Donald H. Keats (May 27, 1929 – April 27, 2018) was an American composer, teacher, and pianist.
Biography
Keats attended
Yale University as an undergraduate, where he studied with
Quincy Porter and
Paul Hindemith. He completed his MA at Columbia University, where he studied with
Otto Luening and
Henry Cowell. He attended the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Hamburg as a Fulbright Scholar before returning to America. Keats received his Ph.D from the University of Minnesota, where he studied with
Dominick Argento and
Paul Fetler. He also won two Guggenheim Fellowships (1964–65, 1972–73), an NEA grant, and was a Fulbright scholar (1954–55, renewed 1955-56). He also studied composition at Yale with
Henry Cowell.
He taught at Antioch College from 1957 to 1975, and the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music from 1975 to 1999. He also taught at the Aspen School of Music and was Visiting Professor at the University of Washington from 1969 to 1970. He died on April 27, 2018, at the age of 88.[ Donald Keats]
Important works
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Symphony No.2: (An) Elegiac Symphony
[Rosen, Jerome and Michael Meckna: " Donald Keats - Symphony No.2: Elegiac Symphony", Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 1), ] (1964)
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Piano Sonata (1971)
[ Donald Keats (University of Denver)]
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String Quartet #1
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String Quartet #2
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Keats considers his First Symphony as an important piece; both it and his Elegiac Symphony won Rockefeller Foundation-sponsored competitions, resulting in performances by the Kansas City Philharmonic and the Seattle Symphony respectively
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Principal Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Notable students
