George Walker (composer)

George Theophilus Walker ( * June 27, 1922 in Washington, DC) is an American composer and music educator

Walker has since his childhood piano lessons, attended the Junior Department of Music at Howard University and was there fourteen years old his first concert. From 1937 he studied piano with David Moyer and organ with Arthur Poister, at Oberlin College, which he left in 1941 as a Bachelor of Music. At the Curtis Institute of Music, he continued his training with Rudolf Serkin and Mieczyslaw Horszowski (piano ) and William Primrose and Gregor Piatigorsky (chamber music), and received in 1945 a diploma as a pianist and composer.

In 1956 he received the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts at the Eastman School of Music. He then went to France, where he studied with Robert Casadesus and private lessons with Nadia Boulanger at the American Academy in Fontainebleau. He taught at Dillard University, the Dalcroze School of Music, the New School for Social Research, at Smith College, the University of Colorado and at the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the University of Delaware. From 1969 until his retirement in 1992 he taught from 1976 as a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University. In 1996, he became the first African American a Pulitzer Prize for Music for the piece Lilacs for Voice and Orchestra.

Works

  • A babe is born for mixed choir, 1976
  • A red, red rose for low voice and piano, 1971
  • Address for orchestra, 1959, 1995
  • Antiphonys for chamber orchestra, 1968
  • Bauble for piano, 1981
  • Cantata, 1982
  • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, 1975
  • Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra, 1957
  • Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, 1981
  • Dialogus for Cello and Orchestra, 1976
  • Elevation for Organ, 1963
  • 5 Fancys for clarinet and piano four- hands, 1974
  • Folk Songs for Orchestra, 1990
  • Give thanks unto the Lord for female choir and organ, 1963
  • Gloria in memoriam for female choir and organ, 1963
  • Hey nonny no for medium voice and piano, 1954
  • I have no life but this for medium voice and piano
  • I went to heaven for medium voice and piano, 1953
  • Idyl for orchestra, 1957
  • In praise of folly for orchestra, 1980
  • Lament for low voice and piano, 1971
  • Lilacs for Voice and Orchestra, 1995
  • Lyric for String Orchestra, 1941
  • Lyrics for mixed chorus and piano, 1958
  • Mass for soprano, alto, tenor, bass, chorus and orchestra, 1977
  • Music for brass, sacred and profane, 1975
  • Music for various instruments, 1981
  • Music for three for Piano, Violin and Cello, 1970
  • O Lord God of hosts for mixed choir and organ, 1960
  • O praise the Lord for mixed choir and organ, 1953
  • Orpheus for narrator and chamber orchestra, 1994
  • Pageant and proclamation for orchestra
  • Perimeter for Clarinet and Piano, 1966
  • 2 Pieces for Organ
  • 3 Pieces for Organ
  • Poem for soprano and chamber ensemble, 1986
  • Poème for Violin and Orchestra, 1991
  • Praise ye the Lord for mixed choir and organ, 1963
  • Prelude for piano, 1941
  • Prelude and caprice for piano, 1975
  • Quartet for strings, no 1, 1945
  • Quartet for strings, no 2, 1967
  • Response for medium voice and piano, 1953
  • Serenata for Chamber Orchestra, 1983
  • Sinfonia, 1984
  • Sing unto the Lord for mixed chorus and piano, 1963
  • So we'll go no more a- roving for medium voice and piano, 1953
  • Sonata for Two Pianos, 1963
  • Sonata for piano, no 1, 1953
  • Sonata for piano, no 2, 1957
  • Sonata for piano, no 3, 1975
  • Sonata for piano, no 4, 1984
  • Sonata for violin & piano, no 1, 1959
  • Sonata for violin & piano, no 2, 1979
  • Sonata for cello & piano, 1957
  • Songs for medium voice and piano, 1982
  • Spatials for piano, 1961
  • Spectra for piano, 1971
  • Spires for Organ, 1998
  • Spirituals for Orchestra, 1974
  • Spirituals for medium voice and piano, 1975
  • Stars for mixed chorus and piano, 1953
  • Sweet, let me go for medium voice and piano, 1954
  • Symphony 1961
  • Tangents for Chamber Orchestra, 1999
  • The bereaved maid for medium voice and piano, 1953
  • Variations for Orchestra, 1971
  • Variations on a Kentucky folk song for piano, 1953
  • Wind set for wind quintet, 1999
  • With rue my heart is loading for medium voice and piano, 1953

Source

  • AfriClassical - George Walker ( b. 1922)
  • Man
  • Born in 1922
  • American composer
  • Music teacher
  • Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
  • Pulitzer Prize winner
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