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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1959.
Athanasios "Thanos" Mikroutsikos was a Greek composer and politician. He is considered one of the most important composers of the recent Greek musical scene.
Elodie Lauten was a French-born American composer described as postminimalist or a microtonalist.
Nicolas Oreste Flagello was an American composer and conductor of classical music. He was one of the last American composers to develop a distinctive mode of expression based wholly on the principles and techniques of late romanticism.
Vladimir Alexeevich Ussachevsky was a composer, particularly known for his work in electronic music.
Jack Hamilton Beeson was an American composer. He was known particularly for his operas, the best known of which are Lizzie Borden, Hello Out There!, and The Sweet Bye and Bye.
Daniel Steven Crafts is an American composer. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, but has spent most of his life in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Necil Kazım Akses was a Turkish classical composer.
Paul Alan Levi is an American composer whose compositions have been performed in Carnegie Hall, among other major venues in United States and Europe, as well as on national television. He is the composer of the 1971-1984 PBS identity music.
Michel van der Aa is a Dutch composer of contemporary classical music.
Zygmunt Krauze is a Polish composer of contemporary classical music, educator, and pianist.
William Henry Bell, known largely by his initials, W H Bell, was an English composer, conductor and lecturer.
Odaline de la Martinez is a Cuban-American composer and conductor, currently residing in the UK. She is the artistic director of Lontano, a London-based contemporary music ensemble which she co-founded in 1976 with New Zealander flautist Ingrid Culliford, and was the first woman to conduct at the BBC Promenade Concerts in 1984. As well as frequent appearances as a guest conductor with leading orchestras throughout Great Britain, including all the BBC orchestras, she has conducted several leading ensembles around the world, including the Ensemble 2e2m in Paris; the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; the Australian Youth Orchestra; the OFUNAM and the Camerata of the Americas in Mexico; and the Vancouver Chamber Orchestra. She is also known as a broadcaster for BBC Radio and Television and has recorded extensively for several labels.
Ben Moore is an American composer whose works include art song, musical theatre, cabaret, chamber music, choral music and opera. His songs have been recorded by Deborah Voigt, Susan Graham Nathan Gunn and Lawrence Brownlee on the EMI, SonyBMG, Warner Classics and Opus Arte labels. Other singers who have performed his music include Frederica von Stade, Jerry Hadley, Robert White, and Audra McDonald.
Pril Smiley is an American composer and pioneer of electronic music.
James Dashow is an American composer of electro-acoustic music, instrumental music and opera.
Richard Michael Farber is an American-born Israeli composer and librettist whose career spans over more than four decades. Farber began his work as a theater and ballet composer from which he moved to large scale stage works and, recently, orchestral and vocal music; to date, Farber has penned eight operas, three of which had been premiered on stage and four on the radio in Germany. Farber is the 2005 recipient of the Composers’ Prime Minister Award.
John Drummond is a New Zealand musicologist, academic, and composer.
Haris Vrondos is a modern Greek composer.
References
- ↑ Pool, Jeannie G. (1979). "America's Women Composers: Up from the Footnotes". Music Educators Journal. 65 (5): 28–41. doi:10.2307/3395571. ISSN 0027-4321. JSTOR 3395571. S2CID 143442149.
- ↑ "Unsung Stories: Women at Columbia's Computer Music Center: Alice Shields (Part 1) on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved April 24, 2022.
- ↑ "Columbia Composers". Columbia Magazine. Retrieved July 5, 2016.
