Robert Starer

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Robert Starer (8 January 1924[1] in Vienna – 22 April[2] 2001 in Kingston, New York) was an Austrian-born American composer, pianist and educator.[3]

Robert Starer began studying the piano at age 4 and continued his studies at the Vienna State Academy. After the 1938

British Royal Air Force, and in 1947 he settled in the United States. He studied composition at the Juilliard School in New York City with Frederick Jacobi,[4] then with Aaron Copland
in 1948 and received a postgraduate degree from Juilliard in 1949. Starer became an American citizen in 1957.

Robert Starer taught at the Juilliard School,

Graduate Center of the City University of New York where he became a distinguished professor in 1986. He was married, had one child, Daniel, and resided in Woodstock, New York until his death. He lived with writer Gail Godwin
for some thirty years; the two collaborated on several librettos.

Starer was prolific and composed in many genres. His music was characterized by

Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Leon Botstein
, conductor.

One of Starer's better-known pieces is Even and Odds for young pianists. He is also known for his pieces entitled Sketches in Color, as well as his sight-reading training manual, Rhythmic Training.

Among Starer's students was Talib Rasul Hakim.

Starer died on April 22, 2001, in Kingston New York, and he is buried in

Woodstock, Ulster County, New York
.

References

  1. ^ Music Information Center Austria
  2. ^ Gaylord Music Library Archived 2009-06-25 at the Wayback Machine Necrology:2001
  3. ISBN 0-394-55515-5
    .
  4. ISBN 978-1136790249
    .

Other sources

  • Jaques Cattell Press (Ed.): Who's who in American Music. Classical. First edition. R. R. Bowker, New York, 1983.
  • Darryl Lyman: Great Jews in Music. J. D. Publishers, Middle Village, New York, 1986.
  • Stanley Sadie, H. Wiley Hitchcock (Ed.): The New Grove Dictionary of American Music. Grove's Dictionaries of Music, New York, New York, 1986.

External links
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