Gunther Schuller

Schuller was born in Queens, New York City, the son of German parents Elsie (Bernartz) and Arthur E. Schuller, a violinist with the New York Philharmonic.{{Cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/22/arts/music/gunther-schuller-composer-who-synthesized-classical-and-jazz-dies-at-89.html| title=Gunther Schuller Dies at 89; Composer Synthesized Classical and Jazz| author=Allan Kozinn | date=2015-06-22 | access-date=2015-06-23 |work=The New York Times}}

He studied at the Saint Thomas Choir School and became an accomplished French horn player and flute player.

At age 15, he was already playing horn professionally with the American Ballet Theatre (1943) followed by an appointment as principal hornist with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (1943–45), and then the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York, where he stayed until 1959.{{cite news|url=http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/bmi_mourns_the_loss_of_jazz_and_classical_great_gunther_schuller|agency=BMI Foundation|title=BMI Mourns the Loss of Jazz and Classical Great Gunther Schuller|date=June 22, 2015|access-date=June 23, 2015}}

During his youth, he attended the Precollege Division at the Manhattan School of Music, later going on to teach at the school.{{cite web|publisher=Manhattan School of Music|url=http://www.msmnyc.edu/Offices/Alumni/Virtual-Yearbooks/1950s|title=1950s|access-date=June 23, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623212043/http://www.msmnyc.edu/Offices/Alumni/Virtual-Yearbooks/1950s|archive-date=June 23, 2015|url-status=dead}} But, already a high school dropout because he wanted to play professionally, Schuller never obtained a degree from any institution.{{Cite web | url = http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/gunther-schuller-multiple-streams| publisher = New Music Box | access-date = June 24, 2015 | title = Gunther Schuller| date = July 2009 }}/ He began his career in jazz by recording as a horn player with Miles Davis (1949–50).{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jun/22/gunther-schuller-pulitzer-winning-jazz-and-classical-musician-dies-aged-89|work=The Guardian|title=Gunther Schuller, Pulitzer-winning jazz and classical musician, dies aged 89|date=June 21, 2015|access-date=June 23, 2015}}

In 1955, Schuller and jazz pianist John Lewis founded the Modern Jazz Society, which gave its first concert at Town Hall, New York, the same year and later became known as the Jazz and Classical Music Society. While lecturing at Brandeis University in 1957, he coined the term "Third Stream" to describe music that combines classical and jazz techniques. He became an enthusiastic advocate of this style and wrote many works according to its principles, among them Transformation (1957, for jazz ensemble),{{cite news|url=http://www.classicalite.com/articles/1337/20130411/jazz-appreciation-month-gunther-schuller-transformation.htm|work=Classicalite|title=Jazz Appreciation Month: Gunther Schuller, 'Transformation'|date=April 11, 2013|access-date=June 23, 2015|first=Logan|last=Young}} Concertino (1959, for jazz quartet and orchestra),{{cite news|url=http://www.jazz.com/music/2008/7/28/gunther-schuller-concertino-for-jazz-quartet-and-orchestra|date=July 28, 2008|first=Ted|last=Giola|publisher=Jazz.com|access-date=June 23, 2015|title=Gunther Schuller: Concertino for Jazz Quartet and Orchestra|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140419210023/http://www.jazz.com/music/2008/7/28/gunther-schuller-concertino-for-jazz-quartet-and-orchestra|archive-date=April 19, 2014|df=mdy-all}} Abstraction (1959, for nine instruments),{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/john-lewis-presents-jazz-abstractions-mw0001881226|publisher=AllMusic|title=John Lewis Presents Jazz Abstractions|first=Scott|last=Yanow|access-date=June 23, 2015}} and Variants on a Theme of Thelonious Monk (1960, for 13 instruments) utilizing Eric Dolphy and Ornette Coleman. In 1966, he composed the opera The Visitation.

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He also orchestrated Scott Joplin's only known surviving opera Treemonisha for the Houston Grand Opera's premiere production of this work in 1975.{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203833104577070683505219416|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=December 6, 2011|access-date=June 23, 2015|first=Barrymore Laurence|last=Scherer|title='Treemonisha' as It Was Intended To Be}}

In 1959, Schuller largely gave up performance to devote himself to composition, teaching and writing. He conducted internationally and studied and recorded jazz with such greats as Dizzy Gillespie and John Lewis among many others. Schuller wrote over 190 original compositions in many musical genres.{{cite web|url=http://www.hornsociety.org/home/ihs-news/26-people/honorary/90-gunther-schuller|title=Gunther Schuller (1925–2015)|publisher=Horn Society|access-date=June 23, 2015|archive-date=November 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191106044908/https://www.hornsociety.org/home/ihs-news/26-people/honorary/90-gunther-schuller|url-status=dead}}

In the 1960s and 1970s, Schuller was president of New England Conservatory, where he founded The New England Ragtime Ensemble. During this period, he also held a variety of positions at the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer home in Tanglewood, serving as director of new music activities from 1965 to 1969 and as artistic director of the Tanglewood Music Center from 1970 to 1984 and creating the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music.{{cite web |url=http://www.bso.org/brands/tanglewood/features/from-the-audio-archives/from-the-audio-archives-day-39.aspx |title=From the Audio Archives: Schuller, Spectra |publisher=Tanglewood.org |access-date=July 29, 2012 |last=Dyer |first=Richard |archive-date=November 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191106044911/https://www.bso.org/brands/tanglewood/features/from-the-audio-archives/from-the-audio-archives-day-39.aspx |url-status=dead }}

In the 1970s and 1980s Schuller founded the publishers Margun Music and Gun-Mar and the record label GM Recordings.{{Cite book| publisher = Oxford University Press| last1 = Carnovale| first1 = Norbert| last2 = Dyer| first2 = Richard| title = Schuller, Gunther| date = 2019}}{{Cite web| title = GM Recordings home page| access-date = 2020-06-13| url = http://www.gmrecordings.com/}} Margun Music and Gun-Mar were sold to Music Sales Group in 1999.{{Cite magazine| last = Lichtman| first = Irv| title = Words & Music| magazine = Billboard| date = 1999-12-04|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hggEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA103}}

Schuller recorded the LP Country Fiddle Band with the Conservatory's country fiddle band, released by Columbia Records in 1976. Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote: "The melodies are fetchingly tried-and-true, the (unintentional?) stateliness of the rhythms appropriately nineteenth-century, and the instrumental overkill (twenty-four instruments massed on 'Flop-Eared Mule') both gorgeous and hilarious. A grand novelty."{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: S|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=S&bk=70|access-date=March 12, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}

Schuller was editor-in-chief of Jazz Masterworks Editions, and co-director of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra{{cite web|url=http://www.smithsonianjazz.org/sjmo/sjmo_start.asp |title=Jazz Exhibits, Jazz Events, Smithsonian Masterworks Orchestra, Jazz Listserv, Jazz Merchandise |publisher=Smithsonian Jazz |access-date=October 26, 2010}} in Washington, D.C. Another effort of preservation was his editing and posthumous premiering at Lincoln Center in 1989 of Charles Mingus's immense final work, Epitaph, subsequently released on Columbia/Sony Records.{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92884124|publisher=NPR|date=July 24, 2008|access-date=June 23, 2015|title=Mingus' Magnum Opus: 'Epitaph' In Concert}} He was the author of two major books on the history of jazz, Early Jazz (1968){{cite book|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/early-jazz-9780195040432|publisher=Oxford University Press|title=Early Jazz|series=The History of Jazz|date=June 19, 1986|isbn=978-0-19-504043-2|access-date=June 23, 2015}} and The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945.{{citation |url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-swing-era-9780195071405 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191016013055/https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-swing-era-9780195071405?cc=us&lang=en&|archive-date=2019-10-16 |access-date=2024-01-09 | title = The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945}}

His students included Irwin Swack,{{cite web |author=Dwight Winenger |url=http://www.dwightwinenger.net/swack.htm |title=Irwin Swack Music |publisher=Dwightwinenger.net |date=September 11, 1999 |access-date=October 26, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512203121/http://www.dwightwinenger.net/swack.htm |archive-date=May 12, 2013 |url-status=dead }} Ralph Patt,{{cite journal|title=Tuning in thirds: A new approach to playing leads to a new kind of guitar|first=Jonathon|last=Peterson|location=Tacoma, WA|url=http://www.luth.org/backissues/al69-72/al72.htm|journal=American Lutherie: The Quarterly Journal of the Guild of American Luthiers|publisher=The Guild of American Luthiers|issn=1041-7176|volume=72|issue=Winter|year=2002|access-date=October 9, 2012|pages=36–43|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111021185726/http://www.luth.org/backissues/al69-72/al72.htm|archive-date=October 21, 2011|df=mdy-all}} John Ferritto, Mohammed Fairouz, Gitta Steiner, Oliver Knussen, Nancy Zeltsman, Riccardo Dalli Cardillo{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/@riccardodallicardillo |title=A music life |website=YouTube |access-date=2014-02-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140219114326/http://www.dallicardillo.com/a_music_life.html |archive-date=February 19, 2014 |df=mdy-all }} and hundreds of others. {{See LMST|Gunther|Schuller}}

From 1993 until his death, Schuller served as Artistic Director for the Northwest Bach Festival in Spokane, Washington state. Each year the festival showcased works by J.S. Bach and other composers in venues around Spokane. At the 2010 festival, Schuller conducted the Mass in B minor at St. John's Cathedral, sung by the Bach Festival Chorus, composed of professional singers in Eastern Washington, and the BachFestival, composed of members of the Spokane Symphony and others. Other notable performances Schuller conducted at the festival include the St Matthew Passion in 2008 and Handel's Messiah in 2005.

Schuller's association with Spokane began with guest conducting the Spokane Symphony for one week in 1982.{{cite web|author=Marty Demarest |url=http://www.inlander.com/spokane/article-1640-the-spokane-connection.html |title=The Spokane Connection |publisher=Inlander.com |date=February 8, 2002 |access-date=October 26, 2010}} He then served as Music Director from 1984 to 1985{{cite web|url=http://www.spokanesymphony.org/27,musicdirector |title=Music Director |publisher=Spokane Symphony |access-date=October 26, 2010}} and later regularly appeared as a guest conductor. Schuller also served as Artistic Director to the nearby Festival at Sandpoint.{{cite web|author=Michael Delucchi |url=http://www.sandpointonline.com/sandpointmag/sms98/GuntherSchuller.html |title=Gunther Schuller makes the music beautiful |publisher=Sandpointonline.com |access-date=October 26, 2010}}

In 2005, the Boston Symphony, New England Conservatory, and Harvard University presented a festival of Schuller's music, curated by Bruce Brubaker, titled "I Hear America." At the time, Brubaker remarked, "Gunther Schuller is a key witness to American musical culture."Cleary, David, [http://newmusicon.org/reviews2005/schullernec2005.htm "Review of Festival – I Hear America: Gunther Schuller at 80"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120615153847/http://www.newmusicon.org/reviews2005/schullernec2005.htm |date=June 15, 2012 }}, New Music Connoisseur, 2005 His modernist orchestral work Where the Word Ends, organized in four movements corresponding to those of a symphony, was premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2009.{{cite web|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/7aced680-f792-11dd-81f7-000077b07658.html?ftcamp=rss |title=Loomis, George, "Boston Symphony Orchestra/Levine, Symphony Hall, Boston", Financial Times (February 10, 2009) |work=Financial Times |date=February 10, 2009 |access-date=October 26, 2010}}

In 2011 Schuller published the first volume of a two-volume autobiography, Gunther Schuller: A Life in Pursuit of Music and Beauty.{{Cite web|url=https://boydellandbrewer.com/university-of-rochester-press/|title=University of Rochester Press|website=Boydellandbrewer.com|date=September 9, 2020 |access-date=August 1, 2021}}

In 2012, Schuller premiered a new arrangement, the Treemonisha suite from Joplin's opera. It was performed as part of The Rest is Noise season at London's South Bank in 2013.{{cite web|title=The Rest is Noise: American mavericks|url=http://www.timeout.com/london/music/the-rest-is-noise-american-mavericks|work=Time Out|date=February 2013 }}

Schuller died on June 21, 2015, in Boston, from complications from leukemia. He married Marjorie Black, a singer and pianist, in 1948, and the marriage lasted until her death in 1992.{{cite news | url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2015/06/21/gunther-schuller-dies/ilnkHkSP7s7e0AZhBwOcOI/story.html | title=Gunther Schuller, 89; classical-jazz giant | work=Boston Globe | author=Jeremy Eichler | date=2015-06-22 | access-date=2015-08-26}}{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/gunther-schuller-pulitzer-prize-winning-composer-who-bridged-jazz-and-classical-music-dies-at-89/2015/06/22/9cccc350-18ec-11e5-ab92-c75ae6ab94b5_story.html|title=Gunther Schuller, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who bridged jazz and classical music, dies at 89|newspaper=The Washington Post| author=Matt Schudel | date=2015-06-22 |access-date=June 23, 2015}} His sons Ed (born 1955), a jazz bassist, and George (born 1958), a jazz drummer, survived him, as did his brother Edgar.

• Ditson Conductor's Award, 1970.{{cite news|url=http://necmusic.edu/macdowell-medal-gunther-schuller|date=April 7, 2015|access-date=June 23, 2015|title=Former NEC President Gunther Schuller To Receive 2015 Edward MacDowell Medal|publisher=New England Conservatory}}
• Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance, Joplin: The Red Back Book, 1974
• Grammy Award for Best Album Notes, Footlifters, 1976
• First place, Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards, 1987
• William Schuman Award for lifetime achievement, Columbia University, 1988Musings: The Musical Worlds of Gunther Schuller by Gunther Schuller (1986), Oxford University Press
• MacArthur Foundation Genius grant, 1991,{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2015/06/21/197700746/gunther-schuller-who-bridged-and-classical-music-and-jazz-dies-at-89|title=Gunther Schuller, Who Bridged Classical Music And Jazz, Dies At 89|first=Anastasia|last=Tsioulcas|publisher=NPR|date=June 21, 2015|access-date=June 23, 2015}}
• Lifetime achievement award, DownBeat magazine, 1993
• Lifetime achievement award, BMI Foundation, 1994{{cite web|publisher=The Juilliard School|title=American Brass Quintet Pays Tribute to Retiring Members|url=http://www.juilliard.edu/about/newsroom/2014-15/american-brass-quintet-pays-tribute-retiring-members-raymond-mase-and-david?destination=node/39522|access-date=June 23, 2015|date=September 4, 2014}}
• Pulitzer Prize for "Of Reminiscences and Reflections", 1994
• Festival of his music performed by Boston Symphony and New England Conservatory, 2005Cleary, David, [http://newmusicon.org/reviews2005/schullernec2005.htm "Review of Festival – I Hear America: Gunther Schuller at 80"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120615153847/http://www.newmusicon.org/reviews2005/schullernec2005.htm |date=June 15, 2012 }}, New Music Connoisseur, 2005
• Edward MacDowell Medal, MacDowell Colony, 2015

• John Lewis, The Modern Jazz Society Presents a Concert of Contemporary Music (Norgran, 1955){{cite book |last1=Mathieson |first1=Kenny |title=Cookin' Hard Bop and Soul Jazz, 1954–65 |date=2002 |publisher=Canongate |location=Edinburgh |isbn=9780857866165}}{{cite book|last1=Price|first1=Emmett G. |title=Encyclopedia of African American Music |date=2010 |publisher=Greenwood |location=Oxford |isbn=9780313341991 }}
• John Lewis, Django (Verve, 1955)
• Joe Lovano, Rush Hour (Blue Note, 1994)

• Modern Jazz Quartet, Exposure (Atlantic, 1960){{cite book |editor1-last=Erlewine|editor1-first=Michael|editor2-last=Bogdanov|editor2-first=Vladimir|editor3-last=Woodstra|editor3-first=Chris |editor4-last=Yanow |editor4-first=Scott |title=All Music Guide to Jazz |date=2002 |publisher=Backbeat |location=San Francisco |isbn=9780879307172 |edition=4th}}{{cite book |last1=Schuller |first1=Gunther |title=Musings |date=1999 |publisher=Da Capo |location=New York |isbn=9780306809026 |edition=1st Da Capo Press}}
• Dizzy Gillespie, Perceptions (Verve, 1961)
• John Lewis, Jazz Abstractions (Atlantic, 1961)
• Charles Mingus, Mingus Revisited (Limelight, 1960)
• Charles Mingus, Epitaph (Columbia, 1990)
• New England Ragtime Ensemble, Scott Joplin: The Red Back Book (Capitol, 1973)
• Houston Grand Opera, Scott Joplin: Treemonisha (Deutsche Grammophon, 1976)
• Gerard Schwarz, Turn of the Century Cornet Favorites (CBS/Columbia, 1977){{cite book|last1=Kirchner|first1=Bill|title=The Oxford companion to jazz|date=2005|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn=9780195183597}}{{cite book |last1=Cooke|first1=Mervyn |last2=Horn|first2=David|title=The Cambridge Companion to Jazz|series=Cambridge Companions to Music|date=2002|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=New York |isbn=9780521663205| edition=1}}

With Gigi Gryce

• Smoke Signal (Signal, 1955)
• In a Meditating Mood (Signal, 1955)
• Speculation (Signal, 1955)
• Kerry Dance (Signal, 1955){{cite book|last1=Silver|first1=Horace|author-link=Horace Silver|title=Let's Get to the Nitty Gritty: The autobiography of Horace Silver |date=2006 |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley, California|isbn=9780520243743 |page=[https://archive.org/details/letsgettonittygr00silv_0/page/211 211]|url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/letsgettonittygr00silv_0/page/211}}

all tracks appearing on "Nica's Tempo"

With John Lewis

• Odds Against Tomorrow (soundtrack) (United Artists, 1959)
• The Golden Striker (Atlantic, 1960)
• The Wonderful World of Jazz (Atlantic, 1960)
• Essence (Atlantic, 1962)

With Mitch Miller

• Conversation Piece (Columbia, 1951)
• Horns O' Plenty (Columbia, 1951)
• Horn Belt Boogie (Columbia, 1951)
• Serenade For Horns (Columbia, 1951){{cite book|last1=Lambert|first1=Philip|title=Alec Wilder|date=2013|publisher=University of Illinois Press |location=Urbana |isbn=9780252094842 |page=63}}

With Frank Sinatra

• Come Back to Sorrento (Columbia, 1950)
• April in Paris (Columbia, 1950)
• I Guess I'll Have to Dream the Rest (Columbia, 1950)
• Nevertheless I'm in Love with You (Columbia, 1950){{cite book |last1=Do Nascimento Silva |first1=Luis Carlos |title=Put Your Dreams Away |date=2000 |publisher=Greenwood Press |location=Westport, Connecticut |isbn=0313310556}}

With others

• Miles Davis, Birth of the Cool (Capitol, 1949/50, released 1957)
• Dizzy Gillespie, Gillespiana (Verve, 1960)
• Dizzy Gillespie, Carnegie Hall Concert (Verve, 1961)
• Johnny Mathis, "Prelude to a Kiss" (Columbia, 1956){{cite book|last1=Summers|first1=Claude|title=The Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance & Musical Theater|date=2004|publisher=Cleis Press|location=San Francisco|isbn=9781573441988|pages=165–166|edition=1st}}
• Johnny Mathis, Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words) (Columbia, 1956)
• Gerry Mulligan, Holliday with Mulligan (DRG, 1980)
• Julius Watkins, French Horns for My Lady (Philips, 1962)

• Gunther Schuller: A Life in Pursuit of Music and Beauty. University of Rochester Press, 2011.
• The Compleat Conductor. Oxford University Press, 1998.
• The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930–1945. Oxford University Press. 1991.
• Gunther Schuller: A Bio-Bibliography by Norbert Carnovale, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1987.
• Musings: The Musical Worlds of Gunther Schuller. Oxford University Press. 1986.{{cite web|publisher=Goodreads|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/430431.Gunther_Schuller|title=Books by Gunther Schuller|access-date=June 23, 2015}}
• Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development. Oxford University Press. 1968. New printing 1986.
• Horn Technique. Oxford University Press, 1962. New Printing 1992.

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• Mark Tucker/Barry Kernfeld. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (1992), {{ISBN|0-333-73432-7}} and {{ISBN|1-56159-228-5}}
• Bruce Brubaker. "Surrounded by this Incredible Vortex of Musical Expression: A Conversation with Gunther Schuller", Perspectives of New Music, Volume 49, Number 1 (Winter 2011), pp. 172-181

{{Archival records|title=Gunther Schuller papers, 1943-2015|location= Library of Congress|description_URL=https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu022016}}

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• [http://www.guntherschullersociety.org Gunther Schuller Society]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20150622063628/http://www.proarte.org/gunter-schuller-principal-guest-conductor/ Gunther Schuller] at Pro Arte (archived)
• [http://www.gmrecordings.com GM Recordings], Schuller's record label
• {{Discogs artist|269868-Gunther-Schuller}}
• [http://www.bruceduffie.com/schuller.html 1981 and 1988 interviews] with Bruce Duffie
• [https://www.youtube.com/@NEAarts/search?query=2008%20NEA%20Jazz%20Masters%20Panel Gunther Schuller] at 2008 NEA Jazz Masters Panel
• [https://www.arts.gov/honors/jazz/gunther-schuller Obituary and 2008 interview] at National Endowment for the Arts
• [https://newmusicusa.org/nmbx/gunther-schuller-multiple-streams/ 2009 interview] with Frank J. Oteri
• [https://ethaniverson.com/interview-with-gunther-schuller-part-1/ 2010 interview] with Ethan Iverson
• [https://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/gunther-schuller 2011 interview] at NAMM Oral History Program

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