David Del Tredici
David Del Tredici
David Del Trediciis an American composer. He has won a Pulitzer Prize, is a former Guggenheim and Woodrow Wilson fellow. Del Tredici is considered a "pioneer" of the Neo-Romantic movement. He has been described by the Los Angeles Times as one of the United States' "most flamboyant outside composers."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth16 March 1937
CountryUnited States of America
writing symphony musical
Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.
world energy composer
Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful.
people different orchestra
When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line.
backwards difficult feels however maverick seemed though
A maverick feels like he has no choice however difficult his choice of expression. In my case, it was going backwards into tonality. It seemed so wrong. The idea that progress is going into the past in a new way is very strange, even though there are precedents.
writing groups composer
I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.
composer dependent
I've always been a composer dependent on texts.