1916-1979 US, St. Louis
Composer of Classical
A.k.a. William Jennings Bryan Weber
William Jennings Bryan "Ben" Weber (July 23, 1916 in St. Louis – June 16, 1979 in New York) was an American composer.Weber He was "one of the first Americans to embrace the 12-tone techniques of Schoenberg, starting in 1938"; he was largely self-taught. He worked initially as a copyist and only came to recognition in the 1950s.[citation needed]Weber wrote his own unpublished memoirs, How I Took 63 Years to Commit Suicide" (as told to Matthew Paris)
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Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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New York Variations | Aaron Copland, John Corigliano, George Tsontakis, Ben Weber, Stephen Hough | 1998 | Album |
Cantus Contra Cantum I / Quartet No. 2 / Quartet No. 4 | Jacques-Louis Monod / Ben Weber / Seymour Shifrin | 1976 | Album |
Quintet For Wind Instruments / Consort For Winds | Walter Piston / Ben Weber - The Boehm Quintette | 1975 | Album |
Symphony No. 3 – Symphony On Poems Of William Blake | Roger Goeb, Ben Weber – Warren Galjour, Leopold Stokowski, Leopold Stokowski And His Symphony Orchestra | 1958 | Album |
Suite For Violin, Piano And Small Orchestra / Symphony On Poems Of William Blake | Leopold Stokowski – Lou Harrison / Ben Weber | 1954 | Album |
Three Contemporaries | Howard Swanson, Roger Goeb, Ben Weber | 1950 | Album |
Griffes: Piano Sonata/ Rudhyar: Granites/ Weber: Episodes | William Masselos ,Plays Charles Griffes, Dane Rudhyar, Ben Weber | Compil. | |
Concerto Romantico / Aria And Toccata / Rapsodie Concertante, Op. 47 | Peggy Glanville-Hicks / Marga Richter / Ben Weber | Album | |
Piano Concertos | Ben Weber / Charles Wuorinen | Album |