Alan Hovhaness
Born: 8th March 1911, Somerville, U.S.A
Died: 21st June 2000, Seattle, U.S.A
Nationality: American
Alan Hovhaness was an American composer. He was one of the most prolific 20th-century composers, with his official catalog comprising 67 numbered symphonies (surviving manuscripts indicate over 70) and 434 opus numbers. The true tally is well over 500 surviving works, since many opus numbers comprise two or more distinct works.
The Boston Globe music critic Richard Buell wrote: "Although he has been stereotyped as a self-consciously Armenian composer (rather as Ernest Bloch is seen as a Jewish composer), his output assimilates the music of many cultures. What may be most American about all of it is the way it turns its materials into a kind of exoticism.
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Popular Works: Hovhaness
- Achtamar (3)
- Alleluia and Fugue, Op. 40b, for String Orchestra (7)
- And God Created Great Whales, Op. 229 No. 1 (5)
- Celestial Fantasy (5)
- Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 17 (3)
- Concerto No. 2 for Guitar and Strings, Op. 394 (3)
- Concerto No. 7 for Orchestra, Op. 116 (3)
- Duet for Violin and Harpsichord (3)
- Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints (3)
- Floating World, Op. 209 'Ukiyo' (3)
- Four Bagatelles, Op. 30 (9)
- Ghazal No. 1, Op. 36 No. 1 (3)
- Komachi, Op. 240 (2)
- Lousadzak (Coming of Light) - concerto for piano and strings (2)
- Love Song Vanishing into Sounds of Crickets, Op. 327 (3)
- Magnificat for four solo voices, chorus & orchestra, Op. 157 (5)
- Meditation on Orpheus, Op. 155 (4)
- October Mountain, Op. 135 (3)
- Prayer of Saint Gregory, Op. 62b (18)
- Prelude And Quadruple Fugue For Orchestra, Op. 128 (7)
- Shalimar, Op. 177 (2)
- String Quartet No. 2, Op. 147 (3)
- String Quartet No. 2, Op. 147: Suite (2)
- String Quartet No. 3, Op. 208 No. 1 'Reflections on my Childhood' (3)
- Symphony No. 2 'Mysterious Mountain', Op. 132 (12)
- Symphony No. 4, Op. 165 (3)
- Symphony No. 20 ‘Three Journeys to a Holy Mountain', Op. 223 (3)
- Symphony No. 22, Op. 236 'City of Light' (4)
- Symphony No. 23 'Ani', Op. 249 (2)
- Symphony No. 29 for trombone & band, Op. 289 (3)
- Symphony No. 48, Op. 355 "Vision of Andromeda" (3)
- Symphony No. 50, Mount St.Helens, Op. 360 (5)
- Symphony No. 53 ‘Star Dawn', Op. 377 (5)
- Symphony No. 63, ‘Loon Lake’, Op. 411 (2)
- Tapor, Op. 14 (2)
- The Flowering Peach, Op. 125 (3)
- The Garden of Adonis, Suite for flute and harp, Op. 245 (2)
- The Lord's Prayer, Op. 35 (2)
- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Op. 308 (4)
- Yakamochi, Op. 193 No. 2 (2)
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