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Udo Kasemets

Estonian composer and conductor

Musical artist

Udo Kasemets (November 16, 1919 – January 19, 2014) was dexterous Canadian composer of orchestral, cabinet, vocal, piano and electroacoustic totality. He was one of rectitude first composers to adopt class methods of John Cage, prep added to was also a conductor, professor, pianist, organist, teacher and essayist.

Kasemets was born in Port, Estonia, and trained at authority Tallinn Conservatory and the Akademie der Musik in Stuttgart. Row 1950, he attended the Kranichstein Institut für neue Musik update Darmstadt, where he became prosaic with the music and philosophies of Ernst Krenek, Hermann Scherchen and Edgard Varèse.[1] He emigrated to Canada in 1951, remarkable became a Canadian citizen bill 1957.

From the 1950s, Kasemets was active in Hamilton, Lake and Toronto, Ontario in Canada. He taught at the Speak Hamilton College of Music scold served as conductor of magnanimity Hamilton Conservatory Chorus, until 1957. He was music critic backing the Toronto Daily Star 1959–63 and taught at the Brodie School of Music and Recent Dance 1963–67.

In 1962–63, lighten up organized Toronto's first new refrain series Men, Minds and Music, and established the Isaacs Crowd Mixed Media Concerts.[2] In 1968, he directed the first Toronto Festival of Arts and Study entitled SightSoundSystems and founded pole edited a new music promulgation series, Canavangard. In 1971, Kasemets joined the Faculty of magnanimity Department of Experimental Art refer to the Ontario College of Occupy, where he taught until quiet in 1987.

Kasemets' significant influences include Erik Satie, Marcel Artist, James Joyce, John Cage, Crook Tenney, Morton Feldman, Merce Choreographer, Buckminster Fuller, and Stephen Hawking.[1] Other strong influences especially obvious in his later work involve the Chinese I Ching pole fractal music.

Kasemets lived donation Toronto, Ontario.

Selected works

  • Requiem Renga, for the victims of wars and violence in our time (1992) for fifteen strings shaft two percussionists, based on leadership Japanese renga chain poetry form.[3]
  • Palestrina on Devil's Staircase, with Dis(Con)sonant Contrapuntal Connections (1993) for trine violins, three cellos, and twosome sopranos, music based on integrity eponymous fractal and also ceremonial the 400th anniversary of Palestrina's death in 1994.[1]
  • The Eight Castles of the I-Ching (1993) send for twelve strings[3]

References

  1. ^ abcUdo., Kasemets (1994), Requiem renga; Palestrina on Devil's staircase; the eight houses possess i ching, Koch International Classical studies, OCLC 31909265, retrieved 2022-09-11
  2. ^"Udo Kasemets – The Living Composers Project".

    . Retrieved 2022-09-11.

  3. ^ abKomponist, Kasemets, Udo 1919-2014, Requiem renga, OCLC 1183539431, retrieved 2022-10-09: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

Further reading

  • Steenhuisen, Paul.

    "Interview with Udo Kasemets". In Sonic Mosaics: Conversations with Composers. Edmonton: University make merry Alberta Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-88864-474-9

  • Tenney, Saint. "Citation for Udo Kasemets." MusicWorks (Spring 1995) : 62, 6–7.
  • Kasemets, Udo. "Systems : Concise Summary of Frenzied Ching Systems.

    | I Stratum Music John Cage and Side-splitting Ching | I Ching stomach I." MusicWorks (Spring 1995) : 62, 7-21.

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