David Del Tredici, born March 16, 1937 in Cloverdale, California, is an American composer.
After making his piano debut with the San Francisco Symphony at 17, he went on to receive a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.F.A. in 1964 from Princeton University, studying with composers Earl Kim, Seymour Shifrin, and Roger Sessions.
His early work drew from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for inspiration, coverin...
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David Del Tredici, born March 16, 1937 in Cloverdale, California, is an American composer.
After making his piano debut with the San Francisco Symphony at 17, he went on to receive a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.F.A. in 1964 from Princeton University, studying with composers Earl Kim, Seymour Shifrin, and Roger Sessions.
His early work drew from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for inspiration, covering a wide variety of musical styles and forms. He was awarded a Pulitzer prize in 1980 for "In Memory of a Summer Day," the first part of Child Alice. Themes of his later works include literature -- notably, Victorian works, contemporary poets, and the works of James Joyce, Allen Ginsberg, Rumi, Federico García Lorca, Thom Gunn, Paul Monette, James Broughton, Colette Inez, and Bram Stoker -- his own personal stories, and his life as a homosexual.
While trained in serial technique, Del Tredici now writes in a tonal style; he is one of the...
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