Charles Tomlinson Griffes

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Sheet music for Griffes

[details ←] Belle nuit o nuit d’amour from Offenbach’s Contes d’Hoffmann (Barcarolle), piano,
[details ←] Songs of Charles Griffes - Volume I, vocal,
[details ←] Piano Album (Centennial Edition), piano,
[details ←] Roman Sketches, piano,
[details ←] Poem (Flute / Piano), piano, flute,
[details ←] A Winter Landscape, piano,
[details ←] Rhapsody in B Minor, piano,
[details ←] Song of the Dagger, piano, vocal,
[details ←] Seven Songs, piano, vocal,
[details ←] De Profundis, piano,
[details ←] The Pleasure-Dome Of Kubla Khan, piano,
[details ←] Poem (Flute / Piano), piano, flute,
[details ←] Preludes (3), piano,
[details ←] Three Tone-Pictures, Op. 5 (score), piano,
[details ←] Scherzo, Op. 6, No. 3, piano,
[details ←] Sonata for Piano, piano,
[details ←] Songs of Charles Griffes - Volume II, vocal,
[details ←] Songs of Charles Griffes - Volume III, vocal,
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Born: 17 September 1884 — Elmira — USA
Died: 8 April 1920 — New York — USA
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Music

His music is ethereal and atmospheric, influenced by Debussy. These works are: The White Peacock, The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan, Baccanale (tone poems) and Poem for Flute and Orchestra.

Life

American composer whose life straddled the 19th & 20th century. He was "coming into his own" and being recognized when he prematurely died in 1920 at the age of 36. He was forced to teach at the Hackley School near Tarrytown, New York, along the Hudson River for most of his life in order to support himself. He probably detested this situation because it gave him less time to compose and he had to consume too much energy in teaching instead of composing. He died of a lung infection following a bout of influenza.

(contributed by Ralph Barrocas - U.S.A. - <RBarrocas(at)aol.com>)

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