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George Crumb was born on 24 October 1929 and began his work in 1944. He was based in the United States and tagged across the genres avant-garde, classical, composer, contemporary classical, and 20th century classical. He died on 6 February 2022. Crumb is recognised in both the Pulitzer Prize collection and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences collection.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 34
Top works
- An expanded concept of timbre and its structural significance
- Eleven Echoes of Autumn for Violin, Alto Flute, Clarinet, Piano
- Eleven echoes of autumn, 1965
- An idyll for the misbegotten
- Quest
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1929-10-24
- Active to
- 2022-02-06
Discography
- Wolpe: Trio / Crumb: Eleven Echoes of Autumn, 19651969
- Voice Of The Whale / Night Of The Four Moons1974
- Crumb: A Haunted Landscape / Schuman: Three Colloquies for Horn and Orchestra1985
- Crumb: Madrigals / Makrokosmos III1985
- An Idyll for the Misbegotten / Vox Balaenae / Madrigals, Books I–IV1987
- Ives: Songs / Crumb: Apparition1987
- Processional / A Little Suite for Christmas A.D. 1979 / Celestial Mechanics1987
- Sonic Encounters1988
- Ancient Voices of Children / Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III)1990
- Makrokosmos I+II (24 Fantasiestücke über den Tierkreis für verstärktes Klavier)1990
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 41,144
- Total plays
- 298,534
Tags
George Crumb (born October 24, 1929) is an American composer of modern and avant garde music. He is noted as an explorer of unusual timbres. Examples include spoken flute (one speaks while blowing into the instrument) and glass marbles poured onto an open piano. After initially being influenced by Anton Webern, Crumb became interested in exploring unusual timbres. He often asks for instruments to be played in unusual ways and several of his pieces are written for electrically amplified instrume
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- George
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Charleston
- Place of death
- Media
- Child
- Ann Crumb
- Occupation
- composer
- Employer
- University of Colorado Boulder
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Official website
- www.georgecrumb.net
- Image
- George Crumb.jpg
Show 9 more facts
- date of birth
- 1929-10-24
- member of
- Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
- Commons category
- George Crumb
- name in native language
- George Crumb
- start of work period
- 1944-00-00
- date of death
- 2022-02-06
- birth name
- George Henry Crumb Jr.
- described at URL
- www.nytimes.com/2022/02/06/obituaries/george-crumb-dead.html
- P12674
- Serge Falck
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