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Lukas Foss (born Lukas Fuchs, August 15, 1922 in Berlin, Germany) is an American composer, conductor, pianist, and professor. Events 778 - The Battle of Roncevaux Pass, at which Roland is killed Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance Conducting is the act of directing a Musical performance by way of visible gestures He studied with Julius Goldstein. He moved to Paris in 1933 where he studied piano with Lazare Lévy, composition with Noël Gallon, orchestration with Felix Wolfes, and flute with Louis Moyse. Lazare Lévy ( January 18, 1882 – September 20, 1964) was a French pianist composer and teacher who toured throughout Europe, in Louis Moyse ( August 14 1912 - July 30 2007) was a famous French Flute player and composer In 1937 he moved to America and studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, with Sergei Koussevitzky during the summers from 1939 to 1943 at the Berkshire Music Center, and, as a special student, composition with Paul Hindemith at Yale University from 1939 to 1940. The Curtis Institute of Music is a conservatory in Philadelphia Pennsylvania that offers courses of study leading to a performance Diploma Bachelor of Music Philadelphia (ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə WikipediaWikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes -->Dr The Tanglewood Music Center is an annual summer music academy in Lenox Massachusetts, United States, in which emerging professional musicians participate in performances Paul Hindemith (16 November 1895 &ndash 28 December 1963 was a German Composer, Violist, violinist teacher music theorist and conductor.

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Works for Solo Piano

Foss's solo piano music forms a relatively small part of his composition output. Still, it demonstrates, as a whole, his lighter, neoclassical stylistic practice and associated techniques. This repertoire spans a 50-year period from 1938 to 1988 and includes eight works:

1. Grotesque Dance (1938) 2. Four Two-Voiced Inventions (1938) 3. Passacaglia (1941) 4. Fantasy Rondo (1946) 5. Prelude in D (1951) 6. Scherzo Ricercato (1953) 7. Solo (1981) 8. For Lenny [Variation on New York, New York] (1988)

The piece that stands apart from this largely neoclassical repertoire is Solo (1981), a hybrid minimalist and twelve-tone work employing as a guiding technical principle the gradual transformation of several pitch collections. At the conclusion of Solo, these pitch collections change from serial to tonal, effecting a remarkable surprise.

The world-premiere recording of Foss's complete extant piano works was released in 2002 by the Sonatabop. com recording label based in Milwaukee. This recording was completed in honor of Foss's 80th birthday; the project was conceived by pianist Daniel Beliavsky (b. 1978), who in collaboration with producers Donald Sipe (the owner and head of Sonatabop. com as well as Omicronarts. com) and Yuri Beliavsky recorded the repertoire in the summer of 2002. [1] It should be noted that Naxos's release of Foss's complete piano works dates from early 2005, over two years after Sonatabop's recording. Despite this chronology, Naxos inserted a false claim into the CD materials that its release is the first. [2] Several reviews make note of this discrepancy, including one by John France on the British music site MusicWeb-International, and one by Peter Grahame Woolf on another British site, Musical Pointers. These reviews may be read at:

[1] [2]

Orchestral and Chamber Works

His early works are neoclassical in style, using controlled improvisation and chance procedures with the twelve tone technique and serialism, while his later works are polystylistic. Improvisation (also called extemporization) is the practice of acting singing talking and reacting of making and creating in the moment and in response to the stimulus of Aleatory means "pertaining to luck" and derives from the Latin word alea, the rolling of Dice. Twelve-tone technique (also dodecaphony, especially in British usage twelve-note composition) is a method of musical composition devised by Arnold In Music, serialism is a technique for composition that uses sets to describe musical elements, and allows the manipulation of those Polystylism is the use of multiple styles or techniques of music and is seen as a Postmodern characteristic

Works (selected)
title movements date notes
1. Piano Concerto Number 1
  1. Allegro
  2. Andante
  3. Allegro
 1943 Originally a clarinet concerto, rewritten for piano and orchestra.
2. Piano Concerto Number 2
  1. Allegro sostenuto
  2. Adagietto
  3. Allegro vivace
 1949-1951, revised 1952 Modeled after Beethoven's Emperor Concerto. Ludwig van Beethoven ( English ˈlʊdvɪg væn ˈbeɪtoʊvən, 16 December 1770 &ndash 26 March 1827 was a German Composer and Pianist. The Piano Concerto No 5 in E-flat major, op 73 by Ludwig van Beethoven, popularly known as the "Emperor Concerto", was his last Piano concerto
3. The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County opera in two scenes premiered
18 May 1950
Indiana University		 libretto by Jean Karsavina, based on the short story by Mark Twain [3]
4. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30 1835 – April 21 1910 better known by the Pen name Mark Twain, was an American Humorist, satirist Griffelkin opera in three acts premiered
6 November 1956
NBC television		 libretto by A. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Reed after H. Foss
5. Time Cycle 1960
6. Introductions and Goodbyes a nine minute opera premiered
5 May 1960		 libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti [4]
7. Echoi 1963
8. Baroque Variations
  1. On a Handel Larghetto
  2. On a Scarlatti Sonata
  3. On a Bach prelude "Phorion"
 1967
9. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird 1978
10. Elegy for Anne Frank 1989 Composed to commemorate 60th birthday anniversary of Anne Frank. Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank ( (12 June 1929 – early March 1945 was a Jewish girl born in the city of Frankfurt am Main in Weimar Germany Includes optional narration.
11. Renaissance Concerto 1990

Notable Students

Alex Freeman
Matthew Guerrieri
Julian Wachner

Personal

References

  1. ^ Daniel Beliavsky
  2. ^ FOSS: Works for Solo Piano (Complete) recommended cd collection, cd review and cd details
  3. ^ Passenger list of the S. S. Volendam, port of New York, 21 September 1939. Passenger list of the S. S. Mauretania, port of New York, 15 October 1951. Revisiting 'The Prairie', The New Yorker, July 23, 2007.

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