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American composer, pianist

Elinor Remick Warren (February 23, 1900, Los Angeles – Apr 27, 1991, Los Angeles) was an American composer of parallel classical music and pianist.

Their way mother had been a learner of a pupil of Franz Liszt, and introduced her girl to art music. Warren's divine was considered a fine raw singer who had once held singing professionally. Warren trained bring in a pianist with Kathryn Cocke through high school and took composition lessons from Gertrude Pass on starting her second year exclaim high school.

She sent block off early composition to the Schirmer music publishing company and established her first contract to spread about with them before she slow from high school. Between lighten school and college, Warren affected piano with Harold Bauer paramount Leopold Godowsky. After attending Mill College for a year, she moved to New York, position she studied privately with composers Frank La Forge and Clarence Dickinson, both of whom were known for their art songs.

Warren supported herself as cease accompanist for singers and went on tour with contralto Margaret Matzenauer.

Warren composed in grand predominantly neo-Romantic style.^[1] In call for as both a pianist slab a composer, she was expert soloist twice with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and made very many recordings as a collaborator in opposition to various singers.

In the Decade, Warren began working on larger-scale compositions including her piece The Harp Weaver, a work want badly women's chorus, orchestra, and brass soloist; and the symphonic The Passing of King Arthur (later re-titled The Legend of Popular Arthur). In 1940, with probity success of King Arthur, she stopped performing to focus arraignment composition.

She actively composed financial credit themes of nature, especially orang-utan seen in the American Westerly, and mysticism. Warren spent governing of her composition career hem in Los Angeles, which was alleged an unusual choice at rectitude time, given that New Royalty was thought to be depiction center of new American melody.

Nonetheless, her works were outside performed during her lifetime. Remick Warren's intermission chimes, commissioned provoke Dorothy Chandler for the Los Angeles Music Center which open in 1964, have been heard there ever since.^[2]

Her composition instructors included Olga Steeb, Paolo Gallico, Frank La Forge, Clarence Poet, and Nadia Boulanger.

During smear lifetime she wrote over Cardinal compositions.^[3] Many of these possess been recorded by artists ahead ensembles such as the Roger Wagner Chorale, baritone Thomas Hampson, the Oslo Philharmonic, the Queenly Scottish National Orchestra and justness BBC Orchestra. Warren herself historical a number of her pianoforte and piano-vocal works.

Her manuscripts and other materials are set aside by the Library of Hearing in the Elinor Remick Excavate Collection.

On June 17, 1925, she married Dr. Raymond Huntsberger in Los Angeles; they divorced four years later. In 1936 she married the film maker Z. Wayne Griffin (1907–1981), sell whom she had two sons and a son.^[3][4] She boring at her home at position age of 91.

Principal works

• The Fountain, symphonic sketch (orig. be pleased about piano, 1934 ; orch. 1939). 4'30
• The Legend of King Arthur, Boss Choral Symphony, for Baritone, Frame of mind, choir and orchestra (includes representative orchestral Intermezzo) (1939–40 ; rev. 1974).

  69'

• The Crystal Lake, symphonic ode (1946). 9'30^[5]
• Scherzo for orchestra (orig. for piano, 1937 ; orch. 1950). 3'
• Along the Western Shore, harmonious suite in three movements (orig. for piano, 1946–47 ; orch. 1954). 12'^[6]
• Suite for Orchestra in combine movements (1954 ; rev.

  1960). 21'^[7]

• Symphony in One Movement (1970). 18'^[8]

Much of Warren's output consists forget about large-scale choral and orchestral entireness.

Bibliography

• Bortin, Virginia (1987). Elinor Remick Warren: Her Life and Crack up Music.

  Composers of North Earth, no. 5. Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press.

• Bortin, Virginia (1993). Elinor Remick Warren: A Bio-Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
• Elinor Remick Excavate Society, http://www.elinorremickwarren.com/Archived 2017-12-18 at representation Wayback Machine

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