Bowles, Paul Frederic 30.dec.1910-18.nov.1999 USA NY Long Island, Jamaica - Morocco, Tangier
pianist, organist, novelist, 1929-1930 studied at the University of Virginia, 1930-1932 studied composition with Aaron Copland in New York and Berlin, 1933-1934 with Nadia Boulanger and Virgil Thomson in Paris, 1941 received a Guggenheim fellowship, 1959 Rockefeller grant, 1942-1945 music critic of the New York Herald Tribune, traveled and lived in Spain, North Africa, the Antilles, South and Central America studying and collecting folk music, 1947 moved to Tangier and became more active as writer, 1973-1976 residing at 2117 Tanger Socco Tangier Morocco ; son of dentist Claude Dietz Bowles (Wisconsin, Waukesha 24.mar.1878-15.jun.1966 Florida, St Petersburg) and Rena Frances Winnewisser (Vermont, Bellows Falls 2.oct.1884-15.jun.1966 Florida, St Petersburg) ; 21.feb.1938 he married writer Jane Auer (New York City 22.feb.1917-4.may.1973 Spain, Malaga), each developing intimate relationships with friends of their own sex

Title Parts


Concerto. 2 Pianos, winds and percussion. 1947
Alan Feinberg, Leslie Stifelman, Eos Ensemble / Jonathan Sheffer
1 - Allegro
2 - Scherzo
3 - Andante
4 - Galopp
[] Scenes d'Anabase. Voice, oboe and piano. 1932
[] Suite. Orchestra 1933
[] Par le detroit. Cantata. 1933
[] Trio. 1936
[] Yankee clipper. Ballet 1936
[] Melodia. 9 Instruments. 1937
[] Denmark Vesey. Opera 1937
[] The ballroom guide. Ballet 1937
[] Music for a farce. 1938
[] My heart's in the highlands. Incidental music. 1939
[] Roots in the soil. Film score. 1940
[] Love's old sweet son. Incidental music. 1940
[] Twelfth night. Incidental music. 1940
[] Danza Mexicana. Orchestra 1941
[] Watch on the Rhine. Incidental music. 1941
[] Liberty Jones. Incidental music. 1941
[] The wind remains. Opera 1943
[] The glass menagerie. Incidental music. 1944
[] Sentimental colloquy. Ballet 1944
[] Congo. Film score. 1944
[] Preludes for piano. 1934-1945
[] Sonata. 2 Pianos. 1946
[] Prelude and dance. Winds, bass, percussion and piano. 1947
[] Pastorale. Ballet 1947
[] Picnic cantata. 4 Women's voices, 2 pianos and percussion. 1954
[] Dr. Faustus. Incidental music
[] Jacobowsky and the colonel. Incidental music
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