David Loeb (born May 11, 1939) is an American composer of
contemporary classical music
Contemporary classical music is classical music composed close to the present day. At the beginning of the 21st century, it commonly referred to the post-1945 modern forms of post-tonal music after the death of Anton Webern, and included se ...
. Born in
New York City
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, he has written extensively for
early music
Early music generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but can also include Baroque music (1600–1750). Originating in Europe, early music is a broad musical era for the beginning of Western classic ...
instruments such as the
viol
The viol (), viola da gamba (), or informally gamba, is any one of a family of bowed, fretted, and stringed instruments with hollow wooden bodies and pegboxes where the tension on the strings can be increased or decreased to adjust the pitc ...
, as well as instruments from
China and
Japan. He teaches at the
Mannes College The New School for Music
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, and has additionally served as a member of the composition faculty at the
Curtis Institute of Music
The Curtis Institute of Music is a private conservatory in Philadelphia. It offers a performance diploma, Bachelor of Music, Master of Music in opera, and a Professional Studies Certificate in opera. All students attend on full scholarship.
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His notable students include
Jennifer Higdon
Jennifer Elaine Higdon (born December 31, 1962) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. She has received many awards, including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her Violin Concerto and three Grammy Award for Best Contemp ...
,
Jeremy Beck, and
Craig Walsh.
Works
* ''Ancient Legends''
* ''Andorran Fantasy''
* ''Balinese Fantasies'' (Published by ALRY Publications)
* ''Between Sea and Sky''
* ''Cantata for Oboe and String Orchestra''
* ''Caprices for Solo Mandolin Vol. 1-2''
* ''Chanson Malagache''
* ''A Distant Land Unfurled''
* ''Fantasia on a Theme of Yuize''
* ''Fantasia on Pyong-si-jo No. 1-2''
* ''Fantasia sobre "Una Hiji Tiene del Rey"''
* ''Fantasias for the Japanese Consort''
* ''Ganya''
* ''Imagined Landscapes''
* ''Keisho for Theorbo Solo''
* ''The Meeting of Sea and Clouds''
* ''Nocturne for Mandolin and Guitar''
* ''Prelude for Two Consorts''
* ''Quartet for flute, guitar, violin, and cello''
* ''Riddles''
* ''Rivermist in Summer''
* ''Sonata No. 1-6 for Cello Solo''
* ''Sonata for Trombone and Piano No. 1'' (1998)
* ''Sonata for Trombone and Piano No. 2'' (2000)
* ''Sonata for Trombone and Piano No. 3'' (2003)
* ''Sonata for Trombone and Piano No. 4'' (2004)
* ''Sonata for Trombone and Piano No. 5'' (2005)
* ''Seiya''
* ''Symphony for Mandolin orchestra''
* ''Three Fantasias on East Asian Modes''
* ''Tre Romanze''
* ''Trois Cansos''
* ''Two Views of the Silent Waterfall''
* ''Utagumi''
* ''Yoru Ga Mau''
Books
* Loeb, David. ''Chinese & Japanese Musical Instruments and Their Notation''. Harold Branch, 1972.
Sources
* Loeb, David: ''The life and times of a viola composer'', Journal of the Viola da Gamba Society of America. 22 (1985), p. 29-34.
* Anderson, Ruth. ''Contemporary American composers. A biographical dictionary'', 1st edition, G. K. Hall, 1976.
* Press, Jaques Cattell (Ed.). ''Who's who in American Music. Classical'', first edition. R. R. Bowker, 1983.
External links
David Loeb official site
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Jewish American classical composers
20th-century American composers
20th-century American male musicians
21st-century American Jews
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