-02) "The Americans"
  • Symphony No. 15 (2004/05) Homage to Mozart
  • Symphony No. 16 "Time Frozen" (1993)
  • Vita - Anima della Terra (text: Leonardo da Vinci) for solos, mixed choir and orchestra (1972/76)
  • Planets (1973/74)
  • Fonte di Rimini (text: Leonardo da Vinci) for mixed choir and orchestra (1976/84)
  • Transitions (1984)
  • Cantata da Requiem (1972)

Chamber orchestra with voice

  • Voices of Women in Wartime. Cantata da da Requiem for soprano solo, viola, cello, piano and percussion (1972)
  • The Force for Peace in War. Cantata da Requiem for soprano, tape and orchestra (1988)
  • We Tone Alone (Paul Celan) for soprano, timpani, percussion and string orchestra (1988)
  • Rainbow across the Night Sky for female voices and chamber ensemble (1990)
  • Emily Dickinson Lieder for solo voice and chamber orchestra (WP 1989)
  • Cette Blanche Agonie (Text: Stéphane Mallarmé) for soprano, English horn, oboe, timpani, percussion and string orchestra (1988)

Chamber music

Solo instrument
  • Colony Air for piano solo (1982)
  • Colony Air No. 2 for harp (1982)
  • Reaching fort he Moon for flute (1988)
  • To Be Free Of It for one to three percussionists (1988/89)
  • Castles in the Air for tenor saxophone solo (1993)
  • Fairy tale suite for flute (1996)
  • Sonata for Violin Solo (1999)
  • Sonata for Piano No. 1 (1972)
  • Sonata for Piano No. 2 (2001)
  • The Books for piano (2003)
  • Five Abstractions for piano solo (1962)
  • Interlude for organ solo (1962)
  • Star Tracks Through Darkness for organ solo (1974/89)
  • Prayers without Words for organ solo (2002)
Two instruments
  • Sylken for flute and piano (1961)
  • Fantasy on "How beautifully shines the morning star" for viola and organ (1973)
  • Overture to Saint Joan for organ and percussion
  • Fiori for flute and tape (1988)
  • Fiori and the Princess for flute and tape
  • Blue Monday for guitar and drums (1988/89)
  • Elegy No. 2 for soprano saxophone and piano (2002/2011)
  • Nightscape for double bass and percussion (2008)
  • Reaching into Light for two percussionists (2010)
Three and more instruments
  • Trio for flute, oboe and piano (1962)
  • From a Poetry Album for harp, violoncello and percussion (1976)
  • Night Music for tenor saxophone, piano and gongs (1992)
  • Piano Trio Lyric Suite for violin, violoncello and piano (1993/1996)
  • Lyric Suite No. 2 for flute (also alto flute), violoncello and piano (2002)
  • Five Abstractions of Poems by Emily Dickinson for woodwind quintet (flute, clarinet, oboe and bassoon)
  • Heinrich von Ofterdingen (Homage to Novalis) for flute, two violoncellos and harp (1996)
  • Glissando string quartet (1962)
  • String Quartet No. 1 "Protestation Quartet" (19965/66)
  • String Quartet No. 2 "Mobile" (1971)
  • String Quartet No. 3 (1975)
  • String Quartet No. 4 (1976)
  • Six Movements for string quartet (1978)
  • String Quartet No. 5 (1988)
  • String Quartet No. 6 (1999)
  • String Quartet No. 7 "Angels" with Organ (2001)
  • String Quartet No. 8 (2001/02)
  • String Quartet No. 9 (2007)
  • String Quartet No. 10 "Among the Asteroids" (1971/76)
  • Halley's Comet Nonet for flute (piccolo), oboe (english horn), bassoon (contrabassoon), horn and string quintet (1974)

Vocal works

Choral works

  • Dies Sanctificatus from Saint Joan for soprano , alto , tenor a cappella (1961)
  • Missa Brevis (1964)
  • Sing onto the Lord a new song for mixed choir a cappella (1964)
  • Te Deum from Saint Joan for mixed choir a cappella (1964)
  • The Beautitudes for solos and organ (1978)
  • Der Schwan aus Licht (Text: Alexandra Coates) for mixed choir a cappella (1988), unfinished

Works for solo voice

Solo voice with piano
  • The Sighing Wind (Gloria Coates) (1950)
  • Twilight (Gloria Coates) (1961)
  • Ophelia Lieder from Hamlet by Shakespeare for medium voice and lieder harp (1964/65)
  • General partner (Friederike Mayröcker) (1999)
  • Catch the Wind (Text: Alexandra Coates)
  • Solo voice for mezzo-soprano or soprano and piano on poems by Emily Dickinson
Solo voice with a chamber ensemble
  • Voices of Women in Wartime - Cantata da Requiem for soprano solo, viola, cello, piano and percussion (1972)
  • The Tune without Words (Emily Dickinson) for voice, glockenspiel, drums and timpani (1975)
  • Go the Great Way (Emily Dickinson) for voice, drums, timpani and organ (1982)

Electronic music

  • A voice calls out electronic sounds for live electronics, modulators, vocals and lasers (1971)
  • Neptune Odyssey for tape. Musique concrete (1975)
  • Ecology No. 1 . Realized in the electroacoustic studio of the Kraków Music Academy (1978)

multimedia

  • To hear the music in abstract paintings by the composer Presto (1972)
  • Cosmos Sound (1973)
  • Musik-Kunst (1990) premiere of Symphony No. 4, performance of Symphony No. 2, stage work with paintings by Ursula and Dietmar Thiele-Zoll
  • Entering the Unknown for spinet, string quartet and video (Birgit Ramsauer) (2004)

Stage works

  • Incidental music for Jedermann for flute , oboe and percussion (1961)
  • Music for the play Hamlet by Shakespeare for choir, organ and chamber orchestra (1964/65)
  • The three Billy Goats Gruff Interactive musical theater piece for children between the ages of 3 and 6 (1965)
  • La Voix Humaine (by Jean Cocteau ) for two percussionists and ballet dancers (2010)
  • Stolen Identity . Chamber opera for soprano, countertenor, bass baritone, string quartet, piano and percussion (2012)

Works in film productions

  • Politics according to Notenblatt (1981, Klaus Croissant, BR-Fernsehen - Documentation) with Voices of Women in Wartime
  • Turin - The Whacked City (1983, Gabriel Heim, BR-Fernsehen - TV film) with string quartet No. 4
  • Death of Cain (2001, Ido Angel, Ido Angel Films Tel Aviv, Israel - Independent Film) with Symphony No. 2
  • Another Kind (2011, Jonathan Blitstein, Blitstein Films - Independent Film) with several orchestral works

Article by Gloria Coates (selection)

  • Lutoslawski in the seminar . In: Neue Musikzeitung , October / November 1975, No. 5, 24th year, p. 12
  • Desert plants. A History of American Music . Broadcast production WDR 1978 (Ms.)
  • Together with Detlef Gojowy: Review of Walter Zimmermann's Dessert Plants . In: Musikforschung , 33, 1980, Issue 2, pp. 206-207
  • First international music festival in the USSR . In: Musica , 25th year 1981, issue 4, pp. 365–366
  • Russian immigrant composers in the United States . Broadcast production WDR 1986 (Ms.)
  • A Cockatoo Will Do . In: The Twentieth-Century Recorder (USA), XXXI, Dec. 1990, No. 4, pp. 17-19
  • Karl Amadeus Hartmann / Reflecting and thinking about the future . In: Musica Viva: Eine Sprache der Gegenwart 1945–95 , ed. by Renate Ulm i. A. des BR 1995, Mainz 1995, pp. 277–283, also: pp. 7, 236–245
  • 15 broadcasts in: Open House , WDR
  • Numerous reviews in: State Times , Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Discography (selection)

Symphonies

  • Symphony No. 1 (1973) "Music on Open Strings" 1980 (live), Musica Viva Munich, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, cond .: Elgar Howarth, cpo 999 392-2
  • Symphony No. 2 (1974) “Illuminatio in Tenebris” 1990 (live), Stuttgart Philharmonic, conducted by Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, CPO 999 590-2
  • Symphony No. 2 / Homage To Van Gogh / Anima Della Terra (cpo 1998); Stuttgart Philharmonic, conductor: Wolf-Dieter Hauschild / Musica-viva-ensemble Dresden, Jürgen Wirrmann / Orchestra of the International Youth Festival Meeting in Bayreuth 1984, Matthias Kuntzsch / Soloists: Jirina Markova, soprano, Gerda Maria Knauer, alto, Miroslav Kopp, tenor, Piotre Nowacki, Bass / Ensemble Das Neue Werk, Hamburg, Dieter Cichewiecz
  • Symphony No. 3 (1975) "Holographic Universe" 2007 (live), Cambridge Orchestra, UK, Sheppard-Skaerved, violin, conducted by Neil Thomson, Tzadik TZ 8096
  • Symphony No. 4 (1984) "Chiaroscuro" 1990 (live), Stuttgart Philharmonic , conducted by Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, CPO 999 392-2
  • Symphony No. 7 (1989) SD Radio commission; 1991, Stuttgart Philharmonic, head: Georg Schmöhe, CPO 999 392-2,
  • Symphony No. 7 (1989) Musica Viva Munich 1997 (live), Bavarian Radio Symphony, conducted by Olaf Henzold, Naxos 8.559289
  • Symphony No. 8 (1990–91) "Indian Sounds" 1992 (live), Musica-Viva-Dresden, cond .: Jürgen Wirrmann, New World Records 80599-2
  • Symphony No. 9 (1992-93) "Homage to Van Gogh" 1995 (live), Schwinger Dresden, Musica-Viva-Dresden, Dir .: Jürgen Wirrmann, CPO 999 590-2
  • Symphony No. 10 (1989) "Drones of Druids on Celtic Ruins", CalArts Orchestra, cond .: Susan Allen, Naxos 8.559848
  • Symphony No. 14 (2001-02) "American Fathers" 2003 (live), Residence Munich, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Dir .: Christoph Poppen, Naxos 8.559289
  • Symphony No. 15 (2004) “Homage to Mozart” 2006, Passau Festival, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, cond .: Michael Boder, Naxos 8.559371
  • Symphony No. 16 (1993) "Time Frozen" 1995 (live), 25 Years Das Neue Werk Hamburg, Das Neue Werk, Dir .: Dieter Cichewiecz, CPO 999 590-2

Chamber music

  • Kreutzer Quartet (2002) - String Quartets Nos. 1, 5, 6 ( Naxos 8.559091)
  • Kreutzer Quartet (2003) - String Quartets Nos. 2, 3, 4, 7 and 8 (Naxos 8.559152)
  • Kreutzer Quartet (2010) - String Quartet No. 9, Solo Violin Sonata, Lyric Suite for Piano Trio (Naxos 8.559666)
  • Kreutzer Quartet - Coates, G .: String Quartets Nos. 1–9 (3-CD box set) (Naxos 8.503240)
  • Kreutzer Quartet (2013) - Piano Quintet , with Roderick Chadwick (piano) (Naxos 8.559848)
  • Gloria Coates: Symphony No. 15 (2004-2005), Cantata da Requiem (1972), Transitions (1984) (Naxos 8.559371); Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra / Boder, Teri Dunn (soprano) / Talisker Players, Ars Nova Ensemble Nürnberg / Heider (2007)
  • Gloria Coates: At Midnight ( Tzadik New York, 2013)
  • Explore America - String Quartet No. 1: Protestation Quartet (Naxos 8.559187)
  • Bezaly: Solo Flute From A to Z, Vol. 2 - Gloria Coates: Reaching for the Moon (Naxos BIS-CD-1259)
  • Class Of '38 - Symphony No. 15, "Homage to Mozart": III. What Are Stars (Naxos 8.557087)
  • "... for violin solo" (2004) - Sonata for violin solo (2000), Andreas Lucke (Cavalli Records CCD 133)
  • Vitality begun (2003) - Complementary, Wilted Books, 15 Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson (Cavalli Records CCD 308)
  • Flute music by women composers (2011) - Phantom for flute and piano (Thorofon CTH 2577)

literature

  • Claudia Schweitzer et al .: Approach XIII - Approach to seven female composers . Kassel: Furore, 2003.
  • Composers in Bavaria. Documents of Musical Creation in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Volume 54: Gloria Coates ; Verlag Hans Schneider, Tutzing 2012; ISBN 978-3-86296-034-7
  • Swed, Mark. Saturday, November 15th, 2014. "Gloria Coates' great oddity on display at Redcat," Los Angeles Times.
  • Gisela Schubert: "Gloria Coates", in "Music in Past and Present" (2nd edition), Person Teil Vol. 2, Kassel 2001, pp. 1281–1283
  • Christa Jost: "Gloria Coates", in: Contemporary composers , ed. Hans-Werner Heister and Walter-Wolfgang Sparrer, Berlin, May 21, 2001, 1-2

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personal data
SURNAME Coates, Gloria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Wausau , Wisconsin