David Del Tredici
David Del Tredici (1937-2023) was an American composer, born in Cloverdale, California, who died in New York. He began as a pianist, turned to composition after a 1958 seminar with Darius Milhaud at Aspen, and wrote his early works in a dissonant idiom, several of them on texts by James Joyce. From the late 1960s he set Lewis Carroll's Alice books in a long series of large tonal works, and he won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for In Memory of a Summer Day, part of Child Alice.
Music Of Barber, Copland, Cowell, Del Tredici, Foss, Griffes (LP)
1985 LP on Nonesuch with several 20th Century American compostions for flute and piano performed by Carol Wincenc accompanied by composers Lukas Foss and David Del Tredici, and by Samuel Sanders.
Piano Works
The vastly divergent reactions to twelve-tone composition of George Perle, David Del Tredici and Nicholas Thorne are a vivid reflection not only of their different generations, but of the unfolding of musical style change in America. Perle, born in 1915 and educated here at a time when twelve-tone composition was little understood, felt the urge to revise Schoenberg's method so as to reconcile serial chromaticism with the hierarchical elements of tonal practice. The system he evolved, known as “…