Martin Mailman

Martin S. Mailman (born June 30, 1932 in New York , NY , † April 18, 2000 in Denton , Texas ) was an American composer , conductor and music teacher .

He started taking trumpet lessons very early. He graduated from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester (New York) . There he studied composition with Louis Mennini , Wayne Barlow , Bernard Rogers and Howard Hanson . He completed his Bachelor of Music in 1954, the Master of Music in 1955 and a Ph.D. of Music 1960.

His successful educational career began at the US Naval School of Music from 1955 to 1957. Further stations in his career were the Eastman School of Music in Rochester from 1958 to 1959, the Brevard Music Center in the summers of 1960, 1961 and 1983, and West Virginia University in Morgantown , West Virginia in the summer of 1963 and East Carolina University in Greenville , North Carolina from 1961 to 1966. Finally, he became a professor at the College of Music at the University of North Texas at Denton in 1966 and stayed there for 34 years. He has held workshops and seminars at more than 90 universities in the USA and Europe. At the same time he worked as a guest conductor.

With a few others he was one of the first contemporary American composers to participate in The Young Composers Project in 1959 , which was sponsored and supported by the Ford Foundation and the National Music Council . At that time he lived and worked in Jacksonville , Florida .

He has been honored with numerous national and international awards and prizes for his compositions. B. twice with the award of the American Bandmasters Association / Ostwald prizes for composition, the National Band Association / Band Mans Company prize for composition and the Edward Benjamin Award . In 1982 he was awarded the Queen Marie-Jose Prize for Composition in Geneva . His oeuvre consists of chamber music, music for wind orchestra, choral music, works for orchestra, film music, music for television and radio, operas and a requiem for soloists, choir and orchestra.

Works

Works for orchestra

• 1979 Symphony No. 2
• 1982 Violin Concerto (Variations)
• 1984 Symphony No. 3
• 1999 Dance Imageries
• Autumn Landscape opus 4
• Christmas Music opus 12
• Commencement March
• Gateway City Overture opus 18
• Generations 2
• partita
• Prelude and Fugue No. 2 opus 30, No. 1
• Sinfonietta opus 34
• Suite in Three Movements opus 23
• Symphony No. 1
• Theme Music for "Concepts" opus 38
• Shakespearean Serenade opus 44

Works for wind orchestra

• 1962 Overture
• 1963 Liturgical Music for Band opus 33
  1. Introit
  2. Kyrie
  3. Gloria ("Glory to God in the highest")
  4. Alleluia
• 1981 Exaltations opus 67
• 1988 For precious friends hid in death's dateless night opus 80
• 1993 Secular Litanies opus 90
• Geometrics 1 for Band, opus 22
• Alarums opus 27
• Geometrics in Sound opus 29
• Concertino for Trumpet and Band, opus 31
• Four Variations in Search of a Theme opus 36
• Geometrics No. 3 for volume, opus 37
• A Simple Ceremony: In Memoriam John Barnes Chance opus 53
• Night Vigil opus 66
• The Jewel in the Crown opus 78
• Toward the Second Century opus 82
• Concertino for Clarinet and Band opus 83
• Bouquets opus 87
• Concerto for Wind Orchestra (Variations) opus 89
• Pledges opus 98
• Associations
• Geometrics No. 2 for band
• Geometrics No. 4 for band
• The Whaleman's Chapel, from "Moby Dick"

Choral music and sacred music

• Alleluia opus 15 for unanimous mixed choir with orchestra
• Concord hymn opus 20
• Three madrigals
• Requiem, Requiem opus 51 for speaker, soprano, mezzo-soprano, baritone, choir (SATB) and large orchestra

Stage works

• The Hunted Opera in one act
• Music for the Play "Moby Dick" opus 35 for choir and orchestra

Ensemble and chamber music

• String Quartet in One Movement opus 26
• Four Divisions for Percussion Ensemble opus 40
• Partita No. 4 opus 42 - for Nine Instrumentalists (flute [also piccolo], oboe, clarinet [also bass clarinet], bassoon, trumpet, horn, timpani [also percussion], violin and cello)
• Clastics II for euphonium and percussion