Bauer: Orchestral And Chamber Works

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Release Date: 09 January 2005

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 636943925324

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: BAUER

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Marion Bauer (1882-1955)A Lament on an African Theme, Op. 20a Concertino for Oboe, Clarinet andStrings, Op 32b Trio Sonata No 1, Op. 40 Symphonic Suite, Op. 33Duo for Oboe and Clarinet, Op. 25 American Youth Concerto, Op. 36Marion Bauer was something of a Renaissance woman.Her important contributions to American musical lifewere as a composer, teacher, writer and critic; she wasalso a great supporter of her contemporaries, and wroteand lectured about their music. She must have beenindefatigable.Bauer was born on the West Coast of America, inWalla Walla, Washington, and studied in New York,Paris and Berlin. She was the first in a long anddistinguished line of American composers to learn withNadia Boulanger; the arrangement was a trade ofharmony lessons for English ones. In 1911 she receiveda seven-year contract from the New York publisherArthur Schmidt. At that time she wrote songs, pianopieces and chamber music, including Up the Ocklawaha(1913) for the well-known violinist, Maude Powell. Herpiano suite From the New Hampshire Woods (1923)was inspired by the beautiful surroundings at theMacDowell Colony, where she spent much timecomposing and writing.Bauer's sister Emilie had been the New York musiccritic for The Musical Leader, and Marion took thisover when Emilie died in 1926. She worked as areviewer all her life, wrote for journals such as MusicalQuarterly, and was the author of several books aboutmusic. Her Twentieth Century Music was particularlypopular. She joined the faculty of the Music Departmentat New York University in 1926, and she worked therefor 25 years, until 1951. She also taught at the JuilliardSchool of Music and at several summer schools. Anavid supporter of American music, she was a foundermember of the American Musical Guild in 1921, andshe joined the executive board of the League ofComposers in 1926. When Aaron Copland founded theAmerican Composers Alliance in 1937, he invitedBauer to join its Executive Board. In all these positionsshe was the first or only woman.Bauer's parents had French origins and in herstudies she was absorbed in French music. This gaveher compositions a noticeably impressionistic flavour.Working, however, at a time when composers weresearching around for new idioms, she was endlesslyexperimenting with her style. The result is music in agreat range of idioms and moods; sincere and eloquentslow movements are her particular strength.Bauer sometimes used elements of music fromother cultures in works such as Indian Pipes and in ALament on an African Theme, Op. 20a, of 1927. Itoriginated as the second movement of her StringQuartet, Op. 20 (1925). On the manuscript she says inparenthesis \Based on an African Negro Lament.Martin Bernstein, her colleague at New YorkUniversity, orchestrated the work (c1935) and gave it itscurrent title. It is a descriptive piece, often with aprimitive, elemental atmosphere. The earthy beginninguses modal harmonies to suggest the mist over theAfrican plains. It travels through
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