Wallingford Riegger

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Wallingford Riegger (born April 29, 1885 in Albany , Georgia , † April 2, 1961 in New York ) was an American composer .

Life

Riegger studied in New York in 1907 at the Institute of Musical Art , later the Juilliard School , and until 1910 in Berlin at the Hochschule für Musik with Max Bruch . He was then a cellist and conductor at various opera houses. From 1918 to 1922 he taught theory and cello playing at Drake University in Iowa . From 1930 to 1956 he worked for a music publisher and taught at various colleges in New York. He was one of the American Five , a group of avant-garde composers who, besides himself, included Charles Ives , Charles Ruggles , Henry Cowell and John J. Becker . One of his composition students was Morton Feldman .

In 1953 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Riegger composed four symphonies , an orchestral rhapsody and other orchestral pieces as well as numerous chamber music works.

Works (selection)

  • Study in Sonority , 1927
  • Dichotomy , 1932
  • With My Red Fires , 1936
  • New Dance , 1940
  • Music for Brass Choir , 1949
  • Dance Rhythms , 1954

literature

  • Richard F. Goldman: The Music of Wallingford Riegger . In: The Musical Quarterly . tape 36 , no. 1 , January 1950, ISSN  0027-4631 , p. 39-61 .
  • Rebecca Grotjahn : Wallingford Riegger . In: Hermann Danuser, Dietrich Kämper, Paul Terse (eds.): American music since Charles Ives . Laaber, Laaber 1987, ISBN 3-89007-117-1 , pp. 375 f .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Saffle:  Riegger, Wallingford. In: MGG Online (subscription required).
  2. ^ Gilbert Chase: American Music: From the Pilgrims to the Present . In: Music & Letters . tape 69 , no. 4 , October 1988, ISSN  0027-4224 , p. 542 f .
  3. ^ Members: Wallingford Riegger. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Riegger, Wallingford
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Albany , Georgia
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1961
Place of death new York