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The official website of the American composer Elliott Carter (1908-2012).
COMPOSER ELLIOTT CARTER (December 11, 1908 - November 5, 2012) is internationally recognized as one of the most influential American voices in classical music, and a leading figure of modernism in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Epigrams was Elliott Carter’s final composition, completed in the spring and summer of 2012 and premiered posthumously on June 22, 2013 at the Aldeburgh festival by Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano, and members of the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.
Woodwind Quintet. In 1948 several woodwind players asked me to write a work for woodwind quintet. On looking over some earlier quintet works, I found the composers were in the habit of overlooking the fact that each of these instruments has a different sound.
Raffaele Pozzi “Elliott’s Clear Gaze” My first encounter with Elliott Carter, dating back to the 1970s, came about through literature rather than music.
Pocahontas. The ballet with an unpublished piano version of the score was performed on 8/17/1936 at Keene State College, Keene, NH. Choreography was by Lew Christensen; the cast was: Ruthanna Boris, Charles Laskey, Harold Christensen, and Erick Hawkins.
The Piano Concerto (1964-1965) adapts to another musical situation the same preoccupation with expression, physical performance methods and formal processes found in my String Quartet No. 2 (1959) and my Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano with Two Chamber Orchestras (1961).
The Britten Pears Contemporary Ensemble performs works in development by emerging composers in the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme Composition and Performance course alongside works by Elliott Carter and Arnold Schoenberg.
Carter’s Symphony No. 1 was written “in a deliberately restricted idiom- that is, in an effort to produce [a work] that meant something to me as music and yet might, I hoped, be understandable to the general music public I was trying to reach…”.
