The
Composers
Charles Wuorinen
(1938- )
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Charles Wourinen was born on June 9, 1938 in New
York City. He began writing music when he was five and in 1970, at age
32, he became the youngest composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music
for his electronic work Time's Encomium. In 1962, he co-founded
The
Group for Contemporary Music. Wourinen has served on the faculties
of the University of Iowa, The State University of New York at Buffalo,
The New England Conservatory of Music, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia. He
is currently Professor of Composition at Rutgers University. Works
include: and Orchestral and Electronic Exchanges (1965); Percussion
Symphony (1976); Tashi (1976); Two Part Symphony (1978);
Third
Piano Concerto (1983);
Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra (1983);
Genesis (1989);
Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra
(1992); The Mission of Virgil (1993); Symphony 7 (1997);
and Cyclops (2000). He has also composed the comic opera The
W. of Babylon, Reliquary for Igor Stravinsky, and the The
Dante Trilogy, a series of a series of three ballets for the New York
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