Gloria Coates
American composer
Gloria Coates (née Kannenberg; October 10, 1933 – August 19, 2023) was an American composer who lived in Munich from 1969 until her death. She trained and worked also as actress, stage director, singer, author and painter. She is known for her many symphonies, and also wrote chamber music, and vocal music for large and small ensembles. Her compositions have been performed internationally and recorded by notable orchestras. She ran a concert series for new music in Munich. Her First Symphony "Music on Open Strings" was played at the 1978 Warsaw Autumn and was the first composition by a woman in the musica viva series of Bayerischer Rundfunk.
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Works
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- A word is dead
- After a great pain
- Among the Asteroids (for string quartet)
- Aria "Junge Witwe" (Young Widow)
- Armistice
- Bind me - I still can sing
- Bride of the Holy Ghost
- Cantata da Requiem "World War II Poems for Peace"
- Cantata da Requiem "World War II Poems for Peace": Aria "All These Dyings"
- Cantata da Requiem "World War II Poems for Peace": Aria "Junge Witwe" (Young Widow)
- Cantata da Requiem "World War II Poems for Peace": Aria "Rinne, Regen, Rinne" (Run, Rain, Run)
- Cantata da Requiem "World War II Poems for Peace": Aria "The Flying Bombers"
- Cantata da Requiem "World War II Poems for Peace": Recitative "BBC Weather Report 1942"
- Cantata da Requiem "World War II Poems for Peace": Recitative "Brief der Lehrerin Elfriede Birndorfer" (Note from a teacher Elfriede Birndorfer)
- Cette Blanche Agonie
- Fragment from Leonardo's Notebooks "Anima della Terra"
- Fragment from Leonardo's Notebooks, 'Fonte di Rimini'
- Holographic Universe (for solo violin and orchestra)
- Holographic Universe: i Dark Energy
- Holographic Universe: ii Mirror Manifolds
- Holographic Universe: iii Holographic Universe
- I held a jewel in my fingers
- I've seen a dying eye
- If I can stop one heart from breaking
- In falling timbers
- Indian Sounds (Symphony No. 8)
- Indian Sounds (Symphony No. 8): I. Indian Grounds
- Klomplementär
- Lunar Loops (for two synthesized guitars)
- Lyric Suite for Piano Trio, "Split the Lark - and You’ll Find the Music"
- Lyric Suite for Piano Trio, "Split the Lark - and You’ll Find the Music": I. Bells in Steeples
- Lyric Suite for Piano Trio, "Split the Lark - and You’ll Find the Music": II. An Amethyst Remembrance
- Lyric Suite for Piano Trio, "Split the Lark - and You’ll Find the Music": III. Split the Lark - and you’ll find the Music
- Lyric Suite for Piano Trio, "Split the Lark - and You’ll Find the Music": IV. The Heart Within
- Lyric Suite for Piano Trio, "Split the Lark - and You’ll Find the Music": V. Noon - is the Hinge of Day
- Lyric Suite for Piano Trio, "Split the Lark - and You’ll Find the Music": VI. A wind with fingers
- Lyric Suite for Piano Trio, "Split the Lark - and You’ll Find the Music": VII. Evening - the Tissue Door
- Mine by the right
- Nobody
- On the death of a child
- Piano Quintet
- Piano Quintet: I. Invisible, as Music
- Piano Quintet: II. The wizard‐fingers never rest
- Piano Quintet: III. The Torrents of Eternity
- Piano Quintet: IV. A something so transporting bright
- Recitative: Telegramm von Dachau
- Sonata for Violin Solo
- Sonata for Violin Solo: I. Prelude
- Sonata for Violin Solo: II. Fantasia
- Sonata for Violin Solo: III. Berceuse
- Sonata for Violin Solo: IV. Hornpipe
- Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson
- String Quartet no. 1 "Protestation Quartet"
- String Quartet no. 2
- String Quartet no. 3
- String Quartet no. 3: I. Marcato
- String Quartet no. 3: II. Mirror Canon
- String Quartet no. 3: III. Agitato
- String Quartet no. 4
- String Quartet no. 4: I. Molto sostenuto espressivo
- String Quartet no. 4: II. Adagio molto con espressione
- String Quartet no. 4: III. Allegretto scherzando
- String Quartet no. 5
- String Quartet no. 5: I. Though Time
- String Quartet no. 5: II. Though Space
- String Quartet no. 5: III. In the Fifth Dimension
- String Quartet no. 6
- String Quartet no. 6: I. Still
- String Quartet no. 6: II. Meditation
- String Quartet no. 6: III. Evanescence
- String Quartet no. 7 "Angels"
- String Quartet no. 8
- String Quartet no. 8: I. On wings of sound
- String Quartet no. 8: II. In falling timbers buried
- String Quartet no. 8: III. Prayer
- String Quartet no. 9
- String Quartet no. 9: I. Fluendo espressivo
- String Quartet no. 9: II. Moderato
- Symphony no. 1 "Music on Open Strings"
- Symphony no. 1 "Music on Open Strings": I. Theme and Transformation
- Symphony no. 1 "Music on Open Strings": II. Scherzo
- Symphony no. 1 "Music on Open Strings": III. Scordatura
- Symphony no. 1 "Music on Open Strings": IV. Refracted Mirror Canon for 14 Lines
- Symphony no. 10, “Drones of Druids on Celtic Ruins”
- Symphony no. 10, “Drones of Druids on Celtic Ruins”: I. Ages coil within
- Symphony no. 10, “Drones of Druids on Celtic Ruins”: II. The Glory of Decay
- Symphony no. 10, “Drones of Druids on Celtic Ruins”: III. gamuts of eternity
- Symphony no. 14 "Symphony in Microtones"
- Symphony no. 14 "Symphony in Microtones": I. Lamentation. Homage to Supply Belcher (1750-1836)
- Symphony no. 14 "Symphony in Microtones": II. Homage to William Billings (1746-1800)
- Symphony no. 14 "Symphony in Microtones": III. The Lonesome Ones. Homage to Otto Luening (1900-1996)
- Symphony no. 15 "Homage to Mozart": I. Iridescences
- Symphony no. 15 "Homage to Mozart": II. Puzzle Canon
- Symphony no. 15 "Homage to Mozart": III. What Are Stars?
- Symphony no. 15 “Homage to Mozart”
- Symphony no. 16 "Time Frozen"
- Symphony no. 16 "Time Frozen": I. Time Advances to No Destiny
- Symphony no. 16 "Time Frozen": II. I Go through Time
- Symphony no. 16 "Time Frozen": III. Where There is Life, There is Time
- Symphony no. 2 "Illuminatio in Tenebris"
- Symphony no. 2 "Illuminatio in Tenebris": I. Aurora Borealis
- Symphony no. 2 "Illuminatio in Tenebris": II. Aurora Australis
- Symphony no. 2 "Illuminatio in Tenebris": III. Dawn
- Symphony no. 4 "Chiaroscuro"
- Symphony no. 4 "Chiaroscuro": I. Illumination
- Symphony no. 4 "Chiaroscuro": II. Mystical Plosives
- Symphony no. 4 "Chiaroscuro": III. Dream Sequence
- Symphony no. 7
- Symphony no. 7: I. Whirligig of Time
- Symphony no. 7: II. Glass of Time
- Symphony no. 7: III. Corridors of Time
- Symphony no. 9 "Homage to Van Gogh"
- The Books
- The Force for Peace in War
- The Force for Peace in the Time of War: VII. Interlude: 'Hiroshima is Bombed'
- The Silver Eyed Soul (for double bass and piano)
- Transitions
- Transitions: I. Illumination
- Transitions: II. Mystical Plosives
- Transitions: III. Dream Sequence
- Verwelkte Bücher
- Vitality begun
- Where the Eagle Flies (for solo piano)
- Where the Eagle Flies: i Through
- Where the Eagle Flies: ii Around
- Where the Eagle Flies: iii Above
- Where the Eagle Flies: iv Below
- Wild nights
- Will there really be a morning
- Wir Tönen Allein