About: Eric Salzman

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Eric Salzman (September 8, 1933 – November 12, 2017) was an American composer, scholar, author, impresario, music critic, and record producer. He is known for advancing the concept of "New Music Theater" (in his compositions and his large body of writing) as an independent art form differing in scope, both economically and aesthetically, from grand opera and contemporary popular musicals. He co-founded the American Music Theater Festival and was, at the time of his death in 2017, Composer-in-Residence at the Center for Contemporary Opera.

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  • Eric Salzman (* 8. September 1933 in New York City; † 13. November 2017) war ein US-amerikanischer Komponist. Salzman studierte an der Columbia University bei Otto Luening, Vladimir Ussachevski, Jack Hamilton Beeson und William John Mitchell und an der Princeton University bei Roger Sessions und Milton Babbitt. Weiterhin nahm er Kurse bei Oliver Strunk, Arthur Mendel und Nino Pirrotta. 1957 ging er nach Rom, um bei Goffredo Petrassi zu studieren und war anschließend Schüler von Karlheinz Stockhausen in Darmstadt. Bis 1966 war er Musikkritiker in New York, danach Lehrer und Direktor der Hunter-College-Konzerte. Er gründete das , als dessen künstlerischer Leiter er wirkte. Er übte Lehrtätigkeiten am Queens College der City University of New York (1966–1968) und ab 1982 an der New York University aus. Salzman schuf neben multimedialen Stücken überwiegend Werke für elektronische Instrumente. (de)
  • Eric Salzman (September 8, 1933 – November 12, 2017) was an American composer, scholar, author, impresario, music critic, and record producer. He is known for advancing the concept of "New Music Theater" (in his compositions and his large body of writing) as an independent art form differing in scope, both economically and aesthetically, from grand opera and contemporary popular musicals. He co-founded the American Music Theater Festival and was, at the time of his death in 2017, Composer-in-Residence at the Center for Contemporary Opera. Salzman's one true opera, Big Jim and the Small-Time Investors (written and revised between 1985 and 2017), was developed in workshops at CCO in 2010 and 2014. It received its world-premiere production at Symphony Space in 2018, five months after his death, praised by Opera News as "truly a fine piece of post-modern creative work." Performers of his works include the New York Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Brooklyn Philharmonic; conductors Pierre Boulez, Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Dennis Russell Davies and Lukas Foss; ensembles Western Wind and Kronos Quartet; soloists Philip Langridge, Mary Thomas, Elise Ross, Stanley Silverman, Alan Titus, Rinde Eckert, Igor Kipnis, Paul Zukofsky, Theo Bleckmann, Thomas Young; actors Stacy Keach, John O'Hurley and Paul Hecht. (en)
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  • Salzman at the Cell Theater in 2011 for the Center for Contemporary Opera atelier of his opera, Big Jim and the Small-Time Investors. (en)
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  • Eric Salzman (* 8. September 1933 in New York City; † 13. November 2017) war ein US-amerikanischer Komponist. Salzman studierte an der Columbia University bei Otto Luening, Vladimir Ussachevski, Jack Hamilton Beeson und William John Mitchell und an der Princeton University bei Roger Sessions und Milton Babbitt. Weiterhin nahm er Kurse bei Oliver Strunk, Arthur Mendel und Nino Pirrotta. 1957 ging er nach Rom, um bei Goffredo Petrassi zu studieren und war anschließend Schüler von Karlheinz Stockhausen in Darmstadt. Bis 1966 war er Musikkritiker in New York, danach Lehrer und Direktor der Hunter-College-Konzerte. Er gründete das , als dessen künstlerischer Leiter er wirkte. Er übte Lehrtätigkeiten am Queens College der City University of New York (1966–1968) und ab 1982 an der New York Univer (de)
  • Eric Salzman (September 8, 1933 – November 12, 2017) was an American composer, scholar, author, impresario, music critic, and record producer. He is known for advancing the concept of "New Music Theater" (in his compositions and his large body of writing) as an independent art form differing in scope, both economically and aesthetically, from grand opera and contemporary popular musicals. He co-founded the American Music Theater Festival and was, at the time of his death in 2017, Composer-in-Residence at the Center for Contemporary Opera. (en)
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