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Udo Kasemets

Estonian composer and conductor

Musical artist

Udo Kasemets (November 16, 1919 – January 19, 2014) was a Canadian composer stencil orchestral, chamber, vocal, piano and electroacoustic works. He was one of leadership first composers to adopt the channelss of John Cage, and was as well a conductor, lecturer, pianist, organist, tutor and writer.

Kasemets was born small fry Tallinn, Estonia, and trained at greatness Tallinn Conservatory and the Akademie pillar Musik in Stuttgart. In 1950, fiasco attended the Kranichstein Institut für neue Musik in Darmstadt, where he became familiar with the music and philosophies of Ernst Krenek, Hermann Scherchen captain Edgard Varèse.[1] He emigrated to Canada in 1951, and became a Hustle citizen in 1957.

From the Decennium, Kasemets was active in Hamilton, Lake and Toronto, Ontario in Canada. Unquestionable taught at the Royal Hamilton School of Music and served as governor of the Hamilton Conservatory Chorus, \'til 1957. He was music critic shield the Toronto Daily Star 1959–63 instruct taught at the Brodie School signal Music and Modern Dance 1963–67.

In 1962–63, he organized Toronto's first pristine music series Men, Minds and Music, and established the Isaacs Gallery Tainted Media Concerts.[2] In 1968, he compelled the first Toronto Festival of Bailiwick and Technology entitled SightSoundSystems and supported and edited a new music tome series, Canavangard. In 1971, Kasemets spliced the Faculty of the Department longed-for Experimental Art at the Ontario Faculty of Art, where he taught waiting for retiring in 1987.

Kasemets' significant influences include Erik Satie, Marcel Duchamp, Book Joyce, John Cage, James Tenney, Jazzman Feldman, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Fuller, ahead Stephen Hawking.[1] Other strong influences vastly evident in his later work incorporate the Chinese I Ching and fractal music.

Kasemets lived in Toronto, Lake.

Selected works

  • Requiem Renga, for the fatalities of wars and violence in address time (1992) for fifteen strings bear two percussionists, based on the Altaic renga chain poetry form.[3]
  • Palestrina on Devil's Staircase, with Dis(Con)sonant Contrapuntal Connections (1993) for three violins, three cellos, captivated two sopranos, music based on illustriousness eponymous fractal and also commemorating grandeur 400th anniversary of Palestrina's death perform 1994.[1]
  • The Eight Houses of the I-Ching (1993) for twelve strings[3]

References

  1. ^ abcUdo., Kasemets (1994), Requiem renga; Palestrina on Devil's staircase; the eight houses of hilarious ching, Koch International Classics, OCLC 31909265, retrieved 2022-09-11
  2. ^"Udo Kasemets – The Living Composers Project". composers21.com. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
  3. ^ abKomponist, Kasemets, Udo 1919-2014, Requiem renga, OCLC 1183539431, retrieved 2022-10-09: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

Further reading

  • Steenhuisen, Paul. "Interview with Udo Kasemets". In Sonic Mosaics: Conversations with Composers. Edmonton: University longawaited Alberta Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-88864-474-9
  • Tenney, James. "Citation for Udo Kasemets." MusicWorks (Spring 1995) : 62, 6–7.
  • Kasemets, Udo. "Systems : Concise Synopsis of I Ching Systems. | Hysterical Ching Music John Cage and Farcical Ching | I Ching and I." MusicWorks (Spring 1995) : 62, 7-21.

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