Ned Rorem

American composer and diarist (1923-2022) · United States · On the map · Musicians · Died at 99

Ned Miller Rorem was an American composer of contemporary classical music and a writer. Best known for his art songs, which number over 500, Rorem was considered the leading American of his time writing in the genre.

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The arts patron Marie-Laure de Noailles (1949, Van Vechten) who allowed Rorem to stay in her Paris mansion and introduced him to other cultural figures of the city

Opening measures of Spring (1947) by Rorem. The piano's left hand employs ground bass below a higher melody

Awards

Pulitzer Prize for Music1976

Arts and Letters Award in Music1968

Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres

Guggenheim Fellowship

Rome Prize

About this person

Frequently described as a neoromantic composer, he showed limited interest in the emerging modernist aesthetic of his lifetime. As a writer, he kept - and later published - numerous diaries in which he spoke candidly of his exchanges and relationships with many cultural figures of America and France.

Country

United States