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Richard Edward Wilson (born May 15, 1941) is an American composer of orchestral, operatic, instrumental, and chamber music. Wilson was born in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was at a young age drawn to the concerts of George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra. In 1963, Wilson graduated ''magna cum laude'' and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University, where he studied with Robert Moevs and Randall Thompson. He later received an MA from Rutgers University. He is currently Mary Conover Mellon Professor of Music at Vassar College, where he has taught since 1966. Since 1992 he has been composer-in-residence with the American Symphony Orchestra. Richard Wilson's compositions are marked by a stringent yet lyrical atonality which often sets him apart from the established schools of modern American music: minimalism, twelve-tone, neo-romanticism, and avant-garde. Two of his works, Eclogue for solo piano, and his String Quartet No. 3, are considered high points of twentieth-century American music. His large-scale orchestral works include the Symphony No. 1, premiered by the Hudson Valley Philharmonic and recorded by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; ''Articulations'', written for the San Francisco Symphony. Wilson is also the composer of the one-act whimsical opera, ''Æthelred the Unready'', based on the exploits of the ill-advised Saxon king, Ethelred II of England. He classified the three types of irregular resolutions of dominant seventh chords.〔 〕 ==Critical response== Wilson has been praised by 21st Century Music as a "splendidly talented and highly accomplished composer whose music rewards seeking out" and by the New York Sun as "possessed of a hard-won idiom that has grown and developed over the years into a probing blend of wit, classic form, modern harmony, and impressionistic color." Writing in the New Yorker, Andrew Porter called his String Quartet No. 3 a "richly wrought and unusual composition," () while the ''New York Times'' has deemed it "a work of substance and expressivity ... () merits a place in the active repertory." In a review of a recent concert, the New York Times wrote, "Richard Wilson's Diablerie () stood apart, contemporary in its vocabulary and grammar but pursuing always the long, lyrical, sometimes operatically expressive lines and Romantic-era concerto writing." A review in Strings Magazine heralded the same composition as "another gem in Wilson's mélange of solo pieces." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Edward Wilson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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