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Frank Damrosch, founder of the Institute of Musical Art, commonly referred to as the "Damrosch School" [8]. In 1905, the Institute of Musical Art (IMA), Juilliard's predecessor institution, was founded by Frank Damrosch, a German-American conductor and godson of Franz Liszt, on the premise that the United States did not have a premier music school and too many students were going to Europe to ...
Renée Longy-Miquelle (1898–1979) was a French-American pianist, music theorist, and noted pedagogue who served as a faculty member of the Juilliard School, the Curtis Institute of Music, and the Peabody Conservatory. She was the teacher of many seminal students, including Leonard Bernstein and Michael Jeffrey Shapiro. [1]
The music division offers a four-year Bachelor of Music (BM) degree, a Master of Music (MM) degree, a Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree, an Artist Diploma (AD), or a diploma. In prior years it also awarded B.S. and M.S. degrees.
Sheet music published in California between 1852 and 1900, along with related materials such as a San Francisco publisher's catalog of 1872, programs, songsheets, advertisements, and photographs. Images of every printed page of sheet music from eleven locations have been scanned at 400 dpi, in color where indicated.
John Serry Jr. (born John Serrapica Jr.; January 19, 1954) is an American jazz pianist and composer, as well as a composer of contemporary classical music works that feature percussion, on which he also doubles.
Members of the Juilliard Quartet are also private teachers and chamber coaches at the Juilliard School and at music festivals worldwide. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] Musicians who have studied with the quartet have gone on to become members of the Tokyo , Emerson , Shanghai , LaSalle , Concord , Alexander , New World , Brentano , Lark , and the Ulysses string ...
Born into a musical family in New York City, Lillian Fuchs's brothers were violinist Joseph Fuchs and cellist Harry Fuchs. [1] She began her musical studies as a pianist, later studying violin with her father and afterwards with Franz Kneisel (former concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and first violinist of the Kneisel Quartet) at the Institute of Musical Art, now the Juilliard ...
Schuman won the inaugural Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1943 for his Cantata No. 2. A Free Song, [3] adapted from poems by Walt Whitman. From 1935 to 1945, he taught composition at Sarah Lawrence College. In 1945, he became president of the Juilliard School, founding the Juilliard String Quartet while there.