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Marc Blitzstein
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 11
Top works
- El poder se tambaleará
- Marc Blitzstein Songbook - Volume 2
- Mack the Knife
- Songbook, vol. 1
- Marc Blitzstein Songbook - Volume 1
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1905-03-02
- Active to
- 1964-01-22
Discography
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- 2,464
- Total plays
- 12,004
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Marc Blitzstein (March 2, 1905 – January 22, 1964) was an American composer. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Jewish parents, among his works were The Cradle Will Rock, whose premiere was directed by Orson Welles, the opera Regina, an adaptation of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, the Broadway musical Juno based on Sean O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock, No For An Answer, and his off-Broadway translation/adaptation of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera. <a href="https://www.l
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composers.com →One of ACA's original founders, Marc Blitzstein (1905-1964) was born in Philadelphia, the son of affluent parents. His musical gifts were apparent at an early age, and he had performed a Mozart Piano Concerto by the time he was seven. He went on to study piano with Alexander Siloti, (a pupil of Liszt and Tchaikovsky), and made his professional concerto debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Liszt’s E flat Piano Concerto when he was 21. His works of his early period, mostly pianistic vehicles such as the PIANO SONATA (1927), CAIN (1930), and the PIANO CONCERTO (1931) are typical of the Boulanger-influenced products of American modernism - strongly rhythmic (although in Blitzstein's case, not influenced by Jazz), and described by himself as "wild, dissonant, and percussive." Yet, a new aesthetic was taking shape in the early thirties, one that sought to make art useful and communicative to all audiences.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Samuel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Philadelphia
- Place of death
- Fort-de-France
- Occupation
- librettist
- Educated at
- University of Pennsylvania
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Student of
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Genre
- musical
- Instrument
- piano
- Image
- Cradle Will Rock Marc Blitzstein 394-1.jpg
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- date of death
- 1964-01-22
- date of birth
- 1905-03-02
- Commons category
- Marc Blitzstein
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- manner of death
- homicide
- cause of death
- blunt trauma
- described at URL
- composers.com/marc-blitzstein
- birth name
- Marcus Samuel Blitzstein
- name in native language
- Marc Blitzstein
- writing language
- English language
- relative
- Lina Abarbanell
- sexual orientation
- bisexuality
- start of work period
- 1926-00-00
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