Robert Starer

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Robert Starer (born January 8, 1924 in Vienna , † April 22, 2001 in Kingston , New York ) was an Austrian-American composer and pianist .

Life

He began studying at the Vienna State Academy at the age of 13 . After Austria was " annexed " to Hitler's Germany, he had to emigrate in 1938 because of his Jewish origins and continued his studies at what was then the Palestine Conservatory in Jerusalem . After serving in the Royal Air Force in 1947, he received a scholarship for postgraduates at the Juilliard School with Frederick Jacobi in New York, where he graduated in 1949, and he also studied in 1948 with Aaron Copland in Tanglewood . From 1949 to 1974 he taught himself at the Juilliard School and became an American citizen in 1957. He also taught at Brooklyn College in New York from 1963 to 1991 , from 1986 as a senior professor. Harrison Leslie Adams and Margaret Bonds were among his students . In 1994 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

He left an extensive body of work in almost all genres, operas, ballets - u. a. for Martha Graham , orchestral works, including symphonies and concerts, chamber, choral and other vocal music. In his early work he tried to merge Western and Middle Eastern music, later he opened up to influences from jazz and new music - at times he also experimented with serial music . His most important works include the 1980 violin concerto for Itzhak Perlman and the 1988 cello concerto for János Starker . His piece Black and White for piano is often played . He wrote two textbooks and the autobiography Continuo: A Life in Music .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Starer in: Music Information Center Austria
  2. ^ Gaylord Music Library ( Memento June 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Necrology: 2001
  3. ^ A b c biography, catalog raisonné, literature in: Pytheas Center for Contemporary Music
  4. ^ A b Peter Castine:  Starer, Robert. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 15 (Schoof - Stranz). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2006, ISBN 3-7618-1135-7  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  5. ↑ a b c CV in the Milken Archive of Jewish Music
  6. ↑ Guy Rickards: Robert Starer. The most prolific American composer of his generation. In: The Guardian . May 5, 2001 (English, obituary).;
  7. ↑ Members: Robert Starer. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 27, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Starer, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 2001
Place of death Kingston , New York