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John Corigliano (natural February 16, 1938) is an American composer of classical music. He occurs as previous student of Otto Luening, Vittorio Giannini, and Paul Creston. His students include Eric Whitacre, Elliot Goldenthal, Avner Dorman, Mason Bates, Jefferson Friedman, among others. Virtually all of Corigliano's operate has been for to the full philharmonic. He employs the wide kind of styles, for instance possibly inside the equivalent act, however aims to produce his operate accessible to a comparatively big audience. He has written trinity symphonies (orchestra, string orchestra, and wind band severally), concertos for clarinet, flute, violin, hautboy, & piano, film scores, various chamber works (including a string quartet), and an opera, The Ghosts of Versailles. Within 2001 he received the Pulitzer Prize for his Symphony No. Deuce for String Orchestra. His score for the motion picture The Red Violin won an Academy Award for best score. Within 1991 he was awarded a Grawemeyer Award for his Symphony There is no.Single. Corigliano comes from either the musical personal. His father was concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic for 23 years, & his mother played soft. He exposed composition at Columbia University and at the Manhattan School of Music.
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Sony Classical: John Corigliano A biography with a picture. Contains information on many of his works. G. Schirmer: John Corigliano Biography with a photograph and links to a work list, discography, articles, reviews, awards, and information about selected works. "Ghosts" Arrive in Europe Information about the opera "The Ghosts of Versailles." John Corigliano Upcoming performances. Corigliano, John (1938 - Living), United States Biographical data, recommended CDs, books and sheet music, bibliography, and link to biography. Corigliano, John Paul Biography showing his synthesis of Romantic and electronic elements in operatic, vocal, orchestral, and film music from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio. John Corigliano (1938-) List of song cycles at recmusic.org includes English texts of public domain lyrics. John Corigliano - mfiles listing An overview of the film music scores of John Corigliano. John Corigliano Filmography and biography with related links at IMDb. |
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