Composer John Corigliano | Official Website

Two Benin Masks. Masks of royal temple guardians with imaginary beasts on their heads. Bronze and leather, lost wax process. Circa 1850. Each 24” high.

"John Corigliano is one of the most talented composers I know of today."

– Leonard Bernstein

The American John Corigliano continues to add to one of the richest, most unusual, and most widely celebrated bodies of work any composer has created over the last forty years. Corigliano's scores, now numbering over one hundred, have won him the Pulitzer Prize, the Grawemeyer Award, five Grammy Awards, and an Academy Award (“Oscar”) and have been performed and recorded by many of the most prominent orchestras, soloists, and chamber musicians in the world.

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1976

Chorus and orchestra

A Dylan Thomas Trilogy

SATB chorus & 3(2pic).3.3(bcl).3(cbn)/4331/timp.3perc/pf.hp.hpd/str

1986

Orchestra

Fantasia on an Ostinato

3 flutes plus piccolo, 3 oboes, 3 clarinets, 3 bassoons (doubling contrabassoon), 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (4 players), harp, piano, and strings

For Orchestra Arranged for orchestra by the composer (1986)

1977

Soloist(s) and orchestra

Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra

Solo clarinet and orchestra: 3 flutes and piccolo, 3 oboes and english horn, 2 clarinets and bass clarinet, 3 bassoons and contrabassoon, 6 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (3 players), harp, piano, and strings (minimum 14 first violins, 14 seconds, 12 violas, 12 cellos, and 6 basses)

Hand-held floating crocodile - Painted and embossed wood - Papua New Guinea - Undated - 37" long