Norma Wendelburg Explained

Norma Wendelburg
Birth Name:Norma Ruth Wendelburg
Birth Date:26 March 1918
Birth Place:Stafford, Kansas, U.S.
Education:
Occupation:
  • Pianist
  • Composer
  • Academic teacher
Organizations:

Norma Ruth Wendelburg (March 26, 1918July 26, 2016) was an American composer, Fulbright scholar, pianist and teacher.[1]

Life

Wendelburg was born in Stafford, Kansas, and won a scholarship to Bethany College (Kansas) where she received a B.M. degree. Wendelburg received a M.M. degree from the University of Michigan, where she studied composition with Ross Lee Finney and Homer Keller,[2] and piano with John Kollen. In 1948, she received a fellowship from the Wellesley Composers Conference and Chamber Music Center, where she studied with Otto Luening and Ingolf Dahl.[3] She attended the Tanglewood Music Center in 1953 on scholarship and studied with Carlos Chavez. As a Fulbright scholar from 1953 to 1955, Wendelburg studied with Cesar Bresgen at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and with Karl Schiske at the Academy of Music in Vienna.[3] [4] She received her Ph.D. from Eastman School of Music in 1969,[5] where she held a research fellowship and studied with Wayne Barlow and Bernard Rogers.

Wendelburg belonged to the music fraternity Sigma Alpha Iota[6] and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). She received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Huntington Hartford Foundation.[7]

Over the years, Wendelburg taught at Wayne State College (Nebraska); her alma mater Bethany College; Hardin-Simmons University (Texas); Southwest Texas State University; Dallas Baptist College;[8] and Iowa State Teacher's College (today known as the University of North Iowa). While teaching at Iowa State Teacher's College, she was named one of America's outstanding young composers by a committee that included composers Walter Piston and William Schuman.[9]

Compositions

Chamber

Orchestra

Organ

Piano

Vocal

Notes and References

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  2. Book: Pfitzinger, Scott. Composer Genealogies: A Compendium of Composers, Their Teachers, and Their Students. March 1, 2017. Rowman & Littlefield. 978-1-4422-7225-5.
  3. Web site: Herman . Michael . American Symphonies / A Discography Of CDs And LP / Norma Wendelburg / (b.1918) . September 28, 2020 . musicweb-international.com . 74.
  4. Web site: Norma Ruth Wendelburg / 1918 – 2016 / Obituary . October 5, 2020 . elliottmortuary.com.
  5. Web site: Burns. Chris. Composers Bureau – Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity. September 28, 2020. www.sai-national.org. en-gb.
  6. Book: Michiganensian. 1947. University of Michigan. en.
  7. Book: Wagner, Karin . Fremd bin ich ausgezogen : Eric Zeisl : Biografie. 2005. Czernin. 3-7076-0070-X. Wien. 62900746.
  8. Book: Institute, American Biographical. Two Thousand Notable Americans. 1984. American Biographical Institute. 978-0-934544-35-1. en.
  9. Book: Kansas Music Review. 1957. en.
  10. Web site: Wendelburg, Norma – Social Networks and Archival Context. September 28, 2020. snaccooperative.org.
  11. Richards . Melanie Ann . A selected bibliography of music for clarinet and one other instrument by women composers . 1993 . DMA document . The Ohio State University . en . . 979-8-208-88863-6 .
  12. Web site: Lukas Foss, Norma Wendelburg, Randall Snyder, Ned Rorem, Bradley Bombadier*, Robert Mueller (3) – American Music. September 28, 2020. Discogs. 1990 . en.
  13. Web site: CRS LP Recordings – Contemporary Record Society. September 28, 2020. www.crsnews.org.
  14. Book: Women of Note Quarterly. 1995. Vivace Press. en.
  15. Web site: Performance History Search. September 28, 2020. archives.bso.org.
  16. Book: N.Y.), American Music Center (New York. AMC Newsletter. 1990. American Music Center, Incorporated. en.
  17. Web site: Kenneth Godel Music Preparation. September 28, 2020. Kenneth Godel Music Preparation. en-US.
  18. Book: Organ and Harpsichord Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog. 1991. ABC-CLIO. 978-0-313-26802-1. en.
  19. Book: Composers, American Women. AWC News. 1979. American Women Composers, Incorporated. en.
  20. Encyclopedia: Cohen . Aaron I. . International encyclopedia of women composers . 1987 . Books & Music (USA) . New York . 2nd.
  21. Web site: mixed ensemble Lin Foulk Baird. September 28, 2020. www.linfoulk.org.
  22. Web site: Thou fair-haired angel of the evening (Blake) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music). September 28, 2020. www.lieder.net.

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