Robert Muczynski

Robert Muczynski (March 19, 1929 May 25, 2010) was a Polish-American composer. He was born in Chicago. Muczynski studied composition with Alexander Tcherepnin at DePaul University in the late 1940s. At age 29 he made his Carnegie Hall debut, performing a program of his own compositions for piano.

Muczynski studied piano with Walter Knupfer and composition with Alexander Tcherepnin at DePaul University in Chicago, where he received the Bachelor of Music degree (1950) and the Master of Music degree (1952). Both degrees were in Piano Performance. Muczynski later taught at DePaul University (Chicago), Loras College (Dubuque, Iowa), and Roosevelt University (Chicago), before settling in Tucson in the 1960s where he joined the faculty of the University of Arizona as composer-in-residence and chairman of the composition department; he held both positions until his retirement in 1988.[1]

Among the more than fifty published compositions in his catalog, his Sonata for Flute and Piano, Op. 14 (1961), his Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano (1970), and Time Pieces for clarinet and piano (1984) have entered the repertoire and remain frequently performed in recitals, as has much of his solo piano music.[2] Works by Muczynski have also appeared with increasing frequency on programs in the US, Europe, the Far East, Australia and Mexico. Orchestral works have been performed by the Chicago Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra (United States), D.C., the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra and others abroad.

Robert Muczynski attended Steinmetz High School, graduated 1/1947

Robert Muczynski died in Tucson, Arizona in May 2010.

Notable works (with formatting issues)

Chamber Music

Works for Unaccompanied Instruments

(Publishers)

Concertos

Solo Piano

Orchestral Music

Film Scores

Choral Music

Works List by Date of Composition

Opus # Title and Date of Composition Publisher

References

  1. http://www.suntimes.com/news/obituaries/2328214,CST-NWS-xmucz28.article
  2. http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/Robert-Muczynski-19292010/

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