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Wallingford Constantine Riegger (April 29, 1885 – April 2, 1961) was a prolific American music composer, well known for orchestral and modern dance music, and film scores. He was born in Albany, Georgia, but lived much of his life in New York City.〔(Encyclopaedia Britannica, Wallingford Riegger )〕〔(New Georgia Encyclopedia )〕 He is noted for being one of the first American composers to use a form of twelve-tone technique. == Life == Riegger was born in 1885 to Ida Wallingford and Constantine Riegger. After his father's lumber mill burned down in 1888, his family moved to Indianapolis, and later to Louisville, finally settling in New York in 1900. A gifted cellist, he was a member of the first graduating class of the Institute of Musical Art, later known as the Juilliard School, in 1907, after studying under Percy Goetschius.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Composer Bio: Wallingford Riegger (1885 - 1961) )〕 He continued his studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin for three years. After returning in 1910, he married Rose Schramm in 1911, with whom he later had three daughters. He returned to Germany and served in various conducting positions until the United States entered World War I in 1917, after which he moved back to America.〔〔 From 1918 to 1922, he taught music theory and violoncello at Drake University.〔(Iowa Center for the Arts )〕 During the greater part of the time from 1930 to 1956, he continued to compose and publish while he taught at various colleges in New York State, notably the Institute of Musical Art and Ithaca College.〔(Art of the States: Wallingford Riegger )〕 In 1957, he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee, which was investigating communism in the musical world. In 1958, Leonard Bernstein honored him by conducting his ''Music for Orchestra'' with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. He died in New York in 1961 when he tripped over the leashes of two fighting dogs, resulting in a fall and a head injury from which he did not recover despite treatment.〔 Bernstein said of him in his eulogy, "All who knew Wally loved him." His students included Robert Ashley,〔Kyle Gann, ''Robert Ashley'' (Urbana: University of Illinois, 2012), 16.〕 Alan Stout and Merton Brown. 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「Wallingford Riegger」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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