Raoul Pleskow

Raoul Pleskow (born 12 October 1931 in Vienna) is an American composer and music educator of Austrian origin.

Pleskow fled with his family after the "Anschluss of Austria" on Switzerland and France to New York. In 1945 he became an American citizen. He attended from 1950 to 1952, the Juilliard School of Music and studied until 1956 at Queens College at Karol Rathaus and to 1858 at Columbia University with Otto Luening composition.

Then he began to teach at led by Stefan Wolpe CW Post College of Long Iceland University. He followed Wolpe as the director of the music department, and was from 1970 until his retirement Professor of Music. After that, he remained connected to the College 's Composer in Residence.

PLeskows works were, inter alia, Cleveland Orchestra, performed by the Tanglewood Festival Orchestra, from the Plainfield Symphony, the Orchestra da Camera, the South Dakota Symphony, Pierrot Consort, the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players and the Queens Symphony Orchestra. For his compositions, he has been with prices of the Ford Foundation (1972). the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music ( 1972), the National Endowment for the Arts ( 1974, 1975, 1978) of the National Institute of Arts and Letters (1974) and the Guggenheim Foundation (1977 ) excellent.

Works

• Form I for Violin and Piano (1959 )
• Quartet For Flute, Clarinet, Violin And Cello ( 1960)
• Ah What Is Love? (1961)
• Ave Maria ( 1961)
• Entreat Me Not To Leave You ( 1961)
• Songs 1960-61 (1961 )
• Three Early Songs (1961 )
• Movement For Flute, Cello & Piano (1962 )
• Sextet (1963 )
• Two Pieces For Flute & Piano (1963 )
• Cross Play ( 1963)
• Music ( 1964)
• Music For Flute, Bass, Piano & Percussion (1964 )
• 3 Bagatelles With Contra Bass (1965 )
• Music For Two Pianos ( 1965)
• Music For Seven Players ( 1965)
• No Bagatelles. 2 (1966)
• Movement For Oboe, Violin & Piano (1966 )
• Quartet For Contrabass, Flute, Clarinet And Percussion (1966 )
• Movement For Nine Players ( 1967)
• Piece For Piano (1967 )
• No Bagatelles. 3 (Solo Violin ) ( 1968)
• Incidental Music For Woyzek (1968 )
• Two Movements For Orchestra (1968 )
• Three Pieces ( 1968)
• Three Pieces For Piano (1968 )
• Three Short Pieces (1968 )
• For Five Players And Baritone (1969 )
• Duo ( 1969)
• Three Bagatelles For Piano (1969 )
• Three Bagatelles (1969 )
• Canzone For Oboe Or Violin (1970 )
• Miracle of Theo Polis (1970 )
• Music For A Play (1970 )
• Per Vege Viene (1970 )
• Three Movements For Quintet (1971 )
• Two Songs On Latin Fragments ( 1972)
• Two Songs On Latin Texts (1972 )
• Three Songs (1972 )
• And Motet Madrigal (1973 )
• Piece For Piano (1973 )
• Two Canzoni For Oboe & Piano (1973 )
• Two Bagatelles (oboe solo ) ( 1974)
• Due Per Due Bicinia Soprani (1974 )
• Pentimento ( Piano Solo) (1974 )
• Three Pieces ( 1974)
• Three Pieces For Orchestra (1974 )
• Three Pieces For Chamber Ensemble (1974 )
• Cantata (1975 )
• On Two Ancient Texts (1975 )
• On Three Old English Rhymes (1976 )
• Prelude And Bagatelle (1976 )
• Bagatelle (1977 )
• Fantasia Sopra Ave Regina coelorum (1976 )
• Four Songs (1977 )
• Lyric And Lament (1977 )
• Suite ( 1977)
• Trio ( 1977)
• Prelude (1978 )
• Two Pieces ( 2 Pieces) (1978 )
• Suite ( 1978)
• Oratio (1979 )
• Second Cantata (1979 )
• Fantasiestueck (1980)
• Prelude, Bagatelle And Fantasiestueck (1980 )
• Four Pieces ( 1980)
• Music for Orchestra (1980 )
• String Quartet ( 1980)
• Variations On A Lyric Fragment (1980 )
• Four Short Pieces (1981 )
• Suite of Bagatelles (1981 )
• Four Bagatelles (1981 )
• Four Bagatelles For Orchestra (1981 )
• Second String Quartet ( 1981)
• Villanelle (1982 )
• Villanelle, Dirge And Song ( 1982)
• Psalm Setting ( 1982)
• Caprice (1983 )
• Divertimento Sua Be Canzoni (1983 )
• Epitaph (1983 )
• Soliloquy (1983 )
• Six letter Verses (1983 )
• Epitaph: Stefan Wolpe, In Memorian (1984 )
• For Flute, Violin And Guitar (1984 )
• Intrada (1984 )
• Lines In Paise Of Rome (1984 )
• Of Rome, Parting And Spring ( 1984)
• Six Epigrams For Orchestra (1984 )
• Stanzas And Chorus (1984 )
• Three Epigrams (1984 )
• Two Pieces For Clarinet And Piano (1984 )
• Ave Maria Stella ( 1985)
• Anthem ( 1985)
• Epigrams (1985 )
• Movement For Clarinet, Flute, Violin And Cello ( 1985)
• Paumanok: A Long Iceland Cantata (1985 )
• For Four Instruments ( 1985)
• On Lines From The Italian ( 1986)
• Prelude No.. 1 (1986)
• Prelude No.. 1 (1986)
• Vocalise (1986 )
• All Souls Sonata (1987 )
• Arabesque No. 1 (1987)
• Consort For String Quartet ( 1987)
• From Holy Week In Genoa (1987 )
• Domi Jesus (1987 )
• Four Christmas Greetings ( 1987)
• Serenade ( 1987)
• Three Songs on Texts of Oscar Wilde (1987 )
• Prelude No.. 2 (1987 )
• Two Preludes (1987 )
• Two Preludes For Orchestra (1987 )
• Arabesque No. 2 (1988)
• Arabesque (1988 )
• Consort For Strings (1987 )
• Five Bagatelles With Voice (1988 )
• Allegro & Epilogue (1989 )
• Composition For Four Instruments ( 1989)
• Four Images (1989 )
• Peace Day Song ( 1989)
• Piano Sonata No.. 1 (1989)
• Precis (1989 )
• Tre laudi ( for organ ) ( 1989)
• Chamber Setting ( 1990)
• Concert Royale (1990 )
• In Praise Of Dufay (1990 )
• Essay On quatrains (1990 )
• Four quatrains Of Autumn (1990 )
• Altarpiece (1991 )
• In Memory Of Stefan Wolpe (1991 )
• December Music ( 1992)
• Six Bagatelles With Voice (1992 )
• Six Fancies On Picture Of Paul Klee ( 1992)
• Stefan Wolpe, In Memoriam (1992 )
• Dedication (1992 )
• For Piano (1993 )
• Quatrain ( for piano ) ( 1993)
• Piano Sonata No.. 2 (1993)
• Song On Lines from the Latin (1993 )
• For Violin And Piano (1993 )
• Violin Sonata (1993 )
• Percussion Duo ( 1994)
• Quatrains (1994 )
• Song ( Te Deum Laudate ) ( 1994)
• Second Quatrain For Piano (1994 )
• Epigram For Piano And Orchestra (1995 )
• For Piano And Instruments ( 1995)
• For Violin And Piano (1995 )
• Nine Fragments ( 1995)
• Quatrains For Piano (1995 )
• Two Choruses On Trouvere text ( 1995)
• Piece For Trio ( 1996)
• Quatrain For Guitar (1996 )
• Movement For Trio ( 1997)
• Piano Sonata No.. 3 (1997)
• Tiento, Stretto & Epilogo (1998)
• Bagatelles With Chorus (1998)
• Three Songs (1998)
• Soliloque et Dialogue ( 1998)
• Duo (twin song) (1998)
• Piano Sonata No.. 4 (1999)
• Trio ( 1999)
• Sextet "Winter Song" (1999)
• Tre Ballatti (2000)

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• Vox Novus - Raoul Pleskow
• American Composers Alliance - Raoul Pleskow
• University of Salzburg - "Degenerate Art", conference and concert in honor of the 75th birthday of Raoul Pleskow (PDF file, 2.66 MB )

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• Born in 1931
• American composer
• Music teacher