Robert Muczynski
Robert Muczynski (born March 19, 1929 in Chicago , † May 25, 2010 in Tucson ) was an American composer , pianist and university professor.
Life
Robert Muczynski was the son of Polish-Slovak emigrants. In 1952 he completed his studies at DePaul University in Chicago, where Walter Knupfer (piano) and Alexander Tscherepnin (composition) had taught him. For the final exam there, his Divertimento for piano and orchestra was performed with the Symphony Orchestra of DePaul University. From 1955 to 1956 he taught composition, piano and music theory there himself. The Fromm Music Foundation had commissioned him to write his 1st symphony as early as 1951 . From 1956 to 1959 he headed the piano department at Loras College in Lubuque (Illinois). In 1958 Muczynski made his debut as a pianist of his own works in New York's Carnegie Recital Hall . In the same year his 1st piano concerto was premiered with himself as a soloist. From 1959 to 1962 he was a fellow of the Ford Foundation as part of a project for young composers. In 1964 he taught at the Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University , and from 1965 to his retirement in 1988 he was composition professor and composer-in-residence at the University of Arizona at Tucson. Paul Schoenfield is one of his students there .
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Muczynski published more than 50 works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo instruments (especially piano) and choir. In 1961 his sonata for flute and piano op. 14 received the Concours international de composition in Nice . The Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Chamber Orchestra op. 41 (1980/81) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize of Music . He also wrote several film scores for documentaries by his partner Harry Atwood .
His tonal language can be attributed to American neoclassicism , its rhythmic formations show the influences of jazz ; resulting according to the musicologist and critic Walter Simmons " [...] in a friendly modernism - tonal but not reactionary, peppered with light dissonance and energetic asymmetries of rhythm [...] ".
Individual proof
literature
- CD supplement Marco Polo 8.225041, R. Muczynski, Complete Works for Flute
Web links
- Data of the publisher Theodore Presser Company (Engl.)
- Obituary Chicago Sun-Times, May 28, 2010 (Engl.)
- Findings of Walter Simmons (Engl.)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Muczynski, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer and pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 25, 2010 |
| Place of death | Tucson |