Lou Harrison
Born: 14th May 1917, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A
Died: 2nd February 2003, Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.A
Nationality: American
Lou Silver Harrison was an American composer, music critic, music theorist, painter, and creator of unique musical instruments. Harrison initially wrote in a dissonant, ultramodernist style similar to his former teacher and contemporary, Henry Cowell, but later moved toward incorporating elements of non-Western cultures into his work. Notable examples include a number of pieces written for Javanese style gamelan instruments, inspired after his introduction to noted gamelan musician Kanjeng Notoprojo. Harrison would create his own musical ensembles and instruments with his partner, William Colvig, who are now both considered founders of the American gamelan movement and world music; along with composers Harry Partch and Claude Vivier, and ethnomusicologist Colin McPhee.
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- A Summerfield Set for solo piano (4)
- Air for the poet (2)
- Ariadne (1987) (4)
- Bonba (1939) (2)
- Bubaran Robert (3)
- Canticle No. 1 (3)
- Canticle No. 3 (6)
- Concerto for the Violin with Percussion Orchestra (4)
- Concerto in Slendro (1961) (3)
- Cornish Lancaran (2)
- Doubel Music (3)
- Elegy (3)
- First Concerto for flute and percussion (4)
- Fugue (1941) (3)
- Gending Chelsea for Gamelan (2)
- Grand Duo (5)
- Labyrinth, No 3 (2)
- May Rain (2)
- Music for Violin with various instruments (2)
- New First Suite for Strings (3)
- Philemon and Baukis (2)
- Pipa Concerto (3)
- Sanctus for Contralto and Piano (3)
- Seven Pastorales (3)
- Solstice (1950) Parts I & II (2)
- Song of Queztecoatl (5)
- Strict Songs (1955, rev. 1992) (3)
- String Quartet Set (1978–9) (2)
- Suite for Cello and Harp (3)
- Suite for Percussion (1942) (3)
- Suite for Symphonic Strings (5)
- Suite from the ‘Marriage at the Eiffel Tower’ (3)
- Suite No. 2 (4)
- Symphony No. 2 (Elegiac) (3)
- Symphony No. 4 'Last Symphony' (3)
- Symphony No. 5 (2)
- Third Symphony (3)
- Varied trio (4)
- Vestuint Silve (1994) (3)
- Violin Concerto (4)
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