Sahl, Michael, 1934-
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Michael Sahl was born on September 2, 1934 in Boston. In 1942, after his family moved to New York, he commenced his formal musical training. In 1947, he began studying with Israel Citkowitz and has cited the composer and critic as particularly instrumental in endowing him with a love for American popular music. As a result, Sahl's increased involvement with and interest in folk, blues, jazz and American popular vocal standards influenced much of his compositional output. He later studied at Amherst College and Princeton University, where his teachers included Roger Sessions and Milton Babbitt. He also worked with Lukas Foss, Luigi Dallapiccola and Aaron Copland. Sahl's academic training at Princeton centered on 12-note and serial techniques. In 1957-58, he received a Fulbright Fellowship in Europe and spent the following few years overseas attempting to compose in a Modernist style, but eventually realized that his inclination to write tonal melodies was too strong to ignore. In 1963, Sahl returned to the USA and became active in folk-rock music circles. After serving as a Creative Associate at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1965, he became the pianist and music director for Judy Collins. Following his departure from Collins in 1969, Sahl made his reputation as a composer of operas, musical shows, and instrumental works, several of which are written in a musical style dominated by the hybridization of Romanticism, jazz and rock. He became acclaimed as one of the earliest composers to write in a genre-blending style that successfully managed to straddle the boundaries between classical "new music," pop, rock, jazz, and musical theater.
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https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82099777
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Subjects
Cantatas, Secular
Cantatas, Secular
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices, 4 parts) with instrumental ensemble
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices, 4 parts) with instrumental ensemble
Concertos (Violin)
Concertos (Violin with instrumental ensemble)
Electronic and violin music
Instrumental ensembles
Instrumental ensembles
Keyboard instrument music (Keyboard instruments (2))
Music
Music
Octets (Saxophones (4), violins (2), viola, violoncello)
Orchestral music
Percussion and piano music
Piano music
Piano music, Arranged
Piano music (Blues)
Quartets (Clarinet, flute, violin, violoncello)
Quartets (Piano, clarinet, violin, double bass)
Quartets (Piano, percussion, violin, double bass)
Quartets (Synthesizer, electric violin, electric guitar, double bass)
Quintets (Piano, guitar, percussion (2), double bass)
Quintets (Piano, guitar, percussion, violin, double bass)
Quintets (Piano, guitar, percussion, violin, double bass)
Septets (Piano, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, percussion, violin, double bass)
Sonatas (Piano)
Sonatas (Violin and piano)
Sonatas (Violin and piano)
Songs (High voice) with piano
Songs (Medium voice) with piano
Songs with piano
String quartets
String quartets
Symphonies
Symphonies (Instrumental ensemble)
Tangos
Trios (Clarinet, percussion (2))
Trios (Piano, percussion)
Variations (Violin)
Violin and piano music
Vocal sextets, Unaccompanied
Nationalities
Americans
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