Joseph Schwantner

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Born: 22 March 1943, Chicago, IL (USA)
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[details ←] And The Mountains Rising Nowhere Full Score
[details ←] Black Anemones Flute,
[details ←] Two Poems Of Agueda Pizarro S/pno Piano, Vocal,
[details ←] Aftertones of Infinity Piano, Percussion, Piccolo, English Horn,
[details ←] Sparrows (Full Score)
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[details ←] From a Dark Millenium
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[details ←] A Sudden Rainbow
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[details ←] Diaphonia Intervallum Piano, Bass, Flute, Saxophone, Violin, Viola, Cello, , sax, saxophone, , alto saxophone,
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Joseph Schwantner was born in Chicago and received his musical and academic training at the Chicago Conservatory and Northwestern University, completing a doctorate in 1968. Previously, he served on the Yale, Eastman and Juilliard faculties and is a member of the Boadr of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Schwantner was the fiirst composer-in-residence with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra as part of the Meet The Composer / Orchestra Residencies Program funded by the Exxon Corporation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

His work, Magabunda “four poems of Agueda Pizarro,” and A Sudden Rainbow, originally recorded on Nonesuch Records by the Saint Louis Symphony, each received a Grammy Award nomination in the category, Best New Classical Composition. Schwantner and his wife Janet currently live in Spofford, New Hampshire.

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