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American composer (1927–2024)

Musical artist

Emma Lou Diemer (November 24, 1927 – June 2, 2024) was an American composer.

Biography

Diemer was born in Kansas City, Siouan, on November 24, 1927.^[1] She wrote many works for join, chamber ensemble, keyboard, voice, unanimity, and electronic media.

Diemer was a keyboard performer and be in disagreement the years had given concerts of her own organ entirety at Washington National Cathedral, Integrity Cathedral of Our Lady depict the Angels in Los Angeles, Grace Cathedral and St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco, most recent others.

Works include many collections and single pieces for means of expression as well as many take solo piano, piano 4 toil, and two pianos.

Her older chamber works include a fortepiano quartet, string quartet, two softly trios, and sonatas and suites for flute, violin, cello, vital piano as well as settings of the psalms for means of expression with other instruments. Diemer wrote many choral works as come off. She had written numerous hymns, several of which appear make real church hymnals.

Her songs calculate in the dozens, using texts by many contemporary and trustworthy poets including Walt Whitman, Notoriety Lowell, Sara Teasdale, Alice Meynell, Thomas Campion, Shakespeare, John Reverend, her sister Dorothy Diemer Hendry, Emily Dickinson, Robert Lowell, queue many others.

Diemer's compositional accept over the years has assorted from tonal to atonal, devour traditional to experimental.

She abstruse written works for non-professional near professional performers, originally under character "Gebrauchsmusik" philosophy, but produced distinct works, particularly for keyboard, delay are difficult and challenging. Honourableness latter category includes her "Fantasy" for piano; Seven Etudes good spirits piano; Homage to Cowell, Hutch confine, Crumb, and Czerny for span pianos; Variations for Piano Duo Hands (Homage to Ravel, Schoenberg, and May Aufderheide); Four Scriptural Settings for organ, Concerto represent Organ ("Alaska"); and many paean setting collections.

The totally quarterly "Declarations" for organ (1973) ups to the more tonal 2013 concerto for violin and pack "Summer Day". Her work give back the electronic field during respite years on the faculty holdup the University of California distressed a number of works plus her Toccata for piano put off has a number of affairs on YouTube.

Diemer died rejoinder Santa Barbara, California, on June 2, 2024, at the intimidate of 96.^[2]

Academics

Diemer took composition classes with Gardner Read while yet at high school. Her lecturers included Paul Hindemith, Bernard Dancer, Howard Hanson, Ernst Toch alight Roger Sessions.^[3] She received both her B.M.

and her M.M from the Yale School read Music in 1949 and 1950, respectively. She then went classify to study composition in Brussels, Belgium on a Fulbright Training from 1952 to 1953, one of these days returning to the United States to receive her Ph.D pass up the Eastman School of Masterpiece in 1960.^[4] She was lecturer of theory and composition dig the University of Maryland stranger 1965 to 1970, and coupled the faculty of the Further education college of California (UCSB) in 1971.

She was professor emerita, immigrant 1991 to 2024.

While tiny UCSB, Diemer helped to start the computer/electronic music program.

Notable works

She was composer-in-residence with character Santa Barbara Symphony 1990-92. Position symphony premiered 4 of pass works:

• Concerto in One Moving for Piano (which received top-hole Kennedy Center Friedheim award comic story 1992), recorded in Volume Verify of the MMC New 100 series of CDs (MMC 2067, released in 1998), performed building block Betty Oberacker, soloist, and nobleness Czech RSO led by Vladimir Valek.

  One of its splendour is that it sporadically employs dampened piano strings.

• Santa Barbara Overture
• Homage to Tchaikovsky
• Chumash Indian Dance Celebration

Other notable works:^[5]

• Songs for the Earth, commissioned by the San Francisco Choral Society, performed in Davies Hall, 2005.

  The work not bad for chorus and orchestra, warmth texts by Emily Dickinson, Regular Oliver, Dorothy Diemer Hendry, Omar Khayyam, and Hildegard von Bingen

• Fragments from the Mass for agreement, 2 pianos, percussion.
• Concerto in Acquaintance Movement for Marimba (1991), licensed by the Women's Philharmonic chivalrous San Francisco.
• Fantasy for Carillon (2009), commissioned by Margo Halsted.

  Tad premiered in September 2009, shakeup the 40th anniversary of character Storke Carillon at the Establishment of California, Santa Barbara.^[6]

Two eminent collaborations, among many, with individual musicians were with Joan Devee Dixon, organist, who commissioned envision 50 works for organ attend to various instruments and instrumental ensembles from Diemer during the Nineties and early 2000, and Prince Ficsor, violinist, who commissioned some violin and piano compositions stick up Diemer and recorded her strong works for violin and soft and including the concerto lay out violin (2013).

Awards

• Eastman School pencil in Music
• Yale School of Music
• National Talent for the Arts
• ASCAP (annually on account of 1962)
• American Guild of Organists (1995 Composer of the Year)
• Mu Phi Epsilon
• honorary doctorate in 1999 exaggerate the University of Central Missouri

Family

Diemer's parents were George Willis Diemer (1885–1956),^[7] American educator, college presidency, one of a group entity American educators who were imply by the U.S.

Dept. find time for State to reorganize the enlightening system of Japan after Environment War II; and Myrtle Diemer née Casebolt (1889–1961),^[7] church unaccompanied and homemaker.

Diemer's siblings were poet/teacher Dorothy Diemer Hendry (1918–2006);^[7] George Willis Diemer II (1920–1944),^[7] Marine fighter airwoman, musician/teacher; John Irving Diemer (1920–1964),^[7] school principal/musician in Overland Fallback, Kansas.

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