List Of Compositions By Ned Rorem
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Ned Rorem Ned Miller Rorem (October 23, 1923 – November 18, 2022) was an American composer of contemporary classical music and a writer. Best known for his art songs, which number over 500, Rorem was considered the leading American of his time writing i ...
(1923–2022) was an American composer of
contemporary classical music Contemporary classical music is Western art music composed close to the present day. At the beginning of the 21st-century classical music, 21st century, it commonly referred to the post-1945 Modernism (music), post-tonal music after the death of ...
. Though best known for his many songs, his compositions also include operas, concertante, piano music as well as choral, chamber and orchestral works.


List of compositions


Operas

*''A Childhood Miracle'', 1951, opera in one act *''The Robbers'', (1956), one-act opera *''The Anniversary'' (1961), one-act opera *''
Miss Julie ''Miss Julie'' () is a naturalistic play written in 1888 by August Strindberg. It is set on Midsummer's Eve and the following morning, which is Midsummer and the Feast Day of St. John the Baptist. The setting is an estate of a count in Sweden. ...
'' (1965) *''Hearing'' (1966–1976), opera in five scenes *''
Bertha Bertha is a female Germanic name, from Old High German ''berhta'' meaning "bright one". It was usually a short form of Anglo Saxon names ''Beorhtgifu'' meaning "bright gift" or ''Beorhtwynn'' meaning "bright joy". The name occurs as a theonym, s ...
'' (1968), opera in one act *''The Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters'' (1968), three-act opera *''Fables'' (1971), five very short operas to poems by
Jean de la Fontaine Jean de La Fontaine (, ; ; 8 July 162113 April 1695) was a French Fable, fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his ''La Fontaine's Fables, Fables'', which provided a model for subs ...
: **''The Animals Sick of the Plague'' **''The Bird Wounded by an Arrow'' **''The Fox and the Grapes'' **''The Lion in Love'' **''The Sun and the Frogs'' *''
Our Town ''Our Town'' is a three-act play written by American playwright Thornton Wilder in 1938. Described by Edward Albee as "the greatest American play ever written", it presents the fictional American town of Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913 ...
'' (2005)


Orchestral works


Chamber


Vocal


Songs

Norem's songs are with piano accompaniment, except where stated otherwise:


Choral


Solo instrumental


References


Sources

* {{Portal bar, Classical music, Opera, Music * Rorem, Ned