William (Robert) Mayer

(1925-)

William (Robert) Mayer was born in New York on the 18th November 1925, the same year of the composers Akutagawa, Andriessen, Basner, Becerra-Schmidt, Berio, Blank, Boulez, Chaikovsky, Charpentier, Constant, David, Duhamel, Escobar, Eshpay (Eshpai), Feld, Gedzhadze, Hadjidakis, Hamm, Kholminov, Klebe, Kostic, Lewin, Makedonski, Malec, Mechem, Miletic, Pinos, Prey, Schuller, Smith, Somers, Tsintsadze.

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Music examples MIDI ed Mp3 of 1900

OPERE

"The Greatest Sound Around" has been represented in 1954

"Hello World!" was performed on the 10th of November 1956 in New York

"One Christmas Long Ago" was performed in Philadelphia on the 12nd of December 1964

"Brief Candle" has been represented in 1964

"A Death in the Family" was performed in Minneapolis on the 11th of March 1983

LIEDER

"What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why", text of Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

"Cups and boxes" (1951), oil on canvas, 22.5 x 50 cm, of the painter Giorgio Morandi, contemporary of Mayer (Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf)

William (Robert) Mayer

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