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Ben Weber (composer)

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Occupation
  
Composer

Name
  
Ben Weber


Role
  
Composer

Education
  
DePaul University

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Full Name
  
William Jennings Bryan Weber

Born
  
July 23, 1916 (
1916-07-23
)
St. Louis

Died
  
June 16, 1979, New York City, New York, United States

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

Similar People
  
Virgil Thomson, Charles Griffes, Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison, Ned Rorem

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William Jennings Bryan "Ben" Weber (July 23, 1916 in St. Louis – June 16, 1979 in New York City) was an American composer.

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Weber He was "one of the first Americans to embrace the 12-tone techniques of Schoenberg, starting in 1938"; he was largely self-taught. He worked initially as a copyist and only came to recognition in the 1950s.

Weber used the twelve-tone technique but, rather than avoid tonality, he worked with it and achieved a virtuoso Romantic style. He composed chamber music for various combinations of instruments, orchestral music including concertos for violin and piano, piano music, and songs.

Weber wrote his own unpublished memoirs, How I Took 63 Years to Commit Suicide" (as told to Matthew Paris)

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Awards

Weber was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowships in 1950. He received a Thorne Music Award in 1965,. which was given to composers of “mature years and recognized accomplishments".

References

Ben Weber (composer) Wikipedia