David Rakowski (born June 13, 1958,
St. Albans, Vermont) is an American composer and typeface designer.
He studied under such composers as Robert Ceely, John Heiss,
Milton Babbitt
Milton Byron Babbitt (May 10, 1916 – January 29, 2011) was an American composer, music theorist, mathematician, and teacher. He is particularly noted for his Serialism, serial and electronic music.
Biography
Babbitt was born in Philadelphia t ...
,
Peter Westergaard
Peter Talbot Westergaard (28 May 1931 – 26 June 2019) was an American composer and music theorist. He was Professor Emeritus of music at Princeton University.
Biography
Westergaard was born on 28 May 1931 in Champaign, Illinois. He pursued ...
,
Paul Lansky
Paul Lansky (born June 18, 1944, in New York) is an American composer.
Biography
Paul Lansky (born 1944) is an American composer. He was educated at Manhattan's High School of Music and Art, Queens College and Princeton University, studying wit ...
, and
Luciano Berio
Luciano Berio (24 October 1925 – 27 May 2003) was an Italian composer noted for his experimental work (in particular his 1968 composition ''Sinfonia'' and his series of virtuosic solo pieces titled ''Sequenza''), and for his pioneering work ...
. In 2006, he was awarded the
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) is an American organization dedicated to the performance and promotion of chamber music in New York City. It is the largest organization of its kind in the country for chamber music. CMS's home is ...
's 2004–2006
Elise L. Stoeger Prize.
He has twice been a finalist for the
Pulitzer Prize for Music
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: in 1999 for ''Persistent Memory'' and in 2002 for his second
symphony
A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, most often for orchestra. Although the term has had many meanings from its origins in the ancient Greek era, by the late 18th century the word had taken on the meaning com ...
''Ten of a Kind''.
He has released dozens
of
typefaces
A typeface (or font family) is the design of lettering that can include variations in size, weight (e.g. bold), slope (e.g. italic), width (e.g. condensed), and so on. Each of these variations of the typeface is a font.
There are thousands o ...
since the 1990s, mostly as
freeware
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, which include both original designs and revivals (such as "Lemiesz" – a free version of
Publicity Gothic, 1916 – and "Harting", a typewriter face in the "grunge" style.)
References
Living people
1958 births
People from St. Albans, Vermont
American male classical composers
American classical composers
20th-century classical composers
21st-century classical composers
Musicians from Vermont
MacDowell Colony fellows
20th-century American male musicians
21st-century American male musicians
American typographers and type designers
Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
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