Karl Korte

Karl Richard Korte (June 23, 1928 – March 27, 2022) was an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was born in Ossining, New York, and grew up in Englewood, New Jersey. He attended the Juilliard School, where he studied with Peter Mennin, William Bergsma, and Vincent Persichetti. He later studied composition with Otto Luening, Goffredo Petrassi, and Aaron Copland. Korte taught at the University of Texas at Austin from 1971 to 1997 and held the rank of emeritus professor. From 1997 to 2000, he was a visiting professor at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He received many national and international awards for his work, including two Guggenheim Fellowships (1959 and 1970), Fulbright Awards to Italy and to New Zealand, and a Gold Medal from the Belgian Government in the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition. He died in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Selected works *1957 – Fantasy for violin and piano *1964 – Songs of Innocence (Blake), for women’s voices and piano *1967 – Matrix – 7 for woodwind quintet, piano and percussion. Written for the New York Woodwind Quintet *1968 – Aspects of Love, for SATB and piano *1968 – Sappho Says, for mezzo-soprano soloist with women’s