Joseph Schwantner

Joseph Schwantner ( born March 22, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American composer. He is a Pulitzer Prize winner.

Life

His music, he studied with Bernard Dieter at the Chicago Conservatory and with Alan Stout and Anthony Donato at Northwestern University in Illinois. Here he received his doctorate in 1968. Continued his studies at Yale University in Connecticut, and the Eastman School of Music and the Juilliard School in New York. Some well-known organizations and institutions him Scholarships for example, the first to have been provided Charles Ives Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Martha Baird Rockefeller scholarship and the scholarship of the National Endowment for the Arts. He taught from 1968 to 1969 at the Chicago Conservatory, 1968-1969 at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, 1969-1970 at Ball State University and subsequently at the Eastman School of Music.

Joseph Schwantner is one of the most significant contemporary composers of the United States. He received commissions from, among others, the National Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, as well as the First New York Festival of the Arts, the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition, the Chamber Music America and the American Composers Concert Inc. In the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he is a member.

For his work he has received numerous national and international awards and prizes, he received in 1965, 1966 and 1967, the BMI Student Composer Awards, in 1979 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music and nominated several times for the Grammy Awards. From 1982 to 1985 he was composer in residence at the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra as part of the Meet the Composer / Orchestra Residencies program in. His works are known by all orchestras and famous conductors in the world.

Works

Works for Orchestra

Works for wind

Chamber Music

  • Soaring for Flute and Piano
  • Black Anemones for Flute and Piano
  • Consortium II for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion
  • Distant Runes and Incantations for flute, clarinet, violin I, violin II, viola, cello, piano and percussion
  • In Aeternum ( Consortium IV) for cello solo and four player
  • Music of Amber for flute, clarinet (bass clarinet), violin, cello, piano and percussion
  • Canticle of the Evening Bells for solo flute, oboe ( English horn ), clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, horn, trombone, piano, percussion, violin, viola, cello and double bass
  • Chronicon for Bassoon and Piano
  • Consortium (I ) for flute, clarinet, violin, viola and cello
  • Diaphonia Intervallum for alto saxophone, flute, piano, clarinet, violin I, violin II, viola, cello I, II cello and double bass
  • Elixir for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello and piano

Vocal music with instruments

  • Sparrows for soprano solo, flute (piccolo ), clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano, harp and percussion - Text: Kobayashi Issa
  • Wild Angels of the Open Hills, "a cycle of five songs" for soprano, flute and harp - Text: Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Two Poems of Agueda Pizarro for soprano and piano

Works for Keyboard

  • In Aeternum II for Organ
  • Veiled Autumn (children Todeslied )

Works for Percussion

  • Velocities ( Moto Perpetuo ) for solo marimba
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