Joel Spiegelman
Joel Warren Spiegelman (born January 23, 1933 in Buffalo , New York ) is an American composer.
Life
Spiegelman studied from 1949 to 1953 at the Yale School of Music and the University of Buffalo , then until 1954 at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge / Massachusetts and until 1956 and 1960-1961 with Harold Shapero , Irving Fine and Arthur Victor Berger at the Brandeis University . 1956–1957 he attended the Conservatoire de Paris and took private lessons with Nadia Boulanger .
He then taught at the Longy School of Music (1961–1962) and Brandeis University (1961–1966). In 1966 he was the director of the Studio for Electronic Music and Sound Media at Lawrence College . In 1970 he founded the New York Electronic Ensemble, which he directed until 1973. From 1976 to 1979 he was the conductor of the Russian Orchestra of the Americans. In addition, he also conducted the Moscow and Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestras.
Spiegelman is considered a prominent representative of the musical avant-garde. In his works he uses electroacoustic instruments and composition techniques of the modern age such as dodecaphony and aleatoric . Among other things, he composed a ballet for tape, a symphony for soprano, flute, double bass, synthesizer and tape and works for chamber music.
He has written articles on Russian and Soviet music as well as electroacoustic composition. As a conductor he took a. a. the complete symphonic works by Irving Fine , the Holocaust Requiem by Ronald Senator as well as the Romantic Symphony and the Violin Concerto by Carlo Giorgio Garofalo . As a harpsichordist, he performed with a recording of Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations as well as works by the Russian composer Edison Denisov .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spiegelman, Joel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Spiegelman, Joel Warren |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 23, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buffalo |