Joseph Schwantner
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Joseph Schwantner (born 1943 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American composer and educator.
In 1970 he joined the faculty of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.
Schwantner is prolific, with many orchestral works to his credit. His style is accessible, coloristic and eclectic, drawing on such diverse elements as French impressionism, African drumming, and minimalism. His orchestral work Aftertones of Infinity received the Pulitzer Prize in 1979.
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[edit] Works
[edit] Orchestra and wind ensemble
- Morning's Embrace
- Recoil
- New Morning for the World "Daybreak of Freedom"
- September Canticle "Fantasy" (In Memoriam)
- Angelfire "Fantasy" for Amplified Violin and Orchestra
- Beyond Autumn "Poem" for Horn and Orchestra
- "Evening Land" Symphony
- Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra
- Percussion Concerto (wind ensemble version)
- Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
- Distant Runes and Incantations for Piano solo (amplified) and Orchestra
- Dreamcaller: Three Songs for Soprano, Violin solo, and Orchestra
- Freeflight "Fanfares" & "Fantasy"
- From Afar..."A Fantasy for Guitar and Orchestra"
- Magabunda (Witchnomad) "four Poems of Agueda Pizarro" for Soprano and Orchestra
- A Play of Shadows for Flute and Chamber Orchestra
- A Sudden Rainbow
- Toward Light
- Aftertones of Infinity
- In evening's stillness...
- ...and the mountains rising nowhere
- From a Dark Millennium
- Modus Caelestis
[edit] Chamber ensemble
- Rhiannon's Blackbirds
- Soaring, for flute and piano
- Black Anemones, for flute and piano
- Consortium II, for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion
- Distant Runes and Incantations
- In Aeternum (Consortium IV)
- Music of Amber
- Canticle of the Evening Bells
- Chronicon, for bassoon and piano
- Consortium (I)
- Diaphonia Intervallum
- Elixir
[edit] Notable students
[edit] External links
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