Joel Spiegelman

Joel Warren Spiegelman ( born January 23, 1933, Buffalo / New York) is an American composer.

Spiegelman studied 1949-1953 at the Yale School of Music and the University of Buffalo, then to 1954 at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge / Massachusetts, to 1956 and from 1960 to 1961 when Harold Shapero, Irving Fine, and Arthur Victor Berger at the Brandeis University. 1956-1957 he attended the Conservatoire de Paris and took private lessons with Nadia Boulanger.

He then taught at the Longy School of Music (1961-1962) and Brandeis University ( 1961-1966 ). In 1966, he was director of the Studio for Electronic Music and Sound Media at Lawrence College. In 1970 he founded the New York Electronic Ensemble, which he directed until 1973. From 1976 to 1979 he was conductor of the Russian Orchestra of the Americans. In addition, he conducted the Moscow and St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra.

Spiegelman is considered to be profiled representatives of the musical avant-garde. He uses in his works, electro-acoustic instruments and compositional techniques of modernism, such as the twelve-tone and aleatoric composition. Among other things, he composed a ballet for tape, a symphony for soprano, flute, bass, synthesizer and tape works and chamber musician.

He has written articles on Russian and Soviet music, as well as electro-acoustic composition. As a conductor he took, inter alia, to the complete symphonic works of Irving Fine, the Holocaust Requiem by Ronald Senator as well as the Romantic Symphony and the Violin Concerto by Carlo Giorgio Garofalo. As a harpsichordist he came forward with a recording of Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations and of works by the Russian composer Edison Denisov.

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• Bach Cantatas - Joel Spiegelman
• Naxos - Joel Spiegelman
• Discography at Allmusic

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