George crumb composer biography paper
George crumb composer biography...
George Crumb, Music
George Crumb, an influential American composer and the Annenberg Professor Emeritus of the Humanities in the department of music in the School of Arts and Sciences, passed away on February 6 at home in Media, PA.
He was 90.
Born in West Virginia, Dr. Crumb was the son of a cellist and a clarinetist. He composed music at an early age, attending the National Music Camp in Interlochen, Michigan in 1947.
George crumb composer biography paper
He graduated in 1950 from the Mason College of Music and Fine Arts in Charleston, West Virginia (now part of the University of Charleston) and received a master’s degree two years later from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
On a Fulbright Scholarship, he then studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. He received his doctorate in composition at the University of Michigan in 1959. Dr. Crumb maintained a long relationship with academia.
He first taught at a college in Virginia, then became a professor of piano and composition at th