Udo Kasemets
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Udo Kasemets | |
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Born | Tallinn, Estonia | November 16, 1919
Origin | Tallinn |
Died | January 19, 2014 Toronto, Ontario | (aged 94)
Genres | Classical music |
Occupation(s) | Composer, conductor, pianist |
Years active | 1951–1987 |
Udo Kasemets (November 16, 1919 – January 19, 2014) was a Canadian composer of orchestral, chamber, vocal, piano and electroacoustic works. He was one of the first composers to adopt the methods of John Cage, and was also a conductor, lecturer, pianist, organist, teacher and writer.
Kasemets was born in Tallinn, Estonia, and trained at the Tallinn Conservatory and the Akademie der Musik in Stuttgart. In 1950, he attended the Kranichstein Institut für neue Musik in Darmstadt, where he became familiar with the music and philosophies of Ernst Krenek, Hermann Scherchen and Edgard Varèse.[1] He emigrated to Canada in 1951, and became a Canadian citizen in 1957.
From the 1950s, Kasemets was active in
In 1962–63, he organized Toronto's first new music series Men, Minds and Music, and established the
Kasemets' significant influences include
Kasemets lived in Toronto, Ontario.
Selected works
- Requiem Renga, for the victims of wars and violence in our time (1992) for fifteen strings and two percussionists, based on the Japanese renga chain poetry form.[3]
- Palestrina on Devil's Staircase, with Dis(Con)sonant Contrapuntal Connections (1993) for three violins, three cellos, and two sopranos, music based on the eponymous fractal and also commemorating the 400th anniversary of Palestrina's death in 1994.[1]
- The Eight Houses of the I-Ching (1993) for twelve strings[3]
References
- ^ OCLC 31909265, retrieved 2022-09-11
- ^ "Udo Kasemets – The Living Composers Project". composers21.com. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- ^ OCLC 1183539431, retrieved 2022-10-09)
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Further reading
- Steenhuisen, Paul. "Interview with Udo Kasemets". In Sonic Mosaics: Conversations with Composers. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-88864-474-9
- Tenney, James. "Citation for Udo Kasemets." MusicWorks (Spring 1995) : 62, 6–7.
- Kasemets, Udo. "Systems : Concise Summary of I Ching Systems. | I Ching Music John Cage and I Ching | I Ching and I." MusicWorks (Spring 1995) : 62, 7-21.
External links
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- Udo Kasemets at IMDb
- Keillor, Elaine (25 February 2015). "Udo Kasemets". The Canadian Encyclopedia (online ed.). Historica Canada.
- Archival papers and manuscripts at University of Toronto Music Library
- http://composers21.com/compdocs/kasemetu.htm at The Living Composers Project