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Darius Milhaud (September 4, 1892 – June 22, 1974) was a French composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
 and teacher. He was a member of Les Six
Les Six

Les Six is a name, inspired by The Five, given in 1923 by critic Henri Collet in an article titled ?Les cinq Russes, les six Fran?ais et M. Satie? to a group of six composers working in Montparnasse whose music is often seen as a reaction against Richard Wagner and Impressionist Music....
 - also known as the Groupe des Six - and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are particularly noted as being influenced by jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 and for their use of polytonality
Polytonality

The musical use of more than one key simultaneity is polytonality. Bitonality is the use of only two different keys at the same time.A well-known, controversial example is the fanfare at the beginning of the second tableau of Igor Stravinsky's ballet, Petrushka....
 (music in more than one key
Key (music)

In music theory, the term key is used in many different and sometimes contradictory ways. A common use is to speak of music as being "in" a certain key, such as in the key of C or in the key of F-sharp....
 at once).

to a Jewish family in Aix-en-Provence
Aix-en-Provence

Aix or Aix-en-Provence , to distinguish it from other cities built over hot springs, is a communes of France in southern France, some north of Marseille....
, Milhaud studied in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 at the Paris Conservatory where he met his fellow group members Arthur Honegger
Arthur Honegger

Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les Six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam engine locomotive....
 and Germaine Tailleferre
Germaine Tailleferre

Germaine Tailleferre was a France composer and the only female member of the famous Group Les Six....
.






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Darius Milhaud (September 4, 1892 – June 22, 1974) was a French composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
 and teacher. He was a member of Les Six
Les Six

Les Six is a name, inspired by The Five, given in 1923 by critic Henri Collet in an article titled ?Les cinq Russes, les six Fran?ais et M. Satie? to a group of six composers working in Montparnasse whose music is often seen as a reaction against Richard Wagner and Impressionist Music....
 - also known as the Groupe des Six - and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are particularly noted as being influenced by jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 and for their use of polytonality
Polytonality

The musical use of more than one key simultaneity is polytonality. Bitonality is the use of only two different keys at the same time.A well-known, controversial example is the fanfare at the beginning of the second tableau of Igor Stravinsky's ballet, Petrushka....
 (music in more than one key
Key (music)

In music theory, the term key is used in many different and sometimes contradictory ways. A common use is to speak of music as being "in" a certain key, such as in the key of C or in the key of F-sharp....
 at once).

Biography

Born to a Jewish family in Aix-en-Provence
Aix-en-Provence

Aix or Aix-en-Provence , to distinguish it from other cities built over hot springs, is a communes of France in southern France, some north of Marseille....
, Milhaud studied in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 at the Paris Conservatory where he met his fellow group members Arthur Honegger
Arthur Honegger

Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les Six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam engine locomotive....
 and Germaine Tailleferre
Germaine Tailleferre

Germaine Tailleferre was a France composer and the only female member of the famous Group Les Six....
. He studied composition
Musical composition

Musical composition is:* an original piece of music* the musical form of a musical piece* the process of creating a new piece of music...
 under Charles Widor and harmony
Harmony

In Western music, harmony is the use of different pitches simultaneously, and chord s, actual or implied, in music. The word is related to the word "harmonic" which implies related wavelengths of waves....
 and counterpoint
Counterpoint

In music, counterpoint is the relationship between two or more Register that are independent in contour and rhythm, and interdependent in harmony....
 with André Gédalge
André Gedalge

Andr? Gedalge , was an influential France composer and teacher....
. In addition he studied privately with Vincent d'Indy
Vincent d'Indy

Paul Marie Th?odore Vincent d'Indy was a French composer and teacher....
. As a young man he worked for a while in the diplomatic entourage of Paul Claudel
Paul Claudel

Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculpture Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholic faith....
, the eminent poet and dramatist, who was serving as ambassador
Ambassador

An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents their country. They are usually accredited to a Sovereignty or government, or to an international organization, to serve as the official representative of their country....
 to Brazil
Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
.

On a trip to the United States in 1922, Darius Milhaud heard "authentic" jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 for the first time, on the streets of Harlem
Harlem

Harlem is a Neighbourhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, long known as a major African-American residential, cultural, and business center....
,

which left a great impact on his musical outlook. Using some jazz movements, the following year, he finished composing "La création du monde
La Création du Monde

The composition "La cr?ation du monde", opus 81a is a 20-minute-long ballet with music composed by Darius Milhaud, in 1922-1923,which outlines the Creation of the World, based on African folk mythology....
" ("The Creation of the World"), which was cast as a ballet
Ballet

Ballet is a formalized type of performative dance, the origins of which date lay in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France courts, and which was further developed in England, Italy, and Russia as a concert dance form....
 in six continuous dance scenes.

He left France in 1939 and emigrated to America in 1940 (his Jewish background made it impossible for him to return to his native country until after the Liberation
Military history of France during World War II

The military history of France during World War II covers the period from 1939 until 1940, which witnessed French military participation under the Third Republic, and the period from 1940 until 1945, which was marked by colonial struggles between Vichy France and the Free French Forces under the command of Charles de Gaulle, fighting in Europ...
); he secured a teaching post at Mills College
Mills College

Mills College is an independent Liberal arts colleges in the United States Women's colleges in the United States founded in 1852 that offers bachelor's degrees to women and graduate degrees and certificates to women and men....
 in Oakland, California
Oakland, California

Oakland , founded in 1852, is the eighth-largest city in the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Alameda County, California. Oakland is approximately 8 miles east of San Francisco and the cities are separated by San Francisco Bay....
. Legendary jazz pianist Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck

David Warren Brubeck , better known as Dave Brubeck, is an United States Jazz piano. Regarded as a jazz icon, he has written a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke"....
 arguably became Milhaud's most famous student when Brubeck furthered his music studies at Mills College in the late 1940s (he named his eldest son Darius).

Milhaud (like his contemporaries Paul Hindemith
Paul Hindemith

Paul Hindemith was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and Conducting....
, Gian Francesco Malipiero
Gian Francesco Malipiero

Gian Francesco Malipiero was an Italy composer, musicologist, music teacher and Editing....
, Bohuslav Martinu
Bohuslav Martinu

Bohuslav Martinu He became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, and taught music in his home town. In 1923 Martinu left Czechoslovakia for Paris, and deliberately withdrew from the Romantic style in which he had been trained....
 and Heitor Villa-Lobos
Heitor Villa-Lobos

Heitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin American composer of all time....
) was an extremely rapid creator, for whom the art of writing music seemed almost as natural as breathing. His most popular works include Le Boeuf sur le Toit
Le Boeuf sur le Toit

Le Boeuf sur le toit, op. 58 is a surrealist ballet made on a score composed by Darius Milhaud which was in turn strongly influenced by Brazilian popular music....
 (ballet), La création du monde
La Création du Monde

The composition "La cr?ation du monde", opus 81a is a 20-minute-long ballet with music composed by Darius Milhaud, in 1922-1923,which outlines the Creation of the World, based on African folk mythology....
 (a ballet for small orchestra
Orchestra

An orchestra is an Musical ensemble, usually fairly large with string, brass, woodwind sections, and possibly a percussion section as well. The term orchestra derives from the name for the area in front of an theatre of ancient Greece reserved for the Greek chorus....
 with solo saxophone
Saxophone

The saxophone is a conical-Bore transposing instrument musical instrument considered a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and are played with a Single-reed instrument mouthpiece similar to the clarinet....
, influenced by jazz), Scaramouche (for Saxophone and Orchestra, also for two piano
Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
s), and Saudades do Brasil (dance suite). His autobiography is titled Notes Sans Musique (Notes Without Music), later revised as Ma Vie Heureuse (My Happy Life).

From 1947 to 1971 he taught alternate years at Mills and the Paris Conservatoire, until poor health, which caused him to use a wheelchair during his later years (beginning sometime before 1947), compelled him to retire. He died in Geneva
Geneva

Geneva is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie . Situated where the Rh?ne River exits Lake Geneva , it is the capital of the Canton of Geneva....
, aged 81.

Works

Note that the following list represents only a tiny proportion of Milhaud's output; his opus list ended at 443.

Operas

  • La brebis égarée op. 4 (1910-14)
  • Esther de Carpentras op. 89 (1910-14, premiere 1925)
  • Agamemnon op. 14, 'incidental music' for singers (Orestiean Trilogy No. 1) (1913-14)
  • Les Choëphores op.24 , 'incidental music' for singers (Orestiean Trilogy No. 2) (1915)
  • Les euménides op. 41, 'opera' (Orestiean Trilogy No. 3) (1917-23)
  • Les Malheurs d'Orphée opus 85 (1924, premiere 1926)
  • Le Pauvre Matelot
    Le pauvre matelot

    Le pauvre matelot is a three act opera composed by Darius Milhaud with libretto by Jean Cocteau. Its first performance was at the Op?ra-Comique on December 16, 1927....
     op. 92 (Jean Cocteau
    Jean Cocteau

    Jean Maurice Eug?ne Cl?ment Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright and filmmaker. Along with other Surrealists of his generation Cocteau grappled with the "algebra" of verbal codes old and new, mise en sc?ne language and technologies of modernism to create a paradox: a classical avant-garde....
    ) (1926)
  • L'enlèvement d'Europe op. 94 (Opéra-minutes No. 1) (1927)
  • L'abandon d'Ariane
    L'abandon d'Ariane

    L'abandon d'Ariane Op. 98 is an opera in one act by Darius Milhaud to a French libretto by Henri Hoppenot, based on Greek mythology. It is the second of three Op?ras-Minutes that Milhaud composed....
     op. 98 (Opèra-Minutes No. 2) (1927)
  • Le Délivrance de Thésée op. 99 (Opèra-Minutes No. 3) (1927)
  • Christophe Colomb
    Christophe Colomb

    Christophe Colomb is an opera in two parts by the France composer Darius Milhaud. The libretto, by the poet Paul Claudel, is based on his own play Le livre de Christophe Colomb about the life of Christopher Columbus....
     op. 102 (Paul Claudel
    Paul Claudel

    Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculpture Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholic faith....
    ) (1928, revised 1968)
  • Maximilien op. 110 (Hoffman after Franz Werfel
    Franz Werfel

    Franz Werfel was an Austrian people-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet....
    ) (1930)
  • Opéra du Gueux op.131, ballad opera after John Gay
    John Gay

    John Gay was an English people poet and dramatist. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera , set to music by Johann Christoph Pepusch....
    's The Beggar's Opera
    The Beggar's Opera

    The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay. It is one of the watershed plays in Augustan drama and is the only example of the once thriving genre of satirical ballad opera to remain popular today....
     (1939)
  • Médée op. 191, text by Madeleine Milhaud
    Madeleine Milhaud

    Madeleine Milhaud was the cousin and the wife of Darius Milhaud, a 20th-century French-Jewish composer.Madeleine Milhaud was born in Paris. Her father, Darius' uncle, was from Aix-en-Provence, and her mother from Brussels....
     (his wife and cousin) (1938)
  • Bolivar op. 236 (Jules Supervielle
    Jules Supervielle

    Jules Supervielle was a French poet and writer born in Uruguay.Jules Supervielle always kept away from Surrealism which was dominant in the first half of the twentieth century....
    )(1943)
  • David op. 320 (1952-3, 1954 (concert in Jerusalem) 1955 (staged at La Scala
    La Scala

    The Teatro alla Scala , in Milan, Italy, is one of the world's most famous opera houses. The theatre was inaugurated on 3 August 1778, under the name Nuovo Regio Ducal Teatro alla Scala with Antonio Salieri Europa riconosciuta....
    ))
  • Fiesta op. 370 (Boris Vian
    Boris Vian

    Boris Vian was a France polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered today for his novels....
    )(1958)
  • La Mère coupable
    La mère coupable

    La m?re coupable is an opera in three acts, op.412, by Darius Milhaud to a libretto by Madeleine Milhaud after The Guilty Mother in Beaumarchais? Beaumarchais#The_Figaro_plays....
     op. 412, after Beaumarchais' play
    The Guilty Mother

    The Guilty Mother subtitled "The Other Tartuffe" is the third play of the Figaro Trilogy by Pierre Beaumarchais. It is rarely revived these days....
     (1964)
  • Saint-Louis, roi de France opera-oratorio op. 434 (Claudel) (1970)


Ballets

  • L'Homme et son désir, Op. 48, for four wordless singers, solo wind, percussion, and strings
  • Le Boeuf sur le Toit
    Le Boeuf sur le Toit

    Le Boeuf sur le toit, op. 58 is a surrealist ballet made on a score composed by Darius Milhaud which was in turn strongly influenced by Brazilian popular music....
    , Op. 58 (1919)
  • La création du monde
    La Création du Monde

    The composition "La cr?ation du monde", opus 81a is a 20-minute-long ballet with music composed by Darius Milhaud, in 1922-1923,which outlines the Creation of the World, based on African folk mythology....
    , Op. 81, for small orchestra (1923)
  • Polka (1927; for the children's ballet L'Éventail de Jeanne
    L'Éventail de Jeanne

    L'?ventail de Jeanne is a children's ballet choreographed in 1927 by Alice Bourgat and Yvonne Franck.The music was by ten France composers, each of whom contributed a stylised dance in classic form:...
    , to which ten French composers each contributed a dance)

Orchestral

  • Little Symphony No. 1, Op. 43 'le printemps'
  • Little Symphony No. 2, Op. 49 'Pastorale'
  • Little Symphony No. 3 'Sérénade', Op. 71
  • Little Symphony No. 4, Op. 74 'Dixtour'
  • Little Symphony No. 5, Op. 75 'Dixtour d'instruments à vent'
  • Little Symphony No. 6, Op. 79
  • Symphony No. 1 Op.210
  • Symphony No. 2 Op.247
  • Symphony No. 3 'Te Deum' Op.271
  • Symphony No. 4 'composée á l'occasion de Cenetaire de la Revolution de 1848' Op. 281
  • Symphony No. 5 Op.322
  • Symphony No. 6 Op.343
  • Symphony No. 7 Op.344
  • Symphony No. 8 'Rhodanienne' Op. 362
  • Symphony No. 9 Op.380
  • Symphony No. 10 Op.382
  • Symphony No. 11 'Romantique' Op. 384
  • Symphony No. 12 'Rurale' Op.390
  • "Protee" Suite symphonique Nr.2, Op.57 (1919)
  • Serenade en trois parties, Op.62 (1920/1921)
  • Saudades do Brasil, Op. 67 (1920/21), initially for piano, arr. for orchestra
  • Suite provençale, Op. 152b, for orchestra (1937)

Concertante

Piano
  • Cinq Études pour piano et orchestre, Op. 63 (1920)
  • 5 Concertos for piano and orchestra (1933-1955)
  • Le Carnaval d'Aix, Op. 83b, fantasy for piano and orchestra (1926)
Violin
  • 3 Concertos for violin and orchestra
Viola
  • Concerto No. 1, Op. 108, for viola and orchestra (1929)
  • Concerto No. 2, Op. 340, for viola and orchestra (1954–1955)
  • Concertino d'été, Op. 311, for viola and chamber orchestra (1951)
Cello
  • Concerto No. 1, Op. 136, for cello and orchestra (1934)
  • Concerto No. 2, Op. 255, for cello and orchestra (1945)
Other
  • Scaramouche, for alto saxophone and orchestra (1937), for clarinet and orchestra (1939)
I. Vif II. Modéré III. Brazileira
  • Concerto pour batterie et petit orchestre, Op. 109, concerto for percussion and small orchestra
  • Concerto pour Marimba, Vibraphone et orchestre"
  • Concertino d'hiver, Op. 327, for trombone and string orchestra (1953)
  • Duo Concertant pour Clarinette et Piano (1956)
  • Concerto pour Clarinette et orchestre Op.230


Winds

  • Suite française, Op. 248 (1944)
  1. Normandie
  2. Bretagne
  3. Île de France
  4. Alsace-Lorraine
  5. Provence


  • West Point Suite, Op. 313 (1954)
  • Deux Marches, Op. 260 (1946)
  • Introduction et Marche funèbre
  • La Cheminée du Roi René
    La Cheminée du roi René

    La Chemin?e du roi Ren? , op. 205, is a suite in seven movements for wind quintet, composed in 1939 by the French composer Darius Milhaud....
     (Woodwind Quintet)


Piano

  • Printemps (1915-1920)
  • Le bœuf sur le toit, for two pianos (1919)
  • "Saudades do Brasil" (1920)
  • Scaramouche, for two pianos (1941), arrangement of the original theatre music for saxophone and orchestra
  • La muse menagere
  • 2 Sonates
  • Sonatine
  • "Les Songes" (for piano duo)


Solo Guitar

  • Segoviana, Op. 366 (1957)


Chamber


Works for Duo
  • Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 3 (1911)
  • Le printemps, for violin and piano, Op. 18 (1914)
  • Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 40 (1917)
  • Sonatina, for flute and piano, Op. 76 (1922)
  • Impromptu, for violin and piano, Op. 91 (1926)
  • 3 caprices de Paganini, for violin and piano, Op. 97 (1927)
  • Sonatina, for clarinet and piano, Op. 100 (1927)
  • Sonatina, for two violins, Op. 221 (1940)
  • Sonatina, for violin and viola, Op. 226 (1941)
  • 4 visages, for viola and piano, Op. 238 (1943)
  • Viola Sonata No. 1, Op. 240 (1944)
  • Viola Sonata No. 2, Op. 244 (1944)
  • Élégie, for viola and piano, Op. 251 (1945)
  • Danses de Jacaremirim, for violin and piano, Op. 256 (1945)
  • Sonata, for violin and harpsichord, Op. 257 (1945)
  • Duo, for two violins, Op. 258 (1945)
  • Farandoleurs, for violin and piano, Op. 262 (1946)
  • Sonatina, for violin and cello, Op. 324 (1953)
  • Caprice, Danse, Églogue, for clarinet/sax/flute and piano, Op. 335 (1954)
  • Sonatina, for oboe and piano, Op. 337 (1954)
  • Duo Concertante, for clarinet and piano, Op. 351 (1956)
  • Cello Sonata, Op. 377 (1959)
  • Sonatina, for viola and cello, Op. 378 (1959)


Works for Trio
  • Sonata, for two violins and piano, Op. 15 (1914)
  • Pastorale, for oboe, clarinet, and bassoon, Op. 147 (1935)
  • Suite, for clarinet, violin, and piano, Op.157b (1936)
  • Suite d’après Corrette, for oboe, clarinet, and bassoon, Op. 161 (1937)
  • Sonatine à 3, for string trio, Op. 221b (1940)
  • String Trio, Op. 274 (1947)
  • Piano Trio, Op. 428 (1968)


Works for String Quartet
  • String Quartet No. 1, Op. 5 (1912)
  • String Quartet No. 2, Op. 16 (1914-15)
  • String Quartet No. 3 (with solo voice), Op. 32 (1916)
  • String Quartet No. 4, Op. 46 (1918)
  • String Quartet No. 5, Op. 64 (1920)
  • String Quartet No. 6, Op. 77 (1922)
  • String Quartet No. 7, Op. 87 (1925)
  • String Quartet No. 8, Op. 121 (1932)
  • String Quartet No. 9, Op. 140 (1935)
  • String Quartet No. 10 "Birthday Quartet", Op. 218 (1940)
  • String Quartet No. 11, Op. 232 (1942)
  • String Quartet No. 12, Op. 252 (1945)
  • String Quartet No. 13, Op. 268 (1946)
  • String Quartet No. 14, Op. 291/1 (1948-49)
  • String Quartet No. 15, Op. 291/2 (1948-49)
    • The 14th and 15th string quartets can be performed separately as well as simultaneously as a string octet. For another example of a composer writing works for simultaneous performance, see 19th century composer Pietro Raimondi
      Pietro Raimondi

      Pietro Raimondi was an Italy composer, transitional between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras. While he was famous at the time as a composer of operas and sacred music, he was also as an innovator in counterpoint technique as well as in creation of gigantic musical simultaneities....
      .
  • String Quartet No. 16, Op. 303 (1950)
  • String Quartet No. 17, Op. 307 (1950)
  • String Quartet No. 18, Op. 308 (1950)
  • Homage à Igor Stravinsky, Op. 435 (1971)
  • 3 études sur des thèmes du Comtat Venaissin, for string quartet, Op. 442 (1973)


Other Works for 4 or More Players
  • Quintet No. 1, for piano and string quartet, Op. 312 (1950)
  • Quintet No. 2, for string quartet and double-bass, Op. 316 (1952)
  • Quintet No. 3, for string quartet and 2nd viola, Op. 325 (1953)
  • Quintet No. 4, for string quartet and 2nd cello, Op. 350 (1956)
  • Sonata, for two violins and piano, Op. 15 (1914)
  • String Sextet, Op. 368 (1958)
  • String Septet, Op. 408 (1964)
    • The second movement of the septet, entitled 'Etude in controlled chance' is a rare example of Milhaud embracing aleatoric compositional devices.
  • Piano Quartet, Op. 417 (1966)
  • Wind Quintet, Op. 443 (1973)


Solo Vocal

  • Machines agricoles, Op. 56, for one singer and 7 instruments, with texts taken out of a catalogue for agricultural machines (1919)
  • Cataloque des fleurs, Op.60, for one voice and 7 instruments (1920)


Choral
  • Chateau du feu, Op.337, Cantate, In memory of Jews killed during the war by the Nazis.
  • Psaume 121, for men's choir, written for the Harvard Glee Club
    Harvard Glee Club

    The Harvard Glee Club is a 60-voice, all-male choir ensemble at Harvard University. Founded in 1858 in music in the tradition of English and American glee club, it is the oldest college chorus in the US....
     after their 1921 tour of Europe.


Notable students

  • Larry Austin
    Larry Austin

    Larry Austin is a United States composer noted for his electronic and computer music works. He was a co-founder and editor of the avant-garde music periodical Source: Music of the Avant Garde....
  • Burt Bacharach
    Burt Bacharach

    Burt Bacharach is an United States pianist and composer. He is best known for his many pop hits from the early 1960s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David, many of which were produced for and recorded by Dionne Warwick....
  • Louis W. Ballard
    Louis W. Ballard

    Louis W. Ballard was a Native Americans in the United States composer, educator, author, artist, and journalist.Ballard, who was of Cherokee, Quapaw, French and Scottish heritage, was born in the Native American community of Devil's Promenade, located near Quapaw, Oklahoma, in northeast Oklahoma....
  • Irwin Bazelon
    Irwin Bazelon

    Irwin Bazelon was an United States composer of contemporary classical music.Bazelon obtained bachelor's and master's degrees from DePaul University....
  • William Bolcom
    William Bolcom

    William Elden Bolcom is an United States composer and piano. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, three Grammy Awards, and the Detroit Music Award....
  • Dave Brubeck
    Dave Brubeck

    David Warren Brubeck , better known as Dave Brubeck, is an United States Jazz piano. Regarded as a jazz icon, he has written a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke"....
  • Edvard Hagerup Bull
    Edvard Hagerup Bull (composer)

    Edvard Hagerup Bull is a Norwegian composer.He was born in Bergen as the son of Sverre Hagerup Bull and his wife Aldis Jebsen. His paternal grandfather was politician and judge Edvard Hagerup Bull....
  • Roger Calmel
    Roger Calmel

    Roger Calmel was a France composer. His nearly 400 works span every genre, from chamber music to opera.Originally from Languedoc, he undertook his first musical studies in Beziers, in particular with Paul Fouquet....
  • Charles Dodge
    Charles Dodge

    Charles Dodge may refer to:* Charles Cleveland Dodge, Brigadier General during the American Civil War at the age of twenty-one* Charles Dodge , composer of electronic music...
  • Pierre Max Dubois
    Pierre Max Dubois

    Pierre Max Dubois is a French composer of european classical music. He was a student of Darius Milhaud, and though not widely popular, was respected....
  • Don Freund
  • Philip Glass
    Philip Glass

    Philip Glass is an American music composer. He is considered one of the most influential composers of the late-20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public ....
     (During a summer camp where he challenged Aaron Copland
    Aaron Copland

    Aaron Copland was an American classical music composer of concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as "the dean of American composers." Copland's music achieved a balance between modernism music and American folk styles....
    's opinion)
  • John Heiss
  • Stanley Hollingsworth
    Stanley Hollingsworth

    Stanley Walker Hollingsworth was an United States composer and teacher. He was a student of composer Darius Milhaud from 1944-46, and of Gian Carlo Menotti from 1948-50....
  • Ben Johnston
    Ben Johnston

    Benjamin Burwell Johnston, Junior is a composer of contemporary music in the just intonation system....
  • György Kurtág
    György Kurtág

    Gy?rgy Kurt?g is a Hungary composer of contemporary music....
  • Eugene Kurtz
    Eugene Kurtz

    Eugene Allen Kurtz was an United States composer of contemporary classical music.He received an M.A. in music from the Eastman School of Music in 1949....
  • Vincent McDermott
    Vincent McDermott

    Vincent McDermott is a classically trained American composer and ethnomusicologist. His works show particular influence from the musics of South Asia and Southeast Asia, particularly the gamelan music of Java....
  • Steve Reich
    Steve Reich

    File:Steve Reich2.jpgStephen Michael Reich is an United States composer who pioneered the style of minimalist music. His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns , and the use of simple, audible processes to explore musical concepts ....
  • John Donald Robb
    John Donald Robb

    John Donald Robb was an American composer, ethnomusicologist, arts administrator, and attorney from New Mexico. He was a professor at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and served as Dean of the university's College of Fine Arts from 1942 to 1957....
  • Neil Rolnick
    Neil Rolnick

    Neil B. Rolnick is an American composer and educator living in New York City.Rolnick's compositions have appeared on 13 records and CDs. A pioneer in the use of computers in performance, he was a researcher at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique in Paris in the late 1970s....
  • Benjamín Gutiérrez Sáenz
  • Bill Smith
    Bill Smith (jazz musician)

    William O. Smith , better known as Bill Smith, is a United States jazz clarinetist. He played with Dave Brubeck, among others....
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen
    Karlheinz Stockhausen

    Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries....
     (though he left his studies early)
  • Morton Subotnick
    Morton Subotnick

    Morton Subotnick is an United States of America composer of electronic music, best known for his Silver Apples of the Moon, the first electronic work commissioned by a record company, Nonesuch Records....
  • Gloria Wilson Swisher
    Gloria Wilson Swisher

    Gloria Wilson Swisher is a composer and educator....
  • Lester Trimble
    Lester Trimble

    Lester Albert Trimble was an American music critic and composer of contemporary classical music.Encouraged by Schoenberg, who had seen some of his scores, Trimble entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology ....
  • Robert Washburn
    Robert Washburn

    Robert Washburn is a composer and educator. Washburn is Dean and Professor Emeritus and Senior Fellow in Music at the Crane School of Music of the State University of New York at Potsdam....
  • Iannis Xenakis
    Iannis Xenakis

    Iannis Xenakis was a Greeks modernist composer, musical theoretician, and architect. He is regarded as an important and influential composer of the twentieth century....


Media


Archival collections

  • There is a at Mills College
    Mills College

    Mills College is an independent Liberal arts colleges in the United States Women's colleges in the United States founded in 1852 that offers bachelor's degrees to women and graduate degrees and certificates to women and men....
     in California.
  • There is another at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City.
  • The , of the , in Berkeley, California
    Berkeley, California

    Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in Northern California, in the United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland, California and Emeryville, California....
     has librettos for Milhaud's opera, David, as well as a program for its American premiere, in Los Angeles, at the Hollywood Bowl, and photocopies of newspaper coverage in the B'nai B'rith Messenger of Los Angeles, of this event (1956) [WJHC Collection Number 1970.002].


External links

  • by Ronald Crichton
    Ronald Crichton

    Ronald Crichton was a music critic for the Financial Times in the 1960s and 1970s. He was a scion of the Earl of Erne.He was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, North Yorkshire....
    . Musical Times, August 1974.
  • by Daniella Thompson.
  • - Riccardo Caramella performs the Fantaisie pastorale, Suite Provencale, and Le carnaval d'Aix