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Gene Gutchë

Gene Gutchë
Birth
Wednesday, July 3, 1907
Berlin
Germany
Groupes
Germany
Modern composers
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Death
Wednesday, November 15, 2000
White Bear Lake, MN
United States
Age: 
93

Composition list

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Symphonic music

Icare: orchestra • (1975) • Suites
Symphony 5: strings • (1962) • Symphonie

Instrumental music

Fugue "Utilitaire": piano • Op. 9 • (1948) • Pièces académiques
Fugue: piano • Op. 3 • (1948) • Pièces académiques
Theme et Variations: piano • Op. 6/ 2 • (1949) • Variations
Sonata: piano • Op. 6 • (1963) • “Sonates”
Sonatas: piano • Op. 32 • (1963) • “Sonates”

Concertante music

Divertimento "Bongo": percussion-orchestra • (1952) • Autres pièces concertantes pour percussion
Concerto: violin-orchestra • Op. 36 • (1969) • Concertos pour violon

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Music: 

Orchestral music: 6 symphonies (1950-1971), Piano Concerto (1955), Holofernes Overture (1958), Bongo Divertimento (1961), Genghis Khan (1963), Aesop Fabler Suite (1965), Hsiang Fei (1965), Violin Concerto (1968); Epimetheus USA (1968), Bi-Centurion (1975), Icarus (1975), Perseus & Andromeda XX (1977), Akhenaten (1983), Helios Kinetic (1978), Rites in Tenochtitlan (1965).

Other music: three piano sonatas, four string quartets, three choruses.

Biography: 

Romeo Maximilian Eugene Ludwig Gutsche (Americanized to Gene Gutchë), of affluent Polish and French parentage, studied as a child with Feruccio Busoni. In his late teens (1925), in conflict with his father over the notion of a career in music, he came to the United States, settled in Minnesota, and eventually completed a MA in Composition with Donald Ferguson at the University of Minnesota (1950) and a PhD in Composition with Philip Greely Clapp at the University of Iowa (1953).

His vigorous and colorful music, in a personal style which incorporated elements of Hindemith, Bartok and Stravinsky, won numerous international awards and several pieces were recorded (recently reissued by Composers Recordings Incorporated/CRI).

Always a loner and an individualist, Gutchë had no students, followed no particular ‘school’, and lived to compose, aided in many ways by Marion, his wife of 64 years.

Submitted by Jean-Paul Giraudet on 2001-01-04 18:00.
Last modified: 
2014-06-05 16:11

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