Karl Korte is an American

United States

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 composer of contemporary classical music

Contemporary classical music

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He grew up in Englewood, New Jersey

Englewood, New Jersey

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. He attended the Juilliard School

Juilliard School

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, where he studied with Peter Mennin

Peter Mennin

Peter Mennin was an American composer and teacher. He directed the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, then for many years ran the Juilliard School, succeeding William Schuman in this role...

, William Bergsma

William Bergsma

-Biography:After studying piano with his mother, a former opera singer, and then the viola, Bergsma moved on to study composition; his most significant teachers were Howard Hanson and Bernard Rogers. Bergsma attended Stanford University for two years before moving on to the Eastman School of...

, and Vincent Persichetti

Vincent Persichetti

Vincent Ludwig Persichetti was an American composer, teacher, and pianist. An important musical educator and writer, Persichetti was a native of Philadelphia...

. He later studied composition with Otto Luening

Otto Luening

Otto Clarence Luening was a German-American composer and conductor, and an early pioneer of tape music and electronic music....

, Goffredo Petrassi

Goffredo Petrassi

Goffredo Petrassi was an Italian composer of modern classical music, conductor, and teacher. He is considered one of the most influential Italian composers of the twentieth century.-Life:...

, and Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...

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Korte taught at the University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas at Austin

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 from 1971 to 1997 and currently holds the rank of emeritus professor. From 1997 to 2000 he was a visiting professor at Williams College

Williams College

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 in Williamstown, Massachusetts

Williamstown, Massachusetts

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. He lives in Cambridge, New York

Cambridge, New York

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He has received many national and international awards for his work including two Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowship

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s (1959 and 1970), Fulbright

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 Awards to Italy and to New Zealand, and a Gold Medal from the Belgian Government in the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition

Queen Elisabeth Music Competition

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Selected works

• 1957 - Fantasy for violin and piano
• 1964 - Songs of Innocence (Blake), for women's voices and piano
• 1967 - Matrix - 7 for woodwind quintet, piano and percussion. Written for the New York Woodwind Quintet
  New York Woodwind Quintet
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• 1968 - Aspects of Love, for SATB and piano
• 1968 - Sappho Says, for mezzo soprano soloist with women's chorus, flute, and piano
• 1969 - Symphony No.3
• 1969 - Carols New Fashioned, for SATB and piano (optional guitar or harp)
• 1971 - Remembrances for flute and synthesized processed sound
• 1973 - Pale is This Good Prince (An Oratorio in memory of Jean Casadesus
  Jean Casadesus
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  ), for chorus, soprano, two pianos, percussion, and narrator
• 1982 - Music for a New Easter, for SATB chorus and brass or keyboard
• 1989 - Three Psalm Settings, for a cappella chorus
• 2001 - Four Songs of Experience (Blake), for women's voices, SSA, and piano
• 2001 - Holy Thursday (Blake), for SATB and piano
• 2002 - SHIKI (the Four Seasons), for chorus (SATB or SSA), soloists, and accompaniment by an electronic score created from fragments of koto, percussion, and other sounds.
• 2004 - Travelogues for Duo46 (violin and guitar) and Cello (Cyprus, Te Maori, Aki)
• 2004 - 2 Makams for Duo46 (violin and guitar)
• 2005 -The Time Is: for SATB chorus, soloists, keyboard and strings. Six songs on texts ranging from the American Revolution to the Women's Suffrage Movement to contemporary settings on the subject of ecology
  Ecology
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   by Eve Merriam
  Eve Merriam
  -Writing career:Merriam's first book was the 1946 Family Circle, which won the Yale Younger Poets Prize.Her book, The Inner City Mother Goose, was described as one of the most banned books of the time. It inspired a 1971 Broadway musical called Inner City and a 1982 musical production called Street...
  
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• 2007 - "Virtual Voices" for Duo46 (violin and guitar) and tape

External links

• Karl Korte official site