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American classical music composer
Regina Kastberg Hansen Willman (October 5, 1914 – October 28, 1965) was an American composer, born in
Burns, Wyoming.
[1] She married
Allan Arthur Willman
[2] in 1942; they divorced in 1956, but remained close throughout her life. Willman received a B.M. from the
University of Wyoming in 1945, and a M.M. from the
University of New Mexico in 1961. She studied with
Darius Milhaud at
Mills College,
Roy Harris at
Colorado College,
[3] and pursued further studies at the
University of California, Berkeley, the
Juilliard School, the
Sorbonne, and the
Lausanne Conservatory.
[4] Willman was the resident composer of the
Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in
Taos, New Mexico, from 1956–57 and 1960-61. Her papers are archived at the University of Wyoming.
[5]
Works
Regina Willman's compositions include:
Ballet
- Doves (piano)
- Legend of the Willow Plate (1949; chamber orchestra)
Orchestra
- Anchorage Symphony
- Design for Orchestra 1 (1948)
- Design for Orchestra 2 (1953)
[6]
Piano
- Little Tailor Suite
- Steel Mill (1941; two pianos)
[7]
- Three Compositions for Piano
Theatre
Vocal
- Ante Vero Longam (1961; tenor solo, men's chorus, oboe, and piano; text by Lambertus)
- Apres le Deluge (1961; high voice and piano; text by
Arthur Rimbaud)
- First Holy Sonnet (voice and string trio; text by
John Donne)
[8]
- O Sleep Now (1956; medium voice and piano)
- Vocalise (voices and low strings)
References
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^ Hixon, Donald L. (1993).
Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Hennessee, Don A. (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press.
ISBN
0-8108-2769-7.
OCLC
28889156.
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^ Pool, Jeannie G. (2009).
American composer Zenobia Powell Perry : race and gender in the 20th century. Perry, Zenobia Powell. Lanham, Md.
ISBN
978-0-8108-6376-7.
OCLC
239233280.
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^ Pfitzinger, Scott (March 2017).
Composer genealogies : a compendium of composers, their teachers, and their students. Lanham, Maryland.
ISBN
978-1-4422-7225-5.
OCLC
961457738.
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^ Cohen, Aaron I. (1987).
International encyclopedia of women composers (Second edition, revised and enlarged ed.). New York.
ISBN
0-9617485-2-4.
OCLC
16714846.
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^
"Results for 'au:Willman, Regina,' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
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^ Division, New York Public Library Music (1981).
Bibliographic Guide to Music. G. K. Hall.
ISBN
978-0-8161-6961-0.
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^ Phi, Phi Kappa (1941).
Phi Kappa Phi Journal. Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.
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^ Stewart-Green, Miriam. (1980).
Women composers : a checklist of works for the solo voice. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall.
ISBN
0-8161-8498-4.
OCLC
6815939.