Gardner Read
Born: 2nd January 1913, Evanston, Illinois, United States
Died: 10th November 2005, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, United States
Nationality: American
Gardner Read was an American composer and musical scholar.
His first musical studies were in piano and organ, and he also took lessons in counterpoint and composition at the School of Music at Northwestern University. In 1932 he was awarded a four-year scholarship to the Eastman School of Music (B.M. and M.M.), where he studied with Bernard Rogers and Howard Hanson. In the late 1930s he also studied briefly with Ildebrando Pizzetti, and Aaron Copland.
After heading the composition departments of the St.
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Jacques Ibert: Louisville Concerto - Gardner Read: Toccata Giocoso - Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky: Rhapsodic Variations for Tape Recorder and Orchestra
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Gardner Read: Symphony No. 4; Marcel Dick: Adagio and Rondo
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