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Finding Aid to the Wayne Peterson Papers, 1982-1996, bulk 1982-1986
ARCHIVES PETERSON 1
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Collection Title: Wayne Peterson papers
Date (inclusive): 1982-1996,
Date (bulk): bulk 1982-1986
Collection Number: ARCHIVES PETERSON 1
Creators :
Peterson, Wayne, 1927-
Extent:
Number of containers: 1
Linear feet: .4
Repository: University of California, Berkeley. Music Library
Hargrove Music Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-2623
Email: music_reference@berkeley.edu
URL: https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/music_library_archives
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Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Wayne Peterson Papers, ARCHIVES PETERSON 1, Music Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Earplay Collection
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Sextets (Piano, clarinet, flute, percussion, viola, violoncello)--Scores
String quartets--Scores
Overtures--Scores
No additions are expected.
Arranged to the container level.
Wayne Peterson (b. 1927, Albert Lea, MN living in San Francisco, CA since 1960) is a Pulitzer Prize winning composer, as well
as a pianist and educator.
Peterson earned B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Minnesota. He did advanced study on a Fulbright Scholarship
at the Royal Academy of Music, London, England.
In 1960, he joined the faculty of San Francisco State University, reaching the rank of Professor of Music, from which he is
now retired. In 1998 San Francisco State University, established the Wayne Peterson Prize in Music Composition. Peterson was
awarded the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Music for The Face of the Night, The Heart of the Dark, an orchestral work commissioned
by the San Francisco Symphony and conducted by David Zinman.[1]
Peterson's other honors include a Composer's Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1986) and
a Guggenheim Fellowship (1989-90). In 1990 he was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome.
[biography from Wikipedia.org]