Morton Gould

Morton Gould
Nazionalità	Stati Uniti
Genere	Musica contemporanea
Periodo di attività musicale	1935 – 1996
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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]^{[collegamento interrotto]} Chicago Tribune, August 16, 1942. Gould's "American Salute" was performed in Chicago.
^ [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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[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.

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