Douglas Moore

Douglas S ( tuart ) Moore ( born August 10, 1893 in Cutchogue, New York, † July 25, 1969 in Greenport, New York) was an American composer.

Moore studied after attending the Hotchkiss private school at Yale University, was 1919-1921 student of Vincent d' Indy and Nadia Boulanger and then by Ernest Bloch in Cleveland. He taught from 1925 to 1962 at Columbia University in New York City.

Moore composed several operas and operettas, two symphonies and a strings Suite, a prayer for the United Nations for alto, chorus and orchestra, chamber music, piano pieces, choral works, film scores and songs. The Ballad of Baby Doe, a work commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation for the Bicentennial of Yale University, was one of the most popular American operas of the present. In 1951 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in music.

Operas

  • White Wings, chamber opera, 1935
  • The Headless Horseman, opera, libretto by Stephen Vincent Benét to Washington Irving, 1936
  • The Devil and Daniel Webster, libretto by Stephen Vincent Benét, 1939
  • The Emperor's New Clothes, opera, libretto by Raymond Abrashkin, 1949
  • Giants in the Earth, opera, libretto by Arnold Sundgaard by Ole Edvart Rolvaag, 1951
  • The Ballad of Baby Doe, Folk Opera, libretto by John Latouche, 1956
  • Gallantry, a soap opera, libretto by Arnold Sundgaard, 1958
  • Wings of the Dove, opera, libretto by Ethan Ayer by Henry James, 1961
  • The Greenfield Christmas Tree, Christmas Entertainment, libretto by Arnold Sundgaard, 1962
  • Carrie Nation, opera, libretto by William North, 1966
Pulitzer Prize for Music John La Touche (lyricist) Integrated Authority File
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