Discipline: Music Composition

Charles Whittenberg

Discipline: Music Composition
MacDowell Fellowships: 1971, 1971
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Charles Whittenberg (1927-1984) was an American composer and holder of two Guggenheim Fellowships. He was born in St. Louis and graduated from the Eastman School of Music in 1948. A New York City resident from 1950, his music has been performed with increasing frequency in major musical centers of the U.S. and Europe. He served as guest lecturer on electronic music and serial techniques at the University of Massachusetts, as an affiliate of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, and instructor of instrumental techniques at the Summer Institute of Bennington College. In his later years, he served on the faculty of the University of Connecticut. Among his works is an important brass quintet entitled Triptych, commissioned by the American Brass Quintet in 1960.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Charles Whittenberg worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…

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