Arnold Rosner, composer (b. 1945)

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String Chamber Music of Arnold Rosner
by Paul Vanderwerf (1999 Doctoral dissertation, Northwestern University)

Transcript of a 1995 radio interview by Bruce Duffie, WNIB-FM Chicago

Complete List of Arnold Rosner's Works

Opus	Title	Date	Genre	Time	Remarks
1	Improvisation in g minor	1958	Keyboard	5
2	Improvisation in e minor	1958	Keyboard	5
3	Symphony No. 1	1961	Orchestra	32
4	Adam and Eve	1961	Keyboard	6
5	The Seven Days	1961	Oratorio	35
6	Toccata in A major	1961	Keyboard	2
7	A Soldier's Prayer	1961	Orchestra	32
8	Symphony No. 2	1961	Orchestra	32
9	Grand Waltz	1961	Keyboard	3
10	String Quartet No. 1	1962	Chamber	14
11	Prelude in e minor	1956	Keyboard	3
12	Minuet in C major	1956	Keyboard	3
13	Waltz in g minor	1956	Keyboard	4
14	Piano Concerto No. 1	1962	Orchestra	?
15	Sacred Service	1962	Chamber	35
16	Sonata for Flute and Cello	1962	Chamber	8
17	Violin Concerto	1962	Orchestra	40
18	Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano	1963	Chamber	16	Revised 2004
19	String Quartet No. 2	1963	Chamber	16
20	Symphony No. 3	1963	Orchestra	47
21	Agnus Dei	1963	Choral	10
22	Psalm XXIII	1963	Voice	22
23	Cycle of Spring	1963	Orchestra	30
24	Passacaglia for Orchestra	1963	Orchestra	11
25	Piano Sonata No. 1	1963	Keyboard	16
26	Woodwind Quintet	1964	Chamber	26	Revised 1997
27	Toccata Concertante	1964	Orchestra	9
28	Sanctus	1964	Voice	10
29	Symphony No. 4	1964	Orchestra	30
30	Piano Concerto No. 2	1965	Orchestra	?
31	Fantasia quasi una Toccata	1965	Brass	5
32	String Quartet No. 3	1965	Chamber	32
33	Partita for Orchestra	1966	Orchestra	23
34	Missa Greensleeves	1967	Choral	22
35	Piano Quintet No. 1	1967	Chamber	26
36	Five Meditations	1967	Orchestra	18
37	Nine Tagore Madrigals	1968	Choral	30
38	Canzona sopra un tema di Monteverdi	1968	Brass	9
39	Concertino	1968	Keyboard	18	Revised 1989
40	Six Pastoral Dances	1968	Orchestra	12
41	Sonata No. 1 for Cello and Piano	1968	Chamber	17
42	Drei Lieder von Gedichten von Anton Webern	1968	Voice	?
43	O Vos Omnes	1968	Choral	12
44	A Gentle Musicke	1969	Orchestra	11
45	Perchance to Dream	1969	Orchestra	34
46	Christmas Frescoes	1970	Percussion	13	Revised 1997
47	String Sextet	1970	Chamber	24	Revised 1997
48	Piano Sonata No. 2	1970	Keyboard	12
49	And He Sent Forth a Dove	1971	Keyboard	3
50	Missa l'Homme Armé	1971	Choral	26
51	A MyLai Elegy	1971	Orchestra	26
52	La Vie Antériure	1971	Voice	5
53	Wedding March	1971	Keyboard	3
54	Sonata for Oboe and Piano	1972	Chamber	12
54a	Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano	1972	Chamber	12	Transcription of Oboe Sonata
55	The Leaving Light	1972	Voice	5
56	String Quartet No. 4	1972	Chamber	19
57	Symphony No. 5: Missa sine Cantoribus super 'Salve Regina'	1973	Orchestra	33
58	Three Elegaic Songs	1973	Voice	13	French, German, and Hebrew
59	Requiem	1973	Choral	62
60	Concerto Grosso No. 1	1974	Orchestra	19
61	Musique de Clavecin	1974	Keyboard	25
62	Missa In Nomine	1974	Choral	28
63	Canzona Secundi Toni	1975	Brass	8
64	Symphony No. 6	1976	Orchestra	34
65	Five Ko-ans	1976	Orchestra	31
66	String Quartet No. 5	1977	Chamber	14
67	Responses, Hosanna, and Fugue	1977	Orchestra	18
68	Nocturne	1978	Orchestra	?
69	Piano Sonata No. 3: Sonata Eterea	1978	Keyboard	13
70	Quintet	1978	Brass	13
71	Sonata for French Horn and Piano	1979	Chamber	18
72	Magnificat	1979	Choral	15
73	Nightstone	1979	Voice	13
74	Concerto Grosso No. 2	1979	Orchestra	19
75	Consort Music	1980	Chamber	15	5 viole da gamba
75	Consort Music	1980	Orchestra	15	Orchestration of Op. 75
76	Prelude and Fugue	1980	Percussion	9
77	Minstrel to an Unquiet Lady	1982	Voice	11	From Op. 81
78	Symphony No. 7 in A minor "The Tragedy of Queen Jane"	1982	Orchestra	26	From Op. 81
79	Of Numbers and of Bells	1983	Keyboard	13
80	Let them Praise	1984	Choral	7
81	The Chronicle of Nine	1984	Opera	120	Libretto: Florence Stevenson
82	From the Diaries of Adam Czerniakow	1986	Orchestra	22
83	Sonatine d'Amour	1987	Keyboard	9
84	Trinity – Symphony No. 8 for Concert Band	1988	Concert Band	23
85	A Plaintive Harmony	1988	Brass	10
86	Besos sin Cuento	1989	Voice	18
87	Transformations	1990	Orchestra	16
88	Lovely Joan: Rhapsody on an English Folk Song	1990	Concert Band	9
89	Sonata No. 2 for Cello and Piano, "La Divina Commedia"	1990	Chamber	17
90	Songs of Lightness and Angels	1990	Voice	12	Finnish or English
91	De Profundis	1991	Concert Band	9
92	A Psalm of Mercy	1991	Choral	4
93	Gematria	1991	Orchestra	13
94	A Duet for Violas	1991	Chamber	7
95	A Sephardic Rhapsody	1992	Orchestra	14
96	Poseidon	1993	Voice	7
97	The Parable of the Law	1993	Voice	14
98	Dances of Initiation	1993	Concert Band	7
99	Etz Chaim	1993	Keyboard	9
100	Eclipse	1994	Concert Band	11
101	Danses a la Mode	1994	Chamber	8
102	Bontsche Schweig	1994	Opera	33	Chamber Opera
103	Piano Quintet No. 2	1995	Chamber	15
104	RAGA!	1995	Concert Band	11
105	Variations on a Theme by Frank Martin	1996	Orchestra	15
106	Sonata in B-flat for Trombone and Piano	1996	Chamber	15
107	Concerto for 2 Trumpets, Strings, and Timpani	1997	Orchestra	18
108	Of Songs and Sonnets	1997	Voice	9	3 John Milton texts
109	Tempus Perfectum	1998	Orchestra	15	Concert Overture
110	Serpentine for Clarinet and Piano	1999	Chamber	9
111	To The Keen Stars	1999	Voice	4	Text by Percy B. Shelley
112	A Millenium Overture	1999	Orchestra	6	Orchestration of 89/iii
113	Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings	2000	Orchestra	18
114	37 for solo harp	2000	Chamber	9
115	Clausulae for Trombones	2001	Chamber	10
116	Strictly Personals for Soprano, Baritone and String Quartet	2001	Chamber	18	Words and Music by Arnold Rosner
117	Three Northern Sketches	2003	Symphonic Band	12	1) Ice Sculpture; 2) Pastorale; 3) Aurora
118	String Quartet No. 6	2004	Chamber	11	to Mattias Vanderwerf
119	Now Cometh the Redeemer	2005	Symphonic Band	11	Transcription of Op. 47, 2nd mvmt.
120	Five	2005	Voice	3	Words by Mattias Vanderwerf
121	Sonata for Bassoon and Piano	2006	Chamber	17
122	Unraveling Dances	2007	Orchestra	16