Introduction
The list of Wolpe's known compositions is not near complete; and some of the years of composition I do not know. I would be thankful for any additional information that anyone reading this page might be able to give me.
Submissions for additional references, recordings and reviews of them will also be greatly appreciated and added to this page, with acknowledgement.
NB All umlauted vowels in German are indicated in a traditional convention of simply following the vowel with an 'e'. This avoids difficulties of browser and terminal capabilities regarding fonts.
Acknowledgements
My thanks to John M. Johnsen of Texas Instruments Inc., for providing
information to double the original size of this page, to David Bloch
Prof. of Musicology, Tel-Aviv University and Director, The Group for
New Music and the Terezin Music Memorial Project for contribution of
material, and Tania Snoep for proof reading and error detection.
Many thanks to Dr. Austin Clarkson, curator of the Stefan Wolpe Archive
at York Univerity in Ontario, Canada for much information that has
yet to find its way into this page.
The Music of Stefan Wolpe is licensed by ASCAP
and published by:
C. F. Peters Corporation
EMI Music Publishing Limited
Hargail Music Inc.
Josef Marx Music Company
JNL12: The Josef Marx Story
Peer-Southern Concert Music
Peer Musikverlag GMBH
Samuel French
Seesaw Music Corporation
Soundway Press
Transcontinental Music Publications
Tonos Musikverlag
Theodore Presser
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An Incomplete List of works by Stefan Wolpe
(in semichronological order of composition)
Sechs Klavierstuecke (1920-1929)
Gesang, weil ich etwas Teures velassen muss (1920)
Published: ca. 1979
Duration: ca. 2:30-3:00
Stehende Musik (1925)
Duration: ca. 3:30
Rag-Caprice (1927)
Duration: ca. 0:42
Tango (1927)
Duration: ca. 3:20
Marsch Nr. 1 (1929)
Presto agitato (1929)
Medium: Piano
Published: Hamburg: Peer Musikverlag;
New York: Southern Music Publishing, c1989.
Duration:
Note: Preface in German and English.
SIX PIANO PIECES 1920-1929
Hamburg, Germany 1989. A representative collection of Wolpe's early
experimental works with extensive notes on each. Five of the six
pieces are recorded on the CPO label..
Pepper Music 7947872
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Early Piece for Piano (1924)
Andante con Moto
Allegro
Meno Mosso
Andante con Moto
Medium: Piano
Published: McGinnis & Marx, ca. 1955
Duration: 6:00
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Sonata #1 (Piano; 1925-28)
[new revised version 1971(?)]
Medium: Piano
Published:
Duration:
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Lieder nach Texten des Friedrich Hoelderlin (1924-1927)
[Five Hoelderlin Songs]
Medium: Piano, Alto voice
An Diotima: op. 1 (1927)
Published: [1927]
Duration: 0:30
Haelfte des Lebens (1924)
Published: [1924]
Duration: 1:30
Spaziergang, Der: Op. 1 #4
Published: [1924]
Duration: 2:00
...
Cf. also 1935 below.
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Cinq marches caracterisque Op. 10 (1928-1934)
#1 energico ed animato (1928)
Medium: Piano
Published:
Duration: ca. 1:30
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Funf [Fuenf] Lieder nach Texten von Friedrich Holderlin (1924, rev. 1935)
from Bearbeitungen Ostjudischer Volkslieder (1923-25)
1) "Onder dem Kinds Wiegele"
2) "Es Kimt Gefloigen di Gilderne Pawe"
from Ballad of the Unknown Soldier (1938)
3) "Sim Shalom"
from Vier Lieder, Op. 29 (1938)
4) "Rechot"
5) "Mazkeret"
Medium: Medium Voice and Piano
Published:
Duration:
Wolpe, Stefan. Funf Lieder nach Friedrich Holderin, Op. 1
Ed. Austin Clarkson . Alto, piano . Hamburg and New York 1991.
New critical edition of this song cycle by Stefan Wolpe,
composed between 1924 and 1927, and revised in 1935.
Pepper Music 7973498
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Duo Im Hexachord (1935/36)
[Suite im Hexachord]
Sostenuto
Pastorale
Fuge
Adagio
Medium: Oboe, Clarinet
Published: Josef Marx Music Co., ca. 1964
Duration: 15:00
SUITE IM HEXACHORD
New York, NY Playing score 1964/1990.
A new printing of this work originally composed in 1936.
Has been recorded on Crystal Records.
Pepper Music 7929763
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Tsedaktem habonim hatseirim (1936)
Medium: chorus (SATB) [English & Hebrew]
Published: Hargail Music Press, ca. 1949
Duration: 2:00
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Sonata for Oboe and Piano (1936/38)
Medium: Oboe, Piano
Published:
Duration:
SONATA-OBOE SOLO
New York 1991. The first publication of Stefan Wolpe's Oboe Sonata
composed in Jerusalem in 1937- 38 (and revised in 1941).
Pepper Music 7970130
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Four Studies on Basic Rows
I Study on Tritones (1936)
II Study on Thirds (1935)
III Presto Furioso:
Study on a set of expanding and contracting intervals (1935)
IV Passacaglia (1936) [revised 1971]
Study on an all-interval row in conjunction with
eleven basic rowa
[Instrumental version 1937]
Duration: ca. 13:10 - 15:00
Medium: Piano
Published: Merion Music Inc. 1974
Duration:
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Chinese Epitaphs Op. 25 (1937)
Medium: Piano
Published: [1937]
Duration: 06:00
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6 Songs from the Hebrew (1938)
A collection of various songs from the Palestine period.
"Lilacs" (Noach Stern)
"On a Mural by Diego Rivera" (Noach Stern)
"David's Lament over Johnathan"
Lines from The Prophet Micah
Isaiah
Song of Songs
Medium: Middle Voice, Piano
Published: McGinnis & Marx ca. 1962
Duration:
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Dance in a Form of a Chaconne (1938),
Medium: Piano
Published: Arrow Music Press ca. 1941
Duration: 2:30-3:00
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Epitaph (1938)
Medium: Low voice, Piano
Published: Hargail Music Press ca. 1951
Duration: 2:00
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If it be my fate .... (1938)
Medium: Low voice, Piano
Published: Hargail Music Press ca. 1951
Duration: 3:30
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Lieder, op. 29. (Jassurim anach nu)
Medium: Middle voice, Piano
Published: [1938]
Duration:
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Sonata for piano and oboe (1938)
Allegro comodo
Molto adagio
Embittered, violent and quick
Allegro con grazia
Medium: Piano
Published:
Duration:
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To the Dancemaster (1938)
[La-menatzeach al ha-mecholot]
Medium: Middle Voice, Clarinet,Piano
Published: Josef Marx Music Co., ca. 1989
Duration: 2:00
TO THE DANCEMASTER
New York, NY Score and parts 1989.
Poem by Chaim Nachman Bialik. Text in Hebrew.
English translation is provided though is not meant to be sung.
Pepper Music 7929755
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Pastorale (piano 1939),
Medium: Piano
Published:
Duration: ca. 2:08
Out of Print
New Edition to appear in a volume of early piano works
from the Wolpe Society edited by Austin Clarkson
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Sonata for Oboe (1941)
Medium: Oboe, Piano
Published: J. Marx Music Co. ca. 1991
Duration: 20:00
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Toccata in three parts (piano 1941)
Medium: Piano
Published:
Duration: ca. 11:30
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Piece in three parts (piano and 16 instruments 1961)
quarter note = 100
quarter note = 74
quarter note = 132
Medium: Solo Piano; flute, piccolo, oboe, clarinet, baritone saxophone,
violin, viola,
2 trumpets, 2 horns, bass tuba, harp, electric guitar, percussion
Published: Southern Music Pub. c1993
Duration: ca. 14:00
PIECE IN THREE PARTS
Study Score
Ed. Austin Clarkson . New York Full Score 1993. Premiered in May
1962, this work is representative of Wolpe's later style. It includes a
musical tribute to victims of the Holocaust. Critical edition prepared
by the Stefan Wolpe Society.
Pepper Music 5261623
PIECE FOR PIANO/16 INSTR ?
Study Score
Pepper Music 7966187
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Zemach Suite (piano 1941)
Medium: Piano
Published: New York, Hargail Music Press, 1949
Duration:
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Man from Midian (The), ballet (1942)
Medium:
Published:
Duration:
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Battle Piece (piano 1943-44/47)
[ Encouragements for piano, first piece ]
In Seven Movements
Medium: Piano
Published: Hamburg; New York: Peer, ca. 1989
Duration: ca. 24:30
BATTLE PIECE FOR PIANO
Pepper Music 7966229
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Music for any Instruments: Interval Studies (1944-49)
Medium:
Published:
Duration:
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Yigdal: cantata (1945)
Medium: Solo Baritone, chorus
Published: Southern Music Pub. Co. ca. 1991
Duration: 20:00
YIGDAL
Study Score
Pepper Music 7966211
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Compositional Studies (1946-49)
Medium: Piano
Published:
Duration:
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Studies for Piano, Part I (Piano; 1948)
Displaced Spaces, Schocks, Negations,
A New sort of Relationship in Space,
Pattern, Tempo, Diversity of Actions,
Interactions and Intensities
Medium: Piano
Published:
Duration: ca. 4:15
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Two studies for Piano (Part II) (1948)
Medium: Piano
Published: McGinnis & Marx, ca. 1955
Duration: 3:00
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Sonata for violin and Piano (1949)
Medium: Violin, Piano
Published: McGinnis & Marx, ca. 1955
Duration:
Notes: dedicated to violinist Frances Magnes
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Quartet (1950)
Medium: Piano, Trumpet, Tenor Saxophone, Percussion
Published: Josef Marx Music Co. ca. 1966
Duration:
QUARTET #1-TRP/SAX/PNO/PERC
Study Score
New York, NY Study score, spiral 1966/89. Written in 1950.
Pepper Music 7902620
QUARTET #1-TPT/SAX/PF/PERC SC/PTS
Pepper Music 8006801
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Apollo and Artemis (1955)
Medium: Middle voice, Piano
Published:
Duration:
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The Hour Glass (1958)
Medium: Middle voice, Piano
Published:
Duration:
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Medium for Medium Voice and Piano (1959)
Medium: Middle voice, Piano
Published: 19??
Duration:
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The Angel (1959)
Medium: Middle voice, Piano
Published: 19??
Duration: 01:00
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Form (1959)
Medium: Piano
Published:
Duration:
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Piece in Two Parts (1960)
Medium: Piano, Flute
Published: Josef Marx Music ca. 1969
Duration:
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Chamber piece #1 (1963)
Medium: Instrumental Ensemble (14 players)
Published: Southern Music Co. 1985
Duration: ca. 8:30
CHAMBER PIECE #1 FOR 14 PLAYERS
Pepper Music 7591043
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Trio in Two Parts (1963-64)
Medium: Flute, Cello, Piano
Published: Southern Music Pub. Co., ca. 1978
Duration: ca. 17:00
TRIO IN TWO PARTS
Ed. Edward Levy. New York, NY Score and parts 1978. First edition for
sale of this work dating from Wolpe's later period.
Pepper Music 7894413
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Piece in two parts, for violin alone #1 (1964)
Medium: Violin
Published: Josef Marx Music ca. 1966
Duration:
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Piece in two parts, for violin alone #2 (1966)
Medium: Violin
Published: Josef Marx Music ca. 1968
Duration:
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Piece for Cello Alone (1966)
Medium: Solo Cello
Published:
Duration:
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Solo Piece for Trumpet (1966)
Medium: Solo Trumpet
Published: Josef Marx Music Co. ca. 1968
Duration:
Note: Premiered in 1966 by trumpeter Ronald Anderson.
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Chamber piece #2 (1967)
Medium: Piano, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, Trumpet, Trombone,
Strings and Percussion
Published: Southern Music Pub. 1987
Duration: ca. 03:45
CHAMBER PIECE #2 FOR 13 PLAYERS
Eds. Austin Clarkson and Anthony Korf, New York, NY Score 1977/87.
First publication of this work. This edition was prepared from
original scores which were badly damaged in a fire in 1970..
Pepper Music 7894421
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Enactments
[Black Mountain period]
Medium: Three Pianos
Published:
Duration:
SEVEN PIECES FOR THREE PIANOS
Pepper Music 7479991
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Symphony
[Black Mountain Period]
Medium: Full Orchestra
Published:
Duration:
SYMPHONY
Study Score
Pepper Music 7966195
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Form IV (Broken Sequences) (Piano; 1969)
Medium: Piano
Published: Henmar Press ca. 1970
Duration: ca. 4:00-5:30
BROKEN SEQUENCES FORM 4
Pepper Music 7126253
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From Here on Farther (1969)
Medium: Piano, Violin, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet
Published: Southern Music Pub. ca. 1993
Duration:
Wolpe, Stefan. From Here On Farther,
Ed. Austin Clarkson . New York Score & parts 1993.
Composed in 1969, this is a single-movement work in which a graceful,
shapely figure is broken by spasmodic interruptions.
First publication; critical edition by the Stefan Wolpe Society.
Pepper Music 5261854
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String Quartet (1969)
Medium: 2 Violins, Viola, Cello
Published:
Duration:
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Studien ueber Grundreihen (1971)
Medium: Piano
Published: Merion Music, ca. 1974
Duration: 26:00
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WITH MISSING DATES OF COMPOSITION:
An die Armee der Kunstler
Medium: Piano
Published:
Duration:
DECRET NO.2 AN [DIE] ARMEE DER KUNSTLER
Vocal VOCAL ....Grade-4
Pepper Music 7966252
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Drei Lieder von Bertolt Brecht
Medium: Piano
Published:
Duration:
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Piece for Cello Alone (Cello, from Second Piece for Violin)
Medium: Piano
Published:
Duration:
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Early piano pieces:
Lied
Anrede
Hymnus
Strophe
Medium: Piano
Published:
Duration:
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4 Songs from the Hebrew
A collection of various songs from the Palestine period.
Medium: Piano
Published:
Duration:
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Music for a Dancer
Medium: Piano
Published: New York: Peer music, ca. 1990
Duration:
MUSIC FOR A DANCER
Study Score
Pepper Music 7966179
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Piece In Two Parts for Six Players
Medium:
Published:
Duration:
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Piece for Two Instrumental Units
Medium:
Published:
Duration:
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Duo
Medium: 2 violins
Published:
Duration:
DUO FOR ZWEI GEIGEN
Pepper Music 7966237
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Quartet for Oboe
Medium: Oboe, Cello, Percussion & Piano
Published: J. Marx Music Co. ca. 1976
Duration:
QUARTET-OBOE/CELLO/PERC/PNO
Study Score
New York, NY Study score, spiral 1976/89.
Pepper Music 7902638
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Oboe Sonata (For Josef Marx)
Medium: Solo Oboe
Published:
Duration:
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To Anna Blume
Medium: Piano and Musical Clown
Published:
Duration:
AN ANNA BLUME-STUDY SCORE
Study Score
Pepper Music 7966153
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Quartet No. 1
Medium:
Published:
Duration:
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Musik fuer Hamlet
Medium:
Published:
Duration:
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Quintet with Voice (1956/1957)
Of Festive Grace
Here, the Sun Violet
Variations
Medium: Voice (bass-baritone), Pno, Hrn, Cln, Cllo, Hrp
Published:
Duration: 20' 52"
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Remembering the Dancemaster
Medium: Piano
Published:
Duration:
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March and Variations
Medium: Two Pianos
Published: NYC 1977/1987
Duration:
MARCH AND VARIATIONS
New York, NY - Set of two scores 1977/1997. Variations 1 through 4
flow together, 5 and 6 are like a scherzo and trio, while 7 through
9 are likened to an intermezzo, slow movement, and finale.
Fully annotated with extensive preface..
Pepper Music 5545140
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Cantata for Mezzo Soprano
Medium: Mezzo Soprano, ?
Published:
Duration:
CANTATA FOR MEZZO-SOPRANO
Pepper Music 7966245
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Waltz for Merle
Medium: Piano and ?
Published:
Duration:
WALTZ FOR MERLE
Study Score
Pepper Music 7966203
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Piece for trumpet and instrumental ensemble
Medium: Trumpet; Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass
Published: C. F. Peters Corp. ca. 1978
Duration: ca. 14:00
PIECE-TRUMPET/7 INSTR-STUDY SCORE
Study Score
Pepper Music 7482128
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The Good Spirit of a Right Cause
Medium: Piano
Published: Hamburg; New York: Peermusic, ca. 1990.
Duration:
Pepper Music 7966161
Study Score
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???
THREE PIECES
Choral Works
Pepper Music 7966260
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Collections of Composition Scores
Collections of Composition Scores
Lieder Mit Klavierbegleitung
Medium: Voice and Piano
Comments: Ed. Thomas Phleps . New York 1993.
A new critical edition of Wolpe's songs from 1929-1933.
With extensive critical notes. German text. 402 pages.
Published: Pepper Music 8006884
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Discography
Vinyl:
J. Gaetano: Hebrew Songs
String Quartet (1969) in
The Avant Garde String Quartet in the U.S.A.
with strings quartets by Earle Brown, John Cage, George Crumb,
Jacob Druckman, Morton Feldman, Lejaren Hiller, Leon Kirchner and
Christian Wolff.
The Concord String Quartet:
Mark Sokol and Andrew Jennings, violin; John Kochanowski, Viola;
Norman Fischer, Cello
Vox SVBX 5306
Stefan Wolpe
Sonata for Violin and Piano (1949)
Frances Magnes, Violin; David Tudor Piano (?)
Passacaglia
David Tudor, Piano
Quartet (1950)
Bob Nagel, Trumpet; Al Cohn, Tenor Sax.; Al Howard, Percussion;
Jack Maxim, Piano; Samuel Baron, Conductor.
Counterpoint/Esoteric (Everest) Mono 530, Stereo 5530
Notes: Recordings were supervised by the composer.
The Man from Midian
Koch International Recording.
A version for 2 pianos featuring Cameron Grant and James Winn.
Battle Piece
[with William Bolcom's 12 new etudes]
recorded by Marc Andre Hamelin
Trio (1963)
with George Crumb: "Eleven Echoes of Aurumn" (1965)
Group for Contemporary Music at Columbia University
Lewis Kaplan, violin; David Gilbert, Flute, Lloyd Greenberg, Clarinet;
Jacob Maxim, Piano.
CRI 233 USD
Chamber Piece No.1 (1964)
with Seymour Schifrin's "Satires of Circumstance" (1964)
and George Rochberg's "Serenata d'estate" (1955)
The Contemporary Chamber Ensemble (Arthur Weissberg, conductor)
Nonesuch H-71220 (stereo)
Twentieth Century Piano Music: Classic and Contemporary.
Anne Chamberlain, Piano
Pastorale (1939)
Presto Agitato (1929)
Form (1959)
also with
Howard Rovics: Three studies for Piano (1966)
Raoul Pleskow: Piece of Piano (1966)
Arnold Schoenberg: Op. 11, Op. 19, Op. 33a
Ars Nova, Ars Antingua Recordings AN-1007
Lib. Congress #: 79-751281
Arline Carmen, alto; Leon Lishner, bass; David Tudor; Piano
Wolpe, Ten Songs from the Hebrew
with works by Alan Hovhaness
Columbia Records Collectors' Series (Modern American Music Series)
AML 5179
Compact Discs:
Symphony
Weisberg/Orchestra of the 20th Century.
+Sessions: Violin Concerto. Rec. 1974
CRI 676
Man from Midian (The), ballet
Group for Contemporary Music
+String Quartet; Second Piece for Violin;
+Schoenberg/Webern: 5 Pieces
KCH 7315
Quartet for Oboe, Cello, Percussion & Piano
Group for Contemporary Music. (1955)
+Volin. Sonata; Trio in 2 Parts for Flute, Cello & Piano
KCH 7112
Quartet for Strings (1969)
Group for Contemporary Music
+The Man from Midian; Second Piece for Violin;
Schoenberg/Webern: 5 Pieces
KCH 7315
Solo Piece for Trumpet in 2 parts
TRUMPET IN OUR TIME
DCD-148
Program Notes:
The German composer Stefan Wolpe moved to the United States in 1938,
living in New York City until his death in 1972. Solo Piece for
Trumpet was premiered in 1966 by trumpeter Ronald Anderson. A more
substantial work had been planned, but the composer's failing health
prevented this, and the result was this two and a half minute solo.
Interestingly, part two of the piece calls for trumpet in F alto, an
obsolete instrument even in 1966, but permits performance on B-flat
trumpet with the subsequent transposition up a perfect fourth. This
more frequently performed B-flat trumpet alternative is presented on
this recording, while on a recent Wolpe CD by the Parnassus ensemble,
Mr. Mase uses a four valve flugelhorn to realize this movement in its
original tessitura.
Collections
Ensemble Aventure. Ob. Son.; To Anna Blume for Pno. & Musical Clown.
+Schulhoff: Divertissement for Ob., Clnt., Bsn.; Bass Nightingale
Wolkenpumpe
ARM 1071
Korf/Parnassus Ens. Incl.: Piece in 2 Parts for 6 Players; Drei Lieder
von Bertolt Brecht; Qrt. No. 1; Musik for Hamlet; Piece for 2
Instrumental Units; To the Dancemaster
KCH 7141
Suite im Hexachord (1935/36) [premier recording]
Crystal S355 (1983)
Floyd Williams ,clarinet and Darrel Randall,oboe.
Various. Qnt. with Voice; Piece in 3 Parts for Pno. & 16 Instruments;
Duo im Hexachord
BDG 9043
Stefan Wolpe - Wild Roses (Songs from Berlin, Jerusalem and New York)
Emilie Berendsen, mezzo-soprano; David Bloch, piano
Symposium Records, 110, Derwent Avenue,
East Barnet, Herfordshire EN4 8LZ
Catalogue number: Symposium 1216
Contents:
Funf [Fuenf] Lieder nach Texten von Friedrich Holderlin (1924, rev. 1935)
from Bearbeitungen Ostjudischer Volkslieder (1923-25)
1) "Onder dem Kinds Wiegele"
2) "Es Kimt Gefloigen di Gilderne Pawe"
from Ballad of the Unknown Soldier (1938)
3) "Sim Shalom"
from Vier Lieder, Op. 29 (1938)
4) "Rechot"
5) "Mazkeret"
From Six Songs from the Hebrew (1938)
Song of Songs
From Arrangements of Palestinian and Yemenite Folksongs (1938)
"Lo Nelech Mi Po"
"Saleinu al K'tefeinu"
"Tel-Aviv"
Apollo and Artemis (1955)
The Hour Glass (1958)
The Angel (1959)
Medium for Medium Voice and Piano (1959)
A listing of cd's from cduniverse:
[Prices are not necessarily accurate]
Title of Album
American Masters - Sessions: Violin
Concerto; Wolpe
$13.85
American String Quartets 1950-1970 /
Concord Quartet
$9.10
Architecture and Aria - Three Centuries of
the Virtuoso Oboe
$12.97
Brant, Scelsi, Wolpe, Xenaxis, Cage, Glass, et
al / Paul Zukofsky
$16.28
For Stefan Wolpe - Wolpe, Feldman, Cage,
Carter, Schollhorn
$15.90
Form - Arthur Berger, Stefan Wolpe
$12.97
Gerard Schwarz Performs New Music for
Trumpet
$12.53
Sessions, Wolpe, Babbitt: String Quartets
/Juilliard Quartet
$13.85
Spectrum: New American Music
$12.97
Stefan Wolpe, Raoul Pleskow, Peter Maxwell
Davies / Holzman
$13.85
Tango Fantasy / Stefan Hussong
$13.85
Wolpe, Schoenberg / The Group for
Contemporary Music
$13.85
wolpe: quartet, trio for flute, etc. / fleezanis,
ohlsson
$13.85
Wolpe: Quintet with Voice, Piece, Suite /
Serkin, et al
$13.85
Wolpe: Symphony 1, Yigdal Cantata,
Chamber Pieces 1 & 2
$5.48
Piano Collections
Peter Serkin; Works by Igor Stravinsky, Stefan Wolpe, Peter Lieberson
New World Records (NW 344-2)
Geoffrey Douglas Madge: Stefan Wolpe, Piano Music
Gesang, weil ich Teures verlassen muss (1920)
Stehende Musik (1925)
Tango (1927)
Rag-Caprice (1927)
Cinq Marches Chacteristiques Op. 10
Nr. 1 energico ed animato (1928)
Passacaglia (1936/Revised 1971)
Dance in the Form of a Chaconne (1938)
Battle Piece (1943-44/47)
Displaced Spaces, Shocks ... for Piano (1946)
Form IV: Broken Sequences for Piano (1969)
CPO Digital Recording (cpo 999 055-2)
Holzman. "Music for a Dancer"
+works by Raoul Pleskow and Peter Maxwell Davies
CEN 2102
Wolpe, Katarina. "Remembering the Dancemaster" Incl.: Early Piece;
Passacaglia; Zemach Suite.
LGO 5120
Writings
Wolpe, Stefan,
"Proportionen" (1960)
Cf. Greenbaum
Wolpe, Stefan,
"Thinking Twice" (1959),
in Contemporary Composers on Contemporary Music,
Schwartz, Elliot and Childs, Barney (eds),
Holt Rinehart Winston (1967).
Wolpe, Stefan,
"Thoughts on Pitch and Some Considerations Connected With It,"
Perspectives of New Music 17.2 (1979), 28-50.
Wolpe, Stefan,
"To Understand Music (With an Introduction by Austin Clarkson),"
Sonus 3.1 (1982), 4-17.
Wolpe, Stefan,
"A Bunch of Notes: A Lecture,"
Perspectives of New Music 21.1 (1983), 295-311.
Bibliography
Bauer, Marion, "Stefan Wolpe", Modern Music XIX (1939) pp. 233-236.
Cowell, Henry, Record Review, Musical Quarterly XLIII/2 (1957) p. 142.
Levy, Edward,
"Stefan Wolpe: (for his sixtieth birthday),"
Perspectives of New Music 2.1 (Fall-Winter 1963), 51-65.
Levy, Edward, "Stefan Wolpe", Perspectives on American Composers,
Benjamin Boretz and Edward T. Cone, eds.
Norton Press (1971).
Carter, Elliott,
"In Memoriam: Stefan Wolpe (1902-1972),"
Perspectives of New Music 11.1 (1972), 3-5.
Babbitt, Milton,
"In Memoriam: Stefan Wolpe (1902-1972),"
Perspectives of New Music 11.1 (1972), 5-6.
Wuorinen, Charles,
"In Memoriam: Stefan Wolpe (1902-1972),"
Perspectives of New Music 11.1 (1972), 6.
Stempel, Larry,
"A Colophon for Stefan Wolpe,"
Perspectives of New Music 11.1 (1972), 6-10.
Brody, Martin,
"Sensibility Defined: Set Projection in Stefan Wolpe's Form for Piano,"
Perspectives of New Music 15.2 (1977), 3-22.
Hasty, Christopher,
"Segmentation and Process in Post-Tonal Music,"
Music Theory Spectrum 3 (1981), 54-73.
atonal music, analysis, set theory, segmentation, closure
Stefen Wolpe, String Quartet, Anton Webern, op. 24/2,
Arnold Schoenberg, op. 23/1.
Hasty, Christopher F,
"Rhythm in Post-Tonal Music: Preliminary Questions of Duration and Motion,"
JMT 25.2 (Fall 1981), 183-216.
rhythm, meter, atonal, theory, psychology, time, temporality.
Boring, Cone, Cooper, Meyer, Harris.
Webern, Piano Variation, op. 27,
Wolpe, Form for Piano.
Post, Nora,
"Varese, Wolpe and the Oboe,"
Perspectives of New Music 20.1&2 (1981-1982), 135-148.
Kalischer, Clemens,
"Stefan Wolpe at Black Mountain College: A Photograph,"
Sonus 3.1 (1982), 1-3.
Greenbaum, Matthew,
"Stefan Wolpe's 'Proportions': A Translation and Commentary"
City University of New York Ph. D. Thesis (1983)
Clarkson, Austin,
"Translation of On New (and Not-So-New) Music in America, by Stefan Wolpe,"
JMT 28.1 (Spring 1984), 1-45.
history, composition, serial, avant garde.
Wolpe, Quartet for Trumpet, Tenor Saxophone, Percussion and Piano,
Babbit, Second String Quartet.
Wolpert, Rita S,
"Recognition of Melody, Harmonic Accompaniment, and Instrumentation:
Musicians vs. Nonmusicians,"
Music Perception 8.1 (Fall 1990), 95-106.
Das revolution?er Exilwerk des Komponisten Stefan Wolpe - mit
kritischen Anmerkungen zur Musikgeschichtsschreibung der dreiziger
und vierziger Jahre, in: Jahrbuch fuer Exilforschung, Muenchen 1992,
S. 129-151
Stefan Wolpe. Intern. Symposium, Toronto 1993 (Proceedings, ed. by
A. Clarkson), S. 1-25
Clarkson, Austin,
"'The Fantasy Can Be Critically Examined': Composition and Theory in
the Thought of Stefan Wolpe" in Music Theory and the Exploration of
the Past, edited by Christopher Hatch & David W Bernstein,
The Univ. of Chicago Press (1993)
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