Composer
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
American composer
b. 1939
42 works and musical collections
- Born
- 1939
- Birthplace
- Miami
- Citizenship / historical state
- United States
- Period (estimated from birth year)
- Contemporary
Biography
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich ( tayf ZWIL-ik; born April 30, 1939) is an American composer, the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Her early works are marked by atonal exploration, but by the late 1980s, she had shifted to a postmodernist, neoromantic style. She has been called "one of America's most frequently played and genuinely popular living composers." She was a 1994 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. Zwilich has served as the Francis Eppes Distinguished Professor at Florida State University.
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Life and musical career
- Occupations
- composer; musicologist; violinist
- Education
- Florida State University; Juilliard School
- Teachers
- John Boda; Ivan Galamian; Roger Sessions; Elliott Carter
- Career institutions / employers
- Florida State University
- Recorded memberships
- American Academy of Arts and Letters; American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Instruments played
- violin
- Notable works
- Symphony No. 4, The Gardens; Peanuts® gallery; Millennium Fantasy; Images (Suite in five movements); Symphony No. 1
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship; Rome Prize; Pulitzer Prize for Music; Florida Artists Hall of Fame; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Arts and Letters Award in Music
- Official website
- https://www.zwilich.com/
- Birth name
- Ellen Taaffe
- VIAF ID
- 117562178
- ISNI
- 0000000081866981
- GND ID
- 11946148X
- Library of Congress ID
- n80086883
- MusicBrainz ID
- 0265d7f1-a51b-4573-a7ce-28363ad89394
Recorded in Wikidata. Affiliations may refer to earlier stages of the composer's career.
In this catalogue
- Common listed instruments
- Piano, violin, Flute, Bassoon, Cello
- Genres represented
- Classical
- Source entries with composition dates
- 0
These details describe the indexed sheet music, including arrangements.
Catalogue
Sheet music catalogue
Instruments describe listed editions, including arrangements. Composition dates and keys appear where recorded; collection pages show their individual contents.
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| I | See work details |
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| II | See work details |
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| IV. | See work details |
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| Spinoff No. 2 from Concerto for Trumpet and 5 Players | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| II. Song | See work details |
3 more instruments
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| 6. Wuckenschwarm | See work details |
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| I. Invocation | See work details |
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| IV. Contests | See work details |
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| Two | See work details |
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| Three | See work details |
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| Variations | See work details |
1 more instruments
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| III | See work details |
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| I. Schroeder's Beethoven Fantasy | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| II. Lullaby for Linus | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| II. Serenade | See work details |
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| III. Tango | See work details |
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| II. Ambulation | See work details |
3 more instruments
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| III. Dance | See work details |
3 more instruments
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| One | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| Prologue | See work details |
1 more instruments
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| VI. Peppermint Patty & Marcie Lead the Parade | See work details |
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| IV. Meditation | See work details |
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| V. Finale | See work details |
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| 1. Uber die Felder | See work details |
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| III. Remembrances | See work details |
3 more instruments
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| I. Prelude | See work details |
3 more instruments
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| Introduction (Litany Of Endangered Plants) | See work details |
6 more instruments
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| III. Snoopy Does the Samba | See work details |
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| IV. Charlie Brown's Lament | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| V. Lucy Freaks Out | See work details |
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| I. Introduction and Allegro | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 2. Wie sind die Tage schwer | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 3. Schicksal | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 4. Elisabeth | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 5. Nacht | See work details |
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| II Elegy: in memory of Manley R. Whitcomb | See work details |
4 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| Meditation on Living fossils | See work details |
6 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| A Pastoral Journey | See work details |
6 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| The Children's Promise | See work details |
6 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| Four | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| Lament | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| Spinoff No. 1 from American Concerto | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
Biographical record: Wikidata, matched on name and checked against dates held in the catalogue. The period label is an estimate from birth year. Authority record: VIAF 117562178.