Mark Wessel
Mark Wessel (* 26. March 1894 in Coldwater / Michigan ; † 9. May 1973 in Orchard Lake ) was an American composer , pianist and music teacher .
Wessel studied until 1920 at the music school of Northwestern University . 1922-23 he continued his training with Arnold Schoenberg in Vienna . In 1930 and 1932 he was awarded a Guggenheim scholarship , and 1930–31 a Pulitzer Traveling Scholarship for music. From 1919 to 1928 he taught music theory and piano at Northwestern University, then at the University of Colorado .
The Scherzo-Burlesque for piano and orchestra (premiered by the Rochester Little Symphony Orchestra under Howard Hanson , 1926), the Concertino for Flute (premiered in Chicago with his student David Van Vector as a soloist, 1928) and the Symphony Concertante for horn, piano and orchestra (premiered by the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra under Howard Hanson and on the radio under Walter Damrosch , 1930). At the composition competition of the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York in 1938, whose prize-winner was his student Van Vector, he received an honorable mention for the choir-orchestra work The King of Babylon .
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- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation - Mark Wessel
- Leonardo De Lorenzo: My Complete Story of the Flute: The instrument, the performer, the Music , revised edition Texas Tech University Press, 1992, ISBN 9780896722774 , p 519
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| SURNAME | Wessel, Mark |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer, pianist and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Coldwater (Michigan) |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 9, 1973 |
| Place of death | Orchard Lake |