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		Wolpe also differed from his fellow refugees from Germany, and in fact from most ranking composers of his generation, in the unique rapprochement he achieved between his avowed socialism and the modernist vision of the professional composer.
		Wolpe's colleagues at the Palestine Conservatoire, where he taught composition and led the choir from the fall of 1935 to the spring of 1938, were aghast at his twelve-tone music and at the extraordinary devotion he aroused among his pupils for his musical and political views.
		Although Wolpe was reputed to be a twelve-toner, he refused to be drawn to one or the other side of the ongoing debate.
	www.wolpe.org /biography.html (1929 words)

	Stefan Wolpe
		Stefan Wolpe (August 25, 1902 - April 4, 1972) was a German-born composer.
		The music Wolpe was writing was atonal, using Arnold Schoenberg's twelve tone technique.
		When the Nazis came to power in Germany, Wolpe fled the country, passing through Rumania and Russia en route to Austria, where he met and studied with Anton Webern.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/st/Stefan_Wolpe.html (300 words)

	Stefan Wolpe - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Wolpe wrote several operas and cantatas and a good deal of chamber music.
		Wolpe's inner beauty (a response to Christopher Hasty with three entries for a Wolpe Lexicon).(Stefan Wolpe's music)(Critical Essay)
		Stefan Wolpe's dialectical logic: a look at the Second Piece for Violin Alone.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-wolpe-s1t.html (299 words)

	Stefan Wolpe Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Stefan Wolpe was born in Berlin on August 25, 1902, the third of four children to David and Hermine Wolpe.
		Wolpe served as a pianist and composer for Novembergruppe, possibly until its demise in 1932.
		Wolpe's originality lay in his abandoning of this model and replacing it with the constant, never resolving interaction of opposites posited as non-hierarchical, non-thematic shapes, and filling out what he called a "constellatory" rather than a layered space.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/stefan-wolpe (1406 words)

	Stefan Wolpe - Biography - AOL Music
		Stefan Wolpe was a composer of atonal works notable for providing one alternative mode of atonal writing to that developed by Schoenberg.
		Wolpe was an influential teacher in the United States, where his pupils included Morton Feldman, George Shapey and Charles Wuorinen.
		Wolpe spent the early part of his life in Berlin, associated with the Bauhaus group.
	music.aol.com /artist/stefan-wolpe/5963/biography (377 words)

	Broken sequences: fragmentation, abundance, beauty.(Stefan Wolpe''s music) - Journal, Magazine, Article, Periodical
		In "Thinking Twice" Wolpe is especially critical of a serial practice he sees as aesthetically deadening and unconscious of its own historical involvements even as it strives to be ahistorical.
		In a prose that often modulates into poetry he is concerned with a musical material deeply embedded in culture and with the possibility of turning this very embeddedness toward the creation of a vivid, new material.
		Wolpe's concern is not merely intellectual--the articulation of a stance toward history and tradition.
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	Stefan Wolpe - Wolpe in Jerusalem
		In 1931, Stefan Wolpe escaped from the growing Nazi threat, eventually arriving in Vienna to study with Anton Webern.
		Wolpe is best known for his serial explorations, but it shouldn't be forgotten that he was, prior to his sudden departure from his native Germany, an active Communist and composer of a number of agitprop anthems for trade unions and theatre companies.
		Wolpe's work is considerably more substantial in scope; calling it a chamber symphony might have been more appropriate, and comparing it to Schoenberg's two chamber symphonies might make more sense.
	www.moderecords.com /catalog/156wolpe.html (1645 words)

	To Have Known Stefan Wolpe by Morton Feldman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		To have known Stefan Wolpe well would have benefitted greatly in equating the music to the man. His vitality alone was exceptional.
		Wolpe was the kind of man who used all 88 notes of his personality.
		Wolpe used these obstacles as part and parcel of his musical language.
	www.cnvill.demon.co.uk /mfwolpe.htm (662 words)

	Stefan’s Secret
		Wolpe’s musical universe was all-inclusive; however, it was not, as for Ives, made up of bits and pieces of fully assembled musical styles or familiar tunes, but rather of a profusion of musical atoms (gesture types, speeds, pitch configurations and densities), colliding with maximum dramatic impact.
		Wolpe’s ideas developed in parallel with Olson—not only his sense of a deep, intuitive relationship between the senses and the arts, but his musical conjuring of what Olson called the "split second act" and the "push": the inner energy that animates the substance of art.
		The Stefan Wolpe Centennial will be celebrated with a series of concerts during the 2002-2003 concert season.
	www.newmusicon.org /v10n2/v102wolpe.html (804 words)

	STEFAN WOLPE BIOGRAPHY
		Stefan Wolpe was born in Berlin, August 25, 1902, and received instruction in piano and theory as a boy of 14.
		Wolpe's last years were plagued with the symptoms of Parkinson's Disease to which he finally succumbed April 4, 1972.
		At the age of 18, Wolpe was already recognized as a "phenomenal pianist" by those who knew him; he was to remain a pianist at heart, always having a preference for its crisp tones.
	graham.main.nc.us /~bhammel/MUSIC/SW/bio.html (633 words)

	Stefan Wolpe, Composer
		Similarly, Wolpe's fascination for the Dadas and their program of outrageous mocking and trashing of bourgeois art and culture, was mediated by his friendship with the collageist and sound poet Kurt Schwitters, whose Dada poem Anna Blume Wolpe set to fully chromatic music as an hilarious theatrical scene.
		He also trained choirs on various kibbutzim, as the Jewish pioneers were unfamiliar with the new singing style required for so-called Kampfmusik, the music for the socialist struggle.
		One should know about all the structures of fantasy and all the fantasies of structures, and mix suprise and enigma, magic and shock, intelligence and abandon, form and antiform.
	www.collagenewmusic.org /wolpe.html (1663 words)

	Stefan Wolpe : Passacaglia, First Recordings, 1954 - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Wolpe had been an instructor of Morton Feldman's in 1944 and met Cage near the same time that had recommended him for the Black Mountain post.
		In listening to these pieces, what becomes immediately apparent is Wolpe's signature: his lack of formal structure, the free-flowing fantasias all of his pieces eventually become -- especially the later, post-1950 works.
		The music Wolpe created is one of constant movement and abstraction with one element holding it all together: counterpoint.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,1044730,00.html (559 words)

	Stefan Wolpe : Quartet for Trumpet, Tenor Saxophone, Percussion and Piano - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Stefan Wolpe : Quartet for Trumpet, Tenor Saxophone, Percussion and Piano
		Wolpe was always influenced by the socially-conscious Gebrauchmusik (music for everyday use) movement in the '20s and '30s in Europe.
		New methods of nonlinear continuity (partial canonic imitation, for example) are explored by Wolpe in this work as in others appearing at this time, so the music has fluidity and a captivating modern tunefulness throughout.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,233939,00.html (288 words)

	Amazon.com: Stefan Wolpe: Compositions for Piano (1920-1952): Music: Wolpe,Holzman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Wolpe forged his musical thought at the piano, and most works in his wide-ranging catalogue include the piano.
		Creatively Wolpe was a late bloomer he dabbled in the fashions and trends, the issues of the times,even exploring folk traditions,genres and character pieces.
		Wolpe was a major figure both in pre-Hitler Berlin and in the New York of Abstract Expressionism, and his work has the rhythmic energy of Stravinsky and the subjective intensity of Schoenberg.
	www.amazon.com /Stefan-Wolpe-Compositions-Piano-1920-1952/dp/B000066F30 (1415 words)

	WNYC - Soundcheck: Celebrating Stefan Wolpe (October 11, 2002)
		Composer Stefan Wolpe’s involvement in radical socialist causes informed his earliest works, including music for Communist rallies and chamber operas that satirized contemporary politics and bourgeois attitudes.
		Though Wolpe was a contemporary of famed German composer and songwriter Kurt Weill, he did not gain widespread recognition until he fled Nazi Germany for Palestine.
		Among Stefan Wolpe’s influences were the Berlin dadaists (post-World War I artists attempting to seek authenticity through the destruction of traditional art forms), and the ideas of the Bauhaus school in 1930s Weimar.
	www.wnyc.org /shows/soundcheck/episodes/2002/10/11 (435 words)

	Browse by Artist: FELDMAN/STEFAN WOLPE, MORTON
		"Stefan Wolpe (1902-1972), one of the great teachers in twentieth century music, is also now recognized as one of its most significant composers.
		Morton Feldman (1926-1987) studied with Wolpe for several years and was deeply influenced by his modernist aesthetic, particularly his interest in the visual arts.
		'For Stefan Wolpe' (1986), for chorus and two vibraphones, is Feldman's tribute to his venerated teacher.
	www.forcedexposure.com /artists/feldman.stefan.wolpe.morton.html (302 words)

	Online Events
		2002 is the centenary of the birth of influential Berlin-born composer, Stefan Wolpe (1902-72).
		Stefan Wolpe was a pioneer of modernism in the New York scene of the 1940s and 50s.
		He maintained a Bauhaus-influenced belief in the interchange between the arts, and was a close friend of such painters as de Kooning, Kline, Rothko and Tworkov.
	www.tate.org.uk /onlineevents/archive/wolpe.htm (152 words)

	peermusic classical : Composer Stefan Wolpe
		Performances and recordings during the 100th anniversary of his birth in 2002 revealed Stefan Wolpe as one of the most gifted and protean composers of the 20th century.
		Wolpe's compositional career spanned more than fifty years, starting amid the tumult of Germany in the '20s and early '30s, through five years in Palestine, to New York, where he lived from 1938 until his death in 1970.
		Bristling with energy, his music reflects the spirit of Dada, the Bauhaus, abstract expressionism, and improvisational jazz: in other words, the most engaging artistic movements of wherever he happened to be.
	www.peermusicclassical.com /composer/composerdetail.cfm?detail=wolpe (411 words)

	STEFAN WOLPE
		Wolpe, Stefan, "Thoughts on Pitch and Some Considerations Connected With It," Perspectives of New Music 17.2 (1979), 28-50.
		Wolpe, Stefan, "To Understand Music (With an Introduction by Austin Clarkson)," Sonus 3.1 (1982), 4-17.
		Greenbaum, Matthew, "Stefan Wolpe's 'Proportions': A Translation and Commentary" City University of New York Ph.
	graham.main.nc.us /~bhammel/MUSIC/wolpe.html (2720 words)

	Art of the States: For Stefan Wolpe
		For Stefan Wolpe is among Feldman's last works, and one of many dedicated to composers, painters, and writers he admired.
		From 1941 onward he studied composition with Wallingford Riegger and Stefan Wolpe, but it was his meeting with John Cage in 1950 that was essential to the formation of his compositional style.
		He was associated in the 1950's with many New York artists including pianist David Tudor, composers Earle Brown and Christian Wolff, and abstract expressionist painters Mark Rothko, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, and Robert Rauschenberg.
	www.artofthestates.org /cgi-bin/piece.pl?pid=104 (615 words)

	Stefan Wolpe MP3 Downloads - Stefan Wolpe Music Downloads - Stefan Wolpe Music Videos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He was also influenced by jazz and popular dance music, in such pieces as Tango (1927), and his socialist convictions led him to reflect on the function of music in society.
		From 1952-1956, he taught at Black Mountain College whilst John Cage, David Tudor and Lou Harrison were also on the faculty.
		~ Rachel Campbell, All Music Guide', 'Stefan Wolpe was a composer of atonal works notable for providing one alternative mode of atonal writing to that developed by Schoenberg.
	www.mp3.com /stefan-wolpe/artists/5129/summary.html (367 words)

	Avant Music News » Blog Archive » Avant Garde Project 34: Stefan Wolpe
		AGP34 features music by Stefan Wolpe, who was born in Germany, emigrated to Palestine in 1933, and to the United States in 1938, where he exerted considerable influence on the next generation of American composers.
		Wolpe’s music has considerable rhythmic, harmonic, and timbral complexity, and can be exhilirating to listen to if attended to closely.
		If you like this music, you should also check out Wolpe’s String Quartet from 1970–one of his last works–which is available in an excellent and very reasonably priced 2CD set from Vox, with works by a suite of other great American composers.
	www.somnius.com /amn/2006/11/10/avant-garde-project-34-stefan-wolpe (536 words)

	Discount Wolpe CDs on FindUsedCDs.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Astor Piazzolla Igor Stravinsky Stefan Wolpe Isaac Albeniz Antonio...
		Wolpe Trio Dietrich Hahne Erik Lund Scott Roller Manfred Stahnke...
		Stefan Wolpe: Remembering the Dancemaster - Early Piece (1925) / Passacaglia (1936) / Zemach Suite (1939) / Studies, Part I (1944-1951) / Two Studies for Piano, Part II (1948) / Form for Piano (1959) / Form IV (1969) - Katharina Wolpe, Piano
	www.findusedcds.com /Wolpe/5_1_5/asearch.aspx (103 words)

	Stefan Wolpe - Classical music composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Leichte Klaviermusik Aus Aller Welt By Stefan Wolpe.
		Stefan Wolpe is of Viennese and Russian parentage.
		Stefan Wolpe: An appreciation (Essays on modern music)
	www.classical-composers.org /comp/wolpe (865 words)

	BRIDGE 9116 - Piano Music of Stefan Wolpe - David Holzman, piano
		David Holzman is widely regarded as a leading authority in the performance of Stefan Wolpe's music.
		Holzman's latest Wolpe CD presents the American pianist's titanic new account of Battle Piece, as well as the premiere recording of Wolpe's brilliant Sonata No. 1 "Stehende Musik" (1925) - a clear progenitor of late 20th century minimalism.
		Also included on this special 100th anniversary CD are a wild assortment of rarely heard Wolpeana, including The Good Spirit of a Right Cause (1942); Adagio (1920); Tango (1927); Waltz for Merle (1952); and Zemach Suite (1939).
	www.bridgerecords.com /pages/catalog/9116.htm (162 words)

	AllRefer.com - Stefan Wolpe (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Stefan Wolpe (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Stefan Wolpe, Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biographies
		Stefan Wolpe[shtef´An vOl´pu] Pronunciation Key, 1902–72, German–American composer.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/Wolpe-St.html (216 words)

	99Malls: Stefan Wolpe Sheet Music and Scores
		Here is an alphabetical list of well-respected Stefan Wolpe sheet music editions, Wolpe scores, Wolpe songbooks, collections and arrangements available (19 in all!).
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