Norman Cazden

Norman Cazden ( born September 23, 1914 in New York City; † August 18, 1980 in Bangor, Maine) was an American composer.

The son of Russian immigrants studied at the Juilliard School of Music and the City College and in 1944 from Harvard University with Aaron Copland and Walter Piston. Already as a student of the Juilliard School, he composed for dance companies of the city, and wrote his first symphony. He has performed as a concert pianist and was from 1934 to 1949 piano teacher at the Juilliard School. Since 1941 he worked at Camp Woodland in the Catskill Mountains, whose musical director, he was a follower of Herbert Haufrecht 1945-1960.

After graduating, he taught at the Peabody Conservatory, the University of Michigan and since 1950 at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Based on studies of the Committee on Un-American Activities in 1953 he lost this job and received over the next 16 years, no more academic position. It was at this time private piano lessons and worked on research on folk music. Since 1969 he has taught at the University of Maine.

Cazden composed an operetta, incidental music, two symphonies, two chamber concerts, a fan Suite, a suite for oboe and strings, a fan and two string quintets, a string quartet, other chamber works and sonatas and pieces for piano. He also issued a series of folk song collections and machining: Folk Songs of the Catskills, Dances from Woodland, The Abelard Folk Song Book, Three Catskill Ballads for Orchestra, A Book of Nonsense Songs, American Folk Songs for Children and A Catskill songbook.

• Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
• University teachers ( University of Michigan )
• University teachers ( Peabody Conservatory )
• University teachers (Maine)
• American composer
• Born in 1914
• Died in 1980
• Man