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lCharles Wuorinen Charles Wuorinen (born June 9, 1938 in New York City) is an American composer. Co-founder of The Group for Contemporary Music, Wuorinen writes serial instrumental music. Some of his pieces are influenced by fractal geometry and Benoît Mandelbrot, while his later works feature some tonal relationships. In 1970, Wuorinen was the youngest composer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, for the electronic piece Time's Encomium. He is also the author of Simple Composition, ISBN 0-938856-06-5, which he says is, "written by a composer and is addressed to other composers - intending or actual, amateur or professional." Thus it is similar in intent to certain older books on the subject like Thomas Morley's "A Plain and Easie Introduction to Practical Musicke" (1597), for instance. It outlines present practice, and while it can be used for purely didactic purposes, it can also be employed in composing "real" music. According to The New York Times, "Charles Wuorinen has taken the decrees of 12-tone music and made them sing."[citation needed] Wuorinen is a graduate of Columbia University and Trinity School. He studied with Stefan Wolpe. Recordings of his pieces include the album Lepton. Works Eleven Short Pieces - 2006 Iridule - 2006 Spin 5 - 2006 Eighth Symphony (Theologoumena) - 2006 Never Again the Same - text by James Tate - 2006 Flying to Kahani - 2005 Heart Shadow - 2005 Theologoumenon - 2005 Duo Sonata for Flute and Piano - 2004 Visible - text by Paul Auster - 2004 Ashberyana - text by John Ashbery - 2004 The Long Boat - text by Stanley Kunitz - 2003 Dodecadactyl- 2003 The Haroun Piano Book - 2003 Fourth Piano Concerto - 2003 The Haroun Songbook - 2002 Hexadactyl - 2002 Josquiniana - 2002 Fifty Fifty - 2002 Pentecost: text by Derek Walcott - 2002 Fenton Songs II - text by James Fenton September 11, 2001 - text by W. H. Auden. 2001 Two Machine Portraits - text by Les Murray Haroun and the Sea of Stories - libretto by James Fenton, based on the novel by Salman Rushdie - 2001)[1] Andante Espressivo - 2001 Alap, a Prelude to Contrapunctus IX of the Art of Fugue - 2001 Stanzas Before Time text by John Ashbery - 2001 Buttons and Bows (or, Superparticular Variations) - 2001 Cyclops (2000) - 2001 Fourth String Quartet - 2000 Brass Quintet - 1999 An Orbicle of Jasp - 1999 Lepton - 1999 Symphony Seven - 1997 Cello Variations III - 1997 Big Epithalamium - 1997 Epithalamium - 1997 Fenton Songs (Version 1) - 1997 Fenton Songs (Version 2) - 1997 Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31 of Arnold Schoenberg: recast for two pianos by Charles Wuorinen - 1996 The River of Light - the third part of the Dante trilogy - 1996 Katz Fugue - 1996 The Great Procession - the second part of the Dante trilogy - 1995 Sonata for Guitar and Piano -1995 Lightenings VIII - text by Seamus Heaney - 1994 Piano Quintet - 1994 Christes Crosse (after Thomas Morley) - 1994 Percussion Quartet - 1994 Guitar Variations - 1994 Windfall - 1994 The Mission of Virgil - the first part of the Dante trilogy - 1993 Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra - 1993 Missa Renovata - 1992 Saxophone Quartet - 1992 Microsymphony - 1992 A Winter's Tale - text by Dylan Thomas - 1991 Delight of the Muses - 1991 Missa Brevis - 1991 Astra - 1990 Twang - text of Wallace Stevens - 1989 String Sextet - 1989 A solis ortu - 1989 Genesis - 1989 Agnus Dei (from the Mass for the Restoration of St. Luke in the Fields) - 1989 Sonata for Violin and Piano - 1988 Machault Mon Chou - 1988 Josquin: Ave Christe (Josquin motet recast for solo piano) - 1988 Bagatelle - 1988 Another Happy Birthday - 1988 Five: Concerto for Amplified Cello and Orchestra - 1987 Third String Quartet - 1987 Galliard - 1987 Third Piano Sonata - 1986 A Doleful Dompe on Deborah's Departure as well as Borda's Bawdy Badinage - 1986 Fanfare (for Rutgers University) - 1986 The Golden Dance - 1986 Bamboula Beach - 1986 Horn Trio Continued - 1985 Double Solo for Horn Trio - 1985 Natural Fantasy - 1985 Trombone Trio - 1985 Prelude to Kullervo - 1985 Movers and Shakers - 1984 Bamboula Squared - 1984 Concertino (for 15 Solo Instruments) - 1984 Crossfire - 1984 Album Leaf (for Howard Klein) - 1984 Concertino - 1984 Third Piano Concerto - 1983, premiered by Albany Symphony Orchestra, Julius Hegyi conductor, Garrick Ohlsson solist Spinoff - 1983 Piano Trio - 1983 Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra - 1983 Divertimento for String Quartet - 1982 New York Notes - 1982 Divertimento for Alto Saxophone and Piano - 1982 Mass for the Restoration of St. Luke in the Fields - 1982 Horn Trio - 1981 Capriccio - 1981 Short Suite - 1981 Trio for Bass Instruments - 1981 The Blue Bamboula - 1980 The Celestial Sphere (An Oratorio for Mixed Chorus and Orchestra) - 1980 Ecclesiastical Symphonies (4 Movements from "The Celestial Sphere") - 1980 Beast 708 - 1980 Percussion Duo - 1979 Second String Quartet - 1979 The Magic Art: An Instrumental Masque drawn from the works of Henry Purcell - 1979 Fortune - 1979 Psalm 39 - 1979 Joan's Instrumentation - 1979 Three Songs for Tenor and Piano - text by Coburn Britton- 1979 Archeopteryx - 1978 Two-Part Symphony - 1978 Ancestors - 1978 Fast Fantasy - 1977 The Winds - 1977 Self-Similar Waltz - 1977 Six Pieces for Violin and Piano - 1977 Archangel - 1977 Wind Quintet - 1977 Album Leaf for Ayda and Fred - 1977 Six Songs For Two Voices - Text by Coburn Britton - 1977 Percussion Symphony - 1976 Second Piano Sonata - 1976 Tashi - 1975/6 Cello Variations II - 1975 Hyperion - 1975 A Reliquary for Igor Stravinsky - 1975 The W. of Babylon, (or The Triumph of Love over Moral Depravity) - 1975 Fantasia - 1974 Second Piano Concerto (for Amplified Piano and Orchestra) - 1974 Anthem for Epiphany - 1974 Third Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano - 1973 Twelve Short Pieces - 1973 Grand Union - 1973 Mannheim 87.87.87 - 1973 Arabia Felix - 1973 Bassoon Variations - 1972 Concerto for Amplified Violin and Orchestra - 1972 Speculum Speculi - 1972 Violin Variations - 1972 Harp Variations - 1972 On Alligators - 1972 First String Quartet -1971 Grand Bamboula - 1971 Canzona - 1971 Tiento Sobre Cabezon - 1971 Chamber Concerto for Tuba with 12 Winds and 12 Drums - 1970 Message to Denmark Hill - text of Richard Howard - 1970 Ringing Changes - 1970 A Song to the Lute in Musicke - 1970 Cello Variations - 1970 Nature's Concord - 1969 Time's Encomium - 1969 Adapting to the Times - 1969 First Piano Sonata - 1969 The Long and the Short - 1969 Contrafactum - 1969 Flute Variations II - 1968 String Trio - 1968 The Politics of Harmony (A Masque) - 1967 Duo - 1967 Janissary Music - 1966 The Bells - 1966 Bicinium - 1966 Making Ends Meet - 1966 Harpsichord Divisions - 1966 First Piano Concerto - 1966 Salve Regina: John Bull - 1966 Composition for Oboe and Piano - 1965 Orchestral and Electronic Exchanges - 1965 Chamber Concerto for Oboe and 10 Players - 1965 Chamber Concerto for Flute and 10 Players - 1964 Composition for Violin and 10 Instruments - 1964 Super Salutem - 1964 Chamber Concerto for Cello and 10 Players - 1963 Piano Variations - 1963 Flute Variations I - 1963 Second Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano - 1962 Bearbeitungen ueber das Glogauer Liederbuch - 1962 Octet - 1962 The Prayer of Jonah - 1962 Duuiensela - 1962 Invention for Percussion Quintet - 1962 Symphonia Sacra - 1961 Description: voices and instruments - 1961 Evolutio: Organ - 1961 Concert for Double Bass Alone - 1961 Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano - 1961 Evolutio Transcripta - 1961 Madrigale Spirituale sopra salmo secondo - 1960 Consort of Four Trombones - 1960 Concertone for Brass Quintet & Orchestra - 1960 The Door In The Wall - 1960 On The Raft - 1960 Eight Variations for Flute and Harpsichord - 1960 Sonata for Flute and Piano - 1960 Turetzky Pieces - 1960 Symphony No. 3 - 1959 Movement for Wind Quintet -1958 Be Mery All That Be Present - 1957 Music for Orchestra - 1956 Sonatina for Woodwind Quartet - 1956 Two Lute Songs of Thomas Campion - 1956 Prelude and Fugue for Four Percussionists - 1955 Fanfare (for the Houston Symphony) In Heated Sylvan Glades & With Elegiac Sackbuts Simple Composition (book) Three Cadenzas for the Mozart Concerto in C Major |
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