[미국]John Alden Carpenter

John Alden Carpenter

(February 28, 1876 – April 26, 1951) was an American composer.

[작품 모음]

1920년대에 뛰어난 활약을 보였으며 관현악에 재즈 리듬을 사용한 최초의 인물 가운데 한 사람이다.

하버드대학교에서 독일의 영향을 받은 보수적인 작곡가 존 놀스 페인에게 배웠지만 그의 아버지가 경영하는 선박운송회사에 들어가서 1909~36년 부사장으로 있었다.

1906년 에드워드 엘가 경에게 음악을 배웠으며 1936년 이후로는 작곡에만 전념했다. 근본적으로는 프랑스 인상주의 악파에 영향을 받은 보수적인 작곡가였지만 〈피아노와 관현악을 위한 콘체르티노 Concertino for Piano and Orchestra〉(1917)와 발레곡 〈미치광이 고양이 Krazy Kat〉(1922)·〈마천루 Skyscrapers〉(1926)에서는 재즈 리듬을 결합시키기도 했다. 〈마천루〉는 나중에 교향적 소품으로 개작되었다.

관현악 모음곡 〈유모차 안에서의 모험 〉

역시 큰 인기를 모은 곡으로 유머러스한 성격을 지녔다.[다음백과]

Biography

Carpenter was born in Park Ridge, Illinois on February 28, 1876,^[1] and raised in a musical household. He was educated at Harvard University,^[1] where he studied under John Knowles Paine,^[1] and was president of the Glee Club, also writing music for the Hasty-Pudding Club. Showing great promise as a composer, he journeyed to London to study under Edward Elgar, and finally succeeded in studying with him in Rome in 1906,^[1][2] later returning to the United States to study under Bernhard Ziehn in Chicago through 1912.^[2] It was there he earned a comfortable living as vice-president of the family business, a shipping supply company, from 1909 to his retirement in 1936.^[1] After his retirement, he spent much of his time composing.^[1] Carpenter served as Chairman of the Board of Children's Home Society of Illinois and a life trustee of the Children's Home Society of Illinois Foundation. He died in Chicago on April 26, 1951.^[1]

Works

Carpenter's compositional style was considered to be mainly "mildly modernistic and impressionistic"; also, many of his works strive to encompass the spirit of America, including the patriotic The

Home Road and several of his works are jazz-inspired.^[1] He composed three ballets:^[1] Krazy Kat: A Jazz Pantomime, based on the Krazy Kat comics, was premiered at the New York Town Hall on

20 January 1922, and was the first work by a concert composer to use the word 'jazz' in its title;^[3] possibly his best-known is Skyscrapers (1926), set in New York (it premiered at the Metropolitan Opera), but equally inspired by his native Chicago

.

One of his most famous works was 1914's impressionistic orchestral suite Adventures in a Perambulator.^[4] It was recorded in stereo in 1956 by Howard Hanson and the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra for Mercury Records, which initially released it on LP; Philips later reissued the recording on CD. In 1932, Carpenter completed The Song of Faith for the George Washington bicentennial.

His first symphony (Symphony No. 1, in C)

was premiered in Norfolk Connecticut in 1917 and revised for the 50th anniversary of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, who performed it on October 24, 1940.^[1] Bruno Walter premiered his second symphonywith the New York Philharmonic in 1942.^[5] He also wrote many piano pieces and songs, including the song cycle Gitanjali, with poems by Rabindranath Tagore.^[1]