Mary Jeanne van Appledorn

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Mary Jeanne van Appledorn (born October 2, 1927 in Holland , Michigan , † December 12, 2014 in Lubbock , Texas ) was an American composer .

Life

She studied at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester , New York , piano with Cecile Straub Genhart and composition with Bernard Rogers and Alan Hovhaness . From 1950 to 2008 she taught at the Faculty of Music at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. In 1951 she founded the Annual Symposium of Contemporary Music there , which she directed until 1981. She had her first successes as a composer with award-winning works such as Set of Five (1951) and Contrasts (1953). Her faculty enabled her to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge in 1982 , where she studied computer-generated music . In 1989 she received a Paul Whitfield Horn Professorship at Texas Tech University .

She wrote a ballet, works for orchestra, choir, symphonic band , chamber ensembles, voice, piano and other solo instruments, a. a. also compositions for carillon . Stylistically she moved between neoclassicism and free tonality , occasionally tone colors from impressionism and jazz can also be found .

Awards

  • 1980–1999: ASCAP Standard Panel Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical dates and list of works on musicalics
  2. ^ Rebecca A. Maloy:  Van Appledorn, Mary Jeanne. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  3. ↑ a b c Interview with Bruce Duffle from January 20, 1988
  4. ↑ a b biography in: Mary Jeanne van Appledorn Collection
  5. ^ A b Nicolas Slonimsky, Laura Kuhn, Dennis McIntire: Van Appledorn, Mary Jeanne. In: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. 2001 .;
  6. ^ Short vita on: Hildegard Publishing Company
personal data
SURNAME Appledorn, Mary Jeanne van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Holland
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 2014
Place of death Lubbock