Raoul Pleskow

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Raoul Pleskow (born October 12, 1931 in Vienna ) is an American composer and music teacher of Austrian origin.

Life

Pleskow was born to the Jewish couple Leo Pleskow (* 1907) and Frieda Herz (* 1905). His father came from Sevastopol and worked as a high school teacher and violinist; the mother came from Vienna. After the National Socialist " Anschluss of Austria ", he and his parents fled to New York via Switzerland and France in 1939. In 1945 he became an American citizen. He attended the Juilliard School of Music from 1950 to 1952 and then studied at Queens College with Karol Rathaus . In 1956 he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and then studied composition at Columbia University with Otto Luening , from where he graduated in 1959 with a Master of Arts .

He then took private lessons with Stefan Wolpe and began teaching in 1961 at the Wolpe-led music department at Long Island University's CW Post College . He succeeded him as head of the music department and was professor of music there from 1970 until his retirement in 1994. He then remained associated with the college as composer in residence .

Pleskow wrote for symphonic and chamber music ensembles, as well as choral and solo works. His works were u. a. Cleveland Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Orchestra , Plainfield Symphony , Orchestra da Camera , South Dakota Symphony , Pierrot Consort , Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players, and Queens Symphony Orchestra .

For his compositions he has received the Composers Forum Award (1963), prizes from the Ford Foundation (1972), the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music (1972), the New York State Council on the Arts (1974), the National Endowment for the Arts (1974, 1975, 1978) from the National Institute of Arts and Letters (1974), the Guggenheim Foundation (1977) and Long Island University (1978).

Works

for symphony orchestra

  • Two Movements for Orchestra (1968)
  • Suite (1978)
  • Music for Orchestra (1980)
  • Four Bagatelles for Orchestra (1981)
  • Villanelle, Dirge and Song (1982)
  • Six Epigrams for Orchestra (1984)
  • Two Preludes for Orchestra (1987)
  • All Souls Sonata (1987)
  • Dormi Jesu (1987)
  • Serenade (1987)
  • Tre Laudi (1989)
  • Concert Royale (1990)
  • Essay on Quatrains (1990) / Quatrains (1994)
  • In Praise of Dufay (1990)
  • Prelude (1978)
  • Epitaph: Stefan Wolpe, in Memorian (1984)

for string orchestra

  • Epitaphium (1983)
  • Three Epigrams (1984)
  • Consort for Strings (1987) / Revised (1988)
  • Precis (1989)
  • Epigram for Piano and Orchestra (1995)

for chamber orchestra

  • December Music (1992)
  • Three Pieces for Orchestra (1974)
  • Fantasia sopra Ave Regina Coelorum (1976) / Revised (1977)
  • Song (Te Deum Laudate) (1994)

for choir

  • Cantata (1975)
  • Four Songs (1977)
  • Second Cantata (1979)
  • Four Christmas Greetings (1987)
  • Six Letter Verses (Choral) (1983)
  • Anthem (1985)
  • Ave Maria Stella (1985)
  • Paumanok: A Long Island Cantata (1985)
  • Dormi Jesu (1987)
  • Serenade (1987)
  • Peace Day Song (1989)
  • Altarpiece (1991)
  • Song on Lines from the Latin (1993)
  • Song (Te Deum Laudate) (1994)
  • Two Choruses on Trouvere Texts (1995)

for vocal soloists with accompaniment (without choir)

  • Three Early Songs (1961) ( Ah What Is Love? / Ave Maria / Entreat Me Not to Leave You )
  • Two Songs on Latin Fragments (1972)
  • Three Songs (1972)
  • Motet and Madrigal (1973)
  • Due bicinia per due soprani (1974)
  • On two Ancient Texts (1975)
  • On three Old English Rhymes (1976)
  • Lyric and Lament (1977)
  • Villanelle, Dirge and Song (1982)
  • Six Letter Verses (1983)
  • Lines in Praise of Rome (1984)
  • Of Rome, Parting and Spring (1984)
  • Vocalise (1986)
  • Three Songs on Texts of Oscar Wilde (1987, including From Holy Week in Genoa )
  • Five Bagatelles with Voice (1988)
  • Four Quatrains of Autumn (1990)
  • Six Bagatelles with Voice (1992)
  • Nine Fragments (1995)
  • Three songs (1998)

for piano solo or two pianos

  • Music for Two Pianos (1965)
  • Piece for Piano (1967)
  • Three Pieces for Piano (1968)
  • Three Bagatelles for Piano (1969)
  • Piece for Piano (1973)
  • Pentimento (Piano Solo) (1974)
  • Suite (1977)
  • Fantasiestueck (1980) / Prelude, Bagatelle and Fantasiestueck (1980)
  • Piano Sonata No. 1 (1989)
  • Four Images (1989)
  • Stefan Wolpe, in Memoriam (1992)
  • For Piano (1993)
  • Quatrain (for piano) (1993)
  • Piano Sonata No. 2 (1993)
  • Second Quatrain for Piano (1994)
  • Quatrains for Piano (1995)
  • Piano Sonata No. 3 (1997)
  • Piano Sonata No. 4 (1999)
  • For piano (2002)

other occupations

  • Form I for Violin and Piano (1959)
  • Quartet for Flute, Clarinet, Violin And Cello (1960)
  • Movement for Flute, Cello & Piano (1962)
  • Sextet (1963)
  • Two Pieces for Flute & Piano (1963)
  • Crossplay (1963)
  • Music (1964)
  • Music for Flute, Bass, Piano & Percussion (1964)
  • 3 Bagatelles with Contrabass (1965)
  • Music for Seven Players (1965)
  • Bagatelles No. 2 (1966)
  • Movement for Oboe, Violin & Piano (1966)
  • Quartet for Contrabass, Flute, Clarinet and Percussion (1966)
  • Movement for Nine Players (1967)
  • Bagatelles No. 3 (solo violin) (1968)
  • Incidental Music for Woyzek (1968)
  • Three Pieces (1968)
  • Three Short Pieces (1968)
  • For Five Players and Baritone (1969)
  • Duo (1969)
  • Three Bagatelles (1969)
  • Canzone for oboe or violin (1970)
  • Miracle of Theopolis (1970)
  • Music for a Play (1970)
  • Per Vege Viene (1970)
  • Three Movements for Quintet (1971)
  • Two Canzoni for Oboe & Piano (1973)
  • Two Bagatelles (oboe solo) (1974)
  • Trio (1977)
  • Two Pieces (1978)
  • Oratio (1979)
  • Four Pieces (1980)
  • String Quartet (1980)
  • Variations an a Lyric Fragment (1980)
  • Four Short Pieces (1981)
  • Suite of Bagatelles (1981)
  • Second String Quartet (1981)
  • Psalm Setting (1982)
  • Caprice (1983)
  • Divertimento sua sei Canzoni (1983)
  • Soliloquy (1983)
  • For Flute, Violin and Guitar (1984)
  • Intrada (1984)
  • Stanzas and Refrain (1984)
  • Two Pieces for Clarinet and Piano (1984)
  • Epigrams (1985)
  • Movement for Clarinet, Flute, Violin and Cello (1985)
  • For Four Instruments (1985)
  • On Lines from The Italian (1986)
  • Prelude No. 1 (1986)
  • Arabesque No. 1 (1987)
  • Consort For String Quartet (1987)
  • Arabesque No. 2 (1988)
  • Arabesque (1988)
  • Allegro & Epilogue (1989)
  • Composition for Four Instruments (1989)
  • Chamber Setting (1990)
  • In Memory of Stefan Wolpe (1991)
  • Six Fancies on Picture of Paul Klee (1992)
  • Appropriation (1992)
  • For Violin and Piano (1993)
  • Violin Sonata (1993)
  • Percussion Duo (1994)
  • For Piano and Instruments (1995)
  • For Violin and Piano (1995)
  • Piece for Trio (1996)
  • Quatrain for Guitar (1996)
  • Movement for Trio (1997)
  • Tiento, Stretto & Epilogo (1998)
  • Bagatelles with Refrain (1998)
  • Duo (twin song) (1998)
  • Trio (1999)
  • Sextet "Wintergesang" (1999)
  • Tre Ballatti (2000)
  • Soliloque et Dialogue (for soprano saxophone and piano) (1998–2000)
  • Salute! for soprano saxophone and piano (2003-2004)
  • In memory of Webern (2006)

literature

  • Biographical handbook of German-speaking emigration after 1933. - Munich: Saur, 1980–1983.

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personal data
SURNAME Pleskow, Raoul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna