Piano (Piano Solo)
SKU: HL.354338
For Solo Piano.
Composed by Richard
Wilson. Peermusic
Classical. Classical.
Softcover. Duration 600
seconds. Peermusic
Classical #70303-501.
Published by Peermusic
Classical (HL.354338).
ISBN 9781705107669.
UPC: 840126936964.
9.0x12.0x0.109
inches.
Richard
Wilson was born in
Cleveland on May 15,
1941. He studied piano
with Roslyn Pettibone,
Egbert Fischer, and
Leonard Shure, andcello
with Robert Ripley and
Ernst Silberstein. After
beginning composition
studies with Roslyn
Pettibone and Howard
Whittaker, he went on in
1959 to Harvard, studying
with Randall Thompson,
G.W. Woodworth, and
principally with Robert
Moevs, and graduating in
1963 magna cum laude.
Awarded the Frank
Huntington Beebe Award
for study abroad, he
continued studying piano
with Friedrich Wührer
in Munich, and
composition, again with
Moevs, in Rome, where he
also gave piano recitals.
Wilson joined the faculty
of Vassar College in
1966. He was appointed to
the Mary Conover Mellon
Professorship of Music
there in 1988, and he has
served three times as
chairman of the
Department of Music.
Wilson has been
commissioned by the San
Francisco Symphony, the
American Symphony, the
New Juilliard Ensemble,
the Koussevitzky
Foundation, the Fromm
Foundation, Chamber Music
America, the Chicago
Chamber Musicians, the
Walter W. Naumburg
Foundation, and the
Library of Congress. His
works have been heard in
such American musical
centers as New York,
Philadelphia, Washington,
Boston, Cleveland, and
Los Angeles and at the
Aspen Music Festival, but
also in London, Berlin,
Frankfurt, Zurich, Milan,
Amsterdam, Graz,
Leningrad, Stockholm,
Tokyo, Bogota, and a
number of Australian
cities. The recipient in
1992 of a Guggenheim
Fellowship, he was
awarded the Elise L.
Stoeger Prize of the
Chamber Music Society of
Lincoln Center in 1994,
the Academy Award from
the American Academy of
Arts and Letters in 2004,
and has served as
composer in residence
with the American
Symphony Orchestra since
1992. Wilson has been
praised by 21st Century
Music as a
“splendidly
talented and highly
accomplished composer
whose music rewards
seeking out†and by
the New York Sun as
“possessed of a
hard-won idiom that has
grown and developed over
the years into a probing
blend of wit, classic
form, modern harmony, and
impressionistic
color.†Writing in
the New Yorker, Andrew
Porter called his String
Quartet No. 3 a
“richly wrought and
unusual
composition,†while
the New York Times called
it “a work of
substance and
expressivity ... [that]
merits a place in the
active
repertory.â€.
Closure for solo piano
