Alec (Lafayette Chew) Wilder

(1907-1980)

"Drug Store" (1927), oil on canvas, 29 x 40 in, of the painter Edward Hopper, contemporary of Wilder (The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

The musician Alec (Lafayette Chew) (Alexander) Wilder, author of instrumental and vocal music, was born in Rochester on the 16th February 1907, the same year of the composers Aubin, Badings, Bialas, Clarke, Contilli, Desportes, Donati, Elston, Felderhof, Gebhardt, Giacobbe, Goh, Gresák, Guarnieri, Hartig, Hasegawa, Hirao, Kaufmann, Klebanov, Kono, Koval, Kozina, Ley, Maconchy, Maizel, Muench, Palester, Phillips, Polgar, Regamey, Roos, Rosseau, Ránki, Saguer, Saygun, Siqueira, Soloviev-Sedoy, Spadavecchia, Trojan, Van Durme. He died in Gainesville (Fla.) on the 22nd December 1980

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Music examples MIDI ed Mp3 of 1900

Alec (Lafayette Chew) Wilder

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"The Lowland Sea" was performed on the 8th of May 1952 in Montclair

"Miss Chicken Little" was performed on the 27th of December 1953

"Kittiwake Island" was performed on the 7th of August 1954 in Interlochen

"The Long Way" was performed on the 3rd of June 1955 in Nyack

"The Impossible Forest" was performed in Westport on the 13rd of July 1958

"The Truth about Windmills" was performed on the 14th of October 1973 in Rochester

"The Tattooed Countess" has been represented in 1974

"The Opening" was performed in 1975

"The Churkendoose" has been represented in (?)

"Rachetty Pachetty House" has been represented in (?)

"Herman Ermine in Rabbit Town" has been represented in (?)

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