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Santa Barbara, California 1964
Sweet Solace of My Labors
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Santa Barbara, California 1963
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Chairman of the Board, G. Schirmer, Inc.
Santa Barbara, California 1964
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"Laborum Dulce Lenimen"
Sweet Solace of My Labors
G.SCHIRMER, INC.
Company History
Santa Barbara, California 1963
Rudolph Schirmer - Biography
Rudolph was born in Santa Barbara, California in 1919, and lived most of his life in New York City. He was educated at St. Mark’s and at his father's alma mater, Princeton University (Class of 1941) where he was a member of Terrace Club. After his sophomore year, he went on to study at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He later studied composition in Italy under Rosario Scalero, who had also taught Samuel Barber and Gian Carlo Menotti.
During WWII he was in military intelligence (Field Interrogation Unit). He went into the family publishing business, G. Schirmer, Inc., where he served as Vice President and later as Chairman of the Board. G. Schirmer, Inc. was responsible for bringing classical music to America, and also for nurturing leading composers of the 20th century, such as Leonard Bernstein, Gian Carlo Menotti, Morton Gould, Virgil Thompson and Samuel Barber.
Rudolph continued his love of music, composing numerous works including "Hymn to the Americas" for solo voice, chorus and orchestra performed by the Washington Symphony at the Pan American Music Festival in 1968. He composed an opera based on Maximilian of Mexico, as well as the art song cycle “Seven Songs”, performed by Swedish singer Laila Andersson.
A talented poet and writer, he was published in various journals (The Yale Literary Magazine, Chronicles and The World and I). He published a book of poetry, “Friend in Fantasy”, and completed a 12,000 line poem on Napoleon, entitled “Napoleonics”. His poem, Stanzas in the Valley of the Fallen, was presented officially to the Spanish government in 1967 and is now engraved on a bronze plaque at the Patrimonio Nacional in the royal palace in Madrid. Novels include “The Lorelei”, “A Regiment of Howards”. He also penned a series of travel essays, “European Footsteps”.
He was married three times, to Ena Wenckheim, Iris Maria Flores, and lastly, to Raffaela Maria Mormino. He had one child, Liane Maria Schirmer (b. 1958), by his second wife, and one grandson, Christopher Northbourne James (b. 1998). He died in New York, in 2000, and is buried at Calverton National Cemetery, on Long Island.
During WWII he was in military intelligence (Field Interrogation Unit). He went into the family publishing business, G. Schirmer, Inc., where he served as Vice President and later as Chairman of the Board. G. Schirmer, Inc. was responsible for bringing classical music to America, and also for nurturing leading composers of the 20th century, such as Leonard Bernstein, Gian Carlo Menotti, Morton Gould, Virgil Thompson and Samuel Barber.
Rudolph continued his love of music, composing numerous works including "Hymn to the Americas" for solo voice, chorus and orchestra performed by the Washington Symphony at the Pan American Music Festival in 1968. He composed an opera based on Maximilian of Mexico, as well as the art song cycle “Seven Songs”, performed by Swedish singer Laila Andersson.
A talented poet and writer, he was published in various journals (The Yale Literary Magazine, Chronicles and The World and I). He published a book of poetry, “Friend in Fantasy”, and completed a 12,000 line poem on Napoleon, entitled “Napoleonics”. His poem, Stanzas in the Valley of the Fallen, was presented officially to the Spanish government in 1967 and is now engraved on a bronze plaque at the Patrimonio Nacional in the royal palace in Madrid. Novels include “The Lorelei”, “A Regiment of Howards”. He also penned a series of travel essays, “European Footsteps”.
He was married three times, to Ena Wenckheim, Iris Maria Flores, and lastly, to Raffaela Maria Mormino. He had one child, Liane Maria Schirmer (b. 1958), by his second wife, and one grandson, Christopher Northbourne James (b. 1998). He died in New York, in 2000, and is buried at Calverton National Cemetery, on Long Island.
COMPOSER
"Careyes Suite"
"Forty Ways to Sunday" - Musical
"Hymn to the Americas"
"March Presidential"
"Maximilian and Carlotta" - Opera
"Seven Songs"
"Seven Songs"
"United States Victory March"
"Violin Sonata"
"Violin Sonata"
POET
"A Friend in Fantasy"
"Napoleonics"
"Napoleonics"
"A FRIEND IN FANTASY"
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AUTHOR
"European Footsteps" - Travel Diary - 1965
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