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William Carragan (July 18, 1937 – June 9, 2024) was an American musicologist particularly known for his research into the music of Anton Bruckner. He spent many years producing a completion of Bruckner's Ninth Symphony.
But following his father he became a physicist and professor at Hudson Valley Community College for 35 years, from 1965 until 2001. While there he published a comprehensive four-volume textbook of introductory university physics.
Carragan reconstructed for the first time the first version of Bruckner's First (1866), the previously unheard versions of the Third from 1874 and 1876, A New Version of the Third SymphonySymphony No. 3 (1876 version) - Richard Pittman with the New England Philharmonic - Live, 2 March 2019: I. Gemässigt, mehr bewegt, Misterioso, II. Adagio, Bewegt, quasi Andante, feierlich, III. Ziemlich schnell, IV. Finale, Allegro) and of the Fourth from 1878, as well as the 1888 intermediate versions of the Eighth. Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony as a Work in Progress He also devoted himself to completing Bruckner's Ninth symphony. That completion has been widely performed and recorded, Notes on the completion of the Finale of the Ninth Symphony of Bruckner by Sébastien Letocart. the most recently in a revised version from 2017.
Carragan published Anton Bruckner: Eleven Symphonies – a "Red Book" on the different versions of Bruckner's Symphonies issued by the Bruckner Society of America. The Bruckner Red Book He served as consultant in many performances of Bruckner symphonies. In 1991 he was accorded the Gold-Plakette of the Brucknerbund Oberösterreich, and in 2010 he was awarded the Kilenyi Medal of Honor of the Bruckner Society of America.
With respect to the baroque era, Carragan made arrangements of a concerto for four violins by Antonio Vivaldi, Op. 3, no. 1, for four harpsichords, as well as a concerto for two violins, Op. 3, no. 8, arranged after J.S. Bach for two harpsichords. Presentation of Carragan
Carragan died following a stroke on June 9, 2024, at the age of 86.Steve Barnes, 'Troy physicist and musicologist William Carragan dies at 86', Times Union, June 12, 2024 William Carragan (1937-2024)
Bruckner Editions
As a musicologist, Carragan's primary concerns were analytical aspects of the music, and history, of the performances of Bruckner's symphonies. He was a contributing editor of the Bruckner Collected Edition in Vienna, sponsored by the International Bruckner Society. For the Collected Edition, at the request of Leopold Nowak, Carragan prepared a new edition of Bruckner's Second Symphony Anton Bruckner: Sämtliche Werke: Band II: II. Symphonie c-Moll, Musikwissenschaftlicher Verlag der Internationalen Bruckner-Gesellschaft, Vienna - II/1: Fassung 1872, William Carragan (editor), 2005; II/2: Fassung 1877, new edition by William Carragan, 2007 in two versions (1872 and 1877), as well as the 1883 and 1886 variants of the Symphony. The Early Version of Bruckner’s Second Symphony
Other work
For the Franz Schubert anniversary of 1978, Carragan completed and performed several of Schubert's unfinished piano sonatas, and ten years later he prepared a four-movement version of the Schubert's Eighth symphony which was recorded in Germany with the Philharmonie Festiva.
Personal life and death
Carragan married Julia Weston Faunce in April 1966.
target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 'Julia Faunce Engaged To William Carragan' in The New York Times, 23 February 1966, p. 32 She was a teacher and medieval historian who also taught at Hudson Valley College for 34 years. He retired in 2000 to care for his wife, who died of cancer in 2001. For the last two decades of his life he lived in the Brunswick home of his childhood. He was also a cantor at Saint George Antiochian Orthodox Church in Albany, NY.
Discography of the Carragan Editions
Bruckner's Symphonies
Symphony No. 1 (Linz version, 1866–1868)
Symphony No. 2 (First version, 1872)
Symphony No. 3 (First version, 1873)
Symphony No. 8 (1888 variants)
Symphony No. 9 – Completion of the Finale
Schubert's Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished", D. 759
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