Twentieth Century Music: An Introduction
by Eric Salzman
Period: Early 20th Century
Born: Saturday, December 2, 1893 in Kremenchug, Ukraine
Died: Sunday, February 24, 2002 in Green Bay, Wisconsin (USA)
Nation of Origin: Ukraine/United States
Major Works:
Evening Song of the Cossack (1923)
Lysistrata Suite (1930)
Some New York Scenes (1971)
Piano Sonatas 7 and 8
Songs
Other Information:
Ornstein received the Marjorie Peabody Waite Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1975. He lived more than 108 years and was active as a composer well into his late 90s. His exact year of birth is not known but is either 1893 or 1892. The composer himself was never sure.
General Bibliography:
Kennedy, Michael, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 1997, ISBN: 0198691629
Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John; Editors, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Groves Dictionaries, Inc., January 2001, ISBN: 1561592390
Slonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, Laura; Editors, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Gale Group, December 2000, ISBN: 0028655257
Slonimsky, Nicolas, Music Since 1900, Schirmer Books, July 1994, ISBN: 0028724186
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