Dictionary of Music - Birding America

tyrolienne 449OTHER COMPOSERS FROM 1900 ONComposer Country Musical StyleKarel Husa (1921– ) Czech-U.S. Strongly rhythmic neoclassic; later serial; mainlyinstrumental works.Lee Hyla (1952– ) United States Integrates expressionism with jazz and rock elements. Mainlyinstrumental music.Jacques Ibert (1890–1962) France Mainly neoclassic; some impressionist elements.Andrew Imbrie (1921– ) United States Serial, later freely atonal, chromatic; influential teacher.Betsy Jolas (1926– ) France Free rhythms and meters; blurs distinction between voicesand instruments. Assistant of Messiaen. All genres.André Jolivet (1905–1974) France Polytonal, exotic modes; rich orchestration, electronicinstruments.Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904–1987) Russia Romantic, with folk elements.Mauricio Kagel (1931– ) Argentina- Serial; electronic; aleatory elements; film and mixed mediaGermany works.Giya Kancheli (1935– ) Georgia Combines Orthodox Christian mysticism with elements ofWestern idioms, Caucasian folk music; symphonies, alsoopera, film and theater music.Aaron Jay Kernis (1960– ) United States Draws on many styles, including American popular andvernacular music (disco, salsa, jazz). At first experimental,later traditional forms; works inspired by historic andpolitical events.Leon Kirchner (1919– ) United States Atonal, expressionist.Giselher Klebe (1925– ) Germany Serial; later more romantic.Oliver Knussen (1952– ) Great Britain Atonal, quotation; set children’s stories; symphonies,chamber works, songs, opera, violin concerto.Barbara Kolb (1939– ) United States Serial, electronic, aleatory.Ernst Křenek (1900–1991) Austria-U.S. Atonal, neoclassic with jazz elements; later serial.György Kurtág (1926– ) Hungary Atonal with folk elements; mostly chamber and vocal music.Helmut Lachenmann (1935– ) Germany At first serial, later experiments with anatomy of sound(musique concrète instrumentale; instruments played inunusual ways, rattling, clatter, whispers); later also alludedto traditional compositions (Mozart, et al.); opera, stringquartets, orchestral works.Ezra Laderman (1924– ) United States Atonal, expressionist; symphonies, large-scale works.Lam Bun-Ching (1954– ) China Blend of Chinese tradition with Western post-modern idioms.Paul Lansky (1944– ) United States Serial, electronic, computer music.Libby Larsen (1950– ) United States Atonal, drawing on serial, jazz, and popular styles; opera,vocal, chamber works, symphony.Henri Lazarov (1932– ) Bulgaria-U.S. Serial, sometimes live with tape; choral, instrumental works.Liebermann, Lowell (1961– ) United States Tonal, traditional forms (sonata, concerto), neoromantic.Rolf Liebermann (1910–1999) Switzerland Serial; later opera director, commissioned many avant-gardeworks.Peter Lieberson (1946– ) United States Atonal, influenced by Buddhist philosophy; instrumentalworks; monodrama.Alvin Lucier (1931– ) United States Live electronic music.(Continues)