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Wuorinen, Charles

LC control no.n 81014048
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingWuorinen, Charles
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Other standard no.Q961861
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Associated countryUnited States
LocatedNew York (N.Y.)
Birth date1938-06-09
Death date2020-03-11
Place of birthNew York (N.Y.)
Upper West Side (New York, N.Y.)
Place of deathNew York (N.Y.)
Field of activityArt music
Composition (Music) Piano--Performance Conducting
Profession or occupationComposers Pianists Conductors (Music) Authors College teachers
Found inHis Sonatina, for woodwind quartet, c1957.
New Grove (Wuorinen, Charles; b. June 9, 1938, New York; American composer, pianist & teacher)
Charles Wuorinen WWW site, February 19, 2014 (Charles Wuorinen; born June 9, 1938, New York City; composer, author, pianist, conductor; has served on the faculties of several universities and schools of music)
Wikipedia, August 7, 2018 (Charles Wuorinen; Charles Peter Wuorinen (born June 9, 1938) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer of contemporary classical music based in New York City; born on the Upper West Side of Manhattan)
Washington post WWW site, viewed March 16, 2020 (in obituary dated March 14, 2020: Charles Wuorinen, a brilliant modernist composer who was only 31 when his work "Time's Encomium" became the first electronic piece to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, died March 11 in Manhattan. He was 81. Charles Peter Wuorinen was born in Manhattan on June 9, 1938)
Associated languageeng