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Charles Wuorinen
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Biography
Charles Wuorinen (9 June 1938, New York City – 11 March 2020, New York City) was an American composer and winner of the 1970 Pulitzer Prize (at the time, he was the youngest person to win this award, for the electronic work Time's Encomium).
Wuorinen lectured at universities throughout the United States and abroad, and served on the faculties of Columbia, Princeton, and Yale Universities; the University of Iowa, University of California (San Diego), Manhattan School of Music, New England Conservatory, State University of New York at Buffalo, and Rutgers University. He was also the author of Simple Composition, used by composition students the world over.
Works for Winds
- Big Epithalamium (1997)
- Windfall (1994)
Resources
- Charles Wuorinen, C.F. Peters Accessed 23 January 2016
- Charles Wuorinen website