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Charles Clement Fussell (born February 14, 1938, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina)[1] is an American composer and conductor of contemporary classical music. He has composed six symphonies and three operas.[2] His symphony Wilde for solo baritone and orchestra, based on the life of Oscar Wilde and premiered by the Newton Symphony Orchestra and the baritone Sanford Sylvan in 1990, was a finalist for the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Music.[3][4] He received a citation and award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1992.[2][5][6]

Fussell received advanced degrees in composition and conducting from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Thomas Canning and Bernard Rogers. He received a Fulbright grant to study at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik, where he worked with Boris Blacher. He also attended the Bayreuth masterclasses of Friedelind Wagner.[2][6] In 1964 he received a Ford Foundation grant to be a composer-in-residence in the Newton, Massachusetts public school system.[7] He was an assistant and close friend of the composer Virgil Thomson.[8] He served as the president of the Thomson Foundation for many years.[6]

Fussell has served on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the North Carolina School of the Arts (1976–1977), Boston University (1983–2003), and Rutgers University.[1]

Catalogue of works

Late 1950s

• Essay for Orchestra
• Variations for Orchestra
• Six Dances for Orchestra

1962

• Caligula, opera based on a play by Albert Camus
• Trio, for violin, cello, and piano

1963

• Dance Suite, for flute, trumpet, viola, and two percussionists
• Symphony in One Movement [No. I], for large orchestra

1964

• Sweelinck Liedvariationen Mein Junges Leben, for solo string trio, marimba, mandolin, harp, and small orchestra
• Saint Stephen and Herod, drama for speaker, chorus, and winds

1965

• Poems for Chamber Orchestra and Voices after Hart Crane, text by Hart Crane
• Three Choral Pieces (rev. 1975), for chorus and piano
  • I. Fancy's Knell (SA and piano)
  • II. Three Epitaphs (TB and piano)
  • III. I Saw a Peacock (mixed chorus and piano)

1967

• Symphony No. II, for soprano and large orchestra

1968

• Two Ballades (rev. 1976), for cello and piano
• The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation, realization after Henry Purcell for soprano and ten instruments

1970

• Voyages, for soprano and tenor soloists, female chorus, piano, and solo wind instrument plus recorded speaker. Text by Hart Crane.

1971

• Julian, drama in five scenes after the tale of Gustave Flaubert

1973

• Three Processionals for Orchestra

1975

• Eurydice, for soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano, with obligato trumpet, horn, trombone, and bass-drum

1976

• Résumé, cycle of nine songs for soprano, clarinet, string bass, and piano. Text by Dorothy Parker.
• Greenwood Sketches, Music for String Quartet
• A Prophecy, for chorus and piano. Text by Allen Ginsberg.

1977

• Etudes and Portraits, for solo organ

1979

• Northern Lights, two portraits for chamber orchestra
  • I. Leós Janacek, for two flutes, four solo violins, timpani, and strings
  • II. Edvard Munch, for two flutes, string quartet, timpani, and string orchestra
• A Joyful Fugue, transcription for band of an orchestral score by Virgil Thomson

1981

• Landscapes, Symphony No. III, for chorus and large orchestra
  • I. A Prophecy (Allen Ginsberg)
  • II. A Night Battle (Walt Whitman)
  • III. Moment Fugue 1929 (Hart Crane)
  • IV. Landscape (Alberta Phillips)
• Four Fairy Tales After Oscar Wilde, for orchestra
  • I. The Young King
  • II. The Nightingale and the Rose
  • III. The Happy Prince
    • A. Prelude
    • B. Romance of the Sparrow and Reed
    • C. Coda
  • IV. The Remarkable Rocket

1982

• Overture to Paul Bunyan, transcription for band of an orchestral score by Benjamin Britten

1983

• Song of Return, for SATB chorus with piano. Text by W. H. Auden.

1985

• Cymbeline, drama after Shakespeare for soprano and tenor soli, narrator, plus chamber ensemble (11 players)

1986

• The Gift, for SATB chorus with soprano solo. Text by William Carlos Williams.
• Three Portraits for Chamber Orchestra
  • I. Virgil Thomson (1981)
    • Version for solo piano composed in 2015
  • II. Maurice Grosser (1983)
  • III. Jack Larson (1986)

1988

• Free-fall, for chamber ensemble (seven players)

1989

• A Song of Return, cantata for small chorus and orchestra. Text by W. H. Auden.
• The Gift, for chorus, soprano solo, and orchestra

1990

• Wilde [Symphony No. IV], for baritone and orchestra. Runner-up for the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Music.

1991

• Goethe Lieder, cycle of five songs with an epilogue
  • 1. Soprano or tenor and piano
  • 2. Version for seven players
  • 3. Version for orchestra
• Last Trombones, for five percussionists, two pianos, and six (or twelve) trombones

1992

• Specimen Days, cantata for baritone solo, chorus, and orchestra. Text by Will Graham, based on the life and writings of Walt Whitman.

1993

• Being Music, for baritone solo and string quartet. Text by Walt Whitman.
• Song and Dance, for violin and piano
• Invocation, for chorus (SA and accompaniment or SATB). Text by May Sarton.

1994

• Sonata-Duo, for flute and piano

1995

• Symphony No. V, for orchestra
• Night Song, for solo piano

1996

• Comrade and The Journey, two songs for baritone and piano

1997

• The Astronaut's Tale, chamber opera. Text by Jack Larson.
• Mists, three pieces for a cappella chorus. Texts by Hart Crane.

1998

• November Leaves, four songs for mezzo-soprano and orchestra. Texts by Alfred Corn.
• Sonnet, for baritone solo, flute, and organ. Text by Elizabeth Bishop.
• Trio, for violin, cello, and piano

1999

• From A Pioneer Songbook, for a cappella chorus

2000

• A Walt Whitman Sampler, for TTBB chorus and piano. Text by Will Graham.
• Venture, four songs for baritone and piano on poems by Toni Mergentime Levi
  • Version for baritone and orchestra was composed in 2016

2002

• Right River, Variations on an Original Theme for 'cello and string orchestra

2003

• Infinite Fraternity, for SATB chorus, baritone solo, flute, and viola. Texts by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Will Graham.
• High Bridge (rev. 2008), A Choral Symphony [No. VI] after poems of Hart Crane, for soprano, alto, tenor, baritone solos, chorus and orchestra

2008

• Moonshine, for double bass and vibraphone

2011

• Marion in Memory, for flute, clarinet, horn, violin, cello, piano, and marimba

2018

• K.G. in Space and Time, for flute, clarinet, horn, marimba (and vibraphone), piano (and celesta), violin, and cello

References

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