Peter Westergaard

Biography

Composer and theorist

Music

Operas

• Charivari
• Mr. and Mrs. Discobbolos
• The Tempest
• Chicken-Little
• Moby Dick: Scenes from an Imaginary Opera
• Alice in Wonderland

Vocal music

• Cantata I: "The Plot Against the Giant", for female voices, clarinet, harp, and cello
• Cantata II: "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London", for bass and ten instruments
• Cantata III: "Leda and the Swan", for mezzo-soprano, clarinet, viola, vibraphone, and marimba
• Cantata IV: "Spring and Fall: To a Young Child", for soprano and five instruments
• There Was a Little Man for soprano and violin
• Ariel Music, for soprano and ten instruments
• Ode, for soprano, flute, clarinet, harp, violin, and viola
• anyone lived in a pretty how town, for SATB choir
• Cantata V: "'Byzantium' and 'Sailing to Byzantium'", for baritone and percussion quartet
• There Was a Lady Loved a Sow
• Cantata VI: "To the Dark Lady", for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, and percussion duo

  Instrumental music

• String Quartet, 1957;
• Five Movements, for small orchestra
• Quartet, for clarinet, vibraphone, violin, and cello
• Trio, for flute, cello, and piano
• Variations for Six Players, for flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, and cello
• Divertimento on Discobbolic Fragments, for flute and piano
• Noises, Sounds, and Sweet Airs, for ensemble
• Tuckets and Sennets, for band
• Moto perpetuo, for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, and horn
• Two Fanfares, for brass
• Ringing Changes, for orchestra
• All Fours, for percussion quartet

  Writings