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Composers |
| Name of the author: |
MENNIN, PETER |
| Year of Birth: |
1923 |
| Year of death: |
1983 |
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Name: Mennin, Peter (Pseudonyme): *: 1923 in: Erie, Pennsylvania +: 1983 in: New York
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Zu Mennin's Arbeiten gehören Werke für Kammerorchester, Concertos für Violine und Piano, Kantaten und Lieder, sowie sieben Sinfonien. Peter Mennin's musikalische Laufbahn begann nach seinen Studien am "Oberlin Conservatory" und der "Eastman School of Music" als Fakultätsmitglied der "Juilliard School of Music" und später als Direktor des "Peabody Conservatory of Music" in Baltimore.
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Peter Mennin attended the Oberlin Conservatory and the Eastman School of Music, where he studied composition with Bernard Rogers and Howard Hanson. He taught composition at the Juilliard School of Music (1947-1958) and was director of the Peabody Conservatory (1958-62). From 1962 until his retirement, he served as president of Juilliard. Mennin was one of the important New York-school American composers of the mid-20th century that included Copland, Harris, Persichetti, Thomson, and Schuman. Generally acknowledged as musically conservative, he was primarily a symphonist, and a composer of concertos, string quartets and sonatas.
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