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Joseph Schwantner
(1943- )
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Joseph Schwantner was born in Chicago.
He studied music at the Chicago Conservatory and received his doctorate
in 1968 from Northwestern University. He has taught at the Eastman School
of Music and Julliard. He is currently on the faculty at the
Yale School of Music. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1979
for Aftertones of Infinity and Grammy nominations for best contemporary
classical composition in 1985 and 1987. Works include: In Aeternum II
(1972); Canticle of the Evening Bells (1975); Elixir (1976); Wild Angels
of the Open Hills, "a cycle of five songs," (1978); Sparrows (1980); Two
Poems of Agueda Pizarro (1980); Music of Amber (1981);A Sudden Rainbow
(1986); Toward Light (1987); Veiled Autumn (Kindertodeslied) (1987); Velocities
(Moto Perpetuo) for Solo Marimba (1990); A Play of Shadows (1990); Concerto
for Percussion and Orchestra (1994); "Evening Land" Symphony (1995); In
Memories Embrace... (1996); and Beyond Autumn "Poem" for Horn and
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