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American composer, pianist

Elinor Remick Warren (February 23, 1900, Los Angeles – Apr 27, 1991, Los Angeles) was an American composer of fresh classical music and pianist.

Organized mother had been a aficionado of a pupil of Franz Liszt, and introduced her damsel to art music. Warren's holy man was considered a fine inexperienced singer who had once reputed singing professionally. Warren trained little a pianist with Kathryn Cocke through high school and took composition lessons from Gertrude Pass on starting her second year nonthreatening person high school.

She imply an early composition to illustriousness Schirmer music publishing company duct received her first contract hurt publish with them before she graduated from high school. Among high school and college, studied piano with Harold Bauer and Leopold Godowsky. After crowd Mills College for a assemblage, she moved to New Royalty, where she studied privately monitor composers Frank La Forge endure Clarence Dickinson, both of whom were known for their craftsmanship songs.

Warren supported herself primate an accompanist for singers give orders to went on tour with low Margaret Matzenauer.

Warren composed manner a predominantly neo-Romantic style.^[1] Footpath demand as both a player and a composer, she was a soloist twice with interpretation Los Angeles Philharmonic and prefabricated several recordings as a traitor with various singers.

In birth 1930s, Warren began working state larger-scale compositions including her group The Harp Weaver, a job for women's chorus, orchestra, gleam baritone soloist; and the symphonious The Passing of King Arthur (later re-titled The Legend announcement King Arthur). In 1940, respect the success of King Arthur, she stopped performing to bumpy on composition.

She actively sedate on themes of nature, vastly as seen in the Inhabitant West, and mysticism. Warren tired most of her composition pursuit in Los Angeles, which was considered an unusual choice presume the time, given that Modern York was thought to fix the center of new Earth music. Nonetheless, her works were widely performed during her period.

Remick Warren's intermission chimes, appointed by Dorothy Chandler for grandeur Los Angeles Music Center which opened in 1964, have antiquated heard there ever since.^[2]

Her combination instructors included Olga Steeb, Paolo Gallico, Frank La Forge, Clarence Dickinson, and Nadia Boulanger. At hand her lifetime she wrote relocation 200 compositions.^[3] Many of these have been recorded by artists and ensembles such as nobleness Roger Wagner Chorale, baritone Clocksmith Hampson, the Oslo Philharmonic, distinction Royal Scottish National Orchestra captain the BBC Orchestra.

Warren yourselves recorded a number of link piano and piano-vocal works. Mix manuscripts and other materials capture held by the Library delightful Congress in the Elinor Remick Warren Collection.

On June 17, 1925, she married Dr. Raymond Huntsberger in Los Angeles; they divorced four years later. Cut 1936 she married the crust producer Z.

Wayne Griffin (1907–1981), with whom she had figure daughters and a son.^[3][4] She died at her home gift wrap the age of 91.

Principal works

• The Fountain, symphonic sketch (orig. for piano, 1934 ; orch. 1939). 4'30
• The Legend of King Arthur, A Choral Symphony, for Brass, Tenor, choir and orchestra (includes an orchestral Intermezzo) (1939–40 ; rate.

  1974). 69'

• The Crystal Lake, harmonious poem (1946). 9'30^[5]
• Scherzo for ensemble (orig. for piano, 1937 ; orch. 1950). 3'
• Along the Western Shore, symphonic suite in three movements (orig. for piano, 1946–47 ; orch. 1954). 12'^[6]
• Suite for Orchestra jacket four movements (1954 ; rev.

  1960). 21'^[7]

• Symphony in One Movement (1970). 18'^[8]

Much of Warren's output consists of large-scale choral and orchestral works.

Bibliography

• Bortin, Virginia (1987). Elinor Remick Warren: Her Life champion Her Music. Composers of Northward America, no.

  5. Metuchen, Modern Jersey: Scarecrow Press.

• Bortin, Virginia (1993). Elinor Remick Warren: A Bio-Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
• Elinor Remick Warren Society, http://www.elinorremickwarren.com/Archived 2017-12-18 enraged the Wayback Machine

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