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Mario Davidovsky (1934-     )

 was born in Medanos, a town in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. His main teacher was the composer Guillermo Graetzer. In 1958 he was invited to participate in the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, where he studied with Aaron Copland. Mr. Davidovsky’s interest in the fledgling field of Electronic Music was further encouraged by meeting Milton Babbitt, a faculty member that year. Learning of the imminent opening of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in 1959, he joined the early group of composers there and later became the Center’s director. Davidovsky is widely recognized for his seminal contributions in the realm of electro-acoustic music. His Synchronisms #6, for piano and electronic sounds, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1971. He has received commissions here and abroad from various organizations including: the Philadelphia Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Juilliard and Emerson String Quartets, Speculum Musicae, the Parnassus Ensemble, NYNME, Chamber Society of Lincoln Center and many others. He has also received numerous grants and awards including Guggenheim and Rockefeller Fellowships, The Kaske Prize (Germany), Naumburg Award, Asociasion Wagneriana and Asociasion Amigos de la Musica (Argentina). Mr.Davidovsky is the Fanny P. Mason Prof. Emeritus at Harvard University, former MacDowell Professor of Music at Columbia University, and the director of the Composers Conference and Chamber Music Center at Wellesley College. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

COMPOSITIONS                                Davidovsky Links     ~ ~ ~     Works by Genre    ~ ~ ~    Davidovsky on Davidovsky
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WORKS BY GENRE                                         Davidovsky Links    ~ ~ ~    Davidovsky on Davidovsky     ~ top of page ~
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Dramatic/Theater

Orchestra

Band

Soloist(s) w/Orchestra

Chorus w/Orchestra

Choral

Chamber

Instrument and Piano

Solo Instrument

Piano

Vocal

Incidental/Film

Electronic/Electroacoustic

FOR PERCUSSION
Chamber

Solo Instrument

Marimba

Solo Percussion

Percussion Ensemble

Percussion Method Books and Etudes


DAVIDOVSKY  LINKS                      Works by Genre    ~ ~ ~    Davidovsky on Davidovsky       ~ top of page ~
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Composer's website   . . .   contact Mario Davidovsky:  here

Davidovsky @ Wikipedia
Davidovsky @ American Composers Forum
Davidovsky @ Answers.com
Davidovsky @ Art + Culture
Davidovsky @ Art of the States
Davidovsky @ Audiophile Audition (via Google Advanced Search)  http://www.google.com/advanced_search
Davidovsky @ Classic Cat
Davidovsky @ Classical Archives
Davidovsky @ Classical Composers Database
Davidovsky @ Classical Net
Davidovsky @ ClassicsToday (via Google Advanced Search)  http://www.google.com/advanced_search
Davidovsky @ composition:today/   http://www.compositiontoday.com/composers/a.asp
Davidovsky @ Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers
Davidovsky @ Facebook
Davidovsky @ Grawemeyer Awards
Davidovsky @ IMDb (Internet Movie Database)
Davidovsky @ IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library
Davidovsky @ InstantEncore
Davidovsky @ IRCAM / http://brahms.ircam.fr/composers/alphabetical-order/r/
Davidovsky @ Karadar Classical Music/ find via /   http://www.google.com/advanced_search
Davidovsky @ Klassika/ http://www.klassika.info  /  http://www.google.com/advanced_search
Davidovsky @ LinkedIn
Davidovsky @ Mannes College
Davidovsky @ Milken Archive of Jewish Music
Davidovsky @ Modern Classical / http://www.modernclassical.com/20tha.html
Davidovsky @ MSN Music
Davidovsky @ Music Academy Online
Davidovsky @ MusicWeb International
Davidovsky @ musicianguide.com / http://www.musicianguide.com/
Davidovsky @ MySpaceMusic
Davidovsky @ Naxos
Davidovsky @ New Music USA [formerly American Music Center]   http://library.newmusicusa.org/?amc=true
Davidovsky @ The New York Times
Davidovsky @ NNDB
Davidovsky @ W.W. Norton
Davidovsky @ Piano Society [Bowles; William Duckworth; Heino Eller; Mompou; Respighi; Turina]
Davidovsky @ The Pulitzer Prizes / http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Music
Davidovsky @ REC Music Foundation /The Lied and Art Song Texts Page
Davidovsky @ US Opera/  http://www.usopera.com/composers/

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Publisher
Davidovsky @ Composer's website/publisher listings
Davidovsky @ Alphonse Leduc
Davidovsky @ Boosey & Hawkes
Davidovsky @ Chester Novello
Davidovsky @ Carl Fischer
Davidovsky @ Oxford University Press
Davidovsky @ Peermusic
Davidovsky @ Edition Peters
Davidovsky @ Theodore Presser
Davidovsky @ G. Schirmer
Davidovsky @ Schott Music
Davidovsky @ Universal Edition

Streaming Audio
Davidovsky @ Composer's website  -  check under individual work listings
Davidovsky @ Classical Archives
Davidovsky @ last.fm
Davidovsky @ MySpaceMusic
Davidovsky @ NPRmusic
Davidovsky @ PRX (Public Radio Exchange)/   http://www.prx.org/
Davidovsky @ Rhapsody.com
Davidovsky @ SoundCloud

Recordings
Davidovsky @ Composer's website
Davidovsky @ Amazon.com
Davidovsky @ ArkivMusic
Davidovsky @ CD Universe
Davidovsky @ ClassicsOnline
Davidovsky @ Discogs
Davidovsky @ itunes  https://itunes.apple.com
Davidovsky @ Naxos

Video
Davidovsky @ YouTube
Davidovsky @ Google Video
Davidovsky @ Vimeo (via Google Advanced Search)  http://www.google.com/advanced_search
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Davidovsky on Davidovsky: On Composing (VIDEO)







Davidovsky on Davidovsky: A Long Way from Home/NewMusicBox (VIDEO)
Composers Speak on the Web at Pytheas
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