Karl Korte is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was born in Ossining, NY and grew up in Englewood, NJ. He studied at the Julliard School and later studied composition with Otto Luening, Goffredo Petrassi, and Aaron Copland, who was also a MacDowell Fellow. Korte later taught at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is currently a professor emeritus, as well as at Williams College as a visiting professor. His many honors include two Guggenheim Fellowships, Fulbright Awards to Italy and New Zealand, a MacDowell Fellowship, and a Gold Medal from the Belgian Government in the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition,
Discipline:
Music Composition
Karl Korte
Discipline:
Music Composition
Region: Austin, TX
MacDowell Fellowships: 1958
Studios
Veltin
Karl Korte worked in the Veltin studio.
Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…