Joseph Schwantner
Born: 22nd March 1943, Chicago, USA
Nationality: American
Joseph Clyde Schwantner is an American composer, educator and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2002. He was awarded the 1970 Charles Ives Prize.
Schwantner is prolific, with many works to his credit. His style is coloristic and eclectic, drawing on such diverse elements as French impressionism, African drumming, and minimalism. His orchestral work Aftertones of Infinity received the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Music.
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- ...and the mountains rising nowhere (3)
- ...And The Mountains Rising Nowhere (8)
- A Play of Shadows (3)
- A Sudden Rainbow (1)
- Aftertones of Infinity (1)
- Angelfire (1)
- Beyond Autumn (1)
- Black Anemones (8)
- Chasing Light… (1)
- Consortium I for flute, clarinet, violin, viola & cello (1)
- Consortium IV for winds, strings & percussion "In Aeternum" (1)
- Distant Runes and Incantations (2)
- Dream Drapery 'Thoreau Songs' (1)
- Elixir (1)
- From a Dark Millennium (3)
- From Afar--A Fantasy, for guitar & orchestra (4)
- In Evening's Stillness… (2)
- Looking Back (3)
- Luminosity (1)
- Morning's Embrace (1)
- Music of Amber (3)
- New Morning for the World: Daybreak of Freedom (1)
- Percussion Concerto (9)
- Recoil (5)
- September Canticle (1)
- Silver Halo (1)
- Soaring (3)
- Sparrows (2)
- Taking Charge (2)
- Two Poems of Agueda Pizarro (1)
- Veiled Autumn (Kindertodeslied) (1)
- Velocities (3)
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