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Gloria Coates
12+ albums
contemporary classicalAvant-GardecomposerClassicalexperimental
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Gloria Coates (October 10, 1933 in Wausau, Wisconsin - August 19, 2023 in Munich, Germany) was an American composer formed in Chicago, Louisiana State University, New York's Cooper Union Art School and Columbia University. She wrote 16 symphonies, 10 string quartets and numerous songs and chamber works which have been performed by leading orchestras and performers internationally. Her mentors were Alexander Tcherepnin and Otto Luening . From 1976 she lived periodically in London, England and Munich, Germany; and from 1989 -1999 in New York. In Munich, Germany, she produced a music series of German-American Contemporary Music from 1971 - 1983 subsidized by the Ditson Fund of Columbia University and the Munich Ministry of Culture. She also produced programs on the Cologne Radio WDR in a series of American music for Radio 2. Her best known work is 'Music on Open Strings' or 'Symphony No. 1' written in 1971 - 1972 and premiered at the Warsaw Autumn Festival 1978 to great acclaim throughout the press. In 1980 it was the first orchestral work by a woman composer in the 35 year history of the Munich Musica Viva founded by Karl Amadeus Hartman. 8 of her symphonies have been recorded on CPO or Naxos, or new World and 9 string quartets on Naxos. Her music uses microtones and glissandi but can be lyrical as well. The intensity of concentration of her sound and musical gesture has been compared to Galina Ustwolskaja and Arvet Terterian by leading critics such as Dirk Wiescholl
top songs
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Symphony No. 4, "Chiaroscuro": III. Dream sequence
1,0182IV. Refracted Mirror Canon for 14 Lines
8983Protestation Quartet
6694String Quartet No. 1 (1966) 'P
6175String Quartet No. 6: 1- Still
5246Violin Solo Sonata: III. Berceuse
5037Mirror Canon
4888Symphony No. 1, "Music on Open Strings": IV. Refracted Mirror Canon for 14 Lines
4469Symphony No. 1, "Music on Open Strings": I. Theme and Transformation
44410Grave
312albums
COATES: Symphonies Nos. 1, 7 and 14
Coates: Symphonies Nos. 1, 4 & 7
String Quartets Nos. 1, 5 and
COATES, G: String Quartets Nos. 2, 3, 4, 7 and 8
Coates, G.: String Quartets Nos. 1, 5 and 6
Coates, G.: Symphonies Nos. 1, 7 and 14
Coates: String Quartet No. 9 - Sonata for Violin Solo - Lyric Suite
Coates, G.: String Quartets Nos. 2-4, 7 & 8
Symphonies 1, 4 & 7
Coates, G.: Symphony No. 15 / Cantata Da Requiem / Transitions
Coates: Piano Quintet & Symphony No. 10
Gloria Coates: String Quartets Nos. 2, 3, 4, 7 And 8