New England composers


Elizabeth R. Austin

Born: Baltmore, Maryland in 1938
Storrs, Connecticut

http://www.amc.net/member/Elizabeth_Austin/home.html


Amy Beach

(1867-1944)
member of the Second New England School of composers

http://music.acu.edu/www/iawm/articles/june95/beach.html

   String Quartet in One Movement, Op. 89


Martin Bresnick

Born: New York City in 1946
Amherst College (1993)
currently Yale School of Music

http://www.commonmuse.com/

   String Quartet No. 1 (1968)
   String Quartet No. 2 "Bucephalus" (1984)
   String Quartet No. 3 (1992)


Jane Brockman

(b.1949)
Faculty: Hartt School of Music
Faculty: University of Rhode Island
Faculty: University of Connecticut
now resides in the Los Angeles area

http://www.janebrockman.org


George Whitefield Chadwick

 Born: November 13, 1854, Lowell, Massachusetts.
 Died: April 4, 1931, Boston, Massachusetts.(1854 - 1931)

http://homepages.go.com/~bazzyboy/gchadwick.html
http://tch.simplenet.com/bio/c/h/chadwick_gw.htm

   String Quartet No.1 in g Op.1 (1878)
   String Quartet No.2 in C Op.2 (1879)
   String Quartet No.3 in D (1885)
   String Quartet No.4 in e (1896)
   String Quartet No.5 in d (1898)


Alan Hovhaness

b. Somerville, Massachusetts (USA); 8 March 1911

   Quartet for Strings no 1, Op. 8 'Jupiter'
   Quartet for Strings no 2, Op. 147 Suite
   Quartet for Strings no 3, Op. 208 no 1 "Reflections on my Childhood"
   Quartet for Strings no 4, Op. 208 No.2 'The Ancient Tree' (Under the Ancient Maple Tree)


Paul Hindemith

Born: 1895

Professor: Yale School of Music (1940 to 1953), New Haven, CT

   Quartet for Strings in C major, Op. 2
   Quartet for Strings no 1 in F minor, Op. 10
   Quartet for Strings no 2 in C major, Op. 16
   Quartet for Strings no 3, Op. 22
   Quartet for Strings no 4, Op. 32
   Quartet for Strings no 5 in E flat major
   Quartet for Strings no 6 in E flat major
   Overature to the "Flying Dutchman"
   Repertoire for Military Orchestra "Minimax"


Charles Ives

 (1874-1954)

http://www.housatonic.org/ives.html
http://www.hnh.com/composer/ives.htm
http://www.msu.edu/user/sullivan/CompoComposersIves.html
http://www.schirmer.com/composers/ives_bio.html
http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/ives.html
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/ives.htm
http://www.echonyc.com/~jhhl/AFMM/ivesmain.html

   Quartet for Strings no 1
   Quartet for Strings no 2
   Quartet for Strings no 3
   Quartet for Strings no 4
   Quartet for Strings no 5
   Qt for Str, Op 23
   Lullaby
   A Set of Short Pieces (3): no 2, Scherzo "Holding your Own" for Sting Quartet
   Pieces (2) for String Quartet
   Hymn for String Quartet (1904)
   In re con moto et al. for String Quartet (1913)
   Hallowe'en


Thomas Oboe Lee

born in China in 1945
He studied composition at New England Conservatory (1972-1976), Tanglewood (1976) and Harvard University (1977- 1981)
Currently teaches at Boston College

   Morango... Almost A Tango
   String Quartet No. 1
   String Quartet No. 2
   String Quartet No. 3 ... "child of Uranus, father of Zeus
   "Berkshire Country Day School Fugue" (1999)


Donald Martino

 Born: Plainfield, New Jersey, May 16,1931 http://sai-national.org/phil/composers/dmartino.html

Third Street Music School Settlement in New York
Princeton University
Yale University
the Yale Summer School of Music and Art
Tanglewood, Composer-in-Residence
the New England Conservatory of Music, the chairman of the composition department from 1969-1979
Brandeis University, the Irving Fine Professor of Music
Harvard University, currently the Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music, Emeritus

   String Quartet


Walter Piston

 Born: 20 January 1894 in Rockland, Maine

http://www.schirmer.com/composers/piston_bio.html

   Quartet for Strings no 1
   Quartet for Strings no 2
   Quartet for Strings no 3
   Quartet for Strings no 4
   Quartet for Strings no 5


Quincy Porter

(1897-1966)

Professor: Cleveland Institute
Professor: Vassar College
Professor: the New England Conservatory
Professor: Yale University (1946-66)

   String Quartet No. 1
   String Quartet No. 2
   String Quartet No. 3
   String Quartet No. 4
   String Quartet No. 5
   String Quartet No. 6
   String Quartet No. 7


Charles Sprague Ruggles

b. March 11, 1876, Marion, Massachusettes
d. October 24, 1971, Bennington, Vermont

http://www.diac.com/~herlin/ruggles.html
http://www.luminet.net/~rlindner/


John Williams

Born: Flushing section of Queens, in New York City, on February 8, 1932

http://www.classicalrecordings.com/johnwilliams/biography.htm



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