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Donald H. Keats (May 27, 1929 – April 27, 2018) was an American composer, teacher, and pianist.
Biography
Keats attended Yale University as an undergraduate, where he studied with Quincy Porter and Paul Hindemith. He completed his MA at Columbia University, where he studied with Otto Luening and Henry Cowell. He attended the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Hamburg as a Fulbright Scholar before returning to America. Keats received his Ph.D from the University of Minnesota, where he studied with Dominick Argento and Paul Fetler. He also won two Guggenheim Fellowships (1964–65, 1972–73), an NEA grant, and was a Fulbright scholar (1954–55, renewed 1955-56). He also studied composition at Yale with Henry Cowell.
He taught at Antioch College from 1957 to 1975, and the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music from 1975 to 1999. He also taught at the Aspen School of Music and was Visiting Professor at the University of Washington from 1969 to 1970. He died on April 27, 2018, at the age of 88.
Important works
- Symphony No.2: (An) Elegiac Symphony (1964)
- Piano Sonata (1971)
- String Quartet #1
- String Quartet #2
- Keats considers his First Symphony as an important piece; both it and his Elegiac Symphony won Rockefeller Foundation-sponsored competitions, resulting in performances by the Kansas City Philharmonic and the Seattle Symphony respectively
- Principal Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Notable students
For Keats's notable students, see List of music students by teacher: K to M § Donald Keats.References
- Donald Keats
- Rosen, Jerome and Michael Meckna: "Donald Keats - Symphony No.2: Elegiac Symphony", Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed ), <http://www.grovemusic.com Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine>
- Donald Keats (University of Denver)
- 1929 births
- 2018 deaths
- American male composers
- 20th-century American composers
- Aspen Music Festival and School faculty
- University of Minnesota alumni
- Yale University alumni
- Antioch College faculty
- University of Denver faculty
- Pupils of Quincy Porter
- 20th-century American pianists
- American male pianists
- 20th-century American male musicians