Richard Edward Wilson
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Education | Harvard University, Rutgers University |
Occupation(s) | Composer, pianist, professor |
Website | www |
Richard Edward Wilson (born May 15, 1941) is an American composer and pianist. Rejecting serialism, to some extent Wilson engages in tonality, though often with the use of considerable chromaticism.[1] His oeuvre includes orchestral, operatic, instrumental, and chamber music among other genres.
Life and career
Wilson was born in
Music
Richard Wilson's compositions are marked by a stringent yet lyrical atonality which often sets him apart from the established schools of modern American music:
Critical response
Wilson has been praised by 21st Century Music as a "splendidly talented and highly accomplished composer whose music rewards seeking out"
Writing in the
In a review of a recent concert, the
Honors
In 2004 Wilson received an Academy Award in Music from the
Works
Source:[1]
Orchestra
- (1970) Initiation [1]
- (1979) Violin Concerto [2]
- (1983) Bassoon Concerto [3]
- (1984) Symphony No. 1 [4]
- (1986) Symphony No. 2 [5]
- (1991) Piano Concerto [6]
- (1991) Articulations[7]
- (1994) Agitations[8]
- (1994) Triple Concerto [9]
- (1995) Pamietam[10]
- (1997) A Child's London[11]
- (1999) Intimations[12]
- (2003) Peregrinations[13]
- (2003) Silhouette with Revelry[14]
- (2004) Four Love Songs[15]
- (2006) Chamisha Tehillim[16]
- (2008) The Cello Has Many Secrets[17]
- (2010) Symphony No. 3
- (2010) Soundcheck
- (2021) Bravado
Works for mixed ensemble
- (1963) Suite for Five Players[18]
- (1964) Trio for Oboe, Violin and Cello [19]
- (1965) Fantasy and Variations[20]
- (1967) Concert Piece[21]
- (1969) Music for Violin and Cello[22]
- (1969) Quartet for Flutes, Bass, and Harpsichord [23]
- (1974) Wind Quintet [24]
- (1978) Serenade: Variations on a Simple March[25]
- (1979) Deux pas de Trois[26]
- (1980) Figuration[27]
- (1981) Short Notice[28]
- (1981) Gnomics[29]
- (1982) Character Studies[30]
- (1982) Dithyramb[31]
- (1983) Suite for Winds [32]
- (1984) Line Drawings[33]
- (1988) Contentions[34]
- (1989) Sonata for Viola and Piano [35]
- (1990) Affirmations[36]
- (1996) Three Interludes for Violin and Piano[37]
- (2000) Motivations[38]
- (2001) Canzona on YouTube[39]
- (2003) Piano Trio [40]
- (2005) Brash Attacks[41]
- (2005) Senza Furore[42]
- (2011) Speculation [43]
- (2011) Mixed Signals for Violin and Piano
- (2012) Quintet for Clarinet and Strings on YouTube
- (2014) Distractions, for six instruments on YouTube
- (2015) Reed Actions, for clarinet and bassoon
- (2015) Add Hocket, for percussion ensemble
- (2016) Outswappings, for clarinet quartet
- (2021) Not a Waltz, for flute and piano
- (2021) The World As It Is, for flute and piano
- (2021) Drastic Measures, for mixed ensemble
Works for string quartet
- (1969) String Quartet No. 1 [44]
- (1977) String Quartet No. 2 [45]
- (1982) String Quartet No. 3 [46]
- (1998, 2001) String Quartet No. 4 [47]
- (2008) String Quartet No. 5
- (2018) String Quartet No. 6
Works for solo piano
- (1963) Three Short Pieces for Piano[48]
- (1974) Eclogue[49]
- (1979) Sour Flowers
- (1984) A Child's London[50]
- (1985) Fixations[51]
- (1986) Intercalations[52]
- (2009) Mnemonics
- (2013) Charades
- (2017) Mimesis
- (2018) Disclosures
Works for solo instruments
- (1971) Music for Solo Cello[53]
- (1972) Music for Solo Flute[54]
- (1980) Profound Utterances[55]
- (1985) Flutations[56]
- (1987) Lord Chesterfield to His Son[57]
- (1988) Music for Solo Viola[58]
- (1989) Intonations[59]
- (1992) Civilization and Its Discontents[60]
- (1995) Touchstones[61]
- (2000) Ironies[62]
- (2004) Diablerie[63]
- (2003) Organicity[64]
- (2006) Gravitas[65]
- (2010) Lullaby for Sonya, for solo clarinet
- (2002/2017) Aethelred's Exit, for solo bass clarinet
- (2020) Four Solitudes for Solo Flute
- (2020) Four Solitudes for Solo English Horn
- (2020) Four Solitudes for Solo Violin
- (2020) Four Solitudes for Solo Viola
Works for voice
- (1975) The Ballad of Longwood Glen[66]
- (1980) A Theory[67]
- (1984) Three Painters[68]
- (1988) Tribulations[69]
- (1990) Persuasions[70]
- (1991) The Second Law[71]
- (1992) On the Street[72]
- (1995) Five Love Songs on Poems by John Skelton[73]
- (1996) Lights on the River[74]
- (1996) Transfigured Goat[75]
- (2000) Three Songs on Poems by John Ashbery[76]
- (2005) Visits to St. Elizabeth's [77]
- (2006) Three Songs on Poems by Paul Kane[78]
- (2006) I Walked Through the Medieval Town[79]
- (2009) Two Songs on Poems by Eamon Grennan
- (2009) Four Songs on Poems by John Updike
- (2012) With Lullay, Lullay Like a Child
- (2013) Miss Foggerty's Cake
- (2013) Psalm 42 in Gaelic on YouTube
- (2014) Limericks, for two sopranos on YouTube
- (2014) On The Death of Juan Gelman
- (2017) Obviously Quite Easy, for soprano and bassoon
- (2017) Puer Natus Est, for tenor and organ
- (2017) Come, My Celia, for soprano and piano
- (2017) Three Songs for Friends, for soprano and piano
- (2018) Words and Music: An Argument, for soprano, baritone, two clarinets and piano
- (2018) Fugue (Phillis Levin)
- (2018) Talking, Walking, Drifting (Sarah Plimpton)
- (2018) Katya’s Great Romance, for bass, cello and narrator (Michael Salcman)
- (2018) Wait Until Dusk (Joseph-Francis Meltzer)
- (2020) Market Women (Karen Swenson)
- (2020) In the Old School Yard (Carole Goodman)
- (2021) Boogie Woogie (Adam Zagajewski)
Works for choir
- (1968) A Dissolve[80]
- (1968) Can[81]
- (1968) Light in Spring Poplars[82]
- (1968, 1972) In Schrafft's[83]
- (1969) Soaking[84]
- (1970) Home From the Range[85]
- (1971) Elegy[86]
- (1972) Hunter's Moon[87]
- (1976) August 22[88]
- (1995) Poor Warren[89]
- (2013) Fables: Three Poems of Ennis Rees after Aesop
Opera
- (1994, 2001) Aethelred the Unready[90]
Concert band
Selected discography
- Richard Wilson: Brash Attacks Albany Records TROY 1080
- Richard Wilson: Diablerie Albany Records TROY 773
- Richard Wilson: String Quartets Albany Records TROY 573
- Richard Wilson: Aethelred the Unready Albany Records TROY 512
- Richard Wilson: Affirmations Albany Records TROY 389
- Richard Wilson: Symphony No. 1 Koch International Classics/ Peermusic Classical
- Stresses in the Peaceable Kingdom: The Choral Music of Richard Wilson Albany Records TROY 333
- Richard Wilson: Chamber Music Albany Records TROY 074
- Richard Wilson: String Quartet No. 3, Eclogue, et al. CRI/ New World Records NWCR602
- Richard Wilson: Bassoon Concerto CRI/ New World Records NWCR575
- Richard Wilson: Piano Concerto CRI/ New World Records NWCR618
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. (subscription or UK public library membershiprequired)
- ^ "Archive from Tuesday, November 29, 2016 - Concerts to celebrate the work of retiring music professor and composer Richard Wilson (12/10, 12/11) - News - Info - Vassar College".
- ^ Richard Wilson (March 8, 2011). "Irregular resolutions of one dominant seventh into another" (PDF). EUNOMIOS. Retrieved April 17, 2011.
- ^ David Cleary (April 1, 2001). "Affirming Richard Wilson" (PDF). 21st Century Music. Retrieved July 20, 2008.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on May 10, 2008. Retrieved July 21, 2008.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Bernard Holland (June 26, 2006). "Piano Performances Stand Out at Mannes College Festival". New York Times. Retrieved July 20, 2008.
- ^ Jennifer Caine (July 1, 2008). "Diablerie for Solo Violin". Strings Magazine. Archived from the original on February 3, 2013. Retrieved April 26, 2011.
Sources
- "Archive from Tuesday, November 29, 2016 - Concerts to celebrate the work of retiring music professor and composer Richard Wilson (12/10, 12/11) - News - Info - Vassar College".
- International Who's Who
- "Richard Wilson and His Music" by Bernard Jacobson
- "Richard Wilson," entry in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001), vol 27, p. 425.
- "Richard Wilson," entry in The New Grove Dictionary of American Music (1986), vol. 4, pp. 539–40.
- "Richard Wilson," entry in Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 5th edition with supplement (1971), ed. N. Slonimsky, p. 254.
- "Richard Wilson," entry in The Norton/Grove Concise Encyclopedia of Music (1994), ed. Stanley Sadie, p. 891.
- James Reel: "A Modernist with a Taste for the Premodern: Composer Richard Wilson" Fanfare, xxiv/4 (2001), 93–6, 98.
- Ping-Ting Lan: New Resources in Twentieth-Century Piano Music and Richard Wilson’s "Eclogue" (diss., U. of North Texas, 1974).
- Mary Frantz: Richard Wilson: The Solo Piano Works (diss., U. of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992).
External links
- General
- Official website
- Vassar College-- Richard Wilson, bio
- Peermusic Classical: Richard Wilson Composer's Publisher and Bio
- Discography
- Interview with Richard Wilson, April 22, 1991
- Performances of Wilson's works
- Wilson and Genualdi play Wilson's Mixed Signals on YouTube
- Wilson and Genualdi play Wilson's Three Interludes on YouTube
- DECODA performs Wilson's Clarinet Quintet on YouTube
- DECODA performs Wilson's String Quartet No. 2 on YouTube
- Patrick Connolly sings Wilson's Psalm 42 on YouTube
- Blustine, Shao, and Wilson play Figuration on YouTube
- Performances of other composers
- Richard Wilson and YouTube
- Wilson and Genualdi play Schubert Rondo in B minor on YouTube
- Wilson, Genualdi, and Shao play Beethoven Trio in E-flat, Opus 70 No. 2 on YouTube
- Richard Wilson and Joseph Genualdi play Brahms Sonata in G on YouTube
- Blanca Uribe and Richard Wilson play Agitations, as arranged by Fitz Patton on YouTube
- Shao and Wilson perform Schumann's Fantasy Pieces on YouTube