Joseph Castaldo

Joseph Francis Castaldo : Born December 22, 1927 – , Manhattan, New York Died January 27, 2000 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania was an American composer of classical music and a teacher of musical composition and music.

Castaldo was an important figure in Philadelphia musical life in the ’60s, ’70s, '80s and '90's, having served as the Head of the Philadelphia Musical Academy and guided that institution’s evolution into what is now the University of the Arts.

Works

Orchestral

Chamber

  • Theoria for fifteen winds, piano and percussion
  • Askesis (Cycles II) for 14 players
  • Elegy (on Texts of Rilke) for soprano and small orchestra
  • Protogenesis (for Fels Planetarium)

Full

  • Lacrimosa for strings
  • Lacrimosa II for strings
  • Epigrams for piano and orchestra
  • The Eye of God
  • Concerto for Cello
  • Concerto for viola and orchestra (1988–1989)
I. Lament
II. Canticle-Celebration
  • Soliloquy and Dialogues for clarinet and string orchestra
  • Landscapes
I. Snake River

Chamber

Piano

Choral

References

  1. ↑ Score currently in my personal possession