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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1961-09-22
classicalcomposermodern classicalpost-minimalism
Discography
- The Yellow Pages / Rust / Vanada / Slate / Adjustable Wrench1990
- Color Music1991
- Byrne: High Life for Strings / Moran: Music From the Towers of the Moon / Lurie: Stranger Than Paradise / Torke: Chalk1992
- Music on the Floor1994
- Sax Drive1995
- Javelin1996
- Overnight Mail1997
- Book of Proverbs1999
- Rapture (Percussion Concerto) / An American Abroad / Jasper2002
- Haunted America2003
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- 7,766
- Total plays
- 49,907
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American composer Michael Torke (born September 22, 1961 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin), graduated from Wauwatosa East High School, studied at the Eastman School of Music with Joseph Schwantner and Christopher Rouse, and at Yale University, and writes music influenced by jazz and minimalism. Sometimes described as a post-minimalist, his most postminimal piece is Four Proverbs, in which the syllable for each pitch is fixed and variations in the melody produce streams of nonsense words. <a href="https:/
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Michael
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Milwaukee
- Genre
- concerto
- Official website
- www.michaeltorke.com
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- date of birth
- 1961-09-22
- nominated for
- Pulitzer Prize for Music
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