Louis Gruenberg (pronounced) was a Russian Lithuania-born American pianist and composer. Although born in Russia, his family emigrated to the United States months after his birth. His father worked as a violinist in New York City. Young Louis had a talent for the piano, and by the age of eight Gruenberg was taking piano lessons with Adele Margulies at the National Conservatory in New York (then headed by Antonin Dvorak).

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  • Louis Gruenberg (pronounced) was a Russian Lithuania-born American pianist and composer. Although born in Russia, his family emigrated to the United States months after his birth. His father worked as a violinist in New York City. Young Louis had a talent for the piano, and by the age of eight Gruenberg was taking piano lessons with Adele Margulies at the National Conservatory in New York (then headed by Antonin Dvorak). Gruenberg played both solo concerts and in ensembles from the beginning, and in his early twenties he went to study in Europe with Ferruccio Busoni at the Vienna Conservatory. Before World War I, Gruenberg taught students and toured, both as an accompanist and soloist. In 1919, Gruenberg wrote The Hill of Dreams for orchestra, which gained him the highly acclaimed Flagler Prize and enabled him to devote himself more completely to composition. As Gruenberg began to make his mark as a composer, he showed his fascination with jazz, composing works with strong jazz and ragtime influences. In 1933 and 1934 the Metropolitan Opera produced his expressionistic opera The Emperor Jones, based on a play by Eugene O'Neill. It was performed there for two seasons, and featured on the cover of Time Magazine receiving much critical acclaim. Between 1933 and 1936, Gruenberg headed the composition department of Chicago Musical College (now part of Roosevelt University). After Chicago he moved with his family to Beverly Hills, California. There he worked at merging music with visual media and film. Collaborating with Pare Lorentz to create The Fight for Life (a documentary about childbirth in Chicago slums), Gruenberg was nominated for the Academy Award for best score. In 1944, Jascha Heifetz commissioned and premiered the Violin Concerto, Op. 47 with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and recorded it with Pierre Monteux and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra in 1945. It is a lively work in three movements (Rhapsodie - With simplicity and warmth - Lively and with good humour), and lasts 38 minutes (in Heifetz's performance). During the last twenty years of his life, Gruenberg became increasingly isolated from the concert music world. He maintained a close friendship with Arnold Schoenberg until Schoenberg's death in 1951. Louis Gruenberg composed continuously until his death in 1964. Besides other works, he wrote five symphonies, four full length operas (Volpone, Jack and the Beanstalk, Antony and Cleopatra and The Dumb Wife) and the lengthy oratorio A Song of Faith.
  • Louis Gruenberg war ein US-amerikanischer Pianist und Komponist. Er lebte seit dem zweiten Lebensjahr in den Vereinigten Staaten. Hier begann er auch seine musikalische Laufbahn und studierte Klavier bei Adele Margulies in New York. Er ging dann jedoch nach Europa und vertiefte hier seine Ausbildung: Neben dem Kompositionsstudium in Berlin und Wien wurde er Schüler Ferruccio Busonis und begann 1912 eine erfolgreiche Pianistenkarriere. Im Jahre 1919 kehrte er in die USA zurück und verlegte den Schwerpunkt seines Wirkens auf die Komposition. Daneben war er in verschiedenen Komponistenvereinigungen aktiv. Gruenberg war ein ausgesprochen produktiver und vielseitiger Komponist. Er schuf zwölf Opern, Ballettmusik, vier Sinfonien, zwei Klavierkonzerte, ein Violin- und ein Cellokonzert, weitere Orchesterwerke, Kammermusik für unterschiedliche Besetzungen, Lieder und Klaviermusik. Er war in seinen Werken nicht auf einen bestimmten Stil festgelegt und versuchte in vielen Kompositionen, Elemente des Jazz in die zeitgenössische klassische Musik einzubauen, dank seines Einfallsreichtums und seiner handwerklichen kompositorischen Geschicklichkeit hatte er mit dieser Stil-Verbindung einigen Erfolg. Seine Filmmusik brachte ihm drei Oscar-Nominierungen ein.
  • Si è trasferito precocemente negli Stati Uniti. Si è accostato alla musica sotto la guida di Ferruccio Busoni prima di entrare al Conservatorio di Vienna. Nel 1919 scrisse una delle sue prime opere che riscosse un certo successo, intitolata The Dumb Wife; negli anni seguenti fu influenzato dalla musicalità jazz e compose Daniel Jazz per tenore e 8 strumenti. Dello stesso genere furono le opere successive, quali Jazz Suite e Jazzettes. Negli anni successivi compose musiche molto affini alla musicalità spirituals, che si concretizzarono in un Concerto per violino e orchestra; inoltre ha realizzato le opere The Bridge of the Goods nel 1932, Queen Helena nel 1936 oltre a sinfonie e concerti per pianoforte e orchestra.. Nel 1931 scrisse "The Emperor Jones", opera in due atti dal dramma omonimo di Eugene O'Neill la cui prima fu data al Metropolitan Opera House di New York e da allora rappresentata molto raramente. In Italia è stata rappresentata al Teatro delle Muse nel gennaio del 2009.
  • ルイス・グルーエンバーグ(Louis Gruenberg、1884年8月3日 - 1964年6月9日 ビバリーヒルズ)は、アメリカ合衆国の作曲家、ピアニスト。 ベラルーシのブレスト=リトフスクにてロシア系・リトアニア系ユダヤ人の家系に生まれる。ロシア帝国の出身ながらも、生後間もなく(一説によると2歳の頃)家族に連れられアメリカ合衆国に移住する。父親はニューヨークシティのヴァイオリニストであった。 少年時代よりピアノに才能を示し、8歳のとき、ドヴォルザークが院長を務めるニューヨーク・ナショナル音楽院に入学してアデール・マルグリースにピアノを師事した。演奏者としては、当初よりソリストとしてもアンサンブルでも適性を発揮した。20代前半で渡欧してベルリンとウィーンでフェルッチョ・ブゾーニに師事する。1912年から教育活動と演奏活動に入り、第1次世界大戦までソリストや伴奏者として演奏旅行を行なった。 1919年にアメリカに帰還。同年、交響詩《夢の丘(The Hill of Dreams)》を作曲して称賛され、Flagler Prizeを獲得し、いっそう作曲に没頭できるようになった。作曲家として名を成すにつれ、ジャズに魅了されるようになり、ジャズやラグタイムに強く影響された作品を創るようになった。 1933年から1934年までメトロポリタン歌劇場において、ユージン・オニール原作の表現主義的オペラ《皇帝ジョーンズ》が2シーズンにわたって上演されるも、『タイム』誌においてかなり酷評された。1933年から1936年まで、シカゴ音楽大学(現在はルーズベルト大学の一部)の作曲科の主任教授を務める。その後は家族連れでカリフォルニア州のビバリーヒルズに転居し、映画音楽の作曲も担当している。シカゴのスラム街における出産を描いたドキュメンタリー映画“The Fight for Life”(ペア・ロレンツ監督)の音楽は、アカデミー賞最優秀映画音楽部門にノミネートされた。 1944年にヤッシャ・ハイフェッツの依嘱により、《ヴァイオリン協奏曲》作品47を作曲。ハイフェッツはこれをユージン・オーマンディ指揮フィラデルフィア管弦楽団との共演により初演した後、ピエール・モントゥー指揮サンフランシスコ交響楽団との共演で録音した。 最晩年の20年間は、次第に音楽界や演奏界で孤立するようになった。また渡米後の最晩年のシェーンベルクと親交を保っていた。 グルーンバーグは没年まで現役で作曲活動を続けた。固定した作曲様式にとらわれず、多種多様な作曲技法を取り入れた多作家であった。作品には12のオペラ、オラトリオ《信仰の歌(A Song of Faith)》、バレエ、5つの交響曲、2つのピアノ協奏曲、ヴァイオリン協奏曲、チェロ協奏曲、室内楽曲、歌曲、ピアノ曲などがある。
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  • Louis Gruenberg (pronounced) was a Russian Lithuania-born American pianist and composer. Although born in Russia, his family emigrated to the United States months after his birth. His father worked as a violinist in New York City. Young Louis had a talent for the piano, and by the age of eight Gruenberg was taking piano lessons with Adele Margulies at the National Conservatory in New York (then headed by Antonin Dvorak).
  • Louis Gruenberg war ein US-amerikanischer Pianist und Komponist. Er lebte seit dem zweiten Lebensjahr in den Vereinigten Staaten. Hier begann er auch seine musikalische Laufbahn und studierte Klavier bei Adele Margulies in New York. Er ging dann jedoch nach Europa und vertiefte hier seine Ausbildung: Neben dem Kompositionsstudium in Berlin und Wien wurde er Schüler Ferruccio Busonis und begann 1912 eine erfolgreiche Pianistenkarriere.
  • Si è trasferito precocemente negli Stati Uniti. Si è accostato alla musica sotto la guida di Ferruccio Busoni prima di entrare al Conservatorio di Vienna. Nel 1919 scrisse una delle sue prime opere che riscosse un certo successo, intitolata The Dumb Wife; negli anni seguenti fu influenzato dalla musicalità jazz e compose Daniel Jazz per tenore e 8 strumenti. Dello stesso genere furono le opere successive, quali Jazz Suite e Jazzettes.
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