Joseph Schwantner

Joseph C. Schwantner (born March 22, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois) is a Pulitzer Prize winning American composer and educator and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was awarded the 1970 Charles Ives Prize.

Schwantner is prolific, with many 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 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Music. He also wrote violinist, Anne Akiko Meyers, 'Angelfire', a fantasy for amplified violin and orchestra.

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Works

Orchestra

A Play of Shadows for Flute and Chamber Orchestra
A Sudden Rainbow
Aftertones of Infinity
Angelfire "Fantasy" for Amplified Violin and Orchestra, written for Anne Akiko Meyers
Beyond Autumn "Poem" for Horn and Orchestra
Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
Distant Runes and Incantations for Piano solo (amplified) and Orchestra
Dreamcaller: Three Songs for Soprano, Violin solo, and Orchestra
"Evening Land" Symphony
Freeflight "Fanfares" & "Fantasy"
From Afar..."A Fantasy for Guitar and Orchestra"
Magabunda (Witchnomad) "four Poems of Agueda Pizarro" for Soprano and Orchestra
Modus Caelestis
Morning's Embrace
New Morning for the World "Daybreak of Freedom" for Narrator and Orchestra
September Canticle "Fantasy" (In Memoriam)
Toward Light

Wind Ensemble

...and the mountains rising nowhere (1977)
From a Dark Millennium (1980)
In evening's stillness... (1996)
Recoil (2004)
Percussion Concerto (transcribed by Andrew Boysen) (1997)
Beyond Autumn (transcribed by Timothy Miles) (2006)
New Morning for the World "Daybreak of Freedom" (transcribed by Nikk Pilato) (2007)

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

Notable students

References

Folio, Cynthia. (1985). "An Analysis and Comparison of Four Compositions by Joseph Schwantner: And the Mountains Rising Nowhere; Wild Angels of the Open Hills; Aftertones of Infinity; and Sparrows." Doctoral Dissertation, University of Rochester.
Folio, Cynthia. (1985). "The Synthesis of Traditional and Contemporary Elements in Joseph Schwantner's Sparrows." Perspectives of New Music, vol. 24/1: 184-196.
Higbee, Scott. (2003). "Joseph Schwantner" from A Composer's Insight." Galesville, MD: Meredith Music.
Pilato, Nikk. (2007). A Conductor's Guide to Wind Music of Joseph Schwantner Doctoral Dissertation.
Renshaw, Jeffrey. (1991). Schwantner on Composition. Instrumentalist, 45(6)

External links

Pulitzer Prize for Music (1976–2000)

Ned Rorem (1976) Richard Wernick (1977) Michael Colgrass (1978) Joseph Schwantner (1979) David Del Tredici (1980) Roger Sessions (1982) Ellen Zwilich (1983) Bernard Rands (1984) Stephen Albert (1985) George Perle (1986) John Harbison (1987) William Bolcom (1988) Roger Reynolds (1989) Mel D. Powell (1990) Shulamit Ran (1991) Wayne Peterson (1992) Christopher Rouse (1993) Gunther Schuller (1994) Morton Gould (1995) George Walker (1996) Wynton Marsalis (1997) Aaron Jay Kernis (1998) Melinda Wagner (1999) Lewis Spratlan (2000)

Complete list (1943–1950) (1951–1975) (1976–2000) (2001–2025)

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