Harold Shapero
Harold Samuel Shapero (born April 29, 1920 in Lynn , Massachusetts - † May 17, 2013 ) was an American composer and music teacher .
Career
Shapero took composition lessons from Nicolas Slonimsky and Ernst Krenek and piano lessons from Eleanor Kerr and Manfred Malkin . He played the piano in a dance orchestra and with a friend formed the Hal Kenny Orchestra , a swing jazz band. From 1937 to 1941 he studied at Harvard University with Walter Piston and attended summer courses with Paul Hindemith in Tanglewood. The Rome Prize for his nine-minute overture enabled him to stay in Italy in 1941, after which he studied at the Longy School of Music with Nadia Boulanger . From 1951 to 1988 he taught at Brandeis University , whose studio for electronic music he founded. 1970 to 1971 he was composer in residence at the American Academy in Rome.
In 1948 his Symphony for Classical Orchestra was premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leonard Bernstein . In addition to this most famous of his works, he composed a. a. a string quartet, sonatas for trumpet and piano and for piano four hands, songs based on texts by EE Cummings , a partita for piano and small orchestra, the jazz study On Green Mountain , Two Psalms for Chorus and the Hebrew cantata Poems of Halevi .
Since 1945 Shapero was married to the painter Esther Geller . Her daughter Hannah MG Shapero (* 1953) also became known as a painter.
Works
- Leaves in the Wind for piano, 1935–38
- Sonatina for piano, 1936–38
- String Trio , 1937
- Five Poems by EE Cummings for baritone and piano, 1938
- Trumpet Sonata , 1939
- Piano Sonata for four hands , 1940-41
- Nine Minute Overture for orchestra, 1941
- Three piano sonatas , 1941-43
- Violin Sonata , 1942
- String Quartet , 1942
- Serenade for Strings , 1945
- Variations in C minor for piano, 1947
- The Travelers , Overture, 1948
- Sonata in F minor for piano, 1948
- Arioso Variations for piano, 1948
- Symphony for Classical Orchestra , 1948
- Credo for Orchestra , 1951
- Hebrew Cantata for choir and chamber ensemble, 1956
- On Green Mountain for jazz orchestra, 1958
- Soundtrack for the television documentary The Twentieth Century with Walter Cronkite about Woodrow Wilson , 1959
- Partita for piano and orchestra, 1960
- Hebrew Poems for speakers and synthesizers, 1968–69
- Improvisations in B flat for piano and synthesizer, 1969
- Improvisations in C sharp for piano and synthesizer, 1970
- AB-70 for piano, in honor of Arthur Berger's birthday, 1982
- For Louise for cello solo (for Louise Vosgerchian ), 1990
- In the Family , Suite for Trombone and Flute, 1991
- Trumpet Concerto , 1994 (for trumpet and orchestra)
- America Variations for piano, from 1950, in progress
- Concerto for Orchestra in progress
- Chamber Symphony , in progress
Web links
- Literature by and about Harold Shapero in the catalog of the German National Library
- New World Records - Harold Shapero ( Memento from December 15, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 48 kB)
- Harold Shapero
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shapero, Harold |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shapero, Harold Samuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lynn (Massachusetts) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th May 2013 |