Robert Moevs

Robert Moevs (1920-2007) was a modernist composer and professor of composition at Rutgers University from 1964 to 1991. During his career, Moevs created a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal, and instrumental music that earned him awards including a Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Stockhausen International Prize in Composition in 1978. Moevs composed at a time Kemper describes as �high modernism in academic art music in America�but there are also other influences in his music, like jazz, interesting rhythmic progressions, and intriguing things happening with timbre.�

Titles:

• – Heptachronon
• 1957 – String Quartet No. 1
• 1957 – String Quartet No. 1
• 1965 – Et Occidentem Illustra
• 1968 – Musica da Camera I
• 1969 – Brief Mass, A for SATB, Organ, Vibes, Guitar and Bass
• 1973 – Main-Traveled Roads: Symphonic Piece No. 4
• 1974 – Musica da Camera II: On Three Notes of Steve Reich