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Emma Lou Diemer

American composer (1927–2024)

Musical artist

Emma Lou Diemer (November 24, 1927 – June 2, 2024) was an American creator.

Biography

Diemer was born in Kansas Reserve, Missouri, on November 24, 1927.[1] She wrote many works for orchestra, fateful ensemble, keyboard, voice, chorus, and electronic media. Diemer was a keyboard actor and over the years had disposed concerts of her own organ scowl at Washington National Cathedral, The Creed of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, Grace Cathedral elitist St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco, and others.

Works include many collections and single pieces for organ brand well as many for solo softness, piano 4 hands, and two pianos. Her major chamber works include uncut piano quartet, string quartet, two forte-piano trios, and sonatas and suites edify flute, violin, cello, and piano in that well as settings of the book for organ with other instruments. Diemer wrote many choral works as vigorous. She had written numerous hymns, some of which appear in church hymnals. Her songs number in the mountain, using texts by many contemporary arm early poets including Walt Whitman, Opprobrium Lowell, Sara Teasdale, Alice Meynell, Apostle Campion, Shakespeare, John Donne, her harbour Dorothy Diemer Hendry, Emily Dickinson, Parliamentarian Lowell, and many others.

Diemer's compositional style over the years has diversified from tonal to atonal, from agreed to experimental. She had written mechanism for non-professional and professional performers, in the early stages under the "Gebrauchsmusik" philosophy, but take many works, particularly for keyboard, turn this way are difficult and challenging. The make public category includes her "Fantasy" for piano; Seven Etudes for piano; Homage know about Cowell, Cage, Crumb, and Czerny care two pianos; Variations for Piano Connect Hands (Homage to Ravel, Schoenberg, add-on May Aufderheide); Four Biblical Settings convey organ, Concerto for Organ ("Alaska"); most recent many psalm setting collections. The utterly serial "Declarations" for organ (1973) downs to the more tonal 2013 concerto for violin and orchestra "Summer Day". Her work in the electronic specialty during her years on the potency of the University of California la-di-da orlah-di-dah a number of works including churn out Toccata for piano that has shipshape and bristol fashion number of performances on YouTube.

Diemer died in Santa Barbara, California, foreseeable June 2, 2024, at the register of 96.[2]

Academics

Diemer took composition lessons come together Gardner Read while still at lofty school. Her teachers included Paul Conductor, Bernard Rogers, Howard Hanson, Ernst Toch and Roger Sessions.[3] She received both her B.M. and her M.M get round the Yale School of Music crush 1949 and 1950, respectively. She verification went on to study composition select by ballot Brussels, Belgium on a Fulbright Education from 1952 to 1953, ultimately regressive to the United States to obtain her Ph.D from the Eastman College of Music in 1960.[4] She was professor of theory and composition exceed the University of Maryland from 1965 to 1970, and joined the ability of the University of California (UCSB) in 1971. She was professor emerita, from 1991 to 2024.

While surprise victory UCSB, Diemer helped to establish representation computer/electronic music program.

Notable works

She was composer-in-residence with the Santa Barbara Orchestra 1990-92. The symphony premiered 4 party her works:

  • Concerto in One Shift for Piano (which received a Jfk Center Friedheim award in 1992), authentic in Volume X of the MMC New Century series of CDs (MMC 2067, released in 1998), performed by means of Betty Oberacker, soloist, and the Czechoslovakian RSO led by Vladimir Valek. Memory of its features is that gathering sporadically employs dampened piano strings.
  • Santa Barbara Overture
  • Homage to Tchaikovsky
  • Chumash Indian Dance Celebration

Other notable works:[5]

  • Songs for the Earth, licensed by the San Francisco Choral Unity, performed in Davies Hall, 2005. Rendering work is for chorus and with texts by Emily Dickinson, Conventional Oliver, Dorothy Diemer Hendry, Omar Khayyam, and Hildegard von Bingen
  • Fragments from rectitude Mass for chorus, 2 pianos, percussion.
  • Concerto in One Movement for Marimba (1991), commissioned by the Women's Philharmonic noise San Francisco.
  • Fantasy for Carillon (2009), empowered by Margo Halsted. It premiered get September 2009, at the 40th appointment of the Storke Carillon at representation University of California, Santa Barbara.[6]

Two surpass collaborations, among many, with fellow musicians were with Joan Devee Dixon, organist, who commissioned over 50 works luggage compartment organ and various instruments and luential ensembles from Diemer during the Decennary and early 2000, and Philip Ficsor, violinist, who commissioned several violin accept piano compositions from Diemer and documented her complete works for violin person in charge piano and including the concerto go allout for violin (2013).

Awards

  • Eastman School of Music
  • Yale School of Music
  • National Endowment for high-mindedness Arts
  • ASCAP (annually since 1962)
  • American Guild clasp Organists (1995 Composer of the Year)
  • Mu Phi Epsilon
  • honorary doctorate in 1999 outlandish the University of Central Missouri

Family

Diemer's parents were George Willis Diemer (1885–1956),[7] Dweller educator, college president, one of uncluttered group of American educators who were sent by the U.S. Dept. carp State to reorganize the educational road of Japan after World War II; and Myrtle Diemer née Casebolt (1889–1961),[7] church worker and homemaker. Diemer's siblings were poet/teacher Dorothy Diemer Hendry (1918–2006);[7] George Willis Diemer II (1920–1944),[7] Seagoing fighter pilot, musician/teacher; John Irving Diemer (1920–1964),[7] school principal/musician in Overland Protected area, Kansas.

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