Howard Hanson
John-Michael Albert
Amer. composer and educator, of Swed. descent. Studied comp. with
Goetschius in NY. Won Amer. Prix de Rome, 1921, spending 3 years at
Amer. Acad. in Rome. In 1924 became dir. of Eastman Sch. of Mus.,
Rochester, NY, holding this post for 40 years. Est. Amer. fests. at
Rochester in 1925 at which hundreds of works by Amer. composers have
received f.ps. dir. of Insitute of Amer. Mus., Rochester Univ., from
1964. Known as 'the American Sibelius', his mus. reflects a similar
romantic outlook firmly rooted in tonality. His book Harmonic Materials
of Modern Music (NY 1960) shows his grasp of contemporary technical
devices. Prin. works:
Orchestra
Symphony No. 1 (Nordic) 1921
Symphony No. 2 (Romantic) 1930
Symphony No. 3 1938
Symphony No. 4 (Requiem) 1943
Symphony No. 5 (Sinfonia Sacra) 1955
Symphony No. 6 (1968)
Symphony No. 7 (Sea) with chorus (1977)
Lux aeterna symphonic poem with va. obbl. 1923
organ conc. 1926
Pan and the Priest, symphonic poem with pf. obbl. 1926
pf. conc. 1948
Mosaics (1958)
Summer Seascape (1958)
Summer Seascape II (1966)
Bold Island Suite (19610
Opera
Merry Mount (3 acts, NY Met. 1933)
Choral
Lament for Beowulf 1925
Heroic Elegy 1927
3 Songs from Drum Taps 1935
Song for Democracy 1957
Song of Human Rights 1963
New Land, New Covenant 1976
Chamber Music
piano quintet 1916
string quartet 1923
Also works for piano and songs [another poster has notes his works for
band]
[Oxford Dictionary of Music, 1985]
The works I have heard most often are the Symphony No. 2 and Overture
from Merry Mount.
lawrence fabian stoffel
: Dos anybody know some works from Howard HANSON?
: He wrote by example a symphony called "Sea Symphony" after a text from
: Walt Whitman (like Vaughan-Williams).
: T.S.
for concert band:
"Chorale and Alleluia" (1954)
"Merry Mount Suite" incidental music from the opera (1964)
"Dies Natalis"
"Laude"
"March Carillon"
"Young Person's Guide to the 6-tone Scale"
also of note:
Hanson received the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for his 4th Symphony
Larry Stoffel
Indiana University