(1925-11-22)November 22, 1925 Queens, New York, U.S.
Died
June 21, 2015(2015-06-21) (aged 89) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Genres
Jazz, classical, third stream
Occupation(s)
President of the New England Conservatory
Instrument(s)
French horn, flute
Musical artist
Gunther Alexander Schuller (November 22, 1925 – June 21, 2015)[1] was an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, educator, publisher, and jazz musician.
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Gunther Alexander Schuller (November 22, 1925 – June 21, 2015) was an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, educator, publisher...
jazz and classical music. The term was coined in 1957 by composer GuntherSchuller in a lecture at Brandeis University. There are many ways to define...
Although a pivotal figure in the history of jazz, in the opinion of GuntherSchuller and Barry Kernfeld, "the most significant composer of the genre", Ellington...
George Schuller, musician GuntherSchuller, musician Heidi Schüller, athlete Ivan K. Schuller, physicist Kyla Schuller, academic and author Lea Schüller (born...
Joplin's rags in period orchestrations edited by conservatory president GuntherSchuller. It won a Grammy for Best Chamber Music Performance of the year and...
classical music. A number of them were recorded in 1960 with conductor GuntherSchuller, and released as Pre-Bird, referring to Charlie "Bird" Parker; Mingus...
Edwin GuntherSchuller (January 11, 1955) is an American jazz bassist and composer. His father is GuntherSchuller, a composer, horn player, and music...
composition often included "the same seven names over and over as judges": GuntherSchuller, Joseph Schwantner, Jacob Druckman, George Perle, John Harbison, Mario...
rotated through three different French horn players on the recordings, GuntherSchuller, Junior Collins and Sandy Siegelstein. Gil Evans continued to arrange...
conductor, and author GuntherSchuller was selected President of NEC, just as the school was celebrating its centennial. Like Chadwick, Schuller was a transformational...
Stream (now called the Department of Contemporary Improvisation) with GuntherSchuller. Blake was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on April 20, 1935. He...
Glen Island Casino in New Rochelle, New York. According to author GuntherSchuller, the Glen Island performance attracted "a record-breaking opening-night...
John Lewis and GuntherSchuller, among others. She was one of two women admitted to the program that year. Following this, Lewis and Schuller signed her to...
Festival (1957) with orchestra arranged and conducted by Russell & GuntherSchuller New York, N.Y. (1959) Jazz in the Space Age (1960) With Tony Scott...
innovator are so vast that he did not really need to stretch the truth." GuntherSchuller says of Morton's "hyperbolic assertions" that there is "no proof to...
festival and education program in Tanglewood in 1970, together with GuntherSchuller. In 1994, the new main hall there was named after him. Ozawa conducted...
Robert Gerhard (1965) Concerto for Orchestra No. 1, Gala Music, by GuntherSchuller (1966) Concerto for Orchestra, Op. 8, by Robin Holloway (1967) Concerto...
adapted more readily to European rhythmic conceptions," jazz historian GuntherSchuller observed. "Some survived, others were discarded as the Europeanization...
AAF Band in 1944 on V-Disc. The band saw more substitutions, with GuntherSchuller on French horn and Al McKibbon on bass. Hagood returned for vocals...
literature is somewhat lacking, although some modern composers such as GuntherSchuller, Donald Erb, Michael Tilson Thomas, John Woolrich, Kalevi Aho, and...
(d. 2019) Fred Rogers (d. 2003) Philip Roth (d. 2018) Bob Schieffer GuntherSchuller (d. 2015) Martin Scorsese Pete Seeger (d. 2014) Maurice Sendak (d....
(subtitled John Lewis Presents Contemporary Music: Compositions by GuntherSchuller and Jim Hall) is a third stream album combining elements of jazz and...
Hardy’s Wessex. London: Macmillan, 1913. Schuller, Gunther. Musings: The Musical Worlds of GuntherSchuller. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986,...
transcribed four movements for wind quintet, and further, American composer GuntherSchuller has made a wind-quintet arrangement. In 1986 an orchestration of the...
arranged for such ensembles. Compositions for four double basses exist by GuntherSchuller, Jacob Druckman, James Tenney, Claus Kühnl, Robert Ceely, Jan Alm,...
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