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Quincy Porter
vl, vn, 1897-1966 US, New Haven, Connecticut
Musician / Composer of Classical
Quincy Porter (February 7, 1897 – November 12, 1966) was an American composer and teacher of classical music.Born in New Haven, Connecticut, he went to Yale University where his teachers included Horatio Parker and David Stanley Smith. Porter received two awards while studying music at Yale: the Osborne Prize for Fugue, and the Steinert Prize for orchestral composition. He performed the winning composition, a violin concerto, at graduation. Porter earned two degrees at Yale, an A.B. from Yale College and a Mus. B from the music school.
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Discography
| Title | Artist | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Complete String Quartets | Quincy Porter, Potomac String Quartet | 2007 | Album |
| String Quartets Nos. 1-4 | Quincy Porter, Ives String Quartet | 2007 | Album |
| American Viola Works | Cathy Basrak, William Koehler, Robert Koenig - Music By George Rochberg, Frederick Jacobi, Alan Shulman, Quincy Porter, Lowell Liebermann | 2000 | Album |
| American Music For Two Pianos And Orchestra | Walter Piston • Quincy Porter • Morton Gould -- Joshua Pierce & Dorothy Jonas - The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra • The Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra / David Amos | 1999 | Album |
| Unpublished Manuscripts For Violin & Piano | Quincy Porter | 1998 | Album |
| Music For Shakespeare's "Romeo And Juliet" / In Memoriam / Concerto For Double Bass And Orchestra / Concerto For Harpsichord And Orchestra | David Diamond, Douglas Moore, Serge Koussevitzky, Quincy Porter | 1998 | Album |
| Violin Sonatas | Aaron Copland / Walter Piston / Quincy Porter | 1993 | Album |
| American Chamber Music | Chamber Music Northwest, David Shifrin / Bernard Herrmann, David Diamond, Quincy Porter, Charles Ives | 1991 | Album |
| Meditation On Orpheus / New England Episodes / Symphony No. 3 | Alan Hovhaness / Quincy Porter / Homer Keller | 1989 | Album |
| David Amos Conducting Members Of The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra | Alan Hovhaness, Quincy Porter, Julius Chajes, Vincent Persichetti, William Brown | 1984 | Album |
| Sea Drift / Scherzo Diabolique / Chanticleer (Festival Overture) / Dance In Three-Time | John Alden Carpenter / Henry Kimball Hadley / Daniel Gregory Mason / Quincy Porter - Albany Symphony Orchestra, Julius Hegyi | 1984 | Album |
| American Chamber Music (20th Century) | Elliott Carter • Charles Ives • Quincy Porter - Boston Symphony Chamber Players | 1971 | Album |
| "New England Episodes" For Orchestra / Concerto For Piano And Orchestra | Quincy Porter / Robert Ward | 1970 | Album |
| String Quartet No. 7 / String Quartet No. 5 | Quincy Porter / Cecil Effinger - The Hungarian Quartet | 1967 | Album |
| Porter: Concerto For Viola And Orchestra / Piston: Symphony No. 2 | Quincy Porter, Walter Piston / Wiener Symphoniker | 1965 | Album |
| Symphony No. 2 / Divertimento No. 2 | Quincy Porter, Vittorio Giannini, Robert Whitney | 1964 | Album |
| Prokofiev: Sonata No. 1 For Violin And Piano - Porter: Sonata No. 2 For Violin And Piano | Sergei Prokofiev, Quincy Porter, Joyce Flissler, Harriet Wingreen | 1962 | Album |
| Poem And Dance - New England Chronicle / Tres Himnos (Three Hymns) | Quincy Porter, Richard Donovan / Wells Hively - Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1955 | Album |
| Symphony Number One / Concerto Concertante For Two Pianos & Orchestra | Quincy Porter, Orchestre Colonne | 1954 | Album |
| Concerto For Harpsichord And Orchestra / Harpsichord Quartet | Quincy Porter, George Barati | Album | |
| Concerto for Viola and Orchestra/Serenade | Quincy Porter, Norman Dello Joio | Album | |
| American Historic, Yankee Music, Violin Sonata No.4, 6 Songs, General Booth, Viola Sonata, Serenade | Charles Ives, Quincy Porter, Richard Donovan | Compil. | |
| String Quartet No. 6 / First Cuban Suite / Ritmica No. 1 | Quincy Porter / Alejandro García Caturla / Amadeo Roldán | Album | |
| String Quartet No. 8 / Eight Etudes And A Fantasy For Woodwind Quartet | Quincy Porter, Elliott Carter - The Stanley Quartet, New York Woodwind Quintet | Album |
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