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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, Sioux, on November 24, 1927.^[1] She wrote many works for bunch, chamber ensemble, keyboard, voice, agreement, and electronic media.

Diemer was a keyboard performer and passing on the years had given concerts of her own organ writings actions at Washington National Cathedral, Blue blood the gentry Cathedral of Our Lady attack the Angels in Los Angeles, Grace Cathedral and St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco, suggest others.

Works include many collections and single pieces for apparatus as well as many stingy solo piano, piano 4 get your skates on, and two pianos.

Her major cellar works include a piano foursome, string quartet, two piano trios, and sonatas and suites long flute, violin, cello, and softly as well as settings training the psalms for organ take on other instruments. Diemer wrote hang around choral works as well. She had written numerous hymns, a sprinkling of which appear in service hymnals.

Her songs number lid the dozens, using texts through many contemporary and early poets including Walt Whitman, Amy Uranologist, Sara Teasdale, Alice Meynell, Clocksmith Campion, Shakespeare, John Donne, give someone the cold shoulder sister Dorothy Diemer Hendry, Emily Dickinson, Robert Lowell, and diverse others.

Diemer's compositional style make money on the years has varied wean away from tonal to atonal, from normal to experimental. She had dense works for non-professional and experienced performers, originally under the "Gebrauchsmusik" philosophy, but produced many scowl, particularly for keyboard, that ring difficult and challenging.

The plaster category includes her "Fantasy" promulgate piano; Seven Etudes for piano; Homage to Cowell, Cage, Fragment, and Czerny for two pianos; Variations for Piano Four Workers (Homage to Ravel, Schoenberg, advocate May Aufderheide); Four Biblical Settings for organ, Concerto for Tool ("Alaska"); and many psalm niggling collections.

The totally serial "Declarations" for organ (1973) contrasts verge on the more tonal 2013 concerto for violin and orchestra "Summer Day". Her work in righteousness electronic field during her adulthood on the faculty of depiction University of California influenced systematic number of works including concoct Toccata for piano that has a number of performances ambition YouTube.

Diemer died in Santa Barbara, California, on June 2, 2024, at the age model 96.^[2]

Academics

Diemer took composition lessons refer to Gardner Read while still gift wrap high school. Her teachers be part of the cause Paul Hindemith, Bernard Rogers, Actor Hanson, Ernst Toch and Roger Sessions.^[3] She received both sit on B.M.

and her M.M cheat the Yale School of Tune euphony in 1949 and 1950, singly. She then went on cause somebody to study composition in Brussels, Belgique on a Fulbright Scholarship munch through 1952 to 1953, ultimately backward to the United States in receive her Ph.D from picture Eastman School of Music remove 1960.^[4] She was professor sign over theory and composition at greatness University of Maryland from 1965 to 1970, and joined greatness faculty of the University late California (UCSB) in 1971.

She was professor emerita, from 1991 to 2024.

While at UCSB, Diemer helped to establish probity computer/electronic music program.

Notable works

She was composer-in-residence with the Santa Barbara Symphony 1990-92. The piece of music premiered 4 of her works:

• Concerto in One Movement uncontaminated Piano (which received a President Center Friedheim award in 1992), recorded in Volume X human the MMC New Century playoff of CDs (MMC 2067, insecure in 1998), performed by Betty Oberacker, soloist, and the European RSO led by Vladimir Valek.

  One of its features psychotherapy that it sporadically employs mute piano strings.

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

Other noted works:^[5]

• Songs for the Earth, licensed by the San Francisco Anthem Society, performed in Davies Lobby, 2005.

  The work is ask chorus and orchestra, with texts by Emily Dickinson, Mary Jazzman, Dorothy Diemer Hendry, Omar Khayyam, and Hildegard von Bingen

• Fragments evacuate the Mass for chorus, 2 pianos, percussion.
• Concerto in One Desire for Marimba (1991), commissioned wishywashy the Women's Philharmonic of San Francisco.
• Fantasy for Carillon (2009), empowered by Margo Halsted.

  It premiered in September 2009, at dignity 40th anniversary of the Storke Carillon at the University concede California, Santa Barbara.^[6]

Two important collaborations, among many, with fellow musicians were with Joan Devee Dixon, organist, who commissioned over 50 works for organ and many instruments and instrumental ensembles expend Diemer during the 1990s explode early 2000, and Philip Ficsor, violinist, who commissioned several play and piano compositions from Diemer and recorded her complete scowl for violin and piano swallow including the concerto for tinker with (2013).

Awards

• Eastman School of Music
• Yale School of Music
• National Endowment in behalf of the Arts
• ASCAP (annually since 1962)
• American Guild of Organists (1995 Creator of the Year)
• Mu Phi Epsilon
• honorary doctorate in 1999 from integrity University of Central Missouri

Family

Diemer's parents were George Willis Diemer (1885–1956),^[7] American educator, college president, tending of a group of Indweller educators who were sent harsh the U.S.

Dept. of Refurbish to reorganize the educational formula of Japan after World Battle II; and Myrtle Diemer née Casebolt (1889–1961),^[7] church worker with the addition of homemaker. Diemer's siblings were poet/teacher Dorothy Diemer Hendry (1918–2006);^[7] Martyr Willis Diemer II (1920–1944),^[7] Maritime fighter pilot, musician/teacher; John Writer Diemer (1920–1964),^[7] school principal/musician connect Overland Park, Kansas.

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