american composers
Ron Kuivila
1955 births | american composers | american music writers | experimental composers | living people | sound artists | wesleyan university faculty birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts death_date = death_place = occupation = spouse = }}
Ron Kuivila (b. Dec 19, 1955) is an American sound artist from Boston, MA. He is primarily known for his sound installations, which often utilize computers.
Jenő Zádor
1894 births | 1977 deaths | american composers | hungarian composers | opera composersJenő Zádor (5 November 1894 Bátaszék-4 April 1977 Hollywood, CA) was a Hungarian-born American composer. He studied at the Vienna Music Academy and in Leipzig with Max Reger. He taught from 1921 at the new Vienna City Conservatory and later at the Budapest Academy of Music. On the outbreak of World War II he emigrated to the USA, where he became a successful composer of film scores for Hollywood. He also wrote a number of operas in which the characterization and orchestration are worthy of note, and orchestral pieces in a style that owed something to Reger and Richard Strauss, including the popular Hungarian Caprice (1935) and concertos for such instruments as the cimbalom (1969) and accordion (1971).
Operas
- Diana (1923)
- A holtak szigete (1928)
- Revisor (1928)
- X-mal Rembrandt (1930)
- The Awaking of Sleeping Beauty (1931)
- Asra (1936)
- Christoph Columbus (1939)
- The Virgin and the Fawn (24 October 1964)
- The Magic Chair (1966)
- The Scarlet Mill (1968)
- Revisor [rev] (1971 )
- Yehu, a Christmas Legend (1974)
Heniot Levy
american composers | american pianists | americans of polish descentHeniot Levy (1879-1945) was an American composer, teacher, and pianist of Polish birth. A native of Warsaw, he trained at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin with Oscar Raif and Karl Heinrich Barth, both pupils of Tausig; the latter also trained Arthur Rubinstein. He made his debut touring with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1898; he came to the United States in 1905, settling in Chicago, Illinois. He taught at the American Conservatory of Music, and toured and performed with the orchestras of Chicago and Minneapolis. As a composer, he wrote mainly chamber music; he also recorded a handful of piano rolls, including some of his own work.
Levy died in 1945; he was the maternal grandfather of Igor Kipnis.
American band - The Bats
albums | american composers | american songwriters | concept albums | pop albums* Formed 1980 in New Haven, CT
- Members: Jon Brion, Bill Murphy and Don "Riff" Fertman
- Label: Gustav
In the early 1980s, Jon Brion and Bill Murphy began a writing collaboration in New Haven, Connecticut. They recorded numerous demo tracks in makeshift apartment studios, and worked out their arrangements in basement practice rooms on the Yale University Campus. In time, the duo enlisted the talents of bassist Don "Riff" Fertman to form The Bats, not to be confused with another group of the same name which formed concurrently in New Zealand. In the spring of 1982 the trio created a imaginative set of pop songs in a small studio in Connecticut. A single called "Popgun" followed by an LP entitled How Pop Can You Get? were released on the independent label Gustav.
Samuel Barlow
20th century classical composers | american composersSamuel Barlow (June 1, 1892 - September 19, 1982) was an American composer.
Barlow studied at Harvard University and then in New York under Percy Goetschius and Franklin Robinson; he also studied with Ottorino Respighi in Rome in 1923. He worked in civic agencies which classical music from the 1910s into the 1930s; among them was the New York Community Chorus, of which he was the first chairman. He was a regular contributor to the journal Modern Music.
Dean DeBenedictis
ambient musicians | american composers | living people Dean DeBenedictis is an American composer, producer, musician, and conceptual artist. He has recorded under his own name and under the alias Surface 10. His discography crosses several genres of electronic and acoustic music, but he is primarily known as an electronic ambient, IDM, and Berlin School musician.
DeBenedictis is the founder of the Fateless Flows Collective, a Los Angeles group of electronic composers. He has released three albums with this group under his Fateless Flows label.
Carlton gamer
1929 births | 20th century classical composers | american composers | living peopleCarlton Gamer (born 1929 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American composer and music theorist. He has taught at Princeton University, the University of Michigan, and Colorado College. He studied at Northwestern University and Boston University and privately with Roger Sessions.
Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints, Op. 211
1911 births | 2000 deaths | 20th century classical composers | american composers | armenian-americans | people from middlesex county, massachusetts | scottish-americansCharles Henry Mills
1873 births | 1937 deaths | american composersCharles Mills (disambiguation)
Charles Henry Mills (January 29 1873 – July 23 1937) was an American composer and director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music.
Velton Ray Bunch
american composersVelton Ray Bunch (born in Goldsboro, North Carolina) is Emmy winner film and television composer. Sometimes credited as Ray Bunch.
Credits include television series Quantum Leap , theme music for The Pretender (Emmy Nomination 2000).
