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Ralph Shapey

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American composer and conductor (1921-2002)

Person · Open Library

Born
1921
Works
12

Top works

  • Inventions for B♭ clarinet and percussion
  • Concerto grosso for woodwind quintet
  • Theme plus ten
  • Movement of varied moments for two
  • Gottlieb duo

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Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1921-03-12
Active to
2002-06-13

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3,033

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Ralph Shapey (March 12, 1921 – June 13, 2002) was an American composer and conductor. Although Shapey's style is characterized by angularity, irony, and technical rigor, his work insists on sweeping gesture, frenetic passion, rhythmic vitality, lyrical melody, and dramatic arc recall Romanticism. Shapey was dubbed by critics Leonard Meyer and Bernard Jacobson as a "radical traditionalist," which pleased him immensely -- he held a deep respect for the masters of the past, whom he regarded as his

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Ralph Shapey
date of birth
1921-03-12
date of death
2002-06-13
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