Andrew Imbrie

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Andrew Welsh Imbrie (April 6, 1921 – December 5, 2007)[1] was an American composer of contemporary classical music. In 1937, Imbrie went to Paris to study briefly with Nadia Boulanger. He returned to the United States the next year to attend Princeton University where he studied with Roger Sessions, receiving his undergraduate degree in 1942. His senior thesis there, a string quartet, was recorded by the Juilliard Quartet. He then went to the University of California, Berkeley, where he received an M.A. in Music in 1947; there he continued to study with Sessions, who had taken a position at Berkeley. Imbrie taught composition, theory, and analysis at Berkeley from 1949 until his retirement in 1991. In addition to his principal teaching job at Berkeley, he served as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, Brandeis University, Northwestern University, New York University, the University of Alabama, and Harvard University, and had a regular teaching post at the San Francisco Conservatory. His notable students included Larry Austin and Neil Rolnick. Imbrie's style was influenced early by Béla Bartók, and then by his undergraduate teacher, Roger Sessions: the influence of Sessions was to prove long-lasting. Imbrie prefers harmonies that are non-triadic, or if triadic, non-functional, and he wrote a tightly organized, often atonal contrapuntal texture with attention to careful motivic development; he avoided the serial techniques which dominated art music composition a

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Andrew Imbrie: Dream Sequence

Music of Andrew Imbrie

Andrew Imbrie: Music for String Quartet and Violin & Piano Duo

The Emerson String Quartet Plays 50 Years Of American Music 1919-1969

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Americans In Rome: Music By Fellows of the American Academy In Rome

Imbrie / Shifrin / Harbison / Powell: Piano Trios

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American Masters

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Andrew_Imbrie

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Americans In Rome

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Imbrie: Legend; Cushing: Cereus

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Prometheus Bound

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