Joseph Schwantner

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Joseph Schwantner (born March 22, 1943 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American composer . He is a Pulitzer Prize winner .

Life

He completed his music studies with Bernard Dieter at the Chicago Conservatory and with Alan Stout and Anthony Donato at Northwestern University in Illinois. Here he received his doctorate in 1968. Further studies followed at Yale University in Connecticut as well as the Eastman School of Music and the Juilliard School in New York. He has received scholarships from a number of well-known organizations and institutions, including the first Charles Ives Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters , the Guggenheim Scholarship , the Martha Baird Rockefeller Scholarship, and the National Endowment for the Arts Scholarship . He taught from 1968 to 1969 at the Chicago Conservatory, from 1968 to 1969 at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, from 1969 to 1970 at Ball State University and subsequently at the Eastman School of Music.

Joseph Schwantner is one of the most important contemporary composers in the USA. He has received commissions from the National Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony Orchestra , as well as the First New York Festival of the Arts, the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition, the Chamber Music America and the American Composers Concert Inc. In the He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

He has received numerous national and international awards and prizes for his works, including the BMI Student Composer Awards in 1965, 1966 and 1967 , the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1979 and multiple Grammy Awards nominations. From 1982 to 1985 he was composer in residence at the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra as part of the Meet the Composer / Orchestra in Residencies program. His works are performed by all famous orchestras and famous conductors around the world.

Works

Works for orchestra

  • 1979 Aftertones of Infinity
  • 1986 A Sudden Rainbow
  • 1988 Concerto for piano and orchestra
  • 1988 From Afar… "A Fantasy" for guitar and orchestra, premiered in January 1988 with Sharon Isbin
  • 1992 Percussion Concerto for percussion and orchestra
  • 1999 Beyond Autumn "Poem" for horn and orchestra
  • 2002 September Canticle "In Memoriam" for organ, brass, percussion, prepared piano and strings
  • 2002 Angelfire "Fantasy" for prepared violin and orchestra
  • 2004 New Morning for the World "Daybreak of Freedom" for speaker and orchestra - Text: Martin Luther King
  • A Play of Shadows for flute and chamber orchestra
  • "Evening Land" Symphony for soprano solo, piano, harpsichord and orchestra - Text: Pär Lagerkvist from the series of poems "Aftonland," translated by WH Auden and Leif Sjoberg
  • Distant Runes and Incantations for piano solo (prepared) and orchestra
  • Dreamcaller Three songs for soprano, violin solo and orchestra
  • Freeflight "Fanfares" and "Fantasy"
  • Magabunda (Witchnomad) "four Poems of Agueda Pizarro" for soprano and orchestra
  • Modus Caelestis for 12 flutes, 12 strings, 3 percussion, celesta and piano
  • Toward light

Works for wind orchestra

  • 1995 Concerto for percussion and wind orchestra
  • 2004 Recoil for Wind Ensemble
  • From a Dark Millennium
  • In evening's stillness ...
  • ... and the mountains rising nowhere

Chamber music

  • Soaring for flute and piano
  • Black Anemones for flute and piano
  • Consortium II for flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano and percussion
  • Distant Runes and Incantations for flute, clarinet, violin I, violin II, viola, cello, piano and percussion
  • In Aeternum (Consortium IV) for solo violoncello and four players
  • Music of Amber for flute, clarinet (bass clarinet), violin, violoncello, piano and percussion
  • Canticle of the Evening Bells for flute solo, oboe (English horn), clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, horn, trombone, piano, percussion, violin, viola, violoncello and double bass
  • Chronicon for bassoon and piano
  • Consortium (I) for flute, clarinet, violin, viola and violoncello
  • Diaphonia Intervallum for alto saxophone, flute, piano, clarinet, violin I, violin II, viola, violoncello I, violoncello II and double bass
  • Elixir for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello and piano

Vocal music with instruments

  • Sparrows for soprano solo, flute (piccolo), clarinet, violin, viola, violoncello, piano, harp and percussion - Text: Kobayashi Issa
  • Wild Angels of the Open Hills, "a cycle of five songs" for soprano, flute and harp - Text: Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Two Poems of Agueda Pizarro for soprano and piano

Works for keyboard instruments

  • In Aeternum II for organ
  • Veiled Autumn (Children's Death Song)

Works for percussion

  • Velocities (Moto Perpetuo) for solo marimbaphone

literature

  • James Chute: Joseph Schwantner. In: Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. 22nd August 2012.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Schwantner, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , USA