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Elliott Carter

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Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. (born December 11, 1908, died November 5, 2012) is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born in New York City, a composer encompassing many facets of classical music, from neoclassicism to serialism. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, during which time he published his first composition in 1937 and then returned to the United States. After a neoclassical phase, he went on to write atonal, rhythmically complex music.

Top songs

  1. Retrouvailles
  2. Cello Concerto: 3. Giocoso
  3. Holiday Overture
  4. 2 Thoughts About the Piano: No. 2. Catenaires
  5. Moderately, wistfully
  6. Slowly, gravely
  7. Piano Concerto: Movement I
  8. II.
  9. Elegy
  10. Enchanted Preludes
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  1. Night Fantasies
  2. Figment No. 2, "Remembering Mr. Ives"
  3. String Quartet No. 1 (1951): I. Fantasia: Maestoso (quarter note=72) {m.1} *
  4. Concerto for Orchestra
  5. Piano Sonata, I Maestoso
  6. 90+
  7. Clarinet Concerto: Scherzando
  8. Symphonia: Sum Fluxae Pretium Spei: 2. Adagio tenebroso
  9. Gra - for solo clarinet (1993)
  10. Dust Of Snow
  11. 2 Thoughts About the Piano, No. 2. Caténaires: 2 Thoughts About the Piano: No. 2, Caténaires
  12. The Minotaur, Scene I: King Minos' Palace in Crete, Overture
  13. The Rose Family
  14. Elegy for Viola and Piano
  15. Cello Concerto: 1. Drammatico
  16. Symphony No. 1: I. Moderately, wistfully
  17. The Minotaur, Scene I: King Minos' Palace in Crete, Entrance of the bulls and the sacred bull
  18. Figment No. 1
  19. 2 Controversies and a Conversation: No. 3, Conversation
  20. The Minotaur, Scene II: Before the Labyrinth, Entrance of King Minos
  21. Gra
  22. The Minotaur, Scene II: Before the Labyrinth, Theseus and some of the Greeks emerge from the labyrinth and rejoice
  23. The Minotaur, Scene II: Before the Labyrinth, Ariadne unwinds her thread as Theseus, entering the labyrinth, pulls the thread after him
  24. Cello Concerto: 2. Allegro Appassionato
  25. Variations for Orchestra
  26. Piano Sonata: II. Andante
  27. Figment III
  28. The Minotaur, Scene II: Before the Labyrinth, Selection of Greek victims to be sent into the labyrinth
  29. The Minotaur, Scene II: Before the Labyrinth, Ariadne rewinds her thread to lead Theseus out of the labyrinth
  30. String Quartet No. 1 (1951): II. Allegro scorrevole (quarter note=135) {m.1)
  31. String Quartet No. 1 (1951): Allegro scorrevole (quartet note=135) {m.356
  32. III. Adagio
  33. A Symphony Of Three Orchestras
  34. 4 Lauds: No. 2. Riconoscenza per Goffredo Petrassi
  35. The Minotaur, Scene II: Before the Labyrinth, Greek victims are driven into the labyrinth
  36. Piano Sonata, II Andante
  37. The Minotaur, Scene II: Before the Labyrinth, Theseus' farewell to Ariadne as he enters the labyrinth
  38. String Quartet No. 1: II. Allegro scorrevole
  39. The Minotaur, Scene II: Before the Labyrinth, Ariadne, princess of Crete, dances with Theseus, a Greek victim
  40. String Quartet No. 5: Introduction
  41. Symphony No. 1: II. Slowly, gravely
  42. The Minotaur, Scene II: Before the Labyrinth, The thread breaks. Ariadne is greatly dismayed
  43. The Minotaur, Scene II: Before the Labyrinth, The Greeks and Theseus, forgetting Ariadne, leave Crete
  44. Cello Concerto: 7. Allegro Fantastico
  45. Woodwind Quintet: I. Allegretto
  46. String Quartet No. 2: I. Allegro fantastico -
  47. String Quartet No. 1 (1951): Adagio (quarter note=36) {m. 57} Variations (quarter note=72){m.167
  48. String Quartet No. 1: III. Variations
  49. String Quartet No. 2: Introduction -
  50. Cello Concerto: 4. Lento
  51. Caténaires
  52. String Quartet No. 2 (1959): Introduction (quarter note=105) (m.1)
  53. Changes
  54. Piano Concerto: I.
  55. Instances
  56. Cello Concerto: 5. Maestoso
  57. Dialogues
  58. String Quartet No. 5: Interlude I
  59. Andante-Allegro Giusto-Andante
  60. Cello Concerto: 6. Tranquillo
  61. String Quartet No. 3 (1971): Duo II: Maestoso (giusto sempre) - Pause - Grazioso - Giusto, meccanico ; Duo I: Furioso (quasi rubato sempre) - Leggerissimo - Andante espressivo - Pause
  62. String Quartet No. 2 (1959): I. Allegro fantastico (quarter note=112) (m.35)
  63. String Quartet No. 5: Interlude II
  64. Symphony No. 1: III. Vivaciously
  65. Double Concerto for Harpsichord & Piano with Two Chamber Orchestras: Introduction
  66. Double Concerto for Harpsichord & Piano with Two Chamber Orchestras: Allegro scherzando
  67. Double Concerto for Harpsichord & Piano with Two Chamber Orchestras: Cadenza for Harpsichord
  68. Scrivo in vento
  69. String Quartet No. 5: Interlude III
  70. Double Concerto for Harpsichord & Piano with Two Chamber Orchestras: Presto
  71. Woodwind Quintet: II. Allegro giocoso
  72. String Quartet No. 2 (1959): Cadenza for Viola (m. 135)
  73. The Minotaur, Scene I: King Minos' Palace in Crete, Queen Pasiphaë prepares for a tryst with the sacred bull
  74. String Quartet No. 1 (1951): III. Variations (quarter note=120) {m.1
  75. String Quartet No. 5: Interlude V
  76. Triple Duo
  77. Sound Fields
  78. Double Concerto for Harpsichord & Piano with Two Chamber Orchestras: Adagio
  79. Double concerto for harpsichord & piano with two chamber orchestras: Introduction
  80. String Quartet No. 5: Interlude IV
  81. String Quartet No. 2 (1959): II. Presto scherzando (quarter note=175) (m.171)
  82. String Quartet No. 1: I. Maestoso
  83. Matribute
  84. Figment IV
  85. Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello & Harpsichord: Lento
  86. The Minotaur, Scene I: King Minos' Palace in Crete, Dance of the bulls and Pasiphaë with the sacred bull
  87. Double Concerto for Harpsichord & Piano with Two Chamber Orchestras: Coda
  88. Symphonia: Sum Fluxae Pretium Spei: 1. Partita
  89. String Quartet No. 2 (1959): Cadenza for Cello (m.243)
  90. Double Concerto for Harpsichord & Piano: I. Introduction - II. Cadenza for Harpsichord

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