Composer - Modern Flashcards
(27 cards)
Boulanger - France
1893-1918
Mother Russian Princess
Father teaches at Paris Conservatory
Winner of Prix de Rome
Younger sister of Nadia Boulanger
Piece: Psalm 24 - medieval sound
Debussy - French
1862-1918
Studies piano with Chopin
Attends Paris conservatory
1884 wins Prix de Rome
Inspired by impressionists paintings at Univeral exposition in Paris
5 choral works - Trois Chansons de Charles d’Orleans
Durufle - French
1902-1986
An organist - performer at heart
Studies with Louis Verne
Studies at Paris Conservatory
Requiem - began as a series of organ pieces with Gregorian change
Martin - Switzerland
1890-1974
Studies with eurythmics with Dalcroze
Teaches at Dalcroze institute
Mass - never intended to be performed, Poulenc-like style
Poulenc - Frence
1899-1963
True Parisian
Associated with Les Six (group of composers led by Satie - shunned Romantic sentiment)
Poulenc the hooligan vs. Poulenc the monk - religious reckoning (goes on pilgrimage)
Piece: O Magnum mysterium
Casals - Austria/Germany
1876-1973
Known as a cellist
Studies at Madrid Conservatory
Tours widely but not in countries ruled by dictators
Piece: O Vos Omnes - conservative style
Distler - German
1908-1942
Studies at Leipzig Conservatory
Liturgical reform movement in LUhteran Church - going back to Renaissance and Baroque style
Committed suicide worried he would be forced to serve Nazi regime
Piece: Es ist ein Ros ensprungen
Hindemith - Germany
1985-1963
Proponent of 12 tone music
Teaches in Berlin
Shift in philosophy - music for amateur
Gebrachsmusic - Functional music: Improve relationship between composer and consumers of music
Moves to Switzerland the US to escape Nazi
Teaches at Yale and Harvard
Piece: Six Chansons
Orff - Germany
1895-1982
Entire life in Munich
Confounds Guntherschule - music program for children based on dance, musical improv and percussion
Interest in music of the past - Monteverdi operas, Schutz oratorio
Carmina Burana - premiered with visuals and dance. Highly repetitive, primitive sounding, chant like passages
Stravinsky - Russia
1882-1971
Aristocratic musical family
Student of Korsakov
Three periods of composition: Russian, Neo-classical, Serial
Piece: Symphony of Psalms
Part - Russia
1935
Tallinn conservatory
Moves to Vienna
Lives in Berlin
Early works - serial, minimalistic
Solffeggio
Tormis - Estonia
1930-2017
Born in Estonia
Studies at Tallinn Conservatory then Moscow Conservatory
Permission to travel to Hungary
Interested in folk-based music composition
Nationalistic - preservation
Regulaul (runo song)
Greig - Scandinavia
1843-1907
Born in Norway
Romantic-Era composer
Leipzig conservatory
For Music
Fire Salmer (four psalms)
Mantyjarvi - Scandinavia
1963
Finland
University of Helsinki and Sibelius academy
Pseudo Yoik - poking fun at this traditional folk tune tradition
Nysted - Scandinavia
1915-2014
Born in Norway
Studies with Copeland and Robert Shaw
Conducts Norwegian soloists choir
Knighted by the King of Norway
Piece: Immortal Bach - uses Bach’s choral Komm susser tod
Egil Hovland - Scandinavia
1924-2013
Oslo conservatory
Studies with Copeland
Studies Gregorian chant with Benedictine monks in France
Piece: The Glory of the Father - unmetered showing influence of chant
Rautavaara - Scandinavia
1928-2016
Finland
Studies at Helsinki and Sibelius academy
Studies with Copeland
Early works - 12 tone
Later works - neo-romantic
Piece: Suite de Lorca
Imogen Holst - England
1907-1984
Daughter of Gustav Holst
School for dance changes to music
Enrolls at Royal academy for music
Tours as conductor and accompanist
Writes biography of father
Association with Britten
Piece: A Hymne to Christ
Howells - England
1892-1983
Meets Vaughn Williams and Elgar
Studies at Royal college of music
Succeeds Gustav Holst as director at St. Paul’s girl school
Music influence: Celtic spirit, elegiac outlook (mournful, like an elegy, caused by death of son)
Kinship to Tudor Composers
Piece: A spotless rose
Vaughan Williams - England
1872-1958
Studies at Royal College of music and trinity college
Studies with Ravel
Ambulance driver during WWI
Influences: English folk songs, Tudor composers, choral festivals and amateur societies, Ravel and impressionists
Piece: Dona Nobis Pacem - combines biblical and other texts by Walt Whitman
Judith Weir - England
1954
Studies with Tavener
Studies at Tabglewood with Gunther Schiller
Resident composer of City of Birmingham Symphony and BBC Singers
First woman to be given the titled Master of the Queen’s Music
Piece: My Guardian Angel
Florence Price - U.S.
1887-1953
Graduated valedictorian
Studies at New England Conservatory
Career based in Chicago
First African American Composer to have a work perfomed by a major symphony orchestra
Piece: Resignation - text by price, original composition 19th century part song
Barnett - U.S.
1949
Dubuque Iowa
Studied at the university of Minnesota
Composer in residence for Dale Wayland singers
Piece: cinco poemas de Becquer
Nathaniel Dett - U.S.
1882-1943
Born in Niagara Falls Canada
Moved to NY
Observing College - First African American to Graduate
Harvard, Eastman
70 choral compositions most arrangements of African American spirituals
Piece: Chariot Jubilee
