Composer
John Corigliano
American composer (born 1938)
b. 1938
75 works and musical collections
- Born
- 1938
- Birthplace
- New York City
- Citizenship / historical state
- United States
- Period (estimated from birth year)
- Contemporary
Biography
John Paul Corigliano (born February 16, 1938) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. With over 100 compositions, he has won accolades including a Pulitzer Prize, five Grammy Awards, the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, and an Academy Award.
He is a former distinguished professor of music at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and part of the composition faculty at the Juilliard School. Corigliano is best known for his Symphony No. 1, a response to the AIDS epidemic, and his film score for François Girard's The Red Violin (1997), which he adapted as his 2003 Concerto for Violin and Orchestra ("The Red Violin") for Joshua Bell.
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Life and musical career
- Occupations
- classical composer; university teacher; concertmaster; film score composer; professor of music composition; composer
- Career institutions / employers
- City University of New York; New York University; Juilliard School
- Recorded memberships
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Instruments played
- piano
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship; Rome Prize; Academy Award for Best Original Score; Pulitzer Prize for Music; Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition; Arts and Letters Award in Music; honorary doctor of the University of Miami; John Jay Award
- Official website
- http://www.johncorigliano.com
- Languages used
- English
- VIAF ID
- 85921164
- ISNI
- 0000000110754410
- GND ID
- 119403447
- Library of Congress ID
- n81132022
- MusicBrainz ID
- ead4efb5-f8d3-44d1-8a3f-a1cf24a0ccc9
Recorded in Wikidata. Affiliations may refer to earlier stages of the composer's career.
In this catalogue
- Common listed instruments
- Piano, Voice, violin, String Quartet, Tenor
- Genres represented
- Classical, Rock
- Source entries with composition dates
- 0
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Catalogue
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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 85921164. Portrait: Michael Bednarek, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.