Allen Sapp
Composer
1922 – 1999
Who was Allen Sapp?
Allen Sapp was a composer of music for piano, voice, chamber and orchestral music.
He studied at Harvard University primarily with Walter Piston and Irving Fine, and privately with Nadia Boulanger and Aaron Copland. He joined the Harvard music faculty in 1948. After a brief appointment at Wellesley College he was appointed Chair of the music department at the University of Buffalo. While at Buffalo, Sapp presided over many significant projects promoting contemporary music and art, including the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts, and helped build a significant music faculty including the Budapest String Quartet, musicologists Jeremy Noble and James McKinnon, and music librarians James B. Coover and Carol June Bradley. He also served as director of major national arts initiatives, including the American Council for the Arts in Education, and Project Arts/Worth. Sapp served as Provost of Florida State University, and as Dean of the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music from 1978 to 1980.
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- Born
- 1922
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Harvard University
- Died
- 1999
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on July 23, 2013
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