Theophane Hytrek

Theophane Hytrek (born February 28, 1915 in Stuart / Nebraska ; † August 13, 1992 ) was an American composer, church musician and music teacher.

Hytrek entered the Order of the School Sisters of St. Francis (SSSF) in 1930 . She began her musical training at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music , where she received a degree in organ in 1941. She then began teaching at Alverno College , while studying composition at DePaul University in Chicago with Samuel Lieberson . From 1945 to 1948 she studied at DePaul University (graduating with a master's degree), in the summer of 1946 she also took lessons with Marcel Dupre at the University of Chicago . From 1953 she was a student of Bernard Rogers at the Eastman School of Music ; In 1957 she received her doctorate in composition.

From 1956 to 1968 Hytrek headed the music department of Alverno College, after which she held a professorship there until 1984. In 1987 she was named professor emerita. She was instrumental in founding the National Catholic Music Educators Association (NCMEA, 1942), the Church Music Association of America (1966) and the Composers Forum for Catholic Worship (1970), and was a co-founder of the Symposium for Church composers and Liturgists (1981 ) and a member of the American Guild of Organists for over fifty years .

In addition to masses, motets and liturgical works, Hytrek u. a. Psalm 83 (84) , Psalms , a Festival Fanfare and Postlude-Partita on the Old One-Hundredth . For her Prelude and Allegro for Oboe and Piano in the style of Norman Dello Joio , she received first prize from the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors in 1960 . Performances of their works a. at the First Annual Congress of Women Composers 1981 in New York City and at the American Composers Festival of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra in 1984. The St. Joseph College in Resselaer, Indiana, and the Marquette University awarded her an honorary doctorate (1978 and 1983).

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SURNAME	Hytrek, Theophane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American composer, church musician and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	February 28, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stuart (Nebraska)
DATE OF DEATH	August 13, 1992