Morton Gould

Morton Gould
Nazionalità	Stati Uniti
Genere	Musica contemporanea
Periodo di attività musicale	1935 – 1996

Premio Pulitzer nel 1995

Morton Gould (New York, 10 febbraio 1913 – Orlando, 21 febbraio 1996) è stato un compositore, pianista e direttore d'orchestra statunitense.

Biografia

Nato a New York, viene considerato un bambino prodigio quando a sei anni scrive le sue prime opere. Si è formato presso la Juilliard School. Durante la grande depressione ha lavorato come pianista in teatro. Dopo l'apertura della Radio City Music Hall, è diventato qui pianista. Ha lavorato anche in radio, presso la WOR (AM), e poi in televisione.

Ha composto e/o musicato diverse piece per Broadway tra cui Billion Dollar Baby e Arms and the Girl. Inoltre, per quanto riguarda le colonne sonore, ha realizzato tra l'altro quelle di Delightfully Dangerous (1945), Cinerama Holiday (1955) e Windjammer (1958).

Ha lavorato con le orchestre di tutti gli Stati Uniti, dal momento che i suoi lavori sono stati commissionati dalla Biblioteca del Congresso, dalla Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, dall'American Ballet Theatre, dal New York City Ballet e dal comitato dello United States Bicentennial.

Tra i riconoscimenti che ha ricevuto vi sono il Grammy Award alla carriera (2005), l'inserimento nella American Academy of Arts and Letters e il Pulitzer Prize for Music.

Onorificenze

Kennedy Center Honors

— 4 dicembre 1994

Opere

• Abby Variations (piano) (1964)
• A Capella (1987)
• Adeste Fidelis
• American Ballads, Settings of American Tunes for Orchestra (1976)
• American Caprice
• American Salute (1942)^[1][2]
• American Sing: Settings of Folk Songs (1984)
• American Symphonette no 2 (1939)
• American Youth March
• Americana
• The Anniversary Rag (piano) (1994)
• Apple Waltzes (In Tribute to George Balanchine) (7 movements from Audubon) (1969)
• At the Piano (1964)
• Audubon (Birds of America) (1969)
• Ballad for Band (1946)
• Battle Hymn (1950)
• Benny's Gig (1962)
• Big City Blues (1950)
• Boogie Woogie Etude (for piano and orchestra) (1943)
• Buckaroo Blues (1954)
• Burchfield Gallery (1978–1979)
• Café Rio (1957)
• Calypso Souvenir (1964)
• Celebration Strut for Orchestra (1981)
• 'Cellos (1984)
• Centennial Symphony, Gala for Band (1983)
• Cheers! — A Celebration March (1979)
• Christmas Time (1992)
• Cinerama Holiday: Suite (1955)
• Classical Variations on Colonial Themes (1984)
• Columbia: Broadsides for Orchestra (1967)
• Come Up From the Valley, Children (1964)
• Concertette for Viola and Band (1943)
• Concerto Concertante (for violin and orchestra) (1981–1982)
• Concerto for Flute (1984)
• Concerto for Orchestra (1944)
• Concerto for Piano (1938)
• Concerto for Viola (1943)
• Cowboy Rhapsody (1943)
• Dance Gallery
• Dance Variations for Two Pianos & Orchestra (1953)
• Dancing Days (1966)
• Declaration: Suite (1956)
• Derivations for Solo Clarinet and Band (1955)
• Deserted Ballroom (1936)
• Dialogues (for piano and orchestra) (1958)
• Diversions: for Tenor Saxophone and Orchestra (1990)
• Dixie (1949)
• Dramatic Fanfares from CBS-TV documentary “World War I” (orchestra) (1964)
• Duo for Flute and Clarinet (1982)
• Fall River Legend (1947)
• Family Album: Suite (1951)
• Fanfare for Freedom (1942)
• Festive Fanfare (1991)
• Festive Music (1964)
• Flares and Declamations (1987)
• Flourishes and Galop (1983)
• Folk Suite (1941)
• Formations (1964)
• Foster Gallery (1939)
• Ghost Waltzes (piano) (1991)
• Global Greetings for Symphonic Band (1994)
• Guajira (for clarinet and orchestra) (1949)
• Hail to a First Lady (1991)
• Hamma'ariv aravim (1947)
• Harvest (1945)
• Holiday Music (1947)
• Holocaust: Suite (from the NBC-TV series) (1978)
• Home for Christmas
• A Homespun Overture (1939)
• Hoofer Suite (for Tap Dancer and Orchestra) (1956)
• Hosedown: A Firefighter Fable (1995)
• Housewarming (1982)
• I'm Old Fashioned, The Astaire Variations (1983)
• Interplay (American Concertette) (for piano and orchestra) (1945)
• Inventions (for Four Pianos and Orchestra)(1953)
• It's A Living
• Jeeps and Peeps (1944)
• Jekyll and Hyde Variations (1956)
• Jericho
• Jingle Bells (1952)
• The Jogger and the Dinosaur (for rapper and orchestra) (1992)
• Latin-American Symphonette (Symphonette No. 4) (1940)
• Lincoln Legend (1942)
• Main Street March
• Main Street Waltz
• Mini-Suite for Band (1968)
• Minstrel Show (1946)
• Minute-Plus Waltz/Rag (1990)
• New China March
• No Longer Very Clear (for baritone or mezzo-soprano and piano) (1994)
• Notes of Remembrance (1989)
• Of Time and the River (1945)
• Parade (for Percussion) (1956)
• Patterns (piano) (1984)
• Philharmonic Waltzes (1948)
• Pieces of China (piano) (1985)
• Prelude and Toccata
• Prisms (1962)
• Quotations (1983)
• Rag Waltz (piano) (1984)
• Recovery Music (for Clarinet) (1984)
• Red Cavalry March
• Rhythm Gallery (1959)
• Saint Lawrence Suite for Band (1958)
• Salutations (1966)
• Santa Fé Saga (1956)
• Serenade of Carols (1949)
• Show Piece for Orchestra (1954)
• Something To Do—Labor Cantata (1976)
• Sonata No. 1 (piano) (1930)
• Sonata No. 2 (piano) (1932)
• Sonata No. 3 (piano) (1936)
• A Song of Freedom (1941)
• Soundings (1969)
• Spirituals in Five Movements (1941)
• Spirituals for String Orchestra and Harp (1959)
• StringMusic (1995)
• Suite (for Cello and Piano) (1981)
• Suite (for Violin and Piano) (1945)
• Symphonette No. 3 (Third American Symphonette)
• Symphonette No. 4 (Latin-American Symphonette) (1933)
• Symphonic Serenade (195?)
• Symphony No. 1 (1943)
• Symphony No. 2 "Symphony on Marching Tunes" (1944)
• Symphony No. 3 (1946)
• Symphony No. 4 "West Point" (1952)
• Symphony of Spirituals (1975)
• Tap Dance Concerto (1952)
• Ten for Deborah (piano) (1965)
• There Are (No) Children Here (1996)
• Troubadour Music (1969)
• Tuba Suite (1971)
• Two for Chorus (1966)
• Two Pianos (1987)
• Venice for Double Orchestra and Brass Choirs (1967)
• Vivaldi Gallery for String Quartet and Divided Orchestra (1968)
• Windjammer (1958)
• World War I: Selections (Musica per serie TV CBS) (1964)
• Yankee Doodle (1945)

Note

1. [1]^{[collegamento interrotto]} Chicago Tribune, August 16, 1942. Gould's "American Salute" was performed in Chicago.
2. [2] Goodman, Peter W. "Morton Gould: American Salute," Amadeus Press, 2003, page 138. ISBN 978-1-57467-055-4. Gould premiered "American Salute" on radio on "Cresta Blanca Carnival," on NBC, November 11, 1942. Retrieved September 18, 2010.

Voci correlate

• Celebrità della Hollywood Walk of Fame

Collegamenti esterni

• (EN) Morton Gould, su Enciclopedia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
• (EN) Opere di Morton Gould, su Open Library, Internet Archive.
• (EN) Morton Gould, su AllMusic, All Media Network.
• (EN) Morton Gould, su Discogs, Zink Media.
• (EN) Morton Gould, su MusicBrainz, MetaBrainz Foundation.
• (EN) Morton Gould, su IMDb, IMDb.com.
• (EN) Morton Gould, su Internet Broadway Database, The Broadway League.
• Profilo su Classical Archives, su classicalarchives.com.
• Profilo su Music Sales Classical, su musicsalesclassical.com. URL consultato il 10 giugno 2014 (archiviato dall'url originale il 14 luglio 2014).

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