Charles Wuorinen
Charles Peter Wuorinen (, ; June 9, 1938 – March 11, 2020) was an American composer of
contemporary classical music based in New York City. He also performed as a pianist and conductor. Wuorinen composed more than 270 works: orchestral music,
chamber music , solo instrumental and vocal works, and operas, such as ''
Brokeback Mountain '' (2014). His work was termed
serialist but he came to disparage that idea as meaningless. ''
Time's Encomium '', his only purely
electronic piece , received the 1970
Pulitzer Prize . Wuorinen taught at several institutions, including
Columbia University ,
Rutgers University and the
Manhattan School of Music .
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Charles Peter Wuorinen (, ; June 9, 1938 – March 11, 2020) was an American composer of contemporary classical music based in New York City. He also performed as a pianist and conductor. Wuorinen composed more than 270 works: orchestral music, chamber music, solo instrumental and vocal works, and operas, such as ''Brokeback Mountain'' (2014). His work was termed serialist but he came to disparage that idea as meaningless. ''Time's Encomium'', his only purely electronic piece, received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize. Wuorinen taught at several institutions, including Columbia University, Rutgers University and the Manhattan School of Music.
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