This week's "Out of the Bachs" post features one of my favorite Bach compositions: his Passacaglia in C minor.
He later attended Brigham Young University, 1971-..
Daniel E. Gawthrop
American composer
Musical artist
Daniel E. Gawthrop (born 1949 in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is an American composer, primarily of choral music.
His output also includes a substantial body of works for the organ[1] as well as orchestral and instrumental works. He has been the recipient of over one hundred commissions to write original music.
Toccata Brevis by Dan Gawthrop.His works have been published by Warner Brothers, Theodore Presser, Sacred Music Press, and others.
Biography
Gawthrop attended Michigan State University, and Brigham Young University.[2]
He served for three years as Composer-in-Residence to the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra (of Fairfax, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C.) beginning in 1990,[3] and has been the recipient of four grants from the Barlow Endowment for Musical Composition.
He has been commissioned by various institutions including the American Choral Directors Association through their Brock Commission,[4] and has ha