John Corigliano

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John Paul Corigliano (born February 16, 1938 in New York ) is an American composer .

Life

Corigliano comes from a family of musicians: his mother was a pianist and his father was concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic from 1943 to 1966 . He studied at Columbia University and the Manhattan School of Music and was a student of Otto Luening , Vittorio Giannini and Paul Creston . He worked as a professor of music at Lehman College and New York University . Since 1991 he has been teaching at the Juilliard School of Music .

In 1989 he dedicated his gloomy, sprawling first symphony to friends he had lost to AIDS . His first soundtrack for the film Der Höllentrip ( Altered States ) was nominated for an Oscar in 1981, the second for the film Revolution won the British Anthony Asquith Memorial Award in 1985. In 1999 he received a Canadian Genie Award and a Jutra Award for film music in The Red Violin ( The Red Violin ), in the following year an Oscar . In 2001 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his second symphony . In 2009 he received a Grammy for Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan . He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1991 .

Corigliano lives in New York with his partner, the composer Mark Adamo .

Works (selection)

  • Sonata for Violin and Piano , 1964
  • Poem in October after Dylan Thomas, for tenor and 8 instruments, 1970
  • Oboe Concerto , 1975
  • Etude Fantasy for piano, 1976
  • A Dylan Thomas Trilogy for boy soprano, tenor, baritone, choir and orchestra, 1976, rev. 1999
  • Clarinet Concerto , 1977
  • Pied Piper Fantasy , 1981
  • Promenade Overture , 1981
  • Three Irish Folksong Settings for voice and flute, 1988
  • 1st symphony , 1989
  • The Ghosts of Versailles , Opera, 1991
  • String Quartet , 1995
  • The Red Violin , soundtrack, 1997
  • The Red Violin: Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra , 1997
  • Chiaroscuro , 1997
  • DC Fanfare , 1997
  • Dodecaphonia , 1997
  • Vocalise for Soprano, Electronics, and Orchestra , 1999
  • 2nd symphony , 2000
  • Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan , song cycle, 2000, orchestrated version 2003
  • Phantasmagoria , 2000
  • The Mannheim Rocket , 2000
  • Circus Maximus , Wind Symphony, 2005
  • Conjurer: Concerto for Percussionist and String Orchestra , 2007
  • One Sweet Morning , 2011
  • Rhymes for the Irreverent , 2017

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New York Times: Review / Music Contemporary Anguish In Corigliano Symphony
  2. ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 11, 2019 .
  3. ^ Andante: On the Outside Looking In: Gay Composers Gave America Its Music ( Memento December 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), 2005

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personal data
SURNAME Corigliano, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Corigliano, John Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH New York , United States