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Stephen Albert was born on 6 February, 1941, is an American composer (1941–1992). Discover Stephen Albert's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 51 years old?
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Stephen Joel Albert (6 February 1941 – 27 December 1992) was an American composer.
He first studied composition at the age of 15 with Elie Siegmeister, and enrolled two years later at the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Darius Milhaud and Bernard Rogers (1958–1960) Following composition lessons in Stockholm with Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Albert studied with Joseph Castaldo at the Philadelphia Musical Academy (BM 1962); in 1963 he worked with George Rochberg at the University of Pennsylvania.
In 1965 he won a Rome Fellowship to study in Rome at the American Academy.
He is best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning Symphony No. 1 RiverRun (1983) and his Cello Concerto (1990), written for Yo-Yo Ma.
From 1985 to 1988 he worked as the Seattle Symphony's composer-in-residence.
Stephen Albert won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Symphony No. 1, RiverRun.
His famous Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra started out as a request by the Baltimore Symphony in 1987 for a 15-minute orchestral piece.
In 1988 the commission was changed to a concerto for Yo-Yo Ma. The composer credited Ma with his help completing the work.
Albert started with material drawn two earlier works from 1988, "Anthem and Processionals" and "The Stone Harp."
He started the composition in 1989 and finished in 1990.
The premiere was on 31 March 1990 and featured Yo-Yo Ma along with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Zinman.
He died suddenly in a 1992 automobile accident, having just sketched out his Second Symphony.
Born in New York City, Albert began his musical training on the piano, French horn, and trumpet as a youngster.
Albert was killed in an automobile accident in Truro, Massachusetts on Cape Cod on 27 December 1992.
Aaron Jay Kernis dedicated his 1993 composition for piano quartet Still Movement with Hymn in memory of Albert.
A revised version was featured on a 1993 album, "The New York Album."
According to Yo-Yo Ma, the composition was a "kind of catharsis."
It incorporated struggles in his life, including his writer's blocks and the death of his father.
The work is dedicated to the memory of his father.
The slow movement of Christopher Rouse's 1994 Symphony No. 2 is also dedicated to the memory of Albert, who was a colleague and close friend of Rouse.
A number of Albert's works were based on James Joyce texts.
Finnegans Wake inspired three of Albert's pieces: To Wake the Dead, TreeStone, and Symphony RiverRun.
Albert's paired "Distant Hills" arias Flower of the Mountain and Sun's Heat were based on Ulysses, and the song "Ecce Puer" from Joyce's poem of the same name.
He posthumously won a Grammy Award in 1995 in the Best Classical Contemporary Composition category for his Cello Concerto as performed by Yo-Yo Ma in a 1990 recording with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, conducted by David Zinman.
