George Crumb (American composer of modern and avant-garde music)

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George Crumb (born October 24, 1929) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He is noted as an explorer of unusual timbres, alternative forms of notation, and extended instrumental and vocal techniques. Examples include seagull effect for the cello (ex. Vox Balaenae), metallic vibrato for the piano (ex. Five Pieces for Piano), and using a mallet to play the strings of a contrabass (ex. Madrigals, Book I), among numerous others. He is not an electronic music composer, however many works call for amplification of instruments, such as Black Angels (string quartet) or Ancient Voices of Children (mixed ensemble). Crumb's music contains an intense humanism, which is reflected in his personal definition of music: "a system of proportions in the service of spiritual impulse."

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Year Title Artist Rating Releases
1990 Ancient Voices of Children / Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III) George Crumb 1
1995 Crumb: Music for A Summer Evening - A Little Suite for Christmas - Five Pieces for Piano George Crumb 1
2000 Recital 2000 Prokofiev, Crumb, Webern, Respighi; Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis 5 1
2003 Complete Crumb Edition, Volume Six George Crumb 1
2004 Complete Crumb Edition, Volume 8 George Crumb 1
2006 Music for a Summer Evening / Black Angels George Crumb 1
2006 Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death George Crumb 1
2006 Vox Balaenae George Crumb; New Music Concerts Ensemble, Robert Aitken 1
2008 Complete Crumb Edition, Volume 12 George Crumb 1
2011 American Music Reich, Barber, Crumb; Quatuor Diotima 1
— Makrokosmos I & II George Crumb 1

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Year Title Artist Rating Releases
— Works George Crumb 1

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