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David Leo Diamond (July 9, 1915 – June 13, 2005) was an American composer of classical music. He is considered one of the preeminent American composers of his generation.
This site is devoted to the life and compositional genius of David Leo Diamond, who was born in Rochester, NY on July 9, 1915 and died there on June 13, 2005, just a few weeks shy of his 90th birthday. The website contains information about Diamond's life and compositions as well as upcoming performances of his works around the world.
Jun 13, 2005 · Diamond was a highly prolific composer; he composed a total of twenty orchestra works, twenty nine chamber works, fourteen piano works, five vocal works, and two wind ensembles.
Diamond was a professor of composition at The Juilliard School for some 25 years, starting in 1973. The renewed interest in Diamond's music starting in the 1980s has coincided with his being awarded some of the most significant honors available to a composer. In 1986, he received the William Schuman Lifetime Achievement Award.
David Diamond. 1915 – 2005. For more than five decades David Leo Diamond figured prominently among mainstream American composers. Born in Rochester, New York, to Yiddish-speaking immigrant parents from the area around Lemberg, Galicia (now Ukraine), he received a typical Jewish religious education in the local afternoon Hebrew school.
Upon Ravel's death in 1937, Diamond wrote an Elegy for brass, percussion and harps (later arranged for strings and percussion), dedicated to the memory of the composer who had been his ideal. The Psalm and Elegy are strong and individual statements from a very young composer.
Apr 2, 2009 · David Leo Diamond (July 9, 1915 – June 13, 2005) was an American composer of classical music. He was born in Rochester, New York and studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School of Music under Bernard Rogers, also receiving lessons from Roger Sessions in New York City and Nadia Boulanger in Paris.
