ArtistInfo
William Schuman
1910-1992 US, Manhattan
Composer of Classical
A.k.a. William Howard Schuman
American composer (born in New York, 4 August 1910 - died in New York, 15 February 1992).
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Variations on America on Ives: Variations On America / Old Home Days / The Alcotts by Charles Ives, United States Marine Band & Timothy W. Foley Chester Overture on Favorite Overtures, Vol. 2 by United States Air Force Band & Arnald D. Gabriel New England Triptych (Arr. for Wind Ensemble by Anonymous): III. Chester on Heritage to Horizons by United States Air Force Heritage of America Band & Douglas Monroe When Jesus Wept on Celebration by Lowell Graham New England Triptych: III. Chester on Be Glad Then, America by United States Marine Band & Jason K. Fettig New England Triptych: II. When Jesus Wept on Be Glad Then, America by United States Marine Band & Jason K. Fettig George Washington Bridge on Schuman: George Washington Bridge / Prelude for A Great Occasion / New England Triptych by William Schuman, Keystone Wind Ensemble & Jack Stamp New England Triptych: I. Be Glad Then, America on Be Glad Then, America by United States Marine Band & Jason K. Fettig New England Triptych: III. Chester on American Compositions by New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Louis Lane, Andre Kostelanetz, Aaron Copland, Eugene Ormandy, Leonard Bernstein, Cleveland Pops Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Columbia Symphony Orchestra & Philadelphia Orchestra Circus Overture (arr. for concert band) on Schuman: George Washington Bridge / Prelude for A Great Occasion / New England Triptych by William Schuman, Keystone Wind Ensemble & Jack StampTrack list and 30sec audio provided by 
Discography
| Title | Artist | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Pulitzer Project: Pulitzer Prize Winning Works By Schuman, Sowerby & Copland | William Schuman, Leo Sowerby, Aaron Copland, Grant Park Orchestra, Grant Park Chorus, Carlos Kalmar, Christopher Bell | 2011 | Album |
| Symphonies | Roy Harris • Walter Piston • William Schuman, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy | 2010 | Album |
| The Symphonies (And Selected Orchestral Works) | William Schuman, Gerard Schwarz, Seattle Symphony Orchestra | 2010 | Compil. |
| Symphony No. 8 • Night Journey • Variations On 'America' | William Schuman, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz | 2010 | Album |
| American Choral Music | Vincent Persichetti / William Schuman / William Bolcom / Irving Fine / Lukas Foss - James Morrow, University of Texas Chamber Singers | 2010 | Album |
| Symphony No. 6, Prayer In A Time Of War, New England Triptych | William Schuman - Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz | 2009 | Album |
| Fanfares And Overtures | William Schuman • Herbert Owen Reed • Karel Husa • Vaclav Nelhybel • Rutgers Wind Ensemble • William Berz | 2009 | Album |
| American Ballets | George Antheil, William Schuman, Morton Gould - Ballet Theatre Orchestra, James Levine | 2009 | Compil. |
| Jamestown Concerto, American Music For Cello And Orchestra | William P. Perry, William Schuman, Virgil Thomson, Yehuda Hanani, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, William Eddins | 2008 | Album |
| Symphonies Nos. 3 And 5 | William Schuman, Seattle Symphony Orchestra • Gerard Schwarz | 2006 | Album |
| Symphonies Nos. 7 and 10 | William Schuman | 2005 | Album |
| Symphonies Nos. 4 and 9 ⦁ Orchestra Song ⦁ Circus Overture | William Schuman -- Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz | 2005 | Album |
| Howard Hanson Conducts American Masterworks | Howard 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 Orchestra | 2004 | Compil. |
| Credendum • Concerto For Piano And Orchestra • Symphonies No. 4 | William Schuman -- John McCabe, Albany Symphony Orchestra, David Alan Miller | 2003 | Album |
| American Masters | Samuel Barber, Roy Harris, William Schuman, Leonard Bernstein | 2003 | Compil. |
| Violin Concerto • New England Triptych • Variations On 'America' | William Schuman, Philippe Quint • Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra • Jose Serebrier | 2001 | Album |
| Symphony No. 4 / Prayer In Time Of War / Judith | William Schuman | 2001 | Compil. |
| Shadowcatcher | Juilliard Wind Ensemble, American Brass Quintet, Mark Gould, Eric Ewazen, William Schuman | 2001 | Album |
| Composers in New York | Aaron Copland, Morton Gould, Samuel Barber, William Schuman, Charles Neidich, I Musici De Montréal, Yuli Turovsky | 2000 | Album |
| Pageant | Norman Dello Joio / William Schuman • Vincent Persichetti / Robert Russell Bennett, The Keystone Wind Ensemble, Jack Stamp | 1998 | Album |
| Judith ⦁ Night Journey ⦁ In Sweet Music | William Schuman | 1998 | Compil. |
| Antheil · Schuman · Banfield | George Antheil, William Schuman, Raffaello de Banfield, Ballet Theatre Orchestra conducted by Joseph Levine | 1997 | Compil. |
| Symphony No. 3 - Symphony No. 5 - Symphony No. 8 | William Schuman - The New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein | 1997 | Album |
| American Masterpieces | Leonard Bernstein, Charles Ives, William Schuman, Samuel Barber, Morton Gould, Charles Griffes, Edward MacDowell, George Gershwin, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Arthur Benjamin, Richard Rodgers, Virgil Thomson, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, The New York Philharmonic Orchestra, André Kostelanetz | 1997 | Compil. |
| Symphonies | Walter Piston, Roy Harris, William Schuman, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy | 1997 | Compil. |
| Adagio For Strings - Violin Concerto / In Praise Of Shahn - To Thee Old Cause | Samuel Barber / William Schuman - Isaac Stern, The New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein | 1997 | Album |
| Choral Music | Samuel Barber / William Schuman - The Joyful Company Of Singers, Peter Broadbent | 1996 | Album |
| American Masters • Hanson / Schuman | Howard Hanson / William Schuman | 1994 | Compil. |
| String Quartets Nos. 2, 3 & 5 | William Schuman / Lydian String Quartet | 1994 | Album |
| American String Quartets 1900 - 1950 | George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, Charles Ives, William Schuman, Virgil Thomson, The Kohon String Quartet | 1993 | Album |
| Brahms Haydn Variations, Reger Mozart Variations Ives/Schuman Variations Of America | Johannes Brahms, Joseph Haydn, William Schuman, Kurt Masur, The New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Ives | 1992 | Album |
| Herrmann: Symphony No. 1 / Schuman: New England Triptych | Bernard Herrmann / William Schuman — The Phoenix Symphony, James Sedares | 1992 | Album |
| To Orpheus | The New York Virtuoso Singers, Harold Rosenbaum - Hans Werner Henze, David Lang, George Perle, William Schuman, Michael Dellaira And Luigi Dallapiccola | 1992 | Album |
| A Tribute To William Schuman - Variations On "America" / New England Triptych / Symphony For Strings / Judith | William Schuman - Seattle Symphony Orchestra / Gerard Schwarz | 1992 | Album |
| Symphony No. 10 / New England Triptych / American Festival Overture | William Schuman, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin | 1992 | Album |
| American Voices II (The Choral Music) | William Schuman / Leo Sowerby / Stephan Shewan | 1991 | Album |
| 3 American One-Act Operas | William Schuman, Samuel Barber, Marc Blitzstein, Gregg Smith Singers | 1991 | Album |
| When Johnny Comes Marching Home • Epilogue To Profiles In Courage: JFK • Prayer In The Time Of War • Symphony No. 4 • Symphonia Brevis | The Louisville Orchestra, Roy Harris, William Schuman, John J. Becker, Jorge Mester, Robert Whitney | 1990 | Album |
| Ruggles: Sun-treader, Piston: Symphony No. 2, Schuman: Violin Concerto | Carl Ruggles / William Schuman / Walter Piston, Paul Zukofsky • Boston Symphony Orchestra • Michael Tilson Thomas | 1990 | Compil. |
| Violin Concerto · Serenade For Violin Solo, Strings & Percussion (1954) | Robert McDuffie, William Schuman, Leonard Bernstein, Leonard Slatkin, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra | 1989 | Album |
| In Praise Of Shahn · Connotations · Black Maskers Suite | William Schuman, Aaron Copland, Roger Sessions - The Juilliard Orchestra, Otto-Werner Mueller, Sixten Ehrling, Paul Zukofsky | 1988 | Album |
| Symphony No. 3 / Symphony No. 3 | Roy Harris / William Schuman - The New York Philharmonic Orchestra • Leonard Bernstein | 1987 | Album |
| Symphony No. 7 / Steel Symphony | Lorin Maazel, The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra - William Schuman / Leonardo Balada | 1987 | Album |
| American Piano Music | Aaron Copland • Marc Blitzstein • Roy Harris • Samuel Barber • William Schuman • Phillip Ramey • Paul Bowles - Bennett Lerner | 1986 | Album |
| Capricorn Concerto / Symphony For Strings | Samuel Barber, William Schuman | 1985 | Album |
| A Haunted Landscape / Three Colloquies For Horn And Orchestra | George Crumb / William Schuman | 1985 | Album |
| Magabunda - American Hymn | Joseph Schwantner, William Schuman - Lucy Shelton, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra - Leonard Slatkin | 1984 | Album |
| Music For Martha Graham | William Schuman | 1984 | Album |
| American Festival | Leonard Bernstein / Aaron Copland / William Schuman / Samuel Barber - Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Lukas Foss | 1983 | Album |
| Appalachan Spring / Adagio For Strings / "Candide" Overture / American Festival Overture | Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, William Schuman, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra | 1983 | Album |
| Bernstein: West Side Story Symphonic Dances/Candide Overture; Barber: Adagio For Strings; Schuman: American Festival Overture | Leonard Bernstein / Samuel Barber / William Schuman / Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra | 1983 | Album |
| Bernstein: West Side Story Symphonic Dances/Candide Overture; Barber: Adagio For Strings; Schuman: American Festival Overture | Leonard Bernstein / Samuel Barber / William Schuman / Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra | 1983 | Album |
| Soloconcert | William Schuman / Hans Werner Henze | 1981 | Compil. |
| Rosalind Rees Sings William Schuman | Rosalind Rees Sings William Schuman | 1980 | Album |
| Concerto On Old English Rounds (For Viola, Women's Chorus And Orchestra) | William Schuman - Donald McInnes, Leonard Bernstein / The New York Philharmonic Orchestra | 1978 | Album |
| 20th Century Music For Voice & Guitar | John Cage • Elliott Carter • William Schuman • Andrew Imbrie • Harold Blumenfeld • Lou Harrison • Igor Stravinsky • William Bland • Barbara Kolb • Gregg Smith - Rosalind Rees ; David Starobin | 1978 | Album |
| William Schuman "Undertow" Morton Gould "Fall River Legend" | William Schuman, Morton Gould | 1978 | Album |
| Piano Concerto: "Within The Mirror Of Time" / Symphony No. 8 | Robert Suderburg / William Schuman | 1976 | Album |
| Quartet No. 2 / Voyage | Virgil Thomson / William Schuman | 1973 | Album |
| Symphony No. 3 • Credendum (Article Of Faith) | Andrew Imbrie - The London Symphony Orchestra, Harold Farberman • William Schuman - The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy | 1973 | Album |
| Symphonia Brevis (Symphony No. 3) / Prayer In Time Of War / Canto Di Aspirazione | John J. Becker / William Schuman / Felix Labunski - The Louisville Orchestra, Jorge Mester | 1972 | Album |
| Symphony No. 9 (The Ardealine Caves) / Sinfonia: Janiculum (Symphony No. 9) | The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, William Schuman, Vincent Persichetti | 1971 | Album |
| Symphony No. 7 / Third Symphony | William Schuman / Ned Rorem - Utah Symphony Orchestra, Maurice de Abravanel | 1971 | Album |
| Violin Concerto / Symphony No. 2 | William Schuman / Walter Piston - Paul Zukofsky, Boston Symphony Orchestra • Michael Tilson Thomas | 1971 | Album |
| Symphony No. 3; Symphony For Strings | William Schuman, Leonard Bernstein / The New York Philharmonic Orchestra | 1970 | Album |
| Concerto For Orchestra / In Praise Of Shahn (Canticle For Orchestra) | Elliott Carter / William Schuman - Leonard Bernstein, The New York Philharmonic Orchestra | 1970 | Album |
| Symphony Number 2 / "To Thee Old Cause" | Leonard Bernstein • The New York Philharmonic Orchestra - Randall Thompson / William Schuman | 1970 | Album |
| An American Triptych | Gregg Smith Singers - Aaron Copland / William Schuman / Samuel Barber | 1965 | Album |
| Concerto For Wind Quintet And Orchestra / Variations On "America" / Umbrian Scene | Alvin Etler / Charles Ives - William Schuman / Ulysses Kay, Robert Whitney | 1965 | Album |
| Piano Concerto / A Song Of Orpheus | Samuel Barber / William Schuman - George Szell, The Cleveland Orchestra | 1964 | Album |
| New England Triptych; Symphony No. 5; Poem For Flute And Orchestra | William Schuman, Peter Mennin & Charles Griffes | 1964 | Album |
| Symphony No. 8 / Andomache´s Farewell | William Schuman / Samuel Barber | 1963 | Album |
| Second Quartet / Quartet No. 3 | Elliott Carter / William Schuman, Juilliard String Quartet | 1961 | Album |
| Symphony No. 3 | William Schuman | 1961 | Album |
| Louisville Orchestra Commissions | William Schuman, Gian Francesco Malipiero, The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | 1960 | Album |
| William Schuman: Credendum, Leon Kirchner: Piano Concerto | William Schuman, Leon Kirchner, Eugene Ormandy, Dimitri Mitropoulos | 1957 | Album |
| Schuman: Symphony No. 6 / Piston: Symphony No. 4 | The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy / William Schuman, Walter Piston | 1955 | Album |
| String Quartet No. 4 / Concerto A Tre | William Schuman - Juilliard String Quartet / Ingolf Dahl | 1953 | Album |
| Billy The Kid / Undertow | Aaron Copland / William Schuman – Ballet Theatre Orchestra conducted by Joseph Levine | 1953 | Album |
| A Lincoln Portrat and New England Triptych | William Schuman, André Kostelanetz, Carl Sandburg, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber | Album | |
| Judith - Undertow | William Schuman, The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | Album | |
| Symphony No. 3; American Festival Overture | Roy Harris, William Schuman, Walter Hendl | Album | |
| Bicentenaire U.S.A Bicentennial 1776 - 1976 | John 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 Anderson | Compil. | |
| Schuman : Kreisleriana : Wieck Variations : Horowitz | Vladimir Horowitz, William Schuman, Clara Wieck | Album | |
| Sessions: The Black Maskers / Harris: Symphony No. 3 / Schuman: American Festival Overture | Roger Sessions / Roy Harris / William Schuman - American Recording Society Orchestra : Walter Hendl | Album |
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