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Name
  
Rolv Yttrehus

Role
  
Composer

Education
  
University of Michigan


Rolv yttrehus music for winds percussion cello and voices 1969


Rolv Berger Yttrehus (b. Duluth, Minnesota, March 12, 1926) is an American composer of contemporary classical music.

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He holds degrees from the University of Minnesota and University of Michigan and a Diploma from the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He studied harmony with Nadia Boulanger and composition with Ross Lee Finney, Roger Sessions, Aaron Copland, and Goffredo Petrassi. He taught at the University of Missouri, Purdue University, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, and Rutgers University.

He regards Arnold Schoenberg and Sessions as his principal influences.

Rolv yttrehus gradus ad parnassum 1979


List of works

  • Six Pieces for Piano Solo (1942–45)
  • Six Haiku (1960)
  • Music for Winds, Percussion, and Viola (1961)
  • Espressioni per Orchestra (1962)
  • Sextet (1964–70, revised 1974) pub. C.F. Peters Corporation
  • Music for Winds, Percussion, 'Cello and Voices (1969) pub. APNM
  • Angstwagen (1971)
  • Quintet (1973)
  • Gradus ad Parnassum (1974–79)
  • Sonata for Percussion and Piano (1982) pub. C.F. Peters Corporation
  • Explorations for Piano Solo (1985) pub. APNM
  • Sonata for 'Cello and Piano (1988, revised 1989) pub. C.F. Peters Corporation
  • Raritan Variations (1989) pub. APNM
  • Symphony No. 1 (1998) pub. APNM
  • Plectrum Spectrum (2000) pub. APNM
  • Sextet II (2006) pub. APNM
  • Laudate Milton Babbitt (2006) pub. APNM

    • References

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