Donald Keats
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Donald H. Keats (May 27, 1929 – April 27, 2018) was an American composer, teacher, and pianist.
Biography
Keats attended
Fulbright scholar (1954–55, renewed 1955-56). He also studied composition at Yale with Henry Cowell
.
He taught at
Aspen School of Music and was Visiting Professor at the University of Washington from 1969 to 1970. He died on April 27, 2018, at the age of 88.[1]
Important works
- Symphony No.2: (An) Elegiac Symphony[2] (1964)
- Piano Sonata (1971)[3]
- String Quartet #1
- String Quartet #2
- Keats considers his First Symphony as an important piece; both it and his Elegiac Symphony won Rockefeller Foundation-sponsored competitions, resulting in performances by the Kansas City Philharmonic and the Seattle Symphonyrespectively
- Principal Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Notable students
References
- ^ Donald Keats
- ^ Rosen, Jerome and Michael Meckna: "Donald Keats - Symphony No.2: Elegiac Symphony", Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed [1 April 2008]), <http://www.grovemusic.com Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine>
- ^ Donald Keats (University of Denver)
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