Griffith Rose
Griffith Rose (born January 18, 1936 in Los Angeles ) is an American composer . He has lived in Europe since 1956, preferably in France .
Life
Rose, a descendant of Scottish immigrants, grew up in New York and came to Florida and New England early. He first studied at Yale University (Classical Philology) and the Hartt School of Music (1953/54).
Career
When, after reading Thomas Mann's novel Doctor Faustus, he expressed his wish to go to Germany to attend the Darmstadt summer courses and study composition, his father sponsored the company by buying a Volkswagen , so that Griffith Rose with his wife and child Could attend universities from Hamburg to Freiburg. But he first landed in Paris , where he studied with Nadia Boulanger from 1957–58 .
1957–60 he studied with Wolfgang Fortner at the Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg im Breisgau and 1960–61 with Pierre Boulez in Basel . 1961-62 he attended the courses of Karlheinz Stockhausen and Theodor W. Adorno in Cologne and Darmstadt, where he met Sylvano Bussotti , Mauricio Kagel , John Cage , David Tudor and the conductor Paul Méfano , who performed the first of two viola concerts ( New York, 1974).
He turned down a course offer from the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences, as modern composition could not be taught, and preferred to move with his second wife to southern France in 1965, where he created most of his extensive oeuvre in Sète , later in Cassis .
Works (selection)
One of his main works is the piece after Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass entitled “même” (for deep voice and orchestra; 1977), on which Rose worked for two years and which premiered in 1978 under the direction of Cristóbal Halffter in Saarbrücken.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Rose, Griffith |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | los Angeles |