Elie Siegmeister

"The Lighthouse at Two Lights" (1929), oil on canvas, 29 1/2 x 43 1/4 in, of the painter Edward Hopper, contemporary of Siegmeister (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Elie Siegmeister

(1909-1991)

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Music examples MIDI ed Mp3 of 1900

Elie Siegmeister, author of instrumental and vocal music, was born in New York on the 15th Jenuary 1909, the same year of the composers Bacewicz, Bijvanck, Bjelinski, Constantinescu, Cornejo, Doubrava, Dressel, Dzerzhinsky, Easdale, Estrada, Gavazzeni, Hajdu, Holmboe, Horký, Hughes, Kagen, Kubin, Lavagnino, Murrill, Mushel', Nordoff, Orr, Pesonen, Prokopiev, Röttger, Schoop, Schwaen, Skulte, Thomas, Tuukkanen, Uhl. He died in Manhasset (N.Y.) on the 10th March 1991

OPERE

"Darling Corie" was performed in Hempstead on the 18th of February 1954

"Miranda and the Dark Young Man" was performed in Hartford on the 9th of May 1956

"The Mermaid in Lock no.7" was performed on the 20th of July 1958 in Pittsburgh

"The Plough and the Stars" was performed on the 16th of March 1969 in Baton Rouge

"Night of the Moonspell" was performed in Shreveport on the 14th of November 1976

"Marquesa of O" has been represented in 1982

"Angel Levine" was performed on the 5th of October 1985 in New York

"The Lady of the Lake" was performed in New York on the 5th of October 1985

LIEDER

"Infant Joy" (I have no name), published in 1972, text of William Blake (1757-1827)

"The Garden of Love" (I went to the Garden of Love), published in 1978, text of William Blake (1757-1827)

"The Tyger" (Tiger! Tiger! burning bright), published in 1978, text of William Blake (1757-1827)

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