Stefan Wolpe
Born: 25th August 1902, Berlin, Germany
Died: 4th April 1972, New York, U.S.A
Nationality: German
Stefan Wolpe was a German-born American composer. He was associated with interdisciplinary modernism, with affiliations ranging from the Bauhaus, Berlin agitprop theater and the kibbutz movement to the Eighth Street Artists' Club, Black Mountain College, and the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music. He lived and worked in Berlin (1902–1933) until the Nazi seizure of power forced him to move first to Vienna (1933–34) and Jerusalem (1934–38) before settling in New York City (1938–72). In works such as Battle Piece (1942/1947) and "In a State of Flight" in Enactments for Three Pianos (1953), he responded self-consciously to the circumstances of his uprooted life, a theme he also explored extensively in voluminous diaries, correspondence, and lectures. His densely eclectic music absorbed ideas and idioms from diverse artistic milieus, including post-tonality, bebop, and Arab classical musics.
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Popular Works: Wolpe
- Piece in Two Parts for Solo Violin (3)
- Adagio Nr. 5 (1920) (1)
- Anna Blume (2)
- Battle Piece (6)
- Dance in Form of a Chaconne (2)
- Displaced Spaces (2)
- Form for Piano (3)
- Form IV: Broken Sequences (3)
- Four Studies on Basic Rows (2)
- Hexachord Suite, Op. 24b (2)
- Lied, Anrede, Hymnus, Strophe zarteste Bewegung (3)
- March and Variations for two pianos (2)
- Marche characteristique (2)
- Music for a Dancer (2)
- Oboe Sonata Fragment (1)
- Palestinian Notebook (2)
- Passacaglia, Op. 23 (5)
- Pastorale (2)
- Piece for Oboe, Cello, Percussion and Piano (1955) (2)
- Piece for Oboe, Cello, Percussion and Piano, 'Oboe Quartet' (2)
- Piece in Two Parts for Flute and Piano (1959-1960) (1)
- Quintet with Voice (2)
- Rag Caprice (2)
- Second Piece for Violin Alone (5)
- Solo Piece for Trumpet (4)
- Sonata for Oboe and Piano (3)
- Sonata No. 1 "Stehende Musik" (3)
- Song, Speech, Hymn, Strophe (1939) (1)
- Songs Without Words (2)
- String Quartet (5)
- String Quartet, C. 170 (2)
- Symphony (2)
- Tango (7)
- The Good Spirit of a Right Cause (3)
- The Man from Midian (4)
- Trio in two parts (2)
- Variation (1923) (1)
- Violin Sonata (2)
- Waltz for Merle (2)
- Zemach Suite (4)
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