Wayne Peterson

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Wayne T. Peterson (born September 3, 1927 (or March 8 ) in Albert Lea , Minnesota ) is an American composer and professor.

Life

Wayne Peterson started out as a jazz pianist and graduated from the University of Minnesota with teachers including Paul Fetler , Earl George and James Aliferis . In 1953/54 he received a Fulbright scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he studied with Lennox Berkeley and Howard Ferguson . In 1958 his orchestral work Free Variations was premiered and recorded by the Minnesota Orchestra under Antal Doráti .

After graduating from the University of Minnesota ( PhD 1960), he taught from 1960 for more than 3 decades as a professor of music at San Francisco State University . In 1998 a Wayne Peterson Prize in Music Composition was established there. From 1992 to 1994 he was visiting professor at Stanford University . In 1990 he was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome . Other grants and awards Peterson received include a Composer's Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1986) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1989/90).

In 1992, Peterson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize of Music for his orchestral work The Face of the Night, the Heart of the Dark , which was commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony . The making of this decision sparked discussions because the Pulitzer Board, which was primarily formed by journalists, defied the three-member music jury (consisting of the composers George Perle , Roger Reynolds and Harvey Sollberger ), who favored a work by Ralph Shapey and the composition of Peterson had only later named as an alternative.

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Wayne Peterson has more than 75 works, both orchestral and chamber music, as well as vocal compositions. Initially influenced by Stravinsky and Copland , he then turned to Schönberg's compositional methods and Sessions . Later works show more tonal references again.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on life, work and discography, Howard Stokar Management
  2. ^ The New Grove, 2nd Edition (by Robert P. Commanday)
  3. ↑ Allan Kozinn : A Pulitzer Dispute: Should Music Prize Be Left to Experts? In: The New York Times . April 9, 1992

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SURNAME Peterson, Wayne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peterson, Wayne T.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Albert Lea