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John Alden Carpenter

composer
Carpenter wrote symphonic and chamber music, ballets, many songs (the Gitanjali cycle is his best known group), and other choral and instrumental works. He is claimed as an "Americanist" composer.

Education

  • He received basic music training with John Knowles Paine at Harvard University (A.B. 1897, M.A. 1922). He also studied abroad a few months with Sir Edward Elgar and did further theoretical study with Bernard Ziehn in Chicago.

Career

  • After leaving Harvard in 1897 he entered his father's business and, like his contemporaries Charles Ives and Wallace Stevens, combined a successful business career with creative activity.

    Such works as the ballets Krazy Kat (1921, based on the cartoon strip) and Skyscrapers (1924), the charming symphonic suite Adventures in a Perambulator (1914), and the Concertino for Piano and Orchestra (1915) with its "ragtime" echoes certainly exemplify this tendency. But the deepest impetus for his music came from France. A conservative, he rejected experimentation and adapted the luminous harmonic and orchestral palette of the French School.

Works

  • Krazy Kat
  • Skyscrapers
  • Adventures in a Perambulator
  • Concertino for Piano and Orchestra
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Born February 28, 1876
Park Ridge, Illinois, United States
Died April 26, 1951
(aged 75)
Nationality
United States

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  • College/University
    • Harvard University
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  • Works
    • Krazy Kat
    • Skyscrapers
    • Adventures in a Perambulator
    • Concertino for Piano and Orchestra
    • Concertino for Piano and Orchestra
    • Adventures in a Perambulator
    • Skyscrapers
    • Krazy Kat
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