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Ulehla, Ludmila


(b Flushing, NY, 20 May 1923). American composer, pianist and teacher of Czech descent. She began writing music at the age of five and later studied at the Manhattan School of Music (BMus 1946, MMus 1947), where her composition teacher was Vittorio Giannini. She became a professor at the Manhattan School in 1947 and was chairperson of the composition department there from 1970 to 1989; she received the President’s Medal for Distinguished Faculty Service from the school in 1998. Additionally she taught at the Hoff-Barthelson Music School, Scarsdale, New York (1968–91), and acted as chairperson of the American Society of University Composers (1972–3) and programme chairperson for the National Association for American Composers and Conductors (1967–74). She has received awards and grants from ASCAP and Meet the Composer. Although Ulehla’s musical language is contemporary, the legacy of the classical canon as well as Slav influences have clearly contributed to its evolution. Her works are tonal, but are not organized by key; emphasis is given to the function of phrases rather than bar-lines, and the balance of contrast and unity helps to articulate formal structures. Her writings include Contemporary Harmony: Romanticism through the Twelve-Tone Row (New York, 1966/R).

WORKS


(selective list)

Stage: Sybil of the Revolution (chbr op, 2, S. Schefflein), S, Mez, T, T, B-Bar, fl/pic, ob, cl, bn, 2 hn, perc, pf, str qnt, 1993

Orch and band: Glory and Death, 1942; Pf Conc., 1947; Vc Conc., 1948; Music for Minstrels, 1969; Michelangelo: a Tone Portrait, ww, brass, perc, 1970, orchd 1971; Temple at Abydos, solo trbn, hp, ww, str, 1981; Sym. in Search of Sources, 1990; Fanfare in Five Eight, 1995; Undersea Fantasy, 1999; Vivo, 1999

Chbr: Str Qt, e, 1953; Sonata no.1, vn, pf, 1955; Aria, Fugue and Toccata, str qt, 1968; Trio, vn, hn, pf, 1969; Divertimento, fl, pf, 1972; Duo, hn, vc, 1972; Five Around, 2 tpt, hn, trbn, b trbn/tuba, 1972; In memoriam, pf trio, 1972; American Scenes, fl, ob/cl, bn, 1976; The China Closet, mar qt, 1984; Lebewohl Variations, fl, ob, bn, hpd, 1986; Sonata no.2, vn, pf, 1988; Remembrances, I, II, vn, pf, 1989; 6 Silhouettes, gui, str qt, 1991; Sonata, bn, pf, 1992; The Mississippi, fl, trbn, gui, perc, 1995; Visions, fl, cl, vc, pf, perc, 1997

Pf: Sonata no.1, 1951; Sonata no.2, 1956; Variations on a Theme by Bach, 1970; Diversions Four/Two, pf 4 hands, 1971; Harlequinade, 1971; Five over Twelve: Preludes, 1976; Inspirations from Nature, 1985; Diversion Two/Scherzo, pf 4 hands, 1990; children’s pieces

Choral and solo vocal: 3 Sonnets from Shakespeare, S/T, chbr orch, 1948, version for 1v, pf, 1960; Gargoyles (G. Corso), S, bn, pf, 1970; Piovean di foco dilatate faldo (Dante), SATB qt/madrigal ens, solo vc, 1973; Time is a Cunning Thief (J.T. Shotwell), S/T, pf, 1973; Fountains, Castles and Gardens (P. Viereck), S, cl, hpd/pf, 1977; The Great God Pan (E.B. Browning), SATB, solo fl, 1979

BIBLIOGRAPHY


D. Amram: Vibrations (New York, 1968), 221–2

Who’s Who of American Women (Chicago, 8/1972)

SAM DI BONAVENTURA


Ulenberg, Kaspar


(b Lippstadt, Westphalia, 1549; d Cologne, 16 Feb 1617). German theologian, poet and composer. He studied theology in Wittenberg and, before his conversion to Catholicism in 1572, was a Lutheran pastor in Lippstadt. From 1575 to 1583 he worked as a priest in Kaiserswerth near Düsseldorf, and later in various churches in Cologne. He was also head of the Lorenz Gymnasium from 1592 to 1615, and rector of the university between 1610 and 1612. The Counter-Reformation had a considerable influence on him, which can be seen in his sole musical publication: Die Psalmen Davids in allerlei teutsche gesangreimen bracht (Cologne, 1582; ed. in DRM, iii, 1955; text ed. in Wackernagel).

Ulenberg’s psalter is the Catholic counterpart to the various Protestant psalters. The 80 tunes are stylistically similar to the Genevan psalm melodies and may have been composed by Ulenberg himself. Although its musical merit has been questioned, a wide circulation of the psalter attests to its considerable popularity at the time: eleven editions appeared up to 1710, sometimes under different titles. Lassus, with his son Rudolf, published the first 50 psalms in three-part settings under the title Teutsche Psalmen (RISM 158812; ed. W. Lipphardt, Kassel, 1928/R) and Konrad Hagius published two collections of four-voice settings of the entire psalter (one Düsseldorf, 1589 and the other Oberusel, 1606). Abraham Praetorius based his song motets of 1592 on the Ulenberg psalter. Ulenberg also made a German translation of the Bible (Cologne, 1630) intended as a Catholic alternative to Luther’s.


BIBLIOGRAPHY


MGG1 (W. Lipphardt)

A. Meshovius: De vita, moribus et obitu… Caspari Ulenbergii (Cologne, 1638)

P. Wackernagel: Das deutsche Kirchenlied von der ältesten Zeit bis zu Anfang des XVII. Jahrhunderts, v (Leipzig, 1877)

J. Solzbacher: ‘Die Psalmen Davids, in allerlei deutsche Gesangreime gebracht durch Kaspar Ulenberg, Köln 1582’, KJb, xxxiv (1950), 41–55

S. Fornaçon: ‘Kaspar Ulenberg und Konrad von Hagen’, Mf, ix (1956), 206–13

J. Overath: Untersuchungen über die Melodien des Liedpsalters von Kaspar Ulenberg (Cologne, 1582) (Cologne, 1960)

WALTER BLANKENBURG



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