John Alden Carpenter

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John Alden Carpenter (born February 28, 1876 in Park Ridge , Illinois , † April 26, 1951 in Chicago ) was an American composer .

Life

Carpenter took piano lessons from Amy Beach and then studied composition with John Knowles Paine at Harvard University until 1897 . He expanded his musical training with Edward Elgar in Rome (1906) and with Bernhard Ziehn in Chicago (1908–1912). Carpenter ushered in a period of American program music in which attempts were made to reproduce impressions of everyday life musically.

As a composer he had his first successes with Adventures in a Perambulator (1914). With the Concertino for Piano and Orchestra (1917) and the ballet Krazy Kat: A Jazz Pantomime (1921/1922), inspired by the comic figure of the same name , he approached jazz. His ballet music Skyscrapers , commissioned by Sergei Djagilew in 1926 and premiered at the Metropolitan Opera - a work also influenced by jazz, which u. a. three saxophones, a tenor banjo and two adjustable red traffic lights on the curtains. Carpenter also composed orchestral works , chamber music , piano pieces and songs .

In 1918 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1933 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Michael Saffle:  John Alden Carpenter. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 4 (Camarella - Couture). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2000, ISBN 3-7618-1114-4  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  2. ^ John Alden Carpenter in: Encyclopædia Britannica
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Rathert , Berndt Ostendorf: Music of the USA. Forays into culture and music history . Wolke, Hofheim 2018, ISBN 978-3-95593-112-4 , pp. 300 f .
  4. ^ Members: John Alden Carpenter. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 20, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter C. (PDF; 1.3 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved February 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Carpenter, John Alden
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Park Ridge , Illinois , ( USA )
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1951
Place of death Chicago