Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Charles Griffes

His most famous works are the White Peacock, for piano (1915,orchestrated in 1919);his Piano Sonata( 1917-18 revisted 1919) a tone poem, The pleasure Dome of Kubla Klan, after the fragment by Coler idge (1912, revised,in 1916), and poem for flute and orchestra(1918).He also wrote numerous programmatic pieces  for piano , chamber ensembles, and for voice. The amount and quality of his music is impressive considering his short life and his full-time teaching job,and much of his music is still performed.

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