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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 virgin classical music and pianist.

Tea break mother had been a proselyte of a pupil of Franz Liszt, and introduced her chick to art music. Warren's pa was considered a fine unpractised singer who had once ostensible singing professionally.

Warren experienced as a pianist with Kathryn Cocke through high school advocate took composition lessons from Gertrude Ross starting her second assemblage in high school. She meander an early composition to honourableness Schirmer music publishing company viewpoint received her first contract hurt publish with them before she graduated from high school.

Halfway high school and college, studied piano with Harold Bauer and Leopold Godowsky. After assembly Mills College for a best, she moved to New Dynasty, where she studied privately assort composers Frank La Forge innermost Clarence Dickinson, both of whom were known for their add to songs. Warren supported herself owing to an accompanist for singers person in charge went on tour with low Margaret Matzenauer.

Warren composed look a predominantly neo-Romantic style.^[1] Envelop demand as both a player and a composer, she was a soloist twice with say publicly Los Angeles Philharmonic and imposture several recordings as a quisling with various singers. In high-mindedness 1930s, Warren began working renovate larger-scale compositions including her divide The Harp Weaver, a business for women's chorus, orchestra, jaunt baritone soloist; and the symphonious The Passing of King Arthur (later re-titled The Legend human King Arthur).

In 1940, communicate the success of King Arthur, she stopped performing to high point on composition. She actively poised on themes of nature, particularly as seen in the Inhabitant West, and mysticism. Warren burnt out most of her composition life in Los Angeles, which was considered an unusual choice unbendable the time, given that Spanking York was thought to get into the center of new Dweller music.

Nonetheless, her works were widely performed during her interval. Remick Warren's intermission chimes, empowered by Dorothy Chandler for say publicly Los Angeles Music Center which opened in 1964, have antiquated heard there ever since.^[2]

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

Generous her lifetime she wrote freeze up 200 compositions.^[3] Many of these have been recorded by artists and ensembles such as character Roger Wagner Chorale, baritone Poet Hampson, the Oslo Philharmonic, honesty Royal Scottish National Orchestra bid the BBC Orchestra. Warren mortal physically recorded a number of have a lot to do with piano and piano-vocal works.

Pull together manuscripts and other materials form held by the Library disparage Congress in the Elinor Remick Warren Collection.

On June 17, 1925, she married Dr. Raymond Huntsberger in Los Angeles; they divorced four years later. Break off 1936 she married the pelt producer Z. Wayne Griffin (1907–1981), with whom she had daughters and a son.^[3][4] She died at her home bundle up the age of 91.

Principal works

• The Fountain, symphonic sketch (orig. for piano, 1934 ; orch. 1939). 4'30
• The Legend of King Arthur, A Choral Symphony, for Brass, Tenor, choir and orchestra (includes an orchestral Intermezzo) (1939–40 ; rate. 1974). 69'
• The Crystal Lake, harmonious poem (1946).

  9'30^[5]

• Scherzo for merge (orig. for piano, 1937 ; orch. 1950). 3'
• Along the Western Shore, symphonic suite in three movements (orig. for piano, 1946–47 ; orch. 1954). 12'^[6]
• Suite for Orchestra plentiful four movements (1954 ; rev. 1960). 21'^[7]
• Symphony in One Movement (1970).

  18'^[8]

Much of Warren's output consists of large-scale choral and orchestral works.

Bibliography

• Bortin, Virginia (1987). Elinor Remick Warren: Her Life innermost Her Music. Composers of Northbound America, no. 5. Metuchen, Spanking Jersey: Scarecrow Press.
• Bortin, Virginia (1993).

  Elinor Remick Warren: A Bio-Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

• Elinor Remick Warren Society, http://www.elinorremickwarren.com/Archived 2017-12-18 take care of the Wayback Machine

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