Gardner Read
Composer
1913 – 2005
Who was Gardner Read?
Gardner Read 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 won first prize at the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society's American Composers' Contest, while his second symphony 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.
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- Born
- Jan 2, 1913
Evanston - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Northwestern University
- Eastman School of Music
- Lived in
- Evanston
- Died
- Nov 10, 2005
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on July 23, 2013
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