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Paul Bowles

1910-1999 MA, Queens
Composer of Classical

American (expatriate) author, composer and translator (December 30, 1910 – November 18, 1999). Following a cultured middle-class upbringing in New York City, during which he displayed a talent for music and writing, Bowles pursued his education at the University of Virginia before making various trips to Paris in the 1930s. He studied music with Aaron Copland and in New York wrote music for various theatrical productions, as well as other compositions. He achieved critical and popular success with the publication in 1949 of his first novel 'The Sheltering Sky', set in what was known as French North Africa, which he had visited in 1931. In 1947 Bowles settled in Tangier, Morocco, and his wife, Jane Bowles followed in 1948. Except for winters spent in Sri Lanka (then known as Ceylon) during the early 1950s, Tangier was his home for the remainder of his life. Paul Bowles died at the age of 88. His ashes are buried in Lakemont Cemetery in upstate New York.

     
Genres
  • Classical
  • Spoken Word
  • Electronic
  • World
  • Folk
Popular Tracks   
6 Preludes: No. 3 on Exiles' Cafe by Lara Downes
6 Preludes: No. 6. quarter note = 54 on Bowles: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 1 by Paul Bowles & Invencia Piano Duo
Theseus and Maldoror on Bowles: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 2 by Paul Bowles & Invencia Piano Duo
Blue Mountain Ballads: Heavenly Grass on Thomson/Bowlesl/Hoiby/ Hundley/Musto/Klein: Songs by Steven Blier & William Sharp
Blue Mountain Ballads: Cabin on Thomson/Bowlesl/Hoiby/ Hundley/Musto/Klein: Songs by Steven Blier & William Sharp
Sonatina Fragmentaria: I. Adagio misterioso on Bowles: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 2 by Paul Bowles & Invencia Piano Duo
Guayanilla on Bowles: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 1 by Paul Bowles & Invencia Piano Duo
Folk Preludes: No. 1. Peter Gray on Bowles: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 1 by Paul Bowles & Invencia Piano Duo
Sonatina Fragmentaria: III. Adagio on Bowles: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 2 by Paul Bowles & Invencia Piano Duo
Night Waltz on Bowles: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 2 by Paul Bowles & Invencia Piano Duo

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Discography



Title Artist Year Type
Composers-Critics of the New York Herald TribunePaul Bowles, Lou Harrison, Virgil Thomson, Peggy Glanville-Hicks, John Cage2017Album
Complete Piano Works • 2Paul Bowles, The Invencia Piano Duo2016Album
Complete Piano Works • 1Paul Bowles, The Invencia Piano Duo2016Album
The Pool K IIIPaul Bowles2013Album
The Music of Paul BowlesThe Eos Ensemble / Jonathan Sheffer, Paul Bowles1997Album
But Yesterday Is Not Today, The American Art Song 1927-1972Samuel Barber, Paul Bowles, Aaron Copland, Theodore Chanler, Israel Citkowitz, John Duke, Robert Helps, Roger Sessions / James Agee, Jane Bowles, E. E. Cummings, Leonard Feeney, James Joyce, Archibald MacLeish, Walter De La Mare, James Purdy, Edwin Arlington Robinson / Bethany Beardslee / Donald Gramm & Donald Hassard1996Album
Baptism Of SolitudePaul Bowles1995Album
MigrationsPaul Bowles1995Album
An American In Paris (Songs Piano Pieces Concerto)Paul Bowles1995Album
Sonata For Oboe & Clarinet / Flute Sonata / Scènes D'AnabasePaul Bowles1995Album
Black Star At The Point Of Darkness - Music, Stories, RecordingsPaul Bowles1991Album
UntitledWilliam Sharp, Steven Blier - Virgil Thomson, Paul Bowles, Lee Hoiby, Richard Hundley, John Musto, Eric Klein1989Album
Weill-Varèse-Bowles-MartinůKurt Weill, Edgard Varèse, Paul Bowles, Bohuslav Martinů, Chicago Pro Musica1989Album
American Piano Music, Vol. 1Aaron Copland / Virgil Thomson / Paul Bowles / Samuel Barber / Leonard Bernstein / Phillip Ramey - Bennett Lerner1987Album
American Piano MusicAaron Copland • Marc Blitzstein • Roy Harris • Samuel Barber • William Schuman • Phillip Ramey • Paul Bowles - Bennett Lerner1986Album
American Piano MusicAaron Copland / Virgil Thomson / Paul Bowles / Samuel Barber / Leonard Bernstein / Phillip Ramey - Bennett Lerner1984Album
Paul Sperry Sings Romantic American SongsPaul Sperry With Irma Vallecillo - Paul Bowles / Theodore Chanler / Arthur Farwell / Richard Hundley1984Album
Reads "A Hundred Camels In The Courtyard"Paul Bowles1981Album
But Yesterday Is Not TodaySamuel Barber, Paul Bowles, Aaron Copland, Theodore Chanler, Israel Citkowitz, John Duke, Robert Helps, Roger Sessions / James Agee, Jane Bowles, E. E. Cummings, Leonard Feeney, James Joyce, Archibald MacLeish, Walter De La Mare, James Purdy, Edwin Arlington Robinson / Bethany Beardslee / Donald Gramm & Donald Hassard1977Album
Music Of MoroccoPaul Bowles1972Album
The Wind RemainsPaul Bowles1969Album
The Glass MenageriePaul Bowles1965Album
Paul Bowles Reads The Delicate Prey / A Distant EpisodePaul Bowles1963Album
Facade / Music For A FarceEdith Sitwell – Sir William Walton / Paul Bowles1958Album
Music For A Farce / Scenes D' Anabase / Variations And CapriccioPaul Bowles / Norman Dello Joio1954Album
A Picnic Cantata / Sonata For Two PianosPaul Bowles / Francis Poulenc / Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale1954Album
Concerto For Two Pianos, Winds And PercussionPaul Bowles / Darius Milhaud / Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale1950Album
Sonata For Two Pianos / Sonata For Two Pianos; Cinq Pièces FacilesPaul Bowles / Igor StravinskyAlbum
The Medinah SessionsChicago Pro Musica, Richard Strauss - Franz Hasenöhrl, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Scriabine - Willard Elliot, Igor Stravinsky, Bohuslav Martinů, Carl Nielsen, Sir William Walton, Paul Bowles, Edgard Varèse, Kurt WeillCompil.
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