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Walter Hartley

Walter Sinclair Hartley (February 21, 1927 ā€“ June 30, 2016)[1] was an American composer of contemporary classical music.

Life and career

He was born in Washington, D.C., began composing at age five and became seriously dedicated to it at sixteen. All his college degrees are from the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester. He received his Ph.D. in composition there in 1953. Some of his teachers were Burrill Phillips, Thomas Canning, Herbert Elwell, Bernard Rogers, Howard Hanson and Dante Fiorillo.

He and the former Sandra Mount married June 17, 1960; the couple is survived by two daughters and five grandchildren.

Hartley was Professor Emeritus of Music at the State University of New York at Fredonia in Fredonia, New York. He also taught piano, theory and composition at the National Music Camp (now Interlochen Arts Camp) in Interlochen, Michigan from 1956 to 1964. He then became composer-in-residence at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte located in Charlotte, North Carolina until his death.

List of compositions

His list of compositions and arrangements is over 300, dating from 1949 on, and most of these are published. He was a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), from which he received an annual award for achievement in serious music since 1962.

His music has been performed by many ensembles, including the National Symphony Orchestra, Oklahoma City Symphony, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra and the Eastman Wind Ensemble. His Chamber Symphony of 1954 was commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation; his Concert Overture for orchestra received a prize from the National Symphony Orchestra in 1955; and his Sinfonia No. 3 for brass choir won for him the 1964 Conn Award. Since then, he had received many commissions from college and high school musical organizations. A lately published orchestral work, Symphony No. 3, was commissioned by the Greater Buffalo (New York) Youth Orchestra; several band works were commissioned by U.S. service bands. There have been many recordings.

He wrote Concerto for 23 Winds at the age of thirty in 1957.

Hartley was also considered one of the most prolific composers of music for the saxophone.

Catalogue of works [2][3][4][5][6][7]

1949

1950

1951

1952

1953

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2011

References

  1. ^ "Hartley - Home Page". www.walterhartley.com.
  2. ^ "Hartley - Band/Orchestra".
  3. ^ "Untitled Document".
  4. ^ "Hartley - Brass".
  5. ^ "Hartley - Chamber Music".
  6. ^ "Untitled Document".
  7. ^ "Hartley - Other Works".
  8. ^ "Ballet Music".
  9. ^ "Prologue and March".
  10. ^ "Woodwind Quartet".
  11. ^ "Sonata da Camera".
  12. ^ "String Quartet No. 1".
  13. ^ "Arioso".
  14. ^ "Sonata for Violin and Piano".
  15. ^ "Suite for Five Winds".
  16. ^ "Concerto for Piano and Orchestra".
  17. ^ "Prelude and Dance".
  18. ^ "Sonata for Viola and Piano".
  19. ^ "Trio for Strings".
  20. ^ "Divertimento".
  21. ^ "Meditation and Dance".
  22. ^ "Quintet Movement".
  23. ^ "Sonata da Camera".
  24. ^ "Prelude and Dance".
  25. ^ "Two Pieces for Woodwind Quintet".
  26. ^ "Sonatina".
  27. ^ "Three Duets".
  28. ^ "Two Studies for Clarinet - Two Little Pieces for Clarinet Solo".
  29. ^ "Chamber Music".
  30. ^ "Orpheus".
  31. ^ "Rondo for Winds and Percussion".
  32. ^ "Suite for Flute and Piano".
  33. ^ "Trio".
  34. ^ "Two Studies for Clarinet - Two Little Pieces for Clarinet Solo".
  35. ^ "Petite Suite".
  36. ^ "Sinfonia No.1".
  37. ^ "Elizabethan Dances".
  38. ^ "Serenade for Five Winds and Double Bass".
  39. ^ "Chautauqua Overture".
  40. ^ "Fantasia for Tuba and Chamber Orchestra".
  41. ^ "Concerto #2 for Piano and Wind Ensemble".
  42. ^ "Bagatelles for Orchestra".
  43. ^ "Hallelujah Fantasy".
  44. ^ "Lyric Symphony for Band".
  45. ^ "The Morning Trumpet".
  46. ^ "Prelude Cadenza and Rondo".
  47. ^ "Concertino No. 2 for Tuba and Piano".
  48. ^ "Trio 2001".
  49. ^ "Concerto Grosso for Wind Quintet".

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