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https://graham.main.nc.us/~bhammel/MUSIC/pleskow.html
As a young student of musical composition, I had the good fortune to be able to learn from both the Mozart of contemporary music, Raoul Pleskow and the Beethoven of contemporary music, Stefan Wolpe.
In this page, devoted to the music of Raoul Pleskow, I pay tribute not only to the man's artistry, but also to his gentle kindness as a teacher, to me personally, even when I brought him my fourth Great Gate of Kiev, his care and attention as a teacher, his sense of humor and his warmth.
Being a good teacher of composition requires a fine sense of the art and the ability to express that fine sense in a way that a student can learn those things that cannot be written down in some rule book and in doing so not pass value judgements but be shown how a compositional problem might be better solved, how and why selected material might be improved. From the outset, the compositional self should not be wrenched to some other self, but nurtured and encouraged to follow its own path. In this sense, Raoul Pleskow is the best of teachers.
The first impression, on listening to Pleskow's music, regardless of the phase of his artistic evolution is the quality of concise yet virtuosically expansive musical expression that leaves no note, no rest or pause uncared for. Structures, both large and small fit together with the clarity of a brilliant crystal requiring only the light of performance and listening ears to gleam in their just balance and proportion. Should the slightest structural displacement be made, the crystal will shatter. There is a virtuosity not simply of technique, but a virtuosity, elegance and integrity, of composition, of structuring that has not been heard or seen in the world of music since Mozart.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Pleskow
Raoul Pleskow From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Raoul Pleskow (born October 12, 1931 in Vienna) is an Austrian-born American composer.
Pleskow moved to the United States in 1939 and became an American citizen in 1945. He studied at the Juilliard School in New York City (1950–1952), and at Queens College (1952–1956), where he studied composition with Karol Rathaus.[1] He then studied with Otto Luening at Columbia University, earning a Masters degreein Music in 1958. In 1959 he was appointed to the music faculty at C. W. Post College, Long Island University, and in 1970 he became a full professor.[2] He is now retired.
Pleskow's compositions number around 150.
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October 12, 1931
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Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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