American classical composer
Bernard Wagenaar (July 18, 1894 – May 19, 1971) was a Dutch-American composer, conductor and violinist.
Wagenaar was born in Arnhem . He studied at Utrecht University before starting his career as a teacher and conductor in 1914. He moved to the U.S. in 1920, and he became a citizen in 1927. From 1925 to 1968 he taught at the Juilliard School , where Ned Rorem , Jacob Druckman , Norman Dello Joio , Bernard Herrmann , Robert Ward , Tutti Camarata , Charles Jones , Alan Shulman , Katharine Mulky Warne , and James Cohn were among his pupils. He was an active member of the League of Composers and similar organizations and was an officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau in the Netherlands. He died in York, Maine .
He wrote four symphonies (1926, 1930, 1936 and 1946) and other orchestral, vocal, and chamber music in a broadly neoclassical style.[ 1]
His second symphony was one of the few American works Arturo Toscanini performed with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra ; the first performances were on November 10, 11, and 13, 1933, in Carnegie Hall .[ 2]
References
^ Herbert Antcliffe and Barbara A. Renton. "Wagenaar, Bernard." In Grove Music Online . Oxford Music Online. (Subscription required). Accessed 29/1/2009.^ The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1956), pg. 1911
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