Morten Lauridsen

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Morten Lauridsen, left, with President George W. Bush, November 2007

Morten Johannes Lauridsen (born February 27, 1943 in Colfax , Washington ) is an American composer .

Life

Lauridsen grew up as a son of Danish immigrants in Portland ( Oregon on). After initially working as a firefighter with the United States Forest Service , he decided to study composition at the University of Southern California with Ingolf Dahl , Robert Linn , Harold Owen and Halsey Stevens .

Since 1967 he has been teaching composition at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California . From 1994 to 2001 he was composer in residence of the Los Angeles Master Chorale . Lauridsen is one of the most popular choral composers in the United States. He gained increasing fame with his 1994 composition O Magnum Mysterium because of its mystical and mysterious character.

Lauridsen's work, which consists almost exclusively of vocal music , has received many awards. In 2007 Lauridsen was awarded the National Medal of Arts at the White House , the highest honor given to artists by the American government. Like Eric Whitacres, Lauridsen's compositional style can be described as “neo- impressionistic ”.

Lauridsen lives on Waldron Island, a lonely island in the US state of Washington.

Works

Choral works

  • Ave Maria
  • A winter come
  • Be Still, My Soul, Be Still
  • Cuatro Canciones sobre Poesías de Federico García Lorca
  • Chanson Éloignée
  • I will lift up mine eyes
  • Les Chansons des Roses
    • I. En une seule fleur
    • II. Contre qui, rose
    • III. De ton rêve trop plein
    • IV. La rose complète
    • V. Dirait-on
  • Lux Aeterna
    • I. Introit
    • II. In te, domine, speravi
    • III. O Nata Lux
    • IV. Veni, Sancte Spiritus
    • V. Agnus Dei
  • Madrigali: Six "Firesongs" on Italian Renaissance Poems
    • I. Ov'è, Lass', Il Bel Viso?
    • II. Quando Son Piu Lontan
    • III. Cupid, Io Sento L'alma
    • IV. Io Piango
    • V. Luci Serene e Chiare
    • VI. Se Per Havervi, Oime
  • Mid-winter songs
    • I. Lament for Pasiphae
    • II. Like Snow
    • III. She tells her love while half asleep
    • IV. Mid-winter waking
    • V. Intersession in late October
  • O magnum mystery
  • Sure on this Shining Night
  • Ubi Caritas Et Amor
  • Where Have the Actors Gone?

Web links

Commons : Morten Johannes Lauridsen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Angela Hall: Added-Tone Sonorities in the Choral Music of Eric Whitacre , St. Louis 2012, pp. 10f.
  2. ↑ Shane M. Lynch: Music Historiography and Useful Style Histories: The Case for the Evolving Era of Neo-Impressionism and its Influence on American Choral Music of the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries , Washington 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Lauridsen, Morten
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lauridsen, Morten Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Colfax , Washington