Ned Rorem
Born: 23rd October 1923, Richmond, Indiana, U.S.A
Nationality: American
Ned Miller Rorem was an American composer of contemporary classical music and a writer. Best known for his art songs, which number over 500, Rorem was considered the leading American of his time writing in the genre. Frequently described as a neoromantic composer, he showed limited interest in the emerging modernist aesthetic of his lifetime. As a writer, he kept—and later published—numerous diaries in which he spoke candidly of his exchanges and relationships with many cultural figures of America and France.
Born in Richmond, Indiana, Rorem found an early interest in music, studying with Margaret Bonds and Leo Sowerby.
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America 250 - Mid-Century Traditionalists
10th Jul 2026
As we celebrate the past 250 years of American music, we look at some of the most prominent and influential composers in American history. In this article, we explore the work of five mid-century American composers: Aaron Copland, Walter Piston, Irving Fine, Ned Rorem, and Virgil Thomson.
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Popular Works: Rorem
- A Birthday (3)
- A Child Asleep in its Own Life (3)
- A Journey (4)
- Absalom (3)
- Alleluia (3)
- Catullus (4)
- Clouds (3)
- Early in the morning (3)
- Ferry Me Across the Water (5)
- For Susan (3)
- I Never Knew (3)
- I Strolled Across an Open Field (3)
- I will always love you (3)
- Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (5)
- Little Elegy (10)
- Look down fair moon (5)
- Love (9)
- Love in a life (3)
- Nantucket (5)
- O Do Not Love Too Long (5)
- On a singing girl (3)
- Orchids (3)
- Poem for F. (4)
- Sometimes with one I love (3)
- Spring (4)
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (5)
- That shadow, my likeness (3)
- The Land of Fear (3)
- The Lordly Hudson (4)
- The Mild Mother (3)
- The Nightingale (6)
- The Serpent (3)
- The Waking (3)
- To a Young Girl (3)
- Two Psalm and a Proverb: No 2. Wounds without Cause (7)
- Two Psalms and a Proverb: No. 1. Behold, how good and pleasant it is (7)
- Two Psalms and a Proverb: No. 3. How Long Wilt Thou Forget Me, O Lord (7)
- Visit to St Elizabeth’s (3)
- What if some little pain (3)
- You, the Young Rainbow (3)
