Background

Crumb, George Henry was born on October 24, 1929 in Charleston, West Virginia, United States. Son of George Henry and Vivian (Reed) Crumb.

Education

Bachelor of Music, Mason College, 1950;Master of Music, University of Illinois, 1952;postgraduate (Fulbright fellow), Hochschule für Musik, Berlin, Germany, 1955-1956;postgraduate (Fulbright fellow), Berkshire Music Center, Tanglewood, Massachusetts, summer 1955;Doctor of Music Arts, University of Michigan, 1959.

Career

Instructor theory, Hollins College, Virginia, 1958-1959;assistant professor composition and piano, U. Colorado, 1959-1964;creative associate composition, State University New York at Buffalo, 1964-1965;assistant professor composition, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1965-1966;associate professor, University of Pennsylvania, 1966-1971;professor, University of Pennsylvania, since 1971;Annenberg professor, University of Pennsylvania, since 1983.

Achievements

• Member B.M.I., National Institute Arts and Letters, German Academy Arts (honorary), Bavarian Academy Fine Arts, American Academy Arts and Scis., Pi Kappa Lambda, Phi Mu Alpha.

Works

• Other Work

  • Ancient Voices of Children, Black Angels, Eleven Echoes of Autumn, 1965, Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death, Makrokosmos Vols. I-III, Music for a Summer Evening, Five Pieces for Piano, Night of the Four Moons, Night Music I, Echoes of Time and the River, Four Nocturnes, Star-child, Dream Sequence, Celestial Mechanics, Apparition, A Little Suite for Christmas 1979, Gnomic Variations, Pastoral Drone, Processional, A Haunted Landscape, The Sleeper, An Idyll for the Misbegotten, Federico’s Little Songs for Children, Zeitgeist.

Membership

Member B.M.I., National Institute Arts and Letters, German Academy Arts (honorary), Bavarian Academy Fine Arts, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Pi Kappa Lambda, Phi Mu Alpha.

• B.M.I.

• National Institute Arts and Letters

• German Academy Arts (honorary)

• Bavarian Academy Fine Arts

• American Academy Arts and Scis.

• Pi Kappa Lambda

• Phi Mu Alpha.

Interests

• Reading.

Connections

Married Elizabeth May Brown, May 21, 1949. Children: Elizabeth Ann, David Reed, Peter Stanley.

Father:

George Henry Crumb

Mother:

Vivian (Reed) Crumb

Spouse:

Elizabeth May Brown

child:

Elizabeth Ann Crumb

child:

David Reed Crumb

child:

Peter Stanley Crumb