Paul Moravec

Paul Moravec (born November 2, 1957 in Buffalo ) is an American composer and university professor. In 2004 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize of Music .

life and work

Paul Moravec studied at Harvard University and Columbia University . Before graduating with the Doctor of Musical Arts in 1987, he was awarded the Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome and spent a year (1984/85) in Italy; 1985 followed the Charles Ives Award in Music Composition of the American Academy of Arts and Letters . From 1987 to 1996 he taught theory, harmony, counterpoint and composition at Dartmouth College and in 1997/98 at Hunter College in Hunter. Moravec has also been a member of the faculty at Adelphi University in New York since 1987 , where he holds a professorship. In addition to other awards, he received a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1993 . In 2013 he stayed again - this time as Paul Fromm Composer-in-Residence - at the American Academy in Rome.

In 2004 Moravec received the Pulitzer Prize of Music for the Shakespeare- inspired Tempest Fantasy for clarinet, violin, cello and piano, which premiered the previous year . In 2010 he was accepted into the American Philosophical Society .

Paul Moravec is the composer of over 100 works, from orchestral and chamber music to choral works and songs, film music and, more recently, in the field of opera. He prefers an easily accessible spelling, which he characterizes as follows:

As a composer, I always try to make beautiful things, and I use whatever techniques and materials are useful for the particular composition at hand. Some of those materials are atonal or nontonal, but the overall harmonic context of my music derives from the tonal tradition, which after all is the lingua franca of Western music - essentially, Monteverdi to the Beatles and beyond. (German: As a composer I always try to create beautiful things and use all techniques and materials that are suitable for the respective composition. Some of these materials are atonal or non-tonal, but the harmonious framework of my music is the tonal tradition as lingua franca of western music - essentially from Monteverdi to the Beatles and beyond.)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Member History: Paul Moravec. American Philosophical Society, accessed February 4, 2019 . 
2. ^ A Composer Who's Weathered Some Tempests of His Own, Kathryn Shattuck, The New York Times, April 22, 2007

literature

• The New Grove, 2nd edition (contribution by Tim Page)

Web links

• Website Paul Moravec (Engl.)
• Publishing information Subito Music Corporation (Engl.)
• Paul Moravec, short biography, the New York Philharmonic (Engl.)
• A Composer Who's Weathered Some Tempests of His Own, Kathryn Shattuck, The New York Times, 22 April 2007 (Engl.)
• Paul Moravec, Faculty Profile, Adelphi University (Eng.)