Gardner Read

Gardner Read

Gardner Read (January 2, 1913 in Evanston, Illinois – November 10, 2005 in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts) was an American composer and musical scholar.

His first musical studies were in piano and organ, and he also took lessons in counterpoint and composition at the School of Music at Northwestern University. In 1932 he was awarded a four-year scholarship to the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Bernard Rogers and Howard Hanson. In the late 1930s he also studied briefly with Ildebrando Pizzetti, Jean Sibelius and Aaron Copland.

After heading the composition departments of the St. Louis Institute of Music, the Kansas City Conservatory of Music and the Cleveland Institute of Music, Read became Composer-in-Residence and Professor of Composition at the School of Music at Boston University. He remained in this post until his retirement in 1978.

His "Symphony No. 1", op. 30 (1937, premiered by Sir John Barbirolli) won first prize at the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society's American Composers' Contest, while his second symphony (op. 45, 1943) won first prize in the Paderewski Fund Competition. Another first prize came in the 1986 National Association of Teachers of Singing Art Song Competition, won by his "Nocturnal Visions", op. 145. He wrote one opera, "Villon", in 1967.

For many years, he was the organist and choirmaster of Church of Our Saviour, Brookline in the Longwood section of Brookline, Massachusetts. He composed extensively for the Episcopal service.

His book "Music Notation: A Manual of Modern Practice" is a standard text at most music schools and conservatories in the United States. It is considered by many to be a place of first (and last) authority when trying to determine the proper method of notating musical performance techniques, ideas and gestures.

Bibliography

*Dodd, Mary Ann, and Jayson Rod Engquist (1996). "Gardner Read: A Bio-Bibliography". Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-29384-8.

External links

* [http://home.att.net/~gardnerread/ Gardner Read official site]


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