Salvatore Martirano

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Salvatore Giovanni Martirano, internationally acclaimed American composer and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois was born on January 12th, 1927, in Yonkers, NY, a son of Alexander and Mary Mazzullo Martirano. He died at the age of 68 on Friday, November 17th, 1995. Professor Martirano studied composition with Herbert Elwell at Oberlin College(1947-51), with Bernard Rodgers at The Eastman School of Music(1952), and with Luigi Dallapiccola at the Cherubini Conservatory in Florence, Italy(1952-4). From 1956 to 1959 he was in Rome as a Fellow of the American Academy, and in 1960 he recieved a Guggenheim Fellowship and an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. At this time he had works commissioned by the Koussevitzky and Fromm foundations. He was professor of composition at the University of Illinois from 1963 till his retirement in 1995. During the Illinois years he also accepted residencies at The Sydney Conservatorium of Music in Sydney in 1979, Australia, IRCAM in Paris in 1982, France, and The California Institute of the Arts in 1993. His compositions have been performed by the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras, Cleveland Orchestra, and by radio orchestras and choral ensembles throughout the United States, Europe and the Orient. His chamber and solo works have been performed world-wide. Professor Martirano's many awards and grants for composition include: Margaret Crofts Award to T

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The SalMar Construction

Salvatore Martirano: O, O, O, O, That Shakespeherian Rag

L's GA (CD-R) [Creel Pone]

L's GA

Uncommon Voices

Electronic Music from the University of Illinois

O, O, O, O, That Shakespeherian Rag

L's GA - Ballad - Octet

Martirano, Salvatore: Mass/Martino, Donald: Seven Pious Pieces

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The Composer In The Computer Age

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CDCM Computer Music Series Vol. 3: University of Illinois

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Music of Martirano & Rochberg

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