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photograph courtesy of Claire Jones Douglas Stuart Moore born: August 10th, 1893
Cutchogue , Long Island, New York
died: July 25th, 1969
Greenport, Long Island, New York
Composer Librettist The Music The Story Performance Gallery Opera Singers Opera Houses Composer, educator, author.
Moore studied with Horatio Parker at Yale, from which he graduated in 1917. He served in the Navy as a Lieutenant, J.G., after which he went to Paris to devote his time to music. While there, he was a student of Vincent D'Indy, Charles Tournemire and Nadia Boulanger. Moore went to Cleveland in 1921 as Director of Music at the Cleveland Museum of Art, during which he studied with Ernest Bloch at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and performed in plays at the Cleveland Playhouse.
Four Museum Pieces , Moore's first serious work (about four items in the Cleveland Art Museum's collection), in its orchestrated version, was first performed by the Cleveland Orchestra with Moore conducting. It won him a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship, in 1926, allowing him to return to Europe to study with Boulanger. | |
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