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Howard Hanson

1896-1981 US, Wahoo, Nebraska
Composer / Conductor of Classical

Howard Harold Hanson (October 28, 1896 – February 26, 1981) was an American composer, conductor, educator, music theorist, and champion of American classical music. As director for 40 years of the Eastman School of Music, he built a high-quality school and provided opportunities for commissioning and performing American music. He won a Pulitzer Prize (in 1944 for his Symphony no. 4) and received numerous other awards.

     
Genres
  • Classical
  • Soundtrack
  • Brass
Popular Tracks   
Symphony No. 6: VI. Allegro on Orchestral Music - Leif, S. / Shostakovich, D. / Nielsen, C. / Schulhoff, E. by Leif Segerstam
Enchantment on Hanson: Piano Sonata / Poemes Erotiques / for the First Time by Howard Hanson
Symphony No. 2, Op. 30, "Romantic": I. Adagio - Allegro moderato on Hanson, H.: Music of Howard Hanson, Vol. 1 - Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4 / Fantasy-Variations On A Theme of Youth by Howard Hanson & Gerard Schwarz
Symphony No. 2, Op. 30, "Romantic": III. Allegro con brio on Hanson, H.: Music of Howard Hanson, Vol. 1 - Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4 / Fantasy-Variations On A Theme of Youth by Howard Hanson & Gerard Schwarz
Symphony No. 2, Op. 30, "Romantic": II. Andante con tenerezza on Hanson, H.: Music of Howard Hanson, Vol. 1 - Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4 / Fantasy-Variations On A Theme of Youth by Howard Hanson & Gerard Schwarz
Chorale and Alleluia, Op. 42 on United States Air Force Band: Signatures by United States Air Force Band & Lowell Graham
Lux Aeterna, Op. 24 on Hanson: Symphony No. 2 - Lux aeterna - Mosaics by Howard Hanson, Gerard Schwarz & Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Merry Mount Suite, Op. 31: III. Love Duet on Hanson: Symphpony No. 3 - Merry Mount Suite by Howard Hanson & Gerard Schwarz
The Lament for Beowulf on Hanson: Complete Symphonies by Howard Hanson, Seattle Symphony Chorale, Seattle Symphony Orchestra & Gerard Schwarz
I. Adagio on Hanson: Symphony No. 2 - Barber: Violin Concerto by Leonard Slatkin, St. Louis Symphony & Elmar Oliveira

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Discography



Title Artist Year Type
Hanson conducts American Music Volume 5 (1952-54)Howard Hanson2012Album
Symphony No. 3 • Merry Mount SuiteHoward Hanson, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz2011Album
Symphony No. 2 'Romantic' • Lux Aeterna • MosaicsHoward Hanson, Seattle Symphony Orchestra • Gerard Schwarz2011Album
Hanson conducts American Music, Vol. 4 (1953-55)Howard Hanson2011Album
Symphony No. 1 'Nordic' / The Lament For BeowulfHoward Hanson, Seattle Symphony Orchestra • Gerard Schwarz2011Album
Hanson conducts American Music, Vol. 1 (1952-54)Howard Hanson2011Album
Symphony No. 4 'Requiem' • Symphony No. 5 'Sinfonia Sacra'Howard Hanson • Seattle Symphony Orchestra • Gerard Schwarz2011Album
Symphonies 1&2 / Lament For Beowulf / PrologueHoward Hanson2009Album
The Plow that Broke the Plains - The River - Symphony No.2 'Romantic'Virgil Thomson, Howard Hanson, The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Sir Neville Marriner, Leonard Slatkin2008Album
American TapestryHoward Hanson, George Gershwin, Robert Russell Bennett, John Philip Sousa, Joseph Willcox Jenkins, Steven Bryant, John Williams, Christopher Tucker, Richard Shuster, Lone Star Wind Orchestra, Eugene Corporon2008Album
Merry MountHoward Hanson - Northwest Boychoir, Seattle Girls' Choir, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz2007Album
Organ Concerto • Fantasy Variations • Nymphs And Satyr Ballet SuiteHoward Hanson, Joseph Jackson, Gabriela Imreh, Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Spalding2006Album
Howard Hanson Conducts Howard HansonHoward Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra2005Compil.
Bold Island Suite (World Premiere) • Symphony No. 2, "Romantic" • Suite From Merry MountHoward Hanson, Erich Kunzel, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra2005Album
Howard Hanson Conducts American MasterworksHoward Hanson Conducts: Samuel Barber • Walter Piston • George Whitefield Chadwick • Charles Ives • Edward MacDowell • Morton Gould • William Schuman • Peter Mennin • Douglas Moore • Charles Griffes ‒ Eastman-Rochester Orchestra2004Compil.
Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 (Symphony No. 1 "Nordic" / Merry Mount Suite)Howard Hanson - Nashville Symphony Orchestra • Kenneth Schermerhorn2000Album
Sinfonia Sacra (Symphony No. 5) & Cherubic Hymn; Symphony No. 1Howard Hanson - Samuel Barber Conducts The Eastman-Rochester Orchestra With The Eastman School Of Music Chorus2000Album
Piano Sonata • Poèmes ÉrotiquesHoward Hanson, Thomas Labé2000Album
Symphonies Nos. 2, 4 - ElegyHoward Hanson1997Album
Music For Quiet Listening Vol. 2Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Eastman Philharmonia1997Compil.
Grofe Grand Canyon Suite / Herbert Cello Concerto No. 2Ferde Grofé, Victor Herbert, Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1995Album
Grand Canyon Suite / Mississippi Suite / Cello Concerto No. 2Ferde Grofé / Victor Herbert - Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson1995Compil.
Grief - Grand Canyon and Mississippi Suites / Herbert - Cello Concerto No. 2Ferde Grofé, Victor Herbert, Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1995Album
CelebrationsHoward Hanson • Vincent Persichetti / Jack Stamp • Stephen Melillo • Mark Camphouse • Fisher Tull, The Keystone Wind Ensemble And IUP Wind Ensemble1995Album
Great American ComposersAaron Copland, Charles Griffes, Morton Gould, Howard Hanson1994Compil.
American Masters • Hanson / SchumanHoward Hanson / William Schuman1994Compil.
The Mystic Trumpeter / Dies Natalis / Lumen In Christo / Lux AeternaHoward Hanson - Seattle Symphony Orchestra and Seattle Symphony Chorale, Gerard Schwarz, James Earl Jones1994Album
Barber / Hanson Orchestral WorksSamuel Barber, Howard Hanson1994Album
Hanson Conducts GershwinGeorge Gershwin / Eugene List, Howard Hanson Conducting The Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1994Compil.
Symphonic Sketches / Suite For Large Orchestra / Sinfonia In GGeorge Whitefield Chadwick, Johann Friedrich Peter, Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1994Compil.
Symphonies No. 7, "A Sea Symphony" & No. 5, "Sinfonia Sacra" / Piano Concerto / MosaicsHoward Hanson - Seattle Symphony Orchestra And Seattle Symphony Chorale, Gerard Schwarz, Carol Rosenberger1993Album
Howard Hanson Conducts Barber, Piston, Griffes & OthersHoward Hanson Conducting The Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1992Compil.
Hanson Conducts McPhee, Sessions, ThomsonColin McPhee, Roger Sessions, Virgil Thomson, Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1992Compil.
Symphony No. 4 "Requiem" / Suite From "Merry Mount" / Lament For BeowulfHoward Hanson - Gerard Schwarz, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, New York Chamber Symphony, Seattle Symphony Chorale1992Album
Douglas Moore, John Alden Carpenter, Bernard Rogers, Burrill PhillipsHoward Hanson Conducting The Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1992Compil.
Spirituals • Fall River Legend • MedeaHoward Hanson Conducting The Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Morton Gould, Samuel Barber1991Compil.
Merry Mount (Excerpts)Howard Hanson1991Album
Hanson Conducts BlochErnest Bloch, Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1991Compil.
Symphony No. 3 - Elegy In Memory Of Serge Koussevitzky - Lament For BeowulfHoward Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra and Eastman School Of Music Chorus1991Compil.
Hanson Conducts Ives, Schuman, MenninHoward Hanson Conducting The Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1991Compil.
American Voices (The Choral Music)Howard Hanson / Roy Harris / Randall Thompson1990Album
Symphonies No. 3 & No. 6 / Fantasy Variations On A Theme Of YouthHoward Hanson - Gerard Schwarz, Carol Rosenberger, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, New York Chamber Symphony1990Album
Hanson Conducts Hanson: Symphony No. 1 «Nordic» / Symphony No. 2 «Romantic» / Song Of DemocracyHoward Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Eastman School Of Music Chorus1990Compil.
A Sea Symphony • Pan And The Priest • Variations On Two Ancient Hymn Tunes • String QuartetHoward Hanson, World Youth Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Art Quartet1989Album
Symphonies (Complete)Howard Hanson / Gerard Schwarz, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, New York Chamber Symphony1989Compil.
Symphonies No. 1 "Nordic" & No. 2 "Romantic" / Elegy In Memory Of Serge KoussevitskyHoward Hanson - Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz1989Album
Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic") / Violin ConcertoHoward Hanson, Samuel Barber, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin, Elmar Oliveira1987Album
Concerto In F: Rhapsody In BlueGeorge Gershwin, Eugene List ; Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson1987Album
Symphony On A Hymn Tune / Feast Of Love / Four PsalmsVirgil Thomson, Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1978Album
Hanson's Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic"" (1930) And Macdowell's Piano Concerto No. 2 In D Minor, Op 23Howard Hanson, Edward MacDowell, Earl Wild, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Gerhardt, Massimo Freccia1977Album
Howard Hanson: Symphony no.2 "Romantic" / Charles Griffes: The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan, The White PeacockHoward Hanson, Charles Griffes1976Album
Rhapsody In Blue / Obertura Cubana / Porgy And BessGeorge Gershwin – Eastman-Rochester Orchestra - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Howard Hanson - Antal Dorati1976Album
Symphony No. 6 / Louisiana Story (Suite)Howard Hanson, Virgil Thomson, Siegfried Landau1973Album
Symphony No. 3 · Suite No. 1, Opus 42Howard Hanson, Edward MacDowell, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1966Album
Symphony No. 1, Overture To "The School Of Scandal", Medea Suite, Adagio For StringsSamuel Barber, Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1965Album
The Incredible Flutist / Suite From "The Black Maskers" / Merry Mount Suite / Prelude & Quadruple FugueWalter Piston, Roger Sessions, Howard Hanson, Alan Hovhaness, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1965Album
Hanson Piano Concerto / Mosaics • La Montaine Birds Of ParadiseHoward Hanson / John La Montaine1965Album
Porgy And Bess / Latin-American SymphonetteGeorge Gershwin, Morton Gould, Antal Dorati, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1964Album
The Music Of MacDowell & GriffesHoward Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1964Album
Music Of MacDowell & GriffesHoward Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1964Album
Un Américain A Paris - Rhapsody In Blue - Concerto En FaGeorge Gershwin - Eugene List, Howard Hanson, Antal Dorati1963Compil.
Hanson Conducts BlochErnest Bloch, Victor Herbert, Georges Miquelle, Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1962Album
The Composer and his Orchestra Vol. IIIHoward Hanson, Eastman Philharmonia1961Album
Symphony No. 2, Op. 30 "Romantic" / The Lament For BeowulfHoward Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Eastman School Of Music Chorus1961Album
The Composer And His Orchestra Volume 2Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1961Album
Concerto Grosso No. 1 And No. 2Ernest Bloch, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra Conducted By Howard Hanson1960Album
Elegy In Memory Of My Friend Serge Koussevitzky / Song Of Democracy / Four SongsHoward Hanson, Richard Lane, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1960Album
Fall River Legend - SpiritualsMorton Gould, Howard Hanson Conducting The Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1960Album
Three Pieces / Once Upon A Time / Gold And The Señor CommandanteHoward Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Kent Kennan / Bernard Rogers / William Bergsma1960Album
Great Music By Russian ComposersAnton Stepanovich Arensky, Alexander Borodin, Anatoly Liadov, Dmitri Shostakovich, Aram Khatchaturian, Reinhold Glière, Frederick Fennell Conducts Eastman Wind Ensemble And Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Antal Dorati Conducts Philharmonia Hungarica And The London Symphony Orchestra, Howard Hanson Conducts Eastman Philharmonia1960Album
Medea / Capricorn Concerto For Flute, Oboe, Trumpet And StringsSamuel Barber, Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1960Album
Sahdji Ballet / Creole Faust / Three DancesWilliam Grant Still / Alberto Ginastera / Mozart Camargo Guarnieri, Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1960Album
Carpenter, Adventures In A Peramblator, Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Symphony OrchestraHoward Hanson1959Album
The Composer And His OrchestraHoward Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1959Album
Music For Quiet ListeningHoward Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1959Album
Three Places In New England / Symphony No.3Charles Ives, Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1959Album
Symphonic Sketches / The Incredible FlutistWalter Piston, Douglas Moore, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson1959Album
Adventures In A Perambulator / Selections From McGuffey's ReadersJohn Alden Carpenter / Burrill Phillips, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson1959Album
Grand Canyon Suite / Mississippi SuiteFerde Grofé - Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson1958Album
Symphonic SketchesGeorge Whitefield Chadwick, Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1958Album
Fiesta In Hi-FiHoward Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1958Album
Concerto In F / Rhapsody In BlueGeorge Gershwin, Eugene List ; Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson1957Album
Symphony No. 1 In One Movement, Op. 9 / Overture To "The School For Scandal" / Adagio For Strings / Essay For Orchestra, No. 1Samuel Barber / Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson1957Album
Rogers: Leaves From The Tale Of Pinocchio / Hanson: Fantasy Variations On A Theme Of Youth / Triggs: The Bright LandHoward Hanson, Eastman Rochester Symphony Orchestra, David Burge, Marjorie Truelove MacKown1956Album
The Testament Of Freedom / Songs From "Drum Taps"Randall Thompson / Howard Hanson1956Album
Concerto For Organ, Strings And Tympani / Concerto For Organ, Strings And HarpFrancis Poulenc : Howard Hanson : Richard Ellsasser With Arthur Winograd Conducting Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg1956Album
Pleasure Dome Of Kubla Khan / White Peacock / Clouds / Bacchanale / Memories Of My Childhood / Poem For OrchestraCharles Griffes / Charles Martin Loeffler / Howard Hanson Conducting The Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1956Album
La Fiesta Mexicana / Chorale And Alleluia / Suite Of Old American Dances / Divertimento For Band / Commando MarchHerbert Owen Reed, Howard Hanson, Robert Russell Bennett, Vincent Persichetti, Samuel Barber - Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell1956Album
Poem And Dance - New England Chronicle / Tres Himnos (Three Hymns)Quincy Porter, Richard Donovan / Wells Hively - Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1955Album
Wallingford Riegger Symphony No 3 Peter Mennin Symphony No 3Wallingford Riegger, Peter Mennin, Howard Hanson, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Eastman Rochester Symphony Orchestra, The Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York1954Album
Sinfonia Sacra (Symphony No. 5) & Cherubic Hymn; Symphony No. 1Howard Hanson - Samuel Barber Conducts The Eastman-Rochester Orchestra With The Eastman School Of Music Chorus1954Album
Symphony No. 3, Symphony No. 3Roy Harris, Howard Hanson, Serge Koussevitzky, Boston Symphony Orchestra1954Album
Through The Looking Glass, Op. 12 (Five Pictures From Lewis Carroll)Deems Taylor, Howard Hanson Conducting The Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1954Album
Concerto No. 2 In D Minor For Piano And Orchestra, Op. 23 / Symphony No. 2 "Romantic," Op. 30Edward MacDowell, Howard Hanson1953Album
American Music For String OrchestraHoward Hanson Conducting The Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1953Album
Latin American Symphonette / School For Scandal, Adagio, EssayMorton Gould, Samuel Barber, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson1953Album
Harris: Symphony No. 3 / Hanson: Symphony No. 4Roy Harris / Howard Hanson / Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1953Album
Americana For Solo Winds And String OrchestraHoward Hanson Conducting The Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1953Album
Symphony #4Howard Hanson1952Album
Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic"), Op. 30Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1940Album
Loeffler: Deux Rapsodies. William McCauley: Five Miniatures for Flute & Strings. Wayne Barlow: Night SongHoward Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Robert Sprenkle, Francis Tursi, Armand Basile, Joseph MarianoAlbum
Tabuh-Tabuhan / Sinfonia Breve / Seven Studies On Themes Of Paul KleeColin McPhee / Ernest Bloch / Gunther Schuller, Howard Hanson / Antal DoratiCompil.
Symphony #4Howard HansonAlbum
Symphonic Sketches / The Incredible FlutistGeorge Whitefield Chadwick, Walter Piston, Howard HansonAlbum
Young Composer's Guide To The Six Tone Scale / ...And The Mountains Rising Nowhere / EmblemsHoward Hanson / Joseph Schwantner / Aaron Copland : Eastman Wind EnsembleAlbum
Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3Howard Hanson / Eastman-Rochester OrchestraAlbum
The Minotaur / Symphony No. 4 / New DanceElliott Carter, Henry Cowell, Wallingford Riegger / Howard Hanson Conducting The Eastman-Rochester OrchestraAlbum
Symphony No. 1 "Nordic" / Fantasy Variations On A Theme Of YouthEastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard HansonAlbum
Adventures In A Perambulator / The Pageant Of P.T. Barnum / Savannah River HolidayJohn Alden Carpenter, Douglas Moore, Ron Nelson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard HansonAlbum
Barber Sessions GinasteraSamuel Barber, Roger Sessions, Alberto Ginastera, Howard HansonAlbum
The Composer And His Orchestra Vol. 2Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester OrchestraAlbum
Légendes MusicalesPaul Dukas, Modest Mussorgsky, Richard Wagner, Anatoly Liadov, Jean Fournet, Paul Paray, Antal Dorati, Howard HansonAlbum
Adagio For Strings / First Essay For Orchestra, Op. 12Samuel Barber, Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester OrchestraSingle
Concerto In G Major For Piano And Orchestra, Op. 36 /Howard Hanson, Edvard Grieg, Rudolf Firkusný, Eastman-Rochester SymphonyAlbum
The Composer And His Orchestra Vol. 2Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester OrchestraAlbum
Hanson: Symphony No. 5 (Sinfonia Sacra) ; The Cherubic Hymn For Chorus And Orchestra / Herbert: Violoncello Concerto No. 2, Op. 30Howard Hanson, Victor Herbert, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra with the Eastman School Of Music ChorusCompil.
Piston: Symphony No. 3 / Hanson: Symphony No. 4Walter Piston / Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester OrchestraAlbum
Curtain Up! American Dance FavoritesHoward Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Antal Dorati, Minneapolis Symphony OrchestraAlbum
Hovhaness: Prelude & Quadruple Fugue, LoPresti: The Masks, Sessions: The Black MaskersHoward Hanson Conducts The Eastman-Rochester OrchestraAlbum
Suite For Large Orchestra / Suite No. 2 "Indian"Edward MacDowell - Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard HansonAlbum
Gershwin, Concerto In F, Eastman Rochester OrchestraEugene List, Howard HansonAlbum
Bicentenaire U.S.A Bicentennial 1776 - 1976John Philip Sousa, Edward MacDowell, Charles Griffes, Charles Ives, Ferde Grofé, Virgil Thomson, Howard Hanson, Robert Russell Bennett, George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Morton Gould, William Schuman, Walter Piston, Leroy AndersonCompil.
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