Quincy Porter
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William Quincy Porter (February 7, 1897 – November 12, 1966) was an American composer and teacher of classical music. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and Horatio Parker and David Stanley Smith were among his teachers at Yale University.
Porter received two awards while studying music at Yale: the Osborne Prize for Fugue and the Steinert Prize for orchestral composition.
At graduation, he performed the winning piece, a violin concerto, in a recital.
Porter earned two degrees at Yale, an A.B. From Yale College to a Mus.
B from the music school. He spent a year in Paris, studying at Schola Cantorum, then migrated to New York, where he worked with Ernest Bloch and Vincent d'Indy.
Porter was later named head of the Theory Department at the Cleveland Institute of Music in 1923.
He stayed there until 1928, when he resigned to concentrate on composition.
Porter began composing in earnest after returning to Paris on a Guggenheim Fellowship.
He composed Blues Lointains (1928), his 3rd String Quartet (1930), his 2nd Violin Sonata (1930), and his Piano Sonata (1930).
Helen was born on the first trip to the United States. Porter returned to the United States in 1931, first returning to the Cleveland Institute of Music, then teaching at Vassar, where he was appointed a professor in 1932.
The Pulitzer Prize for Music, 1954, was given to Porter's 1953 Concerto Concertante, a concerto for two pianos and orchestra.
Tawa's piece, "effectively cohesive, remarkably rich, and contrapuntally active," says Tawa; collaborative rather than competitive.
Porter was born in 1938 and later became dean (1938–42) and then director (1942–46) of the New England Conservatory of Music, and after 1946, he returned to Yale as a scholar until 1965.
Porter served as chairman of the American Music Center from 1958 to his death, which he founded with Howard Hanson and Aaron Copland in 1939.
He died in Bethany, Connecticut. He wrote a substantial number in "absolute (established) styles, including nine string quartets (1923–1953), several concertos (including one for viola and one for viola), two pianos (the latter work winning the 1954 Pulitzer Prize for Music), and two symphonies.
His later music, although tonal, is acerbic and dissonant.