Marga Richter
Name
Marga Richter
Bio
A Mid-Western native (WI, MN), Richter earned her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in composition at The Juilliard School where she studied piano with Rosalyn Tureck and majored in composition with William Bergsma and Vincent Persichetti. She has written over 150 works, encompassing virtually every genre. Her orchestral music has been played by over 50 orchestras including concert performances by the Atlanta and Milwaukee Symphonies, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the National Gallery Orchestra, Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra and the Oakland, Oklahoma, Tucson, Oakland, Madison, and Maracaibo Symphonies, and recorded by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony, the Bournemouth Sinfonietta, the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra.
In 1951, while she was still a student at Juilliard, Richter's music was presented at a Composers Forum concert at MacMillin Theatre in New York, until then the youngest composer to be so honored. Reviews of the concert cited many of the qualities that were to characterize virtually all of her subsequent works:
In 1951, while she was still a student at Juilliard, Richter's music was presented at a Composers Forum concert at MacMillin Theatre in New York, until then the youngest composer to be so honored. Reviews of the concert cited many of the qualities that were to characterize virtually all of her subsequent works:
