Norma Wendelburg

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Norma Wendelburg
Born
Norma Ruth Wendelburg

(1918-03-26)March 26, 1918
Stafford, Kansas, U.S.
DiedJuly 26, 2016(2016-07-26) (aged 98)
Education
Occupations
  • Pianist
  • Composer
  • Academic teacher
Organizations

Norma Ruth Wendelburg (March 26, 1918 –July 26, 2016) was an American composer, Fulbright scholar, pianist and teacher. [1]

Contents

Life

Wendelburg was born in Stafford, Kansas, and won a scholarship to Bethany College (Kansas) where she received a B.M. degree. Wendelburg received a M.M. degree from the University of Michigan, where she studied composition with Ross Lee Finney and Homer Keller, [2] and piano with John Kollen. In 1948, she received a fellowship from the Wellesley Composers Conference and Chamber Music Center, where she studied with Otto Luening and Ingolf Dahl. [3] She attended the Tanglewood Music Center in 1953 on scholarship and studied with Carlos Chavez. As a Fulbright scholar from 1953 to 1955, Wendelburg studied with Cesar Bresgen at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and with Karl Schiske at the Academy of Music in Vienna. [3] [4] She received her Ph.D. from Eastman School of Music in 1969, [5] where she held a research fellowship and studied with Wayne Barlow and Bernard Rogers. [6]

Wendelburg belonged to the music fraternity Sigma Alpha Iota [7] and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). She received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Huntington Hartford Foundation. [8]

Over the years, Wendelburg taught at Wayne State College (Nebraska); her alma mater Bethany College; Hardin-Simmons University (Texas); Southwest Texas State University; Dallas Baptist College; [9] and Iowa State Teacher's College (today known as the University of North Iowa). While teaching at Iowa State Teacher's College, she was named one of America's outstanding young composers by a committee that included composers Walter Piston and William Schuman. [10]

Compositions

Chamber

  • Affirmation (trombone and piano) [11]
  • Concenter (clarinet and piano; 1971) [12]
  • Andante and allegro (woodwind quartet; 1951) [11]
  • Echo and Narcissus (flute)
  • Fantasy (trumpet and piano) [13]
  • Festival Piece (brass and tympani; 1959) [14]
  • Five Duos for Flute and Clarinet [11]
  • Four Dances (three woodwinds; 1958) [11]
  • Monologue (violin and piano) [15]
  • Clarinet Sonata [16]
  • Sonatina (oboe and piano; 1951) [17]
  • String Quartet No. 1 (1952) [18]
  • String Quartet No. 2 (1956) [11]
  • Suite No. 1 (violin and piano; 1951) [15]
  • Suite No. 2 (violin and piano; 1964) [19]
  • To Nature (violin and piano suite; 1972) [6]
  • Trio for Brass [17]
  • Variants (percussion; 1972) [11]

Orchestra

  • Clarinet Concerto [20]
  • Concert Piece (bassoon and string orchestra; 1952) [6]
  • Concertino (oboe and string orchestra; 1956) [21]
  • Galaxy (clarinet and orchestra) [22]
  • Poem (flute and string orchestra; 1947) [6]
  • Sinfonietta (1993) [3]
  • Symphony No. 1 (1967) [23]
  • Triptych (1961) [6]

Organ

  • Chorale Fantasy [24]
  • Interlacings [6]
  • Six Chorale Preludes [11]
  • Toccata [25]

Piano

  • American Fantasy (1976) [6]
  • Eight Sketches (1950) [6]
  • Six Preludes (1954) [11] [6]
  • Sophisticated Daughter [6]
  • Teaching Pieces [6]
  • Transformations [6]

Vocal

  • Alleluia (mixed chorus a capella; 1951) [6]
  • Apostles' Creed (mixed chorus and optional organ; 1962) [6]
  • Arise, O God, to Judge the Earth (Psalm 82; (mixed chorus and optional organ; 1973) [6]
  • Blessed (mixed chorus, flute, trumpet and organ; 1976) [6]
  • Boating Song (words by Li Po; mixed chorus and piano; 1960) [6]
  • Chinese Cycle from the Book of Songs (women's chorus and orchestra; 1962) [6]
  • Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God (soloista, chorus, congregation and instruments; 1969) [6]
  • Delight in the Lord (Psalm 37; mixed chorus and optional organ; 1973) [6]
  • Doors of Heaven (words by Robert Nathan; mixed chorus a capella; 1957) [6]
  • Eve (words by Ralph Hodgson; women's chorus and piano; 1956) [6]
  • Great Stars of Our Time (voice and piano) [6]
  • Help, O Lord, All Godly Men (Psalm 12; mixed chorus and optional organ; 1973) [6]
  • Hymn (words by Stephen Crane; women's chorus and piano; 1953) [6]
  • If I Take the Wings of Morning (Psalm 139 mixed chorus and flute; 1971) [6]
  • It is Good (Psalm 92; women's chorus and organ or piano; 1973) [6]
  • (The) Lord Reigns Over Us (Psalm 93; women's chorus and organ; 1973) [6]
  • Lord, Your Blessing Please (Psalm 67; mixed chorus and organ; 1973) [6]
  • My Lord, Chastise Me Not in Anger (Psalm 6; mixed chorus and optional organ; 1973) [6]
  • My Prayers, Like Incense Rising (Psalm 141; mixed chorus and optional organ; 1973) [6]
  • O God, We Wait Upon You Now (Psalm 130; mixed chorus and optional organ; 1973) [6]
  • O How I Love Thy Word (Psalm 117; women's or mixed chorus and optional organ; 1973) [6]
  • Setting of Psalm 13 (mixed chorus and optional organ; 1955) [6]
  • Setting of Psalm 83 (mixed chorus a capella; 1961) [6]
  • Promised Gifts (Psalm 85; tenor, mixed chorus, congregation, trumpet and organ) [6]
  • Setting of Psalm 100 (mixed chorus and woodwind quintet; 1971) [26]
  • Praise the Lord (Psalm 146; mixed chorus and optional organ; 1973) [6]
  • Setting of Psalm 147 (mixed chorus and organ or piano) [6]
  • Praise the Lord of Creation (Psalm 148; mixed chorus and organ; 1973) [6]
  • Silent Night (by Joseph Mohr; arranged by Wendelburg for mixed chorus a capella; 1968) [6]
  • Song of the White Clouds (soprano, two flutes, and piano; 1969) [6]
  • Song on May Morning (words by John Milton; women's chorus a capella; 1956) [6]
  • Songs of William Blake (voice and piano; 1953) [27] [6]
  • Stone Drums (1965) [6]
  • Three Miniatures (words by Rachel Field; women's chorus and piano; 1973) [6]
  • Three Songs (words by Betty Bird; 1971) [6]
  • Three Songs from Emily Dickinson [6]
  • Velvet Shoes (words by Elinor Wylie; women's chorus a capella; 1956) [6]
  • We Three Kings of Orient Are (by John Henry Hopkins Jr.; arranged by Wendelburg for mixed chorus and flute; 1972) [6]

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