Karel Husa

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Born: 7 August 1921, Prague (Czech Republic)
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[details ←] Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Violin,
[details ←] Sonatina Piano, Flute,
[details ←] String Quartet No. 4
[details ←] Les Couleurs Fauves (Vivid Colors) ,concert band,
[details ←] Sonatina for Violin and Piano Piano, Violin,
[details ←] Postcard from Home Piano, Saxophone, , sax, saxophone, , Alto saxophone,
[details ←] Five Poems for Wind Quintet
[details ←] Concerto For Trumpet - Trumpet/Piano Piano, Trumpet,
[details ←] Drum Ceremony Percussion, Drums,
[details ←] Al Fresco
[details ←] Three Dance Sketches for Percussion Quartet Percussion,
[details ←] Music for Prague (1968)
[details ←] Elegie & Rondeau Piano, Saxophone, , sax, saxophone,
[details ←] Apotheosis of This Earth
[details ←] Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Concert Band Saxophone, , sax, saxophone, , Alto saxophone, ,concert band,
[details ←] Music for Prague (1968)
[details ←] String Quartet No. 3
[details ←] Apotheosis of This Earth

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[details ←] Music for Prague 1968

Biography

Karel Husa, winner of the 1993 Grawemeyer Award and the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Music, is an internationally known composer and conductor. An American citizen since 1959, Husa was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on 7 August 1921. After completing studies at the Prague Conservatory and, later, the Academy of Music, he went to Paris where he received diplomas from the Paris National Conservatory and the Ecole normale de musique. Among his teachers were Arthur Honegger, Nadia Boulanger, Jaroslav Ridky, and conductor Andre Cluytens.

In 1954, Husa was appointed to the faculty of Cornell University where he was Kappa Alpha Professor until his retirement in 1992. He was elected Associate Member of the Royal Belgian Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1974 and has received honorary degrees of Doctor of Music from several institutions, including Coe College, the Cleveland Institute of Music, Ithaca College, and Baldwin Wallace College. Among numerous honors, Husa has received a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation; awards from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, UNESCO, and the National Endowment for the Arts; Koussevitzky Foundation commissions; the Czech Academy for the Arts and Sciences Prize; and the Lili Boulanger award. Recordings of his music have been issued on CBS Masterworks, Vox, Everest, Louisville, CRI, Orion, Grenadilla, and Phoenix Records, among others.

Husa’s String Quartet No. 3 received the 1969 Pulitzer Prize, and his Cello Concerto the 1993 Grawemeyer Award; Music for Prague 1968 - with over 7000 performances worldwide - has become part of the modern repertory. On 13 February 1990, Husa realized a long-time dream when he conducted the orchestral version of Music for Prague 1968 in Prague. Another well-known work of his, Apotheosis of This Earth, is called by Husa a "manifest" against pollution and destruction. Among other works, Husa has composed The Trojan Women, a ballet commissioned by the Louisville Ballet and Orchestra; Recollections for Wind Quintet and Piano, commissioned to celebrate the 200th anniversary of friendly relations between the United States and Holland and premiered in October 1982 at the Library of Congress in Washington DC; and Concerto for Wind Ensemble, performed in December 1982 and recipient of the first Sudler prize in 1983.

Some of Husa’s more recent works include a Violin Concerto (1993), commissioned for the 150th Anniversary of the New York Philharmonic and premiered by concertmaster Glenn Dicterow; the String Quartet No. 4 (1991), commissioned for the consortium of Colorado, Alard, and Blair Quartets by the National Endowment for the Arts; the Concerto for Orchestra (1986), commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and Zubin Mehta; and two works premiered during the 1987-1988 season: Concerto for Organ

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