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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------- Early Piece for Piano (1924) Andante con Moto Allegro Meno Mosso Andante con Moto Medium: Piano Published: McGinnis & Marx, ca. 1955 Duration: 6:00 ------------------------------------- Sonata #1 (Piano; 1925-28) [new revised version 1971(?)] Medium: Piano Published: Duration: ------------------------------------- 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. ------------------------------------- Cinq marches caracterisque Op. 10 (1928-1934) #1 energico ed animato (1928) Medium: Piano Published: Duration: ca. 1:30 ------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------- Tsedaktem habonim hatseirim (1936) Medium: chorus (SATB) [English & Hebrew] Published: Hargail Music Press, ca. 1949 Duration: 2:00 ------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------- 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: ------------------------------------- Chinese Epitaphs Op. 25 (1937) Medium: Piano Published: [1937] Duration: 06:00 ------------------------------------- 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: ------------------------------------- Dance in a Form of a Chaconne (1938), Medium: Piano Published: Arrow Music Press ca. 1941 Duration: 2:30-3:00 ------------------------------------- Epitaph (1938) Medium: Low voice, Piano Published: Hargail Music Press ca. 1951 Duration: 2:00 ------------------------------------- If it be my fate .... (1938) Medium: Low voice, Piano Published: Hargail Music Press ca. 1951 Duration: 3:30 ------------------------------------- Lieder, op. 29. (Jassurim anach nu) Medium: Middle voice, Piano Published: [1938] Duration: ------------------------------------- Sonata for piano and oboe (1938) Allegro comodo Molto adagio Embittered, violent and quick Allegro con grazia Medium: Piano Published: Duration: ------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------- Sonata for Oboe (1941) Medium: Oboe, Piano Published: J. Marx Music Co. ca. 1991 Duration: 20:00 ------------------------------------- Toccata in three parts (piano 1941) Medium: Piano Published: Duration: ca. 11:30 ------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------- Zemach Suite (piano 1941) Medium: Piano Published: New York, Hargail Music Press, 1949 Duration: ------------------------------------- Man from Midian (The), ballet (1942) Medium: Published: Duration: ------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------- Music for any Instruments: Interval Studies (1944-49) Medium: Published: Duration: ------------------------------------- Yigdal: cantata (1945) Medium: Solo Baritone, chorus Published: Southern Music Pub. Co. ca. 1991 Duration: 20:00 YIGDAL Study Score Pepper Music 7966211 ------------------------------------- Compositional Studies (1946-49) Medium: Piano Published: Duration: ------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------- Two studies for Piano (Part II) (1948) Medium: Piano Published: McGinnis & Marx, ca. 1955 Duration: 3:00 ------------------------------------- Sonata for violin and Piano (1949) Medium: Violin, Piano Published: McGinnis & Marx, ca. 1955 Duration: Notes: dedicated to violinist Frances Magnes ------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------- Apollo and Artemis (1955) Medium: Middle voice, Piano Published: Duration: ------------------------------------- The Hour Glass (1958) Medium: Middle voice, Piano Published: Duration: ------------------------------------- Medium for Medium Voice and Piano (1959) Medium: Middle voice, Piano Published: 19?? Duration: ------------------------------------- The Angel (1959) Medium: Middle voice, Piano Published: 19?? Duration: 01:00 ------------------------------------- Form (1959) Medium: Piano Published: Duration: ------------------------------------- Piece in Two Parts (1960) Medium: Piano, Flute Published: Josef Marx Music ca. 1969 Duration: ------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------- Piece in two parts, for violin alone #1 (1964) Medium: Violin Published: Josef Marx Music ca. 1966 Duration: ------------------------------------- Piece in two parts, for violin alone #2 (1966) Medium: Violin Published: Josef Marx Music ca. 1968 Duration: ------------------------------------- Piece for Cello Alone (1966) Medium: Solo Cello Published: Duration: ------------------------------------- Solo Piece for Trumpet (1966) Medium: Solo Trumpet Published: Josef Marx Music Co. ca. 1968 Duration: Note: Premiered in 1966 by trumpeter Ronald Anderson. ------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------- Enactments [Black Mountain period] Medium: Three Pianos Published: Duration: SEVEN PIECES FOR THREE PIANOS Pepper Music 7479991 ------------------------------------- Symphony [Black Mountain Period] Medium: Full Orchestra Published: Duration: SYMPHONY Study Score Pepper Music 7966195 ------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------- String Quartet (1969) Medium: 2 Violins, Viola, Cello Published: Duration: ------------------------------------- Studien ueber Grundreihen (1971) Medium: Piano Published: Merion Music, ca. 1974 Duration: 26:00 ------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------- Drei Lieder von Bertolt Brecht Medium: Piano Published: Duration: ------------------------------------- Piece for Cello Alone (Cello, from Second Piece for Violin) Medium: Piano Published: Duration: ------------------------------------- Early piano pieces: Lied Anrede Hymnus Strophe Medium: Piano Published: Duration: ------------------------------------- 4 Songs from the Hebrew A collection of various songs from the Palestine period. Medium: Piano Published: Duration: ------------------------------------- Music for a Dancer Medium: Piano Published: New York: Peer music, ca. 1990 Duration: MUSIC FOR A DANCER Study Score Pepper Music 7966179 ------------------------------------- Piece In Two Parts for Six Players Medium: Published: Duration: ------------------------------------- Piece for Two Instrumental Units Medium: Published: Duration: ------------------------------------- Duo Medium: 2 violins Published: Duration: DUO FOR ZWEI GEIGEN Pepper Music 7966237 ------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------- Oboe Sonata (For Josef Marx) Medium: Solo Oboe Published: Duration: ------------------------------------- To Anna Blume Medium: Piano and Musical Clown Published: Duration: AN ANNA BLUME-STUDY SCORE Study Score Pepper Music 7966153 ------------------------------------- Quartet No. 1 Medium: Published: Duration: ------------------------------------- Musik fuer Hamlet Medium: Published: Duration: ------------------------------------- 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" ------------------------------------- Remembering the Dancemaster Medium: Piano Published: Duration: ------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------- Cantata for Mezzo Soprano Medium: Mezzo Soprano, ? Published: Duration: CANTATA FOR MEZZO-SOPRANO Pepper Music 7966245 ------------------------------------- Waltz for Merle Medium: Piano and ? Published: Duration: WALTZ FOR MERLE Study Score Pepper Music 7966203 ------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------- The Good Spirit of a Right Cause Medium: Piano Published: Hamburg; New York: Peermusic, ca. 1990. Duration: Pepper Music 7966161 Study Score ------------------------------------- ??? THREE PIECES Choral Works Pepper Music 7966260 -------------------------------------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 -------------------------------------
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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