George Crumb
Born: 24th October 1929, Charleston, West Virgina, U.S.A
Nationality: American
George Henry Crumb Jr. was an American composer of avant-garde contemporary classical music. Early in his life he rejected the widespread modernist usage of serialism, developing a highly personal musical language which "range[s] in mood from peaceful to nightmarish". Crumb's compositions are known for pushing the limits of technical prowess by way of frequent use of extended techniques. The unusual timbres he employs evoke a surrealist atmosphere which portray emotions of considerable intensity with vast and sometimes haunting soundscapes. His few large-scale works include Echoes of Time and the River (1967), which won the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Music, and Star-Child (1977), which won the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition; however, his output consists of mostly music for chamber ensembles or solo instrumentalists.
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George Crumb (1929-2022)
8th Feb 2022
The American composer, whose major works include Black Angels, Vox Balaenae and Ancient Voices of Children, has died aged 92.
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- 3 Early Songs (5)
- A Haunted Landscape (6)
- A Journey Beyond Time (American Songbook II) (1)
- A Little Midnight Music (4)
- An Idyll for the Misbegotten (4)
- Ancient Voices of Children (4)
- Apparition (7)
- Black Angels (13)
- Celestial Mechanics (Makrokosmos IV) (3)
- Cello Sonata (25)
- Dance Of The Moon in Santiago (1)
- Dream Images (2)
- Dream Sequence (5)
- Easter Dawning (1)
- Echoes of Time and the River (2)
- Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik (4)
- Eleven Echoes of Autumn (Echoes I) (1965) (5)
- Federico's Little Songs for Children (3)
- Five Pieces for Piano (9)
- Four Nocturnes (5)
- Gnomic Variations (7)
- Golliwog Revisited (from Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik) (1)
- Kronos-Kryptos (1)
- Let it be forgotten (from Three Early Songs) (1)
- Little Suite for Christmas, AD1979 (14)
- Lux Aeterna (4)
- Madrigals, Books I-IV (6)
- Makrokosmos I (Twelve fantasy-pieces after the zodiac for amplified piano) (12)
- Makrokosmos I: The Magic Circle of Infinity (1)
- Makrokosmos II (Twelve fantasy-pieces after the zodiac for amplified piano) (16)
- Makrokosmos III (Music for A Summer Evening) (11)
- Makrokosmos IV (Celestial Mechanics) (10)
- Makrokosmos Vol. I: No. 11, Dream Images (Love-Death Music) (1)
- Makrokosmos, Vol. II: IV. Twin Suns (1)
- Metamorphoses, Book I (3)
- Metamorphoses, Book II (1)
- Mundus Canis 'A Dog's World' (4)
- Night Music I (4)
- Night Music II (1)
- Night of the Four Moons (1969) (4)
- Otherworldly Resonances (2002) for Two Amplified Pianos (2)
- Pastoral Drone (2)
- Processional (15)
- Put My Little Shoes Away (2)
- Quest (5)
- Songs of Despair and Hope (A Cycle of Afro-American Spirituals) (1)
- Songs of Strife, Love, Mystery and Exultation (A Cycle of American Civil War Songs, Folk Songs and Spirituals) (1)
- Songs, Drones, and Refrains of Death (6)
- Songs, Drones, and Refrains of Death: Death-Drone II (1)
- Star-Child (5)
- Sun and Shadow (1)
- The Ghosts of Alhambra (Spanish Songbook I) (3)
- The River of Life (1)
- The Sleeper (7)
- The Yellow Moon of Andalusia (1)
- Three Early Songs (11)
- Unto the Hills (2)
- Variazioni for Orchestra (1959) (5)
- Voices from a Forgotten World (American Songbook V) (1)
- Voices from the Heartland (American Songbook VII) (1)
- Voices from the Morning of the Earth (American Songbook VI) (2)
- Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) (14)
- Wanderer - Fantasy (2)
- Wind Elegy (1)
- Winds of Destiny (American Songbook IV) (1)
- Yesteryear (2)
- Zeitgeist (4)
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