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Author: Lee Jordan-Anders
Date: 1999-02-02 00:57
A clarinet student at our school (Virginia Wesleyan College) is studying the unaccompanied "Rhapsody" by Willson Osborne. He needs more information about the composer. We know he was male, lived from 1906 to 1979 and wrote this piece in 1958. Please let me know if anyone has additional biographical details. Thanks. lj-a.
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Author: Katherine Pincock
Date: 1999-02-02 01:44
Check the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, if your library has it, or the Baker's Biographical Dictionary. Either should have information on Osbourne; the New Grove especially goes into detail about the life and compositional style of composers.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 1999-02-02 01:54
Katherine Pincock wrote:
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Check the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, if your library has it, or the Baker's Biographical Dictionary. Either should have information on Osbourne; the New Grove especially goes into detail about the life and compositional style of composers.
The Concise Baker's doesn't list Osborne :^(
Someday I'll buy the set of Groves - I hear they're going to have it on CD soon.
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Author: Tim2
Date: 1999-02-02 02:27
He needs more information about the composer. We know he was male, lived from 1906 to 1979 and wrote this piece in 1958.
Written while he was a teacher in Philadelphia at The New School of Music. In 1952, it was written as a "Study for Bassoon." Don't know when it was transcribed for clarinet. That is why the Db is the highest note. It was written for a celebration of American music on WNYC February. I'd be interested in what you find out. I performed the piece in recital this past January 29. Let us know.
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