Joel Spiegelman

Joel Spiegelman (born January 23, 1933) is an American composer, conductor, concert pianist, harpsichordist, recording artist, arranger, author and teacher.

As a composer, Spiegelman has been widely known as a creative innovator for his blending of techniques from traditional classical music, dodecaphonic music, aleatoric music, gospel, Russian folk, and electronic idioms of musical expression. He has written original music for string quartet, piano trio, piano quintet, chamber music with percussion, solo instruments, wind ensembles, symphony orchestra, ballet, film, choral and vocal music.

Contents 1 List of works 1.1 Operas 1.2 Incidental music 1.3 Concertos 1.4 Orchestral works 1.5 Vocal works 1.6 Chamber music 1.7 Piano and harpsichord music 1.8 Songs 2 External links

List of works

Operas

Incidental music

• Fables for Our Time by James Thurber. Composed the music for the theatrical event presented at the Brandeis University Theater first performed there in 1956
• Medea - composed an electronic score for the Robinson Jeffers play based on Sophocles' Medea performed in 1964 at the Brandeis University's Spingold Theatre*
• They - composed the first electronic music score written for a film based on a novel by Marya Mannes. Produced by NET New York, 1969.
• The Possessed - composed music for a ballet by Pear Land based on the play The Dybbuk. First performed in 1974 at the 92nd Street YMHA in New York City.

Concertos

Orchestral works

My New York for full symphony orchestra, Paris, 1958, World premier Moscow, 1994 by Moscow Radio Symphony

Vocal works

Chamber music

Piano and harpsichord music

Songs

External links

• Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra Joel Spiegelman, Conductor
• Recital: Joel Spiegelman in Retrospect
• Joel Spiegelman interviewed on the Joe Franklin Show, August 1988
• HARPSICHORD GETS ELECTRONIC VOICE; Stanley Lock and Joel Spiegelman Perform
• und Dirigent Joel Spiegelman mit Wohnsitzen in New York und Paris -->
• Free scores by Joel Spiegelman in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)

Bakers Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Nicholas Slonimsky Groves Dictionary of Music Harvard Short Dictionary of Music The 18th Century in Russia, Ed. by John Garrard, Oxford University Press, wrote article on 18th century Russian keyboard music

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