Carter, Elliott 1908-2012

Overview

Works:	1,967 works in 5,449 publications in 5 languages and 64,556 library holdings
Genres:	Criticism, interpretation, etc Scores Music Musical settings Interviews Chamber music Orchestral music Bibliography Catalogs Parts (Music)
Roles:	Author, Composer, Interviewee, Conductor, Creator, Performer, Narrator, Musician, Editor, Speaker, Honoree, Arranger, Dedicator, Contributor, Bibliographic antecedent, Other, Commentator
Classifications:	M452, 780.904

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Elliott Carter

Elliott Carter by James Eugene Wierzbicki( )
Elliott Carter : a guide to research by John F Link( )
The music of Elliott Carter by David Schiff( Book )
The music of Elliott Carter by David Schiff( Book )
The complete music for piano by Elliott Carter( )

Harvard composers : Walter Piston and his students, from Elliott Carter to Frederic Rzewski by Howard Pollack( Book )
The musical languages of Elliott Carter by Charles Rosen( Book )
Elliott Carter studies by Marguerite Boland( Book )
Elliott Carter : a bio-bibliography by William T Doering( Book )
Elliott Carter : a centennial portrait in letters and documents by Felix Meyer( Book )
Elliott Carter: sketches and scores in manuscript; a selection of manuscripts and other pertinent material from the Americana Collection of the Music Division, the New York Public Library, on exhibition December 1973 through February 1974 in the Vincent Astor Gallery, Library & Museum of the Performing Arts, the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center by New York Public Library( Book )
Elliott Carter : in conversation with Enzo Restagno for Settembre Musica 1989 by Elliott Carter( Book )
Music makes a city( Visual )
The later music of Elliott Carter : a study in music theory and analysis by David I. H Harvey( Book )
Elliott Carter, ou, Le temps fertile by Max Noubel( Book )
Contemporary musicians : profiles of the people in music by Leigh Ann DeRemer( )
100th anniversary release by Elliott Carter( Visual )
Leaving home : orchestral music in the 20th century : a conducted tour by Sir Simon Rattle( Visual )
Entretiens avec Elliott Carter by Elliott Carter( )
Perspectives of new music( Recording )

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Most widely held works by Elliott Carter

Elliott Carter : collected essays and lectures, 1937-1995 by Elliott Carter( Book )

24 editions published between 1996 and 1998 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,150 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Elliott Carter (b. 1908) is now widely recognized as America's most eminent living composer. This definitive volume of his essays and lectures - many previously unpublished or uncollected - shows his thinking and writing on music and associated issues developing in parallel with his career as a composer: his reputation became internationally established in the 1950s, and the material in this book offers an important and knowledgeable commentary on the course of American and European music in the succeeding decades

String quartet no. 2 (1959) by Elliott Carter( )

90 editions published between 1959 and 1999 in 4 languages and held by 1,099 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The writings of Elliott Carter : an American composer looks at modern music by Elliott Carter( Book )

11 editions published between 1977 and 1996 in English and held by 966 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Flawed words and stubborn sounds : a conversation with Elliott Carter by Allen Edwards( Book )

6 editions published between 1971 and 1972 in English and held by 845 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The conversation presented to the reader in the following pages is a condensed, reordered, and partly rewritten transcript of a series of tape-recorded interviews between Elliott Carter and myself that took place at intervals over the period from 1968-1970.--Foreword

8 etudes and a fantasy : for woodwind quartet (1950) by Elliott Carter( )

47 editions published between 1955 and 2006 in 3 languages and held by 778 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

String quartet no. 4 by Elliott Carter( )

40 editions published between 1965 and 2001 in 4 languages and held by 733 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

String quartet no. 1 : (1951) by Elliott Carter( )

38 editions published between 1951 and 1994 in 4 languages and held by 687 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Piano sonata (1945-46) by Elliott Carter( )

35 editions published between 1948 and 1991 in 3 languages and held by 667 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Woodwind quintet by Elliott Carter( )

46 editions published between 1948 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 658 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The vocal works (1975-1981) by Elliott Carter( )

15 editions published between 1989 and 2005 in 3 languages and held by 643 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Piano concerto by Elliott Carter( )

41 editions published between 1965 and 1991 in 3 languages and held by 639 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Three occasions ; Violin concerto ; Concerto for orchestra by Elliott Carter( )

18 editions published between 1992 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 621 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Recorded at Blackheath Concert Hall, June 3, 1991 (1st work) ; and at Henry Wood Hall, Feb. 18, 1991 (2nd work) & Feb. 15-16, 1991 (3rd work)

Piano concerto ; Variations for orchestra by Elliott Carter( Recording )

22 editions published between 1986 and 2007 in 3 languages and held by 613 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Eight compositions (1948-1993) by Elliott Carter( )

10 editions published in 1994 in 3 languages and held by 570 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Music of Elliott Carter by Elliott Carter( Recording )

15 editions published between 1982 and 2007 in 5 languages and held by 565 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Sonata for flute, oboe, cello, and harpsichord (1952) by Elliott Carter( )

25 editions published between 1960 and 1997 in 3 languages and held by 552 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Variations for orchestra : (1954-1955) by Elliott Carter( )

27 editions published between 1957 and 1967 in 3 languages and held by 548 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Symphonia : sum fluxae pretium spei ; Clarinet concerto by Elliott Carter( Recording )

10 editions published between 1998 and 1999 in 4 languages and held by 546 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Double concerto : for harpsichord and piano with two chamber orchestras (1961) by Elliott Carter( )

29 editions published between 1961 and 1994 in 3 languages and held by 526 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Twelve poems of Emily Dickinson : voice and piano by Aaron Copland( )

1 edition published in 1951 in English and held by 517 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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